Island Hopping
Rub-a-dub-dub,
Three men in a tub…....
Well, it wasn’t the butcher, baker or candlestick maker but “three men in a tub” certainly describes my caching excursion today with Bad Duck and Pastor Lamar!
Two caches in our sights: I can see it from here! and Anatidae’s Island (both placed by Mr. Copper, I might add)
Once again, a VIDEO will prove quite informative and entertaining…...
Now that video only showed the hunt for “I can see it from here!” cache.
After successfully logging the cache we moved on to Anatidae’s Island. Since the “boat” could only handle two people we had to go out in pairs. Bad Duck and I rowed out first but weren’t having any luck finding the cache. Twenty minutes into looking Bad Duck decides to row back and pick up Pastor Lamar for additional eyes. I continued the hunt for several minutes and finally checked a spot I looked at once before and there it was! But it was under a foot of water, turned upside down and contents soaked and scattered! I collected everything and made my way back to the island edge where I could see my compadres and began waving wildly to show them I had found it. The problem was they weren’t looking….they weren’t even in the boat coming to help! No…they were talking with two guys on the shore! I’m thinking “what is this?...Don’t they care I’m stuck out here on the island? Don’t they care it’s starting to rain? Hmmmm?”
Only after Darren and Rich finally returned did I discover the guys on shore were actually police officers who were responding to a citizen call reporting possible boating violations! Funny thing was the two officers were geocachers themselves! Funnier yet, one of them was the cache owner….Mr. Copper! Apparently when the call came in, they jumped at the chance to have some fun busting law-breaking cachers! Turns out we were quite legal and as Darren stated in his log….they “didn’t get to use the Tazer on Rich”. LOL So Darren rows me back to shore so I can get back to work and there he repairs the cache. I say goodbye and begin driving off as Darren starts rowing back to get Rich when I hear him holler something I can’t understand and raises one of the oars in the air. I smile politely, wave and continue on my way. Only later would I learn what he actually hollered….“Cheap Oar! Broke It!” Now I felt really bad. He did manage to extract Rich from the island and return to shore okay but I don’t think I want to know what he was thinking the whole time about me driving off just as the oar broke!
Poor Bad Duck - everytime he gets in that little boat he ends up talking with law enforcement! Hey Darren, let’s try kayaks next time okay?
Sure was glad to get a couple of these water access caches. Fun morning with friends!