If you love to bushwhack, as I do, you will really like this cache
- thus the title. It's a fair distance - almost a quarter mile to
the nearest marked path or road. There are no thorny vines or
sticker bushes. And the area should be mostly dry except in the
rainy season. The bushwhack mainly involves finding the path of
least resistance pushing through palm fronds and dense forest with
no major obstacles to overcome - if you take the right routes.
There are so many ways you could get to this cache that it is
unlikely a "cachers trail" will ever develop to guide you. And
along the way there are lots of interesting plants, animals and
natural features for your entertainment. Like I said, a
"BushWhacker's Dream". Don't know about everyone else, but I prefer
to do my bushwhacking all by myself. No one else there to hurry
things along when I just want to stand or sit for a while and take
it all in. For example, it just takes a while to totally appreciate
a scene like the one below that was taken near the cache
location.
The cache is a match holder tethered in plain site to a tree along
the Pithlachascotee River. One of your challenges will be to figure
out which side of the river. You won't be able to tell by looking
at Google Earth - you can't even see the river meandering through
this part of the forest from the aerial view. If you make it to GZ,
but find yourself on the wrong side of the river, you'll have to
decide what to do. Some of the more gung-ho of you will just wade
on across - it's not really that deep. Other, more adventurous
cachers can proceed east along the river bank to N28 15.304 W082
38.796 where you will find a way to cross if you can get up the
nerve. True bushwhackers, faced with the possibility of hiking all
the way back out and then finding a new way in, will celebrate the
idea of having twice as much fun getting to this cache.
Congratulations to FloridaPanther
for the FTF.