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Travel Bug Dog Tag Ocracoke Lighthouse

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Owner:
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Released:
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Origin:
Florida, United States
Recently Spotted:
In Honore Thy Cache 1

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Current Goal

Travel around and show cachers a place they need to go.

About This Item

What you have now is a plain plywood oval disc.  That's because the orignal lighthouse replica has gone MIA.  After 4 years I'm restarting it, but with something not collectable.  Below is the write up on the original TB.

Most of us have heard of Cape Hatteras, but far less know that the furtherest you can drive on the Outer Banks is the town of Ocracoke, famous as Blackbeard's hide out and the place where he was finally captured and killed. This relatively small lighthouse is now part of the National Park Service. However the Outer Banks don't end there. Go across Ocracoke inlet and you will reach Portsmouth Island and one of the most remote of the National Parks, Portsmouth Village. This is the north end of Cape Lookout National Seashore. My wife and I spent 2 summers as volunteer caretakers for the NPS at Portsmouth Village. We were often alone on the island and at night we looked across the inlet to Ocracoke and the lighthouse. Sounds lonely but it wasn't. A great experience which were were very thankful that we got to do. There are 2 virtual geocaches on Portsmouth Village with only a total of 5 finds in a year. Maybe you need to check this out.

 

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    Tracking History (30687.1mi) View Map

    Dropped Off 1/18/2016 Grand Illusion Crew placed it in Honore Thy Cache 1 Florida - 144.13 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 12/31/2015 Grand Illusion Crew retrieved it from XTRA#05 Florida   Visit Log

    Picked up this cool proxy and will move it along soon. Interesting story. We love lighthouses and have had some very cool TBs go missing, so we can relate to the story of this one. Proxies are the way to go now for us.

    Dropped Off 12/31/2015 poosu placed it in XTRA#05 Florida - 4,834.67 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 12/27/2015 poosu retrieved it from Former Hippie Place Greece   Visit Log

    This one hasn't moved from what is an active cache in 4 years and two cachers have reported it's not in the cache so I'm restarting it.

    Write note 7/3/2014 HaLiLaS posted a note for it   Visit Log

    Not seen in the box...

    Write note 9/27/2012 Lucky Chasers posted a note for it   Visit Log

    This TB was not here (Former hippie place) anymore.

    Visited 10/3/2011 Metzgerei took it to Sagencache: "Der Oschenberg" Bayern, Germany - .35 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 10/3/2011 Metzgerei took it to Lost Place: Panzerabwehr Bayern, Germany - 1.23 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 10/3/2011 Metzgerei took it to Der Garten der verlorenen Zeit [LP] Bayern, Germany - 1.5 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 10/3/2011 Metzgerei took it to Bayreuth Airport Bayern, Germany - .63 miles  Visit Log
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