Almost Half Bad Day

I hope after 458 geo­caches we are as good at find­ing them as we are Post Offices. The Beau­fort and St. Helena Island POs were crossed off the list in short order, but nei­ther of the caches I picked out in Beau­fort for us to find were found. I know we found the cor­rect spots from the descrip­tions and or titles, but locat­ing the actual item we were look­ing for didn’t happen.

What kept us slightly above the 50% find rate today was a sec­ond look at find­ing the cache in Hopeland Gar­dens right in Aiken. This time, like the first attempt, we zeroed in on where the cache was and even though we both had ideas where it might be hid­den and now knew exactly what the cache looked like (thanks to look­ing at the online com­ments) we still couldn’t locate it. That was until I decided to check the under­side of a small bird­house, the cache wasn’t there, but while lean­ing down to look I noticed that the hole didn’t actu­ally go through the wood, it wasn’t a bird house, it was a cache house. The side panel was hinged. Ingenious.