Science Fun

This week ended up being a mixed bag week in the weather department and in the geocaching department. As far as the weather, we were going from one extreme to the other. This past Sunday was sunny and cool, Monday was nice in the day and then showers at night, and some snow. By the end of the week, we headed to the 80s and sunny.

In the geocaching realm, I had one ‘find’ and one ‘did not find’. The ‘find’ was last Sunday when I did the Rails Trails cache – a nice ¾ mile walk each way along an old abandoned railroad bed, that has been turned into hiking trails and a community park with baseball field at the beginning. The trail is well maintained and locating the cache was easy – the coordinates from the GPS were right on. From the surrounding marshlands, I see this is going to be a ‘buggy’ walk once all of the creepy crawling creatures start buzzing around (black flies, mosquitoes, deer flies).

The ‘did not find’ adventure was my second attempt for a cache called ‘Cache and Carrie’. The original version of the cache, I found, then it was muggled and the owner replaced it. Several weeks ago, I headed off to find the new hide and was not able to locate it. There were five of us doing the search. In recent weeks, there were activities in the log, so, my friend and I headed off again to attempt it – after continued searching, we ended up with a ‘did not find’! What makes this cache worth going after (and we will do it again) is the walk through an enchanted or haunted forest – tall, eerie looking pines that are planted in rows – it is a neat place to explore. It is dark and cool in this forest and nothing grows on the floor of the forest due to all of the pine needles. The thick canopy of the pines, keeps it cool and dark – makes for a nice place in the summer and would make for a great haunted place during Halloween.

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