The
listed cache coordinates will lead you to a wooden sign in the newly renovated
Hermosa Valley Park that identifies the year when the Hermosa Beach Garden Club
created a native California plant garden in honor of Theodore Payne. See
below for more information about Thomas Payne.
You will need to take the last digit of the year
and calculate the actual cache coordinates by finding the final numbers to the
right of the decimal point (minutes) where x equals the last digit of the year on
the sign: (note that you will only need to adjust the 3 numbers to the right of the decimal point for both Lat and Long)
Latitude - add 100 plus the last digit of the year
minus 1 to the listed coordinate, i.e.:
N33 52.446 + 100 + (x-1) = cache
coordinate
Longitude - add the product of the last digit of the year times 10 minus 1 to the
following coordinate, i.e.: (use the absolute value of the Longtitude)
W118 24.040 + 10x - 1 = cache
coordinate
The coordinates will lead you to a destination on the Hermosa Green
Belt.
BTW, Hermosa Valley is a beautiful little park that was
just renovated in 2003. There is a new bathroom, basketball courts, a great play
area for kids, a new soccer field and plenty of picnic tables and grills. This
is also a popular park for birthday parties. The eldest Humby son still calls
this the Submarine Park because there used to be a yellow submarine in the play
area that was removed in a renovation in the early 1990s.
The cache location has a convenient spot to review and note your cache find.
See the Humbys First Greenbelt Cache for more information on the Green Belt Park
- it is located about 2 miles away from this cache -
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=12168.
And here is more information on
Theodore Payne from the Theodore Payne website -
http://www.theodorepayne.org/
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"Wherever you looked or stepped, there
were acres of purple owl's clover, yellow tidy tips and golden poppies."
-Theodore Payne (1872-1963) |
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Theodore Payne was born in Northampton-shire,
England and served an apprenticeship in horticulture. He came to Los
Angeles in 1893 and fell in love with the California flora, dedicating his life
to its preservation. Even in the early years of this century, native vegetation
was being lost to agriculture and housing at an alarming rate. He urged
the use of California native plants and lectured across the state on preserving
the wild flowers and landscapes native to California.