Location: Mystery, MI
Planted By: JustHappy2Cya
Find Date: (undisclosed)
Find #: 78
Comments: I went to this box alone. Very peaceful and reverent location. Terriffic clues! But, scary as hell for a single woman to go alone in near darkness. I was berating myself for going here alone, telling myself how stupid I was and just plain freaking myself out, when all of a sudden there was a huge crashing sound! EEK! Scared me even more! Turned out it was a deer running across the path, not a pyscho-killer. Whew. I'm not cut out for boxing alone in the woods. I have to stick to the urban boxes for that!
Showing posts with label wild life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wild life. Show all posts
Knight in Shining Armor
Location: WW Knight Nature Preserve, Perrysburg, Wood County, OH
Planted By: Mom and kids
Find Date: 6/3/2007
Find #: 64
Comments: Another box found on the way home from the gathering. Cool nature preserve! We "broke the law" and continued on the boardwalk even though there was a "closed due to flooding/repairs" sign blocking the way. We didn't run into any problems, though. Found a Detroit Tigers hitchhiker. After we found the box, we went back into the nature center to look around. There was a sign in there that all of the trails are under video surveillance! I wonder if they caught us on camera going past that sign or stamping in??? Yikes! No one yelled at us, so if they did catch us on tape, they didn't watch in in real-time. Not to gross you out, but beware of the goose poop while you're here! It's everywhere!
Planted By: Mom and kids
Find Date: 6/3/2007
Find #: 64
Comments: Another box found on the way home from the gathering. Cool nature preserve! We "broke the law" and continued on the boardwalk even though there was a "closed due to flooding/repairs" sign blocking the way. We didn't run into any problems, though. Found a Detroit Tigers hitchhiker. After we found the box, we went back into the nature center to look around. There was a sign in there that all of the trails are under video surveillance! I wonder if they caught us on camera going past that sign or stamping in??? Yikes! No one yelled at us, so if they did catch us on tape, they didn't watch in in real-time. Not to gross you out, but beware of the goose poop while you're here! It's everywhere!
Peace With Nature
Location: Rochester Hills, Oakland County, Mi
Planted By: Trailtroll (adopted)
Find Date: 5/5/2007
Find #: 51
Comments: We divined our way to this box. We found the Knowledge is Pleasant box first which is off the same Rail Trail. A lot of the landmarks for this box have changed, but we were able to figure it out after a while. There was a whole group of people hanging out. Took forever for them to finally leave so we could find the box. Cute little stamp. Nice place! See, this is really close to the place that creeped me out, but now I think it's really cool! It's all a matter of first impressions and how you view it, I guess. If the Knowledge box clues brought us in the back way, rather than in by that building and weird lake, it would have been much better! There was a nesting duck really close to the trail!
Planted By: Trailtroll (adopted)
Find Date: 5/5/2007
Find #: 51
Comments: We divined our way to this box. We found the Knowledge is Pleasant box first which is off the same Rail Trail. A lot of the landmarks for this box have changed, but we were able to figure it out after a while. There was a whole group of people hanging out. Took forever for them to finally leave so we could find the box. Cute little stamp. Nice place! See, this is really close to the place that creeped me out, but now I think it's really cool! It's all a matter of first impressions and how you view it, I guess. If the Knowledge box clues brought us in the back way, rather than in by that building and weird lake, it would have been much better! There was a nesting duck really close to the trail!
Chief Pontiac
Location: Hawthorne Park, Pontiac, Oakland County, MI
Planted By: TrailTroll
Find Date: 5/5/2007
Find #: 46
Comments: (I just realized while writing this blog that we found this box on its 2 year anniversary!) Very cool stamp! We never did see the rocket ship! The trail head is basically invisible from where you park. The place was crowded and we thought we looked like jackasses walking toward the tree line where there appeared to be nothing. Then, all of a sudden you could see the trail! Cool. I saw some really cool plant here. It looked dead, but then there were these flowers or leaves bursting into life off the dead ends. Very bizarre. I posted a picture, anyone know what this is? Had another run in with a garter snake! Getting used to them now. Good clues. Quick find, and still very muddy!
Planted By: TrailTroll
Find Date: 5/5/2007
Find #: 46
Comments: (I just realized while writing this blog that we found this box on its 2 year anniversary!) Very cool stamp! We never did see the rocket ship! The trail head is basically invisible from where you park. The place was crowded and we thought we looked like jackasses walking toward the tree line where there appeared to be nothing. Then, all of a sudden you could see the trail! Cool. I saw some really cool plant here. It looked dead, but then there were these flowers or leaves bursting into life off the dead ends. Very bizarre. I posted a picture, anyone know what this is? Had another run in with a garter snake! Getting used to them now. Good clues. Quick find, and still very muddy!
Laika
Location: Maybury State Park, Northville, Wayne County, MI
Planted By: Clickermom3
Find Date: 3/18/2007
Find #: 41
Comments: Awesome stamp carving! Again, second attempt for this one. We followed the wrong set of trail numbers for this one. Dumb! We met a cool Bull Mastiff while stamping in. Lots of people here today.
Planted By: Clickermom3
Find Date: 3/18/2007
Find #: 41
Comments: Awesome stamp carving! Again, second attempt for this one. We followed the wrong set of trail numbers for this one. Dumb! We met a cool Bull Mastiff while stamping in. Lots of people here today.
