Track the dragon – Marrowstone Point
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Enjoy another beach walk, find some wonderful driftwood, build a sandcastle, then go and find a dragon track. This is one of the Puget Sound's wonderful places.
A puzzle with a purpose, this game, Tracking the Dragon, was conceived in 1991 by Wild Olympic Salmon as a way for people to learn about water. There are 12 bronze dragon tracks, which represent a phase of the hydrologic cycle: sedimentary rock, glaciers, clouds, rain, streams, freshwater wetlands, rivers, soil water, groundwater, estuaries, Puget Sound, Hood Canal, and the sea. Dragon tracks are bronze, about two feet long, and you can make rubbings of them with thin paper and crayon. Join us on our adventure to locate these tracks. Today we hiked along seashores, sometimes finding them, sometimes not.... why didn't they use a GPS and get coordinates??? Here’s the story, paraphrased in places! “The weather had recently been cold and bleak, and the tired old dragon crawled up from the beach, through driftwood and weeds, to a low island shore. He sat down on the edge of a shallow, square hole ….. (you can see the remains lying hard by the place where he sat). He looked one last time at the familiar scene around him. To his right, the short winding trail along a low dike leading to a building and a road. To his left, the tree-covered bluffs, and farther down the seaway, a lighthouse. But most of all, he gazed at the expanse of water with waves rolling up on the beach in front of him”. Park at these coordinates N48.06.025 W122.41.348 and walk around the point, around the fishery, past the lighthouse;(there is a little path along the rocks). Follow that path and go to the second cement area where the big guns were once attached, 40 or 50 feet beyond the lighthouse. That's the coordinates for the cache AND the track. Container is a small round lock&lock. And it is hiding where only a geocacher would look. “Think twice about this track.” What could that mean? I am not sure, but it’s a clue! Look later at Ruby Beach….. the center of this track lies there. Congratulations to Shunra FTF! ***** By the way- finding the track is great, and is a firdt step- but you cannot claim a find until you find the cache and sign the logsheet!*****
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