Honest Muggles

Today I was at work, I do that occassionally, and a co-worker came to me and asked if we still Geocached. When I replied, “you bet”, she told me the following.

Her husband and daughter in law were out for a walk. She had recently came home from England for a visit and she and her father went to Midway, where she had grown up. They rambled along through the woods where they had walked many times when she was a little girl. They came across a container hanging in a tree. What the heck is that? Why is it there? and Who would have done it? They looked inside and had a laugh over the contents and immediately decided to take it home to show the rest of the family.

They read the enclosed cache sheet and researched the web site named on it. They Googled Geocaching and thought it sounded like fun. Then they asked my co-worker if she had ever heard of it and she replies “yes, M&G do it all the time, they are always going someplace to find those”. So, a quick trip back to Midway, looking for the exact tree, and returning the cache to it’s hiding spot.

We have another cache that a “muggle” had retreived from it’s hiding spot in a maple tree. He thought it cleverly disguised and  took it  home to call his nephew in Ont,  he knew  was a cacher.  He wanted to tell him what he had found and what it was cammoed as. A look out his window and he sees Scouter Kevin sitting on a near by bench, intently looking at the tree. Again, a cache is quickly returned, nearly scaring Kevin off the bench when he asks from behind, “Is this what you’re looking for?”

I can tell more stories of muggles finding caches and returning them to their hiding spot, people who do not know geocaching, just people being honest.