#900

At 6:51PM we hit our next milestone at Gizmo's Revenge (GC108DD) by GT. Find #900!! Even though we didn't plan it, this turned out to be a very memorable cache for our milestone. Took us a little while to find it because it was not WHAT we thought it would be and it was not WHERE we thought it would be (of course it was in the last place we looked). Finally, John found the prize and he was grinning from ear to ear. He handed it off to me to extract the log. What a fun cache!

Meet and Greet Osceola Style

We had an awesome time yesterday at the event in the Osceola Forrest! It was the first time we have ever been that deep in the woods and the first time we have ever purposely driven through mudholes (John spent a couple of hours this morning washing the mud off the truck).

We completed our most difficult cache ever while riding around the forest with the NEFGA crew, Lakes of Osceola - Surrounded (GCT1JF). John had to wade to get this one and he had a blast doing it! He's been telling people all day about getting to play in the mud!

We can't wait to get back out to the forest again. Hopefully there will be another event sometime in the near future! We are also dying for a jeep 4x4 now, but, it'll be a few years before we can afford to get that toy.

Our First Travel Bug

Meet our first travel bug, Scubie the Cute Snorkling Fish. We pulled him from a cache last weekend in St. Augustine and thought he was just too cute and would make a nice travel bug. So we brought him home, activiated a tag, and attached it to him. We have yet to send him off into the great big world; we want to take him to a few events first so some of our friends can discover him before we set him free. So be on the look out for this cute little guy!

The Start of the Obsession

Back in September, we went with a friend of ours (Mrs. Booney of BooneyHunters) from school to grab something to eat in between our college classes. While driving, she pointed to a spot and said, "There's a geocache hidden there." Having no clue what she was referring to, our response was, "A geowhat??" So she turned the jeep around, pulled into the parking lot, jumped out, lifted a lamp post skirt and picked up a 35mm film canister. As we pulled the logsheet from the container, she explained to us what this sport was all about and we were fascinated.

A few days later, on September 21, 2007, Mrs. Booney took us around to a few caches in St. Augustine, FL and we made our first finds. We were immediately hooked! The very next day we arranged to meet Mrs. Booney in Jacksonville at an Off Your Rocker cache to go on our first long cache run. We were already itching for our very own GPS, so before we met her, we headed to Gander Mountain and purchased a Garmin Vista HCx.

This hobby of ours quickly grew into an obsession and before long, we were caching almost every day. By the end of December, we WERE caching every day and still are.