Blue Canary Gold Geocoin Leatherneck's Blue Canary Gold Geocoin

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Owner:
Leatherneck Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Monday, January 1, 2007
Origin:
Mississippi, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of dheermann.

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To make a stop in all 50 states.

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You cannot buy this coin. You cannot trade for it. The only way to own one of these coins is for Blue Canary to deem you worthy and to "gift" it to you.

The obverse of the coin has the logo of Blue Canary, who has been geocaching since February 21, 2003. A blue canary is a term used only half in jest by firemen in referring to law enforcement officers at a hazardous materials incident. Unfortunately, Hazmat training for law enforcement has lagged behind that of fire fighters. Law enforcement is usually trained to rush immediately to any incident they are called to. Fire fighters have been trained to observe the area as they approach. Only half jokingly fire fighters are taught in responding to hazardous material incidents to observe any law enforcement officers already on the scene to see if the "Blue Canaries" appear OK or are prone on the ground. Blue Canary is a retired law enforcement officer. Also in the border of the coin are the Eagle Scout badge and the square and compass of the Masons, both of which Blue Canary is proud to be.

The reverse side shows a camp scene. Another one of Blue Canary's hobbies is buckskinning, also called mountain man or longhunter. This is basically camping using only equipment that was available prior to 1840. Camps, called rendezvous, are held at various locations around the United States throughout the year. The sky represents two astronomical events, an eclipse and a comet, that occured during the same rendezvous Blue Canary was at several years ago.

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Tracking History (283.5mi) View Map

Discovered It 10/11/2008 ModelCitizen discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered it today at the South Mississippi Eat and Greet event after an all-day cache run with a bunch of other geocachers. Great coin! I had not seen this version yet.

Blue skies and happy caching!
Model Citizen - Zero Discipline
Discovered It 10/11/2008 bluesprucejr discovered it   Visit Log

Saw this one on the TB table at the eat-n-greet at the Old Watermill Restaurant.
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/11/2008 cajunabear retrieved it from South MS Eat & Greet Mississippi   Visit Log

ONE of two trackables I retrieved during the day. I wanted to take some TB item from one of my greatest days of fun and caching with a remarkable group of cachers from MS & LA while on a southern MS TEAM HUNT will have this coin moved to a Southeast Louisiana GeoEvent
Dropped Off 10/8/2008 photogruff placed it in South MS Eat & Greet Mississippi - 20.37 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/12/2008 photogruff retrieved it from Feraligator Mississippi   Visit Log

Planning on moving it to Alabama on a cach trip at the end of the month.
Dropped Off 4/3/2008 Leatherneck placed it in Feraligator Mississippi - 88.39 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/28/2008 Leatherneck retrieved it from Flat on the ground Mississippi   Visit Log

I'll place this coin into an appropriate cache at my earliest opertunity.

Thanks for the coin.
Dropped Off 3/14/2007 Blue Canary placed it in Flat on the ground Mississippi   Visit Log
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