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.