Saturday & Sunday in Yuma

Saturday started with an event and ended with another. We met Janice and her dad (parents from CA and winter in Yuma) at 8:30 to begin another geocaching scavenger hunt. Janice had plotted the geocaches in quadrant areas of town to eliminate driving back and forth all over, wasting gas and miles. We completed our hunt around 1:30.

The most interesting stop on our scavenger hunt was a geocache at The Gate in The Wall at Gadsen. There is a strip of US soil on the other side of The Wall, but Mexico is VERY CLOSE.

Interesting that the bars would not stop the average size person from climbing through. I found out later the metal fence just stops a mile or so down the field. Fields on the other side of The Wall. A canal and fields on this side of The Wall.

The other fun part of the scavenger hunt was the other communities we saw. I had never been southwest of Yuma. San Luis is another border town with a port of entry. Although we do not know for certain, we believe many of the field workers probably come across the border in the company buses at this point. Janice's father said the Mexican side of San Luis is a very large community.

our reward for being one of the first 

250 to complete the scavenger hunt

In the afternoon Hubby and I continued our hunt for some of the area geocaches. I thought this one was interesting. The cache owner nailed the tobacco can (bottom) to the sawed off tree limb and attached the lid with fishing line. Recycle. Repurpose. Reuse.

There was another event that evening. We stopped by and did some visiting before calling it a day.

Sunday was the official Yuma SWAG event. S*W*A*G: Southwest Arizona Geocachers. I've had THAT wrong. Again we signed in at the event. Did some shopping and some visiting and some hunting for nearby geocaches.

another geo-coin memento of the 2019 Yuma S*W*A*G

Several acquaintances recommended we stop by the geocache named Little Rocket Man.

Hubby scouted out what needed to be done to get to the treasure in the rocket. He found a tool padlocked to the fence. I found the needed code to open the padlock.

insert the tool and begin turning

and turning

the the rocket lifted from its base

revealing a hidden compartment in the 

post holding a container

And there it is...the log book

we added our names to prove we had stopped at the cache

a lot of work by the cache owner

and well worth the stop

Monday is the final day and the final post of the Yuma weekend...