Logs for Haicoole 

Oh be still my heart. It is Mecca! Forman told me to check out this cache, and if you check on caches with the operant word, you will see why this place means so much to me. (I wonder if they would give me a plane ticket so I can visit in person.)

 

I thought you might need a big pump to go with that soccer ball 

A cold day on the Noordzee. I was assured by my friend GJ (holding the gps) that it really does get warm enough to swim here. 

In Belgium there are lots of moving bridges, this one I found on a boat tour of Ghent. 

I heard many while visiting in Netherlands, but this one inthe Historich museum in Amsterdam was the most interesting. Made from bells that were replaced in a carillon, this display shows how one works, and how the bells are cast. You can even ring some of the small bells 

This building, once the center of trade in Gent, is now the post office. He is holding a pipe and a sheaf of tobacco. While not exactly a cigar store wooden carving, this is a carved indian image used to promote the sale of tobacco. Not exactly what I expected to find here! 

THis is a former Soviet sub, now in the harbor in Amsterdam! 

(I htought i logged this yesterday, but the computer went down durring the process)
Found, quite by accident, while waiting for an aiprplane to Amsterdam! 

I feel Smarter already 

The Cathedral in Utrecht...still beautiful 

I have no idea if this floating light house is open to the public, but I doubt it! 

Well, it is not exactly on his shoulders, but inhis lap. THis is one of four chinese cherubs showing the arts, his being books and maps. 

I found this in the most fantastic museum in Amsterdam, the Shipvaart. So here it is with all of its topedo guts showing! 

As a geographer with interest in weather patterns, in a city dependant on sailing, I found this vane on top of the rail way station in Amsterdam rather fitting.
Actually It took a while for me to realize that it wasnot a clock! 

This may not be the oldest lighthouse, but it is certainly the most interesting one I have seen. It is a mobile light house. At the time I photoed it I was on a ferry in the harbor at Amsterdam. I gues it might be so very useful if I needed to mark changing conditions in a shallow sea! 

Found in Bruge, I just love her! 

I never thought I would find a cache while waiting for a plane, but there was Joe Montana smiling at me! 

When I first saw this locationless, I thought I would never find one, being in Northern California we don't have much. But wheni got a chance to go to the Netherlands, it was just a matter of deciding which one.
This goes thru Gouda. 

In the 1840's, the Sierra foothills were about as far from anywhere as you could want to go, but there were intrepid folks that wanted to settle and farm. Rregular communitys were starting to form.
Then gold was found and all hell broke loose. It was hard to get anyone to do any thing but prospect.
This building was brought in from China, in a pile of boards. Across by schooner, then up the Sacramento River. It was the county court house.
Now it is in a back yard, and a private museum.
 

While not a formal airport, this bluff is known all over Northern California for its excellent conditions for wind powered, radio controlled gliders. I found it because of the cache that is hidden half way down the hill (much to the ammusement of the guys with the controls who pointed out where it was.)
In the photo, there are two guys standing not far from a bluff. To my mind it was quite windy, but they were going on and on about how windy it was earlier in the morning.
The road continues along the bluff, then curves back to sea level. After finding the caches out on the spit (you can just see the waves past the bluff) I drove back on that road, and stopped to help the one of the guys I had talked to earlier, retrieving his craft crashed half way up the bluff.