Attn Admin:
Please update the currently posted clues for Shipwright's Coastal
Maine Botanical Gardens lb clues. A pair of plucky cousins and an
enterprising uncle (for whom this garden series was planted - pun
very much intended) found these three, but pointed out no less than
two mistakes on my part in the recording of the appropriate clues.
Here is the corrected version, in full:
"Letterbox Name: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (3)
Letterbox Location: Lincoln County, Maine
Nearest Town: Boothbay, ME
Planted on: 9 July 2002
Planted by: Shipwright
As of July, 2002: The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is a relatively
new institution; new trail systems are being built, and the old ones
being blazed. Don't be misled from your appointed trail! Also, please
stay on the trails as much as possible. I have tried to make my
letterboxes in this area either close to the trail, or off the trail
in an area that will not be drastically damaged by light foot-
traffic. Be respectful of the ground-cover and of the potential for
soil erosion.
DIRECTIONS:
"From Rt. 1 take Rt. 27 to Boothbay Center Monument. Bear right onto
Corey Lane. Take next right, Barter's Island Road. Coastal Maine
Botanical Gardens is one mile on the left."
CLUES:
Begin your search on the northernmost entrance to the Shore Trail.
Follow this trail through the woods, pasta fern garden on the right,
and over a footbridge. Take the opportunity to calibrate your paces
there are four between each vertical rail on the bridge (the
Shipwright has a short stride!). As the trail bends directly after
the footbridge, look for a mossy rise on the left. The Flying Bird
letterbox nests beneath a fallen log upon this mossy stone.
Return to the trail. At the fork, follow it to the left (keeping left
at the subsequent fork, as well), passing two cairns on the right
add a stone if you're so inclined. At the second of these cairns,
notice two standing stones through the trees at 170 degrees. The Moon-
on-the-River Letterbox gazes skyward within an opened pine, ten paces
at 180 degrees from the larger of these standing stones.
Return again to the Shore Walk trail, following it along the river
and around a bend or two. As you return inland, you will see an old
pine tree on the right, perched upon granite. Find a tapering gap
between rock and tree. The White Pine Letterbox rests its roots here."