October 4, 2004
OWP 10/2
Here’s the Obligatory Weekend Post. Condensed version.
Grabbed 4 caches over the course of the weekend, starting with one on Horseneck Beach on Friday evening. The Horseneck Beach cache was among the sand dunes in an extremely peaceful spot that made me want to linger. It also made me wish I could find a cache location like that. I (thus far) have not found a place that I’m happy with.
I’d like to start out with a simple cache, but I have a few ideas for puzzle caches that I’d really like to develop, but they would take some time. But I need a location worthy of a difficult cache. I just haven’t found such a place yet.
On Saturday, Chuck, Patty and ‘Neya came by and we went caching down Aquidneck Island way. Those Rhode Island caches are a lot of fun. We hit Albro Woods and Oakland Forest, two wooded areas nestled among the homes in developed residential areas.
The Oakland Forest multi-cache was a pleasant walk through an old-growth beech woods where some of the beeches were estimated at 300 years of age. An odd feature of this little woods was a swath of rhododendrons bisecting the area. Chuck caught a picture of me sneaking through the rhododendrons at one point. You can see from the satellite picture that the rhododendrons were planted as the arrangement is quite intentional. It’s that dark north-south band, slightly hooked at the north end.
Another interesting feature at the second cache was a mysterious vault built into the side of a hill. I don’t know what its purpose is, but it appears to have been there for a very long time and is complerely covered with vegetation.
Both Saturday cache locations featured Touch-Me-Nots that were covered with ripe seed pods. The children delighted in springing them, and the adults had their share of fun as well.
Back at the Burke ranch we met with Julie, had dinner and hung out for games and apple pie. I was a bit worried about the pie, which I’d baked that morning. I’d forgotten the salt in the pie crust. But the filling made up for the lack of salt in the crust. (The secret is the butter.)
We saw the first SNL of the season, and they tore into the Presidential Debate. GWB comes off as a whiny kid. No wait - that was the actual Presidential Debate I was thinking of.
On Sunday, Maggie went to see The Producers in Providence. I took the kids to Attleboro where we picked up a cache and attempted a micro that was crawling with non-geocaching folk. We had to call off the search, but it was just as well because I had birthday shopping to do (Tuesday is Maggie’s b-day)
Ah, the challenge of writing up the weekend without going into tedious detail! I’m still working on my technique.
Posted by James at October 4, 2004 9:26 AM