26/08: Out for a Drive and a bit of Geocaching
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
Ed's GPS has being doing weird things occasionally for a long time. Last week it got down right ornery and when things Ed owns get ornery they get replaced (that is everything except for me (at least so far)). So guess arrived for Ed yesterday ---- yup a brand new GPS and guess what I have --- yup a used somewhat ornery GPS.
It was a beautiful day for a drive, so we grabbed the GPS's and hopped into the Miata and drove north.
After a nice lunch at Elsie's diner in Owen Sound we went looking for geocaches.
One of the caches was in the back corner of the Cobble Beach development. Tree stumps along the road way were carved.
Another a cache was at this cute parkette.
The view from the parkette taken with Ed's new GPS. Yes it has a built in camera and a flashlight. It actually takes pretty good photos.
This park didn't have a cache ... we just stopped to enjoy the view.
It's not very often (in fact only the 2nd time that we know of) that a geocache was placed on private property without the property owner's permission. We stopped at the side of a road and walked along the road pondering how we were going to get at a geocache which appeared to be on a trail but was down a step hill. A women appeared and asked if we were looking for the waterfalls --- we said yes and we were also looking for a geocache. Her response was "I told them to remove that geocache a few years ago". She was very nice and showed us the path by her house that leads to the waterfalls. Turns out the trail that my map shows is just west of the road actually runs along the road. Think some trail markers need to be placed along the road to make it clear.
The waterfalls.
Ed retrieved the cache and gave it to the property owner and he e-mailed the cache owner indicating that the cache had been removed. The property owner invited us to stay and have a drink. We had a nice visit and got to meet the resident chipmunk.
This guy is very brave and happily runs up legs, runs across laps and sits on laps to get peanuts. He takes three peanuts and stuffs them in his mouth before disappearing to hide them in a safe place. He's back in a couple of minutes wanting more.
It was a beautiful day for a drive, so we grabbed the GPS's and hopped into the Miata and drove north.
After a nice lunch at Elsie's diner in Owen Sound we went looking for geocaches.
One of the caches was in the back corner of the Cobble Beach development. Tree stumps along the road way were carved.
Another a cache was at this cute parkette.
The view from the parkette taken with Ed's new GPS. Yes it has a built in camera and a flashlight. It actually takes pretty good photos.
This park didn't have a cache ... we just stopped to enjoy the view.
It's not very often (in fact only the 2nd time that we know of) that a geocache was placed on private property without the property owner's permission. We stopped at the side of a road and walked along the road pondering how we were going to get at a geocache which appeared to be on a trail but was down a step hill. A women appeared and asked if we were looking for the waterfalls --- we said yes and we were also looking for a geocache. Her response was "I told them to remove that geocache a few years ago". She was very nice and showed us the path by her house that leads to the waterfalls. Turns out the trail that my map shows is just west of the road actually runs along the road. Think some trail markers need to be placed along the road to make it clear.
The waterfalls.
Ed retrieved the cache and gave it to the property owner and he e-mailed the cache owner indicating that the cache had been removed. The property owner invited us to stay and have a drink. We had a nice visit and got to meet the resident chipmunk.
This guy is very brave and happily runs up legs, runs across laps and sits on laps to get peanuts. He takes three peanuts and stuffs them in his mouth before disappearing to hide them in a safe place. He's back in a couple of minutes wanting more.