There seems to be an entire series of “Dead Drops,” though at this point in time, Dead Drop #5 is the only one we’ve done. We found this one relatively quickly with the number of eyes we had looking for it and got the information we needed from it.

This was our 80th find in our first month of caching!!

The main purpose of heading to Grand Haven this evening was to get a few more of the clues to Exploring Coast Guard City USA figured out. Of course, we hit a couple other caches while we were there. Also, we should now have enough done to figure out the coordinates to the cache. So the next thing we post about this should be a “found” log .

Though it was too long to complete in one night we did start doing Exploring Coast Guard City USA tonight. We managed to check all of the points in row “A”. Though with 24 points total, that still leaves 19 points as possibilities (though not all of them necessarily need to be visited…). It’d be nice if each of the points were their own virtual cache or something so they were logged seperately (and loaded into the GPS easier), but this is still a fun little puzzle.

When we were camping last weekend and went out with ourfamluvscaching, we mentioned our inability to find the points in the Spring into Summer series and how a lot of the points seemed to end up at light poles. They gave us a couple hints about the way micros are hidden at light poles. Fast forward to today… on our way out to cache this evening we stopped at Target to get a compas (you know, the old manual type). While there, we decided to check and see if the micro hints were still there even though the owner disabled them. Sure enough, they were there and the hint given by ourfamluvscaching was a good one! So, tonight we found BullsEye, McHales Navy, A million reasons, Yo Quiero!, “City” Slickers and, of course the main event: Spring into Summer Series Final.

Tonight we decided to give the Spring into Summer Series a shot. It didn’t go quite as well as we’d hoped. There were 9 points that gave hints to the location of the final cache. One of them was disabled as it is missing. Of the other 8, we only managed to find three of them… and only two had clues! And the two that had clues were pretty obvious once you started looking at the listing in the final cache.

We attempted the following caches:

• No Outlet #4 – Found
• BullsEye – DNF
• McHales Navy – DNF
• A million reasons – DNF
• Yo Quiero! – DNF
• “City” Slickers – DNF
• No Outlet #5 – Found
• Caddy Shack – Found

We didn’t even try Save Big $ as it was marked by the cache owner as not being there.

That left us, even using basic deduction, unable to get a good idea about where the cache may be. A bit of a bummer as we were really hoping to get the series.

PS. This one is in neither the Found nor DNF categories because We didn’t attempt the finale.

UPDATE: Found this one on 21-Sep-2008.