P/B Where is the Pigeon? (Canterbury) Traditional Cache

Part of a series of five caches hidden in the area. Ideal for a family day out with a picnic.

During the summer months you may like to take swimwear.

It is approx one hour drive from Christchurch.

An easy cache for the cachlets, the container is large enough for swaps.

The area was settled by members of Ngāi Tūāhuriri living in three settlements there. This bay would become a popular place to settle for Europeans who came there in the 1800s.

First to settle were whalers, then French settlers who would eventually settle in Akaroa. In 1842, Scottish immigrants the Sinclair and Hay families arrived.

Named by whalers because the forest at the bay was alive with keruru.

The village at its head survives as a cluster of houses and holiday homes.

Congratulations Team_Gaters & Magsie20 on FTF.