Upper Tampa Bay Park Letterbox Hybrid
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***CACHE IS NOT AT POSTED COORDS!*** From these coords you will follow CLUES, as this is a Letterbox Hybrid. Bring your own stamp and ink for the Letterbox log. Or just sign the geocache log. :)
***Cache is NOT a POSTED COORDS, please read.** It is helpful, but not necessary, to have a compass for this Letterbox Hybrid. This means that it is a geocache and a letterbox, loggable on both Geocaching.com and Atlasquest.com. After reaching coords, follow the clues listed below. Not recommended to leave trackables since letterboxers may not be familiar with them. Letterboxing is a treasure hunting game, but instead of using a GPS, the finder follows clues and the container has a log with a stamp, often hand-made and unique. This is stamped into the finders' personal log book and the finder stamps their own personal stamp into the letterbox log book. This piece of stamped art is the prize. I did not include an INKPAD in the cache, Bring your Own Inkpad, any dark color will do. (brown or black would be nice). Letterboxers also have stamp hitchhikers, similar idea as geocaching trackables. I have also placed 4 regular letterboxes in this park. See end of description for where to find these Letterboxes.
Upper Tampa Bay Park, is a Hillsborough County Park, open from 8am to 6pm. Nature Center is open Mon-Fri 12-4pm. And Sat/Sun 10am-4pm. Closed Christmas Day. $2 parking fee, payable in envelopes at unmanned entrance.
TO FIND LETTERBOX: From listed coords, if you see a letter B in front of you, turn Right. If you see a letter U in front of you, turn Left.
Take this trail about 400 feet (count approximately 200 walking steps), or so until you see a blue drainage pipe on both side of the trail (with gravel on top).
20 steps (about a two foot long stride) from drainage pipe, you will see a Cottonmouth Snake...
18 steps past the Cottonmouth, turn diagonally to the Right, on a narrow faint trail.
22 steps down this trail you will see Burn Unit 12W sign, Turn LEFT here onto the wide trail. (S/SE direction)
Go... about 100 or so steps until you reach a Y in the trail and see a tall pine tree with a bird/bat box on it at the crook of the "Y"
Face the tree and bird box.
Turn Right, and go about 15 walking steps to a trio of trees, which is a large Pine Tree, with 2 Oak tree trunks within a foot of it, which will be on your left. (you may also see a burnt tree stump about 10 feet from those trees). When you reach the pine and 2 oaks, look to your Right (or N/NW or 341 degrees), and you will see 4 Palm trees, each about 10 feet apart. Walk to the furthest Palm tree, which is about 40 feet from the Pine and Oaks. This Palm tree has a 4 inch wide Oak Friend. Look at the base of the Palm. After stamping in/logging in, PLEASE recover the box with bark and palm branches so it cannot be seen from the trail on either side. Continue on to my other 2 geocaches and 4 letterboxes in this park, if you wish.
TO LOG LETTERBOX and find my other letterboxes: Go to Atlasquest.com and search Letterboxes: Upper Tampa Bay Park.
Additional Hints
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