100 Flagler Facts Numbers Run. 100 easy to get to, easy to find caches.
This numbers run has been created by Delaine S and the “Old Man of Geocaching”, POJ of POJ & MMJ, as our way of thanking all who have come before us who have made our caching trips fruitful and prolific.
This numbers run is all about Flagler County. The sequentially numbered caches are all on the same side of the road. Seeking the caches in ascending numerical order will ensure that all the caches are on the right side of the road. There are no sidewalks or bike paths along this run. Park off of the road and use caution re-entering the roadway. These caches are all in camouflaged preforms, most of them hanging by green coated wire. There are no baggies or anything else in these caches except the log. Bring your own writing instrument. Please be careful to correctly align the cap on the preform after signing the log, and snug it to the preform to ensure the log will stay dry.
Please put each cache back just the way you found it.
Flagler Fact # 51
Washington Oaks State Gardens Park was once a plantation owned by Joseph M. Hernandez. It was named for a relative of President George Washington. Washington Oaks is famous for the unique shoreline of coquina rock formations that line its Atlantic beach. Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Matanzas River, this property was once owned by a distant relative of President George Washington. The gardens, which are the formal centerpiece of this park, were established by Louise and Owen Young who purchased the land in 1936. They named the property Washington Oaks and in 1965 donated most of the property to the state. The gardens make remarkable use of native and exotic species, varying from azaleas and camellias to the exquisite birds of paradise, all sheltered within a picturesque oak hammock. Visitors can picnic and fish from either the beach or the seawall along the Matanzas River. A number of short trails provide opportunities for hiking and bicycling. . Washington Oaks, originally part of Joseph Marion Hernández’s (1788–1857) Bella Vista Plantation. When Claude Varn and Wm Ed Johnson built Oceanshore Blvd in 1926, it was routed through what is now the park as they had established a platted sub-division there know as Hernandez Estates, due to the economic depression it was not built otherwise there would be subdivision there and not a nice park.
CONGRATULATIONS FOR FTF War-1-Man and florida cache crew (War1man and MiMi/C.H.E.F) and Itchyfeet2wander!!!