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Needlefish (family Belonidae) are piscivorous fishes primarily associated with very shallow marine habitats or the surface of the open sea. Some genera include species found in marine, brackish, and freshwater environments (e.g., Strongylura) while a few genera are confined to freshwater rivers and streams, including Belonion, Potamorrhaphis, and Xenentodon. Needlefish closely resemble North American freshwater gars (family Lepisosteidae) in being elongated and having long, narrow jaws filled with sharp teeth, and some species of needlefish are referred to as gars or garfish despite being only distantly related to the true gars. In fact the name "garfish" was originally used for the needlefish Belone belone in Europe and only later applied to the North American fishes by European settlers during the 18th century
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This series of caches is meant to be easy to find but hard to get to. They are mostly small to medium sized Lock and Lock type containers, tethered between waist and head height. There are a variety of dangers present including but not limited to snakes, hogs, monkeys, bears, poisonous plants, stinging insects, gators and quicksand. If you plan to do this series of caches, please be very careful.
You should always wear long pants and boots. Bring a sturdy stick. You'll need it for balance, testing the ground to make sure it's solid and poking it in front of you to make sure there is nothing living in the place where you are about to step. Also, please bring a traditional compass. GPSers loose satellites out here often and you may need a compass to keep your heading. If you have never gone after caches that were 4+ terrain, just because of bushwhacking, please don't do this series. I cannot overstate how challenging some of these are to get to.
The caches that are not 5T, you can access via on foot, from the steel bridge cache. The ones that are 5T, you will need a boat and the closes ramp is Gore's Landing.
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