Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Harris Park cache by klblue (1.5/2) N49° 50.451  W97° 07.671 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 634610  N 5522617 Use waypoint: GC2H06X Size: Regular    Hidden on 10/18/2010 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:             A medium sized ammo container hidden in Harris Park. This is in the forest area of the park. We are not sure if this area will be flooded in the spring. Decided to try a cache in this park. Left some halloween tradables and other trinkets. Included is a FTF certificate for the first to find. Congratulations to ruylopez on being the FTF.

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7/22/2011 by Kabuthunk
At long last, a cache calling itself 'regular' size, and actually being worthy of the title. This cache pretty much had all of one purpose for me. To be a regular or larger sized cache capable of taking in a travelbug that I've been trying to drop off at multiple other 'regular' caches so far, each one small enough to fit like... 3 of them into THIS cache. And I suppose this cache had a second purpose... to be find number 700... which I was planning to finally be a cache I can drop that TB off at, so it was a catch-22 type thing.

So when researching (ie: glancing at the description of any 'regular' caches nearby... no large ones in the vicinity) what I'd want to have as my 700th cache, what did I see but a cache that specifically TOLD me that it was an ammo can! Let's see... geocaching.com indicates that the correct usage of 'regular' size is approximately ammo can size, and here we have exactly what it says on the tin! It's like this cache was MADE to be #700. It's between home and work, it's a good size, and even after having arrived there, I had the distinct memory of having been here before.

The last time I was here, I had parked quite a distance away due to snow making the roads thinner, and not having any idea where I could actually park. Now that it was summer, and with my wife who happened to be with me opting to stay in the car and nap, I decided to park the car inside that loop-around at the end of the street.

Parking solved, I hopped out and headed down the wide trail leading up to the river. Last time I was here I think this road was a lot more... under construction or something if I recall correctly. Nice to see it's fully created now, although with the river being ridiculously high this year, it's still looking a little... moist close to the river. When I got the the end of the walls of weeds, I hooked left and generally worked my way towards the coordinates. Actually, when I was about 15 meters away, I just stopped looking at the GPS and began hunting around. After a little bit of not spotting it, I glanced at the GPS again and was quite surprised to see it showing me as 1 meter away . At which point I turned around to look for the cache, and... yeah...

After today, I can no longer say that I have never been scared by a butterfly.

So this butterfly comes out of the weed/bushes, and I don't know if I was concentrating too much on looking for the cache or something, but it startled the hell out of me! The stupid thing then continued on its merry way, while I quickly came to my senses and berated myself for my sudden Lepidopteral fear. That danger averted, about 10 seconds later I spotted what could only have been a cache hiding spot. A scant few seconds later, the cache was in hand, and I thankfully confirmed that the aforementioned travelbug fit quite easily inside of it. WOOH! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED ! Man, you can't even FATHOM how hard it is to find a geocache capable of taking a CD-case sized travelbug until you actually need one.

Glancing about the rest of the contents to see if there were any TB's needing to move along, I dropped in a chainmail ball to add to the already wide selection of tradeables (seriously, if your kids like geocaching and trading... this one's got lots of stuff). One quick signing later, and the cache with TB was returned from whence it came.

So thank you greatly for providing me a geocache container that works well for the not-so-small travelbugs. So leaving my spontaneous case of lepidopterophobia at the cache, I returned to the car easily, having found a much, MUCH easier return path up the hill (although it inexplicably ends at the park clearing, and I had to gingerly step around some bushes and over a chain).

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry, 'Traveler” travelbug, lepidopterophobia, and chainmail ball

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