So I bought myself a GPS unit to do geocaching solo. I debated back and forth between the Magellan eXplorist GC that they actually made specifically for geocaching and the Magellan Triton 1500 before finally landing on the Triton. Just in case I ever want it for anything other than geocaching. I went and tested it out this morning on a cache that I had already found once. I was very pleased! It was spot on and very easy to operate. I'm enjoying it.
On my way out of the cache location I was taking photos of plant life that caught my attention[ ...and the swing set. =D], when I heard a helicopter nearby. So, I stopped and watched it come around the mesa nearest the park and thought to myself "my it's getting awfully low". Then it sunk in that it was indeed going to land. I was quite confused, where the hell would it land around here? It lowered itself near a house just behind the park. All the kids at the park became quite ecstatic and run up the hill to watch. I still haven't the slightest clue as to why it was out there.
I then went to scout out a potential cache placement. There's a bridge near the park and I wanted to see what sort of cache I could get away with up there. If it were on the bridge itself it'd have to be a nanocache. However, I could hide a smaller cache around the bridge somewhere. After scouting out the bridge I was headed back to my car along the sidewalk. I was just about there when I heard a rustle in the ground oak next to me, not a very quiet rustle either. Much to my surprise a large doe bounded out in my direction, stopped dead in her tracks when she saw me and just stared. She was an easy 20 ft away...just staring. I made no quick movements and slowly got out my camera. She started to walk back into the ground oak as I did this, but I did manage to get a shot before she was out of sight. I wish I had been able to act faster when she was much closer.
Overall quite an exciting morning before work!
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