We will have a fun-filled day of geocaching, games, hiking, canoeing, kayaking, raffles, eating, biking, contests, info seminars, activities, meeting friends, making new friends and just a plain ol' good time that hopefully all of our geo-buddies will enjoy!
The park is open to the public from 8 AM until sunset and the entrance fees are below:
- Vehicle (2-8 People):$6.00
- Vehicle (1 person): $4.00
- Extra passengers, passengers in vehicle with holder of Annual Individual Entrance Pass: $2.00
- Motorcycle: $4.00
- Pedestrians & bicyclists: $2.00
Please log a will attend or put this page on your watchlist to keep up to date with changes and updates that are coming soon!
To get more information about the park and/or our other events, please visit the events home page on the Team Cache Divers Web Site at your leisure.
**** Events for the long 3 day weekend ****
- Funcoast Bash 5 Night Event 2/15/19
- Saturday Main Event 2/16/19
- Funcoast Bash 5 CITO 2/17/19
- Funcoast Bash 5 After Event 2/18/19 (for those that have the day off)
We will have someone to check in and out of Travel Bugs and Geocoins. You can also bring your collectible TB's and geocoins to share (Discover) with other geocachers.
Schedule
- Registration will be open at 8:00 AM
- The Raffle will take place at 1 PM, 2 PM, 3 PM, 4 PM, and last one at 5 PM, make sure to buy your tickets early.
- Geocacher Bingo will be from 8 AM to 1 PM, drawing will be at 1:30 PM
- Geocaching Creed seminar 9 AM (Do's and Don'ts of Geocaching)
- Poker Run starts at 9:30 AM and will conclude at 4 PM with results for winner at 5 PM
- New Geocacher classes at 10 AM and 2 PM
- Cache Container Cammo Class 11 AM – Bring your own or paint some of ours!
According to the Myakka River State Park (MRSP) website: Myakka River State Park . "Myakka River State Park is one of Florida's oldest and largest state parks. The "Florida Wild and Scenic Myakka River" flows through 57 square miles of wetlands, prairies and woodlands. Myakka is popular for hiking, fishing, camping, and wildlife observation." They haven't yet added Geocaching, but hopefully someday soon it will be listed.
- Please try to CITO when you can and be respectful of the park and the wildlife.
- Please obey the park rules so that future generations of Geocachers can enjoy the wonders of the park and Geocaching!
The park is located 9 miles east of I-75 at: 13208 State Road 72, Sarasota, FL USA 34241 To get directions please click on the following link: Google Maps Directions
Items to bring with you to the event
- GPS, of course you can’t forget that (connecting cable to load the caches at event)
- A PDA or Smart phone to hold information about the caches (Terrain, Difficulty etc.)
- IMPORTANT NOTE: Cell phone coverage is unreliable to nonexistant at this park and you WILL NOT be able to geocache with your phone for a majority of the caches. So you WILL NEED to either have a GPS and or go with a group of cachers that do have a GPS! See a Funcoast Bash Volunteer about Geo-Buddies!
- Water, LOTS of water if you’re going out on the trail!
- A raffle item to donate (if you want to, but not required). It could be a matchstick holder, a roll of camo duck tape, a large bag of zip ties, a nano, a bison, ammo can, hiking sticks, geocoins, a tent, hiking or camping items, more or less anything to do with geocaching. We will hold a Special Raffle for those who donate, the Grand Prize is TWO (2) Fully Loaded, Cammo'd. Labeled, Log and Swag Filled 50 Cal Metal Ammo Cans, along with locks, cables and a SpaceCoast Geocache Store gift certificate (amount determined by number of donations)
- **** New this year you can donate caches for the special raffle tickets mention above
- Pens to sign all those fresh new logs or stamp if you have one
- Bicycle(s), Kayak(s) or Canoe(s) to go after those types of caches
- Bug Spray, LOTS of it as well!
- Walkie Talkies if you have some
- TB’s, Geocoins, or other similar items to discover, share and/or trade
- And last but not least, A SMILE because we are here to have FUN!!!!