Hiking, Camping and a little Geocaching - Part 1

I have been a little lazy on my posting so this will encompass events over the last two weekends.  To start off, on Saturday, May 12, 2012, we went on a hike out to a geocache in Dennis Cove.  It was supposed to be about 0.75 miles to the cache in a straight line so probably around 1.25 miles along the trail.  Although my wife and oldest daughter was along with us, Jordan and I decided we would hit Laurel Creek, which runs along side of the trail, for some brookies.

So as we hiked the trail Jordan and I stopped occasionally to try our luck.  Unfortunately however our luck did not go so well.  I did tell Jordan towards the start of the trail that fishing on small native streams like this one was much different than fishing stocked streams and rivers like he is used to fishing.  

Here is one of the holes we stopped at along the trail.  It was a beautiful spot that we all enjoyed.  Notice in the picture that Jordan was in his socks.  I am not sure if he was trying to use some sort of chemical or biological attack on the trout or not.  Maybe he was just trying to totally get "in touch" with the water.  I managed to get one or two to bite on my spinning rod here but never hooked any.  The hole was really a bit too tight for two to fish so I wound up dropping back and letting Jordan have at it.  He never even got a bite out of the hole.  Maybe he needed to get his water shoes out of his pack.

One of the next holes we stopped at was another beautiful spot.  The hole was deep and would have made a great swimming hole.  There was a giant rock roughly the size of a small van that we were able to crawl out onto.  Jordan did manage to get a few strikes out of this hole but again did not hook any.  I didn't fish much here and wound up letting him use my spinning rod some.  We spent a good little bit of time here at this hole just relaxing and watching Jordan get frustrated with not being able to hook any trout.  It's always enjoyable to watch others having trouble fishing.  At least it is for me.

We continued on down the trail and eventually came to several spots where we had to cross the creek.  As you can see from the picture Brianna is giving it a go at crossing this part using the wires stretched across.  She didn't make it far though.  I am still not exactly sure what the purpose of the wires were.  At all three crossings the wires were so far above the water that there was no possible way to wade the water and also use the wires for stability.  Not unless you were about 10 foot tall that is.  I also doubt they are there for a person to cross like Brianna is attempting.  The average hiker here would never be able to make it all the way across like that.  What ever the reason, the wires were there and gave us something to laugh about while at each of the crossings.  

After wading across the three sections of the creek, we managed to find our way to the geocache.  To our surprise we found our first trackable in the cache and liberated him.  Jordan also chose a fishing lure key chain.  I forget what we left in its place.  

The entire trip took about 5 hours and was maybe about 2.5 miles round trip.  We had a great time and saw some beautiful country.  In part two of this write up you get to see what happened to the trackable we got from here.

⇒ Click here for an album of pictures from the trip. ⇒ Click here for a slideshow of pictures from the trip.