Holly and I tackled our first multi-stage geocache yesterday! We started at a 7/11 phone booth (yes, those things still exist) and found our first set of coordinates in a magnetic key box. Then we went a few hundred feet away and searched all over this huge yellow pipe sticking out of the ground for 20 minutes in the Florida heat. If you’ve been to the Brandon area you know what I mean. For some reason this area has tons of water system pipes that stick up out of the ground alongside the roads for no apparent reason. Are they fire hydrants? I dunno!
I had to admit defeat on stage two and get some help from a geocacher online. Just a few minutes later I got his email response pointing me in the right direction: stage two was in the bushes! DOH! (I hate bushes). The container was a cool watertight orange matchstick box clothes pinned inside the bush next to an abandoned bird’s nest.
The coordinates for stage three took us a small drive away to another bushwhacking exercise. But lucky me, the same type of orange container was easily spotted with coords to the final stage four of the cache.
We easily parked right at stage 4 and had to walk only 20 feet or so before we spotted the cache peeking out at us. We signed the log, added a Where’s George dollar (from a cache in Tennessee!) and put it all back together for the next cacher to discover. Here’s the link to the Where’s George bill report so we can see how far this bill goes:
http://www.wheresgeorge.com/report.php?key=ff839d106c518ef3239cd36bbd9ba08510a678d643f811cf
And check out some pics of stage four: