Our very first "Geocaching Adventure" took place at the Kortright Centre for Conservation, located in Woodbridge, Ontario. If you don't know what geocaching is, it's basically treasure hunting. Someone hides a "cache", which can be anything from just a log to something filled with prizes! Then, the GPS coordinates are posted online. Cachers take those coordinates, put them into their own GPS and set off to find the cache!! Here is the very first geocache we found:

Hard to see, but if you look hard enough, you'll find it! 

Since we went in the winter, we didn't see a lot of animals or nice scenery. We saw a few birds, such as this one at a few of the bird feeders throughout the park

One interesting thing we did find in the park was a "bottomless pond" If you read some of my earlier blogs, you'll remember the term "Kettle Lake". Formed from pieces of glacial ice left behind after the glacier receded. Once these pieces of ice melt, a depression is formed. This depression fills with water to form the pond. I'm not entirely sure why they call it a bottomless pond. My guess is because this pond is relatively undisturbed due to no water (besides rain water) moving in and out of the pond. ie, no rivers or creek feeding or draining the pond. Layers of "ooze" built up at the bottom of the undisturbed water body. This ooze contains pollen, dead plants and animals that can be valuable for scientists to take a look into the past. This "ooze" makes the pond seem bottomless, which I assume is where it got it's name.

Otherwise, it was a pretty uneventful hike besides the geocaches we found. We found 8 caches in the park! We had a few "did not find"s, plus we didn't have time to attempt to find them all. Therefore, we hope to come back to this conservation park at some point to finish finding all the caches :)