The Cross Traditional Geocache
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Spanish explorers Portola and Crespi (see also Anchors of Pacific Grove cache) arrived on Del Monte Beach in 1769 and a wooden cross was erected at the landing spot. In 1969, in celebration of Monterey's 200th birthday, a replica cross was erected at the landing spot. In 2009, in the dark of night, vandals cut the historic marker down with a chain saw. I happened to be first on the scene the next morning when riding by on a bike. The City elected not to replace the cross at the beach and instead moved it to this location in the San Carlos cemetery sadly now hidden from most people. Interestingly, a few years later an anonymous group erected a metal cross on the beach at the landing spot on Good Friday. Many celebrated the new cross during that Easter weekend but it too was removed the following week. This geocache is placed in honor of adventurers Portola and Crespi, the birth of Monterey, and the historic cross.(the cross is about 145 feet SW of the cache location on the other side of the fence in the cemetery ... see hint for recent relocation of the cache)
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(Decrypt)
(Abgr: erybpngrq qhr gb ercrngrq zhttyvat.) Pnpur vf abj 7 srrg rnfg bs bevtvany (juvpu JNF arne gur hgvyvgl obk) pbbeqvangr ybpngvba. Ernpu vagb/orlbaq gur veba srapr naq gura qbja/oruvaq gur srapr cbfg. Er-uvqr jvgu hfvat angheny pnzb/qhss.