Geocaching

The way we have been going lately, we have missed the first cache we have tried, so this weekend I tried something different, I picked out 3 easy caches as warm ups to find before we got to our real objectives.

Our first cache of the day on Saturday was:

The Augusta-Savannah Series.. Old Road Way
It is a large cache hidden on what use to be a road that crossed over Hwy 25 before they turned it into a four lane road. This cache has plenty of room for trading. There is no theme, but so far the only items in there have to do with traveling, such as old car license plates. Use your stealth when finding this cache because of passer-bys.

Passers-by? Tongue must have been in cheek when the CO wrote that, this section of road is no longer in use so you have to have a reason for traveling it, like geocaching or illegal dumping. You can’t be seen from the four lane so it is practically muggle proof. I know we saw no one the whole time we were there. We left a Santa hat and took a license plate.

In our garage attached to the cross support beam for the door tracks we have tacked up our license plates from every place Donna and I have lived. Except for one, when we moved to Louisiana they would not give me a new plate until I turned in the one that was on the car. It was from Virginia. So guess which license plate we took from the cache?

The collection is now complete.

Elijah Clark State Park

After breakfast with the MMC Donna and I went geocaching. Surprise, surprise. Our goal for the day was 3 GA counties, one GA State Park and the small inset on on Page 31 of the GA DeLorme atlas. Ten caches later we had found nine and were 4 out of 5 for our objectives. The one we missed was the furthest away and our primary objective, Fishing Creek. The Georgia Delorme is less forgiving than the SC one in that you need to find a cache in every square on every page and Fishing Creek is the only cache in square 31B.

It was not for lack of trying either. We spent 45 minutes hunting in a small patch of woods near a boat ramp. The GPSr said we traveled a little over a mile criss-crossing that 150 foot diameter area. It is not as if we were looking for a 35mm film canister well integrated into the environment either, it was a stinking 30cal ammo can! When we got home and read all the logs for this cache it seems like it is very well hidden and the difficulty level should be a bit higher than the 2 it is advertised at. The way most people locate it is by using the hint and poking with a walking stick, listening for a clunk.

Nature Trail in Boyd Pond Park

After countless miles and countless hours of crisscrossing the state of South Carolina finding a geocache in each and every county we took a short 1/2 mile hike in Boyd Pond Park, which is less than 7 miles from home, to grab the Challenge’s bonus cache. We also found 4 others and DNF’d one while we were out & about.

You know, if we were smart, we would start seriously working on the Georgia DeLorme Challenge (we have 14 of 60 already) and Georgia County Challenge (16 of 159) as we do the 42 state parks…

Yet another State Park on a lake…

Clarks Hill Lake from Mistletoe State Park

Two Georgia State Parks down, forty to go. We had a very good day caching, percentage-wise, going 7 for 7, on quite a variety of container types, an ammo can, a gold painted ammo can, a test tube thing, a waterproof match box, a fake sprinkler head, a cammo wrapped pill bottle and a plastic pigeon.

Tomorrow we are going to go do the SC County Challenge (and maybe a few more, time permitting.)