Laney's Geocaching Blog

Went to Wheel of Life, a vegan thai resturant in Irvine on Saturday with geovegan, her boyfriend and her boyfriends friend.

Then me and geovegan went and geocached around that area.

The first place we went to was RITV2: The Castle Walls which was too complicated for us so we moved on to other ones. But I did take this picture of the castle before we left. It was pretty impressive, yet really creepy since it was falling apart and there was a strange old van parked in front. I don't know. ( picture )

After giving up on the castle one, we drove around to Lights...Camera...ACTION. I found this one and it was a really easy find seeing as it basically pops out at you, so it's really hard to miss. ( picture ) The only problem is that the parking that is there is for club members only so don't take to long to get the cache or they might call security on you.

We decided to stay in the same general area, so we went to Arbor Park. This was a pretty nice cache in a cute little park off of the Irvine Loop. geovegan found this one. She stopped to smell the roses afterwards. :) ( pictures )

There is this park off of Warner and we went there next. There are two caches in the park, but we only found one. The one we didn't find was Flock of Seagulls (PQA #06). It's in the middle of a bunch of birds of paradise plants. There were black widow spiders and lots of cob webs. geovegan was wearing shirts and flip flops and I was wearing jeans and flip flops. I'm not normally scared of spiders, but I don't like black widows. We gave up after about 5-10 minutes of me tromping through the plants with no luck. ( picture ) But we did find Keep it Green. This one was a fun find. I ended up having to climb onto a pillar to reach it, but we did it. geovegan didn't believe me when I found it and it was so far up. ( picture )

After we left that park, we decided to try one more. We went to this athletic park in Irvine and try to find Havasu or Bust!. The description said that the difficulty was inversely proportional to your height, so needless to say me and geovegan are both short and were wearing flip flops so we gave up.

On our way home we were going to go to goodwill to get some fanny packs for geocaching, but geovegan got sidetracked by a geocache that one of her twitter friends hid that was on the same street, so we found that one. That one was A Rich Man's Find. ( picture )

Last week sometime (not sure which days) me and a few friends (Vincent and Irene) went looking for caches while getting food. Our first cache was the Eye Opener To The Stars. It was a pretty easy find. The hints lead you right to it.

Last Friday while me, Vincent and Irene went to get breakfast, we tried caching. The first one we tried to find was Alien Droppings. We searched for quite awhile with no luck. We'll have to go back on another day and try again. It seems that it's just too hard for us to find. Any clues would be appreciated.
After failing at that one, we went to do JBS. This one was pretty simple to find and Vincent went and got some stuff he needed at the bike shop while we found the cache. I guess it's a themed cache, but I'll have to find the other caches to figure out the theme. :)



This weekend (between World of Warcraft time) me, geovegan and beerbad went caching down in Irvine near UCI. We went to get lunch at the Veggie Grill and figured we would do some caching (seems to be a weekend thing for me and geovegan).

The first one we found was African Safari. It was an awesome presentation and this cache is probably one of my favorites! It was a little confusing where it was because the hints/descriptions talk about boards. When you find it you'll realize why, but don't look for something that has boards. ( picture ). This one was fairly close to the Veggie Grill so it was an easy find.

In the same parking lot as Veggie Grill, we did the other cache Fountains Are Cool (UCI Jack). This one was pretty funny since there were a lot of muggles around and we looked weird looking in the fountains. Stealth is the key here. We also wouldn't have found it without the clue.

We then went to another one called And the Oscar® Goes To.... geovegan found the area, but I think I found the cache. There is also an Emmy over there, so that got a little confusing. This is a virtual cache, so you have to either take a picture with the cache, or email the person who created it and and tell them the name of the movie the Oscar® was awarded for, or mail them and tell them what the other award is, and what is written on the third line of the inscription. This is our first vitual cache, so yay! ( pictures )

After this one, we went and tried to find Things You Cannot See, but it's a multi cache and so we couldn't do it because we didn't have anything that you could punch corrdinates into. Another time though.

We then went and found our last cache. This one was Get out of Jail (UCI/URP #05). It took us quite awhile to find it, but we finally did. geovegan found this one. I had looked at exactly where it was and didn't find it (but I didn't look at the back). Thank goodness it was a Sunday and there were no campus police around. Here are some ( pictures )

So today was my 26th birthday. I feel kind of old, but that's okay.

My friend Ryan's boyfriend, Travis, is a geocacher (is that the right word?) and I asked him to take me Geocaching for my birthday. We only did one, but I really enjoyed it.

We (meaning Me, Ryan, Travis, Tracy, Emily, Thomas and Meredith) went to the Geocache at the Buena Park Metrostation. It was fun, I didn't take any pictures though. We found Too Easy #2.

So that was my geocaching virgin experience. I think me and Emily may start doing them on the weekends.

I spent $10 on the Geocaching App for the iPhone, so hopefully we can get some use out of it!