Alligator August-Limited Time Box LbNA #33488 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 28, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Ogden |
| County: | Champaign |
| State: | Illinois |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Kimono Girl  |
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| Found by: | MRSHAT |
| Last found: | Sep 1, 2007 |
| Status: | FFF |
| Last edited: | Jul 28, 2007 |
Planted at Homer Lake, this box will only be in place until Labor Day. Please watch small children carefully as this box is placed close to the river. Also, knowing a few Latin terms will come in handy figuring out the clues.
This box was inspired by an incident that occurred on a hike at this location earlier this summer. It was a lovely warm day and the dogs were having a blast running through the river. I decided that they were having too much fun by themselves and went wading into the water. About that time, I happened to look upstream and I saw…AN ALLIGATOR slowly swimming away upstream! I was inhaling in preparation for screaming at the dogs to get out of the water when common sense took over. This is Illinois. We don’t HAVE alligators in our rivers. That I’m aware of. Then I realized that it was just a clump of weeds waving in the current. Talk about my imagination running away with me!
Park at the Flickerwoods trailhead. Follow the trail to the dexter side. The trail will wind down the hill and eventually lead to a flood plane forested mostly by sycamores. Follow the wide bend in the trail and continue parallel to the river. Keep an eye to the sinister side for a bird house. Shortly after this little hut, the trail will make a sharp turn. At this turn, follow the smaller path down towards the river. Follow the faint and sandy trail along the river. Soon you will see a small island with a single tree on it. Approximately 200 feet past this island near the bank of the river are two leaning trees. The alligator is hiding tucked away under some branches deposited by flood water on the sinister side of the tree closest to the water. Look to the rusty paint can to point the way to the ‘gator’s hiding spot.
This box was inspired by an incident that occurred on a hike at this location earlier this summer. It was a lovely warm day and the dogs were having a blast running through the river. I decided that they were having too much fun by themselves and went wading into the water. About that time, I happened to look upstream and I saw…AN ALLIGATOR slowly swimming away upstream! I was inhaling in preparation for screaming at the dogs to get out of the water when common sense took over. This is Illinois. We don’t HAVE alligators in our rivers. That I’m aware of. Then I realized that it was just a clump of weeds waving in the current. Talk about my imagination running away with me!
Park at the Flickerwoods trailhead. Follow the trail to the dexter side. The trail will wind down the hill and eventually lead to a flood plane forested mostly by sycamores. Follow the wide bend in the trail and continue parallel to the river. Keep an eye to the sinister side for a bird house. Shortly after this little hut, the trail will make a sharp turn. At this turn, follow the smaller path down towards the river. Follow the faint and sandy trail along the river. Soon you will see a small island with a single tree on it. Approximately 200 feet past this island near the bank of the river are two leaning trees. The alligator is hiding tucked away under some branches deposited by flood water on the sinister side of the tree closest to the water. Look to the rusty paint can to point the way to the ‘gator’s hiding spot.