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LORRIEBIRD: Well this is kind of a tame trail as far as The Everglades go.
I put this one here on this trail so it brings people that that wouldn’t normally like think that they
were brave enough to come out and see any of it because its kind of isolated.
So they’ll come out and realize why it’s so wonderful.
RBMOTMOT: Most of my caching has been done here in south Florida,
but the thing that I’ve found is that it’s taken me back to places I haven’t been to since I was a kid
CACHEUNUTS: This area is beautiful.
Any place down here in South Florida where civilization hasn’t encroached
looks hopefully like it used to, hundreds of years ago
LORRIEBIRD: My favorite places to put caches are environmentally educational.
You see lots of alligators out here on this trail.
Lots of hawks and vultures,
but in the summertime, lots of orchids, lots of blooming orchids are really neat
there are some that bloom nowhere else other than out in this area.
Unfortunately it will be dry today but during the rainy season,
it’s about this deep where the container is. It’s pretty cool.
Ummm, we still have… we still have a third of a mile.
RBMOTMOT: Yeah, this is a butterfly orchid and in July or August
they’ll put out a single shoot and it’ll have a bunch of flowers.
This is the wild coffee we have down here in Florida
it grows in the dry parts of moist habitats.
CACHEUNUTS: 59… 57…
I’ve got it off to the right.
LORRIEBIRD: Woohoo! It’s there.
CACHEUNUTS: Chained down. Good for you.
I’ve got just the travel bug.
It’s the book ‘Walk in the Woods’.
Supposedly somebody will pick it up, read it, and move it on to another cache in the woods.
LORRIEBIRD: It was kind of a lot of trouble to get this out here, get permission and everything,
it's always just so nice if somebody enjoys it has fun while they’re looking
and learns a little something on the way.
RBMOTMOT: You know you get to leave all your worries behind
and concentrate on where you are and what you’re doing
being out communing with nature again is a real thrill for me anyway.