This geocache is not at the posted coordinates. The Posted Coordinates will take you to the Rudolph Building, home to Southside Coffee. On the side of the building is a mural recognizing the local wine industry. You will gather information at the mural to get the coordinates to the final, which is about a mile away. The final is a gadget cache crafted by The Amazing Phil D.
The geocache is at:
N 34 37.ABC W 120 27.DEF
On the mural plaque, this was a Mural in a Day in 200A. The fellow in the tan shirt Wine Tasting has B glasses. The wine bottle "Lompoc Vines Pinot Noir" is vintage 200C. The wine bottle "Lompoc Cellar Chardonnay" is vintage 20DF. (Please Note "DF", not "DE") The mural is surrounded by grape vines, there are E large clusters of grapes.
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The Milky seas as seen in Coffee.
When you go to a coffee shop do you order a café au lait, lattes, steamers, or good old-fashioned cream and sugar drip coffee? Oat, almond, soy, or cow, you can't deny that milk is an ever-present staple in coffee houses across the globe. But have you ever heard about milk in the ocean?
Shimmering, glimmering water glowing bright blue in the ocean at night might seem eerie to some and beautiful to others. It’s not magic; it’s bioluminescence. Bioluminescence, the emission of light by a living thing, can make the ocean and shore come alive with glowing clusters of fish, jellyfish, bacteria, plants, and microscopic animals. Bioluminescence is fairly common on a small scale, but since the 1900s, sailors have reported unusual sightings of large swaths of glowing water at night, commonly referred to as Milky Seas, and have been fascinated by the phenomenon. Since they are so rarely seen, they can be difficult to study and the cause of the events is somewhat of a mystery. One enterprising ship collected water samples while they passed through a milky sea event. The test results revealed a concentration of bioluminescent bacteria, Aliivibrio (Vibrio) harveyi, that was growing on blue-green algae. The mystery of milky seas captured the attention of Dr. Steven Miller, a professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University and the director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA). Dr. Miller uses historical accounts and remote sensing techniques on satellite imagery to predict the timing and location of milky seas so that research vessels can be dispatched to study them in person. Advances in remote sensing technology, such as the sensitive Day/Night Band (DNB) on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) satellites, have made it possible to identify milky seas from space.
The map below shows historical sightings of milky seas from 1796 to 2021. The gray dots are historical occurrences and the red dots are sightings that have been made possible due to remote sensing technology.
JPSS satellites circle Earth from pole to pole and cross the equator 14 times daily, providing full global coverage twice daily. The data is immediately and readily available for researchers like Dr. Miller to alert researchers with potential locations, increasing the likelihood that we can learn more about these rare events.
