Team Free Range Lobsters were tearing up the “thumb” on
Independence Day!
TaGeez is on the mend, and we needed an adventure. We met with WikidKriket and SnakeyLicks for a
special tour of the St. Clair River on the 4th of July. Caching on this gorgeous blue day from New
Baltimore to Port Huron, we qualified for and found the Historic Caches of St Clair County Challenge GC29AVT.
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| Historic Caches of St. Clair County Challenge Looking in the wrong place |
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| TaGeez for the find! Happy 3000th find, Sweetie! |
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| TaGeez, WikidKriket and SnakeyLicks |
The cool thing about this challenge is that you must find 5
of the 7 oldest caches in St Clair County to qualify. Best part?
5 of the caches were Virtuals! We
spent the day locating historical markers about ship builders to ship wrecks, International
underwater train tunnels, Edison’s railroad time in Port Huron.
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| Miss America x 10 GCJ6TA |
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| Right on the St Clair River |
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| Back in Time GC7C90 |
We drove up the (almost looked fake) blue St Clair
waterways, roadside dotted with small Independence Day festivals and
holidaymakers. Lunch was at the awesome Marine City Fish Company – large window in front framing the passing
freighters heading to the Blue Water Bridge or down to Detroit.
What is more fitting than immersing ourselves in Michigan’s
maritime history on this important holiday?
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| Marine City |
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| View from No Canadian Fish GC2H4N1 |
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| Brought my Ghost (Virtual) Geocoin for every stop |
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| Turning Point 211 This is cool - it's a Canadian Virtual that can be grabbed from the American side! |
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| First Benchmark of the Day! |
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| View of the Blue Water Bridge from the Lightship Huron |
I love these old caches – especially the Virtuals and the
traditionals with the original logs. To
scroll back and see log entries from a decade or more ago…. To know that these
people’s words have survived so long in the Michigan elements…. To walk in
others footsteps learning the coolest history and experiencing the coolest
sites – awesome!
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| Young Thomas Edison and the Blue Water Bridge |
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| Young Thomas Edison and the Blue Water Bridge |
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| Thomas Edison Depot Museum Kriket doing her ode to Stand By Me |
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| Watching freighters under the Blue Water |
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| Standing under the Blue Water Bridge Yes, that's Canada |
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| Appropriately enough, the Virtual is called Hold Me Tight GC7C96 |
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| Lovely series of Maritime-themed parks along the riverfront |
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| We took time to read - and appreciate - everything |
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| Our final view of the riverfront park before we headed home to frozen custard and fireworks |
The Historic Caches of St Clair County Challenge is just one of many “county challenges” in Michigan. Alongside the 2 TaGeez and I will complete on our way to Midwest GeoBash in two weeks, we will have 6 of the 10 needed to qualify for the Michigan Counties Metachallenge GC30JWA.
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| White pins are required Virtuals Purple pin is the Challenge cache |
Totals for the Day:
12 Caches
total (11 American and 1 Canadian)
1 Milestone
(TaGeez’s 3000th)
7 Virtuals
1 Challenge
+ 3 puzzles
3 Benchmarks
4 Freighters
+ 1 Lightship
Anchors, ships’
bells, boats, trains, tunnels, lighthouses, bridges and docks
4 fish
dinners
5 custard
desserts (had to bring one home to Fiona)
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