Monday, April 30, 2007

Summer's here!

Finally, Summer arrived. The weather last weekend, was perfect for geocaching. I went with the girls to San Bruno's bayshore on Saturday morning. We were to pick up Vero at SFO so it seemed a very good place to cache while waiting for a plane. Plus, the idea was to get one of the two caches (for this side of the bay) in the "Hunter's Point" quadrangle.
This was very fun. We discovered a nice and apparently new trail, all paved which was perfect for the stroller. We got great views and a few caches. Unfortunately, and I would discover that only later, once home, I did not get the correct cache for the quadrangle (I don't know how I missed it). Oh well... I will have other opportunities to go back.
On Sunday morning, we decided to go biking in the Sunnyvale Baylands. It was a nice ride and I could put my hands on a few caches. And snakes too. There was a big Gopher snake sunnying itself on the trail. After it got tired of watching us, it went back to the rocks near the water where it met an other, equally fatty, Gopher snake. That was nice. Lucie was very interested.
At the end of the ride, my bike got a flat tire and we had to walk the last 1 or 2 miles.
In the afternoon, I went caching solo in Saratoga. My main target was to find a house number that would be used to compute the coordinates for the first stage of The Fellowship of the Ring. I then found a few caches in the area, some of whiched I had DNFed last year. This was a nice revenge on those nemesis caches (Mum's the word, Black Gold, Son of Stumpy).
A cache I particularily liked was Tiny Frogs along the Los Gatos Creek. It was very nicely hidden and walking along the creek on this hot day was very pleasant. Unfortunately, while I was washing my hands in the mighty, mercury loaded creek, my cell phone fell right in the water. I managed to grab it quickly and it wouldn't work anymore for a while. But finally, on Sunday night, after it was completely dry, it decided that retirement was not for now and it started working normally again.
I think I managed to put my hand on 15 new caches over the weekend. Pretty satisfying.

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