West: Village Homes Gardens
This is one of my favorite areas in all of Davis. These are the
village homes, which received national recognition for the design
of the energy efficient homes and surrounding area. The gardens
extend north for half a mile, and are well worth walking
through.
The cache in question is placed on the edge of a park path just
under a bush. It is right in the corner. I'm telling you all this
so that you're nice to the area, as many people care deeply about
the area so I don't want to you have to bush-wack at all.
Gardens of Delight
These 2 caches are placed near community gardens. The gardens in
these areas can be particularly beautiful, especially during the
spring time. I highly recommend you wander around the areas where
the caches are.
These caches were a community effort themselves in their
creation. During my wandering through geocaches, I've noticed that
many people have signature items which are animal-themed. Slowly
for the last year I've been trading for many of these items all
over the country and these two caches are populated with the
results. The trade items in these caches all started with animal
themes, almost all of which can be found in gardens of one type or
another. You're welcome to leave other items, but if you trade for
a garden creature please leave one in exchange. Thus, many of you,
the geocaching community, have contributed to this cache.
The cache containers were presents from my sister (they think
I'm a bit weird asking for rubber-maid containers as gift items).
Some of the animals inside were presents from my father. My
daughter helped create the caches by dividing up the animals into
the two caches and you'll notice that one of the cache tops has the
word "geocache" written in the hand writing of a 4-year old.
Finally, gardens need sun and rain to survive, so one of the
caches was placed on a sunny day and one was placed on an overcast
day.
Update 2/4/2006: Airfield music has kindly repaired the
cache for me and placed it in a new (better) location. Thanks a
bunch for his quick rescue of the cache!