My husband, Airrooster, and I made plans to come to Bainbridge Island on our honeymoon in August 2018, with a single purpose in mind - to visit Frog Rock! 🐸 Hey, what do you expect from THE CrazyFrogLady??!! 🐸 I LOVE Frogs!! 💗🐸💗 We arrived, visitied Frog Rock 🐸 and his buddy LadyBug Rock,🐞 and then proceeded to continue geocaching around the island. A cache that is no longer active brought us to Rotary Centennial Park and to this BEAUTIFUL map of the island created with recycled glass and concrete. I fell in love with BOTH Frog Rock and this stunning glass mosaic map! So, when I was awarded a Virtual Cache this year, I thought of Frog Rock and this map of Bainbridge Island. Frog Rock already has an Earthcache devoted to him, so I chose to highlight this piece of art!! Please take the time to read the origins of this glass mosaic map, enjoy the intricate details and beauty of the map, and find the answers to log this Virtual Cache!! (Read On for Logging Requirements)
Also, while on the island, don't forget to visit Frog Rock!! (GC1C93A) 🐸💗
Origins of this Glass Mosaic Map of Bainbridge Island:
In 2005, a local glass art studio, Mesolini Glass Studio, was commissioned by the Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island to create a concrete-and-glass mosaic map of the island to be placed at the new Rotary Gateway Park. This 312-square-foot map was constructed, paver by paver, outside their studio. They fabricated 78 pavers, each 2 feet by 2 feet by 2 inches, from concrete and more than 30,000 pieces of recycled glass.
Each tile was made individually using concrete that was a mixture of cement, sand, pea gravel, acrylic additive and color. Zinc meant for terrazzo floors was used as an outline to delineate the shape of the island. The zinc was manipulated to the necessary shape and was placed in a mold with freshly poured concrete.
The icons were placed next. Under the direction of the studtio owners, Gregg Mesmer and Diane Bonciolini, art students at Sakai Intermediate School created collaged glass images of trees, buildings, people, places and things significant to the island, including FROG ROCK. These images were fused in a kiln at the Studio, sandblasted to give them a less slippery walking surface and treated with a glass epoxy to bring the glass back to a matte sheen. The finished images were then placed onto an illustration of the island.
Then, finally, came the recycled glass, following the illustration carefully so the pavers would match up with each other at installation. Pavers were made one at a time, left to set up in their molds and then removed the next day.
Bainbridge Island Rotary Club fiunded this piece as a gift to Bainbridge Island residents celebrating Rotary’s 100th year on the Island.
** Resource Cited: Article from https://www.concretedecor.net/, written by Concrete Decor Staff.**
💗Now that you have learned about how this glass and congrete mosaic map was made, I hope you enjoy the work that has gone into this piece of art! Yes, there are several questions you need to answer in order to be able to log this Virtual Cache, but they aren't difficult questions ~ I simply want you to spend some time here to truly enjoy and soak in the beauty of the map! 💗
Logging Requirements:
🔷To log this Virtual Cache: Please (A) send me the answers to the following questions via a Geocaching.Com message or email and (B) Attach your photo with your found log.
🔷 BOTH A and B of the logging requirements are required to log this cache. Please don't forget to complete the logging requirements in full because I really don't want to delete logs. Logs from cachers who fail to either complete the logging requirements or fail to complete ALL the logging requirements will be deleted one week after cache has been logged.
🔷 Geocaching with a group? I will be happy to accept one email for the group, as long as whoever sends the answers tells me who all was with them. A group photo will also be acceptable if there are as many people in the photo as geocaching names. So if you are geocaching with a group, but do not want to be included in a group photo, you must upload your own photo with your log in order to log this cache. Remember: if both A and B of the logging requirements are not fulfilled within one week after logging the cache, your log will be deleted!
(1) Frog Rock is located how many pavers from the bottom of the map?
(2) How many Orca Whales are in the water surrounding the island?
(3) What Harbor does the map show the ferry in?
(4) What is your favorite part of this map?
(5) Please attach a photo of either yourself, your GPS, your kids, your pets, or your hand giving a thumbs up or peace sign with this map in the background. Please don't post any photos that can answer all of the questions at once!
⭐️ Congratulations to ExpectToSelfRescue for being the First to Find and to Jax for being the oh so handsome first photo model!! 🐸⭐️
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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.