Fun and Games

A classic Flower & Bee taken by Dad, of course, during our geocaching adventures on Saturday, July 12th with Autumn & Leslie.

This cache was hanging on the evergreen tree to Leslie's left at A Nice Walk Cache on Main Street at about 550 North in Farmington.

Here we are finding the Newbury Award Cache at the Farmington City Library. We missed being the FTF (First to Find) by about 45 minutes, darn!

SWAG! On Friday evening July 18th, we decided at the last minute to visit a nearby cache or 2 and drop off a TB (Travel Bug) that we had had for a while. We started by grabbing another trackable, a geocoin named Uncle Jon out of our cache, the Rock Walk, to move it along also. We took its photo and left about 8:15pm. Within the next hour and 15 minutes, we dropped off the coin and the TB, visited 4 caches, picked up a new TB and 3 more geocoins, plus a cute guy in a car and a Lego figure (orange-haired prince?) Talmage we were thinking of you. We believe it's a new record for us! Poor Uncle Jon was only in our possession for about 30 minutes! In the photo above you can see the swag, plus 3 geocoins (Carion Crow, Cockatoo, and Mr. Explorer3's Prague Geocoin), and the Travel Bug named Sam which is a tiny (size 1) hiking boot. One of the caches we visited was called The Snake Farm, because it was close to a swampy pond and had snake grass growing nearby. It also had rubber snakes inside and small packages of rattlesnake eggs! Ha! It was a rather hard one to find because it was in a bunch of big old cottonwood trees and the signal kept jumping around. Also, the way it was hidden...buried in the ground with a 14" in diameter flat rock over the top of it. I just got lucky and turned the rock over for the heck of it and saw the lid to a big plastic jar. The clue was "Australia" which didn't really help until we connected with "the land down under" afterwards. Well, we're pretty proud of ourselves, but now we've got 4 more trackables to move along next weekend!