Land Shark! LbNA #12869 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Dec 31, 2004 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Fort Myers Beach |
| County: | Lee |
| State: | Florida |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | BrewHiker  |
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| Found by: | Harry Hood |
| Last found: | Dec 20, 2011 |
| Status: | FOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Dec 31, 2004 |
Introduction
The Land Shark letterbox was originally planted on 18 April 2001. It received visitors on a regular basis, including some prominent letterboxers. It had been reported missing several times, and even the owner's site had it listed as missing. Being so close, I had no choice but to go for it...
I found the Land Shark in his original hiding place, though he wasn't exactly hiding... basking in the sun was more like it. And boy, was he messed up. His lid was cracked and his logbook was a soggy, rust-stained wad of paper. His stamp had weathered the elements far better than everything else...
So I rescued him; took him home and gave him a bath. I contacted the owner with an offer of adoption. I gently took apart his logbook and dried the pages. I gave him a brand-new box, a bunch of heavy-duty bags, and a "triage" logbook that probably wouldn't hold up as well as the original actually did...
Directions
I had to give the Land Shark, at the original owner's behest, a new home. If any of you knew about this letterbox before now, please discard those instructions.
Make your way to the Matanzas Pass Preserve on Estero Island, aka Fort Myers Beach. It is at the end of Bay Rd. From the parking area, enter the preserve through the wooden archway. Take a moment to study the map (you will see it again on trails).
Clue
Bear right onto a bridge and onto a Sand Trail (ST). At the first fork, bear left onto the Calusa Loop. You will cross another bridge, then the ST will change to a BoardWalk (BW). At the first T on the BW, turn left and enjoy the view of Estero Bay from the overlook. Then go back to the T and continue on (at about 220ยบ). You'll pass a put-in for The Great Calusa Blueway Paddling Trail.
At the second T on the BW, turn left into the Matanzas Passage area (see map posted at T). Further on, the BW changes to ST. Just a little further on from there, there's a fork in the path. Follow the ST to right.
A short distance up ahead, there's a sign for the Red Coconut Trail with arrows pointing left and right. Just behind that sign and a little to the right is a young ficus tree with about 10 or 12 trunks sprouting from its heart. The Land Shark lives in the heart of the ficus, reachable from the top. He likes to cover himself with leaves and sticks. He asked me to warn friendly visitors about the biting ants keeping sentry around his home.
"FIRST AID": I wrote a web address on either the cover or the first page of the logbook... will the first finder please let me know what I wrote down?
The Land Shark letterbox was originally planted on 18 April 2001. It received visitors on a regular basis, including some prominent letterboxers. It had been reported missing several times, and even the owner's site had it listed as missing. Being so close, I had no choice but to go for it...
I found the Land Shark in his original hiding place, though he wasn't exactly hiding... basking in the sun was more like it. And boy, was he messed up. His lid was cracked and his logbook was a soggy, rust-stained wad of paper. His stamp had weathered the elements far better than everything else...
So I rescued him; took him home and gave him a bath. I contacted the owner with an offer of adoption. I gently took apart his logbook and dried the pages. I gave him a brand-new box, a bunch of heavy-duty bags, and a "triage" logbook that probably wouldn't hold up as well as the original actually did...
Directions
I had to give the Land Shark, at the original owner's behest, a new home. If any of you knew about this letterbox before now, please discard those instructions.
Make your way to the Matanzas Pass Preserve on Estero Island, aka Fort Myers Beach. It is at the end of Bay Rd. From the parking area, enter the preserve through the wooden archway. Take a moment to study the map (you will see it again on trails).
Clue
Bear right onto a bridge and onto a Sand Trail (ST). At the first fork, bear left onto the Calusa Loop. You will cross another bridge, then the ST will change to a BoardWalk (BW). At the first T on the BW, turn left and enjoy the view of Estero Bay from the overlook. Then go back to the T and continue on (at about 220ยบ). You'll pass a put-in for The Great Calusa Blueway Paddling Trail.
At the second T on the BW, turn left into the Matanzas Passage area (see map posted at T). Further on, the BW changes to ST. Just a little further on from there, there's a fork in the path. Follow the ST to right.
A short distance up ahead, there's a sign for the Red Coconut Trail with arrows pointing left and right. Just behind that sign and a little to the right is a young ficus tree with about 10 or 12 trunks sprouting from its heart. The Land Shark lives in the heart of the ficus, reachable from the top. He likes to cover himself with leaves and sticks. He asked me to warn friendly visitors about the biting ants keeping sentry around his home.
"FIRST AID": I wrote a web address on either the cover or the first page of the logbook... will the first finder please let me know what I wrote down?