$5,000 geocaching treasure in Hawaii
Listed at Geocaching.com are 3 Quest Mystery caches:
#4, #5, #6
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A shark teeth club is hidden somewhere on the Big Island and the
clues are in the book and/or posted at www.QuestMystery.com. The
hunt for the club will end two years from publication date.
In 2008, my book Vegas Die was published with a hidden dagger
somewhere in Las Vegas Valley, and a three year hunt. The response of
Questors which made this mystery a best seller gave me confi dence to try
again. The concept is unique: that the writing is seamless, in that you read
only a mystery not realizing a treasure hunt lurks between the words and
phrases. Read fi rst as a mystery, then go back and look for clues.
In this Quest Mystery we have added the excitement of geo-caching
and the use of GPS. Yes, you may have to visit The Big Island to join the
search, or seek out fellow Questors who might assist you. Remember,
the Quest Mystery mantra: Nothing Is As It Seems. N 19° 54. 893' W 155°
48. 960'
After finding the Hawaiian war club, the Questor can redeem it for $5,000 cash. Also, depending on sales of book, the publisher may increase the prize incrementally to sales, so the prize could be larger.
I want to give special thanks to Donn Mukensnable, who has acted
as my teacher, guide, and mentor in learning the art of geo-caching on
the Big Island. When I am not on island Donn will act as the guardian of
the QuestMystery caches — except he will not know the location of the
prize cache. There are 140 caches hidden by others on The Big Island so
beyond a Quest Mystery treasure hunt there is plenty more excitement to
be found in your island searches.
Please visit the official site: geocaching.com
Begin your Quest today.
Armchair Questors: Not going to Hawai'i soon but want to become a Captain Cooked Questor? Join in. Contact Author if you feel you figured out clues to where the hidden war club is.
Beginning September 27th, we will start having cash contests based on the story within Captain Cooked. You don't have to be on island to play!
S.P. Grogan
 Touring nurses make their beach reading buys for Hawaii trip.
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Location: Hawaii, United States
Mayela Mingi found Cave Hole Cache (Traditional Cache) at 6/24/2011
Log Date: 6/24/2011
WooHoo, my kind of adventure!
We trekked on to the entrance in our flip-flops, and did get some of those nasty thorns in them, but no punctured skin. Then we hopped down into the cave, past the goat bones, and through the tunnel. Great fun. My daughter, a resident, accompanied her fanatical geocaching dad, then had to do a handstand in the light at the cache site.
Location: Hawaii, United States
cvfamily4 found Cave Hole Cache (Traditional Cache) at 6/19/2011
Log Date: 6/19/2011
Wow!! This was our favorite so far on the island! Bit of a challenge but we managed to get the cache in hand. We first parked at the coords given for parking but didn't see a trail so we turned around and was not going to do it but going back we spotted a wide trail with a .20 hike coords we parked at
n19 54.579 w155 48.913 as we started our hike we marked waypoints to back track which was a big help! The lava rocks are really hard to walk on but then the smooth lava was a lot easier to walk on. Lots of shrubbery bushes poking around and HUGE spiders. Took a pic of one that looked really scarry! As we zeroed in our son spotted the cache but was freaked out to grab it so hubby got down to business and made the grab BUT wait wait what about the entrance!! We looked and looked and found another big huge hole with bones at the bottom. Nope don't think we want to jump down so what about the other entrance?? Our garmin wouldn't lead us in the correct direction so we gave up and headed back to the car since our 12 year old was a bit tired and our water supply was running low. As we walked back we thought how nice that someone made this trek and marked this location for us so a BIG thanks to the person who placed this and gave us a great adventure that our kids will never forget and maybe someday will share it with there kids. Oh yeah since this was a special one for us we left our pathtag that was designed by our 17 year old son and we took the Canada TB.
Aloha ~cvfamily4~
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Location: Hawaii, United States
Naugtboyscout found Cache #1
Dear Author,
my name is naugtboyscout.
I have found Captain Cooked Cache #1.
Much mahalo for the adventure.
Aloha Rob
Location: Hawaii, United States
Leenah found Cave Hole Cache
OMG! On an adventure scale of 1 to 10, this was at least a 12!!! Our party consisted of us (Grandma & grandpa cachers) daughter, and 9 yr old grandson...We chose to traverse the full length of the lava tube and wound up crawling for almost 2 hours (in total darkness had it not been for our flashlights)... I say "crawling" because there were tons of large boulders and lava debris in the cave adding to the difficulty. There was also that trek to find the entrance and another trek and a half getting back to our car afterwards. I must say, the cache was a welcome sight (as was the light and fresh air) while we were in the tube, but don't get confused--you will find more than one area with light from above...Strong FLASHLIGHTS, lots of WATER, sturdy shoes, and walking sticks MANDANTORY. Even with all of these, we arrived back at our car bruised, bleeding, and dying of thirst but VERY VERY proud of ourselves for finding this most AWESOME of caches. THANK YOU very much for such a memorable caching experience!!! Took an angel TB and a golf ball, left a shell bottle and a rainbow pin. |
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