Travel Bug Dog Tag Across the Pond

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Released:
Saturday, December 25, 2004
Origin:
California, United States
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In the hands of Balloonist39.

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Current Goal

Please help this coin make its way to the United Kingdom and the 488th Intelligence Squadron, Mildenhall, U.K. While in the United Kingdom, also help the coin travel to some of the areas where bat education and protection groups are located: London, Staffordshire, South Lancaster, Sussex, Durham, Kent, Cheshire, Norfolk and Cornwall.

This travel bug is being tracked by hundreds of teachers, students and librarians. The bug's locations, cultures and people it meets will be used to teach children and adults about bats, geography and other peoples!

Please keep in touch and let all of us know about Marisol’s new friends and locations.

Thank you so very much for being part of this learning experience!

About This Item

Congratulations! You have found one of the California Native Bat Conservancy’s travel bugs. We are a not-for-profit, all volunteer, bat conservation, education and rescue group.

This is a crew coin from the 488th Intelligence Squadron, Mildenhall, U.K. What do bats and this coin have in common? They weigh the same! Ninety percent of the over 1,000 species of bats worldwide weigh the same or less as this coin! Bat’s aren’t huge animals that swoop after you – approximately 70% eat insects and 23% eat fruit.

Plus, there is a bat stamped on the coin above the squadron’s motto, “By day or by night.” Bats see as well or better than we do. They use echolocation, much like the 488th’s radar to detect danger – and in the bat’s case…food!

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    Tracking History (21993.3mi) View Map

    Retrieve It from a Cache 6/8/2010 Balloonist39 retrieved it from CAT4 - Bridge2Bridge - Trees Southern England, United Kingdom   Visit Log

    Found and will move on asap.
    Dropped Off 6/7/2010 Daymark placed it in CAT4 - Bridge2Bridge - Trees Southern England, United Kingdom - 106 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 5/26/2010 Daymark retrieved it from Morton Corbet Castle, Shropshire West Midlands, United Kingdom   Visit Log

    Will keep this coin moving and hopefully get it close to a bat education and protection group!
    Dropped Off 5/23/2010 BinaryDean placed it in Morton Corbet Castle, Shropshire West Midlands, United Kingdom - 6,025.61 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 4/22/2010 BinaryDean retrieved it from New Locomotion (Revived) Kwazulu Natal, South Africa   Visit Log

    Will move on
    Dropped Off 1/16/2010 haggishound-freckle placed it in New Locomotion (Revived) Kwazulu Natal, South Africa - 729.35 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 1/12/2010 haggishound-freckle retrieved it from Daphne's View Western Cape, South Africa   Visit Log

    grabbed in hermanus. taking to durban.
    Dropped Off 1/4/2010 BrooksFamilySA placed it in Daphne's View Western Cape, South Africa - 26.36 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 1/4/2010 BrooksFamilySA retrieved it from Dappat se skat Western Cape, South Africa   Visit Log

    Found this guy in the perfect place for a bat - Dappat Se Skat
    Discovered It 1/4/2010 BrooksFamilySA discovered it   Visit Log

    found this guy in "Dappat se skat" dropped off in
    "Daphne's View"
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