Captain’s Blog

…go find this:

My first geocache, “DeerTracks”

I brought my GPS home for summer vacation and had been playing with in on a quad. I’ve read about geocaching before and decided to make one! It’s in the middle of nowhere and you’ll want an ATV or something to find it (or a boat ride across Trout Lake and a short hike would work too).

Update: this is an image of the trail I followed to get to the cache.

In the upper right is the starting point at the intersection of highway 596 (Kenora to Minaki) and the Pickerel Lake road. Travelling SW to the middle of the left side of the image is where you follow the Pickerel Lake road. The vertical drop on the left is where you travel South on the Little Pickerel Lake camp road. That road ends in a branching logging road, starting to be overgrown in places, which meanders back East to the cache.

Today I received the final piece I need to safety my dual-sport bike: a high/low beam relay that needed to be replaced for the headlights to work.

I have a second mirror, side decal set, new front fender and exhaust guard on the shelf… but this is how it looks with enough done to be plated/registered/insured:

…and this is a shot of the “Vapor” mini-computer I installed to be the speedo/odo/tach:

I took it for my first ride farther than 50 feet.. but just around the two levels of the indoor parking garage until the final bits of paperwork are sorted. Compared to my “street” bike it feels like I’m driving a farm tractor. The SV650S is smooth, low, and you ride bent forward gripping the low handlebars. This WR450F is high, with low gearing and a real growling engine noise… and you ride upright with your arms wide and high on the raised bar.

Going to take some getting used to!