GC2A55Y A Man, A Plan, A Canal: Panama! (Traditional Cache) in Florida, United States created by joshism

This cache has been archived.

JL_HSTRE: A silt fence is going up around the wooded area where the cache is located, presumably for work related to the Indian Street Bridge. I've removed the cache container and am archiving this, my first cache placement.

FWIW, the container (a waterproof plastic swim can) worked out okay. The logsheet got wet somewhere along the way, which was never mentioned in any of the logs. After 9 months, including most of a hot Florida summer, the container's o-ring deteriorated and will be replaced before I use the container again, although it hadn't broken yet. The lanyard (a glorified shoestring) held up fine.

GC2A55Y ▼

A cache by joshism Message this owner

Hidden : 6/12/2010

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

You are looking for a black waterproof container about the size of two film canisters stacked together. I recommend unscrewing the bottom of the cache container when you retrieve the log.

Cache contains a log only. Please BYOP.

Congrats to InitialJoe for FTF!

To get to the cache you will walk along the embankment around a large man-made ditch (hence the cache's name) but the cache is not visible from the embankment. The cache is located off the embankment a short distance into the woods, but no bushwacking should be necessary if you approach it as I did when placing the cache.

"A man a plan a canal Panama" is a palindrome that refers to the Panama Canal.

The Panama Canal bisects the Isthmus Of Panama, connecting the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. From 1880 to 1893, the French under Ferdinand de Lesseps (who had successfully built the Suez Canal) unsuccessfully attempted to build a sea level canal. The United States succeeded where they failed, building an elevated canal with a system of locks between 1904 and 1914, overcoming the hurdles of both disease and geography that had defeated the French builders.

The story of the canal is covered in David McCullough's superb book "The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914".

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)