If you have never found a Challenge cache before, this is a good one to start with.
Chances are you've already qualified to find it
The Challenge: Find 100 caches with a HIKE attribute 
This is a "Medium Walk" - a 2 km return trip from the Pari St carpark, or 3 km return from the Aramoana Mole carpark to the cache. The pre-loved black 10 litre bucket (courtesy of WallaceDuo via KiwiChris) will be an easy find. Around GZ, some rocks are rough red tuff, made from volcanic ash, and some are smoother grey basalt. Bang the grey basalt rock with another rock and enjoy the Rock Gong - it's phonolite.
You will need to visit at low tide for a flat easy stroll. At high tide, some high terrain scrambling would be needed to get along the beach. Check the low tide times for the next week at: Aramoana - Spit tide times
NEW CACHERS, please read these Guidelines for Challenge caches. To "find" a Challenge cache you must achieve a specific geocaching goal (set by the cache owner) and also sign the Challenge cache logbook.
You may sign the logbook for this challenge cache at any time. However, you can only claim the find online after you have qualified for the challenge. If you sign the logbook before qualifying, please log a "Note" online saying that you visited the cache on that date. When you qualify for the challenge, log a "Found" online, dated the day you qualified.
To find this Challenge cache, you have to sign the cache logbook AND find 100 caches with a HIKE attribute. Look for any of these attributes:
Significant Hike 
Short Hike 
Medium Hike 
Long Hike
To find out whether you have found 100 caches with a HIKE attribute, click on the Challenge checker below. Then put your name into the "Profile" field and click "Run Checker". You'll be told if you have qualified for this challenge, and see a list of caches you've found with a "Hike" attribute.
We two daywalks really enjoyed finding Donovan's Spit Beach cache back in 2008 because it took us on a nice walk somewhere we had never been before. To us, that's the real joy of geocaching!
Take the time to walk past the cache to the very end of Spit Beach. A lot of nice dry crevices here, all with white dribbly messages inside them saying "Penguins in residence".
Historian W H S Roberts recorded the Maori place names for this beach and the ridgeline above it: "South-east of Heyward Point is Otu-hare-rau [Otuwarerau], then further along the beach Tama-riki-o-Parera. meaning "the children of Parera" (the fish Chilodactylus Douglasii)."
This was part of the well-used Maori coastal track which went along to the end of Spit Beach, then straight up Jacob's Ladder - Ooh-er! Jacob's Ladder! - to the Heywards Point headland. It must have been a safer route back then but, after a hundred years of rockfalls, it's a wee bit precarious now.
Photos of Jacob's Ladder:
Dunedin Walks blog: Jacob's Ladder - Heyward Point
Eli the Moose photos: Jacob's Ladder
