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Fatiau Tuai Traditional Cache

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alsjfs: Another damp day. We walked in from opposite the noni farm entrance, spotting some orchids in flower on the way. There was also quite a lot of slippery fungal growth on the track to avoid. The village area had been cleared quite recently, making for easy access to remove the cache.

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Hidden : 9/10/2017
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Fatiau Tuai, the deserted village, lies in a seldom visited part of Niue to the southwest of the village of Vaiea.


Access to Fatiau Tuai is either through Vaiea village, or via a track starting opposite the Noni farm gates. Either bike or walk, no rental cars please. A track carries on from Fatiau Tuai to the coast, and if a big swell is running the waves breaking on the reef are spectacular here. Two whales cruised past here on the day we placed the cache.

Coast at end of Sea Track

 

There is a board giving the history of the village near the cache, and a path that you can follow around the village perimeter.

Information Board

The history board conflicts with a story that we were told on a conservation tour some years ago, and yet another story was published in a booklet on Niue. History has a habit of being rewritten it seems.


Village Map


Old Grave and Water Tank


The cache container is a 200ml Sistema.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Haqre n gerr, gur anzr fgnegf jvgu C, evtug erne. Pbirerq jvgu byq pbpbahg furyy naq gur onfr bs n sebaq. Cyrnfr eruvqr jryy. Vtaber (naq yrnir va cynpr) nal obggyrf yrsg ol zhttyrf.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)