Puntarenas Traditional Cache
Paulamel: Archived. Thanks to those who enjoyed the find.
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
This is the sixth of a series of caches named after my expeditions abroad.
This is a magnetic nano, containing only a log. You’ll need a pen.
*************Congrats to N0hope for FTF***************
SWANBOURNE
Swanbourne is a pretty village, and a great base for local walks. Swanbourne village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and possibly means 'swan stream'. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 792 the village was recorded as ‘Suanaburna’. Swanbourne House was bought in 1798 by Thomas Fremantle (1765–1819), for his wife Elizabeth, known as Betsey, for 900 guineas. The Fremantle family, originally from Aston Abbotts, had strong naval connections. Their eldest son Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle (1798–1890) became a prominent Tory politician. Their second son Charles (1800–1869) followed his father into the British Royal Navy and was instrumental in founding the Swan River Colony in Western Australia. This accounts for the place names Fremantle, Swanbourne, and Cottesloe in the Perth area of Western Australia.
PUNTARENAS, COSTA RICA
First known as Villa Bruselas in colonial times, Puntarenas was discovered by Hernán Ponce de León in 1519. Despite the use of the Gulf of Nicoya as an entryway to Costa Rica's inland territory, the port of Puntarenas was not developed until 1840 when coffee production in the highlands reached exportable volumes. In 1845 the Congress of the Republic declared Puntarenas a duty free port (with the exception of Cognac and hard liquor). Originally, the coffee was brought to port in oxcarts via a trail through the mountains. In 1879, a stretch of railroad track was completed which connected Puntarenas with the town of Esparza (one of the country's earliest Spanish settlements, founded in 1554, a decade before the Central Valley began to be colonized) where the oxcart trail came out of the mountains. Eventually, the railroad was built all the way through to San José and service was inaugurated in 1910. With the railroad connection to the Central Valley, the Pacific port's activities continued to be a major part of the region's economy throughout the 20th century. However, due to the aging and deterioration of the port facilities and the need to accommodate the much larger vessels of modern shipping fleets, a new port was constructed in the 1980s to the south of Puntarenas. The site chosen was Caldera, where ships had anchored during colonial times.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Cyrnfr qba'g fcrrq guebhtu bhe ivyyntr.
Treasures
You'll collect a digital Treasure from one of these collections when you find and log this geocache:
Loading Treasures