Travel Bug Lodge guidelines:
- Please leave at least one Travel Bug in the cache at all times.
- Please trade only Travel Bugs (or other hitchhikers, like geocoins), no other trade items please.
- If you are not moving Travel Bugs, please sign the log with a TNLN.
- If at all possible, please note in the log the names of the Bugs you took and the Bugs you left.
- When you drop a Bug, please list his goal if you know it.
- All are welcome to revisit this cache as often as you like. After the first visit, please log in with a "note" instead of a "found it".
Why use a Bug Lodge?
- You are carrying a Bug who needs a cache stop.
- You are traveling, and want to grab a Bug to help along on its journey.
- You picked up a Bug somewhere and realized you cannot help it reach its goal, so you need an easily accessible place to drop it so maybe someone else can.
- You are feeling a little guilty about that Bug you have been holding onto for weeks.
- You have a new Bug to release, and you need a good cache to place it in.
The cache location will help bring attention to the Lowell Creek Diversion Tunnel, an important and unique landmark in Seward that has existed since 1940. The stream originally ran through the middle of the townsite, and actually carried down all the gravel and rock that Seward is built on. Now the outlet to the 2068-foot diversion tunnel is just above the road, and Lowell Creek emerges as this waterfall. The waterfall's character depends upon the recent weather. It can be a lovely cascade of nearly clear water during cold weather, a busy cataract of glacial meltwater during the warm days of summer, or a terrifying torrent of roiling gray runoff mixed with tons of moving gravel during extended periods of heavy rain. Both Chinook and Coho salmon are planted in the stream below the waterfall as smolt. Those that return provide sport surf fishing; survivors school up in the pond under the falls, their journey at an end. During freezing weather, beautiful ice structures form in the spray, occasionally covering the entire falls.