Welcome to the Farewell to Finder’s Fest geo-art, brought to you by the Forest Minions! This series celebrates weird and unusual things throughout the Sunshine State. Please do not go to the posted locations. Rather, solve the challenging quiz found at the bottom of each page, for the final location. For the letterbox caches, please leave the stamp in the cache. They are not trade items. For the discerning traveler, we’ve included the GPS coordinates for these bizarre locations, when we were able to establish them.
Neptune Memorial Reef – Location 25.6902, -80.0908
Ancient looking columns, guarded by carved lions, mark the entrance into a lost city located 40 feet below the surface of the sea, complete with stone roads, soaring gates, and crumbling ruins. Originally named the Atlantis Memorial Reef, the lost city is part of an underwater cemetery that also acts as an artificial reef, sponsored by the Neptune Society, a cremation company. Located about 3 miles off the coast of Key Biscayne, in Miami, the undersea cemetery was designed by Florida artist Kim Brandell and opened in 2007.
Cremated remains are cast into concrete memorials and placed within the sunken necropolis, where divers can explore, or visit with loved ones. Shipwreck diver Bert Kilbride, once listed as the oldest living SCUBA diver in the Guinness Book of World Records, is interred here in a place of honor, at the top of one of the entry columns, at the Reef Gate.
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: Which country consumes the most cheese and macarons?
A: Mordor = N29° 27.039' W81° 51.565'
B: Hogwarts = N29° 27.039' W81° 51.575'
C: Canada = N29° 27.039' W81° 51.585'