The Land Down Under Where East Meets South Traditional Cache
The Land Down Under Where East Meets South
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Difficulty:
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Terrain:
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Size: 
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The
Land Down Under Where East Meets
South |
After doing the
"Obligatory Cache" north of here I felt
the urge for another one.
I discussed some issues with a local cacher and decided this is as
far south that you can get on Camano Island. The area just south of
the cache area has been for sale for quite a few years but no one
wants a house on a 300ft cliff. The land south of here at sea level
is Native Land and off limits.
The Story of
Camano Head
When the daylight low tides
returned each spring, the people would travel to the clam beds to
gather the rich bounty uncovered with each cycle. Camano Head, at
the south end of Camano Island and in sight of Tulalip Bay was a
favorite, and very productive, clamming site. Before 1840 this
beach was overhung with a massive outcrop of soil and rock. The
area underneath had been undercut by wind and waves. One
unfortunate spring day this land gave way as over 100 people,
mostly women and children, were gathering clams below. Not only
were these people lost, but many more perished in the wave that hit
nearby Hat Island. 
View of Hat Island
In 1994 the Tulalip Tribes purchased the Camano Head tidelands.
Today this culturally important area is the site of tribal
ceremonial and subsistence digs. Tulalip children are able to dig
clams in the same place their ancestors did for thousands of years.
The Tulalip Tribes shellfish program manages healthy populations of
littlenecks, butter clams, horse clams, and cockles at this
site.
You will have
to park north of the cache area and walk south.
Please park responsibly:
Not in someone's driveway or in the middle of the
road. |
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Rirelguvat lbh arrq vf va gur anzr bs gur pnpur.