Memorable caching morning in Virginia
Here are a few of our logs for today.
The first two logs were for the same cache
 June 15 by Ma & Pa (7531 found)I was swarmed by the hornets (wasps) who have a nest in the skirt of the light postDangerous situation |
 June 15 by Ma & Pa (7531 found)Claiming find. Lifted skirt and disturbed resident hornets. I raced back to the car but one of them stung me.I suggest archiving. This is a dangerous situation. |
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| June 15 by Ma & Pa (7531 found)True storyMa and Pa look Pa finds Ma returns to car PA takes out pen and pencil and signs log on trunk of car PA notices car pull up behind Pa quickly puts cache back together Pa heads back to cache location with cache in hand. Police car window opens Officer says: Car problems? Pa says: No , We are geocaching. Officer: Geowhat? Pa gives his 10 second geocaching summary and shows the nano cache in his hand. Officer says: I guess there are all kinds of hobbies. Pa explains about caches being all over the US , Canada and the rest of the world and that are many in this area. As he closes his window and starts to drive off, the Police Officer says: Well if I see one, I will give you a call PA replaces cache and returns quickly to car and takes off. At the next cache, Pa notices he has no pen or pencil and realizes he had left them on the trunk of the car at the last cache. Pa drives back to first cache and goes further down the road and locates the pen in the middle of the road. Pencil has yet to be found. ****************
grabbed cache and noticed something moving inside the log bag. It was a big spider. Knocked it out of the bag and emptied other stuff which may have been eggs. signed log and replaced cache and headed quickly to car as the spider seemed to be heading there as well. ******************************* To finish off the moring we went to lunch at Cracker Barrel. After the meal I went to the washroom. I got a shock when i thought there was a spider crawling around my underwear. However it was a tick. Not sure where he was headed, but I got rid of that hitchhiker. |
Light pole skirts seem to be dangerous spots. When markIrene and I were down south, I reached ubder one to grab the cache and got stung by a large angry Mahogany wasp … it was huge and angry. It sat on the skirt and made clicking noises afterwards. I’ve been stung many times, but this was the worse ever. My thumb swelled up and the next finger also… and the cache, which happened to be in my hand at the time, went flying into the bushes, not to be found. Now I try to wear leather workgloves when reaching into spots such as this.