Unique Urban Cache

I figured out where this one was likely to be quite some time ago, but this was the first real opportunity I had to actually find it. I had Ryan with me, and since he was with Daddy when Daddy found this cache, he had a hard time keeping quiet about where this was. This is such a neat idea for a cache, and definitely one of my favorites!


After finding this one, we went and picked up Abby, and the three of us walked around downtown for a while where we saw a couple of statues.

Wow!

This was the first Premium Members cache that we've attempted to find, and it is a great cache! This was a difficult puzzle to solve, but after that the cache was extraordinarily easy to find...there's no hiding this one!


Inside we found the biggest travel bug I've ever seen, along with some of the coolest loot ever placed in a cache. We knew this was going to be big, so we brought along a large swag item (an obnoxiously noisy front loader) which we traded for a pretty Winnie the Pooh ball.

Part Two

This may be my all-time favorite cache, though Port of St. Helens is a close contender. I don't know if it was thrill of finding it after looking for so long or the totally cool container the owners went to so much trouble to build, but this is a terrific cache! The bonus was finding our first Jeep travel bug, and a red one to boot.

Part One

Though it isn't listed as a multi-cache, the second cache we wanted to find this morning depended on finding the first one. It was quick a long walk for the kids, about three miles round trip, but it was beautiful! I was glad we had two GPSrs with us today because I kept losing the signal on ours, but our borrowed one held on to it better. This could have been really difficult, but I found it fairly quickly using my geosenses. I love these kind of cleverly hidden caches!

No Picture

I totally forgot to take a picture after we found this cache, but it is one of my favorites! I may go back and take a picture of the actual cache, just to show some of my muggle friends how cleverly a cache can be hidden if someone takes the time and thought to do it.

Three-Star Difficulty

This was the first of several covered bridges we saw today and two had caches hidden in them. However, even with the hint and reading all the logs, this was a difficult one to find. We searched and searched and almost gave up.


Ed took the kids down to the river below and tried to catch the big fish we saw lurking in the shallows. While they were occupied I hunted and hunted, finally rechecking where west is on our GPS. Once I moved to the correct side of the bridge, I found the neat micro fairly quickly. This was my first three-star cache to find, I think.

Who Knew?

This cache ended up being really interesting. It was a fairly easy find (with the hint, that is), but the history was what was the best thing. I guess when they expanded Highway 30, they took it right through a cemetary. They must have had to exume some bodies, I assume, but when they did for some reason they didn't relocate 11 of the graves. They are still on the other side of the highway across from the cemetary.


The ground slopes here, and from the highway you'd never know these people were here. Who knows why they left just the eleven and didn't move them along with the rest, but here they lie almost forgotten. I'm glad I now know they're here, though it's sad that the road just ran right through the cemetary.

Memorial Day Cache

We thought this cache might have too many muggles since it was Memorial Day Weekend, but there was no one there when we arrived at dusk today. This was our last cache of the day, and it was my favorite of the day! I love this person's hides, always very clever, and this one was too. I found it fairly quickly, and that gave us some time to look at the memorial and appreciate those who have fought and died for our country. Nice memorial and fun cache!

Friendly Cache

It feels really awkward hunting for a cache that's hidden on someone's property instead of a park or hiking trail, but we knew that this person was a friendly geocacher, so we hunted away. I thought it would be a bit easier to find, but it was such a clever cache that we just kept walking right over it. Finally, the owner of the house came out to encourage us. He said he didn't want us to give up and leave without finding it, especially since we were so close. At last I found it! The kids played on the sidewalk while we chatted a bit. It was nice to meet another geocacher, and his hide was very clever indeed!

Close to Home

This one was much harder to find than our first, and we didn't find it on our first try. However, on our second attempt of the day, we did finally locate this clever little cache. It's not far from home, and I think it will be one of my favorites just because it was so well camouflaged.