Camp Granada

To surprise people who find difficult caches.

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I maintain a cache where the coin should be stored virtually to keep it from going stale in someone's inventory. I ask that people don't retrieve or grab it from there for mileage. That defeats the surprise factor. Discover it instead.

The Geocoin Club explains this coin with:

Ever have this feeling? Standing at the top of a mountain, overlooking a great view. Fresh air in your nose. Then you think about a friend who isn't there and how they would love it. Yeah - us too.

About Camp Granada:

"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" is Allan Sherman's best known song parody. The song was first released in 1963 on his LP "My Son, the Nut" and was entirely rewritten for a performance in 1964 on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.

While the words are in the form of a letter, narrating a summer camp experience that alternates between horrifying for the child, and horrifying to the parents, the tune is the sprightly "Dance of the Hours" by Ponchielli, as seen dramatized with dancing ostriches, hippos, elephants and crocodiles in Walt Disney's 1940 classic Fantasia.

The original words are:

Hello muddah, hello faddah
Here I am at Camp Granada
Camp is very entertaining
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining.

I went hiking with Joe Spivy
He developed poison ivy
You remember Leonard Skinner
He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.

All the counselors hate the waiters
And the lake has alligators
And the head coach wants no sissies
So he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

Now I don't want this should scare ya
But my bunkmate has malaria
You remember Jeffrey Hardy
They're about to organize a searching party.

Take me home, oh muddah, faddah
Take me home, I hate Granada
Don't leave me out in the forest where
I might get eaten by a bear.

Take me home I promise I will not make noise
Or mess the house with other boys.
Oh please don't make me stay
I've been here one whole day.

Dearest faddah, darling muddah,
How's my precious little bruddah
Let me come home, if you miss me
I would even let Aunt Bertha hug and kiss me.

Wait a minute, it's stopped hailing.
Guys are swimming, guys are sailing
Playing baseball, gee that's better
Muddah, faddah kindly disregard this letter.

(copyright 1963, Warner Music. Sherman/Busch.)