GC48V0T Traditional Cache Extinct Animal: Little Swan Island Hutia
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Imusttravel2000 @ | Hide Date: 03/31/2013 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 27.713 W104° 03.992 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
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The Little Swan Island Hutia was a guinea-pig-like rodent native to the Swan Islands in the Caribbean. It was a slow moving creature which left the caves and lime stone crevices to feed on barks, twigs and leaves. It was assumed to be a subspecies of Jamaican Hutia, supposedly brought to Swan Islands from Jamaica. Once found in abundance on the island, the Little Swan Island Hutia population received a major blow in form of a hurricane in 1955, which resulted in loss of habitat for this creature. Eventually the introduction house cats on the island led to the extinction of Little Swan Island Hutia after occasional sightings in early 1950s.

 

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9 Logs: Found it 7  Didn't find it 2  

Didn't find it 06/29/2019 By mcmwest
No smiley here today

Didn't find it 06/29/2019 By mcmm1
No luck

Found it 05/27/2019 By EJBHGV
Out caching on Memorial Day near Deer Trail.
Mostly Extinct animals and Days in October.
Thanks to al CO's for making the game possible.

Found it 10/26/2018 By AirDrone
Running a run on the High Plains... this on great lonely road TFTC

Found it 05/07/2018 By reforestgrrl
Found it quickly. Farmer stopped by to ask about his runaway cow… We had just seen it ambling up the road. Thanks for the hide!

Found it 05/07/2018 By Cache Dipper
Made quick find.

Found it 04/27/2018 By Brewman65
Had a nice visit to Colorado, and found a lot of caches

Found it 10/13/2017 By L O S T - S O U L
TFTC

Enjoying another day traversing the countryside, acquiring many miles and boosting cache numbers and others in between along the power trails!
Nothing better than caching along the back country roads of America! Thanks for placing these out here. Most were in good shape in these sections however i did replaced wet logs and broken containers as needed. Initialed logs

Found it 08/26/2017 By lasouthpaw
At first a brown glass bottle fooled me but I kept at it and found the cache. TFTF - #1729.

I had a much needed geocaching adventure today. I drove over from Denver to Goodland (KS) last night. Got up this morning and continued east to Mingo. Wound up caching my way there and then back towards Denver, ending with a power trail-ish run between Limon and Deer Trail. Got to see lots of sunflowers and even some antelope along the way. Cachly was acting funny, I'm pretty sure it wasn't bringing up all the caches, but oh well. Wound up caching until the sun went down. Now for all those logs…