Did you ever catch fireflies when you were younger? It was a lot of fun, finding and catching the elusive glowing bugs. We went hunting fireflies the other night, We went night caching! We have been geocaching for a year now, always in the daytime, but there was a new cache in the area that was set up to do at night. I was leery, but it did sound exciting. It is in the Dawson forest, home of the abandoned nuclear reactor, and I agree with another cacher who posted that 'these woods are spooky'. Add to that the fact that we had to go all the way to the end of a dead-end narrow dirt road to park, passing other vehicles on the way that were parked on the side, wondering where the drivers were, and what they were doing there (do you hear banjo music?). Anyway, we arrived well before dark, not sure what to expect, so we got out and investigated the area.
I did not know what to look for, but Buddy had done his homework. For night caching there are small reflectors (fireflies) put out in the forest to guide you along, which can be seen with a bright flashlight. Once we knew what to look for, we spotted some of the fireflies in the daylight, and after combing the area, actually found the cache. We took a very special cache prize - the coveted white jeep travel bug. (Jeep Corp is in with geocaching.com, as it takes a 4-wheel-drive vehicle to get to a lot of caches.) We stuck around til dusk to see how the fireflies actually looked, very spooky indeed.
