The day was sunny and the winds were gone, and it was our day to move. We've been in Lawton, OK a week and we are going to El Dorado State Park in Kansas for three nights. It is the largest state park in Kansas, and we have stayed here before. We took the expressway from north of Lawton to Oklahoma City, and then through the city on I-35 to Exit 214. We fueled there and then we took Hwy. 77 north to El Dorado. There was a lot of road construction in OK City, but being that it was Sunday, we breezed through it. We saw so many Redbud trees today but nothing else too fascinating. We saw a huge refinery and storage tanks near Ponca City, OK. Someone asked about what we find geo-caching, so I went back in the archives again today and found some caches that are varied in size and description, so I'll post them.
The cache owner for this cache hollowed out a wooden fence post and put the container up the hole. When you look at the fence, you don't see anything unusual. We realized that the fence post moved when we put pressure on it. There is a log sheet inside the white container and we had to sign it with our handle of eagles_landing. Then we have to register it online with Geo-caching that we found it. They keep track of all of our finds. If we find it, we get a smiley face on the map where the coordinates are, and if we filed a DNF (Did not find) then we get a blue sad face.
This is an ammo can hidden in some rocks some place in the southwest. A pile of rocks is a dead giveaway for a hidden cache. Ammo cans protect the contents much better than pill bottles. Some people use pill bottles and disguise them with duct tape, but they aren't water proof.
The small pill bottle was hidden in this bird feeder. Of course, it was on private property, so we are always leery of trespassing, It is always the cache owner that hides on their own property. If you hide a cache on public property, you need to get permission from the property owner.
We thought this was pretty well camouflaged, and it blended in well with the environment. The cache owner drilled out a hole big enough to put a pill bottle in and glued it in so it would stay there. Then he painted it to match the surroundings, and it made it hard to find. The log sheet is in the pill bottle.
We see a lot of bird houses while we geo-cache and they contain a cache. This was a fancy one with the geo-cache symbol on the side, so we knew we were at the right place. They have to make the hole fake or birds will make a nest in there and then we would have a problem getting to the log sheet! This was in front of someone's home.
A lot of caches are hidden under rocks and they are so hard to find. You turn over a lot of rocks and sometimes you get a surprise! This cache was near our campground in St. Peter's MO at the Lakeside Campground. Much to my surprise someone was hiding out in there! He was harmless and I just put the rock back and moved on.
A lot of caches are hidden in bison tubes or nanos and I don't have any picture of them. They are pretty common, but they are also hard to find, especially if they are hidden in a pine tree or on an army tank! If we see one on our trip back to Wisconsin, I'll take a picture of it. I will also take a picture of a log sheet when I post those. Tomorrow is the nicest weather day while we are here so we will do our biggest excursion to some interesting things that I found while searching this area. It is 86 degrees here today but the cold front is moving in and it will be 61 tomorrow. It's not snowing!
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