New Caches along Cape Arago Highway

Got out after work with Bad Duck to hunt a bunch of new caches out Cape Arago highway - placed by new cacher, PYNEKONE.

First stop was Pillar Me Timbers near Shores Acres botanical gardens. While we were in the vicinity, Darren also picked up Berliner’s Cliff Sculptures as we made a loop hike back to the truck.

Next, we hunted and found KMX Pine Test and Sea Cow Ranch. KMX cache required expanding our search radius but ample clues enabled us to finally zero in on the hidey hole! Since we were right there, I stopped to check on my own cache - Arago Cliffs Revisited - was a bit more exposed than I liked so covered it better.

Final cache of the afternoon was Concretion Canyon and “Lucy Falls” - took awhile to locate the right trail head but we successfully negotiated the primitive trail to the cache site.  Short little video of Darren coming back up onto the main trail…..........

BBBBBBBBad to the Bone…......................

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Trading Yak Caches with Bad Duck

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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New Mackie Caches!

As predicted in an earlier post, Mackie just couldn’t let well-enough alone - couldn’t tolerate having an unfound cache in his list! So new caches are popping up….this time on and around Tenmile Lake. I guess Eel Lake is getting a bit crowded…..it’s HIS fault!, HE is the one that got us all started on this kayak caching!

Last week Darren and I ran out after work for a FTF on his Tenmile Trestle and today we hunted down Wonderful World of Willow. Keep ‘em comin’ !!

A video for your viewing pleasure…..WARNING…..SPOILER!

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