AAR: Duck-Walk (Geo-Art)

Tom and I had planned on going to the Outer Banks for a vacation this year, and as is my way, while planning the trip, I looked for geocaches that were available in the area. As I scanned up and down the coast, I found the shape of a duck in Duck, the Duck-Walk Geo-Art. In comparison to other geo-arts I've worked on, this one was easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy. How much do you need to know? One word: Duck. No, you don't need to know anything about the quaint little town of Duck, you just need to know the word. Really. Each of the geo-art's cache pages has a Certitude link where you enter the word "Duck" and it will tell you the cache coordinates. Oops, did I forget to mention "Spoiler Alert!"? Never mind, you would have figured it out anyway.

The Duck-Walk covered about 4½ miles, and went all through town, so we rented bicycles from an establishment in town that offered day rentals. The terrain was mostly flat, with some hills here and there, and since I'm pretty out of shape, the hills almost did me in. For the most part, the hides were on the easy side, and there was a nice variety of containers and clever hides. There were a few that took more than a couple of minutes to find, but I found them to be the most rewarding. In the end, this Geo-Art took us about six hours to complete. That included a lunch break, picking up and returning the bicycles, and chatting with the cache owner (OBXbiker), who we met along the way.

I think that the Duck-Walk Geo-Art was well worth the effort. I saw some hides that I had not seen before, giving me new ways to think outside of the box in future searches. It also got me out exercising. Even though my initial plan was to rent bicycles, it was obvious when we got there that the roads were just too busy to do the Geo-Art by car and not disrupt traffic. If you're heading to the area, I recommend giving it a try