Fishing on the Dock of the Bay Mystery Cache
Fishing on the Dock of the Bay
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A walk along a public footpath beside the Dee Estuary from the car park at Greenfield Dock. You may encounter sheep or cattle so please keep dogs under control and keep away from the water (due to the mud). There is no need to climb on the rocks [:O].
THE ABOVE COORDINATES ARE FOR THE CACHE.
Climb over the stile and proceed westerly along the footpath passing 'sorrow', 'joy', 'girl', 'boy', 'silver', and you'll find the cache just passed 'gold'.
That's the easy bit!!!
Pieman, dont go in a suit 
19/1/14
Placed a new small cache here at N53 17.736 W003 12.386 that will save you doing the puzzle 
Good Luck
Spoiler (visit link)
Fish Slapping (visit link)
History of Greenfield Dock.
In 1802, sailing ships provided a ferry service linking Greenfield with Parkgate on the Wirral and with Chester.
By 1857 there was also a passenger service between Greenfield and Liverpool.
St Winifreds Holy Well, dating from 560AD, is within walking distance of Greenfield Dock and was probably popular with pilgrims from Liverpool.
Today, a walk following the nearby track bed of a railway built in 1869 to join Holy Well and Greenfield gives a fascinating insight into the past history of the area.
From this railway and indeed by road, you can see the vital imposing ruin's of 12th Centuary Bassingworth Abbey, the Greenfield Vally Museum of historical buildings and farm life and explore the ruin's of a host of 15th-19th Centuary mills and factories, set amid pools and woodland walks in what is now a 60 acre country park.
The enclosed area of saltmarsh behind the Dock is an old flushing lagoon, which would have stored water over the high tide, for later release to flush the Dock clear of accumalating mud and sand.
A small number of boats still use the Dock as there base for commercial shrimp and flounder fishing in the estuary.
The public footpath along this area of the estuary is also popular for sport angling.
It is best to fish at high tide and cast into the main river channel. Autumn and Winter can give good catchs of flounder and whiting.
Facts,
Many centuries of human use has left its mark and provides a challenge to all who use the Dee Estuary.
Almost 30% of the Estuary has been claimed from the sea and much of this land is now used for agriculture or industry. Pressure to develop this land remains.
How said "A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other!!"
Samual Johnson (1709-1784).
You can continue down this footpath beside the Dee to -
Catch 22 GCRT2T and Rusty Duke GCKONF two of
Happy Laindins caches.
The FunShip (visit link)
If you like Fishing we have a couple more intresting caches for you to try 
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ARCHIVED "Gone (Caching) Fishing!!" (visit link)
ARCHIVED "Gone (Caching) Fishing Again!!" (visit link)
Additional Hints
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