Day 366.....

Well after an exhausting trip East, we have been laying low for the last few days grabbing easy local caches, and today we also decided on a local cache to be our last.  It seemed appropriate since the majority of the cache in our streak have been in the Brampton area. So today we have officially cached for 366 days straight and our calendar grid is full!

Here's the pictures of GZ where we found out last cache!

Awesome place for cache, and the home owners were sitting on the back porch enjoying the afternoon sun.

The journey over the last year has been fun and trying at times.

However, the weather during the last 366 days could not have been better. Yes there were cold, wet and hot days, but they did not out number the remaining days that were just perfect for caching.



And special thanks to all the local cachers who have been cheering us on and helping us keep our streak going by keeping the local caches popping up. Worthy mentions go out to Flintstone, Cute & Cuddley (for the caching around series) and to NBK2011 (for the caching migraine series).

Thanks to MuggleLady for introducing us to this amazing fun, to ErinGoGreen for participating as often as possible on this journey, and to Freeman72 (aka Team Layola) for getting into the game during the last 60 days. I'm sure you will find these adventures as addicting as we have.


Only one thing left to do and that is celebrate! So tomorrow join the Caching in on Forty Flash Mob and celebrate our achievement! Caching in on 40....Flash Mob

Thanks for following the adventure......

Two Days in PEI...

Yesterday we took the ferry from Nova Scotia to the east coast of PEI. We spent the day just touring the coast. We stopped at a few light houses and I dipped my feet in the ocean. It was a hot day and we just toured around in the car. We kept our caching streak alive and picked up a cache at the first light house we visited, Cape Bear.

The view was amazing!

Dipping my feet....

After driving around the coast for a few hours, we then headed to our accommodations for the evening. A little bed and breakfast in downtown Charlottetown. The name was weird, it was called the Tailor shop. Convenient for me, it was located tight next to the local quilt shop!! Of course I stopped in and made a pattern purchase and some fabric!

We enjoyed a nice dinner at a local pub and then had a nice drive down to the harbour and toured the boardwalk and picked up trinkets for the kids (no I haven't forgotten about them!) and enjoyed some locally made ice cream!

Since we didn't have far to travel, day 2 in PEI didn't have to start too early. After a nice little breakfast, we headed out for a morning filled of Anne! We arrived at the house that inspired the stories just after nine am. Everything seemed so small. The surrounding landscapes were beautiful! It was amazing to see the views and countryside that inspired LM Montgomery to write such amazing books. Just after lunch, we had pretty much toured everything associated with Anne. The museum, Green Gables and the house where LM Montgomery had grown up. We even managed to snag our cache at Green Gables!

Me sitting on the steps of Green Gables.

At the well on the property of LM Montgomry.

We drove a little around the coast and took in some more sights, then headed into Summerside for our last night on the island. By the time we got to our beautiful hotel right on the harbour, it was raining really hard. Someone declared it time for a nap, I sat and looked at the beautiful view (even in the rain) and waited for the tall ship to come into the wharf.

The Peacemaker.

After nap time, we went for a quick drive to another local quilt store and I picked up some more fabric! However, the rain is still falling so we made a quick stop at the tall ship docked across the street and then headed back to the hotel.  It will be an early night as we start our journey back to Ontario tomorrow. :(





Last Day in Halifax...

Today was the day to complete a few touristy things while here. We decided this morning to go on a whale watching charter. We got down to the harbour early enough to get a parking space and get our ticket for the excursion with time to spare. So we took a look for any close caches and of course there was one within 100 metres! So off we went. Since it was still early the harbour was very quiet, this was an easy grab. Unfortunately, no picture as we had to lean over the water and didn't want to risk dropping anything in the water!

Finding the cache was the up side of our morning. The whale watching tour was mostly a bust. NO whales! :(  The morning was overcast and the boat ride was very cold. There were lots of nice sights to see from the boat and the guides were informative, but not seeing a whale seemed to make the trip last forever.

After the excursion we toured a local glass blowing factory and bought some amazing local made items. So beautiful! Then it was a quick bite to eat before meeting up with my brother for some more site seeing.

We met him at the Halifax Citadel. An amazing historical site, and amazing views of the city! As I was touring the grounds and viewing the exhibits, I was amazed at how much of the history I knew, but realized how much I had forgotten over the years. There were extra exhibits honouring the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. So much history crammed into this space, it was well worth the admission price! Also included in the price of admission was a geocache, right on the grounds. Totally fun to find it inside the park. No picture of the cache, but one of the bagpiper that started playing just after we found it and one of my brother and I sitting at the cache location.

