CACHE EXTRAVAGANZA - Part 1

My wife and I took a camping trip up this weekend, this time to MacKerricher State Park north of Fort Bragg. This was probably our last trip for the season, but if it stays 100 degrees much longer here in Sacto, it might not be! We also planned a totally awesome geocaching spree, with over 20 caches to locate!The picture above is one of the numerous bridges on the coast route of California, spanning a dramatic gulch, this one called Russian Gulch. We started our caching day at the points furthest south and worked our way up the coast. Here at Russian gulch we nailed two caches, one of which gave us great views of the wack-job abalone divers out in the kelp forest. See below.This particular cache is classified as a "micro", which usually means a film case, altoids can or something like that. They'll be stuck with magnets to guardrails, hung in trees with hooks or stuffed into nooks and crannies. These things are seriously ALL OVER THE PLACE. With my able co-cacher (pictured below) we started off the day with two easy finds and caught glorious views of the coast on this perfect early fall day!
Our next mission was to Point Cabrillo Lighthouse. We picked up a travel bug while home in Maine that we needed to deposit at a cache here. Travel bugs are these little tags attached to some random object that either have a specific mission (ie. travel to different lighthouses) or are just randomly traveling around the globe. This travel bug in particular was called the Pemaquid Point TB, after a lighthouse on the Maine coast. We snapped a picture of it with Point Cabrillo and deposited it for the next lucky cacher!

In the next post we'll get to the caching coup de gras, WHALE ROCK!!!!! This cache required, skillz, mad skillz. These last few shots are at the campground. They have a whale skeleton there, and of course Sarah just HAD to ham it up.
Finally, a few sunset pictures... these were taken at the seal watching station at the camp ground. We wandered down there for a couple of cache's just at the right time to catch the sun going down and to laugh as the poor seals got washed off the rocks. There are a FEW things about California I will miss, the north coast is one of them!