Owhango is quite small, and you can walk or drive to all the locations given. A visit to all clues means you will cover about 3 or 4 km in total.
Clue 1: The Owhango domain has a set of swings in it. These swings are about 472 metres from the cache.
Clue 2: There is a Department of Conservation sign announcing the Ohinetonga Reserve, and access to the Whakapapa River and Tongariro Forest on the eastern side of town. This sign is about 518 metres from the cache. This location is also the "gateway" to my Cabbage Tree Cradle cache and also Stumped by a Waterfall, plus others.
Clue 3: Retired 9 Jan 2019. There used to be a "tin man" on a pole waving his tin paddle around near the Owhango Hotel, and before that there were some wooden sculptures. These features were used as clues for periods of time. Seeing that these are no longer there and the building even has a different name now, I'll just note that too many finders (before 2019) stopped looking for further clues after finding this one! But now I suggest you keep searching.... :-)
Clue 4: Owhango Road has several fire hydrants beside it but only one which is very close to 227 metres from the cache! (This clue used to be more specific but I changed it on 14 April 2025 after the log from first time finder KayshaS on that same date alerted me to the description now being out of date - new version might be a little more challenging!)
Clue 5: An old stone monument dating from around 1940 can be found near Kakahi Stream at the north western corner of Owhango and is about 499 metres from the cache. This is not visible from the road but is an easy one minute walk away and is interesting to visit as other concrete structures in the stream (from roughly the same era) are remnants of a earlier “community swimming pool” which has been recently restored to something close to its former glory.
You are looking for a 2L blue plastic ice cream container. My youngest son originally did most of the work to set this up with a log book and a collection of items from his vast collection. It is well hidden well above ground level. Shorter people may need to use the nearby "tool".
Hint: the “nearest waypoints” display in the etrex and similar units is an easy way to track distances to multiple nearby waypoints.