2015-03-28: An Event and Geocaching Around Lake County

Today was a Geocaching event day hosted by QQnonrev up at the new Lake Hiawatha Preserve in Clermont, FL. It started at 7:30 in the morning, so we were a little late in arriving and missed out on the group photo below. The cachers who attended were: of course the hosts QQnonrev, YankaBucs & MsYB, CoalCracker7, TeamFelixG, RD69, MrsL10, TT23, RAHNNERGOTHUC, kricklick, victorthevmandawson1, TheLF, stephers88, framptoncomesalive, TomToad, DirtyD13, moparots, Turfgator, Pen4, and GeoCharmer81. Had a good time there chatting with some old friends and meeting a couple new ones. And found a few caches in the park also.

After we left there, we ended up heading south picking up random Geocaches. Our total finds for the day was 22. Tomorrow we head back up to the ONF for another hike with a few friends we saw this morning.

2015-02-21: Geocaching and a Long Hike in the Ocala National Forest

WOW, what a hike! Today we met up with another cacher, RD69, to hike another section of the Florida Trail through the Ocala National Forest. The rendezvous point was where the Florida Trail crosses Hwy 42 near Paisley. We left one car there, jumped into the other and drove around up to CR445 to begin the hike there.

We hiked a total of around 13 miles averaging between the 2 GPS's and one pedometer. Along the way we found 60 caches with only 2 DNF's. Another great day in the ONF grabbing caches, hiking, and enjoying the outdoors. What's next?

This tree looks like a gorilla ran into it at full charge!

This section had a boardwalk running through the scrub.