Travel Bug Dog Tag Phytokarst

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Released:
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Origin:
Massachusetts, United States
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Current Goal

To find Phytokarst places, and have it's photograph taken there. Otherwise, this TB is happy meeting fellow geocachers, and traveling to many places.

About This Item

This is a keychain travel-bug that the Boot Group parents acquired in a place (we will spell it to make it family friendly) called H -E -double hockey sticks, on the Island of Grand Cayman.

In the early 1930's a Commissioner from England, Commissioner Cardinall visited the Island of Grand Caymen. While out hunting, he found a place amongst large pointy rocks. He missed and said "OH H-E-double hockey sticks". From that date on, this place in Grand Cayman is known as H-E-double hockey sticks.

The large pointy rocks are called phytokarst, which are limesotone and dolomite that has undergone extreme erosion due to activites of small tropical organisms. Limestone forms due to the accumulation and consolidation of limey muds, calcium carbonate rich sands, and shell fragments. This usually occurs on the ocean floor.

The Boot Group parents missed the virtual cache at this site, so hopefully you will not if you visit H-E-double hockey sticks. In the meantime, keep this bug moving!

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Tracking History (3719.6mi) View Map

Dropped Off 7/22/2006 BC Hillbillys placed it in Train Station... British Columbia, Canada - 20.01 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/4/2006 BC Hillbillys retrieved it from Reststop Geocache By Redgreen British Columbia, Canada   Visit Log

just a bug pickup
Dropped Off 4/1/2006 GeoScavenger placed it in Reststop Geocache By Redgreen British Columbia, Canada - 36.09 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/26/2006 GeoScavenger retrieved it from Rest Area CITO Event British Columbia, Canada   Visit Log

Picked up from xTerracacher.
Dropped Off 3/26/2006 xTerraCachers placed it in Rest Area CITO Event British Columbia, Canada - 269.18 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/18/2006 xTerraCachers retrieved it from Under the Boardwalk, Down by the Sea Washington   Visit Log

Grabbed it for a trip to the Great White North...
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/22/2006 2bigeyedfish retrieved it from Twain Thang Washington   Visit Log

This was only our second geocache find. We were happy to find a travel bug. Will be moving it along shortly.

Dropped Off 1/20/2006 Chirpz placed it in Twain Thang Washington - 6.29 miles  Visit Log
  • Phyto in the Furnace. What to do with Phyto. Hmmmm.... Phyto in the fire has a nice ring to it...so into the wood stove he goes. Yep...that's a real fire and real hot flames. Great shot. Close call for Phyto.
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/15/2006 Chirpz retrieved it from tee-up Washington   Visit Log

It would be really cool to put this in my Bangzite cache since there are some neat crystal there....but that is a long drive....we'll see.
Dropped Off 1/9/2006 Derbydancer&theOldHippie placed it in tee-up Washington - 4.64 miles  Visit Log
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