Miami Dolphins 🐬 Wherigo Cache

Mariners, Marauders, Mustangs, Missiles, Moons, Sharks, Suns. None of those names suggested to the American Football League expansion franchise in 1965 could raise a fin to the runaway winner.

"Dolphins" was submitted by 622 entrants in a contest which attracted 19,843 entries and more than a thousand different names. The dozen finalists were delivered to a seven-member screening committee of local media.

The bottlenose dolphin, an intelligent creature with an irresistible built-in grin, has inspired wonder for centuries. Plutarch observed 1,900 years ago that the dolphin "is the only creature who loves man for his own sake." Every trainer will have a tale of the dolphin's cleverness and ingenuity, and scientists are fascinated by a dolphin's natural equipment which far surpasses the range of Navy sonar equipment.

"The dolphin is one of the fastest and smartest creatures of the sea," Joe Robbie said in announcing the team name on October 8, 1965. "Dolphins can attack and kill a shark or a whale. Sailors say bad luck will come to anyone who harms one of them."

Mrs. Robert Swanson of West Miami won two lifetime passes to Dolphins games with her nickname entry. The tiebreaker was picking the winner and score of the 1965 game between the University of Miami and Notre Dame. It ended in a scoreless tie.

The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. It is located nearby and you may begin the cartridge and your quest from anywhere in the world. This Wherigo converts your player into a Reverse-Cache-Box. This box will tell you the distance to the final cache, but not the direction. All you will need is a Smartphone or GPS device which is capable of playing Wherigo. To play this Wherigo cartridge, your mission is to find the cache with only the information about your distance to the final location. Try to use your Reverse Cache box as few times as possible. It is possible to figure out the final coordinates in three attempts. How many attempts did it take you? Let me know.

All the instructions and information needed to complete this cartridge is contained within it. The cartridge is multilingual and may be used with either metric or imperial units.

You will need to type this code into your player when prompted:

314306
258703
161018

Take the code with you on your quest, you might need it if there is a problem with your player. You will also receive a personal password which may be entered into the code generator if you select 'create' instead of 'play' at the start of the cartridge. Save this code. Then if you wish, you may place your own reverse cache in a location of your choice. (Just tell -Waldmeister- about your plans!). Please don't write any hints in your log about how and where you found the cache and please don't post any photos that might give the final location away. Have fun and be careful out there!