Geocaching from the Carolinas

In an attempt not to flood the usual monthly geocaching update, I'm posting the caches we found on our Carolinas vacation. We went over spring break in 2022 and did a lot of fun things, including finding geocaches.

Our first find was in Chadbourn, North Carolina, a small town once known for its strawberries. Take Me Out to the Ball Game is not named after the local delicacy but after the field next to the cache. The dugouts were really nice but the diamonds has not been kept pristine, probably another victim of Covid.

View from the cache

In South Carolina, our base of operations was North Myrtle Beach. Our first caches in the area in the Cherry Grove neighborhood. The first find was up with the vines by the Cherry Grove Boat Launch. The area has a lot of construction going on which make it a bit of a challenge. We were intrepid enough to hop a small fence and make the find.

Past the dangers is the cache

Half a mile away is What's Fer Lunch. This cache is in Heritage Shores Nature Park. The park has some short trails through a wetland. At the end of the wetland is a covered picnic table that overlooks the intercostal waterway. We ran into some people there who had heard of geocaching. One of them found the cache for us! We signed the log and went off, happy to do a little geo-evangelizing.

It's in there somewhere

Another water themed cache is He's a bad buoy...., in a parking lot along Route 17, the main highway roughly north to south through Myrtle Beach. The hide was nicely done.

Lots of potential ground zeroes

On our way home, we found Emergency Operations Center, which is in front of the Pender County (North Carolina) Fire Department that also is the home of the Pender County Emergency Management Office. The find was fairly easy. One of the workers noticed us and came out. He said he knew what we were doing and hadn't checked on the cache in six months. We discovered the log was soggy and he said he would get something for us. He came back with a coin that they had from Hurricane Florence, which was the most awesome geofind we've ever had.

Posing near the cache site

Showing off the coin

Further along on our trip, we picked up Aquia Episcopal Church which was, as seems obvious, at the Aquia Episcopal Church in Stafford County, Virginia. The church is on a hill overlooking I-95, so it was an easy off-and-on from the highway and a nice chance to stretch our limbs.

View from the cache

The trip was a lot of fun. More posts on other activities coming soon!