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 .

We almost did The Duncan Yo-Yo Exchange on another night but didn’t because Haylee’s shoes got wet… so we decided to do it tonight when we were in the neighborhood. There was only one yo-yo there, so we left one behind without taking one in exchange.

Wow… 540 was very hard to find cache. Without a helpful hint, we may not have found this one. Nevertheless, we did find it.

We’ve tried a couple time in the past, but today we finally got Too Tempting! Even though it was a micro, we had a travel bug that would fit in it so we left behind G.T.s Traveling Tag.

On our way to Grand Haven we stopped and did Class Cache. We figured that now that school was back in session it was a good time to stop and get this cache. We took a little doll for Haylee and left behind a geocoin for the kids: A Bad Latitude.

One of the few remaining caches near home that we haven’t done is Just Chillin’… so we stopped by there real quick to cap off the night. A fairly easy find as there weren’t many places to hide the container near the coordinates. We took a golf ball for Brendan and left behind a toy car.

Following the disappointment at zap, we moved on to Along the river! This was a decent hike into the woods following a trail next to the river (hence the cache name). We found it in short order and left behind a toy car while taking a couple of purple beads Haylee wanted. Once we got back near the van, there was some desire to climb the nearby hill. It wasn’t as steep as the one at vantage point, but it was a decent climb.

Started the night with the Moores at Zap! This is a micro that requires a fair amount of stealth. There were a few people around, so we didn’t spend a lot time there. Unfortunately, we didn’t find it.

Right near the proud son virtual cache was a micro cache called Duck Hunt – #1 Aloha Duck. One of these days we’re going to have to learn for sure what poison ivy looks like, but there’s a good chance we saw some tonight.

As a virtual cache, the main requirement of Proud Son is taking a picture of yourself at the cache. Of course, Haylee always loves getting here picture taken so she was the perfect canidate!