An interesting week of geocaching.....very odd!

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(Photo) Blue Angels performed at the Brunswick Naval Air Station this past weekend. I went to the last day's show. This will be the last time the Blue Angels come to Maine. Our Naval Air Station is set to close in 2011. I am not sure what they plan to do with the base....but it is sure a nice place. I am not a plane nut....but some of the jets are amazing. Our family to a train out of Rockland and was dropped off near to entrance of the military base. We had to walk over a mile to the event. There were close to 100,000 people on the final day. The weather cleared out and the visibility was great for viewing all the stunts.

Caching: I am close to getting to my goal of 100 caches with my crappy Garmin etrex Vista gps. Here is the "odd" part. I was in Rockport, Maine geocaching and I wanted to get "American Chestnut" which was a nice walk along a wooded trail that has a few foot bridges and it eventually leads out to the ocean and there is a large rock formed chair to sit in (the cache is behind it). Well as I was almost to the end of the trail I noticed off the path something moving....when I got closer I noticed it was a couple having some "fun" without their clothes on. They had been between me and the cache. I ended up leaving without a find....and I was thought it would be funny to leave a nice little note on the windshield of the truck that was parked at the entrance. I ended up calling my wife for a quick chat and laugh.

Friday- I found a FTF at a newly posted cache at Reef Point Trail. This cache took me hours to find....it was inside of a downed tree and was not visible at all. Later that day I was off to find another cache at Burkett Trail in Waldoboro. This was a multi-cache and no one had found it yet. I found clue #1 and #2 without any problems. As I was heading to clue #3 the blue trail markers had stopped and I was out in the middle of the woods on a trail to nowhere and my gps signal was lost. At that time I started to backtrack and see where I went wrong....all of a sudden I heard a voice, it was some other cachers on the prowl. I introduced myself and found out that that there team name was "Team Pillaging Poodles". I was able to discuss what happened to the path....and I was able to tag along with them to the final clue then the cache. We all eventually found the cache together and I was able to discuss with them other local cache's that had been giving me a hard time.

Saturday: I went back to "Peace" cache and found the cache without my gps and this was my 3rd attempt. I then headed over the "Guys Cache" in Waldoboro, Maine and finally found the first clue to this multi and this was my 6th attempt this year for this cache. It started to rain....so I will finish this cache this weekend. I have 3 more to my goal.