Morinville Geocaching Day 2

And Then There Were 3!

 Saturday brought another beautiful day, although the wind was a little chilly today but temperture was probably the low +'s, +3 or 4? The girl half of K&Ccache and Provit and myself headed out to pick up a few caches.  Morinville has nice paved trails from the street to the parks, so we headed to the park on one of the trails and slugged it through the snow, which was quite hard going!  We got to the first cache which we thought should be in a tree, but after the 3 of us searching for what seemed like a long time we decided to give it up, thinking that maybe the cache was gone.  Our next target was another one at the other end of this park and so we headed to it.  This one was in a tree as well, again the 3 of us searched and expanded our area and we came up empty.  We saw where we thought this one should be but there was no cache to be found.  Oh man this is getting a little discouraging, we don't mind not finding one, but two in a row is just too much for us! So we head to the next spot which is another little park, it is amazing just how many little parks that towns have.  We would never discover them unless we were involved in an activity such as geocaching.  Provit found this one easily.  My GPS was sending me on a little wild goose chase but Provits smartphone took her right to it.  It was a micro placed in a tree as well.

Yeahhh! We know that at least we will not be skunked today!  Now its time to head over to our next geocache, this one should be quite easy, it seems to be on or around the cemetary gate.  It's a nano, so we would think that it should be magnetic and on metal.  But we have found out that just because it is magnetic does not mean that it's on metal!  So the 3 of us searched and searched on the gate, on the trees, on the ground and expanded our search.  Some people were calling this one a drive up and grab! We just came up empty.  We went back to this cache 2 more times and came up empty each time. Then we came back once with the guy half of K&Ccache and Chicksteroo and we came up empty as well.   I have put a watch on this listing, I am just about certain that it is MIA!

The Three Muskateers!

This is on a golf course
that K&Ccache golfs at.

This is the St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church.  It is a grande looking building built in 1907, click on the link for more information.

I am adding a few pictures that I took on our way into Edmonton earlier in the day.

This was the back yard of an
acreage that is for sale.



Have fun caching

GeoPartnerS

Caching since 2011

Geocaching In Morinville Alberta

Visiting & Caching!



#1
 and the first one found by K&Ccache

 I was visiting in Morinville for the weekend and we decided on Friday afternoon to go and grab a few caches.  The temperature was about +7 with no wind, it was a beautiful day for a walk and some outdoor activity.  The day was a little bit of driving and then a little bit of walking.  We walked on a nice paved trail to get to the first cache. The trails are used for walking, roller blading and I am not sure if biking is allowed on the trails.  The girl half of K&Ccache had her geoeyes and geosenses on high alert because she was the "finder" of the day!  We practically followed the previous finders foot tracks to this one.  The foot prints can sure be spoilers at this time of year.  Next we headed across the highway
from Morinville, there is a little lake with stocked fish, there were a few fishermen on the lake this afternoon but they were paying no mind to us.  There were staring down their fishholes.  They are the kind of muggles we like!  We were walking in pretty deep snow at this point but that did not stop us, we trecked on!  It was an easy find for K&Ccache!


#2 find by the lake



The road to get close into this spot was really quite soft and muddy, K&Ccache's Geomobile was very muddy, and so were we! But through thick and thin that cache has to get looked for and hopefully found!  Off to our next destination which was a bit of a walk on a nice trail through a park and then some slugging through the snow.  This one was a magnetic, but we are walking along a wooden fence?  I spot a metal post on the other side of the barb wire and I decide to crawl under the fence to go and check the post out, but I look up as I am crossing the fence and VOILA there is the cache tucked neatly up against the wood.  There was a metal disk attached to the wood for the magnetic cache to stick to.  We liked this one a lot.  We did not expect to see it on wood, but that is the name of the game, and a CO who has put some thought into hiding the cache.  A different hide makes it interesting and fun for the seekers.



#3 on the fence

This last one was by the Morinville Leagion, the memorial is dedicated to our heros who served our country. 

This cache was a little tricky as well, usually when looking in a tree the cache is placed by the tree truck, this one was not, it was at the tip of the branch.

This is what the plaque reads.

DEDICATED TO SERVICEMEN, SERVICEWOMEN AND RCMP MEMBERS WHO SERVED AT HOME AND ABROAD BOER WAR - WW1 - WW 11 KOREA WAR - UN PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS - NATO MISSIONS - AFGHANISTAN WAR PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE MAY WE EVER REMEMBER THEM.

Have fun caching

GeoPartnerS

Caching since 2011