By the time we were finished it was almost dinner time. We made a few pit stops at local stores and then stopped at Montana's for dinner. After stuffing ourselves full, we decided to see if there were some easy caches nearby to finish off our day. of course there were! In the same plaza there was an easy multi. Then we realized that there was a Web Cam cache right in downtown Halifax! So off we went. It was so cool to get this cache type! I was able to use my phone to find the cache, and to snap the photo of us in the intersection!

In total, today we managed to find 11 caches! Not what we had planned at all but glad to get my little brother hooked!

Tomorrow on to PEI!

Geocaching in Nova Scotia..

Today we slept in just a little (I am now fighting a cold), had a complimentary breakfast at the hotel and were off on a caching adventure with my brother and his girlfriend in tow. They had heard of Geocaching but had never been before. Well today we definitely showed them the ropes.
The first cache of the day was to be the historic first cache in Canada, located near Chester just a short distance from Halifax. An interesting approach to GZ, as you had to park on the side of the road on an off ramp, and it was about 60 metres into the bush. A nice little walk into GZ, where we found the following rock formations, which hid the cache.

Glad that we were able to stop here and have this cache part of our 366 day streak!

The next cache that we visited I didn`t get a picture. The ground was very uneven and soft. I ended up falling on my butt. Note to self ... remember to bring the walking stick out of the van! 

At this point we made the decision to head to Peggy`s Cove and pick up some cache`s along the way. The sights were amazing! Here`s a photo at a quick park and grab.

And another...

Then after visiting this cache we made a non caching pit stop at a local quilt store called the Teddy Bear Shoppe. It wasn`t on the to do list but since it was on our way...Elaine the quilts in this place were totally amazing and almost all hand quilted by local ladies. I snapped this one picture...

I know it`s hard to see, but it was all hand quilted!!

Then it was on to Peggy`s Cove. By this time the rain was coming down even harder and my head cold was kicking into over drive! This place was busy!! But totally beautiful! We stopped for lunch while the rain was failing, and snapped a few photos`s after.

Then we began the journey back to Halifax, enjoying the scenery and picking up a few caches along the way.

Everything was so green! In total we managed to pick up 11 caches today, not so bad considering the weather and the very curvy roads around the shore of Peggy`s Cove.

Tomorrow, more sight seeing!!

What a difference a day makes....

Day two of our road trip began very early, at least for me. We were up and checked out of the hotel by 6am! But we were on a mission to get to Halifax around dinner time and we didn't want to waste time sleeping.

We thought it might be interesting to try to get a cache in each of the three provinces today and we were able to accomplish or goal.

Our first cache was at the Quebec visitors centre just as we were leaving Quebec. It was an easy grab in the picnic area of the rest stop.



Then it was back on the road. Yesterday I struggled with the boredom in the car. C said I should enjoy the scenery. Well yesterday I'd seen enough trees and they all looked the same. But today was totally different. The views through Eastern Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were amazing!

The view from the car.

The worlds longest covered bridge. This stop was the highlight of the day! Totally amazing!

There was a cache here buy we couldn't find it. :(

More views taken from the car.

This was our cache in New Brunswick. It was at the historical Kings Landing rest stop.

Then we plowed on until we reached Nova Scotia and stopped at the first visitors centre in Amhyrst. We picked up a quick park and grab cache here, just a small micro so no picture. Instead I just took a photo of the welcome sign.

Two hours later we were at our hotel! Quick refresh and off to visit my little brother! It's been several years since we've seen each other and the next few days should be fun.

Well that's it for tonight! The journey continues tomorrow.......









The Count Down Begins....

With only 11 days until we complete our year long journey to cache on every day of the year we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel! We cold not have picked a better year to embark on this journey.
With very few exceptions, the weather has been fantastic! Even though a few snow storms threatened, they never did materialize. Yes there were some very cold days, some rainy days and most recently the hot and humid days, over all the weather Gods looked kindly upon our task.

So how to we end this journey? And we have decided to take a road trip east. Those of you that know us well, know that this direction was not our original plan. Back in January, we had high ideals of heading to Idaho to complete a series of caches that form a fighter jet! Sounded way cool, but we couldn't fit it into our schedule. Then it was a road trip through the US.  A very busy driving schedule that would have seen us cross through at least 5 states in about 8 days. That was the plan up until just two weeks ago. Then someone finally started participating in the decision process and suggested a trip to Nova Scotia. The idea actually sounded good, a chance to visit my baby brother who lives there and visit parts of the country I have never been to.
The road trip will bring us back into Ontario before we hit the 366th day, but I will do my best to blog about the last 10 days of this incredible adventure. (Elaine, I can see you rolling your eyes!)

