Wild Goose Chase Black Loch Traditional Cache

One of the Wild Goose Chase geocaches. You will be geocaching at one of the best goose watching spots in Dumfries and Galloway. Please use Castle Kennedy Gardens carpark, the cache is a short walk to the aptly named snowdrop trail along the shores of the Black Loch and is a small plastic box. I hope you see the geese as close as I did, when placing the cache, they are even there in the summer.

Please be careful when you reach for this cache as its hiding place as the camouflage is natural, not made by me.

Thank you to Stair Estates, not only for this wonderful place but for giving Dumfries and Galloway Council Rangers permission to place this geocache at Castle Kennedy Gardens and providing some special Castle Kennedy goodies. If you are lucky enough to find a token in the cache pop into the Gardens and they will exchange it for something nice.

You will see geese here summer and winter, if you go into the gardens ask about the goose nesting on top of the castle! You don’t need binoculars to see the geese and other birds but if you have some it will make your geocaching experience even better, the gardens hire these out too. If you continue up the hill to the bus park you get a good view of the loch and often there are geese in the field.

Castle Kennedy Gardens are surrounded by 2 freshwater lochs, these are designated as SSSI’s for their breeding waders and wintering wildfowl. They contain an exciting variety of wildlife including a resident flock of greylag geese , herons, grebe, oystercatcher and even the occasional osprey and otter.