Denny volunteered to take me geocaching yesterday so I had to decide which direction to head. We've arrived in this area from the west, south and east so going north was a pretty obvious decision. From this campground, that leads you to the Wilson-Tuscarora State Park and Lake Ontario.
The Wilson-Tuscarora State Park emcompasses 395 acres of woods and marsh along the shoreline of Lake Ontario. The sign board showed that there are four miles of hiking trails and by the time we located the three geocaches planted within the park I think we had walked most of them. The park has been left in its natural state and it is obvious that most folks come here for the fishing or to swim at the small sandy beach as we didn't meet up with a soul on the hiking trail. Part of the reason for that may have been the voracious mosquitoes which gleefully attacked us as the only blood-bearing creatures in sight.
After logging all three finds we stopped by the shoreline for the mandatory "we were here" picture and came across a couple cleaning fish. Since they were already well into the fileting process I asked what type of fish they had caught and the wife told me that had caught Chinook and Steelhead. Salmon in the Great Lakes-who knew? Checking online I found that salmon have been stocked in all the Great Lakes. It's pretty apparent that we don't fish, right? But we do learn a lot while traveling, that's for sure.
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Geocaching.. this is a new term for me.. so I googled it and think I understand. My goodness it sounds like fun. So when you find a cache..do you leave something of yours behind. Amazing that there are caches left all around the world.
Coll, geocaching is a fun way to explore an area. And yes, if you take something from the cache, you leave something of equal value in return. There is even a cache down in the ocean for those who have their own submarine ;)
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