Moeraki Whalers
The 175th anniversary of the establishment of the seaside settlement of Moeraki by whalers in 1836 was celebrated on Boxing Day 2011. Moeraki was originally a Maori settlement and became a whaling port when European whalers arrived to set up a base on Boxing Day 1836.
Maori were also subsequently involved in whaling. While whaling at Moeraki had declined by the 1860s, the village had the best natural harbour between Otago Harbour and Akaroa, and with Oamaru badly needing a sheltered port, for a time it looked as if Moeraki would fill that role for North Otago.
A railway line was built from Oamaru to Moeraki by 1877, before the South Island main trunk was completed to Dunedin, but a pattern of landslips at Moeraki resulted in extensive repairs to the line and closure in 1879 of the section between Hillgrove and Moeraki.,
Solve the puzzle to gather the coordinates, The cache is a white plastic container.
