What are the odds?!

      It is a little over two weeks since I first tried to set out my first cache, but due to a formality with one of the guidelines I had to move it. I decided that considering the name of the cache that it was to be best hidden next April…

       In the meantime, I had found some containers that would be suitable to use for caches. While doing some caches throughout the week I had been keeping my eye out for the perfect place to hide my official first cache. I finally thought I had found it. Laerok and I were out caching (obviously) earlier this week and we came across the perfect spot to put it. I will not give away too much information about the following events, because I will be putting one in this location later. But as we were walking down the lane a man came from one of the nearby houses and said that we could take pictures, but please do not go on the property. Not a problem. I will be taking pictures of this cool building when I go there next. Hint: I love caches that have to do with local history, so this will be a perfect spot for a future one! Anyway, as we were leaving, the local fire department showed up to do some training drills. Now that my perfect location on an otherwise dead country road was now a ‘muggle zone’ we decided to carry on with our finds.

      I was on my way to hide attempt #2 this afternoon, when Laerok asked me to meet him at work. He was on his lunch, so I picked him up to come with me. We went to the first place I had in mind, but it didn’t feel right. So on to the next location I scouted out. We tried a set of bushes, but there were no good spots. Laerok walked over to a lone tree, placed the cache on a broken branch and asked ‘What do you think of this spot?’ I told him it was way too obvious. As he pulled the cache off the branch, the branch fell away from the tree. It wasn’t a branch at all, but micro cache camo’d as a broken branch!! We couldn’t believe it! We stood there stunned, when we realized that actually did just happened, we had a good laugh. We figure it must be part of a multi-cache as there are no other caches hidden in this park. Note: I am currently waiting approval my cache location.

       This past week we found the smallest cache we had ever seen. It is part of the ‘bus stop series’. I would not be offended if I never had to find another one so small. I must have looked at it at least twice. Having said before that I like caches that tie in local history, we found ‘New Man Farm’. There are two reconstructed boathouses that belonged to the local pioneering Newman family. I forgot the camera at home, and the phones were left in the car. I am waiting on better weather to take some pictures of the boathouses. I am going to take some pictures of them this weekend.
      Last week I tried out the Geocaching application on my iPhone (http://www.geocaching.com/iphone/). It worked fairly well for the location I was at. Not something I would used every day, but ok in a pinch. Definitely need your ‘geoscense’ to make the find.


Happy caching!

-Sarah-bellum.