Please park your vehicle in the Byron Sergeant
Memorial Park just SE of the cache along HWY 63. When you
leave the cache, make sure that this box is in a position
that renders it "out of sight" and take the time to relock
the "wire cap".
About the cache, each year the AEA 267 and others hold a
Summer Enrichment Program primarily for talented and gifted kids.
I’ve been blessed with teaching a geocaching class three times now.
This summer, 2008, 16 kids signed up. I bought a tall lock
& lock container at Wal-Mart and first wrapped it with ¼
inch hardware cloth to keep varmints from chewing it open. On top
of that I wrapped wrinkled brown 3M brand duct tape. The crudeness
of the wrapping adds a little texture. Each young geocacher got to
spray on some camouflaged
paint. We sprayed over leaves to help break up the pattern. I
believe it was the first time a lot of the kids ever used a can of
spray paint; probably a good thing.
This one, like the two others before it,
Bugs R-4 "Kids" Habitat and
Tube-a-Bugs, is designed to hold all the travel bugs set up by
the participants that chose to buy a TB tag. I managed to fit some
small swag in there too.
Good luck and happing hunting! You will be hunted
as well, by millions of mosquitoes at this time of year. When
placing the cache I myself wore a hat and a long sleeved
shirt over another shirt. I’d rather be uncomfortably hot
than eaten alive! I also carried a bottle of spray rubbing
alcohol that I used against those little
bloodsuckers.
This
part of the forest brings back some of my favorite memories. I have
stories to tell about climbing a tree to get to a Bared Owl's nest
- I photographed the baby, climbing to a Crow's nest and a lot
more.