Life's a Beach Series LbNA #32360
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jun 29, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | West Barnstable |
| County: | Barnstable |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 10 |
| Planted by: | Cape Cod Lightning B  |
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| Found by: | Happy Quilter (4) |
| Last found: | Jul 4, 2012 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jun 29, 2007 |
Life’s a Beach
If you’re fond of sand dunes and salt sea air, take a little bit of Cape Cod home in your logbook. Life’s a Beach is a collaborative series of beach themed boxes, the stamps for which have been carved by several local letterboxers and a few from over the bridge. We cordially invite you to create a beach scene in your log and, if you wish, to add to the series. Stamps should be sized to fit in a film canister. Hide your box anywhere along the trail between the first and tenth box, post your box with this for the clues:
For clues and series information please refer to the clues posted for the first box:
Life's a Beach #1: Beach and Sandcastle
http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gBoxId=46052
and send the additional directions to Cape Cod Lightning Bug at minelson@comcast.net . CCLB will update the clues link so your letterbox will be included.
Driving Directions:
From the east on Route 6, take Exit 5 and turn right onto Route 149. Follow to the end and take a left onto Route 6A. Travel 3 miles. Go right onto Sandy Neck Road across from Amari's. Continue to the ranger station.
From the west on Route 6, take Exit 3 and go north on Quaker Meeting House Road to Route 6A. Turn right and travel a few miles.
Take a left on Sandy Neck Road across from Amari's. Continue to the ranger station.
Take the turn-around right before the ranger station and park immediately on the left. Parking is free for the hiking trails. Allow about an hour and a half to complete the series. Bringing bug spray and water is highly recommended. The trail entrance is across the street near the ranger station. It is actually a sandy road and is sometimes traveled by off-road vehicles.
Hunting is allowed with restrictions during the appropriate season. Please leave your dog home from May 15 to September 15.
Clues:
Box #1: Beach and Sandcastle by Archimedes’ Screw
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46052
Walk for about 5 minutes down the path to the Great Marsh interpretive sign. (Update: the sign is missing without a trace, although the box is still in its spot.) The flag from the ranger station will still be in sight. So, until it is replaced: after the gravely part of the trail and before the road bends to the left look for an opening on the right that overlooks the marsh. Walk to the edge of the marsh and go about 12 steps to the left. Look for a group of sticks about 3 feet in under the bayberry. (You are looking for a large clear Lock-n-Lock.)
There are logbooks in the first and last letterboxes only. If you are adding a stamp to the series, please stamp it in on the front cover of the log in Box #1. When stamping in the large background stamp in this box the best image will be made with a brown (or black) ink pad, not markers. Coloring the sand, water, and sky when you return home will produce the ultimate beach scene.
Box #2: Dinoflagellates by Cape Cod Lightning Bug
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=45983
Continue down the path passed 2 lone conifers on the marsh. After the road curves right, look for a pine and a large bayberry on the left. About twenty steps beyond find a sandy path and follow it up and around to the back of the bayberry bush. The small green box is under a pile of stones and twigs. Stamp the dinoflagellates in at the tide line. Information about what they are is taped to the inside of the container lid.
Box #3: The Radio by Rabbit Tracks
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46015
Continue following the road/trail past a wide sandy clearing with a metal pole on the left. Find a bench on the left. Across from the bench, in the direction of the marsh, find a large circle of bayberries. The radio is in a sand-colored micro under rocks and sticks in the center of the circle. Previously reported missing but was found in July, 2008.
Box #4: SPF 50 Suntan Lotion by Orion
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46054
Continue past 2 metal poles and another white-capped pole on the right. Find 2 lone cedars and walk between them toward the marsh. SPF 50 is in a medication bottle beside a large granite rock behind the bayberries.
Box #13: Scallop Shell by churchguysandprincesses
Just beyond the second white-topped metal pole referenced in the "Beach Ball" box (below), you will see a lone cedar on the right with a bayberry in front of it. The brown-painted film canister is wedged into the crook of the base of the trunk of the cedar tree. Please wedge it back in and cover with ground litter when finished!"
(From here, you walk a bit further to the bench where Beach Ball is located.)
Box #5: Beach Ball by Lundy
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=45993
Walk past another white-crested pole. At the time these boxes were planted we also past a temporary wildlife nesting area that was cordoned off. Find a second bench. The beach ball is hiding under a plank in a sand-colored film canister behind the lone cedar across from the bench.
Box #6: Sandwich by Lazyletterboxer –may be missing as reported by a letterboxer in July, 2008.
