Te Arikiroa (Sulphur Flat) Traditional Cache

Cache is a camouflaged peanut butter container.

Please replace cache as you find it .

Approach GZ from the lake side of the trees and the cache is hidden in one of the trees.

Cache contains log book and pencil with a few little things to swap.

This is part of the Rotorua walkway which is 26kms long and broken up into 8 smaller sections.

The site was given the name Waiwhitiinanga to commemorate the battle between the tribes Ngati Tangaroa-mihi and Ngati Tama which took place on these sandy beaches. This barren, inhospitable area provides a very popular roosting habitat for birds. Banded Dotterel nest and raise their young here.

On the southern shores of Sulphur Bay, the walkway passes through the area known as Te Arikiroa. Centuries ago a battle raged here on the sandy lake beach. The site was given the name Waiwhitiinanga to commemorate the battle between the tribes Ngati Tangaroa-mihi and Ngati Tama. The dead and dying were said to be so thickly strewn about as a result of the fighting that they resembled inanga (whitebait) cast on the shore.