'Pin Cone, Reclaimed' Claimed

It was sprinkling again this morning (after a tremendous downpour all night) but I was determined to get out today. I searched the site for a suitable cache that I'd be able to find fairly quickly, but I wanted to explore a place I'd never seen before, so I found a cache called 'Pin Cone, Reclaimed' (GCP7T7). It was a 2/1.5. I plugged in the coordinates to the parking lot and the cache itself, grabbed my camera and I was on my way.

It was about a 4 mile drive, and again, Google Earth threw me down a street that I didn't need to go down. I turned around and followed the GPS and arrived at a water reclamation project. Parked the car and headed through a gate that read "Gate closes at dark." Good thing it was only 2pm. As I made my way through the gate, I was struck with how beautiful the woods were.

I was on a trail heading right through them. I looked at the GPS and it said I had to walk a little more than half a mile, so I buckled down and started hoofing it. I quickly came upon a boardwalk, which continued all the way to the cache (and past!). I'd never seen a boardwalk so vast, but then again I haven't been on too many. The scenery was beautiful, and the water under the boardwalk was nice, and at one point became totally covered in algae.

I saw a couple ducks and water pipes and finally zeroed in on the waypoint. Took me about 30 seconds to find it, since there weren't too many places it could have been hiding. It was hanging on two nails under the railing of the boardwalk. As soon as I found it the rain started coming down a bit stronger, so I opened it up, looked at the contents and left.


I didn't have anything to put in (it's a lapel pin trading station) and I forgot my pen, so I just closed it up and left. I'll come back again soon to sign the log.

RB[TL]