Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Tourond Creek Splash by Xplorer and Ramblin' Rose (1.5/1.5) N49° 36.337  W97° 07.201 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 635828  N 5496480 Use waypoint: GC12RVJ Size: Regular    Hidden on 5/8/2007 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:               Beautiful area with lots of wildlife. There are plans for this wetland conservation site to include a memorial park with a Greenwing Legacy cairn. Cammoed tobacco container with FTF and swag. Please re-hide carefully and don't disturb any nesting birds. Take children to teach them about wetland conservation! This cache was created to add to the number of QUALITY caches hidden in Manitoba. It is an official cache in the MBGA Cache Splash event. Category 15: Regular size (750ml+) cache within 10m of a paved road.

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12/6/2009 by Kabuthunk
AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! At long (long, long, long...) last, this cache... the last cache on my "watchlist o' unresolved DNF's that are active". I imagine we found this sometime shortly prior to eg50, since it wasn't dark when we went. Hope the bit of a trail helped you guys out a bit... although, the trails from (I assume) RedRiverRat were still there, so ours couldn't have really helped all THAT much .

Oh yes... 'we'. Today I was caching with my nieces, who go under the name 'Blagden'. I was spending the day at my mom's place just South of Landmark for several birthday parties (*shudder*... my 30th) rolled into one (so... many... November birthdays... man, I guess Valentines day just kinda keeps going for a few weeks straight for lots of couples ). Generally speaking, whenever I either visit my nieces, or they visit me... it's pretty well assumed that I'm taking them geocaching (they're quite the geocachers-in-the-making thus far). Thus, with the expectations running high, we set off to find us some caches! Unfortunately however, it was approximately 3:00pm when we left, and a) the nieces aren't accustomed to staying in the cold geocaching like I've been, b) the birthday(s) dinner was starting at 5:30ish, and c) I REALLY wanted to resolve this DNF today, despite the fact that it's about 20km's from my parent's place .

So first off, the trio of us headed over to a cache only 10 km's from home (heh... kinda amusing that out here in the country, 10 km's away is considered "only" ), and quickly located Thursday is for Ancestors. During said 10km drive, I once again reminisced about what I love about the country, as mentioned in the other log.

So quiet, seeing maybe 3 cars at the same time is considered "busy", and seeing more than maybe 2 cars a day down the gravel roads is highly unusual. GOD I miss the country. One day, when I retire. Only another 35 someodd years .

With the unexpectedly quiet drive complete (I think maybe two cars passed us oncoming, and there was I think one a few miles behind us, and one or two ahead of us spread out over 20 km's), we made our way through Niverville (yes, going through town was taken into account with that), and on towards the cache that gave me so much hunting last time (and dirty hands). I wasn't sure if the ditches would be dry, or whether there'd be like... and inch of water or something idiotic still on the bottom. I had boots that would have sufficed, but the nieces, with significantly younger ages and thus smaller boots, might not have made it out dry. I went first to test the path (as I said, RedRiverRat's path seems to have remained those several weeks... or someone who just didn't log online), and it was dry as a bone (snow notwithstanding). Quickly, we made our way to ground zero. At first, while we were still in the car, I had figured the cache would have been on the nearby sign. However, as the GPS climbed down in meters to ground zero, but then started climbing back up, I realized that it must be a bit less obvious.

Thus, the three of us set out hunting. I ended up with the find not 20 seconds after setting out. WOOH! VICTORY AT LAST! Although, I'd have marked the cache as a 'small' size instead of regular... but that's just me. After a bit of poking around the cache contents, we replaced it as found and made our way back to the car. Almost forgot to drop my signature chainmail ball in though, but I caught myself at the last minute. Good thing, too... since that would have annoyed the hell out of me if I had forgotten .

So thanks for replacing the cache, and I'm glad I was able to actually locate it this time .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

5/24/2009 by Kabuthunk
It looks like the first attempt at this cache (or at least the first online-posted attempt) for 2009 will have to be my DNF. I had spent the day at my mom's place about 8 km's to the Northeast, and decided to see if I could snag a geocache on the way home. I figured I'd take a slightly further (and apparently slower route... 90km's an hour on Hwy. 200? C'mon!) path back to Winnipeg, and swung through the Niverville to St. Adolphe route.

Hence, after reliving a few memories driving through Niverville, I continued on my merry way until I started getting close to the cache. And I've really got to take this path home more often, because as I began getting close, I noticed it looked very peaceful. Upon stepping out of the car... I realized that it sounded like it looked .

Well, aside from the occasional car going by... but those were far and few between. I think maybe 5 of them went by in the 20 someodd minutes I was here.

But yeah... stepping out of the car, I heard the birds chirping in the distance, and the rush of the water over that waterfall-looking thing. Even that area looked like a really small lake (or large pond... whatever it is). It very much made me want to kick back with a beer and go fishing in there... although I'm fairly certain I wouldn't catch a single thing except a ton of dead bulrush stalks . This is also ignoring the fact that I'd be casting against the current, so I might not even be able to reel it in fast enough before it hit the ground.

But anyway, after soaking up the atmosphere for a bit, I started to head towards the coordinates. I only had the one wide bulrush-filled ditch to cross. First few steps... seems dry. Ok, a little annoying finding footing amongst the thousands of dead bulrush stalks, but I managed. Another few steps, good. Another step, getting a little damp. Another few steps, crap, getting a lot wetter! Ok, time to be more careful. Get as many dead bulrushes under my feet as possible with each step... and another 10 steps or so brings me across. A little damp, but survivable.

The hardest part of the journey behind me, I headed for the coordinates. At first I went towards the falls, but realized I was getting further from ground zero. Doing an about-face, I quickly made my way to the cache site. Or what I thought was the cache site, anyway.

I don't know if there was once a tree standing here (or perhaps a stump), but the only thing at ground zero was about half a stump, on it's side, with a whole pile of dead bulrushes washed up and snagged onto it. Very muddy, to boot. It looks like the water level during spring got higher than this hill . I decided to look a bit closer in hopes of finding the cache. I checked under the half-stump, but found nothing. Pulling apart the piles of dead bulrush (much to the joy of the grass sprouts underneath that was struggling to get either light or air), I found... nothing. Just more mud. I poked around here and there, but found nothing hidden amongst the bulrush piles or the half-stump.

In case the coordinates were off, I did a fairly large circle around, looking for anything else that could contain a cache. Nothing. I checked along the edges of the water and the ditch in the hopes that it snagged there, but no luck.

It's quite possible that the cache is just better hidden than I realized, but as far as I can tell I think the spring waters may have floated it off to a far-away land. I'll keep an eye on this cache in case I'm wrong, and once I see any kind of activity (or perhaps next time I'm visiting my mom's place), I shall return!