A Great Day

We started off this morning with our monthly breakfast. Another great gathering of wonderful people who share this strange passion with us. We had a huge collection of coins to discover thanks to kayakerinme from Maine and the usual stories, geo-tales and the camaraderie of cachers from  Antigonish and Guysborough Co, NS, Saint John, Maine and our local area. It was a great turnout with 38 people and another wonderful breakfast.

We went to a cache of ours that has a bit of a gag to it after the breakfast. We’ve never actually been there when someone has found it but we had the chance today. Team BikeFast was with us for this one and Dorothy unknowingly went along with it, and with great sportsmanship, found and opened the cache. It was hilarious and we all had a good laugh, Dorothy included. I think they may have heard us all the way across the river.

We then headed to our personal nemesis “VOLCANO!” (GC9522). We have tried to find this cache 3 different times before – May ’08, Oct ’08 and Sept ’09. This is a great cache. It’s on Currie Mountain which is volcanic in origin and has some nice trails up and around it. It’s also one of the few bits of old-growth forests left in NB. The cache is up the side of the mountain, off a trail. The mountainside is littered with deadfall, new and many years old, and lots of protruding and upturned rocks. The hint is “hollow” which normally is a great help. But there are so many dead and fallen trees and so much rock that there is a hollow spot every 10 inches!

The frustrating part is that between all of our attempts others have found the dang thing with no problem! We just couldn’t seem to find it. I think it was a case of trying too hard and not seeing the forest for the trees – no pun intended. Today, with 6 pairs of eyes, after about 45 minutes of searching we found it. Kayakerinme spotted it first and let the rest of us look until we all spotted it. It was in an easy to spot , obvious place. I do not know how we missed it once, let alone 3 times. It was such a relief though to finally cross that one off our list.   

We then headed back across the river to a cache Sportsman placed in December called Garden Creek Falls (GC22DAP). It’s a wonderful little spot with a beautiful waterfall. The water was running strong today and it was one of those caches where you say, “this is what it’s all about”. 

We grabbed a few more on the way home but today was about quality, not quantity…and enjoying the day with great people. We topped it off with dinner out with Terry’s daughter and her boyfriend, to celebrate her 25th birthday.

It doesn’t get much better than that. 🙂