#300-The End

It took five trips along the F2K highway but on Sunday afternoon we found and logged cache #300.

#300 put hubby's total 12 short of 600 caches for 2012

His look says, "How many pictures do you need to take?"

#300 gave me a total of 363 caches

The look says, "Take the d*** picture. I'm tired and I have to p**!"

The looks says, "Enough togetherness! Geocache on your own for awhile!"

Here are some of the things that caught my eye behind the lens 

of the camera the last three trips on F2K.

As we were heading to Florence on Wednesday, this hot air ballon

was floating along Highway 60. An unusual sight on our end

of the East Valley.

This entrance to a ranch road spoke to me.

Look at my previous post "Unique Rock Formations" and the hike along 

Weaver's needle Crosscut. This is Weaver's Needle about 30 miles away.

The Boulders have intrigued me since I first saw them in March 2010.

I never did post that road trip when my Mother visited us. 

Hubby is looking for a couple of caches amongst them.

Look at their size!

This was one of our more colorful cache finds on Saturday.

A clever cache title labeling the unique container.

Like icebergs, no two saguaros are alike.

There are A LOT of saguaros along the F2K road. 

This view was picture perfect.

Hubby removed this from the sole of my tennis shoe after one of 

our treks into the desert. I wore my hiking boots the last two trips.

This hill was the location for the Pearl Hart Cache. Here's the story:

"This is a historical cache placed in honor of a forgotten woman bandit named Pearl Hart. The old stagecoach route once ran from Globe to Florence near the cache site. Pearl Hart and her pal Joe Boot robbed the stage near Cane Springs, just NE of the cache site. Pearl was the only woman to ever rob a stagecoach, and it was also the last stagecoach robbery in America. The year was 1899. If you want to read more about Pearl Hart, check out the book "I, Pearl Hart" by Jane Candia Coleman." 

 

Pearl Hart and her pal, Joe Boot

Reading the book is on my list for this season...after January.

This is a view of the Ray Mine from the F2K road. We have never seen the 

water 'pool' when we have visited the viewing area. 

Although we have stopped and viewed the Ray Mine at least four times,

I have not posted photos on the blog that I can find. 

Another off the road cache was located along the AZ Trail.

The hiking club journeys along parts of the trail on several of their

hikes each season. We have not been this far south before.

I just like the laser cut sign.

"The Arizona National Scenic Trail is a continuous, 800+ mile diverse and scenic trail across Arizona from Mexico to Utah. It links deserts, mountains, canyons, communities and people."

It is used by hikers, bicyclists and those on horses.

I took several photos of the sign and other desert scenes.

It took about 10 or 15 minutes before I noticed the keys hanging

from the A. Are you missing the keys to your Honda Accord?

We drove past this dilapitated brick house several times.

The final time I just had to grab the camera.

The mailboxes were too interesting not to capture with the camera.

Very creative and clever!

I couldn't leave the F2K road without another photo of the second

crested saguaro near the side of road. Before geocaching, this was the 

reason we would drive the F2K highway; a rare sighting of this saguaro

phenomenon. Now I know there are TWO along this road.