This cache is in honor of Sandy. Sandy and her husband Sonny are
geocachers that promote geocaching, they are known as iTrax and
FoxTail.
This is a mission cache and the mission is to take one color
geocache brochure and introduce a muggle to geocaching. No time
limit on the mission, Please remember to only take one brochure per
login and find a muggle couple or group and give them the brochure.
The cache container has 50 brochures a log book and one half dollar
size FTF coin.
The cache is located on Casey Key Island on the small beach in back
of the large beach.
You can park and look, but beware of muggles on the small beach.
The small beach is full on the weekends and empty on many weekdays
so try to look for it on a weekday so the cache many not be muggle
away.(PLEASE do not put Travel Bugs or any other items in this
container to protect the brochures)
Take a drive through the hidden treasure of Casey Key
island
Don’t blink or you might miss the small island town of Casey Key, a
strip of land located on the Gulf of Mexico nearby Nokomis and
Venice Florida. The first time I crossed over the small drawbridge
on Albee Road in Nokomis, I did not even realize that I had come to
a new town although I knew I had entered into a beautiful area with
a fabulous view of the ocean.
Casey Key offers a beautiful place to enjoy an afternoon
relaxing on or near Nokomis Beach, boating or fishing, and taking
in the view, especially the sunset, while walking along Casey Key
Road.
The Southern part of Casey Key Road is rather narrow to
drive through and you will find more commercialized properties,
like small hotels and bed and breakfasts here, but the Northern
part of Casey Key Road broadens out slightly and opens to a nice
driving view with mostly residential homes. By no means is there
much that would categorize Casey Key as a tourist area, as the
zoning restrictions set do not allow for major high-rise hotels on
the island. The best part about the drive or bike ride through
Casey Key is that you are completely surrounded by water. Small
hotels, apartments and family vacation homes line both sides of the
street. You will find a wide variety of residents and homes on the
small barrier island, but all enjoy the same peaceful serenity of
the small island while also appreciating all the amenities of
Sarasota and Venice nearby.
Casey Key got its name from a U.S. Army Captain named
John Charles Casey who was assigned to the region to remove
Seminole Indians in 1849. While Casey was assigned to the small
Gulf Coast area he also helped in the coastal surveys for the U.S.
government. His name appeared on the map where Casey Key now exists
to mark the area where he was surveying. At the time the area was
called Chaise’s Key but when the revised map came out in 1856, the
name had been changed to Casey Key where his location had been
marked.
During the 1920s rumors began on the island that there
was treasure in the north end because a real estate developer came
along trying to change the name to Treasure Island. The name did
not stick and residents reverted back to the original Casey Key,
which still remained.
The easiest way to access Casey Key is to walk or drive
across the old fashioned drawbridge on Albee Road that separates
Nokomis by the Intracoastal Waterway. If you turn left, you will
end up at Nokomis Beach, which ends at the North Jetties on North
Jetty Road. But if you take a right you will end up on Casey Key
Road and can quickly drive or even bike ride through the rest of
the stretch of the 8-mile town of Casey Key in a matter of
minutes.