If you found the cache without the help of geocaching.com, I'd say that was fair enough (assuming the cache didn't have the express permission of the land owner to be where it was).
Keeping hold of any log books / cameras / things-with-dogtags-on in the cache would win you a big vote of thanks for not getting as angry as perhaps you were justified in doing under the circumstances!
(Incidentally the bit in the geocaching rules about relocating caches found in sensitive areas relies on a feature registered geocachers have to log the new coordinates on the cache page. To relocate a cache without getting the cache page changed would only exacerbate the erosion problem).
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