The Summer Solstice Geocache was our 4th and final seasonal cache. We celebrated the beginning of summer by hunting for the Geocache.
The Summer Solstice is at 9:11 AM on June 21.
In the northern hemisphere, the longest day of the year when the Sunis farthest north. In the southern hemisphere, winter and summer solstices are exchanged.
The summer solstice marks the first day of the season of summer. The declination of the Sun on the (northern) summer solstice is known as the tropic of cancer (23° 27').
The summer solstice is the longest day of the year, respectively, in the sense that the length of time elapsed between sunrise and sunset on this day is a maximum for the year. The time of sunrise will be 5:57 a.m. and sunset will be 9:13 p.m. 15 hours and 16 minutes of sunlight. Of course, daylight saving time means that the first Sunday in April has 23 hours and the last Sunday in October has 25 hours, but these human meddlings with the calendar and do not correspond to the actual number of daylight hours.
This cache is in a clear plastic container with a green top. It contains some typical treasurers as well as a one time use camera. Use this camera to take a picture of your cache hunting team. Please be sure to point the camera away
from the sun when taking the picture and return it to the zip lock bag. We will post the pictures on this page later.
Please place the cache back the way you found it.