Lake Forest late afternoon

We drove down to Lake Forest today for a stay at the Comfort Inn Suites. This is an isolated motel, but that tends to keep it quiet and relaxing. In the late afternoon we went walking on the nearby Serrano Creek trail and found a few caches.

We first looked for This Old Oak, but came up with a DNF. I’m pretty sure we were on the wrong side of the creek and I was searching the wrong oak tree. Shoulda been on the other trail.

Then we found Dry Creek Cache which was near a nice picnic area (3:37 PM). It was a disguised birdhouse hanging on a low branch. We continued on down the creek trail to a bridge crossing and hunted for a bit for Serrano Creek Cache. This was a cool hide of an ammo can very close to a busy trail. Found it at 3:53 PM.

Farther down the creek we found Shed a Little Light on It, a clever 2 stage multi-cache. First stage gave coords for the second, and provided a screwdriver. At the second stage location, there was an apparent rectangular outdoor lamp on the fence, but there was no power connected to it. Unscrewing the face plate revealed the booty. We found it at 4:19 PM, although Karen was pretty convinced I was tampering with someone’s equipment.

We drove a short ways to a homeowner’s association park (posted for residents only) which overlooked Serrano Creek. We immediately found Meadowlark in the farthest corner at 4:49 PM. It was a meadowlark statue.