It rained a lot during the night, but the morning was better. We packed up, cleaned the house, and headed out towards Cambria for some cache hunting on the way home.
We stopped In Harmony. Looked for a while, used the hint, and looked some more. I think we looked in every place that met the conditions of the hint, but we didn’t find it.
In Cambria, we drove out to look for A Lamp unto my feet. I guess the title should have been enough for us, but we used the hint and found it right off at 10:48 AM. Lamp refers to Lampton Street—the access road. Unto my feet means down by your feet. The hint narrowed to the left side of the steps. Dan scrambled under the steps and found the magnetic container in short order. The container is a small piece of pipe with threaded caps. Probably a bad idea—they’ll rust so fast.
Green Pastures is at a pull out along Highway 1 right in Cambria. It’s down off the road a bit. It was really soggy, with lots of ankle deep water around. I finally found it 11:19 AM. It was also a magnetic pipe like the previous one.
Captain Who? aka Tinkerpaws Place is just up the hill from main street in Cambria. You can’t help but find the cache from the description, as long as you don’t get too engrossed in marveling at the peculiar house up here on Nitt Witt Ridge. I found it at 11:47 AM.
There are other Cambria caches, but we were running out of time, so after a stop at the French Bakery, we headed east on Highway 46. The first cache along this road that we stopped for was Jewel of the Coast. An easy find at 12:15 PM with a great view of Morro Bay and the sea shore.
Just a short ways away was EM – Too. Janet just walked up and found this one at 12:23 PM.
After another short drive, Dan quickly found John’s Enigma at 12:32 PM.
Turned off on the narrow road to Cayucos (Old Creek Road) to look for EM – Four. We had to park in a wide spot a little ways away. At the cache location, the road is narrow with no shoulders. Tree cover gave the GPSr fits. We looked for quite a while until Janet found it at 12:50 PM in plain sight on the ground about 2 feet inside the fence. We replaced it elsewhere.
Then we took York Mountain Road and found (New) York Mountain Ride at 1:04 PM. This was a drive up cache.
Our final cache along Highway 46 (and the last for the day) was Coyote Cliff. It was beginning to sprinkle, and this one was up an embankment. Dan ran up and his GPSr led him past the cache. I came up behind and walked right to it at 1:15 PM.
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