Like a worm, you might find it near the end of a line.
If you could travel back in time a few hundred years, you might have been standing waist-deep in a big mangrove forest and seen the first people of this region, the Kaurna, quietly paddling past in bark canoes as they hunted for their next meal.
If you've found the geocache nearby, and you can resist the temptation to spend all your time at the Adventure Playground or doing some fishing of your own, you can experience something of what these coastal forests were like on the brilliant interpretive Mangrove Trail. Although you might not be spearing fish from a canoe, you can enjoy the experience of being ‘on the water’.
You’ll see just a fragment of the briny ecosystems we once had and learn plenty about how mangrove salt marshes continue to give life to our coasts and why it’s so important to look after them.
Find more geocaches in the Ringtails series:
Ringtales #1: Off the rails… and walking on water
Ringtales #2: Weeding ceremony
Ringtales #3: Dam if you do
Ringtales #4: Finding meaning in the trees
Ringtales #5: Growth industries
Ringtales #6: Between a drain and a creek