GEOCACHING II--
...our second outing

Mark, Nancy and Sue are dwarfed by the woods sparkling in the late afternoon sun (above) along the north side of the Clear Fork Reservoir near Lexington on the Stoller Rd. Trail.

We were in pursuit of the "Hunny Pot", a geocache about 700 meters--nearly 1/2 mile--into this sun dappled woods.  Hunny was a clever corruption of the word "honey" and turned out to be a significant clue in our ultimately finding this hide.

Prior to this ambitious hike we found our first cache of this outing in the Troy Cemetery hidden under a decaying log.

We were distracted during this search by a respectful peek at some old, very old, tombstones.  One in particular celebrated the life of an Elizabeth Black who died at the age of 33 years in 1826.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died that year too.

Her gravestone described her as the "consort" of James McFee.

I wondered how lively the definition of that word might have been 186 years ago.

In a nearby picnic area along SR 97 we failed to find a cache which clearly was hidden around or under a pedestrian bridge near the handicapped fishing facility where a small bay pokes its way inshore from the main reservoir.  That's Mark (right) doing what all four of us did, repeatedly, in this failed search around the bridge.

Nancy explained sometimes caches are stolen or simply lost to curious "muggles", uninformed folks who just happen to stumble upon these novel collections of mostly eclectic souvenirs.

Along Gass Road our second cache find was in a hide-a-key attached magnetically behind a guard rail just north of the reservoir's dam spillway.  This one reminded me I have to outfit my yet-to-be geocache kit with protection from both poison ivy and mosquitoes.

We launched our search for the "Hunny Pot" around the corner on Lexington-Ontario Rd., in a little parking area, the second one north of Gass Rd.  That's Nancy, Sue and Mark (below) discovering this cache in the hollow of an old Beech tree--much like the place where bees might choose to store their winter supply of honey.

This cache reminded me to add a mini-maglite flashlight to my kit.  Frequently we are poking our searching hands in dark places--like this tree--where reasonable people might choose to avoid that method.

On the way home Mark and Nancy shared a cache they had found on another recent outing--cleverly concealed behind a round reflector high on a no-parking sign post near Hanley Rd., and I-71.

In short order this new activity has led us to places I had never seen before and would not likely have seen if it weren't for geocaching.  

And so it goes....