Geocaching In The Boonies of Missouri
Well, I had to start with this picture. Colsyn, our 8 year old grandson, called just as we were getting home. He had his 6 pt. buck hanging and wanted us to come look. He was able to get it early this morning up in the Ozarks. Last year he killed an 8 pt. buck bt this one was just as big. The boy is quite a hunter.
We started our day by picking up April at 9 am and driving 70 miles north into Perry County. This was our first cache. What a beautiful sight. The water is coming out from the ground and returning to an underground stream just to the right of Teri. We are in an old German settlement. This is just behind a very old Catholic church building. We were in the Appleton area, just east of I-55.
Frohna, Mo. I can say we have never heard of this town. Now, we have been there. April and Teri coming back from a find.
How cool is this? We found some really neat places today. This area has some of the oldest settlements in the state of Mo. We are just west of the Mississippi River, 80 miles south of St. Louis.
Here they are digging for a cache. Man, I was not going back there.
Found this neat place.
Well, the cat and rooster seem to be pretty close friends. the hen was checking me out.
Rolling farther east, toward the river, we come into Altenburg. This is just west of Wittenburg. I am telling you, we were out in areas I did not know existed. I am glad April found these caches for us to hunt down today.
Now, 4 miles up the gravel/dirt road look what we find. This place was written about in Lewis and Clark's journals. Probably 15 miles north of Cape Girardeau. Grand Tower is the name of this chunk of rock. There is a town just across the river, in Illinois, with same name. We did not swim out to the cache. Every few years the water drops low enough for folks to walk out to this thing. Then, if one so chooses, they can try to shinny up this thing to get the cache, not me.
A shot looking north with April walking along the bank. One of the longest oil line crossings is right here. If you zoom the picture you can see it.
A land locked rock. If you look real close you can see tow nice ladies at the top. Was not my day for such a climb.
Back on the road again.Way up another gravel. This one is north and east of Pocahontas. Teri was staring down a muggle in a truck, as he passed by. Might have been wondering what we were doing to the mailbox. But, that was where we found this cache.
Trail of Tears State Park. Everyone knows about the Trail of Tears. This is where they came across the river and headed southwest to Oklahoma. 2 caches in the park.
And on south, toward home, we stopped in Advance. This was my 3rd time trying to get this thing. The first two tries someone had stollen the cache. I might have missed it today if not for April. In the base of the little solar light.Life is good. Thanks for coming with us today. Hope you had as much fun as we did.
Dan
posted by Dan & Teri Gregg @ 5:35 PM
1 Comments:
1. Thank goodness that deer was turned the right direction. April is NOT a hunter. She approves of it, she doesn't want to SEE any part of the results until cooked! A decapitated rooster and a dead deer in one day! Epic! (By the way, he should be proud, that's a great deer)
2. I LOVED our caching day together. We've got to do it again soon, but next time I have to drive or pay for the gas or something, ok?
3. I had to steal a copy of that pic of us on the overlook. We look SO tiny!
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