Meadowbrook Mystery

We knew there was another cache right near the Ambassador Hotel, where we were staying. We also knew it was along what may be a another swampy area, somewhere between a major road and a railway line. The trick was to find a way to get to this area.

In the country, that wouldn’t have been a problem. But in a city, most rivers and waterways have houses along them, and no access to what lays behind. Well, there may be access, but finding it might be difficult. And once you do find it, where are you allowed to park?


On Sunday, June 8, 2008 (okay, so I'm a little behind in my blogging, but hey, I have a life), after cruising around in circles a few times, we decided to try from a different angle, and that’s when we found not only access to the trail, but a place to park too. Luckily nobody else had parked there when we needed it. This cache is listed as the Meadowbrook Mystery, though the main mystery is why they named it that. It was well worth the effort to find it though, as we were immediately treated to the sight of ducks turtles sunning themselves on the rocks in the river. Something else was splashing around in the water too, but I wasn’t sure what at that point.
We wandered down the trail, and discovered that the graffiti artists had been busy under the overpass. I’ve never been this close to graffiti before, but certainly didn’t expect to find it in this particular location. About there we saw more thrashing around in the river and it turned out to be some very large carp, that apparently come up the Cataraqui Creek every year to spawn.

The trail wound through some nice countryside, complete with a little stream and lots of wild flowers. The cache itself was off the trail in the woods where the mosquitoes were just waiting for us to arrive. I’ve never seen so much in any one cache before, and would love to have explored it further, but only had so much blood to give, so grabbed the first thing on the top of the pile and replaced it with the biggest thing in my kit (since it was also the easiest thing to grab), and got us out of there as quickly as possible. I was almost back to the car before I realized that what I had picked up there was a fuzzy bald eagle puppet. I know someone who will likely love that :)

On the way out we saw a rabbit sitting on the trail. That was a nice bonus. It was a great evening for geocaching and a great trail to follow, bugs and all.


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