Cache Slam for Saturday

After waking up, eating breakfast and taking the laundry to the “wash n fluff” I went “CACHING”! I picked two caches on different sides of town so it would be a learning experience. The first was SW down by FSU campus and the other was on Thomasville Road (61) to the NE.

I did not take any pictures of the first cache but I should have – the area was good and no spiders or other biting or poison things (like IVY). I carefully lifted the cache cover and then picked up the cache container – walla, something sort of large went into a hole very quickly – and a big spider or something (scorpion?) disappeared into a hole immediately. Carefully, I opened the cache and signed the log -taking nothing and leaving nothing – re-sealed it and put it into the hole and re-covered it.

The second cache at Betton Road (at Mitchel?) Cemetery was relatively easy but was interesting and worth the visit. A sign at the entrance tells the story of this small plot. The cache was not hidden well and I made a photo of it, logged the find and re-covered it better than found. After that I looked at the grave sites (only a few markers exist and most of those were after 1900 and ended near 1945. I took a picture of one headstone that was inscribed by hand – one can only imagine the life story of the deceased and the inscriber – what a story that would make.

Thus ends my geocaching day. Tomorrow more adventure awaits the intrepid hunter(s). I think I have a budding cacher in the grooming so we may hit the road for the Southern Coast to find a real hard one.

Long Week

Here we are with Labor Day weekend approaching – summer lake season will be officially over on Monday and I think I used the boat once this summer. Man, time does fly.

This week was a long one with an average of 12 hour days. This means driving constantly for 12 hours and logging about 275 miles. The average mph is pretty slow due to the remote areas and condition of the roads once found. We did take just a few minutes to take some pictures of one rural site and a cemetary (Bell Cemetery) we came across way out in the wilderness at the end of a no name road in no man’s land. It was time for a break & pit stop so we just took a few pictures during this short respite. The family seemed to be short lived as there were a lot of young people in here. Shortly after leaving the road was blocked by a fallen tree which I had to move. Just after the previous picture was taken a spider (looked like a recluse to me) ran across my hand – man, did I jump.