Mr Potter Has a Tiny House
Trying a new spot in this park which deserves a geocache after my last one was a bit mugglicious. For this one simply find the information you need at Mr Potter's tiny house and use that to locate the multi final location - it's nice and close.
At Mr Potter's tiny house take a look at the words on the bronze. There are the names of three kinds fruit trees on the sculpture - put these in alphabetical order. So for example if the trees were peach, pear and mango, then the order would mango, peach and pear.
A B C D E tree
F G H I J tree
K L M N tree
Convert each letter of the fruit tree to its ordinal value. So in our example above the pear tree would be K=P (so 16), L=E (so 5), M=A (so 1) and N=R (so 18). But that's just an example, you'll need to find the names of the real fruit trees on the sculpture. The final is at:
36 53.(A)(G)(D-4)
174 44.(N-4)(J-14)(L-11)
You are looking for a camoed micro cache, no room for tradeables or trackables sorry - please bring your own pen.
Potter's Park
Potter's Park celebrated its 100th birthday last year, the land it sits on being gifted by Frederick Seymour Potter in 1916, on the basis it would be held in perpetuity as open space for the residents of the area. By mid 1907 Potter had surveyed the site and a subdivision was mapped out in 1908. It is thought that only about a third of the sites were sold however. Tragically, Potter's wife Ellen died in 1912 shortly after the death of their newborn baby and four years later Potter handed over the remaining land to the then Mt Eden Borough Council for "the interests of residents and children of the borough". He continued to live on the land until he passed away in 1941.
The park was formally opened by Governor-General of the day Lord Jellicoe in December 1921. During world war 2, extensive ditches, covered with trap doors, were dug and the park was also used to grow vegetables to aid the Partriotic Fund. In 1940 a Plunket building was opened on the site.
Today the park is much loved by residents and children of the area and features an excellent playground, basketball courts and walking paths. Mr Potter can no doubt be very pleased that his gift to the people of Mt Eden remains so loved and well used by the people of the borough, and all of Auckland.
The cache is a micro so you will need to bring your own pen to sign the log and there is no room for swaps or travel bugs, sorry.