Big Joe Mufferaw - Calabogie Lake Traditional Cache
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Big Joe Mufferaw - Calabogie Lake
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7/31/2015
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A series of caches based on the tall tales of Big Joe Mufferaw.
The series ends with a bonus cache, but to get the bonus you must complete the series (or use the big help) to get the information required. In the caches there will be a number assigned to a letter. As seen in many caches, you will need to find values for A, B, C, D, E and F to solve the bonus. The bonus is GC5YVWR. You won't get the whole series done in a day (unless you do lots of driving or are Big Joe himself), so it could take days, months, years to get the bonus.
This cache contains the C value needed.
There are many tall tales of Joe Mufferaw. Considered a folk hero to some in the Ottawa Valley. Big Joe was idolized in a song sung by Stompin’ Tom Conners. The song mentions various places around the Ottawa Valley where we grew up. Our grandmother would read stories of Big Joe to us when we were kids, the memories of those and the love of geocaching adventures inspired us to create these caches. Hope you enjoy. The song goes something like this:
Hey-Hi, Hey-Hi-Ho, the best man in Ottawa was Mufferaw Joe,
Mufferaw Joe
Big Joe Mufferaw paddled into Mattawa
All the way from Ottawa in just one day
Hey-Hey
On the river Ottawa the best man we ever saw
Was Big Joe Mufferaw the old folks say
Come and listen and I'll tell you what the old folks say
And they say Big Joe had an old pet frog
Bigger than a horse and he barked like a dog
And the only thing quicker than a train upon a track
Was Big Joe riding on the bull-frog's back
Hey-Hi, Hey-Hi-Ho, the best man in Ottawa was Mufferaw Joe,
Mufferaw Joe
And they say Big Joe used to get real wet
From cutting down timber and working up a sweat
And everyone will tell you around Carlton Place
The Mississipi dripped onto Big Joe's face
Hey-Hi, Hey-Hi-Ho, the best man in Ottawa was Mufferaw Joe,
Mufferaw Joe
Now Joe had the portage from the Gatineau down
To see a little girl he had in Kemptville town
He was back and forth so many times to see that gal
The path he wore became the Rideau Canal
Hey-Hi, Hey-Hi-Ho, the best man in Ottawa was Mufferaw Joe,
Mufferaw Joe
Big Joe Mufferaw paddled into Mattawa
All the way from Ottawa in just one day
Hey-Hey
On the river Ottawa the best man we ever saw
Was Big Joe Mufferaw the old folks say
Come and listen and I'll tell you what the old folks say
And they say Big Joe put out a forest fire,
Halfway between Renfrew and old Arnprior
He was fifty miles away down around Smiths Falls
But he drowneded out the fire with five spit balls
Hey-Hi, Hey-Hi-Ho, the best man in Ottawa was Mufferaw Joe,
Mufferaw Joe
Well he jumped into the Calabogie Lake And he swam both ways to catch a cross-eyed-bass
But he threw it on the ground and said "I can't eat that"
So he covered it over with Mount Saint Patt
Hey-Hi, Hey-Hi-Ho, the best man in Ottawa was Mufferaw Joe,
Mufferaw Joe
And they say Big Joe drank a bucket of gin
And he beat the living tar of the twenty nine men
And high on the ceiling of the Pembroke Pub
There is twenty-nine boot marks and they are signed with love
Hey-Hi, Hey-Hi-Ho, the best man in Ottawa was Mufferaw Joe,
Mufferaw Joe
Big Joe Mufferaw paddled into Mattawa
All the way from Ottawa in just one day
Hey-Hey
On the river Ottawa the best man we ever saw
Was Big Joe Mufferaw the old folks say
Come and listen and I'll tell you what the old folks say
They say Hey-Hi, Hey-Hi-Ho, the best man in Ottawa was Mufferaw Joe,
Mufferaw Joe
Big Joe Mufferaw, Big Joe Mufferaw, Big Joe Mufferaw, Big Joe Mufferaw,
Big Joe Mufferaw, Big Joe Mufferaw, Big Joe Mufferaw, Big Joe Mufferaw,
Big Joe Mufferaw
Congratulations to R.A.D.D for a FTF
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