Bead-Bee Cave Red Speckled Acrylic Donut TB

I maintain records on my trackables. They have the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a target rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days. The average drop rate of my trackables in the US is 124 days, in Europe it is 71 days. As of 1-Jun-23 this trackable had survived for 3.4 years and had been moved by 12 cachers, for an average drop every 104 days. Please keep it moving, then drop it in a safe place!

No permission is needed to leave the U.S. While in the U.S., please drop it in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event where there is no security. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean and dry, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

Bee Cave is fourteen miles west of Austin in west central Travis County.  It was settled in the early 1850s by Dietrich Bohls, who relocated near the confluence of Barton Creek and Little Barton Creek. The town was named for a large cave occupied by honeybees.  The bees were thought to forage over much of Western Travis County.

A post office opened there under the name Bee Caves in 1870 and a trading post was recorded at the site the following year.  In the mid-1880s the Bee Cave community had a steam gristmill, a cotton gin, a general store, a church, a school, and twenty residents. The population fell to ten in the early 1890s but rose to fifty-four by 1914. The post office was discontinued in 1915, and the Bee Cave school was consolidated with the Teck common school district in the 1940s, then with the Dripping Springs Independent School District in Hays County in 1951.

The population was reported at fifty from the 1940s through the 1980s. Because of the proximity to Austin, the town transitioned to a bedroom community for commuters.  In 1990 the population was 241, and it grew to 656 in 2000. By that time Bee Cave had schools, parks and recreational facilities, and a public library. In 2006, the village of Bee Cave became a town, and by 2010 the population reached 3,925. As of 2015, the city of Bee Cave had an estimated population of 6,515 in the city limits, and an additional 4,533 living in the Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction, for a total of 11,048.