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<title>Quabbin Tower Trove Cache</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2005/09/05/quabbinTowerTrove</biblioid>
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<pubdate>2005-09-05T13:56:04-04:00</pubdate>
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<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
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      <year>2005</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
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<para>With three days of perfect weather, an afternoon of geocaching
seemed like the perfect diversion.</para>
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<para xml:id="p1">The
<link xlink:href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quabbin_Reservoir">Quabbin
Reservoir</link> is beautiful. There are at least two caches to be had 
in the park that surrounds it, though they're widely separated and I
only went looking for one, the
<link xlink:href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gc4a9a">Quabbin Tower Trove</link>.
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<para xml:id="p2">The cache is the marker in the upper right. The
middle marker is where I parked. The lower one is a second cache,
<link xlink:href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gcpzjh">Here Fishie Fishie</link>,
that I haven't gone searching for yet.</para>

<para xml:id="p3">I had in mind looking for a couple of caches, but
you can no longer drive over Windsor Dam so it turned out to be a
fairly long walk. If I'd entered from the other side, I could have
driven to within a few hundred feet of the cache.</para>

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<para xml:id="p4">Not that there was any reason not to enjoy the walk across
Windsor Dam</para>

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<para xml:id="p5">and up to the tower</para>

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<para xml:id="p6">on such a fine day. There are some more
<link xlink:href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndw/search/tags:Quabbin/">Quabbin
photos</link> on
<link xlink:href="http://www.flickr.com/">Flickr</link>.</para>

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