In the image above, near the center bottom, you will notice a nice round green spot. In an effort to ease some of the traffic on Whiskey Road (the slightly angled road along the right side) the city devised a cut through between Whiskey and Silver Bluff Road (on left). After a couple of years of planning, they started construction last year. They got the round drainage pond dug and partially filled, the single lane road around it completed and while they were finishing up the access approaches, part of drainage pond wall was determined to be unsafe. For the last 8 months there has been zero activity, so we figured they had abandoned the whole project.
On Sunday Donna and I decided we would place a cache on the inside of the circle between the road and the interior chain link fence. Last night we bought a small Tupperware container, covered the top with camouflage tape and filled it up with small goodies. I created a geocache.com page for it, but did not publish it yet.
Aiken’s Crater Lake
You are looking for a small camoed lock-n-lock container in an interesting area.
The city officials will tell you that this is here because they are attempting to relieve traffic congestion on Whiskey Road, but this location makes no sense for that. And what is taking so long to complete the project?
The real story is late one night a couple years ago a UFO crashed on this spot and created a round hole in the ground. It was deep enough to be below the water table and the site quickly filled with water. Roads leading to the site were built to allow truck traffic for bringing in salvage equipment so the recovered space craft could be whisked away to a secret location on the Savannah River Site.
Try not to stay to long searching at ground zero due to residual radiation…
We went back over there tonight to put the container in place and when we pulled up to the entrance of the circle road, it was blocked by lots of yellow heavy equipment. And on the side of the circle we were going to place the Tupperware, the asphalt of the road was already peeled up. I guess they finally got approval to fix this mess or maybe they are just going to tear it all up and fill in the hole.
Now we are going to have to find another spot for our cache.