Olympia Geocaching – Morning Geocaches

Started out the morning hoping to find a few geocaches. Using CacheMate I promptly drove to the closest cache to the motel, Road Going Nowhere. I parked the car and headed up the blocked road spur to what looked like a good path into the “woods.” The GPS said the cache was about 50 yards in, so in I tromped. I spent about 30 minutes searching but to no avail. Finally decided to give up on this one and search for some easier caches.

Next was the Mark Twain Cache which turned out to be a bronze sculpture of the writer sitting on a bench prominently placed at the corner of a fairly busy intersection. I could not sit with ole Mark because the seat was very wet but I wasn’t much in the mood for sitting. A litte searching produced a small altoids tin that was cleverly hidden.

As always I left some million dollar bills in this cache as I did in each cache this morning. They were all micro-caches this morning so I did not have to worry about trading – though I usually never take anything but always throw in a couple of million dollar bills if there is room.

Sunset Drive-Inn was the next cache on my list. The coordinates placed me in a undeveloped lot with some trees. Where could it be? Looked around the area and decided there were only a couple places it could be and sure enough it was at the first place I looked.

Next was supposed to be a cache at the Home Depot but as I approached it I realized I was on the wrong side of the interstate. As I drove I saw a walkway over but it was still too far away. Then I remembered seeing something about a walkway and sure enough my GPS showed Tumwater Bridge Walk The hint for the cache said it was at kid height and, sure enough, I wish I had one of my kids with me. Wasn’t sure this old body would get to the cache but was able to retrieve the large altoids tin.

Freddys was right at the overpass. I pulled into the employee parking and saw a light post – and immediately knew to lift the bolt cover for a quick cache & dash.

Well it was time to be getting back to the hotel so we could check out and visit our friends. I still had the De-Pot to do over at Home Depot. I pulled in next to the cache location and scoped out where in the landscaping a cache could be hidden. A little sluething and I found the little film canister.