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the find. Sound familiar? Isn’t that
the same thing we felt when we
started searching for corners and
continues to make us smile to this
day?
More than anything I was pleased
that they were getting out and
looking at things around them. We
visited old grist mill sites, ocean
side ferry landings where the
steamship ferries would dock in
the 1800’s, abandoned railroad
right of ways, highway waysides
next to clamming flats with
workers out harvesting clams. Now
they were seeing Maine.
These kids had seen me working
the streets of Eugene in my orange
vest standing behind a tripod
waving my arms. They knew I was
a surveyor, but little more than
that. Our afternoon of “treasure
hunting” allowed me to explain
some of what surveyors do and
that it could be a real job and is
kind of fun to boot.
Mom came back from the
emergency room thankfully
without undo alarm. The usual
answer to the question of “what
did you do today” elicited an
excited reply of “Dave took us
surveying—we’re geocachers”. I
was pleased. A job well done.
Back home in Eugene it is probably
assured that the kids are back
to playing Pokémon, but I was
intrigued and pleased during a
recent visit just a few weeks later.
These two new surveyors had
gone on to recover nine geocaches
in their neighborhood.
Surveyors in the making? Maybe.
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