Stars in my eyes. Monday 011711

Out geocaching with The Lost Clan. We started our day on top of the world! At Mount Soledad there are several caches I've not found but we forgot the maps and decided to just go for a multi cache. I always bring any visitors to San Diego up here and it never disappoints. Fantastic views all round today. We did another couple of caches around the residential area, there are some beautiful homes and they all must have fantastic views!

We then went into La Jolla and found a cache that I've been too scared to do! I was at George's restaurant on Saturday and noticed this exciting opportunity to meet a real STAR was still active but my family of muggles were not as starstruck as me so I had to pass it by. Luckily The Lost Clan was willing to visit Miss Garbo for a second time and we made our way into the hallowed ground. Mr. Hyosung was very helpful and the required information transcribed. I only wish I hadn't waited for 9 years to make Miss Garbo's acquaintance. How foolish to get a bee in your bonnet about what you think something is going to be and as usual it proves to be quite simple!

Our next cache is called Green Eggs and Ham as it is placed near Dr. Suess' house although we were not sure which one of the beautiful homes it could be. We were at La Jolla Heights Open Space and had views of the sea, cliffs, golf course and the beaches, stunning. Unfortunately the cache, placed in May 2003, was in a very sorry state of affairs, an old rusty coffee can without it's lid. A plastic bag was not much protection for the soggy log book and a few bits. We emptied out the water and as we could not sign the log we put in a new one, I left the can on it's side so that, hopefully, any water does not stay inside. The owner dropped out of geocaching for a while but he has recently started caching again I hope he does some maintenance on this cache soon, it's certainly worth it for the views alone.

Now we were in for a treat as our next cache uses new technology, it is called Horton Hears a Chirp. My GPS does not have Chirp capability and neither does my iphone so I was dependent on TLC for the co-ords! We arrived at the posted co-ords and a few moments later the info was received and we were on our way to the next wp. Took a little longer to find than it should have, TLC walked right past it, as so did I but when I turned around I suddenly noticed it, a nice ammo can.

Next we thought it was time for a walk along a new trail with 6 different caches placed along it. We found Fey Bike Path Sampler #1 without any trouble, had a dnf on a older cache and then as there was a muggle at #2 we decide to walk to #6 and have something to look forward to on the return walk. Sadly we could not find #6. The CO says he did not place any nanos but he had made an exception here and it was a very odourous hide either on or very close to a dog poop bin. Yuck! We did find the rest on the return so that lifted our spirits a bit.

After a quick picnic lunch we decided to start to make our way home the 'scenic route' via a couple of rather interesting caches. Ashes 101 Dalmatians or a puppy as we like to call them, is one of the 101 caches you have to find in order to get the co-ords for Rolly. Ashes had been reset as the original a 5* terrain had been muggled TLC has found them all but I'm still working on the challenge. Ashes is now only 1 1/2 terrain now much to TLC's annoyance and we made a quick find.



Our last cache of the day is near an infamous sculpture. Not really sure what it is supposed to be, there are several ideas being mooted. Wish it was still posted! This cache is called The Turd and you only have to see the sculpture to see why.