Ponce de Leon Traditional Cache
randco: I guess it is time to say good by to this location.
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Is this the fountain of youth?
Probably not....
Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer. He led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named.
According to a popular legend, Ponce de León discovered Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth. Though stories of vitality-restoring waters were known on both sides of the Atlantic long before Ponce de León, the story of his searching for them was not attached to him until after his death.
In 1575, Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, a shipwreck survivor who had lived with the Native Americans of Florida for 17 years, published his memoir in which he locates the waters in Florida, and says that Ponce de León was supposed to have looked for them there. Though Fontaneda doubted that Ponce de León had really gone to Florida looking for the waters, the account was included in the Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos of Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas of 1615. However, most historians hold that the search for gold and the expansion of the Spanish Empire were far more important than the search for the fountain.
Fountain of Youth, one can dream can't they?
The cache is a camo'd match container. It should be out of the view of muggles.
As always, be safe, be stealthy and most of all have fun.
randco
*****Congratulations*****
FTF - subthemariner - June 15, 2010
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