Take The Plunge Traditional Cache
Calluna Tib: As there has been no response from the cache owner to my previous request for intervention, I am now archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.
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Heather
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The cache is a short distance off the main path, down some steps, across a bridge and along a dirt track, buggies will need to be carried.
This was a favourite spot of a dog which we used to take walking. Just a short distance up river from the cache is a bridge which the dog used to love launching herself off, hence The Plunge!
The River Trym rises near Filton in South Gloucestershire, in the area of Filton Golf Club. and much of its upper course is culverted underneath 20th century housing. It surfaces in the Bristol suburb of Southmead, then flows open through Badock's Wood nature reserve. Just south of here is Henleaze Swimming Lake, a former quarry fed by springs, the overflow running into the Trym. The river is culverted through Westbury-on-Trym village. A sluice here is used to divert water into a storm drain in times of high rainfall to save the village centre from flooding. The Trym then disappears into culverts, re-emerging at Henbury Golf Club before entering the Blaise Castle estate where it is joined on the right bank by the Hazel Brook above Coombe Dingle. The remains of Coombe Mill, which was fed by both the Hazel Brook and the Trym can be seen here. Passing under Dingle Road bridge, the river then flows through Sea Mills river park, passing under the Portway and the Severn Beach railway line before joining the river Avon. A weir under the Portway prevents flooding upstream, except during the highest spring tides.
The cache is a small tupperwear box and contains a £1 gift for first to find, a log book and pencil, a geocoin and a few kids' bits and pieces.
Hidden with kind permission of Blaise Estate.
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Ybbx haqre n ebpx jurer gur evire zrrgf gur oebbx.