War1man and Mimi on our find #3600

War1man and Mimi on our find #3600

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

February 24, 2010


Our daughter, Sheri, has been visiting us from New York, where she now resides with her friend Rachel. During the weeks visit, we were able to take them out geocaching, and turn them into geocachers. We had fun hiking out into the Econ River area and grabbing some caches, and then yesterday we did park and grabs. They loved both, and I am sure they will continue once they get home.

Since we had to drop them off at the Orlando Airport, I loaded up the newer geocaches in the area, so we could fill our map back in with just smileys. Our first stop was Airport Lakes Park, located off of Hwy 436, right across the Beeline from the runways. We were impressed with the park, and its trails, which take you to a dock on the lake, for a nice view. Actually, we never got to the dock, and got our view from the GZ near the cache Mare Prairie (GCQTXG), shown above.

We started out by visiting the first cache out there, Baja Voo (GC1AAWJ), a cache hidden by one of our geobuddies, The Flatouts. We gave it a short look, but because we know the hider, we assumed we would have to get wet or become gator food to get the cache, so instead of continuing here, we walked out to the other Flatout's cache, Pretty in Pink or just another Fungus among us, (GC2414F). We found this sneaky cache right away, because it was not hidden like we felt it should have been. The cache description says to replace the cache as found or better, so we chose the better route. Its not where we really wanted it to be, but it is hidden better now. We were very impressed with the originality of the cache, but the Flatouts go to so much detail with their caches, we were not surprised. They have made visiting the southern downtown area of Orlando and geocaching much better than any Disney visit.

From here we hiked out the trail to Mare Prairie, and found it easily, once we had crossed two fence lines with barbed wire tops!! The view of this lake, as shown above was awesome, and I am told that this lake is loaded with Tilapia. We made the hike back to the car, and started looking for BajaVoo again. Mimi spotted something in the water there, just out of reach behind a small tree/bush. I could not quite reach it with the hiking stick, so I tried to step on some branches, and... I sunk into the water and got one foot wet. I was not to be defeated, so I dropped into another small tree and caught myself with the branch, NOT! The branch was limp, and I went into the lake with both shoes on, and got my pants soaked as well. However, I did manage to grab the thing we spotted, and to our dismay, it was not the cache, It was a tampon tube! I tossed it as far as I could once I saw what it was. We will return another day to get this one, and I will have shorts on and no shoes! We hung around there waiting on Sheri's plane to take off, but once we got a text that her plane was delayed an hour, we headed out to continue our caching.

We found several park and grabs, and then we arrived at a new cache by Jim32809, named Title 2-4, (GC20PAJ), which we found very entertaining. I had no idea what I was looking for, and I came upon a couple of DVD movies cases. I open one up, and the roaches scurried away, to leave a cover picture of a porn movie that no one would want their kids to see. I took a picture to send to the cache owner. This is a fun cache to find, and once found the clues will make perfect sense.

It was starting to rain now, so we decided to go grab the quickies around I-4 and Sandlake Road, which we did, and headed back home to relax and enjoy our now empty home.

I almost was tempted to chase a FTF in Sanford, but I decided to let it go for now. I am sure Bloodybobber has already logged the FTF there, its right where he lives! But you never know!!

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