Almost Home (Central Otago) Traditional Cache
TheCoddiwompler: I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in a prior reviewer note.
Almost Home (Central Otago)
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This is the bottom end of our valley and when we come over the hill
and around the bends from Raes Junction we feel that we are back in
our home territory, we're on the home stretch..
Some thousands of year ago the Clutha (Mata Au), or as it used to
be called, the Molyneux, ran in a bed different from where it does
today. At that time it occupied a bed on the main road side of the
high land. Due to erosion along the other side it changed its
course to the bed it occupies today.
A recent project extracted gold from the old riverbed. The
overburden was removed and the gold-bearing gravel fed into a
dredge floating on a small pond which was moved along as the mining
progressed. After the gold was extracted the gravel and topsoil
were replaced and the land returned to its natural state.
When, in the future, the Tuapeka Mouth Dam is built and filled the
area between the current road and the eastern hill will again be
under water. That eastern hill will become a biggish island in the
lake.
You are looking for a micro that has in it a log strip only.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
N fznyy, terra, yrtyrff ovfba.Sebag yrsg, hc uvtu.
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