The Māwaihākona Stream series of caches consists of:
Up 'n Ugly
Rahui Bridge
Branches
Tee Tree
Hole in One
Leg it!
The Cache
The Game Zone is situated just over the fence from the 6th hole of the Silverstream Public Golf Park. Golfers tend to overshoot into the grass at the base of this tree so I've had to raise the cache well off the ground to avoid ball-hunters. You may have to wait for them to tee off down the fairway toward hole 7.
How to get to the walkway
Park at the end of Country Lane in Silverstream. Walk NE along the Hutt River Trail for 250m to Māwaihākona Stream. Walk off the Trail to the fence on the NE bank of the stream, you'll see the walkway. Follow it to the concrete bridge and cross it. The tracks can also be accessed via Heretaunga Park (to the right of toilet block).
The Māwaihākona Stream
This cache series straddles the Māwaihākona Stream walkway which runs through farmland beside St Pat's College in Silverstream.
The trails have been created as part of a podocarp forest restoration project by the Friends of the Mawaihakona group lead by Bart Hogan. About 6000 podocarp forest trees have been planted including matai, pukatea, totara, lacebark, and wineberry. They replaced alders, willows, broom, gorse and blackberry, cleared by the group. As the native trees grow they will shade the stream and kill the weeds choking it.
Please look after children around the water.
Waterfowl are nesting in this reserve so this is a dog-free zone.
Place cache back as you found it, thanks.
