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Eagle's Landing LbNA #39247

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Apr 1, 2008
Location:
City:East Haddam
County:Middlesex
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:SwampYankee&Sunshine
Found by: Bluebird
Last found:May 30, 2009
Status:FFFFF
Last edited:Apr 1, 2008
Eagles Landing

This box was originally our Christmas Card Mystery 2007. Due to threat of flooding every spring, we never planned on leaving it in that spot. So…………

After enjoying a dessert from a very special day, continue down the snowy trail at Chapman Pond Preserve in East Haddam. Just before toasting our dearly departed “amphibian” pal, (sure do miss that long-eared guy) and his first BIG accomplishment, follow the little canary as it flies over the stream to the right. Enjoy your crossing, but take care not to slip on the rocks. The flight climbs a gentle grade before leveling out next to a brook on the left. Come to a small open area and stop at the two laurel sentinels. There is ledge on both sides of the brook here. From the sentinels, look due East and uphill to a large three sister oak, sitting in front of the ledge. A few steps to the right of it, about 35 steps from the trail, see a large, layered, free-standing rock, about 4.5 feet high. It’s tipped up a bit and I think it used to be part of that ledge behind it- what do you think? Please be careful as you make your way to this rock. Look behind it, on the ground between a rock and a hard place for the Eagles Landing Letterbox.
To return to snowy ground, just retrace your flight. Don’t bother looking for the canary- he’s afraid of eagles!!!!