After a long break from geocaching due to the pressure of work (and life) sarahjones65 and I resumed our caching activities today whilst leaving the kids at home, with one still in bed and the other bleary-eyed but just about awake. We'd planned a route around the Abram area and this was to be the first of the day.It took us a lot longer than usual to find a good place to park and we made a false start walking along a dismantled railway line to the cache, before being told we were effectively tresspassing on private land. So we turned back and moved the car up over Abram bridge by the Dover Lock Inn and set off along the canal towpath to the cache.
We found the basic area fairly quickly and the title of the cache and hint meant we spent a long time looking up in the nearby trees. When this gave us no result, we then started looking on the ground for a windfall. After a good 15-20 minutes we still hadn't found anything and our thoughts were turning to leaving. Sarah decided to recheck the GPSr reading and stand at where GZ was indicated and we then focused all our attention on two nearby trees - still nothing. Just before we were about to leave I decided to have a scrabble about amongst the falled branches and leaf litter and hey presto, I found an film empty film cannister with no top. A little more searching revealed the cannister top, but no log book anywhere. We both thought that it was too much of a coincidence to find one of the main types of geocaching containers here if this was not the remains of the cache. So we assumed it had fallen out of a tree and that the log book had been lost to the elements or local wildlife.
Leaving our names on a scrap of paper we re-hid the film cannister under a rock at the base of a tree. If this wasn't the original cache there's another one there now! On our return I e-mailed Lollybob to let her know what we had found so that she might do a little maintenance if she so desires. An interesting time was had by both of us.
After a long break from geocaching due to the pressure of work (and life) sarahjones65 and I resumed our caching activities today whilst leaving the kids at home, with one still in bed and the other bleary-eyed but just about awake. We'd planned a route around the Abram area and this was to be the first of the day.It took us a lot longer than usual to find a good place to park and we made a false start walking along a dismantled railway line to the cache, before being told we were effectively tresspassing on private land. So we turned back and moved the car up over Abram bridge by the Dover Lock Inn and set off along the canal towpath to the cache. 
We found the basic area fairly quickly and the title of the cache and hint meant we spent a long time looking up in the nearby trees. When this gave us no result, we then started looking on the ground for a windfall. After a good 15-20 minutes we still hadn't found anything and our thoughts were turning to leaving. Sarah decided to recheck the GPSr reading and stand at where GZ was indicated and we then focused all our attention on two nearby trees - still nothing. Just before we were about to leave I decided to have a scrabble about amongst the falled branches and leaf litter and hey presto, I found an film empty film cannister with no top. A little more searching revealed the cannister top, but no log book anywhere. We both thought that it was too much of a coincidence to find one of the main types of geocaching containers here if this was not the remains of the cache. So we assumed it had fallen out of a tree and that the log book had been lost to the elements or local wildlife.
Leaving our names on a scrap of paper we re-hid the film cannister under a rock at the base of a tree. If this wasn't the original cache there's another one there now! On our return I e-mailed Lollybob to let her know what we had found so that she might do a little maintenance if she so desires. An interesting time was had by both of us.
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