Eglinton in the rain.

I got a tip off from another cacher by the name of AMAZO during the week giving me a hint as to where the Irvine New Town Trail #6 cache is hidden. This was a cache that appeared last Saturday but which I couldn't find. It would have been a FTF for me but after about half an hour I gave up and moved on. Armed with this new information I decided to go back over to Eglinton Park today to have another look.

On approach to the GZ it became obvious that I wasn't going to need to employ the hint in order to find the cache. The container was just sitting there out in the open with no camo or cover. On closer inspection however it was clear that this cache had been muggled, but not by a normal muggle. The bottom of the container had been chewed off, a mouse had been at it. It turned out that not only the cache container, but also a plastic bag inside and part of the log itself had been nibbled too. Signed the log anyway and re-hid. Chenks (the cache owner) has been informed.

Next was a puzzle cache called Little Green Men. The description and hint for this one are encoded so I'd worked them out at home and printed the details off. Trouble is, I'd gone and left the details at home. Armed with nothing but a rough idea of where the cache was I went for a look and checked all the obvious places. After a while I decided to phone home to see if Mrs SC could find the details I'd printed off but she was away out.

There was nothing for it but the brute force approach so I turned on my cachers instinct and took a guess at the general area (using a satellite photo I'd printed out before leaving the house) and started checking every tree, stump, lump, nook and cranny. And after a *lot* of searching I had the cache in hand!

I'd originally planned to head elsewhere after Eglinton to find a whole list of other caches, but by this time I was tired, wet and muddy and it was pouring down. Happy to have found these two caches I headed back to the van and home.

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