Swamp Owl has moved a few feet, and directions corrected. Also, she has
been joined by six new letterboxes in a trail chain, and so is now
considered No. 1 in the chain of 7.

Clues:

SEVEN FROM THE FLORIDA ANCIENTS

County: Volusia
Nearest city: DeLand

Fee area.
Leashed dogs ok.
Easy clues.
Wetlands. Wear mosquito/tick protection; if it has rained recently your feet
might get wet.
Trail is easily negotiated and well-traveled; however, it is natural and not
blazed.

The Timucuan people lived for thousands of years along the Atlantic coast
and inland rivers in what are now Georgia and Florida. Those who did not die
from the diseases unintentionally imported by the Spanish explorers died
from starvation while being used as slaves, moving goods along the road
between St. Augustine and the Gulf Coast at Apalachee. The race died out in
the late 1700s, and most of what is known about them is from the accounts
kept by their captors and a few archeological sites such as the one youll
visit while finding these boxes.

All the hand-carved stamps in this series are copies of drawings of their
art or representative of some other aspect of their culture.

The boxes are numbered in the order they may be found, along a single
out-and-back nature trail. All the boxes have brush pads but not pens.

Compass directions are approximate; for the most part, steps cant be in a
straight line. Palmettos crowd the scene; look to the oaks for your clues.

Clues:
Pontoon to Hontoon
Follow Nature Trail

NO. 1 - Swamp Owl
Planted 1-7-2002 in memory of Brenton Gustav Gregory b. 5-10-14, d.
1-7-2001.
He was a carver and an adventurer; he would have loved letterboxing.

Watching signs: live oak, death gives life, wax myrtle, lichens, saw
palmetto, slash pine then stop at blank!

215 Small Woman steps to small dead tree in path just before Large oak.

Step to right of tree; turn your back to it.
Look up and 280-ish to see Left left-leaning tree.
Go there...could be 20 steps.