The Te Araroa is a 3000-km trail stretching from Cape Reinga in the North of New Zealand to Bluff in the South. More information about this walkway can be found at the following Link to teararoa.
The Te Araroa Paekakariki to Plimmerton Track will have an official opening once the walkway is completed.
All cachers doing these caches MUST follow these guidelines for their own safety
Pedestrian access is ONLY via the Walkway entrance at the given co-ordinates . There is no need to go near or cross the railways line at any time. Walking or riding across non authorised pedestrian access points is dangerous and can incur fines up to $20,000.
The cache is placed here to bring you here to enjoy this new section of the Te Araroa walkway which is between Paekakariki at the North end to Pukerua Bay at the Southern end. Once the track is completed it should be about 7 kilometres long. The track can be easily achievable by walking only at this stage as there is no bike access allowed on this walkway at the moment and there is no vehicle access at any point of this walkway. The walkway which follows above the North Island Main Trunk and SH 1 has views of the West Coast and they change as you go along this walkway and at any point you will get great views of the surrounding area which includes Kapiti, Paekakariki, Pukerua Bay and the South Island.
Once you are on this walkway there is no exit off this path except the given trailhead co-ordinates.
Caveats:
- Do not proceed past the given trailhead reference points as it is a construction site.
- Cellphone coverage is good along some parts of the walkway.
- If the path is blocked off you may still have access to the given waypoint between the trailhead reference points only.
Looking South
View of Kapiti Island
When placed this cache a 200ml sistema container had the following contents
A logbook and a Geocaching cache note
A couple of pencils
A couple of swapables
Please remember to collected the extra info in the logbook
Please replace the container properly back into it location and make sure that it is covered well before leaving as we don't want it to be muggled.