This is the 8th in a continuing series of hides that I place in
Berkeley parks that don't have caches (and are eligible for
caches). I wanted to do some more hides; Berkeley has many parks
without caches... seemed like a good match. I am seeing a lot of
Berkeley's smaller parks, and noticing things that I might not have
seen otherwise; perhaps you hunters will appreciate this, too.
Haskell-Mabel Mini-Park, at 0.13 acres, is the smallest park yet
in this series. It nonetheless commands a corner lot in a
working-class neighborhood in Southeast Berkeley, below Ashby. It
has some nice play structures. The north-south street that borders
it, Mabel Street, is a fairly good place to cross Ashby Avenue on a
bicycle or on foot (perhaps on your way to
BzP+RO #6?), with its traffic light. On my several visits to
collect waypoints for averaging, the neighbors closest to the cache
have been eyeing me suspiciously; you are hereby advised to use
some stealth.
Berkeley parks are open from 6am to 10pm. Please represent
responsible Geocaching, and respect the rules of the park.
The cache itself is a jelly jar, 2.75" diam by 4" tall, covered
in camouflage tape. Small trade items only.
You may find parking for some of this series to be somewhat
challenging. I encourage you to find out how
bikeable/walkable/transit-able (most of) Berkeley's parks can be.
(The ones that are hardest to transit/walk to have the easiest
parking; funny how that works out. %-} )
Initial contents of the cache:
- Hider-made polymer clay magnet, for the FTF
- "Honeycomb ball" from Sydney's Powerhouse Museum
- Spinny-top, also from Sydney's Powerhouse Museum
- Micro deck of round playing cards
- Travel Bug:
Brianna's Boo Adventure
FTF: k5incali!
Congratulations!