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A Small sized Clip box with room for small swaps.
This is a very blustery area, quite boggy in places so suitable footwear should be worn, watch out for the large area of light coloured grassland as there is a marsh underneath, the ground is also very uneven in places and you could easily twist an ankle – so take great care, please keep your dog on a lead during ground bird breeding months
This can be done as a standalone cache but also provides coords for a series leading to a mystery cache.
'A Tribute To Bob Marley' mystery cache coords are to be found in 4 parts in the 4 caches listed below, inside the log book of each cache will be some letters followed by some of Bob Marleys tracks, all you have to do to get the coords is relate these track names to the track numbers on one of his most famous albums (work out the album from the hint)
53 AB.CDE
001 FG.HIJ
Cache 1 - Stir it up
Cache 2 - Exodus
Cache 3 - Three little birds
Cache 4 - Jammin
Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands The Wailers (1964 – 1974) and Bob Marley & the Wailers (1974 – 1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread Jamaican music to a worldwide audience.
In 1962, Bob recorded his first two singles, "Judge Not" and "One Cup of Coffee", with local music producer Leslie Kong. These songs attracted little attention.
In 1963, Bob formed a ska and rocksteady group, they called themselves "The Teenagers". They later changed their name to "The Wailing Rudeboys", then to "The Wailing Wailers", at which point they were discovered by record producer Coxsone Dodd, and finally to "The Wailers", Bob went on to produce some fine songs in his musical career but his greatest selling album would not come until 3 years after his death in 1984
This great man was not only an inspiration in the world of music but he believed and spread the word in equality, Marley suffered racial prejudice as a youth, because of his mixed racial origins and faced questions about his own racial identity throughout his life. He once reflected:
I don't have prejudice against meself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.
In July 1977, Bob was found to have acral lentiginous melanoma, a form of malignant melanoma, in a football wound - according to widely held urban legend, inflicted by broadcaster and pundit Danny Baker - on his right big toe. Marley refused amputation, because of the Rastafari belief that the body must be "whole."
Bob may have seen medical doctors as samfai (tricksters, deceivers). True to this belief he went against all surgical possibilities and sought out other means that would not break his religious beliefs. He also refused to register a will, based on the Rastafari belief that writing a will is acknowledging death as inevitable, thus disregarding the everlasting (or everliving, as Rastas say) character of life.
The cancer then metastasized to Bob's brain, lungs, liver, and stomach. After playing two shows at Madison Square Garden as part of his fall 1980 Uprising Tour, he collapsed while jogging in NYC's Central Park. The remainder of the tour was subsequently cancelled.
While flying home from Germany to Jamaica for his final days, Bob became ill, and landed in Miami for immediate medical attention. He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida on the morning of May 11, 1981, at the age of 36. The spread of melanoma to his lungs and brain caused his death. His final words to his son Ziggy were "Money can't buy life. Bob received a state funeral in Jamaica on May 21, 1981, which combined elements of Ethiopian Orthodoxy and Rastafari tradition. He was buried in a chapel near his birthplace with his Fender Stratocaster. A month before his death, he had also been awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit.
Additional Hints
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1) Onfr bs jnyy bccbfvgr n ynetr ebpx
2) Ur'f hc gurer jvgu nyy gur terngf (1984 nyohz)