The Tuia Mātauranga - Pōkai Whenua GeoTour: Rua 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 you 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."
Ōtāne ("place of a man") is a town in the Central Hawke's Bay District.
It was founded in 1874, during a subdivision of Henry Tiffen's 5140-hectare Homewood farming estate, overtaking and replacing a neighbouring township, Kaikora, formed over the 1850s and 1860s, becoming the centre of the Pātangata County from 1885 to 1977. In July 2020, the name of the locality was officially gazetted as Ōtāne by the New Zealand Geographic Board having previously often been written as Otane.
There is a heritage walk brochure to help you explore:
https://www.hawkesbaynz.com/assets/Uploads/Otane-Historic-Pavement-Walk.pdf
At the posted coordinates, you will be standing at location no 11, the Soap Factory.
This unprepossessing building is the is the oldest working wooden factory in New Zealand, constructed for William White and Son in November 1890 to produce sheep dipping fluid and weed killer.
Now owned by the Priest family, antiseptic liquid soap continues to be manufactured here.
Two products are featured on the information sign.
Use the Product on a Yellow background to find the South coordinates, and the one on a White Background to find the East coordinates. Unless otherwise instructed, count the number of letters in the word.
The Cache is a short walk away at:
S 39 5 A.BCD E 176 3W.XYZ
Where:
A= The number of times the product name is mentioned.
B= The first two locations mentioned where it can be used.
C= The number of words on the second line.
D= The last location mentioned for use.
W = The last digit in the number of the Animal Remedies Act 1967 licence number.
X = “The trough should be from X5 to 40 feet long”.
Y = The word in Red on the top line.
Z = First word.
Checksum: (A+ B + C + D + W + X + Y + Z) = 40.