Geocache #265 and lunch



Bear Republic Brewing Co.



Drove on towards Healdsberg.  Upon arriving there we decided that we would stop at a BrewPub that we had eaten at before and enjoyed before doing anymore caching.  The Bear Republic!  It was a good thing we stopped, we didn't realize how popular this place was on a saturday afternoon - had to wait almost 30 minutes for a table.

Had a wonderful lunch of Burgers and garlic cheese fries with a couple of glasses of XP Pale Ale (AllieBee had raspberry ice tea as she was driving).  We then shared the perfect, not too sweet, not too tart Raspberry cobbler ala-mode before heading back out to find some more geocaches!!

Literally, right on the other side of the fence from the parking lot, although I had AllieBee take the long way around a few blocks to get there, was our next cache of the day -- #7 of 12 'Mark's Left Hook' We were wondering where the hook was till I went to log this find and was looking at other people's photos.  We had found the plaque that mentioned Mark and saw the bench, but after looking at the photos I see that the bench is shaped like a fish and with a lot of imagination a hook!!! 

nano-cache



AllieBee's braille method



My daughter Candace and I had been here last year and all over that bench trying to find this cache to no luck.   AllieBee with her luck today found this cache kinda by the braille method while feeling under the back edge of the seat. I had gotten down on my knees and looked under the bench but didn't see it. 

This cache is not considered a micro-cache, it's considered a nano-cache.  I have found a couple of similar caches and was pretty sure that what we found was what we were looking for.  Signed the log and replaced before heading on.