Geocaching March 2025

The month start with some spotty caching here and there. I am not back into the full swing of things yet after the death of my son.

My first set of caches was during my daughter's robotics competition. I dropped her off early and took an hour to find some caches at nearby John Downs Memorial Park. The Wishing Bench is in a formal garden from back in the day when the land was a summer home. The bench is still there and is supposed to grant wishes if you sit quietly and wish hard.

The wishing bench

The pic with me wishing

Also in the park are Lying Downs on the Job, Downs and Outs, and Ups and Downs. They are scattered around the park, making for some nice walks.

Beach part of the caching

Busted with a bowtie

Outside the park was LSLS #1 Blair Loves Books, a geocache part of the Lake Shore Love Series. I only found this first one.

Later, I returned to the Warriors and Brothers In Arms trail with Tunnel Rat and Dorie Miller. Nearby Glendale's Finest is an easy find behind a fire station.

The "tunnel" in Tunnel Rat

Pointe du Hoc is another WBIA find the next day. The day after was Pi Day (3/14) and I found a round-containered Use Your Head. 

On the second weekend of my daughter's robotic competition, I was close enough to DC to sneak in and find Masonic - Scottish Rite Temple, a wherigo cache that told stories about the Masonic Temple in the nation's capital. 

Locus of the cache

An earthcache took me to Meridian Hill Park to find a statue called "Serenity." Serene But Weathered Carrara Marble describes the deterioration of the statue from vandalism and the elements.

Seen better days

Just outside the park I found a fun container for Slow Going, a traditional cache.

I few days later I picked up two cemetery caches: Chapel Hill - Waterloo and Old Salem Church and Cemetery. 

Chapel Hill Cemetery, on a hill as described

Old Salem Church

Sneak Attack was a tricky find near the church--I needed a photo from a previous finder. 

Notables in Forest Glen Cemetery is part of a series of multicaches focusing on famous people buried in the DC area. It was easy to solve. On the way to the final cache I found Carolina Wren and after the find Can You Hear Me Now #2. 

Reston Rocks is an earthcache next to a lake in Reston, Virginia. The rocky outcropping is unlikely and provides a little info on the ancient history of the area.

A nice lake

Rocks!

I avenged a DNF (Did Not Find) at Check Me Out... by a roadside. Also nearby, I discovered Among the Rocks and Mints-Mints-Mints.... 

Carol 103 west was an easy find during my youngest's orchestra rehearsal. The next day I had CCT - 50 Events - Challenge Cache Trail done.

We went for a kayaking adventure in Annapolis and I was able to get a picture for the Ego Alley virtual cache.

Me not in the water

On a trip to Brookside Gardens, I took a picture for the Welcome to Brookside Gardens virtual cache and the Brookside Gardens Labyrinth multi-cache. I also completed all the stages for the local Adventure Lab but couldn't make it to the bonus cache that day.

For the virtual

At the labyrinth

I finished the month filling another calendar day with a mystery/unknown cache, CCT - 3 Continents, which requires the cacher to have found geocaches on three different continents. We honeymooned in Middle Earth, I mean, New Zealand, so I had credit for Oceana in addition to North America and Europe.

I end the month with 34 finds and a grand total of 1757.