When I Was A Kid...
When I was a kid I lived in the neighborhood adjacent to this
park. My parents still live there, in fact, in the same house that
I grew up in from 5 months old until I moved out at 20. You can
actually see their house from the park if you know where to look.
Consequently, I spent a lot of time here as a kid.
The park has changed a lot over the years. The area where the
paved paths are now was once occupied by houses, torn down to
expand the park. I had friends that lived there once upon a time.
And both banks of Thread Creek from the south side of the bridge
all the way around to Old Bridge Street in the Indian Hill
subdivision were much more heavily wooded. The houses that you can
see through the woods to the north, at least in the Fall and
Winter, have only been constructed recently. Growing up we would
ride our bikes, motorcycles and snowmobiles through the miles and
miles of trails that wound around the radio station antennas
surrounded by woods and prairie.
To the west you can see the stacked palattes of Grand Blanc
Cement Products. While the company has been there as long as I can
remember, the fence is relatively new. Apparently they grew tired
of chasing unruly children from between the stacks, and trying to
prevent them from climbing the towers of concrete blocks.
At this end of the park live mostly mosquitos and frogs. The
frogs are here, of course, because of the mosquitos, which can be
exceedingly plentiful. The low lying areas lying just across the
creek from this cache are sometimes swampy, but the quiet banks are
ideal places for wading in and grabbing frogs, or for explaining to
a younger sibling that while hitting the frog on the head with a
stick will, indeed, knock it out, it isn't very kind.
This park was a very special part of my childhood. That's why I
decided to place my first caches here. Please take the time to
enjoy the park, the playground, take a walk back into the woods
along the path that starts at the top of the hill, or grab the
other two caches located here.
The cache at this location is a camoflaged plastic container. It
contains a log book and pencil, some small tradables, and a
Sacagawea dollar coin to serve as an FTF prize. Please return the
cache to the same place that you found it and re-hide it as if it
were your own.
Congrats to Geo-Trails and GEO-BUM on the FTF!
