Bashful Comes Out of Hiding (QFSW - Bashful)

Poor Bashful - and no wonder!  Look at him!

July 14, 2012 - (starts July 13, 2012)  This was just NOT a good day for geocaching.  It WAS a good day for getting lost, though.  Lorax #1 and I took off to find another in the Snow White series of caches - Bashful.  It was listed as not too bad to find. (2.5/2.5)  I think those numbers might want to be upped due to the ferocious storm on the 29th of June.  Things just aren't the same as they were before that storm hit.  We didn't have any problem finding the trail and heading off into the woods.  We were using my iPhone instead of my trusty Magellan eXplorist GC because I had forgotten to download this cache to the eXplorist before we set off.  I can tell you that I won't make THAT mistake any time soon again.  We got TOTALLY LOST, the app wouldn't update quickly enough and the closest we came to the find was something like 100ft.  That's a pretty big area to search when you are in the woods and losing the light very quickly.  Not only did we end up losing the light but we lost the trail!  We ended up in someone's back yard, tried to surreptiously hike through it to find the trail, got self-conscious that we were being watched and went BACK into the woods.  That lasted about five minutes since the trail was just GONE so we went back onto the property, walked down their very nice, very asphalt, and very bramble-less driveway to the main road which was the road we had started on, just pretty far down.  We had to hike quite a piece to get back to the car.  Very grumpy at not finding it (pun intended).

Bashful Cleans Up Well

And we're not in the Amazon, either!

July 14, 2012 - This time we took The Lorax Gang and two of the Jenners 3 to find it ALONG WITH the uploaded info in my trusty GPS. We were able to track Bashful's general area down, but he was being SUPER-Bashful.  Turns out he'd come out of his Tupperware home and was covered with dirt and---TERMITES! We cleaned him and his house up -- repaired the hole in the Tupperware with duct tape and put him back on slightly higher ground away from the mess and stress of the termite filled dirt. Bashful is much happier now and we're happy to have found him! OMG!  Speaking of amazing (and we were since I was talking about geocaching - :)  LOOK at this leaf!  It almost completely covers E!  And she's 10!  I could NOT get over the size of these leaves.  It was like we were in the Amazon or something, but no, just Wheaton Regional Park!