Welcome to the Queenston Formation/Bronte Creek Water Trail
(QF/BCWT)
Along this trail, you will find several different sized caches, but all involve very difficult terrain. We placed these caches by wading along Bronte Creek. Some are creekside, others require tree climbs, still others are placed farther from the creek and up the bank to avoid being carried away in the spring.
About this cache:
As a Letterbox cache, it contains a stamp. The Stamp is not a trade item, please do not remove it from the cache container. Cache is overhanging the creek, stick to the creek to find this one. This is the last cache on Bronte Creek, on this section, as there is a No Trespassing sign just a bit further up the creek.
THIS LETTERBOX CACHE IS AT THE POSTED COORDINATES
Bronte Creek
Bronte Creek is a waterway in the Lake Ontario watershed. It runs through Hamilton and Halton Region, with its source near Morriston, (south of the intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 401, passing Bronte Creek Provincial Park, on its way to Lake Ontario at Bronte Harbour, in Oakville, where the creek is also known as Twelve Mile Creek. It was previously known to the Mississauga Natives as Esqui-sink, Eshkwessing or ishkwessin (that which lies at the end).
Queenston Formation
Along the Bronte Creek, there is several exposed outcrop of Queenston Formation red shale with narrow, greenish layers of calcareous sandstone and silty bio-clastic carbonate. Be sure to look for it as you travel along the creek. The Queenston Formation is a geological formation of Upper Ordovician age. The formation is a part of the Queenston Delta clastic wedge, formed through erosion. It is dominated by red and grey shales with thin siltstone, limestone and sandstone interlayers.