Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches It's a Jungle in Here by A Nony Mouse (1/2) N49° 52.622  W97° 13.797 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 627174  N 5526461 Use waypoint: GC17C3W Size: Small    Hidden on 11/12/2007 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                       After hunting down all the available caches by foxfiresyxx I got the idea to put this cache out. Cache is a small plastic sandwich container near my favourite hot turkey sandwich spot. Watch out for hungry lions and rhinos! Original contents: First to Find certificate Log book, Pencil and Eraser Rhinoceros Dinosaur Fish

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9/5/2010 by Kabuthunk
Ahhh... despite having had the unpleasant fortune of having a DNF on my last cache attempt, I got to end the caching day off with a find at least . Of course, snagging a milkshake from Sargent Sundae's immediately before going after this cache cheered me up as well . Added bonus: they've got their Pumpkin Pie flavoured soft ice-cream in for the fall season . Mmm... it's like drinking a real pumpkin pie .

That said, I got to attempt this geocache while having the handicap of only being able to use one hand, since my other one was firmly wrapped around the aforementioned milkshake. While my wife decided to take the sane route and NOT attempt to find a way through dense bush with only one arm free, I however acted like any geocacher and worked my way through anyway . It took me a bit of circling back and forth to attempt to find a viable entrance however. Seriously though... this bush area weirds me out. On the outside is a dense layer of bushes and shrubs, which give the appearance that the entire area is so ridiculously dense that nothing larger than a rabbit would be able to get through it. However, once you're even two steps inside, it suddenly opens up to a massive cavern amongst the plants. It's just bizarre how it can look so dense from outside, but be so almost agoraphobically open on the inside by comparison. Although it looks like it could use some thorough CITO inside of there. I however lacked bags, a way of getting it out without horribly destroying the outside bush layer, and again... only had one free hand.

In either case, traveling around in there with one hand on the milkshake was no longer a problem once I fanangled through the pseudo-trail leading in. It took me a little bit of circling around once inside here to be able to actually zero in on the coordinates however. Most of this was due to me trying to use my GPS while at the same time holding my hiking stick with my "free" hand. I kept having to look at my GPS, take a few steps, and then put the GPS away so I could grab the hiking stick and not have it uncomfortably held under my arm or held by one finger in the milkshake hand. Once I got within about 5 meters of ground zero however, I instantly spotted the cache container. Now able to set my milkshake down on the ground, I was quickly able to work with the container and sign the logbook. At first I thought that happy meal toy or whatever that thing is that was in there would stop it from closing, but thankfully the lid is curved outwards on the container, giving it ample room inside.

But since the container was so completely visible once I got near it, I decided to take a bit of time to arrange it to be a little bit more hidden. For some bizarre, unknown reason there was a large piece of concrete that the container was sitting on top of... which once you know where the container is, you will wonder why in the world it was there as well, or how it even got there. Anyway, I removed said concrete, which made a very convenient spot for the container to sit without being so "right there". The application of some natural camouflage from the area (no, not the concrete chunk ) completed the hiding, and it was now significantly less visible than before. Grabbing my milkshake again, I quickly found an easier way to leave (lot easier to see that when you're already inside). Strange... after I left, it once again looks completely closed off where I left, despite the fact that it opens up maybe 6 inches past the outside leaves.

Nonetheless, thanks for giving today a geocachingly happy ending .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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