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.
Secret Garden – Location 24.5568, -81.8001
Nancy Forrester’s Secret Garden is a must see on your Key West adventure. It’s a magical, wondrous sanctuary for both the people who visit, and the rescued birds who call the place home. Nancy is an environmental activist and educator who founded the sanctuary decades ago, to care for unwanted and abandoned parrots.
Guests are welcome to visit and entertain the intelligent, social birds. Every day, Nancy hosts a “Parrot 101” where visitors can ask questions about, and even hold some of the avian residents. Walking into the snarls of leafy greenery is like walking into a plot of jungle, plopped right within a bustling city. Parrots greet you as you enter, some even with a polite “Hello”. Their vibrant feathers stand out among the foliage that covers almost every space of the garden.
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: Which Nobel Prize winner was the first to sell their medal?
A: Optimus Prime = N29° 27.956' W81° 51.578'
B: Bugs Bunny = N29° 27.956' W81° 51.588'
C: James D Watson = N29° 27.956' W81° 51.598'