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Another weekend day for Geocaching! The weather was absolutely beautiful today – not too hot and very sunny with no TB’s or rain: I guess since Scott went home it turned nice.

I did three caches today – two were successful and the third was a scouting mission since the lake levels are so high. This scouted one is on the opposite shore from the Little Big Dog Cache of yesterday but is much too wet to try without waterproof boots and I do not have boots. I did log a find at the Goose Pond Cache & Recycled Road (a virtual cache).

The Recycled Road cache is a interesting road that is paved with an item in a house that is replaced every decade or so ( I cannot tell since someone might visit this site trying to find the answer). To get to this cache you follow Miccosukee Road from Tallahassee via a canopy road that is very beautiful and the speed limit is 45 MPH so you can enjoy the road: The site is way out in the country and is quite rural Florida in nature. There are a lot of plantations on the way.

Goose Pond cache was much more of a challenge and the way was full of woods spiders and poison ivy: I wore long pants and long sleeve shirt plus bug spray. The biggest spider I encountered had a 4-5′ diameter web and was about 3″ in diameter and was reminiscent of a Indiana Corn Spider found in corn fields. The cache itself was normal looking once I homed in on it – the GPS took me to within about 50′ and then I had to hunt and peck. That got me real close and the clue of a crack in the tree put me there. Here is the cache box after I re-hid it.

Enough of the tales and trails for today. Hope you found it interesting enough to read the whole thing….BFN.