This morning we left Brampton just around 6:30am and before we even hit Mississauga, we were stuck behind an accident. Gotta love city traffic. After getting by the accident, traffic seemed to move smoothly. A friend told us about the Big Apple just outside of Coburg and we made a quick pit stop here, hoping to get one of their famous turnovers. It was too early, and I had to settle for an apple fritter instead. However, there was a cache not too far away, and we decided to go for it and pick up one of the TB's.

Then it was back on the road. We drove for another two plus hours stopping for lunch at one of the service centres that had an amazing picnic area (which also included a cache).

Here's PapaGomes reaching for the cache, even in the middle of the day, this little forest area was buzzing with mosquito's.

Back to the road...this time I got to drive!! However, that didn't last long. MG is a terrible passenger and couldn't stand being in that seat for too long.

There is a lot of construction on the roads in Quebec, we missed an exit and had to do a turn around. A perfect opportunity to pick up an urban cache. Since neither of us can understand anything more then basic French, we chose an easy 1-1 cache. It was nothing really special, and the log book was soaked so we couldn't sign. :(

Then back to the road..with MG back in the drivers seat. And we drove and drove and we drove...I was getting so bored I began texting anyone who would respond! Thanks to N, E and C for keeping me entertained during the afternoon.

We managed to push through and drive until just after 5pm. We are stopped in a small town called Montmagny in Quebec. Tomorrow it's on to Halifax!

Good Night

Long Time.......

Okay so it has been a really log time since I updated this blog. But doing a cache a day became more of a chore then fun over the winter months.  Not that this winter was anything to complain about, I couldn't have asked for nicer weather to complete this challenge. But HAVING to go get a cache every day sometimes takes the fun out of the whole adventure!
However, the journey is now two thirds complete and the nicer weather is already upon us and the caching adventures have begun! About 6 weeks ago on Family Day, we decided to start a series in Barrie called The Face of Barrie. It was a series of 18 puzzle caches, that made a happy face over the water in Barrie. On Family Day, we were able to complete 12 of the caches, and vowed to return to complete the remaining six. Well today was that day!
The day started at 7am, when we left home. At 8:30 we met ErinGoGreen (EGG), at our designated spot and the adventure began. We left one car parked at the "end" of the trail, and drove EGG's car to our starting point. Along the trail, we found 5 caches, 4 of them from the Face of Barrie, plus an extra. Not sure what the distance was that we actually walked along the trail, but after finding all the caches, we emerged at the end just before 11am! Not bad, considering the last cache took at least a hour to fin, so we weren't actually walking the whole time.
Time for lunch and to plan our strategy to tackle the hardest cache on the list. A 4/4, with water involved.
Getting to GZ, was not too difficult, but once we arrived a little more thought was needed. We were not fully prepared. We knew there was water, but Mark actually had to wade in the water up to his knees!! He rolled up his pants tightened his boots and went into the culvert! EGG and I stayed behind and stayed dry. No sense three people getting wet! It didn't take long, Mark emerged having signed the log and claiming the smiley!! Now only one more to go, and we already knew exactly where it was. We had been to it back on Family Day, however the cache was not accessible since it was frozen inside a tree stump! EGG and I walked sown the trail to make the find, while Mark stayed in the car drying out! It was only 1:30pm and we completed our task of finishing the Face of Barrie!!

Isn't this cool!! It was so worth it! Thanks to ErinGoGreen for joining us on this adventure.

With the Face complete, there was still time to complete a few extra caches. We finished the day with 12 more, for a total of 18 on the day!
Now we are home, exhausted and ready for a dip in the hot tub!
Only 4 more months to go to complete the full 366 days! More updates to come!

A warm November day..

Made a quick stop today after watching the new Twilight movie with CelyG. We were able to make the find fairly quick. A nice little cemetery. We snapped a few pictures of the old gravestones. One had beautiful flowers and they looked real. Nice and bright on a cold November afternoon.

Restin' in Derry West v2.0

At least the rain was only a drizzle when we got to GZ. Total days caching...113!!

Cheers

Off the Grid?!

