Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches The Replenishing River by Georgette (1/1.5) N50° 05.106  W96° 56.163 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 647650  N 5550133 Use waypoint: GC1QA77 Size: Micro    Hidden on 4/19/2009 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:         Lockport Provincial Heritage Park In this park is the Kenosewun Interpretive Centre which we did not even know existed until we planted the cache. Highlight of this site: visitors may enjoy seeing American white pelicans and a fish ladder, built so that fish can get upstream from the dam. (we did not know this and unfortunately I don't think you could see it since the river is so high, but would like updates from you all!) This is a tiny micro, only room for the log sheet so bring your own writing stick. (Advice for putting the log sheet back in is to roll it up and insert it into the lid before screwing it into the base. FTF is an American Dollar Bill. Should be winter friendly unless we got a lot of snow.

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6/12/2011 by Kabuthunk
In very much the same way as my last cache nearby, I'm am quite surprised I didn't stumble across this cache several weeks earlier. To make a long story short, several weeks ago on my first ever trip to Lockport (very nice from what I've seen by the way, which admittedly is only the immediate 'lock' area here for some fishing). After many a bite last time but no catches, I decided to do a comb of the park to see if I could stumble across any caches. I had my caching kit with me, but however didn't have any waypoints downloaded for the area . And what's more annoying is that I searched SPECIFICALLY in the exact manner that this cache is hidden back then, thinking I'd be basically guaranteed to find a cache that way.

So yeah, I can't even fathom how I managed to not stumble across it last time. It could be that perhaps it was a bit too close to the building for my liking, and I didn't want to look too conspicuous. I was there on a not particularly pleasant day out (somewhat windy, drizzly, cloudy and kinda chilly), and I'm pretty sure the stores (with the exception of A&W) were closed, although I could be wrong on that. One way or another, being the single, solitary person in the parking lot, I may have not wanted to press my luck looking around this close to the building. It could also be that since in one of the other similar hiding spots (when you find this cache, you'll know what I mean) I had poked my fingers through a big spider nest (which doesn't exactly fill me with a relaxing calm, to say the least), I may have been hesitant to poke at the cache, thinking that it was a spider nest as well. No clue, my memory of that evening isn't spot-on enough to be able to say anything with certainty. All that's for sure is that I somehow missed the cache last time, but this time around was planning to do no such thing .

Armed with a GPS that actually had waypoints on it this time, and also being here moreso in the daytime (on a nice day, despite the lack of bites ), I was able to stride confidently to ground zero, walk a little bit past it as my GPS settled down, and then walk back to the hiding spot and quickly locate the cache container . At which point I pondered for a minute how I missed this last time .

It took me a minute as well trying to figure out how to sign the logbook... it appears to be quite full, to say the least. I found a vaguely blank spot above someone else's signature to squeeze my name and the date in, but aside from that I dropped in a signature micromail ball, so that will indicate my visit if nothing else. I had contemplated replacing the log with another one from a page in my geocaching notepad, which has waterproof paper, but didn't want to remove the signatures from a cache. In retrospect, I could probably have fit a second similar-sized logbook on top of the old one, since there's a fair amount of space in the cache container for another one (you'll know what I mean when you see it). If the next finder reads this ahead of time, you may want to consider bringing a small scroll of paper for this, unless the cache owner happens to swap out logbooks before then.

One way or another, I had a lot of fun today, and found me some geocaches .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and micromail ball

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