This cache can be searched and found like any other traditional
cache...
...but...
...it can be the starting point for an international cooperation
as well. This cache is just one cache of a set of 30 caches named
European IMC No.1
(IMC stands for International Multi Cache).
These caches are hidden in following (15) European
countries:
Austria (A), Belgium (B), Denmark (DK), Finland (FIN), France
(F), Germany (D), Great Britain (GB), Hungary (H), Ireland (IRL),
Italy (I), Luxembourg (L), Netherlands (NL), Portugal (P), Spain
(E) and Sweden (S).
In each country there is a primary
cache like this one and a secondary cache that can only be
found with hints distributed to all primary caches. The (15)
primary caches are
named: European IMC No.1 P-X-Yyy and the (15)
secondary caches are
named: European IMC No.1 S-X-Zzz where x is the country code given above
and Yyy and
Zzz can be any
additional name.
The hints for the secondary
caches are printed on lists of hints that are inside the
primary caches. As
the primary caches
are scattered all over Europe it will either require a lot of
travelling or - and that is the intention of the
European IMC No.1
– international cooperation.
If you want to find the secondary
cache as well, you should contact finders of other
primary European IMC No.1
caches and exchange
the hints. And please don't be a poor sport! Never publish
the hints anywhere!
Not in a log report or on any website. The hints shall only be
exchanged / traded between geocachers that found the
primary caches and
want to search the secondary
caches. The European
IMC No.1 team wish you good luck!
Introduction:
The "Albufeira do Castelo de Bode" is the biggest hidrographic
basin in Portugal. Its natural envolvency of rare beauty is a
compound of calm and pure amusement consonant the aptitudes and
desires of each one. The green and the blue one create a complicity
of such magnificent form, that we will be before a true situated
paradise exactly in the center of the country. Either pure and
simply to relax, either for country strolls or the practical one of
the Diving, the Windsurf or the Hydroski, the "Albufeira do Castelo
de Bode" has many options for offering to it. In the
localities of "Aldeia do Mato" and "Fontes" two sightseeing places
had been developed that allow to take off the maximum broken of the
magnificent landscape that the Albufeira has to offer. Still in
"Aldeia do Mato" they had been constructed a set of tourist and
recreativas infrastructures with parking, zone of not motorized
nautical sports, marina, pavilion for collect and floating
maintenance of boats, swimming pools, bar and sanitary
installations: the Nautical Park of Recreation and Leisure.
The Ecomuseu, whose headquarters it is in the locality of
Martinchel and being already one it has asked for basic in the
tourist promotion of the Albufeira, making use of a support center,
studies and spreading of the area.
The Hunt
To this hunt, I prepared two approaches; One for calm
geocachers who wish to know the area without rush - Follow the
track in a TrackMaker file I supply and admire the mixing of water
and land - and another to Geocachers who prefer to hunt quickly -
Just go to the Cache.
I'm supplying a GPStm file.
Cache
Content:
A clear tupperware with a white cover inside a black bag with;
Logbook, pen, stash note, documentation about the area, a hiking
book ("Portugal Pé-ante-Pé - - Guia de
Percursos Naturais", a music CD (Portuguese hits in Gregorian
chants performed by "Mysticos"), a password to get a "Geocaching in
Portugal" hat and several sheets of hint for the secondary caches
in all participating countries. Also, I left the TB "Hendrik" and
its Passport.
Don't forget:
"Cache in, trash out" and Leave No
Trace
This cache is of
interest of all European Geocachers. Please, log in English
too.
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