Okay, so me and my big mouth!
I had to go and gloat about not being rained on last week, and then on Sunday, August 3rd, we scurried for shelter three times, to keep from getting wet.
Our first stop was a dry one though. A nice man had gone all out to welcome geocachers. He built a trail, back into his woodlands, along country road 44. He will even have picnic tables back there eventually. He says the bugs have been too bad, with all the rain, to even bother with that this year though.. He came out to meet us when we arrived. He has prepared a lovely parking spot, and the hydro crews drop off the wood chips they make getting trees out of the way of the wires. He uses them to line the parking area and the trails. His wife, apparently makes soldiers of one sort or another, and there’s one there to greet the visitors too.
The bugs were out in full force, and I’m sure they were well fed by the time we left, even though we did use the bug spray the minute we left the car. The cache owner even told us we were welcome to take home as many flying things as we wanted when we left. We declined. In fact, we almost gave up on this cache because the bugs were so bad, and the GPS was having a hard time getting a good signal under all those trees. But we’re stubborn and we did finally find the treasure.
I had to go and gloat about not being rained on last week, and then on Sunday, August 3rd, we scurried for shelter three times, to keep from getting wet.Our first stop was a dry one though. A nice man had gone all out to welcome geocachers. He built a trail, back into his woodlands, along country road 44. He will even have picnic tables back there eventually. He says the bugs have been too bad, with all the rain, to even bother with that this year though.. He came out to meet us when we arrived. He has prepared a lovely parking spot, and the hydro crews drop off the wood chips they make getting trees out of the way of the wires. He uses them to line the parking area and the trails. His wife, apparently makes soldiers of one sort or another, and there’s one there to greet the visitors too.
The bugs were out in full force, and I’m sure they were well fed by the time we left, even though we did use the bug spray the minute we left the car. The cache owner even told us we were welcome to take home as many flying things as we wanted when we left. We declined. In fact, we almost gave up on this cache because the bugs were so bad, and the GPS was having a hard time getting a good signal under all those trees. But we’re stubborn and we did finally find the treasure.
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After that, we headed for Prescott. We stopped for lunch at Burger King, and then went to visit the nearby Sandy Hill Cemetery. This is a very interesting place, and you can get a lot of exercise just walking up and down the hills there. There is a set of stairs though, and they were made out of stones taken from the old canal at Cardinal. Part of the hunt has to do with counting these stones. Then you have to find certain tomb stones of some interesting people and get some more numbers before you can work out the final waypoint. We ran to sit in the car twice while we were in the cemetery. The rain didn’t last long, but it kept coming back. We found ourselves going around in circles there for a minute, but we did find the cache in a clever place, and wondered how we missed it the first time. GCWDP1
From there we went to a commercial area where someone got pretty creative with their hide. Luckily it wasn’t busy there that day, or it would have been really hard to retrieve this one. We had it in a matter of moments, and off we went again......after a quick visit to the local Canadian Tire store, to get a new windshield wiper.
From there we went to a commercial area where someone got pretty creative with their hide. Luckily it wasn’t busy there that day, or it would have been really hard to retrieve this one. We had it in a matter of moments, and off we went again......after a quick visit to the local Canadian Tire store, to get a new windshield wiper.
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Our final stop of the day wasn’t as successful. Well, it would have been, but things got too wet to continue. This was an easy multi, at the Prescott Harbour. We had no trouble going from one spot to the next, so I’m sure we would have found the cache. But just as we got near the stage, the sky decided to really open up. Luckily we had the stage roof to protect us from that downpour. Several others took shelter there too. Once it was over, and the others were out of sight we let the GPS lead us to the area where the cache is hidden. It turned out to be in some very wet bushes. I did venture in, but decided I’d better get out of there before I was soaked to the skin. We know where to look, so we’ll pick this one up next time we go through Prescott.
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Our final stop of the day wasn’t as successful. Well, it would have been, but things got too wet to continue. This was an easy multi, at the Prescott Harbour. We had no trouble going from one spot to the next, so I’m sure we would have found the cache. But just as we got near the stage, the sky decided to really open up. Luckily we had the stage roof to protect us from that downpour. Several others took shelter there too. Once it was over, and the others were out of sight we let the GPS lead us to the area where the cache is hidden. It turned out to be in some very wet bushes. I did venture in, but decided I’d better get out of there before I was soaked to the skin. We know where to look, so we’ll pick this one up next time we go through Prescott.GC130CM
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