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Karura Forest #66: All the better 2CU with! Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 10/25/2016
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


Karura Forest #66: All the better to see you with!

The cache, a small screw-capped camo-pot, is hidden under a rock & fir pieces in the middle of a low spikey stump down from the trail.

To reach the cache location:
From main gate A (Limuru Rd) @ S01 14.829 E36 48.948, after paying your entry and parking fees, proceed the 1.2km or so to the junction by the barrier at S01 14.447 E36 49.148. Turn right here, continue past the new River Cafe to the extensive Amani Garden parking area @ S01 14.577 E36 49.235. From here take the exit gate at S01 14.594 E36 49.191 which gives access to a small trail crossing an open grassy area to join the Lake Trail heading east from Junction 5. Turn left (east) and follow this trail through Junction 4 onto the Pipeline Trail and down to Junction 3. Turn left (east) on the Family Trail and on 250m to the cache location. See KF #64 for Waypoint.

For background information on Karura Forest including access, fees, opening times, features, a detailed trail map and useful links, see GC4PD3V Karura Forest #1: Intro, Info & Entry.

Continued from Karura Forest #65: BBB . . .


In general, galagos have large eyes that give them good night vision, strong hind limbs, acute hearing, and long tails that help them balance. They have nails on most of their digits, except for the second toe of the hind foot, which bears a 'toilet' claw for grooming. Their diet is a mixture of insects and other small animals, fruit, and tree gums. They have pectinate ('comb-like') incisors.

They have remarkable jumping abilities, including the ability to jump up to 2m vertically. This is thought to be due to elastic energy storage in tendons of the lower leg, allowing far greater jumps than otherwise possible for an animal of their size.

Females maintain their territory but share them with their offspring. Males leave their mothers' territories after puberty but females remain, forming social groups consisting of closely related females and their young. Adult males maintain separate territories, which overlap with those of the female social groups; generally, one adult male mates with all the females in an area. Males who have not established such territories sometimes form small bachelor groups.

They have a captive lifetime of 12-16.5 years and a natural lifetime of around 10 years.

They communicate both by calling to each other, and by marking their paths with urine. At the end of the night, group members use a special rallying call and gather to sleep in a nest made of leaves, a group of branches, or a hole in a tree.

*For those not familiar with the expression, the cache title refers to the children's nursery rhyme 'Little Red Riding Hood' (see here) where LRRH remarks 'Oh Granny, what big eyes you have' and the wolf replies 'All the better to see you with, my dear!'

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

~5z sebz genvy

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)