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Guana River State Park Letterbox LbNA #6930 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Mary Manatee
Plant date:Jan 4, 2004
Location:
City:St Augustine
County:St. Johns
State:Florida
Boxes:1
Found by: Ladymouse
Last found:Apr 6, 2007
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFaa
Last edited:Jan 4, 2004
Clues:

Placed by: Mary Manatee, The Yachtsman and Moonshine
Difficulty: easy
Terrain: sandy and flat
Fee area: $3.00

Guana/Tomotalo/Matanzas National Estuarine Preserve is located on the barrier beach just north of St Augustine off A1A. It is bordered by both the Atlantic Ocean, the Guana River and the Tolomato River which is part of the Intercoastal Waterway. Adjacent to the Preserve is a Wildlife Management Area where hunting is allowed.

For those of you who like to incorporate other activities into their boxing, Guana is part of the newly established Great Florida Birding Trail system. The day we placed the box we observed Ringed Bill gulls, Ruddy Turnstones, Black Skimmers, Royal Terns, a Great Blue Heron, American Egrets, a Belted Kingfisher, a Wood Stork, and a flock of Great Tailed Grackles sharing the area with people. You can walk or bicycle the trails, although some are narrow and lined by saw palmettos, so be careful. I am told that there can be a lot of ticks during certain seasons. We replaced the box with a new, hopefully more waterproof box on 1/3/06 on one of those beautiful "winter: Florida days (temperature around 75 degrees!)

Directions to the box:

The box is located on the yellow blazed Shell Bluff road. Park in the Guana Dam users area and proceed from the parking lot into the park area. Continuing on past the park trail map you will come to an observation shelter. Sit here and look for birds and other wildlife on the marsh. Continue on the trail, passing intersection #8 looking at the snags for woodpeckers in the field to your left. Pass into a pine woods and look for a magnolia tree with a split trunk that looks as if it has two elbows on your right. Twenty paces beyond, a live oak tree arches across the path from SE to NW (left to right). About twenty five paces beyond this branch, two live oaks are located on the right side of the trial. The box is hidden behind the larger live oak covered by a saw palmetto leaf (be careful!). Stamp in and enjoy the rest of the park. Continue straight on the trail to the shell bank, or try some of the other trails in the park.

BOX CONFIRMED MISSING JUNE 2007