Dublin park caches

For the Birds is in a new park in east Dublin. It takes its title from a tiled retaining wall that has a number hand-painted bird tiles. It’s quite an attractive wall. The cache is nearby, and was located fairly quickly.

Zero point is a steel bridge over a small creek. The cache was located inside a steel box beam, and only visible if you looked into the beam.

This is a relatively new cache, and I didn’t have it loaded in my GPSr when I was in this park last week. Actually, Emerald Glen is fairly large and this one is at the other end from where I was last week. There is a particular bush that at this season has bright red berries and it seems to be the only one of its kind around, thus the name Emerald Glen Xmas Bush.

Foliage hunts can be tough, and this one was. I must learn to be systematic, because I found myself doing sort of a random search, and always going back over the same areas.

It’s a film canister attached to a branch and it blends in real well with the leaves.

I walked to Emerald Glen Washout from Emerald Glen Xmas Bush. Not too hard to find–it’s a big ammo can.

Dynamite Park refers to Val Vista Community Park. The entrance right off of Stoneridge is shared with the waste water treatment plant, so it doesn’t start off too attractive. But, there are a lot of activities available. The soccer fields are kept locked during the week, and the cache is at one of the locked field gates.

I was unsuccessful on Nov. 18. Today, with a little more experience, I was able to find it.

I thought Park 7295 was going to also be in Val Vista Park. Actually, it’s across Stoneridge in a Park and Ride lot. Even though there was lots of traffic on Stoneridge, and commuters in the lot, none seemed to pay attention to me wandering over toward the cache location with the GPSr to my ear like a cell phone. Didn’t take too long to spot it.