As I pulled into the driveway from work Friday evening, Nana
met me at the door (oh-oh!!!). She pulls me aside and says she had an idea -
"Let's take off and go geocaching!
I’ve had a week full of kids and it’s time to go off by ourselves! The car is full of gas and I have everything
ready to pack, let’s go caching!"
(Whew!)
After talking about it for a few minutes, we decided to
leave early in the morning and head to the Eastern Shore. I think she had her heart set on Greensville,
NC but by the end of the weekend I think she was more than happy with our quick
weekend trip up to Assateague and then into Maryland and back home again. We ended up finding 34 caches on Saturday including
and 25 on Sunday!!!
It had been almost 3 years since we had cached on the
Eastern Shore of Virginia and I was anxious to go back and see some more of the
history of the area.
Some of the highlights of our trip were:
Cape Charles, VA - 2 nice caches right on the
waterfront. One of them is an
earthcache: Chesapeake Bay Bolide
Indiantown Recreation Park - a beautiful little park located
just east of Eastville, VA - we found 5 of the even caches in the park!
Onacock, VA has a series of six caches which tour the quaint
old town and visit some of the historic sights
Makemie Monument Park, located on the Chesapeake side of the
Eastern shore is a little park way out in the middle of no-where-ville. Unfortunately we were unable to make the find
here but the park sure had some great scenery.
Chincoteague has plenty of caches spread around the fishing
community and nearby Assateague Island has an Earthcache and a Virtual.
Favorite points were awarded to the following caches over
the two days of Caching:
GC3FTT1 – The Bunker – hidden by Banshee74 - located in the
Virginia Eastern Shore Wildlife Refuge the cache is located at the site of old
Fort John Custis. The bunker used to house 16 inch guns used to protect the naval
bases and shipyards located in the Hampton Roads area. There were about 800
soldiers stationed to defend the entrance of the Chesapeake Bay.
GC3CGX9 – CJS – Cape Charles Historic
Dictrict – part of the Captain John Smith series.
GC38V65 – What a wreck! – hidden by
Kivotos – located down a small trail there was apparently a meteorological
tower here long ago.
GC33T6B – Another bank in the red – hidden
by Kivotos – lovely scenery near a public boat ramp
GC3PQK5 – Nursery Keeper (Micro) – hidden
by TeamMedlock – located in a small park which was commemorated to a local
Nursery owner.
GC2YRB8 – The Healing Garden – hidden by
Banshee74 – a tricky little cache in a lovely memorial garden
GC3CGZ8 – CJS – Onancock #2 Ker Place –
another of the Captain John Smith series – a beautiful old house and garden.
GCHN4C – guard the beach – hidden by
volks-man – a very nice stroll down the beach and then inland a little –
guarantee you will remember this location for quite some time!
GC39Z63 – Farewell to Sassy – hidden by
Run&Hike – antoher scenic location and a great story to go with the cache.
GC1BPNK – Chincoteague Bay Earthcache –
hidden by Run&Hike – located near the above cache, the scenery here is to
be remembered.
GC17D0C – Crossing the Wagram – this cache
had been on our DNF list since the last time we were up this way. Almost three years later we redeem ourselves
by making the find! Hope the cache owner
doesn’t mind if I steal this idea for our own version.
GC16XED – You get a line, I’ll get a
pole! – hidden by Run&Hike – another great cache idea we might steal for
our own version!
Winners of the “COVETED” SNAP!!! Cache of the Day were:
Saturday – GCBBF7 – Assateague Lighthouse – hidden by
lidar0101 – A virtual cache full of history!
Sunday – GC2WVGV – Ahoy Mate, Curtis Merritt Harbor – the location
was great but the cache container was even better. Nana & I have almost 5000 finds and had
never seen this before!!!
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| The view from our room! |
When we made it back home late Sunday we totaled up the
finds. 1 Virtual, 1 Puzzle, 1 Letterbox,
4 Earthcaches and 52 Traditional caches – plus I got to do them all with my
great caching partner – NANA - not bad for a last minute trip!!!!
As Always – Stay Safe & Keep Caching!!!
SNAP!!! – Suffolk Nana & Papa
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