Swimming Hole

At this time of year the creek looks anything but inviting as a swimming pool, but finding a cache is an all year activity. It looked like trying to find the Swimming Hole cache might well take us all year too.
On the second visit, see Frogs and Water for our first effort, we were confident after studying the past logs that we would spot something. But it was not to be and gave up after plenty of searching about, including inspecting an unlikely spot under a large storm water drainage pipe.
We knew Barad Bunch had found it and sent out a “give us a hint request”. When Sue learnt of the hint she immediately thought of the bit of log she gave a kick to but thought “no that couldn’t be it”, but the news made her pretty suspicious that maybe it really was.
On return for the third try proved quite quick, although Peter had to tug hard to open it. Although we waited for mugglers to depart, there was the owner of a nearby house doing repair work on his fence and gate, so we had to hope he didn’t take too much notice; then again who knows he may have been the cache owner.
Found 17 May 2012

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