Next up was Duck Hunt # 5 – Duck Duck Dew. When we found the location that seemed probable, we started probing with a nearby stick. When we finally found the cache, we discovered that the duck was detached from the container. Not sure if we did that to it or not, we reported it needing maintenance.

Update: Band of Bradys contacted us and told us that the duck was broke before we got there but the cache will only be there for a couple more weeks before they close the rest stop for the winter so their just gonna leave it until then.

We finally decided that we had traveled south enough so we went to the closest cache to us, lakeshore woods, with the intention of working our way back northward. This cache is now our most southern find.

We still weren’t sure where we were going on this nice October Sunday afternoon, but as we drove by Always in Grand Haven we figured we should probably go grab it real quick. Now that we understand how Light Pole caches work, this was a nice easy and quick park and grab.

There used to be 4 “dog walk” caches between Broadway Ave. and Maple Island Rd on the Musketawa trail. Unfortunately, #2 and #3 disappeared before we started caching so we never got the chance to try to find them. We did, however, find Dog Walk Hide #4 today. All told, we rode 10.5 miles today (including a couple laps around the parking lot)!

We went for a bike ride along the Musketawa bike trail today so we stopped and did Dog Walk Hide #1. It was a nice October day for a bike ride.

The second cache we did in the park was Hoff N Hide. This one was a slight hike into the woods, but not too bad. We took a battery case and left behind the the White Jeep Travel Bug “Ardella”. There was another cache in the park, but it was a 2.5 mile multi and it was getting too late to do that one. We’ll have to head back that way another night.

After we did two out of the three Brit prerequisites, we went over to the Hoff Preserve where there were a few caches. We tackled Hof and Puff and Blow the Trees Down first. A pretty easy find fairly close to the parking lot. We took a bracelet and left a princess mini-frisbee.

After we finished Big Brit, we went to the next closest cache. Wee Brit was in the same blueberry field. Not only was the container on this one smaller, so was the required number of points. We found it pretty quickly. Haylee traded a couple bracelets she had picked up at Big Brit for some beads from this one.

Our first trip out in October started at a blueberry field in Grand Haven. The first cache we did was BIG BRIT. The coordinates at the first point were a little hard to read so when we had a hard time finding the coordinates at the second point we started to doubt if we had read them correct. So we went back and checked again. We had the right coordinates in the GPS. We took a look at the hint for the cache and went back to where we were to look a second time. We managed to find it. All went well until we got to the next to the last point. We couldn’t find coordinates to the last point. The hint said something about cricket. We assumed it meant the game, but neither one of us had a clue how to play it so the clue didn’t make much sense. After a few fruitless phone calls, we looked it up on the BlackBerry and got enough information from wikipedia to take a closer look at a couple things. Sure enough, we found it. Moved on to the final point and found the cache no problem. We left the TYCHO travel bug. We almost forgot to get the clue for the British Invasion so we had to run back and get it.

Very close to the hide out we couldn’t find was Mona Lake Geocache so we figured we could hit that one real quick before we called it a night. It was a little difficult to find in the dark with nothing but a couple flashlights for illumination, but we found it.