One For Three

It was cold and windy in the morning so we did the sensible thing and stayed indoors eating Girl Scout cookies. But the call of the wild was too great and by afternoon we just had to go outside and try a couple local caches.

The one in Hopeland Gardens sounded pretty simple and we could get a short walk in wandering around the place before finding the cache. We got the short walk in, but the rest eluded us. Both Donna and I took runs at the location and we narrowed it down to about 20 foot of ivy covering just off a trail, but after a little more than 15 minutes we admitted defeat and headed back to the car.

A short drive up Whiskey Road led us to the library and a small park where objective number two was hidden. The GPS led us right to a back corner of the park, but when we came to the boundary fence we still had 13 feet to go, which would have put us quite literally playing in the traffic (if there was any on a Sunday afternoon.) Looking down there was a nice little pile of bricks. AHA! Sure enough there was an ammo can under them. TNLNSL.

The third cache was a 1/2 mile walk down Colleton Ave called Ye Olde Tire Swing even though the swing has been missing since like 2006. We found the marked Long Leaf Pine Tree mentioned in the instructions and the GPS led us right to what looked like a perfect place for hiding a cache, several minutes spent poking around a couple of shrubs left us with nothing but dirty fingernails and a small scratch on my cheek.

So far we are 2 for 6 in Aiken and 3 for 4 out of town, giving us an .500 average. Terrific if you are a baseball batter and not too bad for cache catching, but if we are going to find a lot of these things we better get better. Both finds in Aiken were ammo cans and on the other finds we were accompanied by Larry & Rita from the MMC, so it appears that we will have to only search for ammo cans or the Garners will have to come with us every time we go geocaching.