Black and White Beaches Traditional Cache
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This is a Park 'N' Grab, please don't treat it as a "Drive-By," else muggles will be much more likely to notice your activities. From the parking coordinates, the cache is a brief stroll on a sidewalk with nice views.
Previous cache placements here have had the ocean come in and take them away. We believe we've placed this cache to be as storm-proof as possible. It is an evil magnetic nano-, we believe in fair warning when cache containers get this small. Please bring a writing implement.
Black and White Beaches are named after the color of their sands. Both are located on Ocean Street, off Route 127 on opposite sides of the Crow Island Peninsula. White Beach is noticeably smaller than Black Beach, but has about 20 parking spots, whereas Black Beach has no parking. Crow Island Peninsula has a 5-acre estate which sold for $11.5 million in 2008.
No dogs allowed on the beaches April 1 through November 1.
Black Beach is a special spot for me because it is where I earned my Open Water SCUBA diving certification... in the month of March! The water was 35 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) and my rental gloves had holes in them. My apologies to Charles Dickens: It was the best of dives. It was the worst of dives. The former because it led to many underwater adventures, the latter not just because of the water temperature but also because my regulator began to free flow and I actually had to buddy-breathe for real to complete the certification checklist. Please feel free to describe an underwater adventure you have had in your logs (SCUBA, snorkel, whatever). The above Related Web Page takes you to a video on SCUBA geocaching, a form of the sport we have yet to enjoy...
The First-To-Find prize is rarer than our usual leave, a 4-coin set of the 2004-2005 "Westward Journey" nickel designs in a viewing box. To commemorate the Louisiana Purchase, and Lewis and Clark's expedition, the Jefferson five-cent coin (nickel) was modified to reflect images evocative of their historic expedition into the Louisiana Territory. Geo-Knot was first to achieve "The Cache at Crow Island," well done!
If you want to read more about how the West was won, we recommend “Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West” by Stephen Ambrose.
If you want to read more about how New England was won, we recommend “Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World” by Mark Kurlansky.
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