Sometimes when the family has a busy schedule and there are lots of chores to do and you want to go geocaching you have to sneak in one or two as you can.
Last week I was at an industry function near Tulsa. They had a scramble golf tournament. I didn’t play very well. I’m a miserable player on my best day, on an off day, it is kind of ugly. Oh well. I finished. I was all hot, dirty, and sweaty anyway. So fire up the GPS and lets go find a few caches.
I found three including the one below. Very cool. It is at a model airplane airfield in East Tulsa. The club has their own cache off in the woods.
Last Sunday I went on an errand to the ToysR Us in East Tulsa to fetch a WiiFit. We’ve been wanting one bad. The store close to the house at zero. The East Tulsa store has 16.
Picked it up, turned on the GPS. Hey there is a microcache in their parking lot. Found it, check one. Hey there is one at a detention pond on the way home. That is the one below. Off to the right is my GPS on the ground. Check two. Turn off GPS, have to go to another store for batteries.
As an aside, both of these caches use “parallel stick camouflage.” I use it myself. Not very effective.
On the sly is how I find most of them these days. I’m ok with that. I would have to drive a ways to go find a bunch since I’ve found almost all of them in town. Cachers call hunting for mass caches a “cache machine.” They will go find maybe 50 in a day. Too much like work. The most I’ve ever found in a day was 15. A couple years ago the family found 10 in a few hours at Skiatook State Park on one of those sunny warm winter days we get every now and then. Sweetie is good at spotting caches. My brother in law and I found about a dozen or so in a few hours one day in Idaho a couple years ago.
PS: On the WiiFit. On the initial evaluation my Wii Age was -8. That made me pretty happy.
As an aside, both of these caches use “parallel stick camouflage.” I use it myself. Not very effective.