We went out to Golden Ears Park yesterday to do some geocaching. We had the GPS, the map and a car load of kids. We stopped at the Maple Ridge Park on our way for a warm up find - one called Bugs in the Park. We found it after a bit of searching - a first find for Desiree and Dakota. Calum wanted to take all of the bugs from this one but we convinced him to take only one.
Happy with our first find of the day we went back to the car and set off again. We made a big mistake with the cache at Golden Ears Park. The clues weren't entirely clear on where to park, and we couldn't go the most direct route (through the campsite area - you had to pay $22 to camp and we were directed to day parking). We parked in the day parking area, got our gear together and started walking. We found a great path, followed the creek and when we got to the end found that we were on the wrong side! We could see the spot where the cache was probably hidden but had no way to get to it. We had just walked 1km, had a 1km walk back to the road and it would have taken another 2km+ just to get to the cache site from the other side. After pushing the stroller up and down the path we had enough and decided to leave it for the next time we were in the area. We had fun though and it was a beautiful walk.
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