Bourne Sisters

After a failed attempt yesterday due to dead batteries in my GPS unit, I went back to Bourne Conservation Trust's The Bourne Sisters Woodland to locate a geocache. I have had a travel bug since June, and the owner contacted me this week to request that I move it along. I had intended to drop this bug sooner, but just didn't get to it. I looked for a cache in the area that looked easy to get to and in an area I had not been to before. The Bourne Sisters Woodland seemed like a great spot. I can't find any explanation of why it is named Bourne Sisters.

The small, grass parking area is off of County Road in Monument Beach in between two private residences. I missed the parking area on the first pass.

I am not certain what this ditch is, but I assume it is some old attempt at draining a wetland that failed.
Tiny bridge over the ditch.

A lot of the woodland is mixed oak and pine with lots of undergrowth.


I quickly located the cache at the base of a tall holly tree.

The Celtics logo and beads are the travel bug that I needed to get moving again. I think the goal for this travel bug is to make it to the new Boston Garden and have a photo taken of it at the Garden.

A lot of the pitch pine in the woods have become victims of the invasion of pine beetles that are killing off pine trees at an alarming rate. I have lost many of them at FBF. The beetle damage hear was quite obvious. The white blobs on the trunk are pitch tubes. The smell of pine pitch is strong.

A close up of a pine beetle tube. The trees do not last long once pine beetles get in.


It was a fairly uneventful day. I should have been packing for a trip to Vermont which we were supposed to be leaving for on 10/02 but cancelled due to lousy weather up north. I kept my days off though so no work until Wednesday. I assume I'll be working around the house and yard though.