Along The Delaware Canal (Part Two - Geocaching)

     The Delaware Canal Path is a man-made canal dug out many years ago to have mule-drawn barges deliver coal and other goods.  I don't want to get in to a history lesson here because the video for this is a probably-too-long 44 minutes as I barrel through the scenery going from location to location.  Also, I am mostly ignorant on the history, and since I am sure I will be visiting this place often to rack up the cache finds, I can always delve in to it later.

     I would love to get in to each cache individually here, with Google Map shots showing where I was, and maybe I will in the future, but for now I want to get this blog caught up with my "current timeline" and save this mundane task for some rainy day in the future.  I will list the caches visited (found or not) on this day, however.  That is one thing I would like to have listed in my journal.  

     Yeah, 44 minutes is too long for that crap rendering, but hopefully you can look past that.  Now, a listing of the caches and links, plus some quick notes on them for my personal reference.  Bold equals a big, fat "not found":

• Eric & Mary's Adventure II
• Space 2081 Discworld (Note 1)
• Duck Xing - New Hope South
• Perils of Pauline (Note 2)
• 3000th Sense
• Victory At Union Square (Note 3)
• Bum Bridge
• Loggerhead
• LambertEville
• Monster Master (Note 4)
• Hippopotamus Bier
• Belvidere-Delaware Railroad
• The Choice
• Where's The Fiddler? (Note 5)

Note 1 - I didn't know what the Space2081 cache series was at the time.

Note 2 - Perils of Pauline is one of my first "unique" caches and is really quite devious.  It is my first introduction to stretchwell, a cacher who appears to have some well-earned renown among the community as someone who sets out some good hides.

Note 3 - This note is simply to point out that I really did fart in a jar and try to contain it.  Do I think this really worked?  No.  I am pleased to say that someone found it and had a chuckle from it.

Note 4 - This one is listed as "not found," despite the video, because stretchwell took it upon himself to contact me and tell me what I found was not the actual cache.  Damnit!

Note 5 - Hopefully this cache will not be a major thorn in my side, what with the new-found fear of having weird bugs jump in my mouth in the dark and enclosed place.  I have already failed again in the Main Journal Entry #004.

Frame grab; I like that desolate feel involved.

Someone found my fart!  "Gross lol,"
I'm a chemical miscreant!

Damn you, stretchwell! I like how he takes a dig at my alternate-canine persona.

     And finally, because I have no other place to really put it, is a recording from my handle-bar cam (which is there for safety issues, not vlogging ones) in which I follow a man on a recumbent bicycle down the canal path because I found his overall locomotion fascinating.  I accidentally blasted him with mud at the end, but hey, don't ride so close to the ground?  He said that is why he had goggles on, but apparently the goggles do nothing.

Along The Delaware Canal (Part One - Photos)

     If you live near the New Hope, PA and Lambertville, NJ area and you like riding bikes and/or geocaching, then you need to get on down there and spend the day riding the Delaware Canal Path, an easy and level public trail that is also a maintained State park.  It can offer both a bit of solitude as you travel north and a bit of town life by the bridges.  The New Hope area, while small, can get pretty jumping with its clubs, bars and shops.  If you can time it to ride in the day and walk around the main street at night, then you are golden.  It is worth a drive of up to (and including!) 3 hours.  I have about 30 pictures to give you the feel of the area as far as riding and geocaching goes.  The caches around this way are varied enough to keep you interested, and there are enough that you will be able to make many trips out of it.

40.364567, -74.950537 - Early in the morning.

Looking at the Lambertville Station Inn

Freud would have had a field day with this imagery.

Near the "Perils of Pauline" Cache, at the New Hopy and Ivyland station.

Parts of the Canal Path go through privately maintained areas.

I suppose I could Google this...

Inside abandoned train cars are some interesting pieces.

Why you gotta Poo on their work?

     The Delaware Canal itself runs 60 miles along the Delaware river on the PA side.  On the New Jersey side it is called the Delaware and Raritan Canal Path and has several offshoots.  More on that in another entry.  The Canal is an excellent place to branch off in to various parks and bike paths to satisfy your exploratory tangents.

If you don't feel like riding or walking, just swim?

This picture and the next one are "enhanced" to match my memory.

The Canal itself is popular with rowers and kayaks.

I can see wasting the day lazily floating down the canal.

On the Jersey side the canal paths run through quaint parts of Lambertville.

Sometimes you find yourself alone with the scenery.

Ok, maybe one too many shots of the path here.

I wonder how many people have fallen off to the right.

     Ok.  I feel better just plastering those pictures here instead of trying to piece together what specifically I did along with the video I am about to put in the next post.  Now, I can come back to this page remember the journey, and not the sweat.