NJ Trivia / Manasquan Reservoir, Caching Around Reeves Park, Collegeville/Royersford/Pottstown

On Saturday, I went to the Manasquan Reservoir Environmental Center in Howell for the New Jersey Trivia series of caches. This is a series of 18 puzzle caches, each of which is a question about a specific New Jersey state thing, in a ring around the reservoir. It's about a 5-mile walk but I also took two off-shoot trails for other geocaches not in the series, so it was over 6 miles by the time I got back to the parking area. It took long enough though that my phone got very low on battery halfway through, so I switched to the tablet and used that instead to navigate to caches. Aside from looking a bit odd holding a larger device while walking, I didn't think it was really that different since it has the same geocaching apps and data as the phone.

I woke up late on Sunday, so I didn't think I would get to as many caches. My first stop was in Collegeville. However, I noticed that there was a geocaching event, "Caching Around Reeve's Park in Phoenixville", nearby so I decided to check it out. It was supposed to be a teaching event with a few practice geocaches around the park but due to a mix-up, the town of Phoenixville didn't add it to their roster of events so the class didn't take place as planned. Still, a few new geocachers showed up. In any case, we had fun just chatting and walking around a bit. After that, I continued geocaching on my own to Collegeville, Royersford, and Pottstown. Since I had quite a number of puzzles solved in the area, I did a bit of a puzzle run mixed with regular caches. The only awkward part of the day was at "Ziggie and Pat" where I had to sneak behind a bunch of anti-abortion protesters to find and retrieve the cache. Fortunately, they were facing the street most of the time.

( The caches... )