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Paddle Faster, I Hear Banjos... Multi-cache

Hidden : 9/25/2010
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:





From the foreboding depths of the Zekiah Swamp—

a "Hydro-Multi" for the non-prudent geocacher!





YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE—you will need AT LEAST:

  • A small human-powered boat, and

  • The ability to ignore that inner voice that keeps
    saying, "Dude—we really should get out of here—NOW!"


    Congrats to BOCCO for First to Survive!




You will be looking for boat-accessible camouflaged micros on your way to a land-based L&L final, placed deep within the Zekiah Swamp. You may be fortunate enough to stay dry, but no guarantees. We recommend a high tide assault, but even then you will probably have to lift your boat over a fallen log or two, or portage around them. At the very least, you will be navigating though some tight passages. At low tide you may find the route impassable—or at least very frustrating. And although it's unlikely, there's a small chance that you will encounter...

...well, never mind.

We do want to make sure, right up front, that you understand that this cache is not based in any way on the movie Deliverance, and we would certainly not want you to be thinking about the movie Deliverance while you search, because given the surroundings, that would make it really spooky, and it is not our intention to frighten you, regardless of whether or not you actually should be frightened (and frankly, now that you mention it, you probably should be).

Speaking of surroundings, the terrain is rugged, even if you're waterborne, which you very definitely should be. You will need some form of human-powered water transport—a canoe will work; a kayak is recommended—but depending on your nerve and your resistance to bacteria, snakes, mutant piranha, and rogue monster swamp gators (among other things), you could, with a lot of luck, conceivably get there with a raft, an inner tube, waders, water wings, unassisted swimming, or a durable pool toy.

But regardless of how you choose to propel yourself, you can be relatively assured that you will not have to deal with anything like, for example, the immensely disturbing scenarios in the movie Deliverance—first of all because this cache is not associated in any way with the movie Deliverance, and secondly, because it's extremely unlikely, as far as you know, that people like the characters in the movie Deliverance actually exist, and even if they did, that they would be wandering around in Zekiah Swamp.

And even if you did happen to encounter some weird people out there (like the ones in the movie Deliverance, for example), and had a really bad experience like, say, the characters in the Deliverance movie did, you would of course hold us completely blameless, since we are really nice, and we couldn't have possibly foreseen anything bad happening to you while looking for this cache.

One final note—the pictures on this page were chosen completely at random for their decorative value and have nothing to do with the theme of this cache, which, as we have already pointed out, is not related to the movie Deliverance. So if, for example, we were attempting to make you think of the movie Deliverance, which we are not, then we would not have used these particular pictures but rather some other particular pictures corresponding to the movie Deliverance, since these do not.

The first three searchers to survive, er, find it, will get their choice of a trackable jacket/pack patch (so people can find YOU), a trackable Lost & Found travel tag, or a standard trackable travel bug tag. Or at least that's what we're claiming, since we don't expect anybody to get there and back. Have a nice day!


Thanks to the Maryland DNR for authorizing this cache.

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