If I had provided the coordinates for The Cache it would not have been a challenge, just too easy?
Apricot Valley View and Black Jack's Picnic
are the easy finds in this area. Click on these for the details.
The Challenge?
(Its all in the street name!)
Solve the puzzle and you will be able to find The Waypoint.
Progress through the street that takes you to these coordinates:
S45° 32.195
E169° 18.161
You can miss out physically going there if you can find the street name by other means.
The coordinates for The Waypoint are:
S45° IH.HDS
E169° DS.IBR
There is a quite steep but short climb up to where The Waypoint is hidden.
The best point of access to start from is:
A GOOD ACCESS POINT
S45° IH.HIS
E169° DS.IIN
(There is good parking on the opposite side of the road.)
From the access point climb straight uphill skirting the large rocks on your right, this is the steepest bit. Veering slightly to the left will take you, by the least obstructed path, to where the container is hidden.
CAUTION. When it has been raining or there is snow on the ground, the rocks could be very slippery. Please be careful. But with proper care it is not at all dangerous.
At The Waypoint is a 200ml "Systema" container with "Bob the Builder" printed on the lid, it contains a Stash Note and a note of the coordinates to get you to The Cache.
The Cache is an easy find, because of its situation and because the coordinates given in The Waypoint are not coded.
Watch out for "Muggles" particularly at The Cache
At The Cache is a 500ml clear 4xsnap-lidded container.
When hidden it contained:
- Logbook, pencil & sharpener
- NZ 2 cent "Kowhai" coin
- Aus. Penny 1950
- Bart Simpson Skate Board
- Pkt. 50 coloured Pushpins
Enjoy the challenge and enjoy the views.
SOME LOCAL INFORMATION - ROXBURGH HYDRO<,
On 8 March 1949 the Minister of Works announced that a site near Coal Creek Flat had been chosen for a hydro-electric dam on the Clutha River. A temporary township ? soon afterwards called Roxburgh Hydro ? sprang up on Coal Creek Flat later in the same year and construction of the dam began. The river was diverted to a temporary channel during the winter of 1954, and by 1956 the main works were completed.
POPULATION: 1951 census, 1,309; 1956 census, 3,043; 1961 census, 488.
(by Brian Newton Davis, M.A., Vicar, St. Philips, Karori West, Wellington and Edward Stewart Dollimore, Research Officer, Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington.)
(Information presented here is from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A.H. McLintock and published in 1966. For many subjects it remains a valuable source. The contents have not been corrected or updated for publication online.)
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