Meet your fellow GXers. Eyeball a cache map of
Croom and Richloam. Play GXer Bingo, with priceless trinkets to be awarded.
General silliness, entertainment! Eagle Dad dancing the "Happy Dance"!
Isonzo performing string tricks! (Okay, no guarantees on that.)
Perhaps some new, and certainly some old caches to be hunted
in the adjacent Withlacoochee State Forest.
Organizers providing the pavilion, ice filled barrels (bring your own
beverages), paper plates and plastic utensils. Geocachers providing the
food - bring some (enough for us too please, based upon the total BMI of
the organizers, it's clear we LIKE to eat).
If you want to bring travel bugs, feel free, but please DO NOT log them
into the event. There are plenty of Bug sized caches in the area to
place them, or you can exchange with your new GXer friends - I don't
want to be waiting for months to archive this, based upon unaccounted
for TBs.
Coordinates are for the turn off CR
476, there's a new small brown sign indicating the park entry 500 feet. Park does have a nice playground,
volleyball court, restrooms, hiking trails into the woods and to the lake and
is adjacent to the paved Withlacoochee State Trail. Good road and off
road biking with caches available. No dogs, no alcohol allowed in Hernando County
parks.
I've had some inquiries about staying Saturday night. There's free primitive camping in Croom, two sites both a short way north of Croom road - the western one near the visitors center with tap water, you have to walk in. The State Forest operates 3 Croom CampGrounds - Hog Island is closest to the event, Silver Lake is convenient to Route 50 (stores, gas) and the Richloam caching, also River Junction on the southeast side of the river. There's a motel at 50&301, Ridge Manor motel 352 583-2109. I asked for room rates and then started dickering. Standard quoted rate is $49 - but it didn't take much to get a rate of $45 one room two people. At I-75 & 50 is a Best Western. If you want more information, feel free to email me.
This cache was placed by a member of the
Florida Geocaching
Association