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Ferry Tales — the Sequel

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39.94625 -75.13975
39.944117 -75.132583

This hunt has been more than a year in the making. In June 2007 we headed to Philly for a day of caching. The King Tut series was in full action then and I went up there to tour the city and pick up those caches. One of the caches in the series was in Camden, NJ. The easy way would have been to have driven to it either on the way up or the way back, but the fun way was to take the ferry.

The RiverLink ferry connects Philadelphia and Camden. We boarded at Penns Landing and got off at the Waterfront in Camden. As this is primarily a sight-seeing vessel, a circuitous path was taken that took us close to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. The ferry does run shuttles for the concerts held at the amphitheater too.

The caching team that day was Beetle, flowers22, Grammy, and myself. We had a blast and Beetle was quite the ham dancing about on deck of Freedom.

I uploaded the track log to EveryTrail. It can be downloaded as a GPX.

Anyhow, when I arrived home and began preparing to log this, I noted I had no photograph of me with my GPS. D’oh! Each time I have gone to Philly since has not afforded me the opportunity to stop by Penns Landing until the other day. I snapped a couple shots of me and Freedom, but obviously I was on land at that point. Mike is very considerate and told me to log this as is. flowers22 also sent me a photograph of her GPS from that same ferry ride. Thanks!

Also blogged on this date . . .

• Go Figure - 2007
• Twilight Zone - 2006
• Larry Brown - 2005
• Sanctuary - 2002
• A view of two cities - 2002
• Poor Poor Pitiful Me - 2002

Tags: Beetle, Camden, Family, neverending-scavenger-hunt, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, TerraCaching