{"id":1179,"date":"2010-12-04T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:03:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:03:58","slug":"gecaching-at-lake-bixhoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"Gecaching at Lake Bixhoma"},"content":{"rendered":"

At work I get every other Friday off. Usually Sweetie and I drop SuperPizzaBoy off at school and then go have breakfast and run and play. Yesterday Sweetie had a board retreat all morning. So I decided to go to Lake Bixhoma near Bixby, OK and do some geocaching.<\/p>\n

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Lake Bixhoma is one of the Tulsa area’s best kept secrets. I hardly ever see anybody else there. Friday morning I had it all to myself.<\/p>\n

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First though I took a little hike along this cliff. According to the geologists<\/a> it is the remnant of a 300 million year old reef. In other words it is almost as old as I am. It has alternating layers of shale and sandstone. I like to look for fossils sometimes I find a brachiopod but not today. You don’t need a permit to look for them.<\/p>\n

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I took a few pictures of what may be fossils. I don’t know. I don’t hold myself out as knowing anything about them.<\/p>\n

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Poison Ivy anyone?<\/p>\n

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The first two caches were pretty easy. Both of them were by a road.<\/p>\n

The third was a little less than a half mile from the end of the road close to the shore line. I thought, dumb me for thinking, surely that is a fisherman’s path alongside the lake. Surely.<\/p>\n

Nope, it was bushwhacking all the way. <\/p>\n

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I found some funky trees.<\/p>\n

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And some funky stuff growing on the rocks.<\/p>\n

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And finally found the cache.<\/p>\n

At this point I looked at the cache description and it said that there was a trail to the cache location. Hmm, I don’t see any trail. So being the real smart outdoorsman that I am I thought I would go straight up the hill from where I was and intercept the trail. So off I went.<\/p>\n

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Does this look like a trail to you? I didn’t find any &(^&&(*& trail. (Excuse the language.) At least up above the lake there were less rocks and thorns. (Actually I didn’t mind walking up there a bit, with or without a trail, I was like a pig in you know what.)<\/p>\n

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I got a nice view of the lake from up there.<\/p>\n

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And finally found my truck. <\/p>\n

I found three caches total yesterday for a total of seven in the park that I’ve found over the years. <\/p>\n

Anyways, I had some time before Sweetie and I were hooking up so I headed off to Washington Irving park to find a couple more.<\/p>\n

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I invited Mr. Irving along but he declined. You know he never goes anywhere anymore.<\/p>\n

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One of them I found reminded me a Christmas ornament.<\/p>\n

And so that was that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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