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Yamma Mamma - childhood days Traditional Cache

Hidden : 11/5/2016
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A quick park and grab with an interesting view.

Axley Chapel Road is a road that is a peaceful quiet drive especially in the fall on a clear day.  The spot for this cache has a nice view of some unexpected animals in the background.   Several years ago I was out this way with my grandson going after some caches and we saw these animals as we passed by.  In his typical four year old manner he said, "Yammas Grams, yammas!". In the evenings my mother would gather the four of us children, two on each side, and read stories to us before bedtime. One of the stories was The Story of Dr. Dolittle. Now everytime I see a llama I always think of the times my mother use to read to us. In 1967 the movie of Dr. Dolittle came out at the theater. Mom took us and I was very impressed seeing the pushmi-pullyu. It looked so real!

 photo 085plate.jpg Original picture from The Dr. Dolittle Story published in 1920

The pushmi-pullyu (pronounced "push-me—pull-you") is a "gazelle-unicorn cross" which has two heads (one of each) at opposite ends of its body. In The Story of Doctor Dolittle, the grateful monkeys in Africa persuade it to accompany Dr. Dolittle to England to earn money for him (in Doctor Dolittle's Circus and Doctor Dolittle's Caravan.) The pushmi-pullyu usually only uses one of its heads to talk, reserving the other for eating (thus allowing it to eat while speaking without being rude) and claims that its great-grandfather was the last unicorn. In the 1967 film, the pushmi-pullyu was instead portrayed as a double-headed llama. The doctor can immediately speak to the pushmi-pullyu, knowing that llamas speak a dialect of camel language. [Wilkipedia]

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Rex Harrison in Dr. Dolittle 1967

If you look southwest you should be able to see some of the llamas. If not, drive down McKelvey Road and you will see them in the side fields or even in the wooded area at the end of the fields.

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