Considering the considerable amount of cache finds on our trip to California (and the fact that it straddles two months), I am making a separate post of those finds (and a preview of what we did in the Golden State, so a sneak peek at upcoming posts)!
Our geocaching adventures started just outside Berkeley with
The Path to Indian Rock Park. The hide was in a rock that was not the big rock sticking out of the neighborhood! Like the cache title indicates, ground zero was just off a path leading up to the rock.
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Not the cache location |
The next day, we found an earthcache on the
Hayward Fault - Fremont, along with
Letters to Shore - Marlin and
Where's it Hanging? in Redwood City. The first cache was a letterbox that had me following photos through a park which was busy on a Sunday afternoon. I was worried about muggles! The final cache was in a tree with a limb down, but not the limb hiding the cache.
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Okay, maybe the park only looks busy to a geocacher |
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Lost limb does not mean lost cache |
The next day, I found
Shirley Temple, a virtual cache at the final resting place of Shirley Temple Black, famous child actor and advocate.
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At her resting place |
Further away is
Rengstorff House, another virtual near the Googleplex. Also by the house are
Rengstorff Ratsel,
HOHOHO, and
It's Not My Fault (another earthcache related to fault lines!).
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Rengstorff House |
To kill some time before meeting family, we stopped off at a library which had a multicache in a nearby park.
The Old Man and the Sea is an easy find once the final coordinates are calculated.
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The library |
We visited Stanford University's campus and found
The Road Less Traveled,
Rock Star (an earthcache), and
Tongue Radius: A Looneytunes Puzzle Cache (a mystery involving the sculpture garden below).
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Yeah, that's the cache up there |
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The Gates of Hell did not prevail against this geocacher! |
The next day, we found several caches in and around the Presidio, a former army base turned into parks and businesses.
Park Curiosity Lab is a regular cache hidden by a playground overlooking the bay and bridge.
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The fog almost lets visitors see the bridge |
Lucasfilm has office in the Presidio, featuring a Yoda fountain along with several props and things in the lobby. The fountain is also the start of a Wherigo cache
Stars, Films and Wars.
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Yoda! |
The wherigo took me all the way down to the waterfront area. The Palace of Fine Arts was across the street so I took a picture at the dome for
a virtual cache.
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Not the dome |
After dinner, we had dessert in San Mateo and picked up the
Architecture of San Mateo AL Bonus cache, since I had finished the Adventure Lab last year but hadn't had the chance to go back for the find, which was nowhere near the last location we visited. Pays to go in order, I guess!
The next day we were in South San Francisco. I found
Taryam: Nuru, the easiest of the Taryam caches (which mostly seem to involve tree-climbing, based on the attributes of the caches and the Taryam-Tarzan connection). In the same park I found
NINE HUNDRED, the nine-hundredth hide by
caccbag. According to their stats page, they are up to 1175 hides as I write this! Also in the area, I qualified for the challenges
Warninja's Distance Challenge (find a cache over 415 miles from home, easy since we've cached in New Zealand) and
Warninja's Best Day Challenge (find more than 14 caches in one day).
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Path of the Warninja |
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Which way to 900? |
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At the mission |
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In the park |
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Mission San Miguel Entrance |
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Atascadero City Hall |
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The library final! |
At the beginning of July, I found
Circular Logic and
Waters of Caltech Adventure Lab bonus cache on the campus of Caltech in Pasadena, California. Naturally, I found all of the Adventure Lab before making the final find just off campus.
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The circular bit |
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Water means...turtles! |
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Artful Lawn |
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Ribeter's home |
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Fire damage near the Tall Tale cache |
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The venue |
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The stone |
Before we flew home from LAX, I scored the
Los Angeles International Airport virtual cache with a photo by some servicemen and women from California. I used the sheet of paper from the Munich Airport cache which was still in my wallet from two years ago!
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Good spot for the 4th of July |
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