( If you are a fan of my Country Wild Series, you have then noticed that there is nothing normal about it. If this is your first find in Country Wild, welcome! Congratulations on discovering a Country Wild Cache!! There are some things you should know about my Country Wild Series however, the most important is that this "power trail" isn't the quick park and grab type. In fact if you are a true power trail series fan looking for fast numbers, you probably wont like Country Wild.
Country Wild will take you on a drive, share with you funny stories and make the series more about a day out enjoying caches and the road, then focusing on pure numbers. But for those of you wanting to know what kind of numbers Country Wild will give you, here is your answer. When completed Country Wild will cover 4 states, Starting in Arkansas, then Oklahoma, Kansas, Mossuri, and then back into Arkansas. (you can start at any cache) In it's completion( and providing you find all the Country Wild Caches), you will have traveled over 250 miles, and have gathered around 250 caches, and about half a dozzen counties. You will also Complete your D/T grid, your alphanumeric challange as well and fill in all your atributes both negative and positive (except for the LNF atribute which is event specific).
The point of my Country wild is to do one if not all of the following. Inspire, Entertain, and Inform. I do so hope you enjoy my cache. Please remember to practice Cito when you can, place the cache back where you found it and tell me of your adventure. As I hide caches, I keep in mind what you have written in my logs, if you only write TFTC I will take it as it wasn't interesting and will quit hiding them. For those of you that would like to try and find all my Country Wild Caches I have made a list. Scroll to the bottom for more infomation. I wish you best of luck in your adventure today, be safe and happy hunting --CnD)
Have you ever wondered how bees make honey? After doing the 100 acre wood cache my Daughter asked that very question. So we created this cache for fun.
Honey bees use their stores of energy-rich honey to get them through lean times, including winter. Worker bees gather nectar from flowers and convert it into enough honey to keep the colony alive. How do bees make honey from nectar?
Nectar contains about 80% water, along with complex sugars. Left in its natural state, nectar would ferment. In order to store the sugars in a usable and efficient state, bees convert the nectar into honey.
Honey contains only 14-18% water. Pound for pound, honey provides a much greater energy source than pure nectar.
The actual process of transforming the flower nectar into honey requires teamwork. Older workers do the foraging and bring the nectar back to the hive. There, younger hive bees complete the task of turning it into honey.
First, worker bees fly out from the hive in search of nectar-rich flowers. Using its straw-like proboscis, a worker bees drinks the liquid nectar and stores it in a special stomach called the honey stomach. The bee continues to forage, visiting hundreds of flowers, until its honey stomach is full.
Within the honey stomach, enzymes break down the complex sugars of the nectar into simpler sugars, which are less prone to crystallization. This process is called inversion.
With a full belly, the worker bee heads back to the hive and regurgitates the already modified nectar for a hive bee. The hive bee ingests the sugary offering and further breaks down the sugars. It then regurgitates the inverted nectar into a cell of the honeycomb.
Now, the hive bees beat their wings furiously, fanning the nectar to evaporate its remaining water content. As the water evaporates, the sugars thicken into honey. Once the honey is finished, the hive bee caps the beeswax cell, sealing the honey into the honeycomb for later consumption.
A single worker bee produces only 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. Working cooperatively, thousands of worker bees can produce over 200 pounds of honey for the colony within a year.
Along the way I encourage you to check out the random caches and power trails that others have hidden. (also another reason why I made this series). This route will take you through several small towns with a lot of history, take time to enjoy some of the shops and parks that you may see, or just to take note of when you really want to go on a weekend adventure.
Things you will need to bring with you:
*Click Stick
*Geo-tool (some of these pesky nanos may be a little hard to retrieve )
*Geosense (some of these caches even though granted permission by land owner are on private property)
*Stealth( some areas are very muggle heavy, or traffic heavy, be sure to practice safety first)
*Wadeing boots.
*Gloves
*Favorite Music, (enjoy the tunes and the views, maybe not so much some of the smells ;) as you will discover).
*Camera (some of these places you will want to take a picture or to of).
Most importantly have fun. This series isn't meant to be anything other than a nice country drive.
I have made a Country Wild List for you to access easily to complete the whole series.