Saturday, August 4, 2012

Second NJ trip - Mullica Hill

Today we had a family caching trip with my in-laws.  My father spent a great deal of time at Jack's birthday party in early July talking to my in-laws about caching, and since we were planning on visiting them this weekend, a whole group of us went out to find some of the local hides.  Most of them were in Ella Harris Park, and a few others were within a mile or two of there.

Today's lesson learned was stealth.  Our group consisted of me, Emily, Jack, my father-in-law, his wife, and my sister-in-law.  It was impossible to be stealthy in that group.  My father-in-law and Jack were just as focused as I was in trying to find the caches, but the ladies were basically just there for the nature walk and stimulating conversation.

Luckily, it was a very hot day and there were not many people in the park.  We did strike up a conversation with a couple who happened to be sitting near the end of a short nature trail through some woods.  They were curious about what we were doing, as six people traipsing through the undergrowth shouting "over here?" was far from stealthy.  After I explained things, they were very interested in what exactly Geocaching is, and what you need to do it.  I mean, for a hobby that seems to have a nerdy reputation, most people that I have had conversations with about it seem to think it's pretty neat.

Nothing too exciting to report on the hides.  I'm noticing that most of the ones we have found are too small to hold trinkets and are just bison tubes or film canisters with logs in them, but we did find one today that was a Tupperware container.  I traded something small for a little geotoken from a local group, which I gave to Jack.  He collects those smushed up souvenir pennies, and this falls into that category of item.  Anything I can do to keep him interested in it is fine with me.

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