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.
USS Massachusetts – Location 30.3117, -87.3131
The oldest existing American battleship, the USS Massachusetts was one of three ships of its kind commissioned by Congress in 1890. Suffering from extremely poor design, it was twice retired and rebooted before being stuck out on Pensacola Bay for target practice. Once it sunk, the state of Florida fought to save it, and it is now an underwater archaeological site popular with divers and fishers alike.
Called by journalists and historians “the worst battleship ever made,” and a ship that “attempted too much,” the Massachusetts nevertheless was instrumental in the U.S. victory during the Spanish-American War, though it missed the decisive battle at Santiago de Cuba.
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: How many times does the average person poop in one day?
A: 42 times = N29° 28.278' W81° 51.866'
B: 80 bazillion times = N29° 28.278' W81° 51.856'
C: 3 times = N29° 28.278' W81° 51.846'