Floyd Bates Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Vertighost: Since there has been no response by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note, I have archived this cache. Please note that caches that have been archived for maintenance issues or lack of cache owner communication are not eligible to be unarchived.

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Hidden : 12/16/2012
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is not hard to find, but it requires a water craft to get to it.  For all you cliff scalers and fence jumpers, it will do you no good here.  There is no access to this cache from the land.  Hence the 5/5. 


Behind and slightly downriver from the cache is a giant house with a big boat dock.  The cache is not on or around the dock or land.  This is not the house or dock that Floyd Bates built, but it once was his land.  Floyd was a fireman, inventor, flyer and water-skier.  He built his boat dock and house by hand in the 50s or 60s.  He had been here a long time when I got here in 1979.  No, the big house is not mine either, but I live pretty close.  Floyd is gone now, but I still think of this place as his.  Austin was different then and the 1%ers didn’t own it all.

The cache is an orange waterproof match holder mounted on a white floating anchor ball.  I put this ball here sometime in the 80s.  I am pretty sure it is not going anywhere as it is tied to the exhaust manifold of a large V8 engine that sort of fell out of Floyd’s boat when it sank.

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