A couple of days ago, I went out to a park to look for a cache. It was a return visit; a few weeks ago, my caching daughter and I went out for an FTF, and the cache wasn’t there. A few other cachers made the same attempt and noted the same deficiency. The CO finally noticed and put a cache where it was supposed to be. It sat for a while, most likely because nobody wanted to try it again (the other cachers live farther away than they probably wanted to travel for it). I swung by and saw a wire in a giant knothole, and at the end of the wire was a cache. Almost a month after first attempting it, I signed the log—another FTF in the books. I only wish my daughter could have been here to get it with me.
Oddly enough, I may be spending a little more time in that park. While heading to another cache contained therein, I happened upon an interesting spot for an EarthCache. I’ve never placed one before, so this is new territory for me. Earth science is hardly my thing; I always considered myself a physicist or astronomer, which I’m pretty sure are fields almost diametrically opposed to it. But now I find myself in the position of having to learn about creekside restoration and wetland vegetation.
I’ve been thinking about placing some new hides in some nearby neighborhoods. There are some office parks that haven’t been saturated with caches yet, and the shopping center where I found one of my first caches is empty. I’m thinking about putting a challenge series in the shopping center (I could easily fit six caches around the edge of it) and perhaps a gadget cache or two in the office parks. I don’t feel there are enough gadgets around here, but I don’t complain because keeping a simple, no-muss-no-fuss Traditional can be a pain sometimes, much less something intricate or highly involved.
HQ announced themes for caches yesterday. The first theme is frogs. I am now racking my brains to create a cache based on the play by Aristophanes.
That’s it. That’s all I got.
Geocaching While Black 