Conwy Quays - GC185PM

This was to be our fourth and final cache of the day whilst out with our relatives 'The Walshes' to show them the geocaching ropes around Conway. Whilst walking here from our previous find at 'Woggles in the Woods' we realised that Liam would miss his train back to Manchester for a job interview if he continued all the way to this cache. He had to be at Llandudno Junction at 4pm and it was now 3.15pm. So Uncle Bill and Liam headed back to the car and train station whilst Aunty Sue, Adam and my lot (sarahjones65, CathyMay and RiggyRob) continued on the quest.

The walk turned out be much longer than expected but the weather, view and company was great so it wasn't a problem (i.e. no moaning from the sprogs). We didn't realise until we got to the coordinates given that this was a multi-cache and it was lucky that I had the full description on my PDA or else we would have been stumped. Anyway, solving the puzzle was quite easy and after having a quick look at how 'the other half' lives on the Quays, we set off for the final location.

Following a slight detour down the wrong path on to some private land (possibly a sewage works by the smell) and being ushered off it by someone there, we eventuallu found the right footpath alongside the local school's sports pitches. What a fantastic setting for a Sports Day, we thought - bet they do water sports here. Soon we were heading off into a wooded area with lots of recently planted trees supported by stakes. I'm not too keen on places like this as the GPSr signal is often poor and fluctuates and there are loads of places it could be. Thankfully today we were out in force with lots of eyes and hands available for searching.

At the point of almost giving up a little voice cried out from the woods - "Found it". It was CathyMay and when she showed us the cache container we were all gobsmacked. Firstly, how sneaky was the camouflage on it and secondly, how on earth had she found it? When on the ground the container was so well-hidden (the best I've seen yet) that it could definitely not be detected by eyes alone. Cathy had found it accidently by looking at a nearby stone thinking that the cache was underneath and then found the actual cache next to it.

We left a very clever Key (Geddit?) Puzzle TB and took a rabbit cross-stitch kit and cross and chain after signing the log and returned happily to the town centre talking about what a sneaky piece of camoflage that was and what a great cache it was to end on. We'd had a fantastic day out in Conwy and look forward to coming back to do some more caches in this area.