Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches First In Last Out - No. 4 Station by crackerjackie (1.5/1.5) N49° 52.679  W97° 08.675 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 633305  N 5526715 Use waypoint: GC21GMC Size: Small    Hidden on 11/28/2009 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                   This cache is a tribute to No. 4 Station. The building at 150 Osborne Street was opened in 1958. “We hold thee safe” The Winnipeg Fire Department was established in 1882. Firefighting is a profession where its members are called upon daily to risk their own lives to save others from dangerous situations and to protect property. Firefighters undergo rigorous training and continually upgrade their skills to be able to safely fight fires and perform rescue operations. DO NOT PARK IN FIRE DEPARTMENT LOTS OR IN ANYPLACE YOU WILL INTERFERE WITH EMERGENCY VEHICLES COMING OR GOING FROM HALL. Park on street and abide by all parking regulations. You are looking for a small camo'ed canister with room for only small trade items. Make sure you place cache back exactly as you found it. Cache is in extremely busy area even at night. Please use extreme stealth. Congratulations to kildonan61 on FTF!

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6/20/2010 by Kabuthunk
Quite the tricky hide, this one was. Yet very strangely so, since when I eventually DID find it, it seemed rather... blatantly obvious. One of those 'once you see it you kick yourself' type hides, I guess .

So my wife and I had decided to spend some time today wandering around the Osbourne Village shops, seeing what's new. After a bit of shopping here and there, followed by some delicious banana cake at Baked Expectations, we eventually found ourselves near the coordinates. Of course, given my naturally horrendous sense of direction, I first began walking the wrong way AWAY from the coordinates after crossing the street, but quickly corrected myself. Given my wife is very... non-geocacher (unfortunately, but she still comes along for the walk somewhat often), she had decided to check out the cupcake place nearby while I attempted to find the geocache.

Thus, with her going into the shop, I looked at the GPS to see where I'd be walking towards next. Much to my surprise, the GPS was sitting at 5 meters away! I had figured just after getting my sense of direction corrected that it would have been between the buildings through that path there... but apparently my sense of distance also needs some work today . So, taking a look around, I was very pleased to find that the area was very quiet to begin with. I imagine this was likely due to it being Father's Day, so lots of people would either be with their families or at the lake or whatnot. Given we had celebrated it yesterday out of necessity, this worked out well for me. So with the unusually quiet village leaving me be (literally, there was all of two cars in this parking lot, and the owners were nowhere in sight... probably the shop owners), I began the hunt.

I began hunting around here and there, poking and prodding my fingers into anything that looked suspicious. Alas, nothing was found. This was supposed to be a 'small' size cache, so I didn't imagine it would be ridiculously tiny (much like many, many other caches hidden in this type of environment). By the way... kudos to being able to hide a non-micro in the village!

Within all of maybe two minutes, my wife emerged from the cupcake place (can't remember what it's called), while I was still hunting in vain. Although thankfully, about 15 seconds after she walked up to me, I happened to spot it in the corner of my eye while searching a completely different area. At this point however, a car drove into the parking lot. Given I had already found the cache, I just waited around, chatting with my wife until they left the car and wandered into one of the shops. The area empty again, I quickly made the grab and returned to my wife to avoid drawing attention to the specific location. I took a few extra seconds to attempt to drain the bit of moisture out of the cache container while looking at its contents. There was maybe about 4 or 5 drops worth of water gathered at the bottom... I imagine from the past many days of rain. Thankfully, the ziplock bag kept the log paper nice and dry, and I was able to easily sign it. One chainmail ball later, and I re-ziplocked the log, and replaced the cache as found.

Again... I dunno, maybe its just me, but now that I specifically know where the cache is, it seems... very visible to me. Although, the fact that both my wife and I weren't able to spot it until AFTER it was chanced upon, maybe it just seems very visible because I know what to look for. In either case, I'd be a tad worried about this one going missing sometime in the future.

One way or the other, thanks for getting another cache in the village for me to go after while I'm in the area .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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