Regretfully we have decided to archive this geocache. We'll place a replacement at a different site where it will hopefully not be muggled as frequently.
The element Air (also sometimes called Wind) is often seen as a universal power or pure substance. Its fundamental importance to life can be seen in words such as aspire, inspire, perspire and spirit, all derived from the Latin spirare.
In Māori mythology the primal couple Rangi, the Skyfather, and Papa, the Earth Mother (or Ranginui and Papatuanuku) appear in a creation myth explaining the origin of the world (though there are many different versions).
The legend of Uenuku is similar to many other vanishing lover tales such as Cupid and Psyche or Beauty and the Beast. Uenuku was out hunting very early one morning when, in a clearing, he saw a beautiful girl who seemed to coalesce out of the morning mist. He persuaded her to stay and talk with him for a moment, and to return the next night, and the next, and the next, and before long they fell in love. Each night she would come to him but as a mist maiden her home was in the sky, so she had to leave him at dawn. At last she agreed to marry Uenuku on condition that he tell no-one about her. They had a few months of happiness, though she still appeared only at night and left at dawn, and in time a little girl was born to them. But Uenuku's friends were skeptical of this wife and child they had never seen. He tried to explain that she left him each morning at first light, so his friends suggested that he block up the doors and windows so she could not see the sun. This he did, but of course the trick was discovered and when the mist maiden knew he had deceived her, she left him. Uenuku wandered the world searching for his beloved wife and daughter. At last, seeing him lonely and bent with age, Rangi the Skyfather took pity on him and changed him into a rainbow so that he could join his family in the sky.
Tāwhirimātea (or Tāwhiri) is the Māori god of weather, not just wind but also including thunder and lightning, clouds and storms. He is one of Rangi and Papa’s sons.
The Māori kite is known as manu tukutuku or manu aute. Manu means both kite and bird, and the word tukutuku refers to the winding out of the line as the kite climbs into the air. Kites were also known as pākau, a word also used for the wing of a bird. Kites were flown for recreation, e.g. to celebrate the start of the Māori New Year, when Matariki (the Pleiades star cluster) appears in the mid-winter night sky, but they also had other purposes. They were used for divination – to gauge whether an attack on an enemy stronghold would be successful, or to locate wrongdoers. They were also a means of communication. Sometimes people would release a kite and follow it, claiming and occupying the place where it landed.
Wind and air are also synonymous with flying and flight. The location of this GC has been handpicked with this in mind. 
New Zealand is flush with wonderful and special birds, some shown in the picture below - of course not all of them enjoy flight, e.g. the iconic kiwi, and the mighty moa (now extinct).
Please drive slowly around this area.
This cache requires the cipher below to solve a field puzzle. Once found and opened, the cache contained log book and some small items of trade, including a F2F. Please put all back together as found, and BYO pen.
