The Misadventures of Pánfilo de Narváez Multi-Cache
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The Misadventures of Pánfilo de Narváez
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This is a off-set multi cache that takes place in the "Jungle Prada De Narvaez Park."
The coordinates will take you to a place in the park where you will need to read the information on some signs in order to get your second set of coordinates.
Second part is nearby and is a camo'd Lock-N-Lock box full of great swag. If you take something cool, leave something cool. Would like to keep it a great find for everyone. Abundence of trees makes GPS flip around...use your Geo-sense.
The following are the coordinates for part 2 of this cache:
N 27 47 2AB
W 082 45 C
A= How many Diocesan priests Pánfilo de Narváez brought with him?
B=How many Franciscan priests Pánfilo de Narváez brought with him?
C=Add all the street numbers listed on the “Boat Ramps” sign and subtract 13.
Answers to the above are on signs in this park.
The Misadventures of Pánfilo de Narváez
Pánfilo de Narváez (1478–1528) was a Spanish conqueror and soldier in the Americas. He is most remembered as the leader of two expeditions, one to Mexico in 1520 to oppose Hernán Cortés, and the disastrous Narváez expedition to Florida in 1527.
Narváez was subsequently appointed adelantado of Florida by Charles V. He sailed from Sanlúcar de Barrameda on June 17, 1527, with a fleet of five ships and 600 men. The expedition arrived on the west coast of Florida in April 1528, weakened by storms and desertions. He landed with 300 men near the Rio de las Palmas—at what is currently known as the Jungle Prada Site in St. Petersburg—among hostile natives, the Tocobaga Indians.
From there, his expedition marched northward through interior Florida until it reached the territory of the powerful Apalachee Indians. Unable to find the gold and other riches he sought and tired of the hostilities with the Indians, Narváez ordered the construction of four rafts to return to the sea from the interior. He intended to rejoin the ships and continue to Mexico, but the vessels were destroyed in a storm. Narváez and almost all the members of his expedition died. The storm wrecked two of the four rafts. The 86 who survived the storm began an overland trek for Mexico. Starvation claimed most of their lives. Only four men survived the trek including Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and the Berber slave Estevanico (Estebanico).
In the 1920s, this was part of the Jungle Prada complex, home to St. Petersburg's first nightclub. Called the Gangplank Nightclub, it’s now Tapas Restaurant and Bar. Stories abound concerning Al Capone's connections to this site.
In 1976, St. Petersburg officials bought 4 acres on the shore around the landing site. They erected a wooden sign that says "Jungle Prada De Narvaez Park."
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