Picking Up Two in Centralia

After work as I emerged from the warehouse, I found out it was a beautiful day.  I wanted to embrace it.  I had a chiro appointment in Centralia I had to get to but had some time afterwards for a few caches in the sunshine.  I had about 35 minutes to get to my appointment on time.  Traffic wasn't horrible so I got there early and he got me back early.  He worked on my right shoulder blade and amazingly it felt better afterwards.  I paid and then decided which ones I wanted to go for.

I decided on Fahrenheit451 (GC5XRMT) at the Riverside Fire Authority or the Centralia Fire Station.  I parked about 200 feet away and walked right up to ground zero.  I knew where it was going to be before I even got there.  The location was pretty cool.  I like hides like these.

I put every thing back the way I found it and walked back to the Escape.  I looked for the next one and it was further down 507 on the way home.  HUNTER (GC51H7A) was literally right off the highway.  I had to find a side street to park off of to go grab this one.  The coords had me at an old chair and a light pole.  It had to be simpler than that.  I read the hint and I instantly knew where to look.  It was hidden inside a water meter box in front of the cacher's yard.  I hate looking for caches in people's yards.  I tried to hurry as fast as I could just in case they decided to come out and talk to me.  I didn't have time to talk.  I got it out, signed the log and put it back all in less than 2 minutes.

I walked back to the Escape and went home.  I really wanted to go get more but I was getting hungry.

Next Adventure:  Lewis County Discovery Trail Caching

Tumwater Lunch Time Caching

It's been a while since I found any caches and I needed to change that.   I checked to see if there were any near the L&I building or the state records warehouse.  I was in luck.  There were two on either side of the warehouse within walking distance.  Yesss!

Since I was in a warehouse, there are no windows and you can't see the weather change outside so noon showed up and I was excited to get some warmth and sun!  I walked outside with the GPS, my phone and a pen and it was still overcast and cold.  Lame.

I walked over towards the baseball field first.  CLL (GC5CKDT) a cache that published over a year ago.  The caches around Thurston County have piled up while I worked at the hotel.  I had absolutely zero time to really go out and cache.  As I walked over there, I noticed that this "park" was a great place to park your car and sit during lunch time.  What a weird place to sit.  I wandered over to the hiding place, which was obvious, and grabbed it without anyone really paying attention to me.  I took it away from the sets of eyes and sat down on the pole and signed the log.  Putting it back was another story.  I had to really sell that I wasn't hiding back a container to the people that could be watching me.  I walked away like I wasn't even there and I hoped that the cache would remain hidden for the next cacher to find.

Then I walked over to the other one, it was near the state surplus store on the Tumwater Blvd side of the road.  I wasn't sure where it was going to be so I read some of the logs.  Since it was lunch time there were going to be a lot of people driving past me.  I actually saw it before I started looking for it.  Another Cache to Find! (GC53VH4) was tucked into a tree with fir cones hiding it from view.  A muggle wouldn't see it but a cacher sure would!

I walked back to the records center and with perfect timing too.  One of the warehouse workers walked through the front at the some time allowing me to get into the locked door without calling someone to let me in.  I went upstairs into the break room and ate my lunch with the remaining time I had for my lunch hour.

Next Adventure:  Picking up Two in Centralia

Lunar Eclipse

A lunar eclipse, also known as a blood moon, happens when the moon passes directly behind the earth in its shadow.  This can only occur only when the sun, the moon and the earth are closely in alignment with the earth in the middle.  A lunar eclipse can occur only the night of a full moon.

Social media, the news and just over hearing people talk about it the entire week.  I usually ignore that there is an eclipse mostly because it's always cloudy and we can never see it.  This time it was going to be clear skies, so why not go and watch it?

We had to wait until it got dark enough.  I grabbed the camera and picked up mom and dad from the middle of their walk.  They hopped in and we drove to a spot where you could see the mountain and the moon.  The moon was so light colored it was hard to see and I grabbed the wrong lens.  Dang it!  Turns out everyone else also liked this spot; the road was lined with cars.  We stayed for about 20 minutes and decided we could not get the picture we wanted so we went home.

I dropped mom and dad off where I picked them up and went home.  I did a few things and then grabbed the correct lens and went out to the top of the driveway and then down towards to the end of the road.  It was the perfect time.  You could actually see the moon because it was bright enough.  I snapped a couple because I did not know how they would turn out.  I was shaky so I went and put my elbows on the hood of the Escape and took a few.  Those turned out perfect!

Next Adventure:  Tumwater Lunch Time Caching