Will I See Them Again?

Monday morning Hubby, Terry and I went back to complete the geocaching series we started on Sunday. This time I was prepared. I brought my good camera, just in case we might see the wild horses again.

But first we drove west hoping to be first to find on a geocache that had been published that morning. Hubby spent about an hour working the puzzle. Then the three of us took off in Terry's truck. Tension mounted. Would we be the first to arrive and find and sign the newly published geocache?

do you see it?

a bug was attached to the lid

Woo Hoo! A FTF to start the day's adventure!

Then we headed north to complete the series we had started on Sunday.

can you figure out where the cache might be?

Hi Ho, Hi Ho. It's off to work we go...

along the way, I noticed the remainder of

a saguaro skin/bark on a fallen giant

sad to see these guys toppled

no sunshine or bright blue skies on Monday

a police car glued to the cache container

evidence of the horses, but no sightings on Monday

I did scare up a small flock of birds

this one chose not to fly away

never get tired of seeing all the mountain ridge lines 

in the distance

there are 5 in this photo

remember the Target Shooting is Prohibited sign of

yesterday?

Jojoba nuts on a female jojoba bush (in the wild)

I use the oil as a facial moisturizer

I had no idea the bushes were grown commercially

for the oil, or that there were male and female 

jojoba plants

brittle bush flowers

either an early bloomer or a really late bloomer

we usually don't see them until February

Once the 3 of us complete the geocache series on the day's agenda, we found just a few more in the area that needed our signature. Terry and I climbed a hill (felt like a mountain after the trail we had just walked) to get a geocache Hubby had found in 2013. I took this photo of the parking lot from the cache's location.

two tents were set up at the entrance of this section of

Tonto Wilderness area

and a camper

remnants of another blooming bush

this school bus was in the parking lot on Sunday also

today, there were sheets of pressed wood, 2x4s, and 

electric saws around and in the rear of the bus, 

along with blaring music

Terry and I walked to another cache Hubby had

found and signed in 2013

2 coconuts and a wicker laundry basket

I have no idea why

not along a trail, not near the parking lot or highway

the final cache of the day

if they didn't find it, I would  have climbed out and helped