Urban Legends Niagara: Thorold's Kissing Rock Multi-Cache

Urban Legends Niagara (ULN) is a series of caches I will be placing periodically to showcase some of the interesting Urban Legends that have cropped up around the Niagara Region.

BONUS: If you are a caching couple make sure to steal a smooch from your loved one while at the rock and share a pic with your log!

STAGE ONE is virtual and will take you to the Kissing Rock. Answer the following questions to get the coords to the final.

North: 43.07.ABC
A = Number of chain links attached to the anchor.
B = Number of letters in the heart
C = Number of letters in the first word on the rock.

West: 79.11.DEF
D = Number of "feathers" on the back of the arrow times two.
E = Number of TOTAL Letters on the rock MINUS six.
F = Same Number as E

Thorold's Kissing Rock

Located outdoors, next to the Lock 7 Viewing Complex, the Kissing Rock is steeped in legend from the past. In the present, many travelers come yearly to kiss at the Kissing Rock. It is home to the Longest Kiss Contest for the Guinness Book of World Records and is often used as a place for marriage ceremonies, as well as being featured on Canadian television programmes across the nation.

There is a legend in Thorold of the Kissing Rock, that has its source in a time when the Fourth Canal opened and the canal was a bustle of activity. Many ships would have to wait at the mouth of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, sometimes for days, to get through the canal system. Charles Snelgrove from England was among the sailors on the ships at that time.  Orphaned at a very young age and sent to Canada for a better life, he eventually ended up as a sailor on the Great Lakes. Thorold was a hive of activity for sailors who sometimes had quite a bit of time on their hands. Charlie, being quite a good looking, charming man, would meet many a young lady while in port.  Before boarding the ship at Lock 7, Charlie would bring the lassie to the rock in Thorold to say good bye and kiss the girl. It didn't take long before many sailors learned of what Charlie was doing and they too would bring their girlfriends or wives to kiss them goodbye on the Rock. Sometimes they would chip a piece off the Rock and put it in their pockets for a safe journey.  Sailors, being a superstitious lot, soon considered it bad luck to defy fate by leaving Lock 7 without visiting the Kissing Rock.

Other Caches in the Series:

The Stone Lions: http://bit.ly/2qcT9p0

The River Lion: COMING SOON