The Magic Sailboat Team's Adventures on the Path t LbNA #24292 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 30, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Provincetown |
| County: | Barnstable |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | beachrose |
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| Last found: | Oct 5, 2007 |
| Status: | FFFFFa |
| Last edited: | Jul 30, 2006 |
The Magic Sailboat Team
Adventures on the Path to Hatches Harbor
Let’s start this adventure at the Province Lands Visitor’s Center on Race Point Rd in the Province Land’s National Seashore in Provincetown, MA. Head to the stairs at the rear of the building and climb to the top for grand views of the Atlantic Ocean, Cape Cod Bay, and Provincetown. Along the rail, you’ll also find information that you can use to find the letter boxes we have hidden in the Province Lands. Look in particular at the Provincetown Monument display. It’s height in meters, just might come in handy later on!
Once you’ve enjoyed the views and read the displays, make your way out of the Visitor’s Center parking lot. Take a right at the foot of the exit and head toward the beaches. Take the next left toward Herring Cove and continue along the road that parallels parts of the bike path for about a mile. Turn right into the parking lot for the Hatches Harbor Restoration Project and park.
Head down the old fire road trail. Keep your eyes and ears open. We heard a whip-poor-will and a black capped chickadee within minutes. The trail also offered up oak and white pine as well as a little tree frog and plenty of dragon flies.
Pretty soon you’ll reach an obvious opening on your right. There is a lone pine perched on an ‘island’ of low lying pine surrounded by an ‘ocean’ of sand just off the trail. Follow the sand path through the dune grass toward the sand mound up ahead. As the dune grass trail ends, it opens into a large sandy area which rises up to form the mound you saw at a distance. From this opening point walk to the top of the mound with the low lying shrub in the center which has some lichen on it.
Now look to your right, which is 60 degrees on the compass. You’ll see a stand of dead pine trees, one of which looks like an inverted V. Walk to the inverted V and look left. You’ll see more dead pine trees. Walk about 70 paces until you reach a dead pine about 7 feet tall with a top bending toward the EAST. Now look West to the Tallest Pine Tree on a slight rise. There’s a line oak trees that point to the Tallest Pine. Walk to the Tallest Pine.
The box is hidden under a lichen covered fallen branch under leaves and bark.
Look for more hidden boxes along this trail—complements of the Magic Sailboat Team—in the Fall.
Adventures on the Path to Hatches Harbor
Let’s start this adventure at the Province Lands Visitor’s Center on Race Point Rd in the Province Land’s National Seashore in Provincetown, MA. Head to the stairs at the rear of the building and climb to the top for grand views of the Atlantic Ocean, Cape Cod Bay, and Provincetown. Along the rail, you’ll also find information that you can use to find the letter boxes we have hidden in the Province Lands. Look in particular at the Provincetown Monument display. It’s height in meters, just might come in handy later on!
Once you’ve enjoyed the views and read the displays, make your way out of the Visitor’s Center parking lot. Take a right at the foot of the exit and head toward the beaches. Take the next left toward Herring Cove and continue along the road that parallels parts of the bike path for about a mile. Turn right into the parking lot for the Hatches Harbor Restoration Project and park.
Head down the old fire road trail. Keep your eyes and ears open. We heard a whip-poor-will and a black capped chickadee within minutes. The trail also offered up oak and white pine as well as a little tree frog and plenty of dragon flies.
Pretty soon you’ll reach an obvious opening on your right. There is a lone pine perched on an ‘island’ of low lying pine surrounded by an ‘ocean’ of sand just off the trail. Follow the sand path through the dune grass toward the sand mound up ahead. As the dune grass trail ends, it opens into a large sandy area which rises up to form the mound you saw at a distance. From this opening point walk to the top of the mound with the low lying shrub in the center which has some lichen on it.
Now look to your right, which is 60 degrees on the compass. You’ll see a stand of dead pine trees, one of which looks like an inverted V. Walk to the inverted V and look left. You’ll see more dead pine trees. Walk about 70 paces until you reach a dead pine about 7 feet tall with a top bending toward the EAST. Now look West to the Tallest Pine Tree on a slight rise. There’s a line oak trees that point to the Tallest Pine. Walk to the Tallest Pine.
The box is hidden under a lichen covered fallen branch under leaves and bark.
Look for more hidden boxes along this trail—complements of the Magic Sailboat Team—in the Fall.