Ghost Beach Breach Geocache

We had to go to Port Hawkesbury to get a few things at the grocery store and it was such a beautiful day that we didn't want to waste it. We wanted to go for a little hike as well so we thought we would try to find this cache. It was our first cache in quite a while, it was also our first time hiking the Trans Canada Trail. I was excited to see the trail but we were really disappointed considering this is where the Trail meets Cape Breton Island. The first few hundred meters of the trail runs along a chain link fence topped with barbed wire enclosing a very busy work area with heavy equipment ??? Once we were past the Transport Canada compound the trail opened up along the coast and was pretty nice. The trail is on a sandbar type beach that creates a lagoon in the Strait. You would think that we would be smart enough to try this in July or August not the middle of January!! 
There is a metal bridge spanning a small channel along the trail and Caoimhe was not too impressed with the thought of crossing. Ever since she was a pup she was afraid of crossing bridges, especially metal ones like the one at the St. Peter's canal across the lock. Once she was on she went cautiously, kinda funny to watch the way she hugged close to the ground. She overcame her fear of the bridge though and did really well coming back. The wind was coming down the Strait of Canso and we could see a wall of flurries making its way up the strait. It was warm (+1) and sunny when we left St. Peter's, definatly not that warm walking along the beach!!! Noticed a set of coyote or dog tracks walking straight along the trail.  Caoimhe didn't give them a sniff but continued her mouse hunting obsession that she has had since she caught and killed one on the Lake loop. When we got to the cache location I re-read the description and it said that the cache was amongst some boulders next to a piece of sandstone with an "X" on it. There were a few piles of sandstone making up part of the breakwater but we couldn't see an X anywhere. We searched amongst the boulders and  finally found the cache a good 10 to 15 meters away from the posted coordinates. It was an ammo can with a trade items inside. We signed the log and used our stamp for the first time. It was really nice to find a cache, especially a nice cache in a good container. There are so many caches around that are in crappy containers, or micro's, which we are not fans of. (Micro - 35 mm film canister or smaller – less than approximately 3 ounces or .1 L – typically containing only a logbook or a logsheet) We took a few pictures, then Martha found a good piece of driftwood that I am going to try and turn into a hiking stick. I'm going to try and mount our Parks Canada geocoin in the stick. 

When we were almost back to the car, I stepped off the trail and into a hole and my ankle is pretty sore and swollen this evening, just shows, stay on the trail if you can't see whats under the snow to either side. Below is the link to the track log on Garmin Connect. I'm going to have to check the settings on the Oregon, it says in the uploaded data that the trek took 4.5 hours, it was really about an hour. Still learning the ins and outs!

Ghost Beach Breach Geocache

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