Otakaro 2: Mahy/Locke (Canterbury) Traditional Cache

The Otakaro/ Avon River caching trail is underway, from the City to the Sea. This is the second one, located adjacent to the magnficent new childrens playground, opening in December 2015 and one of the major anchor projects of the Canterbury rebuild. A superb development. The kids will want to linger, including the big ones!

Please leave secure and re-hide well right in there, its a small container susceptible to muggling if not wedged in and well covered.

The Avon River was known by the Māori as Ōtākaro^[2] or Putare Kamutu.^[3] The Canterbury Association had planned to call it the Shakespere [sic].^[4] The river was given its current name by John Deans in 1848 to commemorate the Scottish Avon, which rises in the Ayrshire hills near what was his grandfathers' farm, Over Auchentiber.^[5] The Deans built their homestead adjacent to the Avon River where the suburb of Riccarton now lies.

The name was officially altered to Avon River / Ōtākaro by the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998, one of many such changes under the Ngāi Tahu treaty settlement.^[6

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avon_River_(Canterbury)