I know it's been a while since I blogged last. However, the kids have kept us busy, and well when it comes to blogging , unfortunately, I am a little lazy.
We have been keeping the streak going, after today, the streak stands at 112 days, approaching the 1/3 mark! Today I sopped in Georgetown to get the cache, after spending the morning at a local quilt shop.
The weather was beautiful, a little overcast, but it wasn't cold, so it made getting the cache no problem. It was located in a little park, which was deserted. The ground around GZ was a little muddy, several times I had started to sink and had to find more stable ground.

I'm A Bush, No Wait, I'm A Tree, No....

The nights are darker very early and it's getting cold out too, thank goodness I'm this far in, I can't stop now!

Later.....

It's getting dark out there......

After a quick dinner, MiniGomes and I went out to get the daily cache. We left the house at about 6:20pm, still light out but not by much.
The cache was not too far away, just a quick drive to Sandlewood and Heart Lake Road. We arrived at a nice little park called White Spruce. By the time we got to the designated parking area, it was time to get out the flash light. Not totally dark, but definitely not enough light. The cache was only 30 metres from our parking spot and MiniGomes and I were able to make the quick find.

15th View

This is nice little park that we'll definitely have to return to during daylight and perhaps a little warmer.

Also of note, is that today is my 89th straight day of caching!! After tomorrow I'll be one quarter of the way through this project!!

Happy Caching!

Happy Hallowe'en!!!

Today was day 86!! As soon as I came home, I went out to get the cache before all the little trick or treaters came out. It was a simple cache not too far from home. I had tried this cache before but came away empty handed. It was a very cloudy and rainy day and the iPhone was bouncing all over.

Today was different, with the clear skies the iPhone lead MiniGomes and I right to GZ.

I Am Not Part Of This System

A unique and fun hide.

More caching to come, I'll try to update the blog more frequently.

Cheers.....

Caching Frenzy!!

I know it's been a while since I last blogged, but we have been keeping up the work and have kept the streak going. I have a few pictures but they are still on the iPhone. Hopefully I can download for next time.

So tonight CelyG and I went out to get our cache. We were scouting the area to determine our best approach to GZ, went the iPhone started to buzz! Four new caches!! Where were they and could we possible beat the Flintstones and get a FTF? So we looked at he description of the first cache and the CO was Flintstone himself! That made CelyG very excited and determined to to get a FTF. So off we went, as these caches were not around the corner, they were close to Derry and Dixie.

We arrived at the first GZ and was happy to be the FTF!
Wilma's Wild Willow Walkabout

At the second cache, again we were greeted with a FTF!!
A Cache Made for A King

At the third cache, we did not get an FTF, however we met up with a fellow cacher.
Derryside Green P&G

The last cache was done in the dark and CelyG and Nicjonh, got closest to GZ, however, from about 5 metres above them I was able to spot the cache container. Again not a FTF, but a fun find.
The Tilbury Micro

A great night of caching that was made possible by fellow cacher Flintstone5611. Thanks for all the great hides tonight!

68 straight days and still counting.......

60 days and counting......

Sorry it's been so long since my last update but I just can't remember to log on every night, other things keep getting in the way.
However, tonight's adventure was memorable enough that I decided to stay up and get some words down. Plus, I have reached the 2 month mark!! Yeah!!!
So tonight I was a busy after school activity night. Mark was with Mason at swimming, and Celeste had piano lessons then play practice, and both Mark and I are starting to come down with a cold. I drop Celeste off at 7pm for her play practice and I decide to go for a cache just of Queen Street.
I was able to park at the Legion just down from the path system into the park, it was a short 250 metres toward GZ from there. A nice evening for the short walk.
As I approached GZ, I decided to read the hint as it was getting dark and even though I had a flashlight I didn't want to be there for too long! I followed the hint instructions and was soon looking between all the rocks and in the crevices. At one point, one of my feet got stuck and I could not get it out! I thought I would need to call for help (thank goodness I did have my I phone), but I was able to keep calm and get my foot out. After that little incident, I rested my butt on a rock and ended up staring straight at the cache! A nice ammo box in the middle of the city. One worth checking out!

Life in the Pits

Only 10 more months to go.....

Afternoon Cache.

Today I worked from my home office and it was such a beautiful fall day. The rain held off during the moning and I went out at lunch time and was amazed by the nice temperature. So I decided that it would be a perferct time to pick up the daily cache.

