The Heart of Oak Series: # 9-13 and RIP Smerrill

Today myself and my friend Tim who now signed up on geocaching.com as NavyCIC headed out to place the next five of The Heart of Oak Series caches in celebration of the Canadian Naval Centennial! Today I placed number 9 through 13 the last of the Halifax Class that were built here in the Port City!

So the first one I placed was number 11 which is HMCS CHARLOTTETOWN and I placed this one in Rothesay off of the Tennis Court Rd. This one is a very easy cache, should be a park and grab. This cache will do nothing but take you to a part of Rothesay you may have never been to unless you play tennis, take a look around at some of the beutiful houses.

Next cache was number 12 which is HMCS ST. JOHNS and I placed this cache again in Rothesay, but this cache should be another park with a bit of a walk into the Carpenters Nature Trail. This should also be a cache done before the two already located along the trail McHail's Toybox and Stroll the Shores of Carpenters Pond. Also it can be an easy one done for anyone who is caching along a route.



The next hide was number 13 HMCS OTTAWA, so we headed into Saint John to hide this one. This cache is located in an area very low in geocaches, although it is a huge peice of land that is not developed and is open to the public. I do plan on building this area up as it does have some very nice trails and views!



On our way to place the next cache we stopped by Cedar Hill Cemetary and went to the rear to see if there was any good locations in the back, but what we did find was a cache placed in memory of Smerrill, so we thought oh well if we cant place the cache at least we can do is find the cache and pay our respects.



The next cache we went to place was number 9, kind of odd I did them all out of order, but is some kind of order but this cache is HMCS FREDERICTON. So we headed out to the west side of Saint John, so you can pick this cache up on your way to our provincial capital. We found this location becuase NavyCIC was looking at some waterfront property in the area.



Finally the last cache took us all the way from the far west of Saint John to the far east! This cache is number 10 named after HMCS WINNIPEG. It is located behind the Bradley Lake Community Centre up in the hills. The cache is a nice and easy one to get to, but the terrain may be the hard part! This geocasche was the last one placed for the day, I hope they get published soon becuase I love to keep and eye on my email to see who gets the FTF and if they can get all five seeing as they are spread all over the Saint John area!



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