Don't get your feet wet 1 Traditional Cache
Don't get your feet wet 1
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Rapid Creek Mangrove caches placed by Trinity.
This is a series of two caches placed along Rapid Creek
You will need to travel through the grounds of the Charles Darwin University to get to this cache.
Each cache is a small container (test tube) that holds a log and pencil, there’s not much room for anything else. These caches are located in secluded areas along Rapid Creek. To help you get to these caches without getting your feet wet I recommend that you preview them in map view in satellite mode. This should show you some tracks to follow without having to battle through the mangroves.
Although the precise circumstances of the naming of Rapid Creek remain obscure, the name must have been applied by Surveyor-General George W. Goyder's surveyors not long after the arrival of the 1869 Northern Territory Survey Expedition. The outline of the creek, running as it does from Marrara swamp to the sea between Casuarina Beach and Nightcliff, is present on Goyder's map, but no name appears on it. Goyder personally visited the locality on Saturday, 3 April 1869 and described the creek, without naming it, as "a strong shallow stream near Night Cliff".
Rapid Creek prior to World War II was a favourite day trip / picnic area for Darwin people, along bush tracks which today are known as Bagot Road and McMillans Road. After Nightcliff grew as a seaside suburb in the 1950s, residential development expanded into the Rapid Creek area, primarily during the 1960s. The streets in Rapid Creek are mostly named after early police officers.
Nightcliff and Rapid Creek were the first Darwin suburbs to feel the force of Cyclone Tracy which came off the Timor Sea on 25 December 1974. Much of the residential housing was totally destroyed.
Unfortunately the mangroves and areas around the caches have been badly treated by brain dead morons and itinerants, therefore this is probably a good cache to do if you follow the principles of cache in trash out, and you should be able to fill a rubbish bag without much trouble.
The two caches are secured by wire, but you don’t need to undo the wire to access the caches, they should easily slide out of the wire loops. The caches are also (hopefully) above flood level, so that should give you some idea of the height you should be looking at. If you walk more than a meter into the mangroves then you’ve probably gone too far.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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