Fun Geocaches from August

I'm still trying to get caught up on all my geocaching posts from places we visited over the summer.  We had driven to lower Michigan for a day of caching and here's a few of the caches we found.

Someplace on this old phone booth there was a nice size cache hidden....

 

The next cache was hidden near this old fashioned ice cream parlor.  While we were searching for the cache, the shop owner wheeled over on his lawn mower to say hi and make sure we found the well hidden cache....

 Any ideas where it might be hidden??

We even got close to the lake front and searched for a cache on this set of wooden steps...

 

We had no idea why these stone pillars were placed here, but we quickly found the cache.

And we always enjoy looking for cemetery caches....

My favorite place of the day was Warren Dunes, but that's a post for another day!

Fort Sheridan Re-Visited

Last week we had a nice day, so we scooted back to Fort Sheridan to finish up a couple of caches that we didn't get to find the last time we were up there.

We had a DNF on Anti Aircraft Gun  when we previously had way too much muggle traffic, so we couldn't search.  This time there was no one around and we had more time to investigate the many possibilities.  I was convinced the cache was hidden in one spot, but I was clearly wrong.  Louie felt it was in another spot and after continued prodding, I grudgingly looked, and damn if he wasn't right!  It was cleverly hidden someplace on this gun.

I really liked the next cache location, Red Hawk Eyes, because it's a huge nest, with a hawk and giant eggs for kids to climb all over.  Well, maybe a few adults like to climb on it as well, but I'm not saying who...  Louie definitely had his geosenses going that day, because he found the super tiny cache at this location....

The next cache was hidden someplace near this overhead cable system.  Again, Louie quickly found the cache...

I always enjoy geocaching near Lake Michigan.  Here we had to climb down a huge wooden staircase to get to the shoreline trail for the next set of caches.....

After finding a few caches, we explored the beach and then headed back up the stairs.....

We ended up finding 7 geocaches that morning, stopped for a little phooning and called it a day!

Highland Park Geocaching.

Last weekend we went to Highland Park, Illinois which is right on the shores of Lake Michigan.  They recently completed a new section of a walking/bike trail along the lake front and I wanted to check it out.  There are a series of geocaches conveniently placed along the trail, so it was kind of hard for me to resist that type of temptation.....  you know, geocaching, hiking and the lake front - It's all good!!

You can't beat the views.....

See that breakwater wall in the distance?  Remember that for later!

We probably walked about 3 miles round trip and found several geocaches along the way.  One was hidden along this stairway to the beach....

It's hidden practically in plain sight but my lips are sealed...

Another one was cleverly hidden on this bridge that crosses a ravine....

Then we walked on some footpaths through a wild prairie....

...and we had to find these strange doors that were built into the ground.  Then we had to find the cache.  If that door would have opened up while I was sitting there I would have crapped my pants!

Another cache was hidden here.  We found it and then sat for awhile and enjoyed the view....

Believe me, it's there....

Next we headed down to the beach towards another cache....

This cache was hidden someplace along that breakwater wall.  That's the one from the earlier photo.

When we got to it, we had to decipher a puzzle using clues on this wall.  I am horrible at puzzle caches.  I was ready to march out along the wall, guessing it might be on the end, but the waves were pretty rough and Louie talked me out of it.  We decided to forego this cache and when we got home I emailed the cache owner and got a puzzle hint.  We'll go back another day and try solving this one again.

We walked the rest of the way back to our car by taking the beach route and picking up stones and sea glass....

We had one more cache to get and we drove over to this one.  It was hidden near this mural.  You can see Chablis standing in the bottom of the picture to get an idea of the size of it.

After we found the cache we climbed up the drain pipe and called it a day.  There's still about 8 more geocaches hidden along this trail, so we have to pick a day and go back for the rest of them...