Last Sunday, Groundhog Day, was worldwide Palindrome Day. It was 02/02/2020. As a result, Geocaching HQ put out a special souvenir to all who found a geocache on that day or attended an event. No events were scheduled locally, so I went out and found a pair of caches.
Before caching, Capt TailWagger and the rest of the family drove up from Fort Wayne to Leo-Cedarville to explore Riverside Gardens, a decent size park on the east side of the St. Joseph River. Most of Leo-Cedarville is on the west side of the river. There are a couple of geocaches in the park that I’ve already found. While we were at Riverside Gardens, we saw a bald eagle fly overhead.
Sunday turned out to be a springlike day. Temperatures were in the 50s and the sun was shining. Supposedly, the groundhog in Pennsylvania predicted an early spring. Locally, winter returned Wednesday.
I digress. After exploring Riverside Park, we drove over to Harlan, a small, unincorporated town on the east side of Allen County on Indiana 37. It has a park with three caches in it. I had already found one of the caches in the park, so my targets were GC8GED8 @nother 1 for Harlan Park and GC8GED2 &&& Another Harlan Park Cache.
Both of those caches have a D/T rating of 2/2, so I found 2 2/2 caches on 2/2. When I mentioned that on Twitter, someone asked if I would find a 3/3 on March 3, a 4/4 on April 4 and a 5/5 on May 5. I have a 3/3 cache picked out to look for next month.
In anticipation of the Geocaching HQ souvenir and Groundhog Day, I hid a cache that went live last Sunday. It’s a nano near the St. Joseph River not far from where it meets the St. Marys River to form the Maumee River. I called it The Groundhog is Hibernating. It’s near an area where I frequently see groundhogs during the summer. It’s GC number is: GC8JQKB.
By the way, a palindrome is a word that is spelled the same forward and backward. Some examples are kayak, racecar and tacocat.
Geocaching with Capt. TailWagger 