THE CACHE
The cache is not at plain sight, so you will need to use a tool to extract it from it's hide. The location is quite bussy, so please, a lot of stealth is required. I provided one tool hidden on the waypoint 1. You can use my tool, or anything you want, once you guess where it is located, you can use your own resources if you like it better, but the tool is handy. Try to leave everything as camouflaged as possible, and also out of reach!!. Thanx
St. Patrick Cathedral's History
1841 - Bishop Pompallier made his first trip to Auckland in 1841, and applied to Governor Hobson for “a sufficient space of land for a church, for the use of the Roman Catholic public”. Within a month, the Government granted a half-acre section on Wyndham Street for a church and priest's house.
1842 - The land grant for church was wonderful news to the nearly 200 – mainly Irish – Catholics living in Auckland at the time.
By January 1842, a small wooden presbytery had been built on the church site.
1848 - With a growing population in Auckland, the early wooden church was soon found to be too small. In 1846, Bishop Viard laid the foundation stone for the new stone church. Fifteen months later, on March 19, 1848, the stone church was solemnly blessed and opened by Bishop Viard. The cost of the building was £1387.
1884 - As Auckland's population continued to grow, the stone Cathedral gradually became too small. Bishop Luck laid the foundation stone for the nave and tower addition to the stone church on May 4, 1884 The new, expanded Cathedral was blessed and opened within a year on March 15, 1885
1907 - By the turn of the century, the Cathedral was once again found to be inadequate in size for the growing population of Auckland. Plans were drafted for the demolition of the stone church. The completed Cathedral was reopened on April 21, 1907 by Bishop Lenihan. This is the same Cathedral building as we know it today.
THE CACHE
It is an small cache (please do not use much space with your log). Bring you own pen.
// THE AFWT SERIE //
Thank you very much for looking for the caches on the AFWT serie!
There are a couple more around the city center of Auckland that you may wanna check out aswell if you haven't found them yet:
Queen's Wharf / AFWT Serie #1 GC6A0BH (Multi)
Q. Elizabeth II Square / AFWT Serie #2 GC6APRD (Traditional)
Fort Lane / AFWT Serie #3 GC6A0A0 (Traditional)
Emily Place / AFWT Serie #4 GC68CE1 (Traditional)
Karanga Plaza / AFWT Serie #5 GC6ATBQ (Multi)
St Patrick's Cathedral / AFWT Serie #6 GC6AABG (Traditional)
A Night Among The Dead / AFWT Serie #7 GC6AH7A (Night Cache)
Albert Park House / AFWT Serie #8 GC6CEJR (Multi)
Britomart / AFWT Serie #9 GC6D1KR (Traditional)
Northen Club / AFWT Serie #10 GC6CKV6 (Traditional)
Albert Barracks / AFWT Serie #11 GC6CY7K (Traditional)
St Paul Church / AFWT Serie #12 GC6DE4R (Multi)
N. Roller Mills / AFWT Serie #13 GC6DE9B (Traditional)
Beach Road / AFWT Serie #14 GC6DW6P (Traditional)
The Strand Station / AFWT Serie #15 GC6E681 (Multi)
All of them are super fun to search, and on each one there is a little history to make the place where they are hiden alive.
The series has been made by the Auckland Free Walking Tour team, so the world-wide Geocachers could enjoy this one of a kind seaside city.
If you enjoyed geocaching and wanna know more about our town, do not hesitate to contact us. We would love to see you walking with us!!