Brr! It may still be August, but today, fall was in the air. Maybe even winter! This large park has several caches in it and I was hoping to cache the park out, but Charlotte only had it in her to get two before she wanted to hit the playground. We cut across the playing field between the two caches, flushing out all the mosquitos that were hanging out in the wet grass. They swarmed us! We managed to shake them when we returned to the dead, brown, end-of-summer grass in the rest of the park. There were a few kids playing on the playground with not a parent in sight - very refreshing! They were a bit too old to want to play with Charlotte, but she had a good time anyway, digging in the sand and swinging off a bar as she's doing in the photo. It was truly cold though, so I convinced her to come back to the car with me sooner rather than later - and we got back just as the skies opened and the rain began to pour. The cache is located at N 49.13.836 W 123.05.158 and is point no. 71 on the map at the bottom of home page.
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Friday, 29 August 2014
71. Memorial South Park, Vancouver
Brr! It may still be August, but today, fall was in the air. Maybe even winter! This large park has several caches in it and I was hoping to cache the park out, but Charlotte only had it in her to get two before she wanted to hit the playground. We cut across the playing field between the two caches, flushing out all the mosquitos that were hanging out in the wet grass. They swarmed us! We managed to shake them when we returned to the dead, brown, end-of-summer grass in the rest of the park. There were a few kids playing on the playground with not a parent in sight - very refreshing! They were a bit too old to want to play with Charlotte, but she had a good time anyway, digging in the sand and swinging off a bar as she's doing in the photo. It was truly cold though, so I convinced her to come back to the car with me sooner rather than later - and we got back just as the skies opened and the rain began to pour. The cache is located at N 49.13.836 W 123.05.158 and is point no. 71 on the map at the bottom of home page.
Saturday, 12 July 2014
55. Mackin Park, Coquitlam
Another scorcher! Charlotte and I did our grocery shopping in the morning before it got too hot, then headed to nearby Mackin Park to check out the playground. It's a big park and we often drive past it on the south side - from there, there's nothing to see but playing fields and I never knew until recently that the park also has a playground - and a spray park too. There was no one there when we got there, so I got the water going - but Charlotte was not impressed. I ran around amongst the sprinklers, but Charlotte couldn't be persuaded to come and play. Then a strong one suddenly turned on with me right in front of it and Charlotte was amused, but even less inclined to join in!
The playground was just adjacent to the spray park though, so we went down there to play for a bit instead. Charlotte had a new ambulance that she had just bought at the grocery store and she played with that while I once again did my best to find some nice cool shade. This heat wave is not okay with me! The cache in the park is disabled at the moment, though there are three others just outside the park. I have two of them already, but Charlotte just has the one at the Dairy Queen - we'll be back for the others! The cache is located at N 49.14.257 W 122.51.789 and is point 55 on the map at the bottom of home page.
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