Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches El CAPitaine by rogoldboy (1.5/1) N49° 52.622  W97° 08.807 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 633149  N 5526606 Use waypoint: GC1EWQC Size: Small    Hidden on 8/3/2008 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:   *No attributes specified*     Urban cache. Accessible year round. First to Find certificate. Log book and pencil. 3 small treasures.

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9/27/2008 by Kabuthunk
Decided to take a swing at the other Osbourne Village area caches after having had a successful start to the day with OHMIC's 'Splashing thru the jungle' puzzle vaguely, remotely nearby. This particular cache has been kicking around in my Dani-Radius for a while now, and has been on the back of my mind for a while. As with most caches residing in the back of my mind, the opportunity to go after them just doesn't seem to come up.

Darn life and it's taking valuable caching time .

But today however, I did indeed have the opportunity, and decided to knock a pile of Dani-Radius caches off of the list. Due to my own paranoia at being unable to park anywhere remotely close to Osbourne Village, I happened to spot a parking spot way off near the East end of one of the streets leading up to the Village. After starting to walk Westward, I kept repeatedly kicking myself for the enormous amount of closer parking spots I could have taken. Not only that, but I had COMPLETELY forgotten somehow about the parking spots that would have been just about beside the coordinates, or even just one street over.

Well... no matter... it was a beautiful day. A nice, warm sun beating down on your back (especially with the black shirt I was wearing) to keep you warm, but a nice cool breeze to keep you from baking. Definitely an awesome day for a walk . After about 10 minutes, I finally began nearing the cache. As with Old Billygoat, this was a new park for me. Which in itself is strange, since I've gone to Osbourne Village countless times, and have walked or driven past the park on numerous occasions. However, I've been known to be somewhat oblivious to everything else when my mind is on something, so I'm going to chalk it up to that .

There were several kids playing off on the other side of the park, but they didn't seem to care about my presence. Thus, I began the hunt. Initially, I thought that a peculiarity in the cache name may have hinted to me a bit, but my first few attempts turned up empty. I then proceeded to try my luck in the foliage near the coordinates. Again, no such luck. I went back and continued my first method of searching, and BINGO, one cache in hand!

It wasn't too fond of being found though... it sure fought kicking and screaming, not wanting to be removed from its spot . However, nimble fingers eventually coaxed it from its hiding spot, and I wandered over to a park bench to sign the logbook. Don't know if I'd consider this cache a 'small' size myself though... but it could have theoretically fit a full-size chainmail ball. However, the logbook was taking up most of the space, so a micromail ball had to suffice. One signing of the logbook later, and I clamped it shut. Seeing that the coast was still clear (which again... a little strange. A beautiful day out, in the middle of Saturday (about 3:00pm) and noone is taking a walk outside), I replaced the cache from whence it came. You definitely found a very secure way of keeping it in place, to say the least. There's approximately zero chance of that dislodging itself due to wind or whatnot .

The cache replaced, I headed off to another, placed-only-a-few-days-ago cache nearby. Thanks for introducing me to yet another park I didn't know about (or YAPIDKA, if you like to use the typical geocaching acronyms). I'll definitely have to make a mental note of it's location for when I'm shopping nearby and buy a lunch or something in the Village .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and micromail ball