Welcome to North Piha, where the sea is a bit rougher, but the beach is a whole lot quieter. The cache is not found at the posted coordinates but it is a good place to park.
I found a cool spot on a big hike recently but it seems that I got sand in my GPS as the waypoint I marked glitched out when I tried to retrieve the notes I'd left for myself:
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I'm sure it makes some sort of sense, and it's worth cracking as it's one of the top 64 places of mime to come to out this way.
Clarification of the rahui area from Te Kawerau a Maki executive manager Edward Ashby:
- The rāhui covers areas of kauri ecology only within the Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area (WRHA)
- Best way to think about it is from a ecologists point of view in terms of a catchment – the tikanga was to the kauri and the forest. It is safest to assume anywhere within the forest itself is covered by the rāhui, and only those places where kauri are not in the catchment are excluded.
- Tracks that pass by kauri trees, or are within an ecological catchment that includes kauri trees, are within the rāhui. This means even those nature trails around Arataki that have kauri or are near kauri are within the rāhui and Kitekite Falls is definitely within the rahui.
- Gravel roads etc are not included. If there are no kauri or forest anywhere nearby, then chances are that you are not within the rāhui – so dam roads etc are not part of the rāhui
- If you are running along a coastal track next to the beach with nothing but Manuka scrub or grassland, then chances are that you are not within the rāhui.
- From a technical level, even open grassed paddocks within the Regional Parkland (for example the golf course at Cascades) are not within the rāhui - just don’t go after the golf ball if you hit it into the forest 😊
- Te Henga walkway is primarily not anywhere near kauri, so it is not included within the rāhui.
- Goldies Bush is not within the WRHA which is an arbitrary line used to define the approximate area we are talking about when we talk about the rāhui. However, it has kauri, is obviously part of Waitakere, so from a tikanga perspective the rāhui applies to Goldies Bush.
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