The Loch Nest Monster Traditional Cache

Every fall the caches in Wintergarden are replaced with new ones.  This allows social trails that have developed to heal, and also serves the purpose of getting people back to this great park, which is the main purpose of these caches.  The 2014 seasons theme is “Mysterious Creatures”.  Much of the following text is borrowed from somewhere.

THERE ARE CREATURES that lurk out there in the dark, that haunt the isolated forests of the world, that hide in the icy depths of the deepest lakes. They appear unexpectedly and inexplicably, then vanish just as mysteriously, usually leaving witnesses dumbfounded, frightened and, unfortunately in most cases, without a shred of evidence. Yet the eyewitness stories of these creatures persist, haunting the darkness as well as our imaginations.

The Loch Nest Monster

The Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, is undoubtedly the most well-known of these aquatic mysteries. But other deep, cold lakes around the world have their own legendary beasts: Chessie in Chesapeake Bay, Storsie in Sweden's Lake Storsjön, Selma in Norway's Lake Seljordsvatnet and "Champ" in New York's Lake Champlain among others.

Descriptions of this creature, too, are amazingly similar:

·         a large creature with a long neck

·         a horse-like head

·         a humped back