The coordinates of this earthcache are inside Catfish Creek State Park. There is no fee for this park. Florida has a very unique feature that spans the center of the state and includes the ground you are walking on right now. You are currently standing on an area of Florida known as the Lake Wales Ridge. Take a look around. Does this area remind you of the beach? It should because this area once was the sand dunes near the ocean. Many years ago, when sea level was 100' higher then it is today, this was prime beach front property. Thinking about it more, I don't think anyone was living here at the time. Winds built the sand up creating dunes. Once the sea level fell, you have what you see today, large dunes in the center of the state. Take a look down the hill. You will be asked to take estimates of altitude both here and down at the lake.
You already know you are standing on the Lake Wales Ridge but did you 
know you are also standing in a Scrub Environment? The Florida scrub environment is harsh. Without a canopy of trees, summer temperatures are hotter than in other plant communities. Rain water rushes through the deep, sterile sands as fast as it falls. Fires sweep through the bushes burning the scrub to the ground at unpredictable intervals. The loose sands are shifted about by wind, abrading and sometimes burying small plants. Only the toughest plants and animals can survive!
The ancient scrub of the Lake Wales Ridge has been reduced from over 80,000 acres a hundred years ago to less than 25,000 acres today. Citrus groves and subdivisions have replaced rosemary balds and scrub jays.
The trend continues but recent efforts to preserve remnants of Florida scrub have resulted in a few scrub sanctuaries. The Nature Conservancy has established a half dozen scrub preserves on the Lake Wales Ridge. Florida's Conservation and Recreational Lands (Preservation 2000) program is currently buying Florida scrub for protection. The US Fish and Wildlife Service has recently begun purchasing remnants of ancient Lake Wales Ridge scrub around Sebring and Avon Park for a new national wildlife refuge, the nation's first ever dedicated primarily to plant conservation.
To Get Credit for this Earthcache, you will need to answer the following questions:
1) What is the difference in altitude from where you are standing now to the lake bed below? Use Coordinates N 27° 58.670 W 081° 29.261 as a go to point.
2) As you walk around the park picture yourself here many years ago. What around you reminds you of a beach?
3) Optional: Take a picture of you and your GPSr looking in the middle of the scrub.