My Favorite Containers

Of late I have been struggling to find something to write about but have been coming up with nothing.  Well I finally have thought of something.  Over the years of finding geocaches there have been some interesting ones that have stuck out.  Usually it is the container that makes it memorable or the way that it was hidden.  As I think I mentioned before I have a cache up the road from the house I used to live in that us under the seat of an old outhouse.  It is way out of the way and there isn't any other caches for a couple of miles so it doesn't get visited much but everyone that has come to find it almost falls down laughing when they realize where the cache is. 

Some of my memorable containers and finds have been one in front of a person's home under a bird bath.  The container itself was a one foot and a half long piece of 5” diameter drain pipe.  To access the cache the top of the bath had to be lifted off slowly or the spring that was under the tube would shoot it out.  There was another couple that were dummy water sprinkler heads that looked completely legit.  One that caused a lot of people some trouble was a electric outlet box that had magnets on the back and was stuck to the steel siding on a dance hall.  That really looked like it was a working outlet.  There was another that was a very small electric junction box like the ones on light poles in parking lots.  To access the log book the finder had to use a screwdriver to remove the cover.

One that I have never tried to find but that I heard a lot about was a small waterproof matchstick container that had a nickel glued to the top.  The part that made it really hard to find was that it was slid in a piece of plastic pipe in the middle of a soccer field or playground at a park.  I was told by some people that they had to use a metal detector to find it.  Once they found the location they had to use a magnet to draw it up from the hole. 

The most recent container that I really thought was clever was similar to the one I just mentioned but much larger and easier to find.  It was a foot or so long piece of 4” plastic pipe that was sealed on top with a river rock and a slip on cap on the other.  The rock was the only thing that could be seen above ground and the rock looked like it belonged there.