SuperPizzaBoy and I went geocaching in the suburbs. We went to a park in Owasso to look for four caches.

The first one was in a brushy area. Previous finders and the owner of the cache had talked about a huge black snake that had been found laying right on top of the container. I’m not just terrified of snakes but I like to find them before they find me. So I was trying to check all the nooks and crannies for both snakes and containers. I finally found the container. Do you see it? Never did see the snake.

The next cache was tough. I finally cheated and stuck and my camera with the flash activated into a small hole in dead tree took a picture. There it was, big as life. Hard to retrieve, even harder to put back. Some of these cachers are evil! I don’t know what I’d a done if there was a snake or other critter looking back.

Here is an action shot of SPB, and what I thought was the container adjacent to a disk golf coure. Cache wasn’t there, I looked high and low and all over the place. Finally logged a shameful DNF (“Did Not Find”). I felt better though when a subsequent cacher also reported a DNF and the cache owner had to replace the cache. It’ll be there when we go back.

Speaking of Disk Golf, SPB tried that out the next day. Tulsa has lots and lots of disk golf courses. I see them while running on the river and while geocaching. So we bought a couple of disks and off we went to Haikey Creek Park.

Look at that form! He and I both threw them back handed like you would playing frisbee in the back yard. Almost all disk golfers I see throw them like a baseball and can really make those disks fly incredible distances. I’m going to have to learn that. But hey we are newbies. You know being a newbie is incredibly liberating. I tell our new college hires at work that if they don’t understand something just say so. That is how you learn!!

Its like “OK son, I’m going to get a shot of you putting her in the basket,” and he throws a bean ball. He thought it was hilarious.

Here, lets try it again, I’ll get off to the side.

We quit after 7 holes. It was fun, but it was hot. Time to go get refreshed. I’m going to learn some more about this disk golf thing. I like regular golf but I just cannot see telling the family sayonara for five hours or so on the weekend. I’d do it if I thought son was interested and we could do it together. He may be eventually but not now. Disk golf is free, the equipment is reasonably priced and hey and its an outside activity. We’ll be doing it some more I think.

On our way to get some sodas I just had to find a geocache right close to the park. It is a P&G (“Park and Grab”, no hike necessary)

Nope, not it, I thought it was. Here it is. See it?

Have you been knocking about lately? Tell me about it.