August Squiggly location

Squiggly is on campus. This is an easy one, so no excuses. Go out and find it!

I started out at the SSB building (aka, the Consortium Library) and walked towards the Science Building. I took this picture, looking to the right, just before crossing the street at the crosswalk to the Engineering building. See that guardrail? Head toward it and you'll see a road and a pathway that lead behind the Engineering building.

Follow the path and you'll soon cross a bridge with a little gazebo/bench next to the creek on your right.

With your back to the creek and looking through the gazebo thingy, you'll see a bush with a large fern to its left. Walk around the right of the bush and Squiggly is hidden under one of the fern fronds laying next to the ground.

You can just see the white bottle under the frond in the lower right corner of the photo. The frond, by the way, was already laying against the ground. No ferns were harmed in hiding Squiggly. The path does continue on behind the Student Union building and ends in the parking lot behind the Wells Fargo Sports Complex so if you are coming from the west end of campus you can just come at it from that direction.

Foiled!

Ok, so I was going to hide Squiggly in the Cuddy midtown park but once I pulled onto the street that leads to the parking lot there was a big orange sign telling me the park was closed for my safety until Summer 2008. Sure enough, on closer inspection, they had the lot and some of the path torn up. It was all fenced off as well. Nothing to see here folks, move along.

So I did, to the Potter's Marsh boardwalk. It was pouring rain but I was determined. I even obeyed the No Pets Allowed sign and left the dog in the car. It rapidly went down hill when I realized the batteries in my camera were dead. No problem, I'd hide and come back later for photos. I walked all the way to the end of the boardwalk and found no place to securly hide Squiggly without it potentially falling into the marsh. I stopped and watched the salmon swimming in through the culvert and thought maybe I'd just hide it in the trees back at the parking lot. Alas, that too was a foolish idea. The whole perimeter of the lot had been hydrosprayed with grass seed recently. There was no way to get to a hiding place without destroying the new landscaping. I got back in the car totally defeated, not to mention, totally wet.

I will attempt another hiding place tomorrow.

Squiggly to be placed in August location soon

I've picked up Squiggly from the dorm location today. I'll place it in its August location Saturday morning (8/4) and get the directions posted by Saturday night. In the mean time, it'll be sitting on my desk in SSB 346 if you want to drop by and pick up a chip!