I drove a few kilometres from my home, and spotted a local trail head and decided to pull over and see if there was a cache and of course there was! I was a little worried as the terrain was at level three. However, the cache was less the 100 metres away, so I was pretty sure that I would be able to get to it.
After a short walk down the path, I approached GZ and it was a nice little area.

I thought how can this be terrain level three? However, getting to GZ was a little challenging as there was a lot of brush to go through and the terrain was rough, but it was manageable! A very nice hide by an active local cacher, Flinstone5611.

Caching Between A Rock And Hard Place

I also have one picture from yesterday, I forgot I was able to take one with the iPhone before it got too dark.
This was not where the cache was hidden but the stump was a good decoy to distract us from the real hide.

Well, that's it for tonight!

Mosquitos in September??

So tonight the whole family ventured out to get the cache, we waited until after dinner so we ventured out at almost 7pm. It wasn't yet dark, but the light was fading fast.
I told Mark just to drive, and when he felt like it to pull over and we would look for the nearest and easiest cache. So we go to a little area in Brampton near a school with a trail near by, and there was cache on the walking trail. The kids and I started down the trail and soon approached the spot where we would have to leave the trail for the forest. The cache was only about 25 metres off the path, but dusk was setting in fast, and the flashlight was back in the car. Thank goodness the iPhone has app for that!
We approached GZ and there were several options. Unfortunately, it was getting dark too fast, so no pictures. But trust me it was a nice little area, perfect for a cache. After searching the wrong log, we looked at option two and soon made the find.

Captain Awesome

While searching and signing the log several mosquito's feasted on my blood! There were so many of them I was beginning to think that it May instead of the end of September! I guess I can't complain too much, at least it wasn't raining!!

Streak is at 52 days and counting........

Rain Rain Go Away

Okay it's been 10 days since I posted last. I am officially a horrible blogger. Maybe I can get better?

It's been a crazy 10 days, first, yes I have kept the streak alive. There have been a lot of things keeping the family busy. First it was back to school, end of year softball games and then this past weekend was GHAGAFAP event, the tenth and possibly last one.

Each day I have been able to get at least one cache and sometimes more and until today the weather has been co-operative. Today I could not avoid the rain. I attempted one cache, but there was too much mud leading to the cache ans even though it was only 15 metres away the mud was too much and I had to abandon that one. So back to the car to look for another option. Fortunately, there was one not too far away.
What I did next leads me to ask everyone a question. When you go out searching for a cache, do you look at the description and the hint? Or do you only look at the description or neither of them?

This question also came up on the weekend. We went to a cache, we used only the co-ordinates, no description or hint. The find was easy enough and the container was awesome. The kids found the items in ammo box very cool and traded one item. After we got home, I was making our log and read the full description and realized that items were NOT to be traded from this cache. We did not take the item on purpose, we were just trying to make the cache more of a mystery without looking at all the information.

But today, with the weather I did not want to be heading in the wrong direction so I read both and was thankful that I did, or I would have been bushwhacking in the rain. Instead I was able to follow a trail for a short distance instead of the bushwhack. The find was a nice ammo container and despite the rain it was a quick find.

Nelson's Conundrum

Another day down......rain rain go away......

Out and about.

So today was my last day of vacation and I really have not accomplished too much. I mean I have been getting my cache a day (very important!), however, all the things I wanted to do around the house have not been done. Yesterday, we did manage to get all the weeds in the backyard cut down. Yes, I said cut down, they were so high they needed to to be cut. Now we can enjoy the backyard during the cool fall nights that seem to be upon us already.
So what did I do today? Well I decided to go on a little road trip with my Elaine. She needed to make an urgent trip to get some needles for her quilting machine and I offered to go along for company. Now Elaine recently got a new car and when I say recent, well I was the first ever passenger! It still had that new car smell! It was it's first real road trip. So out we headed, now we knew where we were going but I was technically the navigator and I'm sure Elaine is regretting that decision. Not that we got lost or anything, but we did have to do a few turn arounds and had to take the long way around to get to one of the Quilt stores that we visited.
I managed to by a some Christmas charm squares at the first store but was able to keep the debit card in the purse at the second one. Although there was a very nice Owl Kit, that I looked at three times but still left empty handed. Elaine picked up a few things at each store, unfortunately I don't have pictures of anything today.
We did manage to stop for one cache. It was very cool. Tricky, yet obvious. Again no picture, but if you are in the area, you should check it out.

