Leakage from a Cluttered Mind

Both of these are in Sycamore Grove park. They are actually close together, but divided by the creek. Since I didn’t want to wade the creek, it was a bit of a hike to go back over the bridge.

Snips N’ Snails is obviously a companion to Sugar N’ Spice (found previously), but I miscalculated when at Sugar N’ Spice and thought it was on the opposite side of the creek. Then after getting over to Puppet Theater, I realized that was wrong, but was out of time. It’s a pretty easy find, and a possibility for Cortnie since it’s got toy stuff in it.

Puppet Theater is so named because of a huge Sycamore tree that has a hollow trunk with a ‘door’ on one side and a ‘window’ on the other. Along with Dan and Janet, I’d tried to find this cache last weekend, but we couldn’t. Seemed like we looked everywhere.

Perhaps I’ve been watching too many CSI reruns, but my geocaching kit now includes gloves and a flashlight. Putting them to use enabled me to fairly quickly find the cache today.

Oh, and I found part 1 of Fisherwoman’s Reprise, but the next stage is at the far end of the park off Arroyo Road.

A few days ago I made an attempt to get to this location from the south, off of Vineyard. The maps, and visual inspection, made it look like I could cross country to the cache location. This was not true. In addition to gravel pits, there is a creek with running water, steep sides, and dense undergrowth.

Today I still entered through the Vinyard Road gate, but took regular trails to get to the bridge across the creek and then walked the levee trail to the cache location. Bushwacked Again is near the edge of one of the gravel pit ponds. For a while I was led astray by a number of use trails in the area (maybe all made by other cache hunters), but finally spotted it.

By the way, the title is misspelled (should be bushwhacked) unless it is intentionally this way to indicate wackiness.

I also made another attempt for Cache Cow, but again came away frustrated.