Oreti Beach - Te Araroa Trail (Southland) Traditional Cache
mrandmrschosen1978: Sadly we are going to archive this cache due to the amount of damage done in the vicinity and to the cache. The cache was crushed beyond repair. So opening up the area for another cache placement? Swag was added to the cache 'Dunes' along the track.
Looks like the council has closed off the road access behind the dunes but access is still available via the beach.
Oreti Beach - Te Araroa Trail (Southland)
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Te Araroa - New Zealand's Trail - is a continuous 3,000 km walking track from Cape Reinga to Bluff.
22km of the trail is on Oreti Beach starting in Riverton and exiting at the Dunn Street beach entrance.
Te Araroa is the ultimate 5-month New Zealand experience, but also offers section tramps lasting anything from a few days to a week or more, and many attractive day or overnight walks. It is a different kind of trail from the traditional back-country tramping tracks. Te Araroa connects settlements, townships and cities. It's a corridor that encourages social and economic transactions en route – for marae stays and other cultural experiences, also food and accommodation. The track corridor showcases a wide variety of New Zealand experiences - natural, cultural, and historic.
Te Araroa’s boundaries are the natural boundaries of New Zealand itself. It starts and is brought to a natural halt against the sea. En route it explores New Zealand’s tombolos, its volcanoes, its range and mountain uplift, its rivers, lakes and valleys. Successful long trails overseas generally have a geographic and geological unity. Te Araroa’s variety is underpinned by the mightiest geology of all – tectonic plate subduction. When walking New Zealand, you are walking also the Pacific Plate boundary or – at least sometimes – along the Rim of Fire.
Oreti Beach Section Route Notes:
Distance: 32km
Time: 1 day
At the eastern end of the bridge on SH99, turn into Jetty St and onto Leader St. Drop down onto the sand and head south around the estuary mouth and onto Oreti Beach. Take care when the tide is high.
About 4hr (12km) into the journey walkers need to ford the mouth of Waimatuku Stream. This crossing can be difficult at high tide but is straightforward at mid to low tide. Plan your approach accordingly.
From the north east side of the Palmerston Road Bridge walk down towards the river mouth past Jetty St to the sports field toilets. There is a riverside track here beside a line of pine trees that takes walkers around to the beach.
It is then a 22km walk along the beach to the Dunns Rd exit, which becomes visible at a gap in the dunes. There is a power pole here with a streetlight attached. Follow Dunns Rd for 7.15km into Invercargill and continue 1.5km along Stead St, which crosses the estuary towards Tweed St, and the start of Invercargill’s CBD.
The section ends over the road bridge where the Rotary Club’s Stead St Wharf Walkway begins on the right hand side.
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