Message in a Bottle - MV Multi-Cache
Fezziwig377: no time for this one
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This cache can be found at the Caroline Tuthill Preserve on
Martha's Vineyard. The trail is a nice nature trail that loops back
to the parking area.
Park at N41' 23.845, W070' 32.307.
How To Get There:
From Triangle intersection in Edgartown, travel 0.4 miles west on
the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road. Or traveling east on
Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, 3.7 miles from flashing yellow
blinker in Oak Bluffs. Park on the side of the Edgartown-Vineyard
Haven Road.
The Caroline Tuthill Preserve includes over 150 acres of oak-pitch
pine woods, wetlands, salt marsh and open fields lying between
Sengekontacket Pond and Beach Road to the north and the Vineyard
Haven-Edgartown road to the south. The Preserve was given to
Sheriff's Meadow Foundation by John and Nora Tuthill in the years
from 1972 to 1983, and is the largest single gift of land in the
Foundation's history. This self-guided nature walk follows a
walking trail through a portion of the Preserve which is primarily
oak-pitch pine woods, although there are also expansive views
across Sengekontacket Pond and a large salt marsh.
The land from the eastern shore of Lagoon Pond to Edgartown Harbor,
including the Caroline Tuthill Preserve, was formed by the Cape Cod
lobe of the Late Wisconsin glacier when glacial meltwater spread
sand and gravel outwash over the terminal moraine deposited earlier
during the southernmost advance of the glacier. The knobs and
kettle holes which produce the distinctive topography of the
Caroline Tuthill Preserve reveal this glacial origin.
The plants growing on the Preserve are adapted to the dry, sandy
soil formed from the glacial outwash. Fire and strong salt winds
also influence which plants will grow here. Naturally, the plants
play a key role in determining which animals live or migrate
through the area. Commonly observed woodland birds include crows,
blue jays, chickadees, towhees, pine warblers, white-breasted
nuthatches and red-eyed vireos. Common mammals include white-tailed
deer, deer mice and the ubiquitous stripped skunk, These woods also
provide habitat for several species of rare invertebrates including
the spectacular imperial moth, which has disappeared from almost
all of New England except Martha's Vineyard.
As you walk this woodland trail, try to keep in mind the complex
relationship between soil and plant and animal, and how they
interact with each other.
This is 5 stage multi-cache (#5 being the CACHE itself). All stages
are just off the trail, or slightly in the woods from it. Please
stay on the trails, bushwacking between stages isn't necessary.
Also be aware of muggles and practice Cache In Trash Out. Trail is
marked with posts in the ground painted YELLOW.
Feel free to visit the pond!!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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