Guy Gator, P.I. LbNA #13664 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Mar 17, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Needville |
| County: | Fort Bend |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Celtic Lions  |
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| Found by: | Lil' Adventurer |
| Last found: | Dec 30, 2007 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFaFa |
| Last edited: | Mar 17, 2005 |
Placed by: The Gentleman, Tenderfoot & Sandy
STATUS: Confirmed as of 10/22/05
Gator Guy commemorates the CLUE EXCHANGE game played during the Second Annual Texas Letterboxing Gathering held in Brazos Bend on March 19th, 2005
Difficulty: Moderately easy - but watch out for gators!
Know Before You Go: Pick up a map of the Brazos State Park and follow the excellent alligator etiquette guide. (Stay 30 feet from gators, don’t feed gators, let them win all tug-of-wars…etc)!
Directions: From Houston, go South on Hwy 288 to
Rosharon, then West on PM 1462 to the park
Clues: It was a moist and muddy night in the swampy marshes of Brazos Bend and I belted my trench coat another notch as I followed the trail. My name’s Guy…Guy Gator…and I’m trying to clean up this little corner of Texas one trashfish at a time.
Trying to clear my thoughts as I pondered the suspects, I went for a stroll behind the restrooms near the 40 Acre Lake Parking lot and stumbled upon the sign for the observation tower. Images of the wagon wheel chandelier and the scorpion in the boot clouded my mind as I paced northwest on the gravel path for 175 steps to where it met another trail.
Another 70 steps north took me to the Prairie/Hoots Hollow trail sign and I wondered if Schoolmaster Plum could have used that LbNA book to thump the victim…? Still perplexed, I kept walking along the main trail about 85 steps until I could sit down on a bench to the right and sort out my thoughts about Madam Meadowbrook and her Saloon – could she have served Poison?
I stood up suddenly, with the thought that it could have been Wes, the Trail Driver with a whip behind the Chuck Wagon. I paced 30 more steps straight ahead from the bench and found myself at a sign with safety rules about gators…(I could have told you that you need to be careful here in the swamps!) On the left was another bench and I sat for a moment to collect myself.
I do my best thinking as I pace, and for the next 345 steps along 40 Acre Lake Trail there were no remarkable landmarks to distract me. The path I followed wound slightly to the right and then curved more sharply to the right again. At that point I spotted a cluster of about 5 tree trunks with a limb which extended due South over the water, beginning at a height of about 6 feet on the South side of the trail. It was the third major cluster of trees on the right after the path had curved to the right for the second time.
On a hunch I looked into the crotch of two trees on the right- a rather thorny dilemma - taking great care not to be observed by people or other creatures.
My hunch paid off...
STATUS: Confirmed as of 10/22/05
Gator Guy commemorates the CLUE EXCHANGE game played during the Second Annual Texas Letterboxing Gathering held in Brazos Bend on March 19th, 2005
Difficulty: Moderately easy - but watch out for gators!
Know Before You Go: Pick up a map of the Brazos State Park and follow the excellent alligator etiquette guide. (Stay 30 feet from gators, don’t feed gators, let them win all tug-of-wars…etc)!
Directions: From Houston, go South on Hwy 288 to
Rosharon, then West on PM 1462 to the park
Clues: It was a moist and muddy night in the swampy marshes of Brazos Bend and I belted my trench coat another notch as I followed the trail. My name’s Guy…Guy Gator…and I’m trying to clean up this little corner of Texas one trashfish at a time.
Trying to clear my thoughts as I pondered the suspects, I went for a stroll behind the restrooms near the 40 Acre Lake Parking lot and stumbled upon the sign for the observation tower. Images of the wagon wheel chandelier and the scorpion in the boot clouded my mind as I paced northwest on the gravel path for 175 steps to where it met another trail.
Another 70 steps north took me to the Prairie/Hoots Hollow trail sign and I wondered if Schoolmaster Plum could have used that LbNA book to thump the victim…? Still perplexed, I kept walking along the main trail about 85 steps until I could sit down on a bench to the right and sort out my thoughts about Madam Meadowbrook and her Saloon – could she have served Poison?
I stood up suddenly, with the thought that it could have been Wes, the Trail Driver with a whip behind the Chuck Wagon. I paced 30 more steps straight ahead from the bench and found myself at a sign with safety rules about gators…(I could have told you that you need to be careful here in the swamps!) On the left was another bench and I sat for a moment to collect myself.
I do my best thinking as I pace, and for the next 345 steps along 40 Acre Lake Trail there were no remarkable landmarks to distract me. The path I followed wound slightly to the right and then curved more sharply to the right again. At that point I spotted a cluster of about 5 tree trunks with a limb which extended due South over the water, beginning at a height of about 6 feet on the South side of the trail. It was the third major cluster of trees on the right after the path had curved to the right for the second time.
On a hunch I looked into the crotch of two trees on the right- a rather thorny dilemma - taking great care not to be observed by people or other creatures.
My hunch paid off...