On our third cache out in Altrincham today we had a couple of problems - first of all we used the coordinates at the top of the page before spotting the change lower down in the logs. Luckily I had downloaded the logs to my PDA phone or else we would have been stumped at this point. Hopefully the cache owner can have this changed to avoid confusion for others.
With the new coordinates in the GPSr we had no problem finding the first cache in this lovely park. Secondly, we couldn't find the final cache but did find a page from the log book. It had the owner's geocaching name on it and the name of the cache. However, we couldn't find any other remains of the cache, so it may well have gone missing.
During our hunt to find the second cache we were frequently seen by muggles, including a pair of pensioners sitting on a bench directly facing the cache. After a quick look round GZ we decided to wait until they left before having a more thorough examination of the area. One of the park gardeners who was cutting the grass even came over to us and asked if were alright.
I decided to explain what we were doing and a little bit about geocaching at this point. She told me that she'd seen others doing similar things in these bushes and had wondered if they were doing something suspicious like hiding a dead body! I told her it was just a bit of fun and was nothing to do with drugs or crime and she left us to carry happily reassured (I hope).
A maintenance visit would be useful to check if the cache is still there and we just missed it - but we did have a good look through the leaf litter and in some of the other bushes. In spite of all this we're going to log it as a find, even though we didn't actually sign the logbook or find the container - I can send a picture of the log book paper with the owner's name and writing on it if required.
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