Four Bridges Cache Mystery Cache
Gator Man: This cache has become too difficult to monitor. The BURN will not happen until FALL of 2006. ERM missed the "Window of Opportunity" due to the forest fire at Jonathan Dickenson State Park, and several other reasons on their list.
Also, one of the bridges required for information is being replaced with a new bridge. Estimated completion date is far away.
It has been fun, but this one is going away.
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This multi-cache takes you to four bridges over the Loxahatchee River and the Atlantic Intra-Coastal Waterway. It also takes you very close to other caches, virtual caches, and benchmarks that you could log along the way.
If you pay careful attention to the directions and use your GPS along with some common sense, this trek can be done in just about 5.0 miles of driving along a winding path with no switch-backs or crossing over your trail.
The starting coordinates are for a gravel parking area next to the first bridge. If you walk along the bridge, you will see two things -- first, note the habitat restoration that has occurred along the shoreline. This used to be a straight canal with grass shoreline. Second, notice that there is a six digit number on the side of the bridge. It looks like this: _ _ 0 3 _ _
Take the first two digits and subtract 25. Take the last two digits and subtract 86. Now you have the Lat and Lon, respectively of the next waypoint:
26 56 5 _ _ (add the first number you calculated above)
80 07 3 _ _ (add the second number you calculated above)
The second waypoint is another gravel parking area next to a bridge over the very same tributary to the River. From this bridge you can see a great panoramic view of the Loxahatchee. Bonus -- you also are just feet from another cache and from two benchmarks ! This bridge also has a six digit number like this: _ _ 41 _ _
Take the first two digits and subtract 31. Take the last two digits and add 70. Now you have the Lat and Lon, respectively, for the next waypoint:
26 56 9 _ _ (add the first number you just calculated)
80 05 2 _ _ (add the second number you just calculated)
The third waypoint is another gravel parking area, located off a side street immediately after you cross this largest bridge on the trail to the cache. If you noticed on the way, there was stamped in the side of the bridge rail the year when it was constructed: _ _ _ _
If you did not notice, take a short hike along the sidewalk to the bridge and you will soon see the date.
Add 33 to the first two digits of the date and subtract 56 from the last two digits. You now have the Lat / Lon coordinates for the last bridge, and final place you will drive to on this trail:
26 57 1 _ _ (add first number you calculated from the year)
80 04 8 _ _ (add second number you calculated from the year)
At the last bridge, drive over slowly and read the final six digit number, or park to the left and walk up onto the bridge. From this bridge you get a nice view of the intra-coastal waterway. The bridge number is _ _ 0 0 _ _
To get the coordinates of the Four Bridges Cache, just a short walk from your car, subtract 23 from the first two digits and add 13 to the last two. The coordinates then will be as follows:
26 57 1 _ _ (first number you calculated here)
80 04 8 _ _ (second number you calculated here)
The walk is pretty short (just about 500 ft) but you will need to go over the fence and a short distance in the forest to find the prize.
The cache is a clear tupperware container inside a brown plastic bag. Original contents include a marble, plastic fish head, erasers, credit card holder, wood toothpick case, slinky, parachute toy, Terminator 2 pin, fishing bobber, plastic robot, key chains, deer magnet, Hikemeister rock, caribener, and a micro flashlight.
We hope you enjoyed this treasure hunt. This is our first multi-stage cache. Please let us know if the difficulty level seems about right.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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