Matilija

Wendy and I spend an enjoyable day Saturday driving around Ventura County. We started the day driving up the coast to Carpenteria for the Avocado Festival. It's a nice, small-town gathering, which boast of the largest tub of guacamole. It's done by the high school cheerleaders and is called "World Famous." I joke that it is world famous because a few years ago it wasn't properly chilled and hundreds of people got food poisoning. Luckily, we didn't eat any of it that year. After the festival, we drove north and east, past Lake Casitas and up the Maricopa Hwy (33). Grabbed some caches and also had a few Did Not Finds. We stopped at the Earthcache Matilija Dam Removal, the location of Wendy's sixth grade class's first overnight. We decided to leave a regular cache of our own, Matilija Dam View--a quick 35-mm film can cache-and-dash. The photo above is taken at the site of the 2 caches. We had a great adventure.