The first one we found was near one of the marinas on the lake.
We decided this was also a good photo opportunity for us.
Our next two caches were also easy park and grabs. Our fourth cache was a multi-cache so it took a little longer. We also approached it from the high side which made it more difficult than it should have been. The clue was "don't be stumped, look again." Well there were several stumps and we finally found the right one. Bob looked at this tree root first, until we spotted the other stumps!
We took the walkway back to the car after getting the coordinates we needed to complete the cache.
The final cache was in a wall built by the CCC in the original recreation area for Elephant Butte Lake. If we hadn't been geocaching, we never would have found this area of the park.
The last cache south of the campground was more difficult. We parked at a pullout by the road on the opposite side of the lake and like for .6 mile to find the cache. It was located in a large mailbox in a group of rocks. The hike took us up and down small canyon walls and through a dry river bed.
By the time we found the last cache and hiked back to the car, it was the middle of the afternoon. We went back to the rv for lunch and discovered we were almost out of bottled water. After lunch we drove into Truth or Consequences in search of a grocery store. We found an IGA and they just happened to have water on sale! We bought a case and headed back to camp after driving through the part of T or C that we hadn't seen.
We decided to leave the caches north of the campground.
Wednesday we are heading to Albuquerque. We hope to stay at Kirtland, AFB.
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