This cache is best seen at low tide
in order to log this virtual geocache you will need to find a park sign at the posted coordinates and answer the 3 questions listed below.
This is just one location where you will find a park sign that will provide you with the answers necessary to log this cache. Have a look around the estuary during your next walk and you will see them throughout.
Results of a highly detailed mapping and radiocarbon dating at a vast and largely unknown intertidal fish trap complex indicate a large scale, technologically sophisticated aboriginal trap fishery operated at the Comox harbor, Vancouver Island British Columbia between about 1300 and 100 years ago. About 1300 years ago and probably earlier people began construction frameworks for these traps consisting of upright wooden poles embedded in the tidal sediments of the estuary. Today well preserved remnants of these coral-like enclosures are deeply buried in the sediments and appear only as patterns of short wooden stakes at the surface of the mudflats. When set to fish removable lattice fence like panels likely were lashed to the tall structures as evidenced of a use-wear marks on remains of the poles. An estimated 150,000 to 200,000 Stakes represent the remains of more than 300 fish traps built over 1000 years located near productive salmon streams and well utilized herring spawning habitat.
logging requirements
If you're logging by phone there is a feature that prompts you to answer questions prior to your log.
if you're using geocaching.com simply send me a message with your answers prior to logging your find.
1. How many years did First Nations occupy Millard creek year round?
2. Name the two traps used?
3. What are large accumulations of debris created by many generations of people processing and eating aquatic foods called?
Virtual Rewards 3.0 - 2022-2023
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between March 1, 2022 and March 1, 2023. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 3.0 on the Geocaching Blog.