Saturday, November 28, 2009

GeoSheriff Geocoin

On our drive back from Florida to New Jersey after Thanksgiving vacation, we took a quick break and stopped at the I-95 Coin Drop geocache. It was an easy find, and a decent sized container, the idea of which is to exclusively exchange coins and travel bugs. We left our DNF geocoin and took the GeoSheriff geocoin.

Friday, November 27, 2009

Anthus Laptop Geocoin in Pedro's Bridge

While travelling home from Florida, we stopped at the infamous South of the Border and found the geocache called Pedro's Bridge. It was a magnetic key holder hidden on the pedestrian bridge crossing the main road inside the rest stop. It was pretty cold and very dark, and I was surprised to see this place as empty as it was.



I was also surprised to find the Anthus Laptop Geocoin in the cache since there was no record of it being in there. The geocoin's logs also state that it's been in the hands of another geocacher for over a year, so I'm guessing that the other guy never logged it when he dropped the coin off...

It's a pretty neat little coin. It looks like a silver laptop and even has a working hinge. This particular geocoin has already travelled over 16,500 miles, and I'll be helping it continue its jouney very soon.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

KP-What???

While visiting the grandparents in Florida for Thanksgiving, we had a few hours to kill before the big dinner so Dad and I took Gino out to find the geocache KP-What???. He found it pretty quickly (he's getting very good at this now!) and was surprised that it was a pretty large container. He decided to take a water gun, and we left our Italian Flag Micro geocoin.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

NGS Benchmark KV6401-Florence2

In Florence at the Clark T. Carey Memorial Park, also known as Volunteer's Park, at the end of Broad Street by the Delaware River is NGS Benchmark KV6401-Florence2, which was originally installed in 1959. However, the benchmark disk located in the designated spot actually reads Florence 3 with a date of 1991, which indicates the original mark was removed because it was damaged, or more likely had to be re-installed after construction of the memorial park.


Heroes

This geocache, called Heroes, was the second that Gino and I found on our short search today. Still wearing his Super Cacher cape, he eventually made the find here too. This was a nice place for a geocache, right next to a boat launch ramp and a beautiful view of the water.


The container was hidden underneath the deck railing. Gino is getting getting better at finding them. Maybe the cape had something to do with it...

The container was interesting. The cache owner glued magnets to a small block of wood, and hollowed out a little section for a nano cache container.

Who is John Galt?

Gino and I went out to grab this geocache, called Who is John Galt?, while visiting the in-laws. He found it pretty quickly. Today he was calling himself a Super Cacher because he insisted on wearing his Superman cape while we searched...