There are so many smaller and bigger bridges in the Netherlands that of every second would hide a Geocache I'm sure it would keep most geocachers busy for a few years. We started to turn more points on the map into smileys in our neighborhood and as part of that project we got to this one.
It is really a good thing that we have difficulty and terrain as an attribute, without them I would not consider going for under the bridge hides in an afternoon, it would mostly start with some investigation to see how much effort, what equipment is needed to get under the given bridge. This one was a lower difficulty and no mentions of boots in the description, so we just went there with the whole family. My kids are not always into geocaching, more often not into it. To solve this issue icecream can always come in handy, so for this afternoon two geocaches and an icecream was the offer and they took it.
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| Hiding there, but not too obvious |
This and another geocache was hiding in Rotterdam at a small park or more of a place to take your dog for a walk and just be out of the busy life. In our neighborhood there are many geocaches under, at, on, in a bridge. Theres are two series of geocaches dedicated to bridges, since we are busy with them we had to realize how many different small bridge types exist. When you just cycle around cross tens of bridges in a few minutes they look alike, but when you take a few minutes and search for a geocache at them you see they are not the same.
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| The bridge and the footpath leading into the dark where you can find another geocache |
This bridge is a conrete bridge, I think I like the wooden ones more. There is another geocache on the other side a bit further in the dark. We did that first but did not cross this bridge to get to this one, we took the trivial shortcut which was longer of course, but there are days when you need to try to get your kids do some extra steps.
As you can see above the weather is perfect most of the waters are covered with this green plant all over. Would it help keep the water clean if at least part of this green plant was removed regularly? They are growing using all the materials in the water and when the cold weather comes most of them die.
The benefit of hiding under most bridges is that you can put there bigger containers not only micros. In this case it was a small jar slightly camouflaged with some tape, a cool log book and some space for trackables or trade items. Really kid friendly location, water not too deep in case someone steps in.
Many thanks for the CO for this hide.
