Water Critters Traditional Cache
ghs: Sorry about that. It did indeed get absconded with...for the second time. But I don't have any good news. I looked for a better place to put it. I found a really good spot farther in along and then off the trail. I finally got some new coordinates to work. And then I started thinking. Nothing good happens when I do that. I thought about those hunters that pulled in just after I got there. Then I thought about the wisdom of a cache being there. The hunters cinched my thinking by meandering into the area where I was with the cache.
So, I've decided to archive this one. Thanks to everyone who's visited it.
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A large camo-taped Lock & Lock container near a country fishing hole.
I finally found a place to put a regular. It's near a big pond that I'm told by a local resident is used for public fishing. It has a small assortment of stuff in it. I heard a quite loud splash while I was letting my electronic playmate average coordinates for what seemed like an eternity. I'm assuming it was a very large fish. It made a very impressive ripple. I didn't get to see the fish but I did get to see a couple of turtles swimming (and a few smaller fish). So, that's where the cache name came from.
There's a trailhead in the vicinity of N39° 32.873' x W083° 58.207'. It's not very far of a walk along the trail, but it's a few feet off of the trail. There will be a little bushwhacking, possibly even along the trail itself. (The trail runs along the pond. Presumably, it's how fisherpeople move around the pond.)
Although she said 8.3 feet accuracy after all that averaging and the coordinates seemed to work as well as can be expected in that environment, "that environment" consisted of substantial tree cover. You'll likely have to be a little patient with your electronic accomplice and do a little looking for the proverbial "sign of the cache." (But if you think you've got better coordinates, as always, feel free to post them.)
Try to be careful of any fisherpeople or others around, and please try to cover it up as best you can, especially during winter. (It's probably not too obvious from the trail during summer. I knew it was there but still walked right past it a few times during trips back and forth to my car getting stuff while my GPSr was sitting on top of the cache averaging numbers.)
There should be plenty of parking in the vicinity of N39° 32.895' x W083° 58.240'.
I added the icon that says "stroller accessible" merely for technical accuracy's sake. If you are in the situation where you need to take a little-person-in-stroller with you, I think it should be possible (but not necessarilly enjoyable) to get a stroller in there, at least during cooporative weather, but leaving the stroller on the trail. The stroller will be very visible and not very far from the cache location. HOWEVER, I am NOT recommending that you take a stroller/w passenger in there! (And remember that there's water on at least one side of the trail.)
Note added after publication: When thinking about how to access the cache or the above mentioned parking spot, think Rt 380, NOT Caesars Creek State Park. If you're already at the park for whatever reason, depending on how adventurous you want to be, the cache might be accessible from there on foot. I don't know. I am told that any indication from any map that Mound Rd connects with Center Rd or any publicly accessible part of the park should be DISREGARDED.
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