Mike's Geocaching Blog

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Lincoln City Caching

Took advantage of the nice weather forecast for the weekend and camped at South Beach State Park near Newport.  I did some caching while Pat shopped at the outlet mall in Lincoln City.

Picked up seven in Lincoln City, two in Newport and two more down the coast as we headed home.  One in particular was a satisfying find - Time Out.  This was a puzzle cache that first came out well over a year ago and I had it solved quickly but just needed to wait for the next trip up the coast.  Well, over the course of this past year, I’ve had three opportunities to find it and was thwarted on all three.  First time the tide was too high, second time it was missing and the third time was high tide again.  Finally today everything came together for a successful find!

Saturday, October 06, 2007

Rogue River Run

It’s been quite awhile since I’ve done any caching down Gold Beach way so today I headed down there.  Spent most of the day up the Rogue River as far as Quosatana campground.  After returning to Gold Beach I decided I had another hour so went south on 101 to pick up some roadside caches near Meyer Creek.  Picked up 11 caches today.  Nearly had a FTF on Hunters HideNSeek #1 but a couple of people beat me to it earlier in the day!  Guessing from the title more caches are coming?

Summary for the day…...

Quosatana Creek Bike Jump Cache
Quosatana Creek Go Fishing Cache
Falling Waters
Schrader Blowdown
Hunters HideNSeek #1
Brian’s #2
Brians #1
Otters and Agates
Upgraded
Meyers Creek Bridge
Meyer’s Motel

The mouth of the river was busy with salmon fishermen!

Friday, October 05, 2007

Coquille is HOT

Coquille is the Coos county seat and is busy in that regard but recently the town has become geo-lively!  New cachers have placed several caches in recent weeks.  It’s always great to see a community come alive with geocaching activity!

Today I decided to take the sunny afternoon off since we’ve had a bunch of rain lately and run down there to get the last four new caches.  Before I could even leave the office another new one just published.  As soon as I got home and logged my finds yet another one popped up!  Way to go Coquille cachers!  Keep ‘em coming!