Continue on until the dune grows taller to the left and the road disappears ahead. Look for a lone little cedar on the right that lines up with a blue mosquito control box in the marsh. The sandwich is behind the little tree in a sandy-colored film canister under a stone.
Box #7: Sun Hat by Chunna
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46018
Follow the trail until you locate an empty wooden sign on the right. The sun hat is under a plank behind the sign.
Box #8: Flip Flops by Simple Pleasures- reported missing
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46049
Look for a sandy path to the left near 2 poles. Walk 25 steps along the path, then turn to the left and walk straight head into the little oak forest. The flip flops are on the left, next to a toddler scrub oak, under some rocks.
Box#12: Sea Turtle by Cape Cod Mermaid
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=65010
Return and follow the original path. After a hike on softer sand, note that the vegetation is becoming lusher. Right as the path takes a sharp left turn, you will see a house at your 2 o'clock in an ESE direction on the edge of the marsh. (The sinister tree described in the Cape Camera clue is straight ahead, along with an empty wooden sign post to its left.)
Standing at the sharp left turn, on your left, the sand bows from the trail in a slight arch. At the edge of the bayberry, you will notice some rocks. No where else nearby are there any rocks. The sea turtle is nesting in the sand under the rocks in a clear container with a sand colored lid.
Box #9: Cape Camera by Crickets- may be missing as reported by a letterboxer in July, 2008
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46019
Return and follow the original trail/road. After a hike on softer sand, note that the vegetation is becoming lusher. Near the marsh, before an abrupt right turn, you will see another empty sign post. Just beyond it to the left is a creepy tree with sinister fingers reaching toward the path. The camera, in a sand-colored micro, is hiding in plain sight in a hole just above the first snapped limb.
Box #10: The Sun by Rabbit Tracks
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46016
Follow along the trail until you pass a scary house on the left and view another ahead. Walk a bit after the driveway for this house, and then after a second abandoned looking driveway, notice how the road is bordered on the left by large roots. The final box is hidden in a sand-colored box amid the roots of a horizontal stump under the holly.
Box #11: Surfboard by T2 of the Travelers Four
Turn around and go back the way you came. When you come to the bench, stop and take a rest. You’ll need one by now. Due east from the bench is a “sticky” shrub sparsely surrounded by ground cover. The surfboard has come ashore under the crook of a branch.
Continue on the path to get back to the parking lot.
If you’re fond of sand dunes and salt sea air, take a little bit of Cape Cod home in your logbook. Life’s a Beach is a collaborative series of beach themed boxes, the stamps for which have been carved by several local letterboxers and a few from over the bridge. We cordially invite you to create a beach scene in your log and, if you wish, to add to the series. Stamps should be sized to fit in a film canister. Hide your box anywhere along the trail between the first and tenth box, post your box with this for the clues:
For clues and series information please refer to the clues posted for the first box:
Life's a Beach #1: Beach and Sandcastle
http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gBoxId=46052
and send the additional directions to Cape Cod Lightning Bug at minelson@comcast.net . CCLB will update the clues link so your letterbox will be included.
Driving Directions:
From the east on Route 6, take Exit 5 and turn right onto Route 149. Follow to the end and take a left onto Route 6A. Travel 3 miles. Go right onto Sandy Neck Road across from Amari's. Continue to the ranger station.
From the west on Route 6, take Exit 3 and go north on Quaker Meeting House Road to Route 6A. Turn right and travel a few miles.
Take a left on Sandy Neck Road across from Amari's. Continue to the ranger station.
Take the turn-around right before the ranger station and park immediately on the left. Parking is free for the hiking trails. Allow about an hour and a half to complete the series. Bringing bug spray and water is highly recommended. The trail entrance is across the street near the ranger station. It is actually a sandy road and is sometimes traveled by off-road vehicles.
Hunting is allowed with restrictions during the appropriate season. Please leave your dog home from May 15 to September 15.
Clues:
Box #1: Beach and Sandcastle by Archimedes’ Screw
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46052
Walk for about 5 minutes down the path to the Great Marsh interpretive sign. (Update: the sign is missing without a trace, although the box is still in its spot.) The flag from the ranger station will still be in sight. So, until it is replaced: after the gravely part of the trail and before the road bends to the left look for an opening on the right that overlooks the marsh. Walk to the edge of the marsh and go about 12 steps to the left. Look for a group of sticks about 3 feet in under the bayberry. (You are looking for a large clear Lock-n-Lock.)
