Actually, I guess the title more accurately should be "13 Finds, One DNF (did not find) and a Grammar Lesson", but that seemed a little unwieldy. But that's the short and sweet truth of our GC'ing day on March 1. Yes, we (BatikFreak10--my sister Sally) and I are getting into spring geocaching mode.
Check things out:
Although not our first cache for the day, this is a shot of a well done cache and the well equipped geocachers tools:
* Pack full of swag to leave, swag to take home as souvenirs , pens and pencils, batteries, water, candy bars (very necessary)... You get the idea.
* Open geocache. This one was put in place by a church youth group and is the traditional ammo box.
* GPS device
* Camera to record finds, disappointments, odd scenery, odder people, yadda X 3
* Pathtags (blue bag) to leave. Pathtags are discussed elsewhere below (scroll down) and are trinkets to leave as a way of saying "I was here".
One of our few guardrail type caches for the day. Do you see it? It's the shiny inspection panel. The hider made several of these to scatter about. Quite effective a hide. When properly positioned you are almost afraid to touch the panel. It looks like part of the telephone installation.
BatikFrak10 shows off one of the better caches. This one was way up a hiking trail (water crossings required) and then hidden in a very rocky area to further complicate finding it. The cache owner left a disposable camera in the cache so you could leave him/her a memento photo of yourself. But this time the film was used up and we couldn't leave a photo behind. Nice hide.
This and the photo below show some of the trail to the cache shown above and one of the water crossings.
And now for the unfortunate grammar lesson. This is a trail marker that visitors to our area will see. Think about these questions:
* Is the Billy Goat gruff? * Does the Billy Goat own the gruff trail? * Does it say the Billy Goat is gruff? Groan.
Of course, the trail name is taken from the old childhood story "The Three Billy Goats Gruff". The goat(s) should not have this offending comma. Things like this can leave a bad impression as to the educational level of my home. In this case, the bad impression is justified. How sad. End of tirade.
No, there's no photo of our one DNF because we didn't find it. Of course.
Nice story, Dan. Looks like Spring has sprung in your neck of the woods.
ReplyDeleteLet's conclude this grammar lesson with a punctuation lesson. Your offending punctuation mark is better known as an apostrophe, rather than a comma. As written, it would indicate that Billy Goat owns a gruff trail.
Oh, nice seeing "BatikFrak10" again...lol
I'm going to stand by my learned commentary (why are you laughing?). I am not sure that the equipment used to rout the wood to make signs has both a comma and a apostrophe available. I think it's a "one figure for all uses" type thing.
ReplyDeleteAh, my dear learned friend, a comma is on the line, not above the line. Therefore, in this example, the punctuation is definitely an apostrophe.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I knew that.
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