The Rest of the Yuma Trip

The number of photos taken on the rest of the days that week in Yuma diminished in number. Maybe because we saw the same stuff. Maybe because we didn't see anything extraordinary. Maybe because I got tired of taking photos. Maybe because we got too busy looking for geocaches and I couldn't give directions, follow the GPS AND use the camera. Let's go with all of the above.

This is what we did see on day 3 in Yuma.

We were at a location of a former mine. The geocache description said to be careful as there was a mine shaft near the site of the geocache. Hubby walked along a ridge line, not at all dangerous or treacherous. When he got to the final location he hollered, "Take a picture!" I climbed back down the part of the ridge I had reached and got the camera. Hubby is the item in the center of the hill at the horizon line. You see him, right????

there he is

 found the cache & signed the log

another plane crash

the crater in the sand with some plane debris

we could hear the jets, but couldn't see them

interesting contrails in the beautiful blue sky

The next day we met up with a geocaching friend from Austin TX for a day of special geocaching. We cached with Janice in Missouri in October on the Boon's Lick Road GeoTrail. This day we were on the Wicked Witch series of caches along a wash.

The caches were fun hides, all different and well hidden. The road was definitely in a wash and made for an interesting adventure.

Hubby on the hill

Janice marking the find and looking for the next one

I did my share in finding about 1/3 of them in this series

AND documenting the adventure

the best part of the road in the wash

we learned later the caches were placed with a Razor ATV

we took the jeep to a point where we decided it

was too dangerous to continue and stay safe

We attended the Flash Mob late that afternoon. The theme was green. Wear green and wave some green and donate to the Yuma food bank. The dancing was in progress when we arrived. (They started early!)

visited after the dancing with other Phoenix area geocachers

and two couples from SD

On Saturday we drove from one end of Yuma to the other 3 ends with a cacher from Monterrey CA. He did not now the area and was looking for someone to hang with for the day's adventure. We started about 10:00 and finished the search for the 20 Discovery and 10 Lab caches by 2:30. We picked up our geocoin and attended another event that evening.

veggies were the theme this year

cute play on words

This was Sunday at the main event, the Yuma MEGA (gathering of 500 or more people)

some cachers wear all their hardware

proof of my attendance

the event sign-in board

Winter Salad Capital

this year's geocoin

the T-Shirts were white with a wreath of salad veggies

I didn't buy one

another costumed cacher

and the Geocaching Mascot

Signal the Frog