+cwelt Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 What a hunt today.... located a cache near a lake that was "just off the path near the lakefront" and decided it should be a walk in the park. Well once I got close to the spot, I saw it was actually a 25m hike through some thick brush. Anyways, walking along the lake front, using trees as handholds to not fall into the lake. Doing the typical geo walk (head down staring at the screen watching the countdown) I was approaching GZ 10m... 9.... 8.... 7.... 6.... 5.... 4..... 3.... 2.... 1... "HONK!!!!!" Suddenly this extremely pissed off duck honks at me and flaps her wings and starts going crazy!! I jump back 5 feet and swear at the top of my lungs... the duck flies off and I look over to find she has made her nest ON the cache! there is 5 little duck eggs sitting in the nest, and the nest sitting on top of the lock and lock! I catch my breath, groan, turn and walk out of the bush.. have to come back and get this one another time. So anyone with some wet wipes if you could send them my way as that duck scared the *&^@ out of me!!! Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 I'll mail you some wet wipes just for sharing that hilarious story with us! That is SO funny! I can't wait to tell my kids about it. I realize you had a mad momma duck on your tail, but too bad you couldn't grab a picture before you ran away. Funny stuff! Quote Link to comment
Crude Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 Have a similar one close to me... the cache was disabled until the ducks are gone. I think it would be funny for a goose to try that...they give case to intruders! Quote Link to comment
+Ockette Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Have a similar one close to me... the cache was disabled until the ducks are gone. I think it would be funny for a goose to try that...they give case to intruders! So long as it's not a swan. A full-grown trumpeter swan can kill you! Quote Link to comment
+smstext Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 i always keep some in the car as after a day out feeling in holes and moving ivy your hands do become dirty and sticky and its nice to have at least clean hands at the end of the geocaching. Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Consider it payback for all those Canadian Geese you send down here. Quote Link to comment
+Gitchee-Gummee Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 The better half of the Team (Gummee) actually stepped ON a spotted fawn this spring -- I had already walked past it. Similar bodily (dis)functions happened when this thing bleated loudly, jumped up from beneath her and ran away to our right. Now......... the rest of the story........... Mamma deer, was busy watching us from her secluded spot in the bush. She bolted like a freight train, not to come after us, but rather to run after her fawn. In doing so, she temporarily occupied a goodly portion of the four foot distance between the two of us. Please pass the wet ones! Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 This spring I was going after a cache in Wisconsin called "Eau Claire Hobo Camps". The cache takes you right past a very elaborate hobo camp. The cache page warns you about it, and suggests that you do the cache in the winter when the residents have moved south. Well, this was middle to late spring and I wasn't sure if the camp would be occupied, or not, but I decided to give it a try. I found a place to park, grabbed the Nuvi that I use for paperless info off the dashboard mount and stuck it in my back pocket, and headed down the trail with my 60CSx. Once my 60 showed me that I was getting close, I started to walk very slowly and carefully, listening for any sign of habitation, as well as making sure that I wasn't snapping any twigs or rustling fallen leaves. I was stealthy, almost tip-toeing, barely breathing. I rounded the last bend and could see bits of the camp... a finely woven latticework of dead branches that made a fence around the hut. Suddenly, from right behind me, I hear a loud voice saying... "APPROACHING GC1H7AZEAUCLAIREHOBOCAMP!!" I had forgotten to mute my Nuvi!!! Fortunately, the hobos were still down south. Anybody got any wet-wipes? Quote Link to comment
+Gitchee-Gummee Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 This spring I was going after a cache in Wisconsin called "Eau Claire Hobo Camps". The cache takes you right past a very elaborate hobo camp. The cache page warns you about it, and suggests that you do the cache in the winter when the residents have moved south. Well, this was middle to late spring and I wasn't sure if the camp would be occupied, or not, but I decided to give it a try. I found a place to park, grabbed the Nuvi that I use for paperless info off the dashboard mount and stuck it in my back pocket, and headed down the trail with my 60CSx. Once my 60 showed me that I was getting close, I started to walk very slowly and carefully, listening for any sign of habitation, as well as making sure that I wasn't snapping any twigs or rustling fallen leaves. I was stealthy, almost tip-toeing, barely breathing. I rounded the last bend and could see bits of the camp... a finely woven latticework of dead branches that made a fence around the hut. Suddenly, from right behind me, I hear a loud voice saying... "APPROACHING GC1H7AZEAUCLAIREHOBOCAMP!!" I had forgotten to mute my Nuvi!!! Fortunately, the hobos were still down south. Anybody got any wet-wipes? Yeah, pass a FEW wet-wipes Quote Link to comment
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