This spring marked an uptick in geocaching from kayaks as Pat and I bought a pair. This interest was sparked originally by Mackie’s Paddle Me cache series place on Eel Lake back in 2007. In January of this year, Mr. Copper offered to take Bad Duck and I out in his kayaks to find caches at the mouth of the Umpqua River. That day whetted our appetite for getting our own kayaks. In March, Bad Duck and I spent a day on Eel Lake with Mr. Coppers yaks picking off those Mackie caches, although Darren had already found them in 2008….albeit in a much tougher water craft to propel! Finally, Pat and I bought our own - followed shortly by Darren getting his and extras for his family. Emeljay followed suit. All this to say it didn’t take long for the summer to fill with kayaking/geocaching adventures. A pattern would soon develop…...
Darren cleaning off the muck after stepping out of the Yak into knee deep mud!
For many of us, kayaking was getting so fun that when one of us would go out to hide a new water cache others would want to come along. Kinda makes it hard to hide something when people were watching but we were just always looking for an excuse to get out on the water - if it meant having some extra insight into the cache’s location…..so be it! Seems like once a week we were heading out to find a cache one person hid then turning around and hiding a new one. The next weekend the roles would be reversed! It didn’t make for hard-to-find cache locations but it has sure been fun!
Out on Eel Lake today with Bad Duck to find his latest placement - The Cattleyak - he also placed four new ones today, so I will be returning…....probably with a cache or two of my own to hide!
And the beat goes on…....!!
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