City Caching

We spent the weekend in Kingston, for the annual martial arts event known as Kingston
Kicks. As usual, we had a great time. I took a binder full of cache listings, in case we
had any spare time to go exploring and we managed to squeeze in a few during the late
afternoon or evenings each day.

We did our first ever city cache on Saturday. Actually we looked for three caches that
day, but we only succeeded once.

The first one was in a parking lot, so you had to wait for any vehicles that came along to
be empty, and then keep an eye open for new ones arriving. We waited patiently for one
vehicle to leave. The lady in it must have been waiting for someone to finish work as she
sat there for quite a while. When she left we move our car right over in front of where the
cache was supposedly hidden and then had to wait when another woman showed up with
an entire grocery basket full of stuff to load into her vehicle. After all that we looked in
the only place there was to look and found nothing. There simply was no place else to
look. It was a big empty parking lot, with just a couple of well spaced trees for
decoration and one of them was right in front of us.

We did better at the second one. Luckily, by then, the businesses it was near were closed
as I don’t know how you can look for this sort of cache on the sly. In fact, it wouldn’t
surprise me if someone who worked nearby, decided to call the cops if they spotted
people like us prowling around like that. I must say that I really prefer a more wilderness
setting for such activities. As it was, gloves were needed as there were all sorts of other
gross things where this cache was located. There was even a pair of thongs!

I’d had enough of this city type caching so we went looking for something a little more
rural. We found a trail along a swamp and started in on that, but it was too wet and the
mosquitoes were hungry so we decided to give up for the night. It looks like an
interesting area though, so we may try that one again some other time.