Found a trio of caches today with the folks. My Wife says we should only count it as two and a half though, since one of them is a cache which thwarted us back when we looked for it in January. It was a lot easier to find without the hip-deep snow…
We also had a bit of an adventure with the first cache we looked for. We’d briefly considered taking a camera along to document things, but decided it was ‘just another thing to carry’ and left it behind. We also, unintentionally, left behind our origami give-aways that are becoming our trademark. So naturally, the first cache we found had a really nifty toy coffee mug in it, and we left a much less interesting business card. And on the way out of the woods, back to the car, we encountered a moose.
That’s right. Big as life, and twice as ugly. A moose.
The cache was along the ‘Fit Strip’ – a jogging trail with exercise stations, and right by the inclined sit-up bench there was a young moose casually stripping the leaves off the undergrowth. A couple of people had parked themselves silently around and were clicking quietly away with still cameras and handycams. The moose pretty much ignored everybody and happily munched away on whatever leaves it could reach.
At any moment I fully expected a jogger to come full tilt around a bend in the trail, scaring merry hell out of the critter, and it out of him, but that didn’t happen. The moose lazily wandered past us and we were able to continue on our way to the car. We headed home and got our origami and Dad and I both got our cameras.
After all, if we hadn’t gotten the cameras, we probably would have found Elvis, or proof of alien life, and nobody would have believed us. Now that we had the cameras, we were immune from anything awkward like that happening.