Geocaching January 2022

We started our new year's geocaching adventures with a couple of finds on Kent Island, which is at the other end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge from Annapolis, Maryland. 

The first find was at the southern end of the island, a cache called MATAPEAKE TRAIL: Diet Pepsi vs Roman Coke??? The unusual name is based on the name of the town, Romancoke. We looked for a while at the obvious spot that was wrong, eventually expanding our search until we made the find. The views of the Chesakpeake Bay from the little park are very nice.

Blogger, son, and brother

View from the park

View of the park

Neither the cache page nor the signs at the park explained the unusual name.

Our second find was CAM 2007 - Kent Island. It's located by the Matapeake Park club house which has been undergoing restoration for over twenty years. We didn't go inside, just headed for the beach.

The club house

Grandpa ringing in the new year

The cache is off one of the trails and not to hard to find with minimal bushwhacking. The beach is nice, even in January, and has a good view of the Bay Bridge, which does not photograph well.

A very long bridge

On an errand run, I found Mondo's On Every Corner #: Learning Curve. It's a standard hide that's near a university extension.

You can probably guess the hiding spot from the photo

I also found About Eye Level, which was a tougher find, mostly because the slope of the hiding area. I parked below and had a short climb into the wooded area. I wished I had a bag to Cache-In-Trash-Out. I'll be more prepared next time!

There's more slope that you can see