Travel Bug Dog Tag Ida

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Owner:
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Released:
Sunday, April 13, 2003
Origin:
United Kingdom
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Current Goal

Ida wants to visit as many bodies of water as possible. She would also like some photos as she misses many of the views to her right.

About This Item

Ida is a rare one-eyed duck (Latin name "Duckus Indicisus"). She was born, like all her species, in recent years, with only one eye. Over a 65000 years ago the earth was populated with millions of these ducks each equipped with two eyes.

This fact was established only recently when archeologists unearthed a site containing countless thousands of their skeletons all of which had broken necks. For a long time no one could understand why so many had died and all at the same time. Closer examination of the site established that two huge flocks flying in opposite direction had collided. Current scientific thinking is that having only small brains for their size the ducks could never decide whether to go to the right or left when faced with a an opposing flock. Such indecision led to their catastophic decline.

Fortunately nature stepped in and the ducks started being born with only a left eye. Whilst there are no longer any large flocks it is well documented that whenever these ducks fly toward each other they will always swerve to the left.

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    Tracking History (5859.7mi) View Map

    Retrieve It from a Cache 9/27/2003 Drift retrieved it from L&C State Park at Onawa Iowa   Visit Log

    Gone missing so temporarily removed till she turns up
    Dropped Off 6/11/2003 LinkDeath placed it in L&C State Park at Onawa Iowa - 417.22 miles  Visit Log
    • Eagles Nest Ida decided to hitch a ride with us as we travelled out to the far reaches of Iowa to visit my folks. On the way, she noticed this location, and couldn't help but stop by to chew the insects...so to speak. The neighbors were a bit stuck-up, however, and anyway, she was more interested in the water nearby.
    • Mississippi River Once she'd extricated herself from her overly-patriotic cousins, she posed here with her friend, LinkDeath in front of the fourth-largest river in the world, the mighty Mississippi, legend in story and song. It was rather overcast and more than a little rainy as well, but that's all water off a duck's back...so to speak. After a bit of a splash, we continued on our way west.
    • Missouri River It was a nicer day the day we stopped by the far west side of Iowa, and there was even a beach for Ida! However, the weather was a bit cool, so sunbathing was out of the question. She did, however, take her leisure upon a few stacked stones on the edge of the river and posed for a few tasteful shots.
    • Geese 1 A few miles from the Missouri river, we stopped by a very nice park on the edge of an oxbow lake which once (almost 200 years ago) was actually a part of the Missouri river. We saw this information on Ida's close cousins, Canadian geese and she simply *had* to be taken over to get a look. You can just see her in this pickture, balancing atop the lock which holds the doors to this display closed.
    • Geese 2 As you can see in this close-up picture, Ida was, however, turned the wrong way...eye-side out. But since we had already enjoyed such wonderful adventures together, I gladly read her the information written there beside her about Canadian geese. In the end, we said a tearful farewell and hoped Ida the best with the next friend she met along her journeys. Farewell, Ida!
    Retrieve It from a Cache 6/1/2003 LinkDeath retrieved it from Kay's Garage Sale or leftover junk. Illinois   Visit Log

    Picked up Ida, poor thing with only one eye! Am making a trip next weekend to my parents in Iowa. I think I'll show her the Mighty Mississippi, and maybe the Not-As-Might Missouri as well!
    Dropped Off 5/25/2003 dcgusto placed it in Kay's Garage Sale or leftover junk. Illinois - 1,103.71 miles  Visit Log
    Write note 5/10/2003 ErieRich posted a note for it   Visit Log

    was at this cache before BOWMAN , just dropped off Ida so my daughter can pick him up. Only travelled a few miles on Sanibel Island.
    Retrieve It from a Cache 5/10/2003 dcgusto retrieved it from Bow Man Florida   Visit Log

    Interesting and cute story for this traveller! Nabbed this from Dad, ErieRIch, while vacationing in FLorida together. Thanks Dad! 😁
    Retrieve It from a Cache 5/10/2003 ErieRich retrieved it from Ding Darling Bailey Tract Cache Florida   Visit Log

    took bug from my son Jeff&Bek while geocaching together and placed in cache nearby so my daughter dcgusto could pick it up.

    Dropped Off 5/10/2003 Jeff&Bek placed it in Ding Darling Bailey Tract Cache Florida - .29 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 5/10/2003 Jeff&Bek retrieved it from A "DARLING" LITTLE CACHE Florida   Visit Log

    👍~cute bug, great history. Was geocaching with family when we picked em up... so we passed her around. We did two nearby caches in Florida, then i think she was off to Chicago with my sister and brother&law, dcgusto.

    Dropped Off 5/2/2003 Travers placed it in A "DARLING" LITTLE CACHE Florida - 4,336.97 miles  Visit Log
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