My husband and I enjoy the sport of geocaching. Geocaching is an electronic scavenger hunt that requires a GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) receiver to detect containers (called Geocaches or caches) anywhere in the world. Before leaving Roanoke, we visited the geocaching internet website to find the GPS coordinates of caches we wished to seek. Todays geocache was hidden in the Puako Petroglyph Archeological Preserve. Hopefully, you will recall the word Heiroglyphics from your 2nd grade studies of Egypt. Petroglyphs are ancient carvings in the lava rock. The word petro comes from the Greek work petros meaning stone. Petroglyphs are found world-wide, and are often (but not always) associated with prehistoric peoples. The Puako Petroglyph site is one of the largest and finest concentrations of the mysterious symbols left in Hawaii. Likely, these Petroglyphs were made sometime between AD 1000-1800. The cache was hidden at the base of a Kiawe tree and had lots of goodies (a geocoin and travelbug). After looking at the Petroglyph, what story do you think the carving was trying to tell?
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Dear Mrs. Newman,
How are you I hope you are having a good time in Hawaii.The pictures were cool to so good by
Hi Mrs. Newman,
I hope you're having a good time in Hawaii. I liked the Petroglyph photos. Have a good time in Hawaii!
TE
Dear Mrs.Newman,
How are you doing in Hawaii? I thought the pictures were really neat. The picture of the volcano was really cool. We hope you bring back picture like that. Have a great day.
Hi Mrs. Newman. How are you doing? I hope you are having a good time. The pictures were really neat. I really want you to type me an answer. This is RAPDOG I was your partner at Jamestown and the one you gave the camera to. Have a good time today.
Please anser my sometime today.
I'll blog tommorow.Bye
Hi Ms.Newman. Are you having fun in Hawaii. See you when you come back.
What teachers do when they go on vacation!!AE
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