True the pacific north west in the last 10 days have received in some areas in excess of 12 inches of rain that rain is what is needed to bring the local streams out of the very low end of summer flow to the level needed to bring the fall salminoids into the streams.
We have placed 4 more salmon creek caches in the period.
The new ones are:
Chimacum creek East fork, Chimacum creek estuary, Tarboo lake and Tarboo creek estuary.
While visiting "Tarboo creek estuary" a few days later we spotted fishing (could not be sure of the species) in the stream. Try to time your visits to the estuary ones around high tide. That is when you have the best chance of spotting fish entering the stream.

Out here in the "country" one needs to at times travel quite some distance for a hide especially after you have found all the local ones.
On a brief trip to Silverdale recently the ability to take a short walk and find a good number of caches all different types from a deeper pool of cachers was quite a change.
Even though it was raining we walked about 2 miles and found 7 caches, those where all new ones since we where there 2 months ago and they where not all micro's.
Urban hider's show huge imagination in their hides after all they generally have a high muggle factor. Out here in the "country" quite a number of the hides are in area's your often surely alone, except for the animal that is eying you.

After a bit of a hiatus from caching we got back out this weekend. One cache we found was a terracache. It came to us that possibly quite a few people have not heard of this game. Rather than concentrate on "numbers" like geocachers become obsessed with. Terracache's are about the quality, not only in the hide but the location, and the overall experience. Visit the web site (heres the link again)
and take a look. You need to be sponsored to join, but that comes easily. Have fun!

Having gone out to the west end last weekend in search of summer coho's (not scoring salmon but did find a few fun caches ) we thought about placing some caches on local salmon streams. Some of these streams are so insignificant in size many people would not think of them as salmon streams. The first has been published on the geocaching.com site. Naylor Creek is a small creek that flows out of Gibbs Lake. Late fall and early winter rain storms bring the creek level up enough that most years the coho can make it this far. Watching the run over the years at this point it appears only a few dozen make it these days.

Last summer we thought nothing about jumping into the geo-rigs and spending the day driving around caching (maybe I thought about my contribution to global warming)soon we had all the local caches.
Once we had found all the close caches we needed to travel some distance to find more. At which time fuel prices climbed and climbed. One thing about sparsely populated areas is there are big gaps in cache locations.
At 4.50 plus a gallon we stopped running out to make a FTF and just drive around caching.
Our solution to the higher prices was just set more caches, look for local letter boxes and what ever terracaches available.