GCR7NP More Fairy Houses (Traditional Cache) in New York, United States created by Team Aegis

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A cache by Team Aegis Message this owner

Hidden : 11/5/2005

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

What would happen if you built a house for fairies? Would they come and visit? For the last 80 years, residents of Monhegan Island, Maine have been building fairy houses in the woods - small dwellings made out of natural materials built in hollow logs, nooks and crannies in trees, holes in the ground, and between branches of bushes.

To get credit for this cache, find and sign the log, which is in a decon container deep in the woods, build a fairy house near the cache, and upload a picture of it. The log is not hidden in a Fairy House.

Fairies will not live in a house made with living materials that have been picked or killed, so use only materials "offered" by nature - pieces of bark, dry grass, berries lying on the ground, pine cones, acorns, stones, seeds, shells, feathers, dry pods, sticks, dried thistles, milk weed pods, etc. Please respect the living plant material - do not pick or remove mosses, flowers or any living thing. Please do not remove material from other fairy houses to make your own. Houses not meeting the guidelines will be removed and logs deleted.

The cache site, which is on Town of Binghamton property, is very beautiful and peaceful – a perfect place for fairies to gather. Enter the woods at the trailhead N42 01.048 W075 56.976, and be careful not to go onto the posted private property next door. Many thanks to D2Cacher from Albany NY, creator of the original Fairy Houses cache, for inspiring us to create this one. This is a wonderful cache for kids – bring them along!

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