Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Morantz Micro by klblue (2.5/2) N49° 50.986  W97° 05.760 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 636875  N 5523666 Use waypoint: GC2HYWZ Size: Micro    Hidden on 11/7/2010 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:   *No attributes specified*     This cache is in Morantz Park. The cache container is a little longer than a 35mm canister. It is small and does not have any items in it except a log, small pencil, and a lamenated FTF certificate. If you search well you will probably find it quick. Not sure how winter friendly this will be, but it still should be findable in the winter. Happy hunting. Congratulations to Pa Bottle on being the FTF.

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8/15/2011 by Kabuthunk
Ahh… at long last, this cache has finally fallen to my clutches. This cache has been unfound by me waaaaaaaay too long now. Ever since it’s been planted… back in 2010… it’s been the closest unfound cache to where I live, being all of a scant 600 meters from where I live… easy walking distance. However, as fate would have it, on innumerous occasions, I would either forget about it, or not have my GPS with me, or be too tired once I got home to get my GPS, etc, etc, excuses, excuses, laziness, procrastination. But at long last, the steady stream of nearly a year of procrastination ends now!

So my wife and I happened to have the week off of work. We’re not particularly planning on going anywhere, but are moreso just taking a week off work and doing whatever we want on a whim. Today the plan was going to be to do some shopping, putter around a bit here and there, and as I said, nothing particularly planned. I took my GPS with me however, since I didn’t know where the tides would take us today, and I might as well have the caching kit with me to see if there’s anything to find wherever we end up. Well it turns out we didn’t go all that far, but since I happened to think of it after leaving the nearby 7-11, we headed over to finally get this cache off my to-do list. No more will this be the closest unfound cache to me. At least after this, I’ll be able to say that the nearest cache is (albeit just barely) more than 1km from me.

So… as is typical when with my non-geocaching-but-tolerant-of-me-doing-my-hobby wife, after I parked the car she waited in it reading a book while I went off to scour around for the cache. Thankfully, despite it being a nice warm day, the playground and park was entirely devoid of people. It WAS about 7:00pm, so maybe that’s too late for most kids to play in the playground, I dunno. One way or another, it worked out for me . I quickly worked my way towards ground zero and began to look around. At first I overshot my mark a little bit, and ended up hunting for a little in the wrong place entirely. After the GPS finally settled down from my walking around, I quickly moved my search to ground zero. At this point, I discovered that actually FINDING the cache wouldn’t be so much of a problem (the place I had guessed it would be ahead of time ended up being correct), but actually accessing it would prove to be a little bit interesting.

So attempting to actually put my hands on the cache hiding spot turned out to be somewhat difficult from one direction, so I attempted from the opposite side. This as well turned out to be rather problematic, but at least it was more feasible than from side 1. As I said, once I was actually able to get my hands there, I located the cache quite quickly. With the cache in hand, I walked over to a bit less problematic of a location, and signed the logbook.

At which point… dang. It looks like this cache has been found quite a number of times. Lotsa signatures here so far, and I thusly added my name to the end of the list (or more accurately, to the top of a new page since the previous one was full). After dropping in a micromail ball, I rolled up the logbook a little bit better than the last time, uncrumpling some of the pages and smoothing out the folded corners and whatnot. Once it was rolled to my satisfaction, I discovered that actually closing the ziplock bag was… basically impossible. I don’t recall needing to ‘unzip’ it when I found it, but the number of holes in the rest of the plastic bag would seem to indicate that to struggle with ‘zipping’ it would be a useless endeavor. It appears as though the cache container is plenty waterproof enough though, since the paper itself was bone dry .

Rehiding it as found, I returned to my wife, pleased to finally have this off my list, and for visiting yet another park I had never known about if not for a geocache in it .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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