One of the great things about a lot of the places we have stayed is that we get a small double bed each, I love it!!!! Started off this morning by leaving our car at the motel and walking down to the lake 3 minutes away to do a cache. The lake looked so clean, cool and inviting we walked back up, changed into our togs and drove back down for a swim. Lots of private beaches roped off for other resorts and only a little space for us, but big enough. It was delicious as already the day was hot. We did a few more caches around Lake George, then I remembered we had left no tip so back to the motel to drop it off. Last night we did a cache by a Richard E and he sent us a very nice email recommending we do one of his caches called the Tin Man which had won an award. On the way there we did caches on the lock gates for the canal system between Lake Champlain and the Hudson and on to lake Eerie I think it is.
This was our lunch spot. Desperately trying to find some shade in 94deg (about 33). We watched a barge move through the canal on the right.
We got to the Tin Man and it was wonderful (see photo).
The Tin Man geocache. Lindsey holds the ammo can cache beautifully painted. The door is open to show the Tin Man's beating heart.
Shortly after this we were just about to leave a cache when a car reversed back to us and asked if we were caching. We said yes and we were from NZ, the cacher got out the car and came and introduced himself as Richard E and gave us a tin man geocoin which we will release when back in NZ.
Two proud, geeky cachers after the geocoin presentation :)
That's Richard E who made the Tin Man.
We spoke a while and will see him again at the mega. He has done 26 thousand caches and has hidden 244, of which we did about a dozen today, some of them very clever. He's proud to say he never gave a lame TFTC (thanks for the cache) log and I think that is why he emailed us as Steve makes a good effort to log caches well with a story if possible.
Lindsey with another one of Richards caches - called "Exhausted"
We did about 25 caches all up and by then it was getting on for 4 and we had had enough of the heat up in the high 30's, so set heading for Albany. It took us 3 accommodation places till we found a bed, apparently there is a baseball game or something in town. Wonderful to be out of the heat, nachos and ice cream for dinner in our room and sitting on our beds on the free WiFi watching the time trial for the Tour.
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