The Final Post from Yuma

 Saturday morning started at Martha's Gardens, a date farm in Yuma, where geocachers gathered to get a passport listing 20 locations in and around Yuma where we needed to find an object or geocache to get a number to complete the passport. By 8:30 vehicles were heading out like race horses leaving the gate. We've done this so many times (maybe 7 times in 8 years) that it is getting harder to find interesting places we have not seen before. We completed the race and turned in our passports about 1:00 and rewarded ourselves with lunch at Lutz.

Then it was off to work on a couple more Adventure Labs we had started on Friday. We attended one more event on Saturday evening hosted by geocachers from Washington state.

The following photos are of locations and geocaches we found while driving around the Yuma area.

within a couple hundred feet of the wall and the Mexican border

African daisies in a yard out in the country

trimmed trees on Main Street in Somerton

One of two very tough geocache hides we found, thanks to some help from other geocachers. This was a rail spike in a no longer used railroad bed. 

The geocache is a bit shinier and a different shape than the other rail spikes. When you have no idea what you are looking for the task is much harder. 

 one of ten murals we found during our weekend adventure

this cache owner used a VCR tape to create the geocache log 

winding the log between the two spools

another clever idea

a mural on the campus of Arizona Western College

completed on Monday on our way out of town

also completed on Monday 

Each of the green circles is an Adventure Lab in Yuma, most of them having 10 geocache locations. There are two we have not completed, the two without checkmarks in the center. I found 18 on the map that we have completed and four we have yet to do. We will not run out of geocaches in Yuma! So until next year...