Caching at Millers Pond - Durham CT

We saw a nice group of caches were located at Millers Pond and since we have never been there we figured we would gather up the kids, minus Mike because he had to work, and take a trip there to see how many we could find. We went caching with jcclark (aka my brother John) and a muggle friend of Maria's

A nice park with a nice wide trail for mountain biking and a lot of little trails going off the main trail. We started out looking for "TUC-118 MP Warm up Crash". We made the mistake of not finding the trail head and climbed up a steep rock ledge, I don't recommend this. It took a minute or two to find this one because the GPS was bouncing a lot so we could not zero in on GZ. We just used our Geo-Sence and started looking in the area and found it

Our next stop was "Just Milling Around" A nice little hike to this one and an easy find because this one was exposed so before we left we hid it a little better.

Number 3 for the day was "TUC-119 MP The Other Left" and again the hike was not to bad, all the caches seem to be about .14 mile apart. We looked for this one for a few minutes and our muggle friend spotted it. Classic mistake on my part was I did not look at the cache size and thought it would be a small container like the first two and that is what we were looking for but it turned out to be a micro. Either way it was found but it does pay to read the description first.

Number 4 was "TUC-120 MP Rock N Roll" and this one was a neat hide and jcclark found this one. I don't think I would of looked there so it is always good to go geocaching with other people, the more eyes the better.

Last on our list for the day was "TUC-121 MP In Your Dreams" This was a good hide and it took us a few minutes to find it but Matt came up with the find.

After this cache we decided to leave for the day because we had other plans for the day, the Durham Fair, but we will be back on another weekend to try to get more of the caches here.

How our new adventure started - Our first cache

July 23, 2009 - Scenic Overlook Cache - Mystic CT

Our first find was rather by accident, we were on our way to Mystic Aquarium and I was playing around on my Blackberry 8330 and found a program called Geocache Navigator and downloaded it. It loaded all the caches around us and I noticed there was one about 1 mile ahead in a scenic overlook so we decided to stop and see if it was really there. Being a newbie, we read the hint right away so we had a good idea where it was. I knew we had to be stealth so nobody would be curious as to what we were doing and remove the cache. (I guess we did a good job because the cache is still going strong). We jumped out of the van and found the cache with no problem at all. We signed the log book and replaced the cache and from that moment we were hooked.

Geocaching with The Hekawi Tribe

Join us on our adventure in Geocaching. We are new to this sport, game or however you want to describe it and would like to share our experiences with each Geocache we find or DNF. We will not give any info on where the cache is or how it is hidden, just our experience of the area.