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.
Castle Otttis – Location 29.9559, -81.3063
Castle Otttis, (yes, there are three ‘T’s), was built by Ottis Sadler and Rusty Ickes, between 1984 and 1988. Based on Irish castles from 1000 years ago, it was designed to be a landscape sculpture, open to the elements, and rising up more than 50 feet. Built of split face concrete blocks, reinforced steel rods, poured concrete, cypress and old southern heart pine, the castle weighs an estimated 7 million pounds, and has 88 window openings, left without glass, to allow the weather to flow through it.
The final result is a majestic stone castle built as an expression of artistic and spiritual devotion, along the St Augustine shoreline, recognized by the American Institute of Architects.
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: What is the average weight of a blue whale heart?
A: 1 pound = N29° 27.605' W81° 51.587'
B: 80 bazillion pounds = N29° 27.605' W81° 51.577'
C: 400 pounds = N29° 27.605' W81° 51.567'