mr007s
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Hi guys, hope someone will take advantage of this. If you do I would like to hear what you find.
Last summer the wife and took the grandsons to Orlando for a week. They went to WDW each day while I drove around the state doing some Terra and Geocaching. One of the caches looked to have a potential for some great underwater detecting at an ole swimming hole. The following is a copy/paste of some of the info about where the cache is located. The coordinates (if you use a GPS are)
N 29 03.462 W081 29.821
This is a really cool spot that I have been visiting since I was a kid. I have always loved it and I hope you do too, don't forget to bring your swimmin trunks!
This place is called Hickory Landing, and it is on the Alexander Spring Creek. This location was once used as a take out for logs that were cut further upstream and floated down to here. A little further down stream is another cool place called Shell Landing, which actually has a poured concrete boat ramp, but the road to it was long ago blocked off.
I used to have very long running Geocache at this location, but the ammo can eventually rusted out and I decided that since I was not living in Florida anymore, this one should be converted to a virtual. So to log this cache you will need to do a couple of things. First, you need to take a picture of yourself standing in front of the tree at this location. The second is to do a little research for the confirmation code. The confirmation code is the first 6 letters of the Genus of this type of tree (CC is all lower case). Any found logs without pictures at the cache location will be deleted, if you have no idea what kind of tree this is, drop me a PM or an e-mail and I can give you some help.
There are couple different ways to reach this location, the coolest would be a trip down Alexander Spring Creek by Kayak/canoe from the Springs down to the FR 552 B boat landing. To visit by road, you can come in from Deer Haven Road (FR 540) off of State Road 42. The other option is to come in from FR 538, then take FR 539, immediately after crossing the Tracy Canal you take a left onto FR 540.
This cache is also near my Rock's Triangle, and Rock's Alexander Springs caches, which would make a good string of caches to do in a day. The roads to the cache can vary greatly in their pass ability. I buried my Mom's 4WD Chevy pickup to the frame in a mud hole last year trying to do maintenance on this cache, but this year we didn't see a single wet mud hole, so be prepared to try alternate routes if you find one is impassible.
The day I was there there was quiet a party going on! A rope swing was being put to good use. By the looks of things the area is heavily used and will probably be trashy with beer cans and such. Still, if no one has taken the time to detect it there may be some good stuff awaiting someone. The water looked clear but reddish. That's about all I remember except I kept wishing I lived closer or had at least packed my detector along. If you do detect there I would sure like to hear all about it!
You all have fun down there. We here in the foothills of NC are having sever storms almost every afternoon. Its kind of hard to swing a detector with lightning flashing all around!!!!!
Last summer the wife and took the grandsons to Orlando for a week. They went to WDW each day while I drove around the state doing some Terra and Geocaching. One of the caches looked to have a potential for some great underwater detecting at an ole swimming hole. The following is a copy/paste of some of the info about where the cache is located. The coordinates (if you use a GPS are)
N 29 03.462 W081 29.821
This is a really cool spot that I have been visiting since I was a kid. I have always loved it and I hope you do too, don't forget to bring your swimmin trunks!
This place is called Hickory Landing, and it is on the Alexander Spring Creek. This location was once used as a take out for logs that were cut further upstream and floated down to here. A little further down stream is another cool place called Shell Landing, which actually has a poured concrete boat ramp, but the road to it was long ago blocked off.
I used to have very long running Geocache at this location, but the ammo can eventually rusted out and I decided that since I was not living in Florida anymore, this one should be converted to a virtual. So to log this cache you will need to do a couple of things. First, you need to take a picture of yourself standing in front of the tree at this location. The second is to do a little research for the confirmation code. The confirmation code is the first 6 letters of the Genus of this type of tree (CC is all lower case). Any found logs without pictures at the cache location will be deleted, if you have no idea what kind of tree this is, drop me a PM or an e-mail and I can give you some help.
There are couple different ways to reach this location, the coolest would be a trip down Alexander Spring Creek by Kayak/canoe from the Springs down to the FR 552 B boat landing. To visit by road, you can come in from Deer Haven Road (FR 540) off of State Road 42. The other option is to come in from FR 538, then take FR 539, immediately after crossing the Tracy Canal you take a left onto FR 540.
This cache is also near my Rock's Triangle, and Rock's Alexander Springs caches, which would make a good string of caches to do in a day. The roads to the cache can vary greatly in their pass ability. I buried my Mom's 4WD Chevy pickup to the frame in a mud hole last year trying to do maintenance on this cache, but this year we didn't see a single wet mud hole, so be prepared to try alternate routes if you find one is impassible.
The day I was there there was quiet a party going on! A rope swing was being put to good use. By the looks of things the area is heavily used and will probably be trashy with beer cans and such. Still, if no one has taken the time to detect it there may be some good stuff awaiting someone. The water looked clear but reddish. That's about all I remember except I kept wishing I lived closer or had at least packed my detector along. If you do detect there I would sure like to hear all about it!
You all have fun down there. We here in the foothills of NC are having sever storms almost every afternoon. Its kind of hard to swing a detector with lightning flashing all around!!!!!
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