Heya...
Alright so my boyfriend introduced me to this crazy thing called Geocaching. All you need is a handheld GPS, a pen, some swag and a loss of all common sense! In other words... I love it!
So my new handheld garmin arrives surprisingly yesterday and today was my day off. So I thought here we go. I sent some waypoints to my handheld, dropped off my co-workers and I set off. At first the weather agreed with me... I set off to find a first of many caches called Rainbow Red. (yes there are all colors hiding in different places in Titusville. They have extra clues to lead you to the mother cache...Pot O Gold) It's lunch time at the park and there are quite a few other people there, but they get out of my way long enough for me to start looking. Now mind you I have a really VAGUE idea of what I am looking for. I look.... I look.... after about 15 minutes I realized I have acquired an audience of a couple having lunch and another group of three just bluntly staring at me. So I decide this is not the place to find my first cache.
I set off to Paul's Smokehouse to find the cache titled Rusty's Bull. I figure I know where this one is where is without even looking and sure enough when I get there, I look briefly and I find it. Way in the bush....covered in ants.... they look like fire ants. So I am standing there close to the highway at a closed restaurant's sign. Pretty much looking like an idiot. So I decide this is not the place to find my first cache.
I still have weather on my side so I decide to go to a four way stop where there is two hidden so geocaching.com has told my garmin. So after getting lost in suburbia hell trying to find a path to this lake, I finally decide to pull over to the side of the road and just go for it. Sure enough, it starts to pour. Boo
I know you are saying... "where does all this insanity end?!"
After it stopped raining and I picked up my co-workers. I finally got the car again to try a place at Sand Point Park. Claims easy in-easy find and the park closes in a half an hour! So I figure piece of cake. Nope. So now it's dusk and I am wandering around a park mumbling to myself and looking for a cache the size of my head. No luck. It got too dark before I could find anything.
So instead of admitting defeat and calling it a day. No... No...not this girl I am determined and stubborn. I go back to Rusty's Bull and I say screw you fire ants and I reach into the bush full of ants and grab the container I think is the cache.
I have to say even as I picked up and shook the ants off ...I didn't think it was it. It was too easy!
But I came this far.... I peeled off the top and inside was the piece of paper for me to sign!! I had found the cache!!! I was so proud of myself hehehehe I am not gonna lie.
I signed that paper and took Moose's picture with it and got the heck out before I was bitten!!
Yay! I am sure tomorrow I will be doing it again!
Here is some fun pictures of Moose.
Love,
Kendra
Alright so my boyfriend introduced me to this crazy thing called Geocaching. All you need is a handheld GPS, a pen, some swag and a loss of all common sense! In other words... I love it!
So my new handheld garmin arrives surprisingly yesterday and today was my day off. So I thought here we go. I sent some waypoints to my handheld, dropped off my co-workers and I set off. At first the weather agreed with me... I set off to find a first of many caches called Rainbow Red. (yes there are all colors hiding in different places in Titusville. They have extra clues to lead you to the mother cache...Pot O Gold) It's lunch time at the park and there are quite a few other people there, but they get out of my way long enough for me to start looking. Now mind you I have a really VAGUE idea of what I am looking for. I look.... I look.... after about 15 minutes I realized I have acquired an audience of a couple having lunch and another group of three just bluntly staring at me. So I decide this is not the place to find my first cache.
I set off to Paul's Smokehouse to find the cache titled Rusty's Bull. I figure I know where this one is where is without even looking and sure enough when I get there, I look briefly and I find it. Way in the bush....covered in ants.... they look like fire ants. So I am standing there close to the highway at a closed restaurant's sign. Pretty much looking like an idiot. So I decide this is not the place to find my first cache.
I still have weather on my side so I decide to go to a four way stop where there is two hidden so geocaching.com has told my garmin. So after getting lost in suburbia hell trying to find a path to this lake, I finally decide to pull over to the side of the road and just go for it. Sure enough, it starts to pour. Boo
I know you are saying... "where does all this insanity end?!"
After it stopped raining and I picked up my co-workers. I finally got the car again to try a place at Sand Point Park. Claims easy in-easy find and the park closes in a half an hour! So I figure piece of cake. Nope. So now it's dusk and I am wandering around a park mumbling to myself and looking for a cache the size of my head. No luck. It got too dark before I could find anything.
So instead of admitting defeat and calling it a day. No... No...not this girl I am determined and stubborn. I go back to Rusty's Bull and I say screw you fire ants and I reach into the bush full of ants and grab the container I think is the cache.
I have to say even as I picked up and shook the ants off ...I didn't think it was it. It was too easy!
But I came this far.... I peeled off the top and inside was the piece of paper for me to sign!! I had found the cache!!! I was so proud of myself hehehehe I am not gonna lie.
I signed that paper and took Moose's picture with it and got the heck out before I was bitten!!
Yay! I am sure tomorrow I will be doing it again!
Here is some fun pictures of Moose.
Love,
Kendra
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