31 Days of Geocaching

31 Days My Way

I don't remember when I first jokingly mentioned this idea, but after I said it I started liking it more and more. Geocaching.com did their big promotion "31 Days of Geocaching" in August of 2013. I tried but couldn't quite manage it. A couple of reasons (but by no means all) were the heat and the mosquitos. Sometime late last year I said to someone that I was going to do 31 Days of Geocaching in January instead, because in Florida that's more enjoyable.

So far it's going well. I've gotten at least 1 find every day of the month and have surpassed my streak of 19 days from Aug. Things are about to get very busy in my life, so I'm not sure how much longer I can keep this up, but I'm going to try to keep it going. It would be nice to get 100 days in a row since I think there's a Challenge Cache out there for that achievement, but...one day at a time :)

Weird Wood

The theme of the year so far seems to be "Weird Wood". I keep seeing weird/cool formations in trees and roots, which is a great cover for looking for a geocache. "What am I doing? I'm just out taking pictures of stuff!"

Northside Park

Glen Springs Blvd.

 The 'Leaning Tower of Treesa' near Holy Faith

On the description page of the geocache near here there's a great story told about this tree. Back in the day when the power company was first coming through putting in power lines, they were going to cut this tree down. The current homeowner ran out and threatened to chain herself to the tree to save it. She was successful and I don't think she had to resort to chains ;)  In the logs of people who have found the geocache, there's someone that said they used to live there and they were pretty sure the woman from the story was their grandmother!

NW 7th Ave.

Waterford Park

Near Main and 10th

I've never seen a 'fingerprint' pattern in a tree root--still not sure if this is natural or someone was really bored and carved it. It's pretty either way.