Little Green Iquana Traditional Cache
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This is a small cache located on the Nassau Bay Peninsula. Park at the Lake Nassau parking lot indicated as a waypoint below. Use the walkway along the creek to get to the trail head. Note that the park is open from sunrise to sunset. YOU WILL BE LOCKED IN IF YOU DON'T LEAVE IN TIME. Read the rules in the RULES image below. The rules are posted at the gated entrance. Unfortunately no pets allowed. It should be a little less than 2 miles round trip.
The green iguana or common iguana is a large lizard native to Central, South America, and the Caribbean. Usually, this animal is simply called the iguana. It grows to 4.9 ft in length from head to tail, although a few specimens have grown more than 6.6 ft with bodyweights upward of 20 pounds.The iguana you are looking for is small. The green iguana ranges over a large geographic area, from southern Brazil and Paraguay as far north as Mexico and the Caribbean Islands. Green iguanas are active during the day, climb, and are often found near water. Agile climbers, the iguana can fall up to 50 feet and land unhurt using their hind leg claws to clasp leaves and branches to break a fall. During cold, wet weather, green iguanas prefer to stay on the ground for greater warmth. When swimming, an iguana remains submerged, letting its four legs hang limply against its side. They propel through the water with powerful tail strokes. Green iguanas possess a row of spines along their backs and along their tails which helps to protect them from predators. Their whip-like tails can be used to deliver painful strikes and like many other lizards, when grabbed by the tail, the iguana can allow it to break, so it can escape and eventually regenerate a new one. Green iguanas have a white photo-sensory organ on the top of their heads called the third eye in contrast to most other lizards which have lost this primitive feature. This "eye" has only a rudimentary retina and lens and cannot form images, but is sensitive to changes in light and dark and can detect movement. This helps the iguana detect predators stalking it from above.
Congratulations to Yo, Raffetto and + The Driver for co-FTF
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