Blacks Harbour Lighthouse Cache -Pea Point Traditional Cache
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Blacks Harbour Lighthouse Cache -Pea Point
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This is a regular size cache with logbook, pencil and sharpener with trade items. The cache is hidden in Blacks Harbour just before the Ferry Dock to Grand Manan Island.
This cache was hidden for the winter placement challenge II.
Take Highway 1 to Blacks Harbour. Follow the signs to the Grand Manan Ferry and park on your left in the parking lot by the red gate.
Just before the ferry terminal on the left side of the road you will see a red gate, that usually indicates a lighthouse is there. My parking coordinates lead you here. Please park here and walk beyond the red gate and down to the beach. This lighthouse is in Blacks Harbour but the actual lighthouse is called Pea point Lightstation to my knowledge.
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Information on the lighthouse is as follows:
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Managing Organization:
Canadian Coast Guard
Tower Height: 35'
Height of Focal Plane: 56'
Characteristic and Range: Fixed white light, visible for 12 nautical miles.
Description of Tower: White, square tower on a corner of a white, square building, with a red lantern.
This light is operational
Date Established: 1878
Date Present Tower Built: 1965? Questionable......to the best of the coast guards knowledge, this is the date that it has been acessed at.
Fog Signal: Two 3-second blasts every minute.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
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Instructions for the cache:
Don't follow your GPS if it leads you off to the left of the trail as there are many paths that lead through the woods. It is best to follow the road down to the lighthouse, right to the shore and then turn left at the bottom. Make your way across the rocks and look to your left for a very large rock that is high up with some brown colored moss on it. Go to the top of this rock and just beyond it you will see a wooden bench that someone had made and the cache is about 10 to 15 meters beyond this bench.
Please take your time and enjoy the scenery here. I have uploaded a few photos to the cache page for you to see what it is like here.
It is a very peaceful and beautiful location.
You can get to the lighthouse at low tide.
IN order to get to the lighthouse you need to follow the old road across the ocean floor when the tide is out. Then on the other side there is a trail that leads you up to the lighthouse.
Enjoy and have fun, and feel free to upload any photos to your logs for others to enjoy.
The Legend of the area is as follows: The Wolves
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The wolves are a series of three small islands in the Passamaquoddy Bay, these Islands are named the followig:
Eastern Wolf Island, Flat Wolf Island and Southern Wolf Island.
The legend associated with these islands involves the Algonquin god or creator force of good, Glooscap.
Glooscap watched one day as three wolves pursued, in the water, a deer and a moose. The deer and moose were tiring from the chase, so Glooscap decided to intervene by changing the wolves into three islands ( the Wolves ). The deer was changed into Deer Island and the moose into Moose Island, which is off the coast of Maine.
This is quite an interesting legend , and once you are atop the huge rock, near the cache location you can view the wolves quite well.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Va gur snyyra bire gerr pbirerq jvgu jbbq.