JaxParks and Visit Jacksonville are proud to bring you this geocache as part of the Inaugural Jacksonville Geocaching Challenge! In each JGC Geocache, you will find a stamp attached to the log book. Simply stamp your 2018 Jacksonville Geocaching Challenge Passport in the appropriate space as you visit each geocache. When you have collected 25 of the 30 stamps, you will qualify for the coin! For more information on the JGC Challenge, please visit the Jacksonville Geocaching Challenge website (link shown below) to download the official 2018 JGC Passport, review the rules and learn how to obtain a Geocoin. The website also has a brochure with the details of the JGC Challenge which you might find handy as you explore Jacksonville's great park system and other interesting places on the First Coast.
The cache is NOT at the posted coords. You must first solve the puzzle the use the letters leftover to form hidden words to help you locate the cache. You are searching for a large bison tube.
M N T I O S R E S T H T H I T
N Y N S M R H G A T Y E S L R
E K S I A C R T L B I S O N A
P I L T A E N G O H T G U E I
E E N C E I T F H H R E T E N
Y H O N A R U I C N D P H R E
D E T S H I Y N I R M T C Y F
G T R E E I V D N A P H E W E
N O I T A T S S T T A E I G H
N T Y O N E T S H L R I R T Y
E E I G H T T W L O K H U N D
D R P H T L A E T S E D S E V
D E L L I V N O S K C A J E N
I T A Y E G R E N I A T N O C
H I Y G E H T X T B U S H E S
| __________________ |
_________________ |
_____________________ |
______________ |
_______________ |
| BISON |
FIND |
JACKSONVILLE |
PEN |
STAMP |
| BUSHES |
GEOCACHE |
LOG |
PLAY |
STATION |
| CHALLENGE |
GREEN |
MYSTERY |
SAINT |
STEALTH |
| CONTAINER |
HIDDEN |
NICHOLAS |
SMILEY |
TRAIN |
| EAST |
INK |
PARK |
SOUTH |
TREE |
Park hours are from sunrise to sunset.
San Nicholas was settled as early as the 1740's when there was a Spanish fort on the southbank of the St. Johns River. In 1820, the Spanish governor rejected a petition of the residents to form a city named San Nicholas. If their request had been accepted, Jacksonville could have been named St. Nicholas! Henry Flagler bought the Florida East Coast Railroad in 1899 and built a railway from South Jacksonville (San Marco) to Pablo Beach (Jacksonville Beach). After the Pablo Beach railway was abandoned in 1932, the train station was moved to nearby Linden Avenue and used as meeting space. The building was moved to its current location in 2004 and renovated in 2006. Because of its unique name, it has been used to host many Christmas and toy drive distribution parties.
Thank you to the volunteer Steward of this cache -- jayenco
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