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    🙁 Hmmm…..snakes! Why does it have to be snakes?? The last snake that I heard about that was lost in a car ended up in the glove box. Good luck!

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    Here is a copy from the log for our first cache Saturday…
    @GeoPink wrote:

    What an absolutely exciting, short little adventure! This was Sara’s friend Brittany’s first cache find and what an exciting one it was. First off Elizabeth(7) got her hair braid caught in some branches as she was crawling around under the brush looking for the cache. Then Cassandra(4), who’s favorite color is orange, found one of several orange “candy’s” on the ground and decided to eat it. It was not, after all candy, but paint balls. She quickly discovered her mistake, but not before biting into it and getting a mouth full of paint. Then I hear Audrey (9) yelping about thorns and lo and behold, she has gotten herself stuck on the wrong side of the nearby barbed wire fence and is afraid to come back through!

    Believe it or not, we did actually find the cache and the girls were so excited, they traded the three items in the cache for three items we brought along! What a great time!

    This is why we generally do not get more than 4 or 5 caches done in an entire afternoon of caching. But this is also why I love it! Memories like this!

    Thanks for the great cache! – Team GeoPink – Jeff, Sara, Audrey, Elizabeth, Cassandra, and Sara’s friend Brittany

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    bnb

      Geopink – you’ll have to rename yourselves now to GeoOrange. 😀

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      No sign of the poor snake yet … but it must have been a small one of these: http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/critter/reptile/redbellysnake.htm

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      LDove
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        Oh man, can I relate some stories. If it is going to happen, it happens to me. Here are just two examples.

        GCYNN9
        January 9 by lonesumdove (579 found)
        I have to edit this log. When this originally happened, I was too embarrassed to print it. Now that a little time has gone by and I can laugh about it and since I have been printing my logs, I will share my adventure. So I get to your cache and decide that in the cold .25 is too far to walk in. The weather has frozen everything so I will just drive the car up the side of the field. Get to what LOOKS like a cute, very small brook with a little ice. Car can make that – NOT!!! Car got massively stuck and in the cold had to call a 30 ton wrecker to get me out! If I would have sunk another 2 inches, car would have had creek running through it! MY NEW CAR! Tow truck driver got there and found me cold, with a runny nose and a bit teary. I think he felt sorry for me but told me, “when you are out hikin’, yer supposed ta walk!” doh… After a he told me he hauled someone else outa there for 250 bucks I started to get a few more frozen ice cubes outa my eyes and I think he felt sorry for me and said “aw just give me 90 bucks.” So 90 bucks later I had a new, old Star Wars VCR tape from the cache and another adventure to chalk up for lonesumdove’s misadventures in geocaching.

        GCPFBR
        March 10 by lonesumdove (579 found)
        Hinges on excitement – you are not kidding!!! We started out on the wrong side of the tracks, the coordinates are not correct for the parking. As I was walking up the hill my husband screamed at me – I thought maybe a train was coming. Noooo – I was standing on a downed power line!! I AM NOT KIDDING! While contemplating where the nearest store was to go get a new pair of shorts, we carefully retreated and went to the correct street to the east. The walk in to the park was nice, but having my nerves somewhat rattled at this point we could not find the first waypoint. You may want to change your parking coordinates to the following which we got for you:
        N43 03.803 W088 05.727 We saw in a prior log that someone else made this same mistake, I would not want anyone to do what I did. We callwed WE Energies when we got home and the line is owned by the railroad, they don’t know if they are live wires or not (probably not since I am not geocaching with the angels) , but we would not want anyone to take any chances just in case. Just chalk it up to another lonesumdove misadventures in geocaching.

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        @EnergySaver wrote:

        No sign of the poor snake yet … but it must have been a small one of these: http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/critter/reptile/redbellysnake.htm

        Cute, but do they bite? 🙂

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