I got a text from Bev saying to be ready and to their house by 11:30. As I gathered my stuff and put the caches on the gps, my phone started up...new publish, 9.4 miles from your house! Better go get it! I really thought I would get a text from Bev to tell me to hurry up. I never did. She probably assumed I knew already. I got in the car and another one went off. I got about half way to their house and another one published. Crap, I'm not going to have these on the gps when we're on the lake.
I got to their house and I helped Bob put the boat into the back of the truck. He took the wheels off of it so we could be more aerodynamic when we were paddling. Bev stood next to the computer with the gps hooked in waiting until more published. She said well, if there is more I will call you guys. We headed out.
We got there around noon and hoped no other cachers were there. We had a couple of good scares but they were only fishermen. We bypassed one that published last week to get to the FTF. We approached the cache site and found out it was the log that looked like a stump. We pulled the boat up to it as close as we could and it was easier for me to get out and stand on the log to retrieve the cache and sign the logbook.
We went onto the next one, Exercise while enjoying Lake St Clair. As far as we knew it hadn't been found yet and we knew it was going to be a hard one. We spent almost 30-40 min looking for it. It had no hint and the coords bounced around. We finally got out of our boat and looked around. We found out later, we were close when we were digging through the ivy. We gave up and decided to move on to the eastern part of the lake to A Mermaid in Lake St. Clair and I can See My House From Here.
Both caches were really easy.
We paddled onto the northwest side of the lake where there were two caches and a FTF. We went to the FTF first. When we got there we were very disappointed. Hoppingcrow was somewhere on the lake and we have no idea how long she's been here. I guess we will have to be happy with our one FTF. We signed the logbook and made our way to the other two in this section of the lake. One was in a psudo stump and one was hanging from a tree.
On our way back towards the parking lot, we grabbed the one we paddled past. That was also an easy find. And now onto the other two new ones we figured someone got already. I looked at the map and it looked like the cache was on land. I read the description and saw the terrain, we really needed a boat to get to it. I called Bev, she said on the computer screen it looked like it was on land as well. We're gonna go for it!
On the way under the road and to the southwest part of the lake, we grabbed waypoint 1 on the way to the third traditional that published that morning. It was hanging on a not so well off Madrona tree. And now to the one on the most southern end of the lake. We followed our arrow and started second guessing ourselves. Is it really over here? Does the lake end? There was a small channel to follow so we went with it. It turned into a lily pad, frog egg soupy kind of swamp land but we continued following the channel. We went around the corner and saw three people in kayaks. The only people who would be in this area would be cachers. I recognized Ohjoy, GrandpaDave and Hoppingcrow. Crap, we missed another FTF. We exchanged some chatter. We asked if we could get a hint for the one we couldn't find. They said it was a toughy.
They all scattered while we found the cache and wrote our names on it. We had no idea Hoppingcrow had already found the multi so we hurried as fast as we could get that boat to go, thinking we had an advantage by grabbing the waypoint on the way here. They still had to grab the waypoint. When we got to the main part of the lake, we paddled as fast as we could. We only saw two kayaks. Ohjoy and GrandpaDave, Bob and I met at the final to the multi. Since it was Ohjoy's cache, we found it with GrandpaDave. Hoppingcrow had already been here. Poo. At least we got the one.
It was about 3:15 and we needed to get back to the truck. Bob had to bowl tonight and needed to be home by 4:30. I took over the oars and paddled us to the truck. In the distance we could see Ohjoy and Grandpa Dave planning spots to hide more caches. I guess we should be ready to come back out again to grab more of them.
We got back to Bob and Bev's house around 4ish. She was making BLT's and offered me one. I asked for bacon and pickles because I really wasn't a fan of tomatoes. I was hungry so it hit the spot. We chatted, talked about the boat caches and then Bob had to leave. I went home a little later. Until next time.
Next Adventure: Probably more of the boat caches on Lake St. Clair
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