Send to: Ecoquest Adventure c/o North Florida Land Trust P.O. Box 51181 Jacksonville Beach, FL 32240-1181 or you may call 904-827-9870 to pay via credit card by phone.
Ecoquest
Enjoy nature at your own pace, in a week long self-guided kayak/canoe adventure with five locations around North Florida. Win cash and compete for prizes doing something you really enjoy, whether you are kayak fishing or just out for a paddle.
Contest period will begin at sunrise Saturday June 5th and end at sundown
Thursday June 10th, 2010.
EcoQuest is a kayak adventure where you choose how much you want to participate, up to five locations. Each location will have five cache sites along specified routes. You must pre-register by selecting and purchasing the locations you wish to paddle. You will be provided with a map with geocache locations circled and GPS coordinates for each. You may use either your GPS for the geocaching sites or Google Earth’s mapping system. Geocache locations have “Treasure Boxes” where you must insert your numbered tickets. We will send you a perforated card with your entry number on it and enough tickets to enter in each of the caches you have chosen. At the end of the week, tickets will be counted for each location and winner will be determined during Saturday’s Fun Fest.
Schedule of Events
Saturday, June 4: Thursday, June 10: Kayaking on your own, five locations
Thursday, June 10, 6-8 pm: NFLT Wine Tasting at Whole Foods, $15 pp ($5pp kayaking participants). Join us to unwind from your kayaking adventures along with other NFLT supporters who would like to hear your tales of adventure on the waterways of Northeast Florida.
Saturday, June 12, 10am-4pm: NFLT EcoQuest Family Fun Fest. Free. Join us at the North Guana Landing (Oar House Restaurant) for environmental booths, fun kids activities, food, music and fun. Prizes for EcoQuest Kayaking Adventure and Birds Eye Photocontest will be awarded during day. If ties exist for Eagle Winner, run-offs will be held during this event.
Welcome to Geocaching
Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunting game played throughout the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS devices. The basic idea is to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, outdoors and then share your experiences online. Geocaching is enjoyed by people from all age groups, with a strong sense of community and support for the environment.
Prize Categories:
Eagle Winner (45% of entry fees will be used as cash prize) - Must have completed all five (5) locations and deposited markers at each site. If there is more than one finalist, additional challenges will be scheduled to break any ties. You must be present on Saturday, June 12, and participate in runoffs in order to be eligible for the prize money.
Belted Kingfisher Winner (5% of entry fees will be used as cash prize) - will be chosen from a lottery of the geocache tickets collected from the five locations. (Winner does not have to be present on Saturday to win.)
Bird's Eye Photo Contest - All photographers welcome. Entries include any bird species found within the EcoQuest Kayaking property boundaries, photographed June 5th-10th 2010. 20% of photo contest entry fees will be awarded to each of 3 categories: Amateur, Professional and Student, which will be determined by a panel of professional photographers with an additional prize awarded for “People’s Choice” on Saturday. . Top 3 by a panel of professional photographers, 4th prize “People’s Choice Award.” Top 20 entries on display on June 12, 2010 at the Family Fun Festival. ($10 per entry. You may turn in your entries at the wine tasting scheduled for Thursday evening 6-8pm at Whole Foods.