Geocaching Continues--
IN THE WATERWAY BY THE SEA

Ground Zero for this cache is in this shady little rest-area where Sue is searching along the intercoastal waterway in Sebastian, FL.  On this day's outing we found 11 caches out of 11 on our hunt plan and set the stage for cache number 700 to occur on my next outing.

While searching in the Sebastian area we encountered The Pirate Ship Calypso--and another cache--on the Pirate's dock where miscreant visitors, and sometimes those who fail to find the cache, are subjected to punishment in the wooden stocks below.

One of our finds later in this day's hunt involved a "Nano" sized cache.  That's it in my hand below.  It is a tiny, hollow cylinder about 1/2" in diameter and 3/4" in length with a magnet embedded in its base.  The magnet allows it to be placed on any steel surface.

We even find some of these down here attached to, say, the trunk of a tree deep in a palmetto scrub field.  The cache hider simply runs a steel screw with a large head into the tree and presto, a magnetic nano like the one pictured below is stuck to a very un-magnetic location making it, indeed, a challenge to find.

For my photography enthusiast friends, you may be surprised to know all the pictures in this posting were done with my little Canon, $100, point and shoot digital camera.

Cache #700 was found a few days later when a new geocaching friend and I ran another successful string of finding 11 caches in a row in the Indrio Savannah Preserve south of Vero Beach.  If you know of Sue's fear of snakes you will understand why she chose to skip this particular expedition.

...alligator's too.  That same geocaching friend and I recently encountered this gator in the northwest corner of the Oslo Road Conservation Area just a chip shot north of our FL winter home.