This cache and several others have been receintly published with the idea in mind of helping local geocachers earn new souvenirs from Geocaching which are:
3, 2, 1 Go! Souvenir Challenge
3, 2, 1 Go! Souvenir Challenge requires you to go on at least six geocaching outings during the three weeks from December 11, 2019 through January 1, 2020. You can log a geocache or attend an Event Cache on any six days during the three weeks, or two times per week, the choice is yours! Earn a 3, 2, 1 Go! souvenir when you do. The sooner you start, the more likely you’ll be to succeed. Are you ready?
Goodbye 2019 Souvenir / Hello 2020 Souvenir
Earn the Goodbye 2019 souvenir by finding any geocache or attending an event on December 31, 2019.
Earn the Hello 2020 souvenir by finding another geocache or attending a different event on January 1, 2020.
(Any cache that is found or Event that is attended on December 31 or January 1 will count towards both your souvenir for the “3, 2, 1 Go!” and “Goodbye 2019/Hello 2020” challenges.)
You are located on the east side of Dauphin so that you have a clear view of the sunset to the west over the silouettes of building roof tops of Dauphin. Did you know that if you were to come out here at different months through the year, your sunset photos would be very different? The difference is because of the tilting of the earth's axis which causes the earth to either tilt towards or away from the sun which also causes the hours of daylight to increase and decrease. In the summer, the tilt is towards the sun which gives our area more hours of daylight (summer solstice) while in the winter, the tilt is away from the sun which gives us less sun light (winter solstice). This is also what gives us the daylight savings time and the phrases like “land of the midnight sun”.
In the Dauphin area, the average sunlight hours in winter is just less than 8 hours while in the summer it's over 16.5 hours. This is also evident by the location of the sun when sunset arrives. During the winter, the earth leans away from the sun so the sun rises and sets further to the south while during the summer the earth leans towards the sun and it sets much further to the north. On some summer evenings, the sunset doesn't really get dark but stays as a glow to the north which seems to slowly move west to east until the sun starts to rise again. During the winter, you wake up for breakfast in the dark and come home for supper back in the dark again. During the summer it's so bright it makes it hard to go and stay asleep.