Saturday, In the Park

No sunshine today,gray and cool, but at least we were spared all of the rain from yesterday.

It rained here all day Friday, into the evening, raining out the Orioles - Rangers game we had tickets to (from my boss) last night.

O's rained out.

 The evening wasn't lost however, we ended up going to Gettysburg for a second visit to our new favorite Irish pub called Garryowen. It is located about two blocks west of the town square and serves the best Fish & Chips and Bangers & Mash in the only Irish owned pub in town. Perfect food for a cold,wet day.

10 oz. Beer Battered Haddock, Yum.

Saturday morn Candy, Becca (Hostage) and I headed south to Montgomery County's Black Hill Regional Park for some exercise, fresh air and GPS treasure hunting.



West side of Little Seneca Lake.

 

A spot near our 1st of 3 Geocaches around Little Seneca Lake in Black Hill Regional Park.

Driftwood pointing to a Cormorant.

Trail Magic.

Female Ruby-Crowned Kinglet

The Fallen.

                            April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. 

                                                -  Christopher Morley



Geocaching #2

A cool,cloudy day here in Maryland. No snow on the ground which was forecast for our area last night. Good thing, I'm through with the snow for the year, I'm glad the weather is starting to listen. Candy stayed home today so this was a solo hike in the deep woods of the Catoctin mountains. On this Sunday morn I was searching for two caches located in Cunningham Falls State Park Manor Area off Route 15 three miles south of Thurmont. It has the Scales and Tales Aviary, featuring a bald eagle with camping and the historic Catoctin Iron Furnace nearby. My first cache was hidden away on a hillside near the creek. When I first looked on my GPS receiver to find its location, it looked as though I had to cross the creek. So with much effort and a precarious balancing act, I did. Only to find that the creek takes a nice bend further upstream making my crossing unnecessary and doubly so as I had to recross back to my original side. Bob the Pathfinder!

Manging to keep my feet dry with my nimble athletic prowess, onward and upward I climbed,finally reaching my goal on a rocky overhang looking down on the roaring stream. My first "treasure" of the

day was a U.S. Army beret flash patch. After logging my find in the geocache logbook, I traded some swag I brought along, a neat toy that dramatically increases in size when water is added, for the unit patch. Geocaching is kid friendly, for the most part, so a lot of the "treasure" is for them,read -ME.

My treasure from the 2nd geocache find for the day,a Big Bear GeoCoin from California.

This is an example of some "adult" treasure to be found while geocaching. I will not keep this, because its purpose is to travel the world from one cache to another through the comings and goings of fellow geocachers like Candy and I. Once a geocoin is found, the finder logs on to Geocaching.com and records what is happening with the coin and also gets to see where it has travelled throughout its geocaching journey.

The next cache that we find will receive this geocoin, and add a few more miles in its travels from California.

Another day,another woodland adventure for Bob the mountain goat.