Haiku Path (Bay of Plenty) Multi-Cache
fun4five: We had a friend reinstate it last year, but it has gone missing again. As we now live in the South Island, we can no longer maintain this cache and therefore it is closed until further notice.
Haiku Path (Bay of Plenty)
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A tranquil park within town and an easy cache.
Katikati’s Haiku Pathway – one of New Zealand’s Millennium Projects – is the largest collection of haiku 'stones' outside Japan and the only haiku pathway in the Southern Hemisphere.
The pathway meanders along both sides of the Uretara Stream just behind the town’s main street and is popular with locals, as well as national and international visitors. It is a tranquil spot in the heart of a bustling, country town and features a specially designed footbridge across the stream. For the cache clues you do not need to cross the bridge or leave the park.
Haiku are words which sing, words which paint pictures, small stories which expand each location, images which invite you to make up your own stories, poems which are the direct experience of a moment, tiny poems which are wonderfully large.
the above coordinates give you a space to park.
The cache is hidden at S 37º 33 ABC
E 175º 54.DEF
A = How many ‘O’ are in the poem about morning cloud
B = How many ‘B’ are in the poem about distant ranges
C = How many ‘E’ are in the disappearing tree poem
D = How many ‘I’ and 'L' are in the poem about the grey heron.
E = How many ‘E’ are in the poem about the playground
F = How many ‘I’ and 'M' are on the stone (poem and poet) about farmland
No need to log in extra waypoints. The walk is a short circle and the poem stones are all visible from each other.
The cache includes, at time of release, a logbook, pen and pencil, lock and key, clamp, photo paper, soap, 2 miracle shammy and solar calculator.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
oruvaq synk gb yrsg bs fgbezjngre npprff