This is a slightly upgraded version of a cache construction that my dad made for me to place when I was about 12, and hooning about on my pushbike with an etrex and a printed sheet of cache descriptions was one of my favourite ways to spend time. He's been dead some time now, but he'd have loved that I now make this sort of cache too.
At about the same age I read The Runaway Settlers, a brilliant historical fiction novel for children set in Governor's Bay, written by Elsie Locke (1912-2001). Elsie lived most of her life about 100m north-west of GZ, in a "tiny gingerbread cottage" with an outside toilet. Elsie was remarkable - she was a major force behind NZ's nuclear free status, protested conscription during the second world war, began the forerunner to the Family Planning Association in 1936, won numerous awards for her writing, joined the NZ Communist party in 1933 and left in protest in 1956 - Muldoon described her and her husband as the "most notorious Communist family in New Zealand". In 1980 as an older lady she traveled outside NZ for the only time in her life, to a writers' conference, and US authorities required that she was accompanied by an armed guard for her entire stopover in Hawaii.