SAVE CACHES FOR OFFLINE USE AREAS ON THE SCENIC DRIVE HAVE WEAK OR NO CELLPHONE RECEPTION
The Scenic Drive is also known as the Auckland Urban Route number 24.
The road was first constructed in the 1910s, opening in January 1914 as Exhibition Drive (named for the 1913-1914 Auckland Industrial, Agricultural and Mining Exhibition, held in the Domain on the site of the Wintergardens).
Later known as the Waitākere Scenic Drive, today its name shortened to the "Scenic Drive".
It is also part of the Twin Coast Discovery Highway.
On a fine day you are able glimpse some of the amazing views of the city and see the native trees that have grown since the roads creation.
This is a letterbox cache, it is unique in that it is dual purpose. It can be a geocache (the find is logged on the geocaching website) or a letterbox hide (the find can be recorded on the letterbox website).
When in London in in 2019, I found the smallest Letterbox Cache, a micro GC5Q7E4
I still remember signing the log under street light which sparkled in the water, under a bridge beside the river Thames.
Perhaps this hide will not be as memorable as the city scape of London, but I hope you have enjoyed the Urban Route 24 series of cache hides along the Scenic Drive.
At the published co-ordinates is a large sign
Use the distance numbers (km)
Call them A B C D
The Cache can be found at:
SOUTH 36° 54 . (A+B+C) (B+C+D) (B+D)
EAST 174° 32 . (A+B+D) (A+B+B) (B+B)
SO WHAT IS A LETTERBOX CACHE?
It is based on Letterboxing which started in England in 1854, long before the GPS was invented.
Finders follow written instructions/clues to discover the container or the modern way is to use the posted coordinates on the geocaching cache page.
Each letterbox contains a logbook, and a rubber stamp.
When "letterboxers" find the container, they stamp the logbook with their personal stamp, and also stamp their own notebook with the stamp from the letterbox as a souvenir of their visit.
Please remember to leave this caches stamp and logbook in the container for the next finder.