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Mud Melon Traditional Cache

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SimDad: A fun cache while it lasted, but seems to have been displaced and has become lost. Standby for something new . . .

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Hidden : 4/26/2017
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

in morning dew,

     dirty and cool, 

            a mud-smeared melon

 

-- Basho


Let this haiku guide you to this geocache.  I place this in late April, so there is a moderate amount of mud in the vicinity.  Wear mud-tolerant shoes.  However, this is no muckabout geocache; it isn't NECESSARY to trek through, over or around mud to get to the cache.  I imagine that in the summer there will be less mud, or none.  And in the winter, more mud, or even water.  But the GC itself is protected from all that.  As for the "melon" component of things, the original cache swag includes a few of those Japanese erasers, each a different fruit, one of them a melon.  It's not muddy, though it would be if you dropped it.  Basho mentions the morning dew, but you could get this cache at any time.  I like to make my own camo's, so the container when you find it, represents a hybrid digital camo/shape-breaker camo/color camo.  The container itself is unlike anything I've ever seen while geocaching, so keep your eyes open for the unexpected.

Please replace cache and contents as you find them.  The whole thing is a little snug, so drop the fruits and swag in FIRST and the log in LAST or with will make it difficult for the next finder to retrieve the log. Thanks.

 

  Congratulations to Turle.X for being FTF.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Perrx ba yrsg. Pnpur ba evtug. Cnegjnl hc n ebpxl fpenzoyr be gnxr gur fho-cngu.

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)