122 Elizabeth Avenue Traditional Geocache
lavarock1: it is with great lament that I have to archive this cache. The location and most of the barrier island is slowly giving way to the sea. I am afraid in ten or so years, this area will be much smaller.
Because of this, I was forced to move the cache. Two new caches were placed in her honor, but the State had taken over the land, and thus no new cache placements can be made until mid-2015.
sigh. This was one of my favorites.
Let's hope that the bay doesn't go the way of Wharton.
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Things have certainly changed here !!! A drive up micro placed in just the right spot !
ETA: watch for the puddles in the wet seasons!!!!!!!
Terrain will vary from 1.5-3.0, several times a month. Please be aware.
( please replace as found. The 'camo' on the outside of the container is not part of the attachment of the cache, just place it back firmly.)
History :
Dr. Gerry Moore of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden tells how his great uncle tried to establish a resort motel on what came to be known as Moore's Beach. But the road out to the beach was hard to maintain and the state told Mr. Moore that the resort would have to pay for the maintenance of the road. This proved too much for the resort and so it closed. Now there are only the remains of some of the stilt supports on which the houses were built.
Birding in Cumberland County
Saltwater and freshwater wetlands, fields, hedgerows and forest, provide a range of habitats. Wintering waterfowl are found in great numbers along the Maurice River and huge flocks of snow geese feed in winter at the river's mouth. A recent survey found 29 species of waterfowl here. The Maurice River has been established as one of the more important raptor wintering areas in the East, and the Delaware Bay is a migration path for annual raptor migrations. Osprey and bald eagle nests are located on the Maurice River and nearby. Migrating shore birds may be found on beaches to the east and west. Both migrating and breeding neotropical songbirds may be found here in season.
What Can Be Seen?
Shorebird migration in May at the Delaware Bay towns of Moore's Beach, East Point, and Thompson's Beach. Neotropical songbird migration can be seen, both spring and fall, around East Point. Autumn raptor migration also occurs around East Point and Delaware Bay. Waterfowl and wintering raptors are the largest population of bald eagles in New Jersey is on the Maurice River.
A Poem by DcHughes:
122 Elizabeth Avenue
Single feet push
into the shore
dragging blue shelled
bodies across
grains of sand
and bone.
Hungry mussels
clump and pile,
siphoning incurrents
among sea washed rocks,
wooden beams,
and handmade bricks
perfect
and stamped
with names
Van Dyke,
Garvin,
Nelson.
Further on,
a cash register
marooned
from the lobby’s
front desk
holds its keys
through snows
and rain,
manmade of iron,
its rivets
steadfast
against wind
and tides.
Alongside, unbroken
stone steps
reach to nowhere,
under winter skies
full of raptors
and osprey
joining the cries
of ghosts,
children playing
in the surf,
a hotel manager
giving orders,
the slice
of a brick mason’s
trowel.
FTF honors goes to >> UNCLE !!!!!!!!!
Nice Work !!!!
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