Retrying :"The Pill Box." Trying: "Sometimes" & "KOC - Kodiak College"

It's back to Ft. Abercrombie, back down the trail, and back through the bushwhack bushes to the cliff. We came prepared with spoiler hints this time and we found the cache within a minute. It was a great hide! The wind wasn't blowing today, either, so that made the find that much nicer. It is a bright and sunny day, however, the water has an eerie layer of fog on it...

SPOILER AHEAD:

We had searched high and low, but we didn't search underground. To the left, there's a hole near the ledge of the cliff. Didn't think to look there before because we didn't see it before. Have to be either on your hands and knees to get it or on your stomach to get it. Awesome hide.

END SPOILER

Anyway, it's rejuvenating to finally find a cache again. Yay! It's a nice little ammo box filled with a bunch of goodies. We ended up taking "Luke's Blue Earth Geocoin" and a little army man. In its place we left a beanie baby, and a bottle of hand sanitizer.

Next on the list is "KOC - Kodiak College" Thinking this may be another Too-Urban-For-Comfort heartbreak, we tried anyway. We parked at the College and walked down a path that led to a trail head and into off into some trees. Sounds very promising, however, after extensive search, we found nothing. There were too many good hiding spots and the GPS wouldn't give us a clear enough reading because of the tree cover. We'll have to try it again. Off to the next one...


The final cache on the list for today is on Sometimes Island. We didn't know our tide table offhand, so we were hoping that we'd hit it right. Sure enough we did, and we crossed over to the island. Us and the 2 Geodogs. We thought we had the coordinates in the GPS, but we didn't. Luckily, I knew a hint of where it is located, so we decided to try to find it without the help of a GPS. Sure enough, we found it! It was nicely hidden near an awesome historical area.

We took a CG personalized wooden coin from a captphil and we left a beanie baby, a pine cone from Oregon, and we also dropped off Luke's Blue Earth Geocoin. Very close to the cache is a spot you can view the path leading back to the main part of Kodiak. At a glance, it looked like the path was significantly smaller than it was when we crossed, and we really weren't on the island for very long, maybe a half an hour.

Anyway, Jeremy agreed we should make our way back to the car. We rehid the cache, and ran back to the beach. The tide must have been coming in quite fast. What had been room enough for two cars to drive over, now was close to being covered in water. Jeremy crossed the rising tide and I stopped to take a picture...I got it just as the two sides of water touched, making Sometimes Island an island again.

It was a good day Geocaching, and we now feel a bit more confident in our skills as cachers having found 2 of 3 today.