Kennebecasis Island Cache Multi-Cache
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Kennebecasis Island Cache
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The given co-ordinates will take you to the cemetery, from there you will find the co-ordinates to the cache.
Kennebecasis Island is a small island, accessible by ferry, located off the tip of the Kingston Peninsula and surrounded by the St. John and Kennebecasis Rivers. Although there are summer residents, there are no permanent residents on the island.
Kennebecasis Island was once home to a small group of residents, the first listed is James M. Keith who was a seargent in the Queen's Rangers in the American Revolution. He was granted land in 1789. Since then more people moved on to the Island, hauling hay across the ice in the winter months to sell to the livery stables in Saint John in return for manure which they used on their farms. Interestingly enough, the manure they used help grow great vegetable crops which, in the summer months, they placed on boats and paddled to the city to sell. In 1904 there was a settlement with a post office.
Later there was a steamer ferry which left from the end of Millidge Road, near the Royal Kennebecasis Yacht Club, and serviced the Island as well as Summerville and Bayswater. The ferry operated until 1955.
Now there are only summer residents on the Island, the original families having long since moved away. Electric power is only available to one side of the Island. Residents like it that way. Life is quiet and no one is on the Island in the winter months since the ferry operates only from mid-May until mid-November. The ferry ride is short, about 5 minutes, as is the distance, about 400 m.
Long time residents can be found in two separate cemeteries on the Island. One, the Keith Family Cemetery, is well tended while the Hutching Private Cemetery is overgrown and in poor condition. This is where the cache is located. To find this cemetery, once getting off the ferry travel up the the hill about 100 meters and follow the trail into the woods on the left. You can park off the road at N45.19.834 W066.06.937. When the trail turns into two trails, you can access the cemetery either way. However, taking the trail going off to the right will put you within about 40 m. to the cemetery. You can see headstones from the trail. This trail is also a little bit better defined.
Visit with the residents in the cemetery, they will help you to find the cache coordinates.
For the North Coordinate find Robert Strayhorn. Subtract 1257 from the year that Robert died (A).
North co-ord is: 45.19.(A)
For the West Coordinate add the number 4 to the last three digits of the year that John Hutchings died (B).
West co-ord is: 066.06.(B)
The cache is a small peanut butter jar wrapped in a plastic grocery store-type bag, with a log book, pencil and the usual trading items.
As always, please return the cache to its original hiding spot and make sure it is as well hidden as when you found it.
Take time to explore the rest of the Island. The summer residents enjoy company.
PLEASE DO NOT PLACE PEN/PENCIL IN PLASTIC BAGGIE
First to Find: LongReacher
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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