Logs for Contryguy 

This is a Pony Express marker located along highway 14 in S Central NEbraska 

This is the Nebraska Softball Hall of Fame located near Hastings, NE 

Santa was at a local nursing home today visiting the residents for a little Christmas Party. I was lucky enough to stop the jolly gentelman at the Christmas Tree long enough to get a photo of him holding my GPS
Merry Christmas 

I found this Cell tower that looks like a tree while on a visit to Omaha, NE. I didn't have my digital so had to take these photos with my Palm 71 so the quality is not the best I will however take other photos the next time I travel there if you want. 

The second Tank I found in McCook, Nebraska. No sign but it was in a public park 

One of two tanks I came across today. This one was in Atwood, KS and is sponsored by Sam Hubbard Post 46 According to info at the site. 

This is Camp Augustine located near Platte River in Central NE. 

I found this doule arch as I was looking for a cache container at a cache that just happened to be named "Double Arch" 

This is a M-5 Stuart Light tank that I found in a park at David City Nebraska. 

I found this bell in Hershey, Ne, USA today while I was geocaching. I do not know anything about it though 

This is a sign near Superior, Nebraska. It claims to be the Victorian Capital of Nebraska. 

Found this cache in a park in Beatrice, Nebraska. 

This is the Crossroads Mission located in Hastings, NE USA. I tried to find information about it on the net but didn't have any luck. I personally don't know anything about it. 

I found this tank and the gun next to it in Concordia, KS today while caching in that area. 

I found this Kent Feed sign at a Dealer near York, NE 

This Carter is located near a cache I found today called "Mysterious Merna Crater by Mike & Stef, Waypoint GC7AC6).
The following is taken from that page:

"The following is excerpted from an Associated Press article published in the 20 July 2002 edition of the North Platte Telegraph

MERNA, NE (AP) - Professor Wakefield Dort Jr. passionately tells anyone willing to listen that the mile-wide dent near this farm village was created when a meteorite slammed into the Earth as recently as 500 years ago . . . some folks back in Nebraska say his theory is out of this world - full of holes, if you will. In the middle of the debate is 82-year-old Frank Bartak, who was born in a homestead on the edge of the contentious depression and whose family still farms the land in and around it some 10 miles west of Merna. . . The depression - or crater - does look out of place. The Bartaks grow crops in it, but even that doesn't help it blend in much. Rolling fields of corn, soybeans, alfalfa and pasture stretch for miles in all directions up to the depression's edge, which drops 65 feet at some points to the floor below.

Dort believes the depression was formed by the impact of a large meteorite that packed an explosion with the force of several hydrogen bombs between 3,000 and 500 years ago. Dort started studying the site in 1991 after he and some colleagues discovered the unusual dent on a topographic map - a nearly perfectly round formation smack dab in the middle of Nebraska. Dort has collected samples from the site and claims he found thousands of minute black magnetic particles not native to Nebraska. He also notes that Pawnee Indian legend tells of a "thundering cloud" that appeared over the area "leaving behind children of black stone." Dort's team also found a layer of crushed glass about three feet below the surface with a pocket of gray soil underneath. University of Nebraska geologist Vern Souders speculates that what Dort found is fulgurite, which is formed when lightning strikes sand. The Nebraskans said they found the "crater" had the same origin as similar, though less impressive, depressions in the region carved out by relentless winds during dry periods thousands of years ago."

I am not sure what to think about it but it is different.
 

I hope to visit the actual location of this cache someday. It is quite a distance from Nebraska though.
Thanks for the cache.


 

The fllowing was taken from the Branched Oak Lake website:

Branched Oak Lake (Dam Site #18) was completed on August 21, 1967 and is the largest of all the Salt Valley Projects with a pool of 1800 surface acres. The remaining 2606 acres provide ample opportunity for camping, recreation, and hunting. Located four miles west of Raymond, Nebraska on Oak Creek, Branched Oak State Recreation Area (SRA) boasts some of the finest camping facilities in the State Park system. There are 268 improved campsites - 187 of which have electrical hook-ups. Facilities in the camping areas include four heated shower buildings, two trailer dump stations, and two fish cleaning stations. The park is also a wildlife management area where hunters as well as wildlife watchers and photographers will find plenty of ring-necked pheasant, waterfowl, cottontail rabbit, coyote, raccoon, red fox, striped skunk, eastern fox squirrel and white-tail deer.

There is something for everyone at Branched Oak SRA. Unique to Branched Oak is the 800-acre dog trial area, which attracts championship events from across the nation. For the plant lover, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission has established an arboretum at the park with over 100 species of trees and shrubs. For the angler, the lake is stocked with northern pike, walleye, largemouth and striped bass, black crappie, channel catfish, black bullhead, bluegill and green sunfish. There are six boat ramps in various places around the lake and a handicapped accessible fishing pier. The marina on the northeast side of the lake provides facilities to dock boats, rent boats, fuel up, and purchase food and supplies. Other recreation opportunities include hiking, walking, picnicking, water-skiing, and swimming.
 

This was a very informative cache. Thanks for the cache.
 

I found this stone bridge near Rice, Kansas while looking for a nearby cache. According the information on the sign near the bridge its construction was authorized on August 9, 1899 for a sum of $220. It was restored in 1990. It was on the road between Concordia, Kansas and Clyde, Kansas until 1920 when the road was moved to its present location near the railroad. This was the first stone bridge I had ever seen.
 

N 39° 42.862 W 091° 21.537
The Mark Twain Memorial Lighthouse stands on Cardiff Hill, overlooking Hannibal, Missouri, Mark Twain's boyhood hometown, on the banks of the Mississippi River. It is the furthest inland lighthouse in the world and was first lighted in 1935 by President Franklin Roosevelt from the White House in celebration of Mark Twain's 100th birthday. It was relight by President Kennedy in 1963, and rededicated and relight by President Clinton in 1994. In 2001, the lighthouse underwent additional renovation through grants from the National Park Service and the Missouri Division of State Parks. The lighthouse's beacon serves to remind visitors from around the world of the spirit of adventure chronicled in Mark Twain's books. This spirit was brought to
life in Twain's characters Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Becky Thatcher