More Treasure Hunting

We wanted to get the kids out of the house for awhile yesterday afternoon, so we went searching for a few more geocaches. This time we ran across a couple that we couldn't find. We think one was in an overgrown wooded area that was all soggy due to all the recent rain. We'll try looking for that one again when the weather improves.


The most clever hide yesterday was a cache that was a sprinkler head, hidden in the green space of a neighborhood. The sprinkler head pulled apart and a small log was inside. It was the only sprinkler head in that area - the green space wasn't watered - but it was still difficult to find. We're still a little uncertain about pulling things up/out/apart. If it's not the cache, we could be vandalizing something!


One cache was hidden in the bottom of a lamp post in the middle of a parking lot in a very busy shopping strip. Although it was easy for us to find using the coordinates, it was difficult to be discreet about it! Really, very little is discreet with 8 and 6 year olds.


One hunt really stood out yesterday, though. The name of the geocache was called Excalibur. (The name is usually some type of clue.) Apparently the guy who owns this property is an avid geocacher. He really put a lot of time and thought into this hide.


As you can see, the coordinates led us to a giant rock by the drive. The rock had a sword in it. It also had a plaque that had nothing to do with anything. Here is a close up of the sign. We thought that was amusing.

















There was a treasure chest behind the rock. Inside the chest was a long rope and more instructions. The instructions indicated the rope should be looped around the sword. The treasure could be found by walking the exact radius of the circle, using the sword as the middle point.

















The kids stretched out the rope and walked. Tyler walked a little outside the circle and checked a patch of weeds, where he found a box. Inside that box was a note that said they weren't walking the exact radius of the circle and to keep trying.








They continued walking and found the cache inside a culvert on the other side of the drive. The kids exchanged some unopened Happy Meal toys for some trinkets, and we signed the log. We had a lot of fun with that hunt!

















And check out the guy's house. That's a giant water slide on the right side of the picture!! Ron has decided he wants to live there when he grows up. :)