theboonieman

If you're interested in doing a good deed and would like to show the St. Johns Water Management District how much we appreciate them allowing us to cache on their land, I would recommend that we participate as a group or as individuals in the next river cleanup celebration which is on Saturday, March 15th. It's a lot fun and you meet lots of great folks. All you have to do is show up at one of the cleanup staging areas between 8:00 and 11:00. They will give you all the garbage bags you need, including gloves and a reflective vest. At some sites they'll offer boat rides to get to the areas that need cleaning. After the cleanup, they give out free t-shirts and everybody is invited to a cookout. Each county is responsible for hosting this event. So to get more information, such as where the staging areas are locate, you'll need to get in touch with the county's cleanup organization. I'm only familiar with Brevard County's staging areas. They are listed on the Keep Brevard Beautiful website at http://www.keepbrevardbeautiful.com/LitterControl/st_johns_river_2002.htm. They still haven't updated it for 2003, but I don't think the sites will change. They've been the same for the past 3 years. I'll try to get more information and post it here. I think the St. Johns River WMD has a toll free number that you can call to get more information. Hope everyone can make it to the celebration! The Boonie Man

If you want to cleanup the St. Johns River Water Management District lands, I would recommend doing it on March 15th. That's when they have their big river cleanup celebration. All you have to do is show up at one of the staging areas along the river and they'll have folks there handing out garbage bags, reflective vests and gloves. Some of the places will offer boat rides to get to the places that need cleaning up. The clean up lasts for about 4 hours and then they have a cookout afterwards at some designated park. It's a lot of fun and you get a free T-shirt too. The Boonie Man

Thanks Nobonis & Bump. I was hoping someone in the area would see this thread. Glad you're willing to check out the cache and possibly adopt it. I'm way over on the east coast of Florida, so it's a little out of way for me. Hope Kingfubar pops back in and gives us a little bit more information.

Thanks Kingfubar for fixing up the cache. I posted a note in the cache's log to see if we can get someone out there to verify the coordinates are still accurate. Can you tell us where you found the cache (any nearby landmarks, trees, etc.)? I suspect it's no longer at the posted coordinates judging from the numerous no-find reports for this cache. Thanks for helping out!

I think Dan's website has proved to be an invaluable resource to geocaching. I use it all the time to keep track of the caching activity that goes on in my state. I like reading about what others could or could not find, especially the ones I enjoyed locating myself. Sure beats setting up a huge watch list. Not sure why Geocaching.com hasn't created something similar. I know they are not too keen on rating geocachers, but I think everybody would enjoy finding out who found caches in their little neck of the woods. Hope they don't pull the plug too long.

I bet it's the old Forest Patrol cache (GC2A22) by Uwless2. It use to be in that area. According to the on-line log, the last time is was found was June 4, 2002. Not sure if the owner is around anymore. His account doesn't show any activity and that was his only cache.

FYI: The St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) located in northeast Florida has started removing geocaches from the lands they manage, stating that they are in violation of their land use policy. Right now they are issuing warnings, but if people continue to use their land for caching, they may call in law enforcement. The following is a copy of the message they've been leaving in the cache logs. Just trying to spread the word. The Boonie Man ----- Begin ----- Please be advised that geocache xxxxx has been removed. This cache is in violation of Chapter 40 C-9, F.A.C., St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) Lands Rule. If you would like to retrieve your cache, it is located at the security residence for the next 10 days, then it will be disposed of. In the Geocaching guidelines, the portion Guide to Creating and Hiding a Cache Step 1 - Research a cache location contains a paragraph regarding public or private land ownership, and obtaining permission. It states: If you place the cache on public lands you need to contact the managing agency to find out about their rules. While public lands are bought and owned by the public, each agency responsible for managing lands have rules and regulations that they must follow. These regulations are intended to protect the environment that may likely contain sensitive and fragile areas, both in terms of natural and cultural resources. We encourage visitors to SJRWMD conservation areas to expand their experience of these areas through means such as GPS, particularly if it brings visitors to a unique location such as a great viewpoint or one of our designated campsites. But these areas should only be accessed by designated access points and trails, or maintained interior roads or firelines. Keeping visitors on trails not only protects the environment, but is also for the safety of the visitor. For these reasons, the leaving of items or leading visitors off of the above mentioned routes cannot continue. Any future cache sites that contain items will be removed without notification to this website which will be frustrating to those users of this website and visitors to District lands. Continued finding of sites will be turned over to the District's law enforcement program. That is not our intent nor what users of this website would want. Please assist us and other agencies by getting the word out regarding the establishment of these caches. We hope that you will continue to have interest in visiting SJRWMD conservation areas in the future. Sincerely, Nels Parson, Land Use Coordinator Division of Land Management ----- End -----

Thanks Jeremy!

I made some typos in my initial log for PID AK6415, so I deleted it (probably should have done an edit instead). Now when I try to add a new log to the same PID it gives me the following error: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80040E14) [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver] Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_BENCHMARK_LOG'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'BENCHMARK_LOG'./mark/logfind.asp, line 209

I saw your note in the cache log. Has anybody gotten back with you on whether or not it's still at the Flying Saucer's cache site? If not, I'll be happy to check it out. It's only about 10 miles from where I live.

Initially I would have thought they were township sections, but since this is in Louisiana, they're known as French long lots.

I found that pictures set to 72 dpi look like crap (very pixelated) when viewed next to log entries. At 96 dpi, the problem goes away. I suspect it has something to do with they way the website down samples images to get them to fit next to the text. Also, if you make the width of the image a multiple of 300 pixels (the width of the preview image), it seems to improve the picture quality. Less pixel interpolation, I guess. Of course none of this applies, if we're talking about viewing the original picture by itself.