Trinity's Bridge Traditional Geocache
Croker Crew: The cache has gone missing for the 4th Time, probably has something to do with the local itinerants leaving their camping equipment in the area as well.
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Located on the cycle path between Casuarina Coastal Reserve and Nighcliff foreshore.
Trinity' Bridge
Hi, This is Trinity's first Geocache!
The foot bridge over Rapid creek connects the Nightcliff cycle paths to the Casuarina coastal reserve paths.
The cache is a small container that may hold small swaps. The cache is in a very public spot so please be very careful as there will be plenty of muggles around and the cache has been muggled three times now. As a result of this the cache is no longer located on the bridge itself.
Although the precise circumstances of the naming of Rapid Creek remain obscure, the name must have been applied by Surveyor-General George W. Goyder's surveyors not long after the arrival of the 1869 Northern Territory Survey Expedition. The outline of the creek, running as it does from Marrara swamp to the sea between Casuarina Beach and Nightcliff, is present on Goyder's map, but no name appears on it. Goyder personally visited the locality on Saturday, 3 April 1869 and described the creek, without naming it, as "a strong shallow stream near Night Cliff".
Rapid Creek prior to World War II was a favourite day trip / picnic area for Darwin people, along the bush track which was to become Bagot Road and McMillans Road. After Nightcliff grew as a seaside suburb in the 1950s, residential development expanded into the Rapid Creek area, primarily during the 1960s. The streets in Rapid Creek are mostly named after early police officers.
Nightcliff and Rapid Creek were the first Darwin suburbs to feel the force of Cyclone Tracy which came off the Timor Sea on 25 December 1974. Much of the residential housing was totally destroyed.
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