Welcome to the Farewell to Finder’s Fest geo-art, brought to you by the Forest Minions! This series celebrates weird and unusual things throughout the Sunshine State. Please do not go to the posted locations. Rather, solve the challenging quiz found at the bottom of each page, for the final location. For the letterbox caches, please leave the stamp in the cache. They are not trade items. For the discerning traveler, we’ve included the GPS coordinates for these bizarre locations, when we were able to establish them.
The Bardin Booger – Location 29.7130, -81.7251
Bardin, a small community on County Road 209A, just northeast of Palatka, has managed to separate its skunk ape from all the rest by calling it the Bardin Booger. You can get the scoop at the aforementioned coordinates, which writers and curious tourist use as the Booger information center. There’s even a song about the monster, called “The Bardin Booger” or the “Bardin Boogie?”
The Bardin sightings began in the early ‘70s, but the first witness didn’t file a report until sometime later. The sheriff department sent out a search party looking for the thing but found nothing. Several locals claim to have seen the Booger, especially some of the younger generation, usually at a local lover’s lane. Others have blamed the Booger for stealing clothes from their clotheslines and one person reported seeing the creature carrying a lantern through the woods. The Bardin Booger has not been seen in the immediate area of Bardin since the early eighties, however, there have been recent sightings not far away around Camp Blanding, the Florida National Guard military reservation. Maybe those Bardin folks attracted too many tourists and the Booger decided to move his territory down the road a piece.
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: The average person produces X litres of spit, in their lifetime.
A: 1 = N29° 29.381' W81° 49.212'
B: 42 = N29° 29.371' W81° 49.212'
C: 40,000 = N29° 29.361' W81° 49.212'