I chose to do this cache from memory, as I'd put the coordinates in our GPSr on a previous occasion but I'd not brought a printout of the details and more importantly, the clue. I was hoping for a bit of luck in finding it - we deserved some by now!
We parked in a nearby car park and walked the short distance to Central Park in Westhoughton. We walked past a large modern playground and a fenced bowling green on our way to the cache. By its name we'd gathered it was going to be near some tennis courts and as we approached GZ we could see the telltale white lines on a large tarcmaced area which is currently undergoing some improvements.
We walked up a steel wheelchair ramp towards one corner of the tennis courts and then down some stone steps. The GPSr was indicating the cache was somewhere amongst the shrubbery, but after investigating this we decided that there wasn't really anywhere good to hide a cache and then concentrated on the steps.
I remembered that the cache was a drill case, by which I took it to mean a long thin plastic case which once held a drill. There were plenty of nooks and crannies in the steps down which a long thin object could have been poked, but after ten minutes looking we couldn't find anything.
Depression was starting to set in, and we gave up once again. I did have a quick look under the metal ramp on the way back to the car but didn't have any success. Nevermind, I know we'll find the next one because it's been logged just a couple of days ago. Let's get there quickly and improve our cache count!
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