Lake Lawrence and a T5 Cache

I got up to help dad with breakfast, his morning readings and his walk before Bev texted me on what I was up to today.  I told her getting dad ready for his day and then probably chores and whatnot.  She wanted to know if I had some time to go with her to the lake to get Lake Lawrence Lollygagging (GC4RDKC), our T5 cache.  I said sure, give me about an hour to get everything done and I can meet her at her house.

In the meantime, I made dad some lunch, we walked and took his afternoon readings and Bev washed out the boat I was going to use.  I brought my food with me and headed down to Bev's.  She was next door at John and Judy's house talking with some relatives.  I said hi to Janet as she was leaving.  I walked in and said hi to everyone then Bev and I said our goodbyes and walked out the door.

We put the boat and oars inside the Escape and drove out to the lake.  It was a nice day, roughly around 80ish degrees.  We got to the public boat launch, walked the boat down to the water, made sure we had everything, phone, walkie talkie, plastic bag to put everything in, an extra cache just in case this one was missing...again, and the GPS.

Bev stayed on shore while I paddled the 0.15 to the cache.  It was hard paddling there because of the breeze and the two jet skis that flew past me.  I got closer to the shore and pinpointed the tree that I suspected the cache to be attached to.

Because of our dry summer, the shoreline was a lot lower than when it was hidden.  Thus, I had to get out of the boat to retrieve it.  Unfortunately, I had a hard time paddling myself to shore because of the thick Horsetail Rush plants along the shoreline.  I had to set the oars aside and pull myself to shore with my hands in the lake.   Once onto shore, I noticed this giant bees nest that someone had lopped the top off of it, rendering it abandoned, thank goodness...no one has time for bees. I found the cache tied to the end of a Douglas Fir branch.  I radioed Bev telling her I found it and I will be on my way back in a few minutes.

It took less time getting back to the boat launch because I was going with the current the wind was making on the surface.  She grabbed the boat as I made it to shore and I definitely got wet on my way back.  I had to wipe off the items that got sand all over them.  We dumped out the boat, which had roughly a cup of water inside, shook it off a bit and stuffed it back into the Escape.  We drove back to her house, I dropped her off, put my raft into the Escape and drove home.  All I need now is my earthcache/CITO and my puzzle cache and my geocaching road trip will come to an end.

Next Adventure:  Driving Range and Top Rung Brewery