A lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he's told was spread by a mysterious "Army of the Twelve Monkeys") and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous virus expert. I know deadly viruses are not handled here, but with this movies plot in mind, I thought it would be fun to put a cache the middle of this famous laboratory grounds with scientists mulling about.
At the end of the 19th century, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences founded a laboratory for training high school and college teachers in marine biology. As biologists and naturalists established their laboratories at the seashore, where there was an abundance of animals and plants for study. The pristine north shore of Long Island was a natural site for the Brooklyn Institute’s facility – a place to study nature at its source, the sea. In 1889, John D. Jones gave land and buildings—formerly part of the Cold Spring Whaling Company on the southwestern shore of Cold Spring Harbor—to the Institute. Cold Spring Harbor provided an outlet for trade up and down the eastern seaboard and a starting point for whaling voyages to the far side of the globe. Cold Spring Harbor’s whaling period was relatively brief, lasting just over a quarter century from 1836 to 1862.
I found this spot quite by accident one day when I noticed a line of photographers standing on the shore. They were taking pictures of Cold Spring Harbor, across the water. It was in autumn and the trees on the opposite shore were in peak color .... I took a great photo of the town and hillside as well. The main reason I placed such an easy cache, with both stages so close to one another, was just to bring geocachers to this spot to enjoy the nice view themselves, from both high and low vantage points. (Stage 1 is at the upper level, stage 2 at the lower) This is a 2-stage multi which means that at stage 1 you will find coordinates to the final stage, stage 2.
Directions: Get on Rt 25A and drive West of the Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery and turn north on Bungtown Rd. Go straight for 2/10 of a mile and notice a gazebo on the right, which was built here solely to take in the view. You can park in the lot, Northwest of the gazebo or take the lower road (.1 mi. North from 25a) down to the "waters edge" and find some parking spots there.