Bruce In Black
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- Created by:
Touchstone
- Submitted by:
Touchstone
- Start at:
N 36° 34.726 W 121° 44.952
- Location:
California, United States
- Play Time:
1 to 2 hours
- Date Added:
2/16/2008 12:34 PM
- Last Updated:
12/19/2010 8:03 PM
- Downloads:
84
- Completions:
1
Fort Ord supports a beautiful and diverse group of plant communities, rare plants, and many showy wildflowers. On a single visit to Fort Ord you can enjoy quiet and majestic coast live oak woodland, aromatic maritime chaparral, wide open grasslands, and freshwater marshes or vernal pools busy with bird and other animal life. For many of the rare plants on Fort Ord, 50-90% of their worldwide habitat occurs here.
About This Cartridge
Hi! My name is Bruce. I'm a Botanist for the Bureau of Land Managment and I wear black.
I'd like to show you around a small corner of this wonderful area and show you some of the plants that we are trying to protect, as well as a few invasive plant species that we are trying to eradicate.
In this Cartridge, you will be given the task of choosing whether to protect or anhialate a variety of protected native plants and invasive non native plants (aka weeds). Choose wisely, because, while this is not a test, we are taking scores ;)
Starting Location
Fort Ord Public Lands entrance within Laguna Seca Raceway and Regional Park. There is a $6.00 day use fee to Laguna Seca.
This is a companion Cartridge for Geocache Listing GC19E20
References: Fort Ord Public Lands BLM and Return of the Natives.
Recent Cartridge Logs:
clrl played it on 3/1/2008
Rating:
Did all 5 places and final cache but I can't unlock it.
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x-ray tech played it on 2/25/2008
Rating:
Well, I found it, I think? This was my first WhereIGo Cartridge I've player out in the real world and I must say I enjoyed it. I was a little bit challenging juggling the gps, pocket pc and bike at times but having the gps with its compas function was very helpful.
I rode my bike from home which put me approx 6.5 miles in before reaching the start point. Knew the trail well and was able to navigate it with ease. Ran into the seasonal grazing sheep who were a little annoyed that I would want to walk thru there space but otherwise enjoyed a quiet outing.
Found the zones easily, but had to walk around the second to last zone a bit before being awarded the final cache location. Not enough to complain about, just made me a little nervous that I wouldn't be rewarded for my efforts. Then headed for the reward, the final cache. I wandered around ground zero for a while before finally locating the container]juvpu frrzf gb or ohevrq haqre n cvyr bs qrnq cbvfba bnx oenapurf naq fheebhaqrq ol arj tebjgu.[ Now the reason I say I think I found it is because what I found was labeled with the name of an old cache which has relocated here and contains the log book for the old cache. I signed it as I had when I had found this cache in its previous location and placed it back in its resting place, careful to try to hide it as well as it was before I had found it.
Thanks for the cartridge and thanks for the others you have done as well. I look forward to see how this evolves. ]
ps. my saved gws file shows me not completing the cartridge, thus I could not unlock the cartridge. When should I have saved my game? I located all of the zones should I have done something else?
pps. Upon locating the final cache, and making the grab, a tiger salamander went scurrying away from underneath the cache. Perhaps a hint that I should do the Tammy the Tiger Salamander cartridge next?
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Touchstone wrote a note for it on 2/18/2008
Rating:
Slight update to get some events firing correctly and change some of the content.
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