The geocache our family hid last year in Windham is as active as ever. But the kids have been wanting to find a new place to hide another geocache and over the holiday weekend, they found just the spot.

"We love to swim and this is such a good place!" said G. of the hiking trail near Kiwanis Beach in Standish (we had never noticed the trailhead sign previously).

"Yeah, and we'll have to check our geocache all the time to make sure people don't mess it up." said L. "This is perfect mom!"

L. being the creative thinker in the family was clearly vying for reasons that we should visit the beach more often this summer.

And after hiking the short trail (only about .2 miles), we did find a good spot for the geocache. So we marked the coordinates with the GPS unit and left our box of treasures. When we got home I registered the coordinates on geocaching.com. Within 12 hours of doing that, someone had already logged a visit. Those geocachers, they're right on top of things...

Our new family geocache is small but the kids packed it with lots of fun little toys along with our log book.

The "Nature Trail" at Kiwanis Beach is short, easy and perfect for little ones. We found lots of wildflowers in bloom this past weekend but they didn't hold nearly the appeal that the beach at the end of the trail did.

Memorial Day was a great beach weather day and the kids were so excited to be swimming in Watchic Lake that they didn't seem to care about the cold water.

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