Many geocaches will have this sicker plastered on to inform the "muggles" of what this strange container is.
Last friday, after the husband got home, he took me out for a little geocaching adventure. Time limit: Until sundown (about an hour and a half or so). So off we went, searching for more geocaches around home. By the way, CSUMB is California State University, Monterey Bay.
Note: Due to various reason, I usually won’t state the geocode or name of a particular geocache, as that would make a few of them far too easy.
A card briefly explaining what to do if you find a geocache, and what geocaching is. Many larger caches will have one of these.
A few words on geocaching etiquette.
Cache #1
The first one was just a short drive from home. While not overly challenging, this one will always be one of my favorites. The reason? Very very clever Camo. It was a pinecone. That’s right, a pinecone. Someone actually took a pinecone and drilled a hole just big enough for a log. My mind was blown.
Cache #2
It's always nice to see tiny little naturey areas in the middle of a developed place.
This one was in a spot that was just on the borderline of old buildings and active campus, so there were actually a few vehicles passing through. Tucked away in a small wooded area in a triangle between three roads, there was a geocache that gave a brief history lesson on the area. There wasn’t really a good parking spot near, so we had to hurry and find this one quick, in this tiny, beautiful spot.
Cache #3
The husband needed to head to the little boy’s room, so we decided to head back towards civilization. Unfortunately (Or fotunately, depending on how you look at it. I found it fortunate) we ended up on a long road to nowhere that just happened to have a geocache along it. One that I probably would have never been to otherwise. The Cache description itself even gives a nice litte backstory on the plant it was made for. Neat!
Not all Geocaches are ammo cans or super eloborate containers. Simple but effective containers like this work very well.
Cache #4
After realizing the road we were on was going nowhere, we headed to the nearby shopping complex to find a restroom. And as I sat in the car, I realized there was a geocache right there.
By the shops.
We were parked near REI. So a shop that a lot of Geocachers would have gone to anyways had a cache by it.
I love when businesses play along with stuff like this.
Cache #5
I loved this one. It was under one of the most awesome trees I’ve sene lately, with the branches curving down to form a natural cave like structure. I really should have taken pictures.
Easy find, but one so awesome I felt it worthy of my Lugia coin I got from an old pack of pokemon cards.
Cache #6
Oh god. This one. I was not expecting this. With a 2 star difficulty and a description that merely read “Good Luck,” what was I supposed to think?
I went to the coordinates and saw a container wrapped in green duct tape. I thought to myself “It can’t be this easy.”
It wasn’t.
I opened it only to find a piece of paper telling me that this was a decoy. The real cache was nearby somewhere. So I searched around the area, finding other containers that had the same paper. I found ALL the other decoys and was ready to give up when I decided to go on a gut feeling to one last area.
The cache awaited me there. A freaking Altoids container. Under a bush. What? The decoys got as big as pretzel containers and the smallest was a jam jar, so I figured it would probably be around that size. I was so wrong.
On my way back though, I walked through some very fragrant flowers. There were a ton of these everywhere in that area.
I have no clue what these are, but they smelled woderful.
Cache #7
With my Current Geocaching record of finds in one day being 6, I wanted to get one more to break that, so we pressed on for one more.
Oh god was this one easy. It was a film container sitting on top of a little metal post. The only thing that made this hard was that it was already after dark when we got here.
I’ve got a couple more posts for this weekend filled adventure, so I’ll be posting them soon!
