Don’t
know what geocaching is? It’s a global treasure hunt using GPS. We’ve been geocaching
since 2004 and, throughout that time, NZ has been a major location for caches –
hardly surprising with such spectacular scenery.
We
just had to find some caches in NZ. However, attempts in Auckland came to
nothing and it wasn’t until we headed south to the Firth of Thames that we
finally found our first cache at the site where James Cook landed and named the
Thames River – known these days by its Maori name Waihou River. It seemed very appropriate
that we, as travellers from the Old World, should make this our first caching discovery.
Other
unique or unusual caches included a volcanic island, a glacier, bubbling mud,
the Moreaki Boulders, the original bungy jumpsite, and Pancake Rocks. We even
had a trip down memory lane, finding one cache with no GPS or map, simply using
our “cachers eye”.
Fellow
cachers are welcome to contact us for more information about our finds or look
us up (balancingwalcheros) on geocaching.com.
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