The Tuia Mātauranga Pōkai Whenua GeoTour follows the footsteps of early explorers of Aotearoa New Zealand taking you to places where leaders of the past searched for food, resources and ways to adapt and survive in this new land.
Use the Pōkai Whenua GeoTour as your classroom to explore the stories of the past, in the present, to preserve what is unique in Aotearoa New Zealand for the future.
Collect the codewords to get the Geocoin puzzle pieces.
To be able to complete this GeoTour and receive your special Geocoin collectable, remember to take a note of the codeword placed in the cache. This will need to be recorded in your passport which can be downloaded here.
63 of the 150 Pōkai Whenua GeoTour caches will contain a randomly placed special FTF token (a replica of the Tuia Mātauranga GeoTour commemorative coin). This is yours to keep! If you find more than one, you might consider leaving it for the next person who finds the cache.
In 1840 Pastorlist William Sinclair Trotter Turned from a Whaler to a runholder .
In 1859 he took up this land 25000 hectares of valley floor and mountainside Named Greenvale
His first homestead was bult near here , some of the stone buildings remains are still parsily intacked to this day .
The founding flock of sheep came from Moeraki on the north Otago Coast .
In 1860 he drove the flock of sheep 180km from the coast though to Clyde. There they crossed the Clutha river by punt and over the Old Man Range , battling though steep matagouri (matakoura)c into the Nevis Range and finally to Greenvale .
How times have changed. Here we find the new and diverse range of farm animals from the humble Sheep, Alpaca, Horse, Highland Cow and maybe a cheeky goat or two. You can even book in a farm skills workshop, to learn how to back trailers, crack a whip, shoot a gun, and perhaps even work with a horse or two.
Yes this is Real Country!