Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Hospice by Flotsom and Jetsom (2/1.5) N49° 52.040  W97° 07.013 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 635324  N 5525581 Use waypoint: GC1PR5V Size: Small    Hidden on 4/9/2009 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                 Will be wet in spring. Lots of muggles around in the summer The cache is a baking powder jar. This cache is placed in view of the Riverview Hospice. It is placed in memory of 3 family members who died of cancer, two of whom had hospice care that meant a lot to them and to the family. Bill - brain tumor (age 86) Grace Hospice Ernie - complications prostate cancer (age 85) Riverview Hospice Janet - colon cancer (age 57) Grace hospital in time before hospices. Take a moment for a prayer of comfort for those in the hospice and a prayer of thanks for those who serve them.

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5/23/2009 by Kabuthunk
Been a bit of a while since I went on a bike-ride/geocaching trip. Finally, the days are starting to get nice enough out to actually do things outside, and remain comfortable while there . To get to this specific cache, I probably took one of the most round-about ways one could possibly take. I started biking from my apartment near St. Anne's and Fermor, headed to Bishop Grandin, wandered all the way down that Bishop Grandin Greenway to Pembina (I was timing out long it would take me to bike to work, which is just off Pembina), went from there way up to Jubilee, to Osbourne, and eventually wound my way down some residential roads until I got to the cache.

At which point, I had already drained over half of the water I brought, and was about 1/3 done my entire biking circuit today (ended up biking about 24km's). Needless to say, I slowed down on the water intake for a bit. But... I was at the cache location. Putting my bike down, I began to ponder where the cache could be. I looked up and into the various trees, as well as under anything I could find on the ground. Beginning to get confused, since there isn't much else all that close to the coordinates, I started to wander off in case my GPS's accuracy was off.

Thankfully, only one person was tilling their garden, and that was way off on the opposite side of the area. Weird little spot, by the way... I've heard of gardens that multiple people can use, but never knew where they were. Does one have to like... live there, or pay for whatever spot, or how's that regulated? Or is this even a communal garden, or were people just working it for the sake of something to do, but it's all owned by the Hospice, who allows them to do that? Peculiar, nonetheless.

Anyhoo, having little in the way of interruptions, I crept a bit closer to the garden to search the trees going alongside it. I didn't find the cache... but I found something awesome. It's also been freshly added to the Waymarking category for "Omnivorous Trees. So that amused me for a while . I guess it'll be an added bonus for this cache... if you also have an account on Waymarking, you can claim that log at the same time as this cache .

But... that aside, I returned to my search for the geocache itself. Having found nothing near the omnivorous tree, I returned to near my bike to search there a little bit. And whaddya know, as I'm walking back to my bike, my eye catches the cache container. I was surprised it evaded my initial search of the area. In the end though, I suppose it's a good thing since I got to see the concrete-eating tree. Trees that have "swallowed" things have always been interesting to me, so I'm glad it took me the extra few minutes to find the cache .

And good timing, too. As I was signing the log, someone else came out and started working the garden a lot closer to me. Whew... glad I got the picture of the tree early . After closing it back up, I replaced the cache from whence it came and continued on my bike trip.

Thanks for taking me out to the area. A fun bike trip, a concrete-eating tree, and a geocache all wrapped into one. Can't get much better than that .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball