GC412JT Froggy Vista (Traditional Cache) in Jersey created by jerseybeans

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GC412JT ▼

A cache by jerseybeans Message this owner

Hidden : 11/10/2012

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Our history. Our present and our future has been forged by one nation. France. Our closest neighbours, are flanked across 180° to our east and south coasts and can be easily seen on these shores.

Jersey has not always been an island. In prehistoric times, along with the other Channel Islands, it was connected to France by a low, flat coastal plain. The islands would have been hills, standing proudly above this marshy plain, until one day water levels rose and they became surrounded.

On a good clear day France from this cache is easily seen to the north and over to the east.

If you remember to bring your binoculars you will see EDF's wind turbine's at Flamanville and Barneville-Carteret. Between Jersey and the nearby French coastline are Les Écréhous, a group of rocks which are under the administration of St Martin's Parish. Les Écréhous are six miles from Jersey and eight from France making the distance fourteen miles between our two great nations. To the French we are Jersey, part of the Îles Anglo-Normandes. To every Jersey born person going to France is part of them, and ultimately part of home.