Gateway to Devastation Traditional Cache
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Medium sized Camoed Lock N Lock. Can hold TB's and Geocoins.
Please do not attempt this cache from highway. Take service road once off of bridge.
From this point Southward, the devastation from Hurricane Rita is still present. The whole road was covered in floating marsh and debree. It took many tractors and dozers to clear the path to the coastal towns.
On the East Side of the bridge you will see what some fisherman refer to as the "Big Burns". It is a Privately owned Marsh that people can purchase a permit ever year to fish during the april-september season. Fishing here pre-Rita was AWESOME! A fisherman's paradise! We personally could come home with well over 100 fish in any given perch jerking trip. Bass were also in abundance. Many Sunburns Gotten!
Post-Rita the Saltwater overtook the whole area from the surge. They opened up some levees on the south side to cause natural flow out, but the salt is still present even now. The freshwater fish are slowly coming back, but not in the abundance as they use to be. In some of the southern regions, you can still catch redfish and specks in the same waters where bass are spawning.
I traveled these roads often as a child. Many memories made in this very marsh. I never thought I would cry over a hurricane, but after seeing the devastation it did to the area further south of here, you can only do that. Many peoples homes and camps were washed up into the Big Burns 10-20 miles away from where they originally stood. Its hard to imagine a storm having that much power.
Our Family's little piece of paradise will never be the same, but it can only get better with every fresh rain shower that washes away the salt.....So Let It Rain!
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