Just a cache

30/04/2012 By Kabutroid
Unfortunately a bit late in logging this cache. I’ve gotta stop doing that... I almost began to lose track of what order I found the last few caches in, and on what days. At least the first two are easier... I specifically wanted to find a cache on April 30th, and May 1st. No particular reason for this other than ‘I only found one cache in April so far... I need to change that’, and ‘Eh, I feel like getting one on May 1st as well’. Which of course brings us to the first of them... April 30th.

I wanted to find a cache that I could easily pick up on the way home. Due to being needed at home relatively quickly after work, I didn’t have a whole lot of time to kill, and unfortunately I tend to sleep in far too late to be able to find a cache before work. Thus, checking out the GPS map while at work and somewhat on the drive home... it seems there’s very few caches conveniently on the path I take between work and home. However, it seems that THIS particular cache has been placed since I last looked for what available caches there are down Jubilee... which apparently was at least several months ago. So with a potentially fast on-the-way-home cache in my sights, I set the GPS, and quickly found parking on Churchill drive.

At first I was a bit worried about bystanders, since right as I was getting out of my car, a few people were walking down the nearby riverside path, and a pair of people were walking down towards the river. I noticed that they had fishing gear, so I held back for a little bit, and soon the coast was clear, and the fishermen were out of sight. Time to begin the hunt! I started searching the area as a whole, not having looked at the cache description or hint prior to arriving there. After seeing relatively few places near the coordinates a cache could be hiding, I looked towards the area that I generally dislike looking towards when looking for a cache. Upon reading the hint after the fact, the wording used in there would be the exact reason I tend to dislike the idea of looking for a cache here. But... something seemed out of place there. A quick poke with my finger, and the cache container was quickly discovered BigSmile . With the coast somehow still clear (minus a few cars that drove by while I was still fruitlessly looking elsewhere), I quickly signed the log, and tossed a chainmail ball into the cache. After closing it up, I headed back to the car, happy at having been able to go through the entire cache process in less than 5 minutes. And given this was just about directly on my path home, I’d be able to head back to the apartment with negligible time lost... and all while having found a convenient time when there were no bystanders to make me have to linger nearby waiting for them to vacate the area. All in all, a complete success.

Thanks for putting out a convenient cache for one to get while on the go. As an added bonus, I may have found a potential fishing spot that I had previously not thought of. Could be this is a good area to go fishing, since if last year is any indication, anywhere that I thought might be a good fishing spot clearly was not ToungeOut .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball