Vankien saaret - Prisoners' Islands Suomenlinna, Uusimaa, Finland
By
Tilhet on 23-Mar-13. Waypoint GC47PTB
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Logs
Wow, loved the history about this island in the description and was fascinated to learn that real prisoners still live here and look after this wonderful area. I really enjoyed wpt 1 what a beautiful piece of artwork and dedication to those unfortunate people so long ago. Its also in a lovely quiet area away from the muggles. No problem finding GZ and I was just tall enough to not get scratched. Again GZ is well away from the tourist muggles. Great cache.
**This was one of 8 caches that I found during this day visit in Helsinki.**
Since there are 3 multi caches on the islands here I had an strong hope of finding the final of at least one of them. Otherwise my project with reaching minimum 2 found multi caches on each date in the calendar would stop today. Luckily I was able to find stage 1 real quick and the final a little less quick.
*For the third time this year I had booked an 40-hour cruise to Helsinki. Its hard to resist when the prize is €0.*
*This time the main cache area got to be Soumenlinna, and location that I never have visited before as far as I can remember.*
*The weather today was windy, moist, cloudy, hail, rain and even some snow. More or less every kind available except sunshine.*
This date I hade these statistical projects to fulfill:
* 1 Multi
* 1 Mystery
* An 5th cache type
Since there are 3 multi caches on the islands here I had an strong hope of finding the final of at least one of them. Otherwise my project with reaching minimum 2 found multi caches on each date in the calendar would stop today. Luckily I was able to find stage 1 real quick and the final a little less quick.
*For the third time this year I had booked an 40-hour cruise to Helsinki. Its hard to resist when the prize is €0.*
*This time the main cache area got to be Soumenlinna, and location that I never have visited before as far as I can remember.*
*The weather today was windy, moist, cloudy, hail, rain and even some snow. More or less every kind available except sunshine.*
This date I hade these statistical projects to fulfill:
* 1 Multi
* 1 Mystery
* An 5th cache type
**This was one of 8 caches that I found during this day visit in Helsinki.**
Since there are 3 multi caches on the islands here I had an strong hope of finding the final of at least one of them. Otherwise my project with reaching minimum 2 found multi caches on each date in the calendar would stop today. Luckily I was able to find stage 1 real quick and the final a little less quick.
*For the third time this year I had booked an 40-hour cruise to Helsinki. Its hard to resist when the prize is €0.*
*This time the main cache area got to be Soumenlinna, and location that I never have visited before as far as I can remember.*
*The weather today was windy, moist, cloudy, hail, rain and even some snow. More or less every kind available except sunshine.*
This date I hade these statistical projects to fulfill:
* 1 Multi
* 1 Mystery
* An 5th cache type
Since there are 3 multi caches on the islands here I had an strong hope of finding the final of at least one of them. Otherwise my project with reaching minimum 2 found multi caches on each date in the calendar would stop today. Luckily I was able to find stage 1 real quick and the final a little less quick.
*For the third time this year I had booked an 40-hour cruise to Helsinki. Its hard to resist when the prize is €0.*
*This time the main cache area got to be Soumenlinna, and location that I never have visited before as far as I can remember.*
*The weather today was windy, moist, cloudy, hail, rain and even some snow. More or less every kind available except sunshine.*
This date I hade these statistical projects to fulfill:
* 1 Multi
* 1 Mystery
* An 5th cache type
Thanks for highlighting the memorial with this cache - I thought it was really nice. Cache location also gave nice views. Thanks for a great cache!
