CMNS - Oberstinkersee

4. Oktober 2023 bei einer Radrunde gefunden

Today AnnaMoritz, MoritzRabe and myself went for a nice, relaxing bicycle trip around Illmitz. Our first notable stop along the route have been the watchtower and the white donkeys in the Sandeck area where we went for the [only planned geocache](https://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=d10fa36f-516d-4066-8c38-b60c91585b2d)  for today. We later passed other caches and skipped them intentionally.  We also noticed that not all cachers try to act stealthy when retrieving caches something I have been aware of anyway.

Along our way we stopped at some watchout platforms. At two of them we met an employee of the national park. At the first encounter she was talking to German tourists about feeding birds. At the second encounter we were alone with her. She offered us a view through her telescope. I did not manage to see anything. AnnaMoritz managed to see what she was curious about but it was not the birds. The women would have had a list of the different birds one might have been able to see - from the distance they almost all looked pretty much the same to me.

We took along the bikes onto the platform where this cache is hidden. I would not want to navigate with a non-fancy manual wheelchair there and even less so on the sometimes sandy terrain along the way. As already mentioned by AnnaMoritz this geocache has not even been on our radar. It was funny when AnnaMoritz instantly said "Oh, that's looks like a geocache" and I agreed. This made us curious and as MoritzRabe was along we did not need to engage in awkward actions and consequently retrieving and putting back the cache container was easy. There was no carabiner and as photos of the last years suggest it has got lost already quite a while ago but the cache does not seem to have suffered from this.

I doubt that the claim that there is no connection between the water amount in the saline lakes and the ground water level is true.  I wonder why the lake is called Oberstinkersee.

All in all it was a nice bicycle trip and showed me yet aToday AnnaMoritz, MoritzRabe and myself went for a nice, relaxing bicycle trip around Illmitz. Our first notable stop along the route have been the watchtower and the white donkeys in the Sandeck area where we went for the [only planned geocache](https://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=d10fa36f-516d-4066-8c38-b60c91585b2d)  for today. We later passed other caches and skipped them intentionally.  We also noticed that not all cachers try to act stealthy when retrieving caches something I have been aware of anyway.

Along our way we stopped at some watchout platforms. At two of them we met an employee of the national park. At the first encounter she was talking to German tourists about feeding birds. At the second encounter we were alone with her. She offered us a view through her telescope. I did not manage to see anything. AnnaMoritz managed to see what she was curious about but it was not the birds. The women would have had a list of the different birds one might have been able to see - from the distance they almost all looked pretty much the same to me.

We took along the bikes onto the platform where this cache is hidden. I would not want to navigate with a non-fancy manual wheelchair there and even less so on the sometimes sandy terrain along the way. As already mentioned by AnnaMoritz this geocache has not even been on our radar. It was funny when AnnaMoritz instantly said "Oh, that's looks like a geocache" and I agreed. This made us curious and as MoritzRabe was along we did not need to engage in awkward actions and consequently retrieving and putting back the cache container was easy. There was no carabiner and as photos of the last years suggest it has got lost already quite a while ago but the cache does not seem to have suffered from this.

I doubt that the claim that there is no connection between the water amount in the saline lakes and the ground water level is true.  I wonder why the lake is called Oberstinkersee.

All in all it was a nice bicycle trip and showed me yet another region of the area around Lake Neusiedl. It is however depressing that most of the lakes in the area have dried out.nother region of the area around Lake Neusiedl. It is however depressing that most of the lakes in the area have dried out.

The terrain rating on oc.de is wrong and the spoiler picture seems outdated too.

Campingurlaub in Podersdorf mit dem Ziel, hier so einige Caches mitzunehmen. Tag 4, um meinen Drahtesel zum Cachen auszupacken.
Die Dose war schnell entdeckt. aber die Bergen? 🤔 Zum Glück waren hier keinerlei Muggel unterwegs, so dass ich eine kleine Einlage machen konnte und ich jetzt mit meinem Stempelabdruck im Logbuch bin. 😎

🐾 TFTC eisenstädter sagt Lupine68 🐾
Cache # 50 - found on 22. Mai 2023 at 10:26
Ich nehme mir Zeit für die Caches und behandle sie entsprechend pfleglich. 🌱 Speed-Cachen ist nicht mein Ding und meines Erachtens auch nicht der Sinn dieses schönen Hobbys. 🌎
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Schnell gefunden.
TFTC Maki

Heute ist der Plan, dass wir zum tiefsten Punk Österreichs fahren. Einen Abstecher nach Ungarn möchte ich auch noch gerne machen und eine Runde in dem Tierpark ist sicherlich auch noch nett. So kommen wir bei Dämmerung beim Jupp´s Bierstüberl an, wo uns nach 70 Kilometer mitn Rad, das Abendessen total schmeckt.

Den Cache haben wir hier voll guat gefunden und ich bin echt gespannt, ob ich den Bonus irgendwann besuchen kann.

Danke fürn Tradi "CMNS - Oberstinkersee".
Glg ausn Innviertel, reini1