Another sunny but cool morning, around 5°C. As usual after breakfast we just lounged about doing nothing, just as well trained retirees should.
After lunch we headed about 10 miles south of here to what used to be an old railway line, but has now been turned into a walking trail. Of course we discovered this through geocahing. Today was not a good day as we only found 3 out of the 5 caches we were looking for. In fact it was almost 2 out of 5. We couldn’t find the very first cache we were looking for so gave up and moved on. When we came back to the truck I had a quick look around for the first cache again and found it lying under some leaves. It was a small 1″ x .25″ cylinder that had become dislodged from its hiding place. Luckily it was metallic purple in colour and I managed to catch a quick glimpse of it as I rustled through the leaves.
We clocked up just under 2 miles of walking on the old rail bed which was nice and solid under foot. I wouldn’t want to do the same trip in a few weeks time as the track has stagnant water on either side of it making an ideal habitat for mosquitoes.
At one of the caches we didn’t find we even had some volunteer help
It was interesting seeing some of the housing in the 10 miles we traveled. There were a number of gated communities with their large houses , a number of well kept large houses on their own property, and intermingled with these were a number of run down shacks and trailers just off the side of the road. This intermingling of properties is quite common down here.
Tonight a group of 9 of us got together to go down to the local restaurant for Happy Hour. The group consisted of the craft ladies and hubbies. Although a number of us had not met before, a good time was had by all.