1194 -1200. Can You Guess the Food?
6 Oct 2021
Walk Gloucester, RI

"This series is a game. If you identify the first 5 stamps as intended you will discover that they all have something in common and it is related to a food. The answer will be identified by the 6th stamp which is in the last box. There you will also find the log book and the correct identifications of the stamps are printed on the inside front cover. Enjoy!!!"

This is the quote that the Lithuanian from central MA gave us to start out a series that she has graciously allowed us to plant down here in RI! Having enjoyed so many of her boxes and series in central MA, we were delighted to bring this one over to our tri-state corner area to perhaps get a few more letterboxers hooked on her wonderful works!

For this series, find your way to the beach in Pulaski Park off route 44 in Gloucester, RI. The turnoff is barely a third of a mile east of the CT border, and then a mile or so north into the park itself to the large parking lot at the northern end of the road near the beach house and pond.

Head down the "cement ramp" and east past the picnic shelter to pick up the shoreline trail marked with a blue dots on white squares. At the third such blazed tree, just before a large shoreline sitting rock, take about 8 steps right and look in the left side of the mossy cave for #1.

Continue on the trail for 8 more blazes, then take about 20 steps more on trail before veering right off trail about 13 steps, passing just left of a large mossy boulder, to reach a small cave under a low slanted mossy rock guarded by a 6-8" triangular stone. This low cave, about 4 steps from the large boulder's back left corner, hides #2.

Now cross the bridge over the stream. After another 8 blazes, with a beaver lodge to your left across the water, you will find yourself among many curiously shaped beaver nubs. When you find the one that looks like an hourglass on your right, take about 18 steps at 80* to a 3' rot log balanced on a few rocks. Behind the low, chunky, slightly green topped trap door in front find #3.

Proceed to cross a stone wall, then pass another trail marked by a blue dot on a white triangle forking uphill right. You stay straight along the shoreline here to pass several beaver dams and loop around the end of the cove to reach a substantial, stone lined, circular grassy water hole just before arriving at a dirt road. Hop the small outlet creek here to look under a 2' gray-fingered branch behind the large pine for #4.

Now go west on the stony dirt road gently up to where it levels off. Here turn left onto a wide piney path. Cross a stone wall with a small boulder mid trail and pass through then a large cut log. Continue about 44 steps steps to a tilted 2' pointy triangular rock just off the left edge of the trail. Behind and below the point lies #5.

Next cross a wide plank bridge and another stone wall, then pass a trail on the left which leads to a peninsula. Soon turn left at the "T" onto a slightly wider trail that brings you back to views of your start/finish point across the pond. When you reach the fork where a path marked with a white square blaze goes down along the pond, look right about a dozen steps north for a pine with a flattish licheny-pointed rock to its right. Tucked under the far side of this rock find #6 and the logbook.

You should be easily able to find your way across the spillway dam and back to your car from here! Hope you enjoyed this pretty little walk around Peck Pond and back to the picnic area, and feel free to let us know how you did on guessing the food!

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