Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches The Secret Bin II by Survival101 (1.5/2) (Archived) N50° 00.288  W96° 52.122 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 652723  N 5541341 Use waypoint: GC251ME Size: Regular    Hidden on 3/14/2010 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                           This cache is close by to my first cache at Bird's Hill park. The cache should be fairly easy to locate, just be sure to watch for muggles in the field. The walk should take less than a few minutes, depending on where you park. I suggest to park at the head of the trail near by. Park pass is required (except for 2009-2010) Started out with a few small items and a FTF certificate. Good luck!

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5/16/2010 by Kabuthunk
I made a bit of a healthy jump from my last cache to this one. A few detours as well. I had just finished locating 'Deer Trail' cache about 2km's North of here. Seeing as I was by that point about 24 or so kilometers into the day's bike ride (which ended up being almost exactly 30km), I needed a break. Thus, on the way to THIS cache, I decided to take a half-hour break at the swimming lake/pond and cool down my legs. Gotta say, for this time of year there was a surprising number of people there. On the beach of course were a lot of people lying around, but there was a number of people swimming as well! Not as much as in the middle of summer, but still.

Course, if I had swim trunks, I would have been one of those fools swimming too .

So after my nice cool-down break of wading around in the chilly water, I hopped back onto my bike and headed off towards this cache. I'd never really biked or walked that much around here, so I was just following the paths, kinda winging it in hopes of ending up near the coordinates. From the paved path, I took some other random path that had a sign beside it saying "Grackle". Now THIS confused the hell out of me for a while. I couldn't even fathom what it was referring to. Was there some famous grackle nest near here? Some statue? I had no clue. Eventually, I learned that apparently the name for that particular camping area was 'grackle section' or some such. Well, it works if you know what the sign is about, but confusing if you don't .

I followed this trail up to the road around the campsites, where a number of vans ended up passing me as I biked along. Strangely, they seemed to come around the corner just as I was trying to drink water... I think fate was trying to thirst me to death . Eventually, I hooked from here down some OTHER trail, which took me towards a fairly open field-type area. And thankfully, I found myself getting quite close to the cache! Kicking it down into low-gear, I biked across the field towards the spruce (or pine, I can never remember which is which) trees. Once inside, I was met with a wonderful silence, broken only by the sounds of birds or my footsteps on the acorns and grass . No sound from the campground managed to make it into here, so it was very relaxing. I ended up circling around the wrong way a few times, but eventually spiraled my way towards the coordinates. Once I reached ground zero, it took me all of 2 seconds to find the cache itself . I don't quite understand where the name of the cache comes from... but that wouldn't be the first time for me.

Digging around the cache a little bit, I didn't spot anything that I wanted to trade for, so I tossed in my signature chainmail ball and signed the logbook. I replaced everything as I had found it, and began to head off. Despite the relatively high number of kilometers already behind me today (high for me anyway, this early in the year), I still opted to tackle the 'Monster Box' cache off to the West.

All in all, thanks for taking me to the nice, relaxing area. I think this type of setting in the coniferous trees is what I find one of the most relaxing types of area .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball