An Accidental Discovery (Kumara, West Coast) Letterbox Hybrid
Hidden : 9/25/2022
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:


The gold rush at Kumara, which became known as New Zealand's last gold rush, was started by a couple of moon-shiners.

During the early 1870s prospectors Dick Cashman and James Conner were not having much luck and decided to take up moon-shining (illicit distilling) as a more profitable pastime. They carried a still up the Taramakau River and went deep into the bush where the smoke wouldn't be noticed.
Following a small creek they found a good place and began to dig out a platform for the tubs and still. Imagine their surprise and joy when they saw coarse nuggety gold in the gravel.
Although they kept quiet about their discovery curious miners attempted to follow Cashman and Conner home when they came to town for supplies but were invariably led along a false trail.
After several years Cashman and Conner's secret was finally discovered with the finders being flabbergasted at the extensive nature of the workings.

This is the site of the Old Swimming Baths, you can read all about it from the board right at GZ.

Inside the appropriately themed container are 2 logbooks, 1 for signing your geocaching name and the other for letterboxing stamps. Please do not remove the stamp from the container.

The logbook here has been previously used for TMGT cache of the same name

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

2aq chatn onfr YUF bs fvtaobneq

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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