Karen & I Went Geocaching

Since everybody else was having fun, we decided to have our own brand of fun too.

We went to J.B. Starkey Park, which has about 40 caches within its 1600 acres. Here is the first container we found. Pretty easy, huh?

For the next one, we dropped off this keychain fob, which is a stuffed animal head of 'Roo', from Winnie The Pooh. We have a bunch of these from a keyfob collection that my Mom had. We are slowly dropping them off in geocaches so kids can enjoy them.

This one was a bit tougher for us to get to because we had to scale a barbed-wire fence (thanks to a fallen tree across it).

This one was full of recipe cards to trade with and for. It was neat to see some of the hand-written recipes that our fellow seekers had left in the container.

Now this one was found by Karen while she was talking on the phone. Here I was, balancing on a log right over it trying to find it and she pointed to something on the ground and says; "There it is!" I should have waited for her to find it so I didn't have to do my circus act on the log.

We just love ammo boxes, you never know what you might find in one.

This looks like a great place to drop off a 'Hello Kitty' keychain fob.

For this one, we had to go hacking through the underbrush, only to discover that this marshy stream was blocking the way. A beautiful view, but not a fun way to go...

We checked the depth with a stick and it's about a waist deep stream of tannen-stained, brown 'goodness'.

At first we considered crossing this natural bridge, but it didn't look stable enough to prevent us from going, "Splash!"

As we were hiking through the environs, Karen picked up this stick, 'just in case'. Well, you can take the girl out of Miami...
By the way, that's the stick we used as a depth gauge to see if we could possibly make a water crossing.

Yeah, real pretty, but it's smack in the way of our finding a cache!

Well, we called it quits and looked for a couple of other caches. When we got to the geocaching zone (GZ), we saw this white tailed deer. This is a blurry shot of the deer's hindquarters.

We also came across a couple of armadillos too.

Ahhh, the final cache of the day. The sun is starting to give way and we only have a few minutes to get out of the park before the rangers lock us in for the night.

Time to go!