Why does nobody talk about checking the tide charts before geocaching on the coast

Last Saturday I drove 2 hours down to Cape May to find a cache that's been sitting there since 2019. The coordinates looked easy, right off a beach trail. Got there and the whole area was underwater. High tide had come in and the path was gone. I stood there in ankle deep water checking my phone like an idiot. It took me another 45 minutes to find a dry route around. When I finally got to the spot, the cache was wet inside and the logbook was mush. Some other finder had tried to seal it with a ziplock but it didn't hold. I looked back at the listing and sure enough, the guy who hid it mentioned it's only accessible at low tide. But it was buried in the description, not highlighted. Has anyone else had a cache ruined by not checking the tides? Or do you have a way to filter for tidal caches before you head out?

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patricia_rodriguez22d ago

Showed up to one on the Oregon coast last fall wearing sneakers because the listing just said "beach access." Spent the whole hunt hopping rocks like a drunk crab while the tide crept up. Cache ended up being a film canister wedged in a crevice that was already half underwater. Made the find, but my shoes squeaked for the entire drive home. Now I check tides on every coastal cache before I even put on my boots.