The One With The Teeny Tiny Cache

Matt Beach
Feb 23, 2019
4 min read

Teeny Tiny Geocache — The teeny tiny geocache this post is aptly named after.

Elizabeth had an Irish Dance workshop this Saturday, so after dropping her off at the dance studio in Niagara Falls, David, Steph and I went out hunting for some more geocaches. We had 6 hours to spend hunting down geocaches before we had to pick Elizabeth back up and managed to find a total of 17 caches in that time. We also found one of the coolest tiniest caches that we have seen yet.

We looked up the nearest cache to the dance studio and began our hunt. The first one was a success! We were however pretty close to giving up on this one until David spotted it cleverly hidden. I don't think I would've noticed it at all.

Steph finds a geocache — Steph finds half a geocache.

From there we moved on to our second cache which was in a very residential area on a public pathway between houses. We located the cache... or at least the remnants of it. The cap of the tube was hanging in the tree but the tube itself was missing. We logged it on the app and made sure the owner of the cache was notified.

With two relatively quick caches under our belt, we moved on to the third cache. Driving through a residential area not far from the QEW in Niagara falls we made our way to a park to find the Gutter Punks geocache located in a park with a playground. Sadly after reaching our coordinates and going by the hints, we were given we came to realize that the cache was missing. Most of the fun is in the hunt for the geocache but it's still pretty disappointing when you don't find it or you know it's gone missing.

Candy's cache led us to Valour Park in the middle of a residential area and we began our search. The hint that was left for us was "very GRATE to meet you". So you can use your imagination as to where we found this cache.

The next geocache takes us to the Mewburn Road bridge. In 2009 the city closed the CN Rail bridge that was built in 1924 to connect the two municipalities of Niagara Falls and Niagara On The Lake. It's a small one-lane bridge that allows cars to pass over the CN railroad tracks below. A dirt road leads right up to the bridge where a concrete barrier has been placed to prevent cars from traveling any further. The bridge's iron railing and cracked concrete road are adorned with graffiti. Litter is strewn everywhere across the ground underneath the bridge indicating this may be a popular hangout place for the local teens.

Here's an article about the future plans of the Mewburn Road bridge.

The coordinates bring us to a place a few meters off to the right side of the bridge. It's a mud infested incline dotted with some small bare trees and brush. We begin our search and after 15 mins of searching everywhere we can think of we still have nothing to show for it.

This is one of those caches where you hunt and hunt and can't find it. Just when you are about to give up, you happen to catch something unusual out of the corner of your eye. That something just happens to be the very thing you're looking for. On a naked tree branch hanging about halfway in was a very tiny green metal capsule with the geocache symbol on it. Luckily we were searching for this one in winter when the trees are bare, it would have been much more difficult to spot in the middle of full-grown green leaves.

Undeveloped land near the Laura Secord Trail

Our next adventure would lead us out into the wilderness of Niagara Falls in search of a series of 7 geocaches. Not far from the Mewburn road bridge is a largely undeveloped area of land. The land is full of thick prickly brush and damp wet soil. While we were searching for one cache we all stepped in a pool of water getting our shoes soaked.

After finding the seven caches we returned to our car to begin heading back to the dance studio. We had some more time and decided to find some more caches along the way. Not only did we find the smallest cache we had seen today but we also found the largest cache. The Zander cache is located across the street from a banquet hall and is contained in a large dog crate placed beside a tree.

large geocache — Yep! That's the cache. Zander was named after the cache owner's girlfriend's dog.

After locating Zander we went looking for three more caches, two we located and one we were unable to find. Our geocaching time had run out and it was time to head back and pick Elizabeth up from dance. We eventually returned home elated and exhausted with our work that day.

Complete List Of The Caches Visited

Cache 1: Pooped N 43° 06.597 W 079° 07.473

Cache 2: Brian's Path N 43° 07.412 W 079° 06.794

Cache 3: Gutter Punks N 43° 07.836 W 079° 07.199 (DNF)

Cache 4: Candy's Cache N 43° 07.306 W 079° 07.087

Cache 5: Mewburn Road Bridge N 43° 08.668 W 079° 08.004

Cache 6: In The Mewburn Brush N 43° 08.561 W 079° 07.939

Cache 7: Mewburn Road Recreation Area N 43° 08.523 W 079° 07.808

Cache 8: Not A Trail in Mewburn Rd Rec Area N 43° 08.552 W 079° 07.667

Cache 9: Zamboni Here? Maybe One Day... N 43° 08.491 W 079° 07.571

Cache 10: Vapour Trails in Mewburn Rd RA N 43° 08.410 W 079° 07.630

Cache 11: Xtra Mewburn Fun N 43° 08.275 W 079° 07.724