After an enjoyable picnic breakfast at sunrise at the beach at Silver Stand, we did a little geocaching on the way home. As we approached Ugly, we saw a car parked on the side of the road. This cache is placed in the middle of the farm fields of Oxnard and there really isn’t any reason to be parked there, unless, of course, you are a geocacher. As I stopped the car, I saw the tell tale signs of a geocacher that can’t find the cache: pacing back and forth, looking again at the GPS, wondering “Where could the cache be?” I’ve been there many, many times.
I walked up and said, “Have you found it yet?” and then introduced myself. bythewind777 is a fairly new geocacher from Las Vegas. She has a boat in the nearby harbor. We looked for a while together and I did the same bewildered geocacher dance: pacing back and forth, looking again at the GPS, wondering “Where could the cache be?”
The cache was well named. It is located next to a pile of trash dumped along side of the road. (I never have figured out why anyone would choose to locate a cache near a trash heap, but I’ve seen it quite a bit.) I looked at the cache a couple of times before realizing that I had found it. A nice cache in a lousy location.
The best part of finding the cache, of course, was getting to meet a fellow geocacher. Nice to meet you, bythewind777. Keep the finds coming.
September 8, 2009 at 6:26 am |
And very nice to meet you too! Thanks for the help – I don’t think I would have found that one! I foolishly locked my keys in the car at “Oh man delay for sure” and didn’t even find that cache! AAA was a blessing in that case.
Again, nice to meet you and thanks!