Porcupines and Power Lines
I thought I would post a quick note about the the cache titeled "Porcupines and Power Lines". Tink and I did this cache this afternoon and we pick up some nasty hitch hikers while on this cache. I am not talking about picking up people needing a ride either. I am talking about ticks. We have never seen so many ticks in our entire life. Tink pulled off and counted 24 ticks from the time we started the hike into the cache until we got back to the car. Then when we got home we were still finding them. If your going to do this cache you might want to spray yourself with deet real good. We did not spray ourselves at all. I know we will spray ourselves on every cache not until the cold weather starts to set back in.
Ticks, ticks and more ticks!
It seems we've been picking ticks off of us this year no matter where we go. They seem worse than normal. We did the Fields of Old cache a few weeks ago and the kids were picking them off of themselve the whole way home. They easy each found a dozen on themselves.
We've also found this that they get in our car after we go caching. Several times my wife has gotten into the car the day after we've used it for geocache outing to find a tick crawling on a seat or the dashboard. I don;t remember ever having that happen before this year.