Re: [Paddlewise] Paddlecaching

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>After my first find I wondered if there were many geocaches out there 
>that were only accessible by water.  I have already though of several 
>places I would like to place a cache that would be an easy paddle, 
>but would pretty much only be accessible from the water.

There are a fair number of "paddlecaches" (I like that term - nice!) in the 
Mid-coastal Maine area - I have snagged a three part multi-cache that takes you 
to separate islands in Pushaw Lake (just north of Bangor).  There's also one 
parked on an Island in the middle of the Penobscot River in the Bangor area; 
plus one on an island in Brewer Lake.  And if it's salt water you're looking 
for, I've had my eye on a number of caches located on islands off of Deer Island 
(Stonington area) which is probably one of the prettiest places to paddle on 
the East Coast.  

I don't know of an easy way to locate caches that are only boat accessible 
other than exhaustively reading the cache database.  I believe if you are a 
paying member, you have access to some other mapping and database query tools that 
would make searching for paddlecaches easier.  Probably there is somebody out 
there that has more details on how this is done.

Mark
Hampden, Maine
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