Freeway Junction

Freeway Junction (GC1ACM2) is a micro cache by gkseal. The name really says it all. But you need the co-ordinates because there are two similar signs in close proximity – so make sure you go to the right sign or you could be jumping for nothing!

Jumping is right. Finding the sign was easy. Seeing the cache was pretty easy too. The hard part was getting it down – so for those of us who are vertically-challenged (like us), a bit of jumping may be required.

Got the right one? "2km" is where it's at. Woof!

Like most micros, there’s a log and not much else – BUT in this case we were very surprised to see the Wyoming Wombats had also been here TODAY… it was a first for us to sign a log that had already been signed the same day. Freaky!  The rain is coming – time to go home and write these blogs.

The Dawn of the Mystery

Sunday afternoon and there’s some time to go hunting for a few more local geocaches. Being a weekend, I thought it would be a safe time to check out one in an nearby Wyoming industrial area called The Dawn of the Mystery (GC1FQ2D) by The Fox Team.

The satellite view indicated this was located at the front of a factory – in what looked to be some kind of landscaped garden bed, hence the reason we thought a weekend would be a good muggle-free time. Well… not exactly, you see – there’s a popular 10 Pin Bowling Alley right across the street, so even though the commercial/industrial side of the street was quiet, there was a steady stream of muggles coming and going from the bowling alley.

Not to be deterred we waited, and picked a time to make a jump for it. There was only so many places this small cache could be – and as a previous log for the cache had indicated – there two large brown lizards on either side of the cache came out from under the garden as if they were the guardians of the cache! Thankfully the lizards were rather friendly – but the shrub itself was rather prickly – so take care when retrieving this one!

Click to zoom - look closely at ear level for 2 lizards

The lizards ran away a second before this picture.

We signed the log, swapped a precious stone for a knight, and as we were taking the above pictures a muggle drove past and LAUGHED at us. Hmph!  Grab the dog – we’re outta here.

The Keys to Treachery

We haven’t seen many “theme” caches – but my second one for today was just that. This cache by Brethren of the Coast is called The Keys to Treachery (GCYYK2) and is all about keys. To quote from the cache description: “the one requirment to this cache is that the contents and swaps be keys, of some sort. old keys, new keys, toy keys, piano keys, spam keys , keys to your new Porsche!”

I think this cache has to go down as my fastest and easiest find ever. After reading the clue and hint, the very first place I looked yielded the small cache – so the hunt took literally just a few seconds.  It’s in a very well protected, clever, discrete, and almost-weatherproof location – yet many people pass by here daily oblivious to its existence.

Wolfie guarding the Keys to Treachery!

I didn’t really come well-prepared for swaps here. In fact, I hadn’t even properly read the description that said it was about keys until I opened the container and there was a note in there that echoed the same instruction – but I did manage to find an old key ring in my car which I no longer needed, so I left it – and took nothing in return. Signed the log. Thanks for the Cache!