Cabbage Bay - Colville - Coromandel Traditional Cache
Darby&Joan: Decided to let this one go. Unfortunately it will still be quite some time before we get down there to repair it. So will someone else have a go at this spot. Thanks.
Cabbage Bay - Colville - Coromandel
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A picnic spot just out of Colville Township.
No trip to the Coromandel is complete without a trip out to Colville. Road is tar sealed all the way. Colville Township has an interesting mix of places – Café, Local Store, Petrol, Post Office, Buddhist Temple – and a variety of places to stay and camp, Farm and Beach camping grounds.
Colville is a small town in the north of the Coromandel Peninsula in the North Island of New Zealand. It lies 26 kilometres north of Coromandel and is the northernmost town of any note on the peninsula. Beyond it lies 28 kilometres of rough road leading to the small settlement of Port Jackson, close to the peninsula's northwesternmost point, Cape Colville.and 20 km to Port Charles on the northeastern side.
The town is the service and social centre for the area,with a Co-operatively-owned General Store, Postal Delivery Centre,Volunteer Fire Brigade, School, Community Halls and a dozen houses. Just beyond the town is the beginning of the Te Moehau Range which forms the bulk of the northern end of the Coromandel Peninsula, and contains very valuable ecological areas and is a stronghold of the threatened North Island Brown Kiwi.
Colville the town was named for the cape, which itself was named by Captain James Cook on November 18, 1769, after Rear Admiral Lord Colville, who Cook had previously served under in the Royal Navy. Colville was also known as Cabbage Bay, thought to be in reference to the cabbage trees in the bay.
Colville township grew following the construction of a General Store with a Motor Garage alongside. This was built by Richard (Dick) Goudie, a local man whose grandparents had settled in Cabbage Bay. Dick Goudie later ran a taxi service from the town, being the first to drive a motor vehicle across the new bridge at Papa Aroha which opened up the northern peninsula from Coromandel.
Another member of the Goudie family, John, developed a motor camp a few kilometers north of the town some years later.
The Motukawao Islands lie five kilometres off the coast to the southwest of Colville.
The Cache is a small plastic container big enough for small swaps.
At the time of placement it contained:
Log Sheet, Silica(Please do not take or eat), Stash Note and FTF Prize. Smiley Badge, Blue Whistle, Yellow Bouncy Ball.
BYO Pen.
Some stealth will be needed muggles may be spying on you from across the road.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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