Geo-caching around Lago Fimone

We headed out to Lago Fimone (Lake Fimone) for some geocaching. It is approximately 5 km around the lake. We started out with the GPS ready to find 2 different caches. On our way around we came across this gorgeous family of swans. While I was taking photos of the swans Caleb was resting under the wisteria. Caleb in the wisteria
isn't he handsome?
mama swan and her little signets.



We never found our caches. The first one was about 1/3 of the way around the lake and then around 200 meters off the path. It lead into a muddy and heavily forested area. We decided we weren't risking ticks etc to go tramping uphill, into the unknown. We will go back and search again because we found a road that is sure to get us a bit closer to the cache. We continued on around the lake and just as we were 1/4 mile or so from where we parked we came across the parking area where the 2nd cache was supposed to be. We searched and searched and could not find that cache at all. Jared crawled into the bushes and searched around, we pulled back the foliage and James endured some stinging nettle.
the bushes we looked in and around.


It was all for naught since we found absolutely NOTHING. Oh well, it was a good walk. We were up against a very sure possibility of rain and so we hot-footed it around the lake. Just as we were giving up on the last cache it started to rain.