Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Where Fishing Was Great in 1000 BC by St. Clements Heritage Advisory Committee (2/2) N50° 05.190  W96° 56.195 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 647608  N 5550287 Use waypoint: GC1R9GP Size: Regular    Hidden on 5/4/2009 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:   *No attributes specified*     Welcome to the St. Clements Historic Geocache Tour! All of our sites on our tour are located in areas of historical significance. Each location contains a cache with historic geocache cards. These collector cards contain historic information about each site. We hope that you will take a card from each site, attempting to collect one card from every site on our tour. This cache is located in Lockport, Manitoba. Travel along highway 44 until you reach the Red River. Relax in the park and enjoy the scenery. Geocache safely and enjoy!

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6/12/2011 by Kabuthunk
Oh, if only I had walked a little bit further a few weeks ago, I would have found this cache going completely blind into it. Several weeks back, I decided to try my hand at fishing in Lockport for the first time. Which in fact turned out quite entertaining... didn't actually catch anything, but I swear the same stubborn fish bit my lure like... 10 times, but managed to get free of it every single time. Got at least the thrill of several seconds of fight with it repeatedly .

But anyway, back then, I did actually happen to have my GPS and geocaching kit with me, but unfortunately didn't have any waypoints loaded into it for the area . However, I figured there there just HAS To be a geocache or two inside of here. It's ridiculously popular for people to fish at (or so I'm told), it's a nice park, scenic, and has a fair amount of history behind it (as told by the postcard in the cache, and as well by the sheer existence of the Red River Floodway, which in itself has its own amazing history). So at the time, I thought to myself that I would just... look around at likely locations in general, and hope to stumble across a cache completely by accident.

I of course found nothing at the time, and was somewhat disappointed by that. I thought there was a chance they were placed closer to the buildings (such as this cache), but didn't feel confident in going closer due to feeling conspicuous, and not really having any explainable story should anyone ask, since I had no proof whatsoever that any geocache even WAS here at the time. So it turns out this cache was placed by the RM of St. Clements, which makes sense for the location and container (which if I happened to have seen at a distance, I would have instantly checked it out as a cache possibility ). But alas, it was not to be.

Skip forward to today. I had a GPS full of waypoints, and after a day of very uneventful (but still very relaxing... my "lucky" spot from last time didn't get me a single bite, despite me seeing several surface) fishing, I decided to go after the several caches in the immediate area. We had to be back in town shortly, so I didn't have much time. Thankfully however, with having actual coordinates and knowing that a geocache does indeed exist here, I was able to find this cache while walking up to the area . Add one chainmail ball and signature (and minus one postcard o' information) later, and I was very pleased to have finally gotten a cache after quite a bit of a dry spell for a bit, despite it being summer.

Mission accomplished . And thankfully, it wasn't so busy today that I would have problems being inconspicuous... it was in fact surprisingly quite empty. Maybe people were still waiting for the water level to go down more before fishing more. Although as we were leaving the park, more fishermen kept going past us. I guess the saying of there being better fishing in the evening may well hold true, as last time I was out a lot later.

One way or another, I thank you greatly for giving me a cache to find, to make up for the distinct lack of biting fish today .

Took: One information postcard
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball