Holiday Weekend Cointest

[wwflover13]

 

Here's the Garter Snake I came across near this cache.

[+GeoKs]

 

A slightly different age of "animal"....this is one of literally thousands of fossils we spotted at Three Lakes Valley, up beyond Chester Lake in beautiful Kananaskis Country in the Canadian Rockies. We've hidden two traditional geocaches near Chester Lake (GCXW99 - Fav Hike #3 Beyond Chester and GCXW9E - Elephant Rocks) and we have plans to prepare an earthcache for this area. It's about a 15 or 16 km (return) hike if you go all the way up to 3 Lakes Valley and the variety of sea fossils is really quite amazing!! We love this hike and usually make it once every year. It can also be accessed via snowshoe in the winter, and our caches have been found in the winter with over a meter of snow on the ground!

[+Frank n Beck]

 

This pic was taken while we were out caching, and decided to take a break and let sasha have some fun!

[lorca.nl]

we also did Blauw Eitje 2 GC1BOYQ and we see a real duck invasion...

 

[+LadyBee4T]

There are some wonderful pictures here!! I am especially in awe of the coral snake. I'm glad I wasn't that close to it!!

 

This is a picture of me and my geodog GoodGollyMissMolly at the Hilltop cache. She really enjoys the walks to the caches and has nosed some out although that may be just a fluke!

 

[lorca.nl]

my last picture whit a animal by the cache.

this fly is taken by the cache GC1BOYQ it`s just a funny fly that likes a good aroma..

[nebukatneza]

this was the first animal (besides our dogs) that we have met at the beginning of our

caching career...

 

[+darnjoeSNARG]

South Carolina Beaver. Saw this one while at a local event near the Saluda River.

 

[+GATOULIS]

Here are some goats I found in my way to Kritinia's cache!

 

 

[+gardengorilla]

 

Here is one 'Guardian of the Cache' that we came across.

[wwflover13]

I found these two guys back in April while canoe caching with a group:

 

 

[+Geo.Error]

This watersnake was stick in a watermull, he could not find his own freedom

 

 

he was rescued , photograph and set free in the river

 

We saw this snake on the last cache day from our holiday in german

[+GATOULIS]

Some more goats in our way to Kritinia's castle!

 

 

[+MustangJoni]

This was taken when we were at Brazos Bend State Park near Houston for our Texas Challenge:

 

 

And here is the night cache we did later:

 

 

No, that isn't the same alligator on the cache as in the previous picture!

[wwflover13]

These couple horses were haning out near this multicache I did back in April:

 

[wwflover13]

My mother and I found a whole bunch of these salamanders near this cache while on a caching trip to VA:

 

[+usyoopers]

We came across this pair of Sand Hill Cranes while on a caching/camping trip to the Tahquemenon River here in the Upper Peninsula...the same campout that Dude was so kind as to share his dinner with the chipmunk!

 

[wwflover13]

My father and I came across this Fox Squirrel near this cache back in March. We have never seen one before and had no idea what is was at the time, it was pretty fat and walked with a sort of clumsy gallop. I actually thought it was going to fall trying to scramble up this pine tree:

 

[southpawaz]

Nothing of real interest on today's hike so a few more from the archives. I had taken a DNF on this cache near Black Canyon City, AZ so I really wanted to find it when I returned to try again. I was looking anywhere and everywhere, and when I turned over an old cowpie, I found this little guy. It was early in the morning and still quite cool, so he wasn't into moving around much. I put the cowpie back on top of him and continued to search until I found the cache.

 

[+Sparticus06]

Last AGT cache we did for the day was on state game lands. As we started back in we could hear (just a guess) millions of peepers. There were some geese. About half way across the field with ponds I spotted a turtle walking along.

[wwflover13]

Saw this cow, along with a bunch of other ones, near stage 1 of this multicache:

 

[+LadyBee4T]

I took this picture at a Metroparks Picnic Event near Lake Erie less than a month after I started caching.

 

[+OverTheEdge]

Awesome cointest - but I don't qualify... I was able to attend my first GeoWoodstock this year... Good luck to all!! These are some AWESOME pics!!

[+LadyBee4T]

We were loking for one stage of a multi in the MetroPark. This stage was located near a farming area within the park. They had horses, lambs, goats and of course the pigs.

 

[+Geo.Error]

I don't know what this is but............it is scary

 

 

We saw this while we did the cache ET phone home GCZ0ED, was it a animal or.....ET

[paganfrog]

mothman??

[+Geo.Error]

This cache was in zeeland, we walked true a beautiful village and over dykes

 

 

On the dyke there were sheeps and they had the whole dyke relieve nature, so the dyke was slippery

 

It was now a danger path to walk

[southpawaz]

Here is a regular little lizard which I saw guarding the summit of Seven Mile Mountain west of Maricopa, AZ when I went last week for an FTF on the cache 7MM. I don't know if this is common in other areas, but a lot of the peaks around here have summit registry log books which predate geocaching. The hider of the cache had encountered a rattlesnake when he reached for the peak log, so I was fortunate to only meet up with this little fellow.

 

[+SUp3rFM & Cruella]

A wolf.

 

 

Here's how it went

 

We, especially the kids, loved the cache and the hunt.

