Accidental Geocaching

After spending the morning cooking (quiche, bread, cookies, lasagna) and watching TV (5 “Christmas” episodes of West Wing) we decided to get out and take a walk in Hitchcock Woods before the threatened rains came (still waiting.)

We walked the Palmetto Trail and had a pleasant little walk except for the time I slipped trying to avoid a muddy spot and got my knee dirty. On the way back up the hill from Crazy Creek towards our car Donna said, “Didn’t there used to be a cache around here?” “Yeah, ” I said, “I remember we had to ask for a hint from the CO.” She wondered out loud, “Think it is still there?” I allowed that it probably wasn’t, as it, along with ours and others, got caught up in the Great Hitchcock Woods Cache Purge of ’09. We looked over towards the small tree it was hidden in and there it was, still hanging in a branch eye high. It was easily spotted because of the lack of foliage this time of year.

We went over and opened it up and right on top was a Travel Bug. Poor thing it had been stranded there since July. We decided to take it with us and then after some consideration we decided to take the cache itself. It was supposed to be picked up and removed by the owner in August. We’ll move the TB along and I’ll contact the owner and see if she wants her container back.