Beekeeping
On Saturday, I attended the Ohio State Beekeepers Association summer meeting at Athens High School. It was very informative. Over the next few days, I will attempt to summarize the sessions.
Geocaching
Saturday afternoon, I drove to Waterloo Wildlife Area to search for a geocache. Geocaching involves using a GPS device to locate a hidden container at a set of coordinates that are published at geocaching.com. As usual, I set out unprepared. I had written down the coordinates for the cache on a scrap piece of paper. I arrived at the site and discovered that the area was absolutely gorgeous, isolated, and quiet. I hiked and drove around aimlessly before I remembered that duh, it's supposed to be on Trail 26: that's the name of the cache! There were no maps on site and of course, I didn't print one. I did not have appropriate clothing or insect repellent on me, was absolutely starving (no veggie lunch at the conference) and worried about getting a campsite, so I gave up. I hate giving up on a cache!!! I have risked life and limb to get to caches. But it was worth the trip, as I have never seen so many butterflies in one place (picture from internet). There was some butterfly weed in bloom in the meadows. It is also a site on the Hocking Valley Birding Trail, with 80 species of birds. I'm not much of a birder though.
That is the best thing about geocaching: it takes you to places you would never discover on your own!
To be continued...
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