Season's Letterbox
Location: Orchard Lake Nature Sanctuary, Orchard Lake, Oakland County, MI
Planted By: Sealpoint
Find Date: 12/2/2006
Find #: 33-35
Comments: This was a four part series, one stamp for each season of the year. We didn't find the "spring" box while we were here the first time. We didn't bring the compass, but didn't need it until the last part of the clues. We had a pretty good sense of direction and knew approximately where we should be looking. But, in any case we looked by every single "lone big tree" within reasonable proximity to where it should have been. No box! We did see a gigantic buck, though.
Planted By: Sealpoint
Find Date: 12/2/2006
Find #: 33-35
Comments: This was a four part series, one stamp for each season of the year. We didn't find the "spring" box while we were here the first time. We didn't bring the compass, but didn't need it until the last part of the clues. We had a pretty good sense of direction and knew approximately where we should be looking. But, in any case we looked by every single "lone big tree" within reasonable proximity to where it should have been. No box! We did see a gigantic buck, though.
Wandering in the Wetlands
Location: West Bloomfield Nature Preserve, West Bloomfield, Oakland County, MI
Planted By: TrailTroll
Find Date: 11/25/2006
Find #: 30-31
Comments: Very cool preserve, beautiful. Nice stamps, too. We found the first two boxes, but didn't manage to find the third box. We looked and looked, to no avail. There are so many squirrels or other critters here! We kept hearing them all around us. After while, it really started feeling like we were being followed! Weird. On the way from box 2 to 3, while I was rounding a bend, turning a corner and passing a dude coming from the opposite direction, I lost my balance and fell down with a yell and a thump. I messed up my ankle pretty bad and we were only about at the 1/2 way point on this looooong, hilly trail. I had to suck it up and walk the rest of the way out. What we won't do for letterboxing!
Planted By: TrailTroll
Find Date: 11/25/2006
Find #: 30-31
Comments: Very cool preserve, beautiful. Nice stamps, too. We found the first two boxes, but didn't manage to find the third box. We looked and looked, to no avail. There are so many squirrels or other critters here! We kept hearing them all around us. After while, it really started feeling like we were being followed! Weird. On the way from box 2 to 3, while I was rounding a bend, turning a corner and passing a dude coming from the opposite direction, I lost my balance and fell down with a yell and a thump. I messed up my ankle pretty bad and we were only about at the 1/2 way point on this looooong, hilly trail. I had to suck it up and walk the rest of the way out. What we won't do for letterboxing!
Round and Round
Location: Livonia, Wayne County, MI
Planted By: silver thorn
Find Date: 10/15/2006
Find #: 22
Comments: Cool stamp. Nice trail with lots of people! I never knew this trail system was there and I grew up here. Silly me! We got "attacked" by four super friendly Great Danes!
Planted By: silver thorn
Find Date: 10/15/2006
Find #: 22
Comments: Cool stamp. Nice trail with lots of people! I never knew this trail system was there and I grew up here. Silly me! We got "attacked" by four super friendly Great Danes!
Mo' Mustangs
Location: Hudson Mills Metro Park, Dexter, Washtenaw County, MI
Planted By: The Dragon
Find Date: 10/8/2006
Find #: 9
Comments: This is an awesome stamp. You have to find seven separate boxes to assemble one completed image. Very fun! Beware of the Missisauga Rattlesnake! I didn't know we had rattlers in Michigan before we ran across one today! If you look really hard, you can see a garter snake and the rattle snake in this photo. The garter snake is along the left side in the sunlight, the rattler is in the shadows under that green patch of leaves. Darn thing moved before I took the photo, so you can't see it that well.
Planted By: The Dragon
Find Date: 10/8/2006
Find #: 9
Comments: This is an awesome stamp. You have to find seven separate boxes to assemble one completed image. Very fun! Beware of the Missisauga Rattlesnake! I didn't know we had rattlers in Michigan before we ran across one today! If you look really hard, you can see a garter snake and the rattle snake in this photo. The garter snake is along the left side in the sunlight, the rattler is in the shadows under that green patch of leaves. Darn thing moved before I took the photo, so you can't see it that well.
Go To Hell!
Location: Hell, Livingston County, Mi
Planted By: The Dragon
Find Date: 10/8/2006
Find #: 8
Comments: Very creative and fun poetic clues. Cool stamp. Had to dodge some hunters! Gotta be careful 'boxin in the fall in Mi! It was a great time to be back in Hell. I spent a lot of summers camping nearby and used to canoe to the Dam Site Inn. Terrific food! There was a huge Harley gathering here the day we were there.
Planted By: The Dragon
Find Date: 10/8/2006
Find #: 8
Comments: Very creative and fun poetic clues. Cool stamp. Had to dodge some hunters! Gotta be careful 'boxin in the fall in Mi! It was a great time to be back in Hell. I spent a lot of summers camping nearby and used to canoe to the Dam Site Inn. Terrific food! There was a huge Harley gathering here the day we were there.
Faces Of Nature
Location: Robert Long Park, Commerce, MI
Planted By: ?
Find Date: n/a (attemped 9/20/2006)
Find #: n/a
Comments: Cool park and good clues. Lots and lots of birds here. Box nowhere to be found, though! We are quite positive we were in the right place, not just confused! (The box has since had several attempts and has been deleted from the LbNA site as of 7/2007.)
Planted By: ?
Find Date: n/a (attemped 9/20/2006)
Find #: n/a
Comments: Cool park and good clues. Lots and lots of birds here. Box nowhere to be found, though! We are quite positive we were in the right place, not just confused! (The box has since had several attempts and has been deleted from the LbNA site as of 7/2007.)
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