More Geocaching in Florida

Todays photos come from another Geocaching adventure in East Orange County just northeast of St. Cloud, FL. Along Nova Rd is a Geocaching power run (a large number of caches hidden just beyond the 510' limit to maximize number of finds) called the Good vs Evil series. Each geocache is named after either a hero or villain. This particular geocache was the Green Goblin. 

Hidden just across the ditch with almost a foot of water. Fortunately, there was a narrow trunk laying across. The trunk had a line of fire ants crossing over as well. So I made my way across to the tree only to find an empty broken zip tie. No cache container. Loked around in the water, nothing. Then I spotted just above the water line near the base of the tree and the grass. The log inside was soaked and dripping with water. I tried to get the lid on tight, but without success. I tied it back up to the tree as best I could and made my way back across the trunk. Woops! Almost took a muddy bath! Back to the Jeep and off to the next one.

More Geocaching Photos

Geocaching Up A Tree

Went out Geocaching today for a little while before it got too hot. One of the reasons I like geocaching is that sometimes you get to act like a kid again. Today's fun cache was GC1ZF5V APK #19 (monkeying around) placed by Jarrod88. You just have to know that any cache with "monkeying around" in the name has something to do with climbing trees! We arrived at ground zero in the middle of the woods. I choose the most likely tree for climbing and began looking up. After a few minutes I spotted the micro geocache and began climbing. My wife down below thinks I'm crazy, but I'm just having fun. A minute later and I have the cache in hand and sign the log. Photo op time and back down I came. I like this game!

WARNING: Dirty Kitchens in Clean Restaurants

Remember the old saying: "You can tell if a restaurants kitchen is clean by the looks of its restrooms." Well throw that one out the door! I took these dirty kitchen pictures recently in a rather nice restaurant. If you walked into the front door, you'd be impressed with the dinning room of this slightly upscale restaurant. Possibly even make reservations for a romantic dinner for two. But wait, check out the bathroom first to get insight on cleanliness and find a spotless place to freshen up. Everything looks good right. But hey, why not take steal a sneak peek into the kitchen. At first glance the floors are clean, counters clean, everything looks good. Right? NOT!

But see, my job requires me to get an even closer look usually on my hands and knees, underneath the grilles, counters and other kitchen equipment. Yes down there where they usually don't clean because it's too easy to hide. So just a warning to ya, just because it looks clean doesn't mean it is clean! Kinda makes you want to eat at home more often.

Please Keep Off The Fence Or Else...

Out Geocaching in Jonathan Dickinson State Park and saw this gator about 20 feet away in a small pond. Took the photo with my phone and just had to get the sign in as well even though it makes the gator look smaller. My guess the gator was about 4 feet long.

The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse

Heading towards a geocaching event at the Jonathan Dickinson State Park, we were sitting at the draw bridge waiting for a couple boats to cross. This gave us time to get the camera out and take a picture of the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse. Completed in 1860, the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse was left unpainted until around 1910 when it was given a coat of red.

Blue Springs State Park