The Howe House is the home of Lake Region Audubon Society and
Street Audubon Center. The house, built of cypress wood, is over 80
years-old. Luella Street donated the house and 42 acres on Lake Ned
to Audubon in the 1970s. Mabel Howe donated money to move the
building to the present location.
The Center is on the Great Florida Birding
Trail. Two trails run through the sanctuary - one along the
edge of Lake Ned and the other along the high dry ridge and the
large butterfly garden. Volunteers usually keep the grounds open
to the public Monday - Saturday, 9 - 3. If the gate is closed, the
center is closed. The center is usually closed on Sundays and
holidays. Leashed dogs are permitted on trails; bicycles and
horses are not. In case of severe fire conditions or other
emergency, the gate may be locked.
This is a Letterbox Hybrid cache. For anyone not familiar with
Letterboxing there is a log in the box for you to sign and stamp
(with your stamp), then you stamp your own log or paper (with stamp
that is in the box). If you do not have your own stamp, then
stickers or handrawn artwork is acceptable. DO NOT TAKE STAMP WITH
YOU; IT IS NOT A TRADE ITEM!!!
This geocache is a part of the Trek Ten Trails
2011 program. Participation in that program, while a lot of fun, is
not required to log this cache here. Trek Ten Trails 2011
program marks the fourth 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 first
three years of trail hike locations throughout Polk County. Each
nature trail includes geocaches with a self-inking stamp for
validating your visits to at least ten of the featured trails. To
be eligible for the prize drawings you must find the five new treks
and any other five from the first three years. You can choose which
trails you visit, and of course you may trek them all!
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, OUTPOST 27 CACHE and LAKE WALES DEPOT CACHE.
Validated game cards must be mailed by mid
October 2011 to be eligible for prize drawings and a
certificate of completion. Trek Ten Trails 2011 program 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 2011 Trek Ten Trails program Grand Finale
Celebration at Circle B Bar Reserve in October 2011.
This cache was placed with the assistance of
the
Florida
Geocaching Association