Caching With Karen & David

We dedided to meet up with Karen and her possible husband-to-be, David, at the Saint Pete Pier to do a little geocaching and just hang out for a while. Here they are on the observation deck, waiting for us to show up.



Ah yes, it looks like it's a nice day for sailing...



Nothing like the 'Captain' and the 'First Mate' standing at the rail and getting a bad case of "Remember Whens".



Hey! That's a Zoltar machine just like in the movie "BIG"! I wonder if we made a wish, would it come true? Probably not...



Katrina just had to try out the hurricane booth. For 2 dollars you get to stand in the middle of a 78 MPH windstorm. Looks like it might be a little loud in there.



Ok, it's about time we did some geocaching. So, the GPS took us to this spot and now what? Something about 13, I think...



Well, if you turn the coin-operated binoculars to position 13 on the base ring, you will get a picture of this. So, what does that mean? Oh well, guess we need to look for other caches instead.



So, here we are, over by Tony Jannus' monument, and David picked this one up. Nothing like a 35mm container in a palm tree. A spot like that is called a "Florida Hide". Nice backdrop.



Here is the monument and the reason why this geocache was placed here. Something of a, "Hey guys, look at this!"



The next set of coordinates took us to a park with a fountain nearby. Karen was certain that the container had to be hidden somewhere on one of these park benches. You can see she is operating in full stealth mode and not making any moves or committing any actions that might make the public suspicious of her activities...



Taa-Daa! Katrina found it attached to a different park bench. We all signed the log sheet, Karen dropped off the cool coin and we dropped the Gecko pendant in the tin.



And this is why the geocache (which had been here for some time) was placed here. Apparently, the fountain (which wasn't running when we got there) was commissioned in 1976. Remember, you can click on most of the images in this blog to see a larger version of them, and to read what the plaques and monumants say.



After checking the GPS and not finding anything nearby, Karen wanted to continue pursuing the one we started to hunt on The Pier. It seems that the picture we took at the coin-operated binoculars gave us a pretty good idea where to go (yeah, about a mile away). When we arrived, there was this Great Blue Heron, fishing for his dinner.



The gecocache we were looking for said something about reflectors, so we figured this must be the spot. Besides, the heron was kinda pointing the way for us...



So I walked out on the seawall... and found nothing.



Then I climbed on this concrete drain-thingy... and found nothing. No matter where we looked, we just couldn't seem to spot the thing. Oh well, we tried...



So we called it quits for the day. After checking on the internet, it looks like we were right on the spot for the geocache, but since we weren't willing to get our feet wet, we didn't find the container. We know where it is, now we have to go back out and get it... some day.