Took a little break from working on the house to get it ready to sell. Have been stripping and varnishing stairs and handrails and the fumes were getting to me, so what better to do on a 70 degree day but go geocaching!!
Went to Harbison Forest State Park here in Columbia. I had already done a few in this park, but still needed a few more. I think after today, I still have six more I need to get and two are puzzles caches, so they might get left behind. (smile) Ended up close to some caches I had already gotten, so decided to stop and check on them to make sure they were still covered and dry.
One of the caches I went to today had a really great idea. They put a State Quarter book in the cache for everyone to bring a state quarter to fill up this book and then when the book is filled, it will be donated to a certain group. The cache still had regular swag to trade also. Might have to do something like this after my move to 'Bama and maybe donate it to a local women's shelter or something. I put six coins in that weren't already in there and then traded a swag item too.
Another one I had today was setup kind of like one that I have hidden out on an island on the lake where I live. It is hung in a tree by a rope and then the rope was tethered across a few other trees and then tied. It was off the trail, so the rope and cache couldn't be seen, but most people don't walk around looking in the air anyway. It was quite a chore trying to get it down by myself. It's almost a two man cache. (smile)
These were the only two new ones I did today and I checked on three others that I was passing closeby on the way to these caches. I still have four that I want to get before I leave here that are in this same park along the riverbank. For those I will take the bike because it would be a long haul. I ended up walking around five miles today, but it was leisure walking and not fast paced at all.
I'm not sure of my count of caches I've found right now, but I know I'm getting close to the 150 mark. Will have to remember to check it before my next posting.
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Oh boy, can't imagine how quickly your number of caches found will increase when you move and aren't working 9-to-5!
Maybe 500 by the end of the year? (laughing) There are a lot of park and grab micros close to where I'm moving so that will rack them up.
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