**Updated with pictures**<\/p>\n
This post has been two years in the making.<\/p>\n
It all started back in November 2011. Tawn and I flew down to La Paz to hangout with our friends Dawn & Peaboy on their boat Deep Playa. Which they had just sailed down from Seattle. Same trip we have just done.<\/p>\n
During the 2 weeks we were here with them one of the places they took us was to an anchorage called Bahia San Gabriel on Isla Espiritu del Santo. <\/p>\n
Which is where we are anchored at the time of this posting. Check it out here if you haven’t already: http:\/\/shared.delorme.com\/kevinmidkiff<\/p>\n
While here with Dawn and Pea we had gone to shore for a hike across the island. Before leaving the boat that morning for the hike, I had written a note to a future version of Tawn and Myself. I folded the note and stuffed it inside three ziplock sandwich bags along with a 500 peso note, (approx. $40 USD). <\/p>\n
On the hike back to the boat, I slowed up and hung back abit. I found a good hiding spot in a crack in a boulder. Crammed the little package into the crack, covered it up, and caught up the the group. Nobody had a clue what I had done.<\/p>\n
The note read:
\n****
\nThanksgiving 2011<\/p>\n
To:
\nFuture Palarran Crew Members<\/p>\n
Dropped this note off for you to find. And left some money for you to get a celebratory beer and a taco or two.<\/p>\n
Congrats!!<\/p>\n
After all these years of dreaming & planning you finally made it.<\/p>\n
CB…
\n*****<\/p>\n
I didn’t have a GPS with me at the time so I sorta took a couple mental snap shots and called it good.<\/p>\n
Back at work in Seattle I would wonder from time to time if the note and money would survive two years in the harsh sun and weather of the Sea of Cortez. I also spent a fair amount of time on Google maps trying to spot the boulder….I shit you not.<\/p>\n
We pulled into the anchorage yesterday (Nov. 18) after making an overnight passage from Bahia Los Muertos. I was tired, but it felt like Xmas morning. I could not wait to get to shore and look for our little personal geocache.<\/p>\n
As we hit the beach Tawn ask if I thought I could find it. I said, “Sure, it’s under a boulder right below two cactus”.<\/p>\n
As I’m saying that I realize that that could be anywere between here and fucking northern Arizona!<\/p>\n
I dug around two or three boulders with no luck, and got the shit throughly scared out of me by what I would not say was the biggest spider I’ve ever seen (close), but most certainly one of the meanest\/hungriest looking. <\/p>\n
I do not like spiders. Remember how Indian Jones hates snakes? I’m like that with spiders,….and snakes, and to a lesser degree brussel sprouts. Before you say it. I’ve tried them as an adult. And fuck you, you do not have a way to make them, that will make them delicious. Just stop.<\/p>\n
I feel I should digress.<\/p>\n
After circumnavigating the spider, I spotted the cactus I’d used as a reference and saw the boulder. I look into a crack in the top of the boulder and there it is! Covered with the small rocks I had placed over it. The sandwich bags with the note and money! SUCCESS!! I was stoked!<\/p>\n
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