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Our Geo- caching adventure We went on the __#|Education__ trip to Charleston over Fall break and decided to do some Geo-caching while down there. Our first cache was called ALL THAT REMAINS. The GPS led us down some back alley ways through the beautiful streets of downtown Charleston. The description for the our first cache said: What was this place?  A spot not many visitors to the city will see, it’s surely not what it used to be. Imagine the past while standing near an entrance to something once surely much grander. Take a tiny treasure from the sea, tossed and tumbled smooth, also no longer what it used to be.

This is the alley we walked down to find our very first Geo-cache! Kerri video-taped me as I was walking down the road trying to find the Cache, the GPS said I was only a few feet away and we knew it had to be near those archways! media type="custom" key="24112354"

We found our first cache!!

It luckily was not hard to find once we walked near the area. It was sitting on the ground right near the old archway.



We were both so excited to find it!!

We wrote our names in the log book and made sure to put __#|Campbell University__ so anyone that found it knew we were Campbell proud students!

Kerri had a __#|Campus__ Grill Gift __#|Certificate__ and we decided to place that in the cache for more Geo-cachers to see.

Our second Cache led us all the way back up on King Street, many many blocks away from where we were. It was right in the shopping heart of Charleston. The cache was called Mellow Maniacs which we happened to notice a store called Mellow Mood, so we knew it had to be close. This was the location for the cache. But our GPS did not bring us close enough so we were searching for a while. A young man on his smoke break was watching us and asked if we were Geo-caching. To our surprise he knew what we were doing! We said yes and asked if he knew if we were in the right area. He said yes and said to check around the wall near the __#|trash cans__. We searched and searched but could not find it. Finally, Shelly crawled around the __#|trash cans__ and looked one last time. Shelly had found the cache up on the wall under some ivy.

Cache number two was a success!!

We checked what was inside and wrote our names in the log book.

We were really getting the hang of this!! We thought we were geo-cache experts so we moved on to our next geo-cache search. We walked down further to go to Marion Park on Calhoun Street. It was a huge park filed with trees and bushes all around the border. We definitely were happy to find our last cache of the day. The description told us to beware of Mugglers. We were not quite sure to think about that description but we continued and tried to find it. It said we were close when we walked around this section of bushes and plants so we got busy searching! We looked and looked and looked. The sun was beating down on us and we were definitely getting tired. We furthered our search efforts and thought maybe it was down farther....and farther...and farther. We were getting discouraged. We could not find this geo-cache. We decided to read the comments online to see if others were successful. The last person to post said they searched for hours with no luck. Many others posted the same results also. We were not alone in this disappointment. We called off our search for this cache and moved on to another.

Our next cache was also located in a park down past the __#|college__. We walked down about 4 more blocks to get to this one. The name was CANNON YOU FIND IT? It was in Cannon Park. Our clue said in order not to get caught you must pipe down. We had no clue what the clue meant. We got to the relative location and saw bushes, trees, and an electrical box on a brick wall. We looked all around the wall and through the bushes but no luck. We wanted to find this cache and boost our confidence back up. Shelly moved over to the brick wall one more time and noticed a little string down a pipe. The clue hit her! Pipe down! It is down the pipe!.

We found our last cache!! Thank goodness. It had been one long day of hunting! It was a small red bull container with everyone's logs smashed inside. We did the same and wrote our names on a little scrap paper and balled it up in the container. We put it back in and walked down the street happy as could be! We both were so glad to be able to Geo-cache while in Charleston. We were so proud of all of our findings for the day, we decided to take a break at this beautiful location and enjoy the opportunity to finally rest our feet! We saw breathtaking views of the river, historical homes and beautiful parks. It is an experience we will never forget!!

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