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.
Blue Hen Rooster Graveyard – Location 24.5517, -81.8028
Down in Key West at 729 Thomas Street at a small local restaurant there is a rooster cemetery in the courtyard. Resting at peace here are several fighting cocks and even a few cats that belonged to Ernest Hemingway who lived a couple blocks away. The restaurant, in Key West’s Bahamian neighborhood was once a place where gamblers came to bet on cock fights. Some of Key West’s free roaming chickens are descendants of the old fighting roosters. Over the past hundred years, the restaurant has been a bordello, an ice cream parlor, a tavern, dance hall, pool hall, and was once known for its Friday night boxing matches that were frequently refereed by Ernest Hemingway.
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: A woman from this nation lost her wedding ring, finding it 16 years later, on a carrot, harvested from her garden.
A: Mordor = N29° 28.328' W81° 50.167'
B: Hogwarts = N29° 28.318' W81° 50.167'
C: Sweden = N29° 28.308' W81° 50.167'