The co-ordinates are for the parking area not the cache.
This quiet beauty spot is popular with bird lovers, an angling club and a sailing club, and is a pleasant walk away from Capesthorne Hall. The cache is within 500m of the parking area. The route includes tarmac, grassy paths and one 10m slope.
Please approach the parking area carefully – children may be walking around, and the ducks and geese give way in their own time!
Walk to the RSPB signs by the waterfront at the parking area. Count how many times the letters below occur in the birds listed on the two signs (you should find 9 bird names on the left sign with initial letters C G G M B C K M G, and 7 on the right sign M T G P S M G - if not, then the signs have changed, please let me know and sorry!):
i = j = h = c = s = k =
Proceed to N 53° 14.ijh' W 002° 13.csk'. Find the micro containing the final cache co-ordinates. Continue to the cache, keeping to the path to avoid the road. The cache is not in or near any of the animal burrows that you will pass. Nor, of course, do you need to enter any private land, go near the main road, or get wet in the lake. If you even suspect you're going the wrong way, then I'm afraid it's time to return to the RSPB signs and count again!
Initial cache contents include Lucky Ducky TravelBug, Canadian Geocoin, toys, games and a book.
Once you’ve finished, why not take a break in the nearby picnic area, or show off your new duck naming expertise in a loud voice along the lake edge? Or you might like to scan the lake for its legendary floating island – said to have had beech trees growing on it once upon a time - that inspired a passage in Alan Garner’s The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.
With thanks to Macclesfield BC for giving me permission to place this cache. Please show your appreciation by practising “Cache In Trash Out” during your visit – you’ll find plenty of waste bins to use.