In November of 2011 we changed the hide location to make it harder to spot, but the coords are still OK.
We also changed it from a magnetic keyholder to a nano!
This is a log-only cache, so bring a pen.
Stevenson's Pond is a favorite local fishing spot. This eight acre tidal pond is fed by a channel to the Pocomoke River. The Flying Bridge, which spans this channel, caused a lot of excitement in Pocomoke City in 1994.
Local volunteers, businesses, and contributors dreamed, planned and constructed the trails, floating boardwalks and fishing piers. A local business designed and fabricated the bridge a mile from here using salvaged materials and then ferried concrete across the pond to pour the bridge pilings.
The US Army Reserve agreed to airlift the bridge into position as a training mission. They required that the trees around the bridge site be cleared, and that traffic on Route 13 as well as boat traffic on the river be stopped for the duration of the flight.
On that day in 1994 schoolchildren and everyone remotely associated or familiar with the project waited... and watched...
...and saw an Army Chinook helicopter fly into the area with the eight-thousand-pound, sixty-seven-foot-long bridge suspended below it on a two-hundred-foot sling. The helicopter hovered and slowly lowered the bridge onto ingeniously designed locating devices, until it came to rest between the posts.
The Flying Bridge had landed!
If you are comfortable walking on a narrow fishing pier, the shortest distance is from Stevenson's Pond. (SP Parking)
The alternate, slightly longer route on floating boardwalks and hard packed trails, begins at Cypress Park (CP Parking & CP Trailhead)