Saddle Creek is one of the largest county parks in central
Florida and has facilities for all the family, whether you just
want to cruise your boat on a beautiful lake, take advantage of
some great fishing, or hike along some wonderful forest trails. In
addition, Saddle Creek Park is part of the Great Florida Birding Trail.
There are also facilities for target shooting, as well as
children's playgrounds, sports facilities and picnic gazebos. If
you love spending time outdoors, you will love Saddle Creek
Park.
Up until the early nineteen sixties Saddle Creek Park was an
open-cast phosphate mine. After that it was given to the local
county authorities to administer and it became a local park
facility. It has taken a large part of the time since then to allow
nature to fully recover the mines to the point that the casual
observer would never think that the park had ever been used for
anything else.
Saddle Creek used to be one of the main water flow channels from
the Green Swamp to the Peace River, however, due to the increased
urbanization over the last few decades this has ceased to be the
case. There are some current plans to rectify this situation and
hopefully they will be successful.
Project 365 is a year long project during 2011 to create 365 new
caches in the Central Florida area. My goal during 2010 was to find
at least one cache every day to complete my 365 grid. Since I
completed that with the help of a lot of local cachers I wanted to
return the favor and place some new caches in my normal caching
area.
Since I started caching, not a day goes by when I don't pass an
area and think "That's a good spot for a cache." Now let's see if I
can remember them all!
There will be a variety of caches ranging from park and grabs to
difficult. Some will be power runs, some may make you take a long
hike or bike ride, while others may require a boat or kayak. Let's
see how many you can find over the next year.
This cache was placed by a member of the
Florida
Geocaching Association
Congrats to not lucky for the FTF