Lil Hunter's Cache #1 Traditional Cache
fun_4_Him: We are archiving this cache due to us moving to Texas. I'm sorry to say that there were not any TB's in the cache at this time.
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This is a clear regular size L&L hidden in a traditional location in Mallows Bay Park. It was designed to be a kid friendly cache.
Mallows Bay Park offers excellent outdoor recreation opportunities. Tremendous wildlife viewing areas, small boating access to the Potomac River, kayak launch, fishing and hiking. Paddle through the WWI Ghost Fleet, the largest ship graveyard in the Northern Hemisphere.
Open daily 7:00 AM to dusk.
Mallows Bay
Maryland Historic Site
A vast ship graveyard on the western shore of Charles County has the wrecks of more than 230 ships, including 81 wooden steamships built by the U.S. Government during World War I. The shipwrecks, mostly surplus government vessels, have been ignored for more than 50 years. In recent years, they have been catalogued by naval historians. The State of Maryland has expressed an interest in designating the area as a state park, similar to the other U-105 Historic Shipwreck State Preserve near Point Lookout. The area is accessible only by boat; the Potomac shoreline here is in private ownership. The inaccessibility is part of its attraction as a dumping-ground for obsolete ships.
Attempts were made to salvage scrap iron from the ships during the Great Depression and the early 1940s. Bootleggers also facored mallows Bay because it was easy to elude authroities among the shipwrecks.
The wooden steamship fleet was created by the U.S. government as an effort to preserve precious steel during World War I. The steamships were not practical, however, and many ended up parked at mallows Bay. Salvage workers concentrated on the 20 tons of bolts in each ship. Access today is by shallow-draft boats suchs as canoes and sea kayaks.
Mallows Bay is part of the Lower Potomac River Water Trail, which goes from Washington, D.C. to Chesapeake Bay. The area is considered a paddle-in, day use area. The Charles County Government is planning to enhance the site and open it to the public in the future. At present, it is located about 2 miles upstream from Purse Stat Park. It is described on the publication Water Trails in Charles County. Excerpt tacken from (visit link)
The cache contains the usual geo-swag along with a micro for the FTF and a TB.
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