Earth Cache Sites
Right now in Connecticut we are participating in the Great Park Pursuit. It is a seven week program des
igned to get families visiting the state parks in CT. We are now at week 3 and we are visiting Earth Cache Sites.
It is really cool. Connecticut has 25 such sites across the state with notable geology. Usually you need a GPS to find them, but we have been given the location of 5 of them to explore. The one closest to our country house is in East Canaan. It is an iron furnace! Apparently, iron ore in CT comes in 5 forms, that just require heat to smelt the iron. Iron has been extracted from this site over the last 300 years or so and we are on a mission to check out the potholes in the river bed, visit the furnace, perhaps find some rock samples and get photo proof of our visit!
We are only required to visit one site but I find this kind of adventure very intriguing and it may the start of something!
Check out the Earth Cache Website to find geologically important sites near you!
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
If variety is the spice of life you are the pinnacle of variety, the one who thrives on continuously challenging routine, exploring new avenues, discovering new angles to look at life all the while savoring every step of the way. What a life! what a journey! what fun to go through it with you…I know I am coming back as a cockroach because this has to be the summit…
May 23rd, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Blackwell Reach and Yalgorup National Park (just south of Mandurah) are the WA ones.