Its been a while since we went for a hike and even longer since we went after some caches. This morning while we were sitting around being lazy we decided to get our asses off the couch and go for a little jaunt. After taking a peek at geocaching.com we decided to go for a few caches that we hadn't tried for on Isle Madame.
The first cache is in a Provincial picnic Park in Lennox Passage. We had driven past it a few times but had never stopped to see what the park was like. We parked the truck at the gate next to the road and walked in. We followed the road that you would normally drive in on in the summer months but it added to our walk. We came to the trailhead and followed it in. A narrow but well maintained trail very easy to walk on with little clearings along it with picnic tables. We came to the area where the cache should be and started looking around. Previous logs had mentioned about the signal being a little wonky in the area where the cache was and they were right. We searched in the general vicinity for about 25 minutes then called it a did not find (DNF) Martha gets pretty pissed when we can't find a cache and the owners are lucky they can't hear her when we can't find it :-) hehe We really enjoyed the walk even though it was a bit muddy and soggy and Caoimhe decided to be a brat most of the way, thats what we get for not getting her out of the house yesterday. I'll upload the track log for this hike but the other caches we went after were within a couple of hundred meters of the truck. The next geocache we went for was called Celtic Caching on Cap la Ronde. What a beautiful spot this was, going to come back when the weather is a little more pleasant to walk the beach.
The cache was only 50 meters from where we parked but on top of a little hill with a really great view. Its caches like this that keep us interested in the hobby, we may not have ever had a reason to stand on top of that little hill on Isle Madame, and thats the allure of geocaching for me. The next cache was less than a km from this one and we actually saw it from the truck as we pulled up, no view, no reason for it to be there other than another hide for someone to boost their numbers. Its caches like this that bug the hell out of me! hehe The next cache was on Pondville beach down the road about 5 kms. We had been there last spring and really noticed a lot of coastal erosion since then. The cache was in a pretty spot but was not where it was supposed to be, it was on the ground right out in the open and it was full of water which meant the logbook was soaked. Thank goodness my lovely wife got me a "space pen" for my birthday. hehe. It writes in zero gravity, underwater, on wet paper! I like gadgets! Right, back to geocaching. When you come across a geocache that needs a little tlc like this one, when you log on the website you add a needs maintenance log and the owner gets notified that they need to fix up their cache. The last cache we went to was at the head of the Cap Auget Eco Trail. We had hiked this trail not long after we first met. The cache was easily found and we are looking forward to coming back and hiking the trail and getting the 5 caches that are on it. Looking forward to a nice day long hike once the weather is more cooperative. Bye for now!
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