Story: As a baby I had a sock monkey that my Grandmother made me. I teethed on it and it was later my security blanket. After a few years they took it away and said he had gone to live in the jungle! Over 50 years later I was going through my mom’s stuff and found him! This cache is starting with 3 Monkey TB’s and a special stamp (stamp stays in box).
CAUTION. Water is sometimes 6" deep to get to the cache. I wear flip flops on days like that. PLEASE keep the container upright so it doesn't take on water. There are times that there is no water, but not often. Thus the rating.
Please take a little extra time reading below to find out more about letterbox caches. We have permission from the land owner to park on the gravel road. Please walk from there. It’s a short walk through a mowed field until you get close. The cache is hidden among some small bushes/trees and is covered with grass. PLEASE cover back up well as people mow close to the cache often. Please consider taking only one travel bug. 
HISTORY:
The origin of letterboxing can be traced to Dartmoor, Devon, England in 1854. William Crossing in his Guide to Dartmoor states that a well known Dartmoor guide (James Perrott) placed a bottle for visiting cards at Cranmere Pool on the northern moor in 1854. From this hikers on the moors began to leave a letter or postcard inside a box along the trail (sometimes addressed to themselves, sometimes a friend or relative)-- hence the name "letterboxing". The next person to discover the site would collect the postcards and post them. In 1938 a plaque and letterbox in Crossing's memory were placed at Duck's Pool on southern Dartmoor. The first Dartmoor letterboxes were so remote and well-hidden that only the most determined walkers would find them, allowing weeks to pass before the letter made its way home. Until the 1970s there were no more than a dozen such sites around the moor, usually in the most inaccessible locations. Increasingly, however, letterboxes have been located in relatively accessible sites and today there are thousands of letterboxes, many within easy walking distance of the road. As a result, the tradition of leaving a letter or postcard in the box has been forgotten. (Wikipedia)
PRESENT DAY:
Today, letterboxing is a fascinating hobby, which is ever increasing in popularity, and combines navigational skills and rubber stamp artistry in a charming "treasure hunt" style outdoor quest. Sound familiar? In the spirit of this ancient tradition, geocaching.com allows for the placement of letterbox-hybrid caches with the only requirements being that it can be found with a GPS (not merely by using a set of clues and a compass) and the cache contains a rubber stamp.
You do not need to own a personal stamp and letterboxing logbook to log this type of cache as found, but bringing a stamp along with you can be a fun way to log your unique signature in the logbook. And, by stamping your own logbook with the stamp provided, you'll have record of the letterbox-hybrid caches you have visited in the past.
As always, please re-hide as or better than you find it.
Have fun and stamp it up!
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