After finding the cache, take some time and visit the Cow Camp.
Florida's cowboy heritage comes alive with living history
demonstrations of the early Florida "cow hunters" in an 1876-era
cow camp. As you meander down the trail to the cow camp, you will
travel back in time to 1876. At the end of the trail you will find
a Florida cow hunter in a frontier camp along the route of a cattle
drive. He will cooking, making coffee (not bad), tending to the
cattle or just resting up until the next roundup or cattle drive.
The cow camp is open 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., holidays and every
Saturday and Sunday from October 1 to May 1.
White-tailed deer, bald eagles, sandhill cranes, turkeys, and
bobcats have been seen in the park, located on the shores of lakes
Kissimmee, Tiger, and Rosalie. Visitors enjoy boating, canoeing,
and fishing in the picturesque lakes. Nature students can hike over
13 miles of trails to observe and study the abundant plant and
animal life. An observation tower is located in the picnic area and
provides views of Lake Kissimmee and its marsh lands.
This geocache is a part of the Trek Ten Again
in 2009 program. Participation in that program, while a lot of fun,
is not required to log this cache here. Trek Ten Again in
2009 marks the second year of the Friends of the Parks
Foundation’s call to explore the outdoors in Polk County.
Five new nature trails have been added to the program’s
original ten trek locations throughout Polk County. Each nature
trail includes geocaches with a self-inking stamp like the one
you’ll find in this cache for validating your visits to at
least ten of the featured trails. You can choose which ten trails
you visit, and of course you may trek all 15!
New game cards, which participants stamp and return to be
entered into the year end prize drawings are available at the
Friends of the Parks website. Validated game
cards must be mailed by October 5, 2009 to be eligible for
prize drawings and a certificate of completion. Trek Ten Again in
2009 maps, game cards and other information about each of the
featured nature trails may be downloaded from the Friends of the
Parks website. Check out our
Profile for more details. The Friends of the Parks Foundation
has formed an alliance with the annual Water Wings & Wild
Things event to host our 2009 Trek Ten Again Grand Finale
Celebration and subsequent kickoffs at Circle B Bar Reserve.
GRAND FINALE OCTOBER 31, 2009 - BE
THERE!
This cache was placed with the assistance of
the
Florida
Geocaching Association