KiwiCoastalCaches - Good On You 'ARC' (Auckland) Traditional Cache
KiwiCoastalCaches - Good On You 'ARC' (Auckland)
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Thank you 'ARC'. Important: Do not disturb the wild life. Do not enter the bush! No dogs!
At a beautiful New Zealand North Island beach within the Tawharanui Regional Park with lots of Pohutukawa trees and native plants.
Important: Do not disturb the wild life. Do not enter the bush!
Note: Another old and went cache is still around. If you find it please move to next of the new cache. (We are unable to find the old cache, as it may have been moved :)
---> How to get there:
Starting at Anchor Bay, Tawharanui.
---> Recommendation:
Walk along the beautiful Anchor Bay Beaches, the hilly tracks, the Ecology Trail!.
---> The cache:
A flat 1/4 litre plastic box with a black stone and some grass on it.
---> How to leave it:
Please put the box back to the same place with the black stone and some grass on top of it.
---> History of the Place:
Set on a remote peninsula, Tawharanui Regional Park boasts some of the Auckland region's most beautiful white sand beaches, rolling pastures, shingled bays native coastal forest and regenerating wetlands.
The 588-hectare park is New Zealand's first integrated open sanctuary (mainland island) where farming, public recreation and conservation of native species combine. The name Tawharanui refers to "the abundant bracts of the kiekie vine".
The iconic Anchor Bay is named after the anchor of the Phoenix, a vessel wrecked on the Tawharanui coastline in 1879. Tawharanui
Marine Park See also: Auckland Regional Council Tawharanui information and map (www.arc.govt.nz)
Tawharanui Marine Park was established in 1981 on the northern coast of Tawharanui Peninsula covering an area of 588 hectares, approximately 80 minutes north of Auckland.
The Marine Park complements the terrestrial Tawharanui Regional Park that covers the peninsula. Special fisheries regulations prohibit the taking of all marine life within a three kilometre length of the shore and out to half a nautical mile from the coast.
Tawharanui marine environment The diverse coastline of Tawharanui Peninsula contains a range of subtidal habitats, such as reefs with overhangs, tunnels and caves. Schools of red moki, blue maomao, spotty, red mullet and koheru are common in the park.
Tawharanui Peninsula Regional Park and Marine Park are administered by Auckland Regional Council.
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