Great day on Eel Lake today with six other geocachers kayaking around the south arm.

Only Kenny left his kayak for this cache - rest of just watched!

Some video……

The last couple of weeks I’ve made four day excursions north to Florence geocaching in the local dunes and forest trails. It’s been many months since I’ve hunted for anything other than the occasional in-town cache as I passed through. It was time to remedy that. The Florence area has some great places to hike and explore.

March 23:  Seven caches found today, including a puzzle cache that has plagued me for a year or more! It wasn’t that hard to solve but it involved getting information from two locations far enough apart to make navigating to the final difficult in one day. Got it out of the way today though! Nice day in the South Jetty dunes!

Less common view of Siuslaw Bridge

March 24:  Ten caches on this day. Started with several new caches in the forestland just east of the Glenada area. Picked up a couple more in town then finished the day with a short hike at the Siltcoos Campground as I headed back home. The trail was almost impassible due to recent storm damage but I managed to find the cache there.

March 26:  Cape Mountain north of Florence was my primary destination today – four new caches up there I needed to get. After this pleasant hike, I headed for the Baker Beach area for two caches followed by a visit to the Heceta Head Lighthouse for a couple more then finished the day with a short dune hike on the Sutton Trail system from the Alder Dune Campground for two final caches. Ten caches in all today and great scenery!

Sutton Trail Map

April 6:  Dune hiking was the goal today. For too long I had been ignoring the dune caches around Honeyman State Park. Though I had hoped for a full day on the dunes, I forgot my park permits which meant much longer hiking distances. With the threat of rain I opted to hunt the two closest caches and save the rest for a day when I can park in a more central location. After this one mile hike, I returned to the Baker Beach area for another short one mile hike and geocache. Third and final hike of the day was another mile along the beach near Driftwood Shores.

Dunes had many of these little ponds to skirt around....

I’m looking forward to more dune hikes soon.

Two days straight hiking the dunes next to the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort……

After geo-coffee and geo-breakfast, four intrepid souls struck out for the Lunch Spot Cache – James, Darren, Butch and myself. This should have been an advertisement for Maxpedition packs! All four of us had them!

James * Darren * Mike

The very next day……….another foursome gathered to pick up the remaining three caches on the horse trails at Bullards Beach.

Darren * Beckie * Butch

Water was encountered. Some kept their shoes on......some did not!

Butch, Beckie and Darren went on into Bandon afterwards for a nice seafood lunch – however, I had to meet the Mrs. at lunch. Two additional caches found today……

Cut Creek Loop Cache
Three Mares Trail Cache

Solo drive to Florence for some geocaching and fill the gas tank with the cheapest gas on the Oregon Coast!

Started the day with a surprising First to Find! That doesn’t happen very often when you drive to another town to cache.

After several other caches in Florence, I headed home and finished the day with this cache at Clear Lake (Reedsport).