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I accidentally found a great cp site

Ozzy

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On Friday I plan to try and find a geocache that hasn't been found since 2001. It's way back in the woods.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=a318db6d-88a7-4782-98ff-a6e4bdc9646e

As you can see from reading the logs, back in 2001 people could at least drive close to the cache.
My original plan was to drive as close as I can, and then find the river and paddle the rest of the way in. The thing is I really don't know much about this area. So I don't know the conditions of the roads. All I know about the area is from what I have seen with google earth. I mapped out 4 different routes in case some of them are impassable. I had to go near the area today so I thought I would drive by and see how the roads were so I would have an idea of what to expect Friday. The roads looked to be in really good shape. Only problem is that they all had locked gates with no trespassing signs. So I couldn't even get close. So I drove all the way around the area looking for a dirt road that wasn't closed. I had pretty much given up because I was now miles away from the pond. I saw a little dirt road that led the way I wanted to go. I thought there is no way that road will lead all the way back to the pond. I almost kept going but I thought you never know it might just get me to the area. So I turned around and I turned into the road. The beginning of the road was very deep sand and I almost turned back around, but instead I just hit the gas and made it through the sand. The road was very narrow and there were ditches on both sides. You'll see in the pics. While I was driving along the road I did what I always do. I scanned the ditches for signs of cp's. Just like 99% of the time that I do this I didn't see any. I drove back almost a mile until I came to a wire that was blocking the road and of course there were no trespassing signs. So I turned around a headed back to the main road. As I was driving out I was looking in the same ditches that I did on the way in.

All of a sudden I saw a dead pitcher plant. I almost didn't see it. It looked more like a dead clump of grass than it did a pitcher plant. I hit the brakes and jumped out. Sure enough it was a S.rubra. These are the plants that caught my eye.
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I looked around a little more and I found some S.purpurea.

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I soon found a plant that I haven't seen in the wild yet.


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Yep that's a S.purpurea X rubra.

Then I found the reddest vft's I think I ever seen.

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Some of these were this red on the outside of the trap too.

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Scattered around with the vft's and pitcher plants were D.capillaris. A little ways down the dirt road the ground was a little drier. That area had D.brevfolia.

Here are the rest of the pics I took.

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These next vft's were very tiny. They were smaller than most sundew leaves.

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That must be nice to be able to see them in the wild like that. There is nowhere in my area where I could see any.
 
That is very cool. I'm with Murphy... I'd never find anything like that around here. LOL I could go to mexico and check out some pings.. But it's so hard to get back now :p Are you driving a car there? Sure hope you're careful in those street tires :sigh:
 
Great pictures. Totally envious of your location too ! I can go out and find poison ivy, poison ivy and oh yea poison ivy !
 
GREAT pictures and what a wonderful site! Those flytraps are stunning.

I think I'm moving to NC. :D
 
You'll have to go back well into the growing season :p
 
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Wow, that's great. I long for the day when I finally see some CPs in the wild. I can just imagine being in the car looking out the window and seeing a pitcher sticking up like ozzy described and BAM, yanking the car over to the side, my wife yelling "WHAT THE...". Oh what a great moment that will be.

Great pictures. Totally envious of your location too ! I can go out and find poison ivy, poison ivy and oh yea poison ivy !

If I look really hard I might be able to find some poison oak, too.

You'll have to go back well into the growing season :p

Yes, indeed. That will be spectacular!

So are you going to be able to find the cache?

xvart.
 
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Are you driving a car there? Sure hope you're careful in those street tires
Of course not! You'd have to be crazy to drive a car down some of the roads I go down. I was driving a minivan. Remember the thick sand at the beginning f the road? Well when I was driving out a car was coming and I had to stop in the middle of the sand for the car to go by. As soon as I saw the car coming and knew that i had to stop I knew I was in trouble. When the car passed, I slowly gave it some gas and just as I thought it was stuck. I put it in reverse and backed up until the tires started spinning. I went forward again, I went a little farther than last time. I backed up and again I went a little farther. I put it in forward, hit the gas and I made almost out but now there was a truck coming. I decided to try and drive out of the sand onto the side of the road until the truck passed. I realized that the truck was going slower than I thought, so I pulled onto the road instead of the side of the road. I made it out. Barley.

Well, I'll give a cp tour to any member here that I know (except Andrew). All you have to do is get here. You can ask other members that have taken the tour how it was.

The only way I can find to get to the cache is to paddle from the main road. It's 3 miles each way. I'm going to try Friday.


There's poison ivy and oak here too, but I don't even know what it looks like. I can roll around in it like a dog when he finds some that's been dead for a month and not even get a rash.

Oh and I definitely plan to go back for more pics in the spring and summer.
 
  • #12
Yes. What about seed? Are you apposed to taking half of the seed and spreading the rest around the area?? I would love to gather some seed from the plant you took a photo of that had the lovely venation going on.
 
  • #13
Well first, I have to find out who the land owner is. Then get permission.
 
  • #14
wow, great find, those are very red Vft's, im with you, definately the reddest ive ever seen. Like murph. said i wish i had some wild Cp's around here, unfortunately theirs only one or two and they there pretty far away.
 
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o, one more thing, like orchid said, those are definately seeds that i would enjoy.
 
  • #16
"You'd have to be crazy to drive a car down some of the roads I go down. I was driving a minivan.":-))

Do VFTs get more red in the cold? That would be like other plants that break down their chlorophyll to hang onto their N and then turn the color of their other pigments.
 
  • #17
Sweet find, 0z!

Those VFT's are really cool. I bet you can't wait for spring! The pitchers don't look so hot right now, but around April/May.....watch out!
 
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