.... sadly, it is.
The kiddies and I have recently taken up geocaching as another hobby. If you haven't heard of it, basically you use a hand-held GPS unit to find "treasure" hidden just about everywhere. It's a great hobby that gets you out hiking and finding places you never knew existed.
There are over 2000 caches hidden within 100 km's of Smiths Falls. Some of the interesting local ones are an old alloy factory near Port Elmsley, one at the Mill Pond Conservation Area, one at the intersection of the 45 & 76 parallels in Montague and "the Poonamalie Monster" (this one has a riddle to solve to get the final waypoint !).
As you might have guessed there is also one at the old CN bridge in Smiths Falls. From the cache description:
Be careful about feeling around under stuff. The locals have smashed many beer bottles here.
Beautiful. Not local teens or yahoos ... locals.
Me. You.
Ya'd think between the Town Crews or Parks Canada or the Smiths Falls Police this situation could be remedied .... sadly that's not the case. A local geocacher who blogs his finds visited over the weekend .... here is his impression of our fair town:
You have to be really careful though, as the locals think this is a grand place to throw beer bottles.
Sounds like a job for my Cubs ... only the rest of the year is booked up.
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