Bat's Night Out! Mystery Cache
Fledermaus: Archived due to policy changes (i.e. no park visitors after dusk) by Kitsap County Parks & Recreation.
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FTF: 16 August 2007 - By: Gotrecking89.
DO
NOT GO TO THE ABOVE COORDINATES!!!
You're out on a
moonlit starry night in a open field...it's really really
dark...and it seems like you're in the middle of
nowhere.
So far from the
city lights that the Milky Way, hanging over your head, looks so
very close.
You hear frogs
croaking, crickets chirping and the flapping of unseen
wings!
Wait! There's
something overhead and it's getting closer and closer and
closer!
Can you hear
it...What was that? You think you saw something
flying...or did you?
In the distance
a coyote howls and in a nearby tree an owl hoots. You
turn to look behind you, but there's nothing there!
You turn back
and there it is, right in front of you and it's fangs are dripping
with blood!
RUN...RUN...RUN
for your life...As fast as you can! It's big, it's fast and it's
hungry! It Wants You!!! |
If you dare, follow the FireTacks or Glints using
your
LED Flashlight, starting at the Parking Coordinates listed
below:
N47° 28.495
@ W122° 43.905. |
One Glint: Marks the Trail you must
follow.
Two
Glints: Make a Decision - Foward, Left or
Right.
Three
Glints: Marks Start and End of your
journey.
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NOTES:
1. Do Not
Leave the Main Trail, except at the Final cache site.
2. Glints
may be on Either Side(High or Low) of the Main Trail.
3. Some
glints may be well off the trail and above your head.
4. If you
do not find Glints, look for the Orange Ribbons.
5. A Lock
& Lock Box is less than 10 Feet from Final Glints.
WARNING: DO NOT DRIVE PAST GATE, EVEN IF
IT'S OPEN !
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Why the Bat Flies at Night.
Retold from
a legend of the Kono people of Sierra Leone,
Africa.
Long ago, when
first the world was made, it never became dark or
cold. All day the sun shone brightly, giving creatures
warmth and light. All night the full moon gleamed, making twilight
almost as light as day. Until...
One day, Bat
accepted a mission to carry a mysterious basket to the
moon. In the basket was darkness, but Bat did not know
that.
Bat took off to
fly to the moon with the basket on his back.
Bother this
basket," he said after a while." It's too heavy and I'm
tired and hungry."
So Bat put the
basket down and went to find some food and take a
rest. Along came some other animals. They saw the basket
abandoned along the way.
"That is a
large basket," said one of them." I wonder if it is full
of good things to eat? Lets open it and see," said
another.
Just as the
animals were peeking under the basket lid, Bat came
back. But he was too late. Darkness had
escaped.
Ever since that
time, Bat rests by day so he is ready to fly at
twilight. At night, you will see him rushing about
everywhere. He is trying to catch all the pieces of dark
to put back in the basket, so he can take it to the
moon. His mission now is to capture every tatter of
darkness. |
When
viewing a map of the area in which this geocache has been
hidden,
You might
discover the "Giant Question Mark" on the geocache area
map.
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"View Larger Map" to see the Giant Question Mark
caches.
Last Edited / Updated: 01:37:18 PM Sun, Oct 09
2011.
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