[southpawaz]

Okay, here's my last one. Back over to the Lower Salt River Valley, which is home to another of Arizona's oldest geocaches. When I parked in the lot for the trail system leading to the cache, I encountered this wild rooster strutting around like he was king of the mountain.

 

Thanks so much for the cointest, Dorsetgal, I've really enjoyed going back through my gallery to pull out these pictures. I hope you all have enjoyed seeing them. Glad to hear that Caesar is on the mend.

 

[+Geo.Error]

It is a pity that this animals loves us so much that they suck us blood

 

[+usyoopers]

Our last 3 pictures come for our adventures yesterday. We did maintenance on 2 of our caches, found 3 caches and placed 4. It was a long day, we came home grungy and tired but with smiles on our faces! It was a great day to be out.

 

This first picture is of a millipede we found on the trail, a creepy little guy with lots of legs!

 

[+usyoopers]

We had placed our last cache and were walking back to the jeep when this little guy tried to scare us, have I mentioned that neither of us likes snakes!

 

[+Dorsetgal & GeoDog]

Oooooh all those creepy crawlies are enough to make your toes curl!

 

Just to say, there are fifty minutes left, so come the top of the hour I'll close the cointest.

 

Pupdate: Caesar appears to be feeling a lot better today, more like his bouncy self and the difficulty is in keeping him sedentary for at least the time being while his knee heels a bit more. He's still limping like Long John Silver though!

[+MustangJoni]

One last one from me!

 

We took this one when we were doing a virtual 5/5 and an Earthcache at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Reserve in Oklahoma. It was beautiful there!

 

 

Edited for spelling!

Edited May 26, 2008 by MustangJoni

[+usyoopers]

We are glad to hear that Caesar is feeling better! A couple more days of pampering and I'm sure he will be his old self again.

 

This was our last picture yesterday. After the fright the snake "tried to give us/ gave us" we arrived back at the jeep and headed out for home. Something ran across the road in front of us, feeling brave since we were in the jeep we stopped to look. It was a Woodcock, a very friendly one at that, he stayed on the side of the road letting us take pictures.

 

[+Frozen Buns]

Out caching with Sticky Buns when she spotted this soft shell turtle. Big Sucker and snapped a twig like it was a noodle.

 

LOL

 

Edited May 26, 2008 by Frozen Buns

[+Frozen Buns]

This dead vulture was guarding the cache which was hidden under the flat rock he managed to die on. UGH

 

Edited May 26, 2008 by Frozen Buns

[+Dorsetgal & GeoDog]

Whoooooooooo, it is past 4pm UK time, so cointest closed.

 

I'll be back with the winners in a few minutes.

[+Frank n Beck]

We are very glad to hear that Caesar is starting to feel better. Thanks for the cointest it was a blast!!!!!!!!!!!

[+MustangJoni]

I really enjoyed looking at all the pictures in this contest! Thanks for having it!

 

I am also glad to hear that Caesar is feeling better!

[+Dorsetgal & GeoDog]

Well, this has been realy hard to judge. There are so many fantastic pictures here. Many thanks to everyone who entered, it has been fun watching all the entries.

 

Now without further ado, the winner by Randon Number Generator was

 

post number 114, which was posted by Mustang Joni

 

the winner that I picked, purely because of its smile factor was

 

post number 88 Lorca.nl

 

I really wish I could send something to everyone, but I'd end up broke! Many of those pictures deserve to be on the front banner at Groundspeak too.

 

If the two winners would care to send me their addresses I'll get the coins into the post tomorrow.

 

 

Edit to add. The coins are a Give up Geocaching? / When Pigs Fly coin, and a Castleman Jack Russel Terrier coin, first to contact me picks!

Edited May 26, 2008 by Dorsetgal & GeoDog

[+Geo.Error]

Congrats Lorca.nl and Mustang joni with winning this great cointest

 

Dorsetgal & geodog thanks for this great and fun and beautiful cointest

[+MustangJoni]

Wow! I can't believe I won!

 

Thanks so much for the contest. I enjoyed digging through my pictures and finding the animals. It brought back memories of those trips!

[paganfrog]

well done lorca.nl and mustang joni for winning thanks for the fun cointest dorsetgal & geodog

[+Frank n Beck]

Congrats Lorca.nl & Mustang joni on your win!!!!!!!!!!!! And thanks for the fun cointest Dorsetgal & GeoDog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lorca.nl]

thank you DOSETGAL & GEODOG for the cointest

also thanks for my winning i`m happy that all this nice picture make you a little happyer

 

Mustang Joni CONGRATS whit your winning

Edited May 26, 2008 by lorca.nl

[+PengoFamily]

Congrats to the winners! Thanks for the cointest!! The photos were great! I have to admit that there are a few that I wouldn't have stopped to take a picture of...would have gone the other way. I really don't like spiders. But nice pics!!

[+usyoopers]

Thanks for the fun cointest!

 

Congrats to mustang joni and lorca.nl!!

[+Geo-Gophers]

Congrats to both the winners......loved seeing all these pics it was really interesting and quite an eye-opener in some instances!!!

 

Thanks again for another really enjoyable cointest and it's great to read that Caesar is coming along fine now.