This cache is a 16 oz lock & lock (with various small swag)
located just off the path in a small set of trails behind Powder
Mill Park in Spencer, MA. This park is not open at night and
there are rules posted at the parking entrance and the entrance
back into the park from the trails. I've taken my daughter to
this playground for years and have always wanted to hide a cache
nearby. Knowing "playground caches" are not well liked but still
wanting to do a family cache, I felt this was the perfect
compromise. Those without kids can easily walk around the
playground to the back trails and no one will care. Those with kids
can stop and play on the playground equipment. Muggles are all
around but they tend to be in the playground area and even then the
parents are reading books while the kids play.
Beware of ticks, there were a few on one of the hikers nearby as
I was hiding this. This is not an urban micro, so ticks will be a
concern.
While doing a little deeper research into this area I discovered
an interesting fact (According to
Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, Natural Heritage
& Endangered Species Program):
This Core Habitat encompasses a shallow freshwater marsh at
Powder Mill Park in Spencer, on a tributary of the Sevenmile River.
This wetland, dominated by fine-leaved emergent vegetation,
provides habitat for the American Bittern, a rare species of
wetland bird.
Photo of Botaurus lentiginosus, courtesy of Wikipedia
