Snail's Lair Traditional Cache
Craftea's Archives: The slug is dead.
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Snails… We’ve all seen them, some have eaten them, and most of us have cheerfully killed them. They are slimy creatures that eat our gardens and leave a trail of mucus, what is there to like about them?
Not much, and none of the following information will likely to change your mind about them. Slugs have no redeeming qualities that I’ve been able to discover, but if they are snails they have one. One! I know, a shell is hardly enough to justify their existence, especially since you have to get past the slug’s body that resides within before you can see the beauty of the shell. Unless you call yourself physagyrina or have some other odd interest in the things.
A snail’s shell is formed by protein and minerals, mainly calcium, that the animal secretes. The spiral is always a single one, but each species has its’ own shell style. Some spirals turn to the right and some to the left, which is how you can determine it’s a snail is right- or left-handed, although they have no hands… or for that matter, more than one foot, on which they can speedily go 3” a minute.
Along with a lack of limbs, snails don’t have much in the brains department, either. They only have a pair of nerve centers located behind their tentacles. Just enough to find food and mates.
Mates! Snails have both male and female characteristics, so they don’t actually have to mate, but often (too often?) they choose to. Mating snails exchange sperm, then they both go off to lay eggs. Those eggs, once hatched, are fully independent mini-versions of adults.
More than you wanted to know, isn’t it? But is it enough to find the cache? You may need to do some searching of your own to find out where you might find this one.
There are 80,000 different kinds of snails and slugs. Well, now it’s 80,001. Can you find it?
Snail Man did! He was FTF on a cache I planted just for him! Woo Hoo! Congratulations, physagyrina!
I've added a different, more helpful hint because there's no cell coverage for a PAF option.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Qba'g sbhpf ba gur fghzc, vg'f abg gurer.
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