I spent a good four and a half hours on Saturday hiding geocaches out in rural New Brunswick. I had originally intended to hide them all along highway 126 every one kilometer. I decided against that since it was kind of boring to go in one single long line with very little to see. I found a pile of back roads that had few caches so I figured I would hide them back there.
I managed to get 58 caches hidden and have 45 remaining. My plan is to finish the hiding this weekend (it being a long weekend and all) and hopefully have the whole series published by the middle of next week.
There are 100 regular caches in the series, but 14 of them have special clues in them. Using the 14 clues, you can solve two puzzle caches which I have also hidden. Those two puzzle caches actually have clues in them as well which you combine with information obtained in another cache to solve a third puzzle cache. That third puzzle cache will be the hardest to solve since you need to figure out which of the 100 caches has the clues, find the two puzzles, then solve the third puzzle cache puzzle to find the third puzzle cache. I’m not normally one for hiding puzzle caches but I wanted to make this series of caches even more interesting.
Now on to the interesting things that came up during my caching day.
Although it’s hard to see in the picture, I found this skeleton/ribcage in the middle of a field near where I hid one of the caches. It looks like it’s been there awhile. It was probably about a foot and a half from one end to the other but definitely weird to find in the woods.
I also passed two fire trucks and a cop car while near Elgin. When I finally got out of the car shortly thereafter to hide a cache, I could smell the smoke/burning. I didn’t see any fire but I did see what the fireman were looking at and it sort of looked burned down but not quite. Not sure what the fuss was about.
However, as I was trying to find a tree to hide a cache, a cop car pulled up and stopped his cruiser beside my car (which was parked on the side of the road) and set off his siren. He was obviously looking for me so I came running out of the woods waving my hands and he told me something to the effect that I shouldn’t park my car there. I told him I would only be a couple of minutes and then he took off. He must have assumed I was answering the call of nature because he didn’t ask me anything else. I was somewhat glad as I didn’t really want to get into the explanation about geocaching. Not that I was doing anything wrong but sometimes it’s hard to explain to non-cachers.
I finished my day around noon hiding one more piece of the puzzle clues and then headed home. I didn’t want to be out all day. My plan is to hopefully finish hiding all of the regulars this week/weekend and the puzzles I can hide anytime this week since they will be relatively close to where I live.
It’s an extra long weekend for me as I have next Monday booked off work. That makes for a four day weekend and two four day work weeks which are good. April 5th me and Tamara are taking the afternoon for us and doing a little bit of geocaching together for a change. There’s a pile of caches down by the Rocks that I’d like to get and we’re going to take a spin down to Cape Enrage and grab a few there. The weekend of the 10th I will be in Fredericton overnight. The plan is to spend the better part of Saturday at the Fredericton geocaching events and do some major caching, then crash at the hotel, get up and go to breakfast, then come home.
Caching season is definitely in full swing now so it will be nice to get out and about!
