This cache is part of my “River Nile” series. If you want THAT to make sense, you need to read the description for “Sauce of the Nile” (GCB2PFQ).
If you have found other caches in this series already, you will notice “gaps”. Never fear, caches are (mostly) prepped and ready for those spots too.
Unfortunately, not all of South Creek has features that reflect something significant about the River Nile. So some caches are a little more “generic” than others. The caches representing part of the White or Blue Nile are named for a colour variation of white or blue. Caches representing part of the Nile proper (as this one is) are named for a significant pharaoh in the history of Egypt, or in a couple of instances, some well-known aspect of living beside that great river.
Rameses, or to be more precise, Rameses II, was also known as Rameses the Great. Living from 1303 BC -1213 BC, he is regarded as one of ancient Egypt’s most successful warrior-pharaohs, conducting 15 military campaigns, all resulting in victories bar one (considered a stalemate).
In ancient Greek sources, he is called Ozymandias, and was the inspiration for the poem of the same name, by P.B. Shelley (older cachers may have encountered this poem in their schooldays)
He was responsible for the construction of what, besides the pyramids & sphynx, is the best-known structure from those far-off days, the temple complex at Abu Simbel, overlooking the River Nile near the Sudan border. This complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968, to avoid being submerged by Lake Nasser, the reservoir formed by the Aswan Dam.
However this was not his only building project. He built extensively from the Nile delta to Nubia, “covering the land with buildings in a way no monarch before him had.” *
FINDER'S NOTE ... After filling in log, you'll need to roll it tight and slip into lid portion of cache ... NOT body.
There’s about as much wealth in this cache as there was in Rameses’ tomb when they found it. (which is a cute way of saying “no swaps”)
A happy morning geocaching for Graubunden and Surdivisio. FTF is icing on the cake!
* source … Wikipedia