Let's Go Geocaching!!! Part 3

Well here we are. Wrapping up the tale of my first 114 geocaches. As I mentioned at the end of Part 2 I don't take enough geocaching photos so this post is mostly stories with a few photos from find #100 and some from our most recent outing.

After our trip around Stettler in May we did a few small trips. Find #75 was found during a fun full family cache trip into Three Hills on May 29th. We found 9 that day. It was a lot of fun as mommy aka Kraezy came with us. We found geocaches hidden in hollow bricks, an antique CAT machine, a hollowed out pine cone. We found them hidden in trees, under trees, on the sides of buildings and at a hospital. Over all it was just a fun relaxing day seeing parts of a nearby town we hadn't seen before.

Just two days later, May 31st, I took two of my children and a friend of theirs on a geocache and picnic adventure in the badlands of Alberta. We found 6 more that day. Highlights of the trip were having a picnic over looking Dinosaur Valley, finding a geocache filled with hockey cards, and getting to walk across a little creek on bridge we built out of logs.

That wrapped up the month of may with a total of 65 caches found that month. I plan to beat that this month.

In the first two weeks I did a couple of quick 3 or 4 cache trips and quickly found myself with 97 found geocaches. I wanted to do something special for find #100 so I hit the brakes and started planning what to do. Originally I was going to find #100 in Saskatchewan while visiting my sister. Unfortunately the trip was canceled and I had to make other plans. We were invited to a family birthday party a couple hours north of us over the Canada Day weekend. How could I make a trip and not cache??? So I started looking for a cache suitably memorable for my 100th find. After browsing google earth a while I came upon a lake not to far north of their house called Islet Lake. It hade a big island in the middle with 3 geocaches on it. It would require a good paddle out and some serious bush whacking once we landed. PERFECT! I called my Dad and told him we needed a canoe and he was helping me find some serious caches. Turns out my Aunt and Uncle we were staying with had a canoe we could borrow. Once their I talked a cousin from PEI into joining us and we set off.

 The intrepid explorers preparing to set off!

Cache #100 "Cast Away" I hadn't really caught on to the name on the way here. But as soon as I saw it I started laughing like mad which led Mike and Dad right to the cache.

 Wilson, me, and Mike!

Dad a little tuckered out ;)

And apparently ready to head back to civilization with or without us!

Take us home Mike!

Wilson awaits you at the pine tree growing off the side of my head! Go find him!

I was excited to find #100 and having my Dad and Mike with me will make a memory I will never forget.

Riding the wave of my #100 excitement I took the kids caching today and found 14 caches in less than 2 hours today. It was a blast. Super warm and sunny out with some excitement thrown in. Not to mention finding a cache that I had to DNF once due to lack of searching skill. A great day all around.

 I did promise some excitement. We crossed it three times in our van!

Brenna on the hunt in the deep grass.

Victory!!!

Matthew is taking point.

Over here? Nope!

The spoils and the treasure!

Andy figures that when you geocache you should were camouflage. Why?? I don't know. Maybe so the caches don't see him coming and he can catch them unprepared.

Hmm... I think I see something.

I can't see the cache... Or the cacher!

Andy and his find!

There is a cache in this photo. Can yo see it. Hint.... The kids can not see it.

The kids on the Three Hills. Maybe not the official three hills of Three Hills but still.

And that brings us to cache #114. I hope to do better at taking more pictures and recording more specific stories of the excitement and all the cute things the kids do. Until the next cache...