The Big Red Box

After the cache we attempted to go to the closest McDonalds, and we saw something I have never seen before. It was closed! They were renovating. Of course there is always another McDonalds not far away (just like Timmy's) and at the next one one we were also able to get to a Canadian Tire where Elaine was able to pick something of her to do list. By this time it was already 5pm so no more caching as I needed to be in Mississauga for 6:30 and we were in Grimsby!
Well that's it for today.

Already have my cache for today. I had to go to Mississauga today for an appointment, so I decided to pick up a quick cache while there.

Mearsh Micro

It was a quick find and the weather does not look promising and I didn't want to get stuck caching in the rain.
One more done.....

One month down.......

Now that school is back in session it might be a few weekends before we have a weekend like the one we just had.
On Sunday, we decided to get the two more of the GeoTrail caches for the Lake Erie region so that we would have enough punches to qualify for the coin. The caches were not too difficult, one was located at an entrance to a nice little public beach area. However, it was too cool to go for a swim. Temperature was very different then the day before. We now have 10 punches in our log book and we can return to the visitor centre to get our coin. Unforunately, the centre was not in the direction we were heading so we had to forego the coin until another day. We did manage to get one more cahce in the Buffalo/Niagara region, so we already have two punches for this region.
Elaine, Marion, Carol Nicole, Bill - Whenever you guys are ready we can go. It really isn't that far!!

Then on Monday, we thought we'd rest a little. That didn't last long. Mark still had the itch to go cacahing, so we planned a little trip to Acton and did 12 caches there on Monday. There was one cache in particular that drove me crazy. MiniGomes and I had gone to GZ and had actually looked at it several times. It wasn't until Mark and CelyG came out tolook that MiniGomes made the discovery. Just look how small and sneaky this cache is!

Then yesterday and today I did local caches, ones closer to home. The next few weeks will be quiet as we have lots of back to school activities and the champions days for baseball this weekend. However, I am excited about September 17th, it's the 10th annual GHAGAFAP Event.

GHAGAFAP X - The Milestone


Well one month down and 11 more to go....and thanks to Elaine for keeping me on my blogging toes, I still don't know how you manage to get this done almost every day!

Great Lakes Seaway Trail

Well it's been a crazy 24 hours! We left Toronto yesterday and drove through to Erie, PA. Our plan, to cache on the GeoTrail of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail.
http://www.seawaytrail.com/geotrail.html
It is an amazing trail that travels along all of the great lakes (on the American side). If you complete 10 of 15 caches in each section you can get a commemorative coin. Our goal was to get 10 in the Lake Erie section.

On Friday as we drove down I90, I recognized a view point as having the same name as one of the caches int a different region, but we stopped anyway. It was our second cache of the evening (as we had stopped for one near the visitors centre, just after we crossed the border).

Then we continued all the way to Erie and we got a hotel room for the night, so we could get up early and begin our adventure.

So this morning we awoke early (at least by my standards) and were out the door by 8:30am, and off to our first cache location. However, we had to make a little detour...Cracker Barrel...for some fried apples!! Yummy! All was not lost as we were able to pick up several urban caches during this pit stop!

It was so humid out today that we never did take the bikes off the back of the van! :(
Our first stop for the GeoTrail was a cache that was down a very steep hill.

And here is Celeste on the steep staircase.

Now most were not like this, they were on trails that had easy access.
Here is Celeste at the Environmental Centre, one of the places you can pick up a log book.

 Now we lost some time here as there was a lot to see, and the State Park at Presque Isle was also a distraction. There were a lot of caches on the Isle, but we wanted to see some of the sights so we took a drive down one lane and completed a virtual cache about the War of 1812.  We will definitely return here, there was too much to see and not enough time. It was already time for lunch, so we stopped for a burger and fries at a local eatery. Man was it hot out!
After refuelling, off to do more caching! During our journey, we saw this street sign and just had to take a snap shot for Elaine and Carol.

And can you believe that I haven`t even once looked for a quilting store or fabric shop?

Well that's the last photo I can load, because Mark took the rest in RAW format and I don't have time to convert them as we are still it the US. You might think it would be easy to get 10 caches in a day? Well we were not able to make it. Maybe if we ignored all the other caches in between and all the other interesting thinks to see. One we couldn't find (like many other cachers before us), and two had too many muggles around and we couldn't wait them out. So just before the sun went down we were able to get our 9th cache on the GeoTrail.
So we are spending another night in the US and tomorrow morning, we will get the 10th cache plus a few more and then head back to Canada.

I'm exhausted..the other two are already asleep...I'm heading there now.....