Pictures Of 'Stuff' Coming Soon

I've been sorting through the pictures we've been taking of our latest escapades, and almost have everything ready for posting.
[And here they are...]

When Luann visited both our families in Arizona, she introduced the AZ Nieborgs to geocaching. This was their second jaunt, after having found complete success on their first find.

This is the first cache-site where Kevin came across the container before Luann could even start using her GPS.
On the way out of AZ, Luann dropped off 2 travel bugs into this monster cache container. It sure is one of the most secure caches in town.

Back home in Tampa, we walked through many a beautiful hammock or stand of trees while searching for our goals. To us, that's what geocaching is about, getting out in nature, getting some exercise and discovering things that cause us to remark, "I didn't know that!"

This cache-site had us beach combing at a place where the planes that are landing at Tampa airport are skimming over our heads at about 500 feet.

On one of our treks through the underbrush, we came across this mushroom, pushing its way up off the forest floor.

One thing you do have to be careful of while geocaching in Florida, is the bugs and such. I wouldn't want to come 'face-to-face' with this spider in its web...

Here we are at Lettuce Lake Park, looking for another cache hidden by this bridge. You can see me trying to extract a stable reading from the GPS unit in my hand.

We also went geocaching with the Brewsters, Melissa who is a good friend of Katrina's, recently moved back down from Connecticut for a while. Her family is also bitten by the geocaching bug, and here is Melissa and her brother Phillip, (while their mother is taking pictures) looking for a little bottle hidden somewhere around this tree. (Hey guys, what about looking in the middle of the tree?)

On the way to work one morning, Jaime and I stopped and found a tiny bottle carefully concealed somewhere around this giant camphor tree. This thing is super-old and is 10-feet across.

We went to this nature preserve right after work on a Friday to go looking for a cache that was hidden there and were blessed with a view of this beautiful sunset.

On one 'hunting expedition', we came across this falcon perched in the tree and eating a lizard he had just swooped down and picked up off of the bicycle path we were on.

This is a rest station of a bicycle trail that held several caches which we took advantage of as we held a 10-cache bicycle trail marathon one Saturday morning.

This marble monument was placed to memorialize people whom died in WWI. We drove by this 'thing' every day for years. It took the desire to find a geocache to motivate us into investigating this memorial. Now we look at it differently when we drive by.

This cache was along a seawall on Davis Island. We looked for 3 different caches on the island. We were in no big rush, and as such, we watched a cruise ship go slowly by on its way out of the Port of Tampa.

This sculpture is planted in an island in the middle of the road, with a plaque. We may have not found the cache, but we did find out a bunch about the artist...

This big-ole bucket was found on my recent trip to Tennessee. It was fun finding 11 cache sites while I was there.

There are actually 2 caches located nearby, one behind me by about 200 feet, with another one near that bridge in the distance. I got both of them while I was here.

This lone tree has a cache hanging from it. Its actually right next to an exercise club, and required extraordinary stealth for me to remove the travel bug inside, named: Uncle Buddy.

This cache site has a bird blind set up so you can get some birdsead from the wooden box on the far side and then you can put it in the bird feeders on the other side of the blind. It's amazing to see the variety of birds that came by while I was there.

This is a very small sample of the many pictures we have taken and as of this writing, we have found 75 different cache-sites. We are honestly enjoying ourselves with this new and interesting hobby.

Note to Jody: We finally received the item to create your travel bug and hope to launch it soon. We are looking for a small jewel-case to protect it with before placing it in a cache in Tampa.