Scrub Chicken Traditional Cache
kleetus: This one has become problematic. I need to get up there to clean up the remains.
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Just off the marked trail here. This area has been under water before. You can see the marks on the trees.
This is a Clan Rifster cammoed ammo can fron the CITO event at the Econ River. I came out here one foggy morning and hid it. It was supposed to be the final of a multi but the multi was confusing so I made all the caches here single caches.
Every time I come out here I see hogs. I've heard stories about them but I've never had any trouble. They are usually running away. When I was a kid we used to hunt them. There is no season on them. Our friend had a dairy farm in Venice and they used to make a mess of his pastures. He asked us to come out and hunt them.
All the ferral hogs in Florida are descendants of the ones brought by the Spanish on their exploration of the Florida territory about 500 years ago. Many of them escaped as well as a lot of cattle. They both populated the state but the wild cattle were rounded up in the 1800's. The cows were longhorns but were much smaller than the ones you see today. The cowboys that rounded them up were called scrub poppers. They were also called crackers which is the nickname for people who are born here.
The name of the cache is the old cracker name for Gopher Turtles. I guess like everthing else they tasted like chicken.
Come out here at night and do the Clan Rifster Etch-a-sketch Night cache. I highly recommend it for the serious bushwacker.
This is the Marl Bed Flats conservation area and I recieved permission from Pete Henn of the SJRWMD.
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