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October 2009 
Neptune's Trident
Posted on Apr 23rd, 2008
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Jw
Jw
We finally had a day yesterday when it wasn't snowing and blowing. Went out to Lake Pond Oreille geocaching. This time we learned that it is a good idea to read the instructions carefully rather picking the caches off the map. Pictured is the geocache site called Neptune's Trident located somewhere under the broken down pier...under the water, found only by scuba diving. Glad Lauren decided to wait until summer to actually find this one. The joke is on us!
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does it ever get warm enough to swim over there. Although….I usually don't jump in the lake around here until July.
Thanks for sharing…it has been a long winter eh?
Blessings
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Yes, by mid July it is so hot that we are usually living outside and going to the lake often to cool off. This has/is been a very snowy long winter. Last week there was an article in the Coeur d'Alene paper about the record breaking snowfall. The author said that the reason we had so much snow is because the planet is cooling. Huh??? I took this as a repudiation of global warming. There are lots of folks around here who agree and laugh at the idea of global warming, saying it just isn't so, take this winter as an example. I thought that global warming would mean that our weather patterns would become erratic and it seems like they are goofy. Summer before last we had the hottest summer on record. Yesterday it was 40 degrees warmer in Fairbanks, AK than here. Go figure. I guess the best plan is to just flow with it.
hey i know that joke, comes with the whole geocaching experience at times i guess.
what is geocaching?
erratic weather patterns potentially kicking us into a new ice age…. won't that be fun? : )
Dawn, geocaching is a high tech treasure hunting game played with a GPS. First someone hides a cache which is a weather proof container filled with various trinkets and a small log book, or clues to a cache located somewhere else. They then post the coordinates, information and clues on the internet at geocaching.com.
Other folks go online and download the coordinates of the cache into a GPS then go out to search for the cache. If you take something from a cache you need to put something else in. Many times the cache hider has a particular intention in hiding a cache like sharing a great view. For us this is a good way to get outside, discover new places, exercise our bodies and minds, as well as enjoy nature.
We are very new at this game but are having lots of fun learning it.
wow. sounds like fun.
That's a beautiful picture there. Well, I can have empathy for the folks not wanting to “believe” in global warming. It would certainly be nice not to have to worry about it, wouldn't it? However, I agree with you that it's regretably a fact…