Thursday, June 23, 2011

A challenging summer cache

I'd read about this cache that requires you to either rent some kind of boat or swim/wade across water to get to it. The cache was called Isle Cache Here and the plan was to rent a canoe for the 4 of us and row to the island to find the cache. All the rental information can be found on the Sacramento State Aquatic Center website. (You can save the park entrance fee by parking in the Aquatic center's parking lot as long as you rent some equipment that day.) When we arrived we found out that only 3 people are allowed on the canoe's at a time, so we had to rent two tandem kayaks. This made for a much harder paddle across the lake, but the kids LOVED it! In a canoe we would not of gotten wet, but in a kayak we did, so plan accordingly. It was about .6 miles to the cache from the dock, and with no wind and a nice sunny afternoon we headed for the cache!


The kids loved the paddle to the island, and this was our first find that required something other than a hike to get to GZ. Once on the island we found the cache quickly. The girls were excited to get back in the kayaks and enjoyed the ride back.


The above picture is of Maya and I on our way back to the dock. Lake Natoma is a nice place to spend the day and I was glad we went after this Terrain 5 cache. So many geocachers are trying to grab as many finds in a day as they can, but a cache like this well worth the extra time and effort to get to. Go for it!

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