This physical cache container
IS NOT
at the posted coordinates

For the coordinates needed to find a regular size Duck-Walk Geocache container within a container click the link below and enter the key word which is the name of the town: Duck. You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

This Geocache container is one the larger of several containers of various sizes hidden along or near a multi-use path in the Town of Duck, NC. Although the signal bounce in this location can send some searchers astray, we can usually figure out who has not read the description. Knowing the container size should narrow the number of places you will want to search. Reading all of the description narrows your choices some more. The Town of Duck does not allow public street parking which means a 4 hour walk or 50 minute bicycle ride along the 9 mile round trip is required to locate all 31.

There is possible parking near this cache. However, be prepared for a search that will take you to what could be one of the busiest areas of Duck. Stealth is required here although you will at times be under the watchful eyes of local business staff members who are aware of cache but have been sworn to secrecy. Fear not, however, because the property owner has given permission for this Geocache placement. You may even want to wave hello to the office staff who will very likely be watching your search activities and, if you have time, step inside and thank Monica and her staff for allowing this placement and the opportunity to amuse them with your search techniques.

Parking coordinates are provided near the center of the cache series since The Town of Duck does not allow parking along any of its roads and Town Police enforce the "No Parking" policy. There may be places to park near this and several other cache locations along the route depending on the time of year or even time of day but none are guaranteed and permission to park other than the posted parking coordinates has not been granted. Please, at all times, be alert to nearby traffic as several caches are in a downtown business area and some are close to a very busy roadway. You should also be alert for Muggles at virtually all hours.

Please remember to close container lids and replace each in its secured position. Also, stealth is of the utmost importance here all year long and is especially essential during the summer tourist season. Keep in mind that if your search activities are observed by any Muggles (and there will be many at all hours of the day) this cache is certain to wander off.

Some trace the incorporation of Duck to when in February 1999 a large grocery chain store submitted plans to build and operate a 31,000 square foot supermarket in Duck Village on the property across the street from this cache hiding place. A petition objecting to the supermarket was circulated and in just two months, from June 15 to August 14, there were 3,311 signatures on it. A majority of full-time residents signed the petition as did 2,266 tourists from 32 states and the District of Columbia along with four different United Kingdom parties and residents of Norway, Poland and Russia. Corporate officials confirmed property ownership on September 27, 1999.

That event led the Duck Civic Association Board, from January 6 to February 7, 2000, to discuss and consider incorporating the community into a separate town as a way to control growth. Information was sent to all Duck property owners and the following April public responses showed 1,051 overwhelmingly in favor of incorporation. Duck residents were 62% in favor and non-resident owners 74% in favor. That June a 10-person Incorporation Committee was formed.

In October a package was mailed to the Joint Legislative Commission on Municipal Incorporation about the same time corporate executives for the grocery store indicated willingness to sell its property at the price paid plus minor costs since the purchase. On January 30, 2001, an agreement was reached giving Duck Civic Association the right (until December 31) to buy the property for $4,100,645.30.

In February of 2001, the Duck incorporation petition was forwarded to the NC legislature and on March 28, 2001, Representative Bill Culpepper introduced the Duck Incorporation Bill in the House. It cleared the Senate on August 28 and the House on August 29, 2001.

On November 6, 2001, voters voted "for" incorporation and Duck was incorporated on May 1, 2002, as the newest Outer Banks town and the sixth municipality in Dare County. The five-member Town Council currently meets at the Town Hall across the street the first Wednesday each month.