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 piece.
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.
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For Letterboxers…
Find this Letterbox on Letterboxing here : 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle'
There is a letterbox stamp, inkpad and logbook provided in a container clearly labelled for Letterboxers. These must remain in the container.
Do not stamp the logbook provided for Geocachers.
For Geocachers…
There is a logbook and pen available to log your visit in a container clearly labelled for Geocachers.
There is plenty of room for swappable items and your larger trackables..
Do not remove the letterbox stamp or inkpad – they are NOT for swapping.
Do not use the logbook provided for Letterboxers
Every year New Zealanders send around 2.5 million tonnes of waste to landfill. The majority of this waste is not reprocessed or recycled and doesn’t break down over time. Not only does this have a huge negative impact on our environment, throwing away things wastes resources. It wastes the raw materials and energy used in making the items and it wastes money.
There are many communities in NZ that are coming together to work towards reducing their environmental impact and the town of Raglan sets a great example. After Raglan's landfill closed in 2000, the town decided to find an alternative to transporting all its waste to a tip in the Waikato. This led to the establishment of a non-profit community organization dedicated to recycling and conservation of the area - Xtreme Zero Waste. Every year an increasing volume and percentage of waste is recycled and as of 2010 over 70% of the community's waste is prevented from reaching the landfill.
This was achieved in a variety of ways - on site there is a metal yard and a wood yard that resells second-hand building materials. Previously on average 300 cubic meters of building materials were being sent to landfill each year, now much of that is being reused instead. Garden waste is turned into compost and there is a Reuse shop for anything and everything that could be given a second life.
The Zero Waste Education (ZWE) programme has been educating children about the topic of sustainable resource use since 1993. This award-winning programme is now offered to over 480 schools throughout New Zealand to students in years 1-8 each year. Educational resources are also on offer to visitors and within the community.
-- This cache is made of repurposed materials from Xtreme Zero Waste (gas cylinder, golf clubs, metal pipe, caster wheels, plastic containers) a few unused utensils, a discarded hard hat that was found while on a walk, rubber stamp from an op shop and a little elbow grease. --
The lock code is: 1802
Ko te mahi ngātahi kia para kore te whenua
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-- Many thanks to Xtreme Zero Waste for permission to place this cache --