Stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the St. Johns River, the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway occupies much of the land formerly known as the Cross Florida Barge Canal. This 110-mile corridor encompasses a variety of natural habitats and offers an array of trails and recreation areas where visitors can experience Florida's premier greenway.
This segment of the Cross Florida Greenway includes a variety of natural communities such as longleaf pine sandhill, mixed hardwood and conifer forests, and wet prairies on the western end. This region is also site of an historic sea level canal "digging". This feature is a wide linear area that was literally carved out of the landscape in the 1930s as part of the original sea-level ship canal project funded through the Works Progress Administration during the Depression. Today, they exist as reforested, small-scale valleys edged by tall reforested berms.
Dadsjude and I were scouting locations for new caches when we came across this beautiful old oak just begging for a hide. We found the perfect nook for placement, and, Lo and Behold, there was already a cache there (but inactive). We added a new camo'd container with a fresh log (the old container is still very close by, but log-less) and, Presto, the cache is back in business under new management.