The Kiwi Coin Exchange 4 - Waitakere Traditional Cache

This cache is part of "The Kiwi Coin Exchange" cache series. The series consists of five caches and a main cache at the end.

Car parking is available at:- N52°01·471 W000° 48·828

Each cache contains a coin labelled A, B, C, D or E you will need to record the value, Letter and country the coin comes from. Please don't remove these labelled coins from the cache; the next finder will need them. Each cache also contains a value for the location, this is written on the back of the logbook.

At the end you will convert these into pounds sterling and the coin that has the most value will determine where the final cache is located.

• You will need to record the following items from each cache.
• The country, letter and value of the coin
• The number of the town of area, this is written on the back on the logbook.

Each cache is based around one of our favourite towns or areas in New Zealand, so hopefully you will learn a little about New Zealand while doing this cache series.

The final cache is at GCPRTF - The Kiwi Coin Exchange - Final

Maybe one day you will travel to the actual places mentioned in the caches.

This cache contains the Coin D and the value for Waitakere.

Some things you might see on this cache (click on the image to get a full size image)

A bit about Waitakere

Waitakere village is where we have our home in New Zealand, not that we live there at the moment. It's a small village west of Auckland.

It has a RSA (Returned Servicemans Association), Dairy (Corner Shop) and Village Hall. Its only 40 minutes from the centre of Auckland and with direct trains to Auckland this is a popular place to live.

It also boosts a small primary school, which is very popular as it is renowned as one of the best schools in the area.

This isn't to be confused with Waitakere City, which is name given to a large council district. Waitakere village is part of Waitakere city. Think of Milton Keynes Village and Milton Keynes City and you will know what we mean.

The area boosts an amazing waterfall "Mokoroa Falls", by the way there is a cache (GCJ2RR) on the way to these falls if you are in area.

It's a great area and was recently used to film the Hollywood movie "Boogeyman", which I haven't seen but I believe is a Horror movie.

Waitakere can be found at:- S 36° 58.44 E 174° 36.9633

Some photos from Waitakere (click on the image to get a full size image)

FTF honours, go to Dockerk and zensunni - 19 July 2005.

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