Park hours are 5:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. The size of the cache is "regular", but the container for the log is only a "micro", so BYOP. Located near the public boat ramp on Linwood Lake, so some stealth may be required. You will probably need some tall boots, but you might try wading. Since this cache can be frozen in during the winter, please don’t attempt when there’s ice on the lake. Please ensure this cache has an air pocket and is properly nestled in its ahu (base) when you’re done in order to help keep the log dry.
Santa enjoys Easter just as much as Christmas, so he hid this geocache to help you enjoy the holiday, too.
Easter Island is a Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean that was given its name by the island’s first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday in 1722. The Polynesian name of the island is Rapa Nui (“Big Rapa”), which refers to its topographic resemblance to the island of Rapa (though there is some debate regarding which was named first). The island is most renowned for its 887 monolithic stone statues, called moai, which were created by the early Rapa Nui people.
The statues are believed to have “commemorated their former high chiefs, including their names and ranks.” They were carved in the period 1100-1680 AD (aka CE). Although often identified as “Easter Island heads”, the statues have torsos, most of them ending at the top of the thighs. There are a small number of complete figures that kneel on bent knees with their hands over their stomachs. Some of the statues have become buried up to their necks due to the shifting soil on the island – a result of extreme deforestation that destabilized the ecosystem. There is debate regarding whether the process of creating and moving the moai caused the deforestation.
Only a quarter of the statues were ever installed on ahu (stone platforms), with nearly half remaining in the quarry where they were sculpted using stone hand chisels. There are various theories regarding how the massive statues may have been moved. One possible theory involves the use of a Y-shaped sledge with 180 to 250 men pulling with ropes made from the tough bark of the hau tree. Another method that might have been used would be to attach ropes to the statue and rock it, tugging it forward as it rocked (like ‘walking’ the statue). Both of these methods have been recreated by modern researchers.
Some of the statues were placed looking out towards the Pacific Ocean and some were placed as a "celestial observatory" for the Spring and Autumn Equinox. Since the date for Easter is "the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox" (autumn in the southern hemisphere), this cache is placed facing the lake and is being published on Easter.