There are logbooks in the first and last letterboxes only. If you are adding a stamp to the series, please stamp it in on the front cover of the log in Box #1. When stamping in the large background stamp in this box the best image will be made with a brown (or black) ink pad, not markers. Coloring the sand, water, and sky when you return home will produce the ultimate beach scene.
Box #2: Dinoflagellates by Cape Cod Lightning Bug
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=45983
Continue down the path passed 2 lone conifers on the marsh. After the road curves right, look for a pine and a large bayberry on the left. About twenty steps beyond find a sandy path and follow it up and around to the back of the bayberry bush. The small green box is under a pile of stones and twigs. Stamp the dinoflagellates in at the tide line. Information about what they are is taped to the inside of the container lid.
Box #3: The Radio by Rabbit Tracks
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46015
Continue following the road/trail past a wide sandy clearing with a metal pole on the left. Find a bench on the left. Across from the bench, in the direction of the marsh, find a large circle of bayberries. The radio is in a sand-colored micro under rocks and sticks in the center of the circle. Previously reported missing but was found in July, 2008.
Box #4: SPF 50 Suntan Lotion by Orion
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46054
Continue past 2 metal poles and another white-capped pole on the right. Find 2 lone cedars and walk between them toward the marsh. SPF 50 is in a medication bottle beside a large granite rock behind the bayberries.
Box #13: Scallop Shell by churchguysandprincesses
Just beyond the second white-topped metal pole referenced in the "Beach Ball" box (below), you will see a lone cedar on the right with a bayberry in front of it. The brown-painted film canister is wedged into the crook of the base of the trunk of the cedar tree. Please wedge it back in and cover with ground litter when finished!"
(From here, you walk a bit further to the bench where Beach Ball is located.)
Box #5: Beach Ball by Lundy
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=45993
Walk past another white-crested pole. At the time these boxes were planted we also past a temporary wildlife nesting area that was cordoned off. Find a second bench. The beach ball is hiding under a plank in a sand-colored film canister behind the lone cedar across from the bench.
Box #6: Sandwich by Lazyletterboxer –may be missing as reported by a letterboxer in July, 2008.
Continue on until the dune grows taller to the left and the road disappears ahead. Look for a lone little cedar on the right that lines up with a blue mosquito control box in the marsh. The sandwich is behind the little tree in a sandy-colored film canister under a stone.
Box #7: Sun Hat by Chunna
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46018
Follow the trail until you locate an empty wooden sign on the right. The sun hat is under a plank behind the sign.
Box #8: Flip Flops by Simple Pleasures- reported missing
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46049
Look for a sandy path to the left near 2 poles. Walk 25 steps along the path, then turn to the left and walk straight head into the little oak forest. The flip flops are on the left, next to a toddler scrub oak, under some rocks.
Box#12: Sea Turtle by Cape Cod Mermaid
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=65010
Return and follow the original path. After a hike on softer sand, note that the vegetation is becoming lusher. Right as the path takes a sharp left turn, you will see a house at your 2 o'clock in an ESE direction on the edge of the marsh. (The sinister tree described in the Cape Camera clue is straight ahead, along with an empty wooden sign post to its left.)
Standing at the sharp left turn, on your left, the sand bows from the trail in a slight arch. At the edge of the bayberry, you will notice some rocks. No where else nearby are there any rocks. The sea turtle is nesting in the sand under the rocks in a clear container with a sand colored lid.
Box #9: Cape Camera by Crickets- may be missing as reported by a letterboxer in July, 2008
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46019
Return and follow the original trail/road. After a hike on softer sand, note that the vegetation is becoming lusher. Near the marsh, before an abrupt right turn, you will see another empty sign post. Just beyond it to the left is a creepy tree with sinister fingers reaching toward the path. The camera, in a sand-colored micro, is hiding in plain sight in a hole just above the first snapped limb.
Box #10: The Sun by Rabbit Tracks
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=46016
Follow along the trail until you pass a scary house on the left and view another ahead. Walk a bit after the driveway for this house, and then after a second abandoned looking driveway, notice how the road is bordered on the left by large roots. The final box is hidden in a sand-colored box amid the roots of a horizontal stump under the holly.
Box #11: Surfboard by T2 of the Travelers Four
Turn around and go back the way you came. When you come to the bench, stop and take a rest. You’ll need one by now. Due east from the bench is a “sticky” shrub sparsely surrounded by ground cover. The surfboard has come ashore under the crook of a branch.
Continue on the path to get back to the parking lot.