Central Oregon Art Gallery

Without a doubt, the best cache this weekend was Central Oregon Art Gallery. I have had this on my list for years, and finally got the chance to get out there and get it this weekend. It was better than I expected and I was expecting something great.  When you arrive at the parking spot, it's really just a wide spot with a bunch of obsidian cliffs. Of course the obsidian is very cool, but you can see it all over the place.


Just a short distance from the parking area, you start on the trail. It's behind a huge obsidian boulder. You can see the trail goes downhill. When we got to the point where the trail starts downhill,  we stood there and literally gasped. Amazing. I can't believe that this gorgeous, lush place is at the bottom of an obsidian field.  We spent a long time here....looking at the pictographs, watching the frogs, hiking around. This cache lived up to my expectations and more. Absolutely wonderful.

Pathway

The pathway to the beach for In Their Honor, GC11XZT was amazingly beautiful. This was one of our favorite caches of the weekend.

Once we got down to the beach, the walk across the dunes was peaceful. No one else was around so early in the morning. It was fun and a little strange to watch the wind cover our footprints with sand just a few short minutes after we walked by.

History

We've been geocaching for a long time -- since September 2, 2002 to be exact. We've seen some awesome caches and some awful caches. I might write about both....but my purpose is more to log some of the photos I have taken while on this journey.