Leishmans Falls (Dunedin, Otago) Traditional Geocache

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daywalk: Walked past today... but only found a plastic snaplock bag and a pen. Sadly, now there's a marked track here instead of just a route, this crevice is no longer a suitable hiding place for a cache.

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Hidden : 12/2/2009
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

A delightful ten-minute walk not quite as far as Leishmans Falls. (You will go on to see the falls, won't you?) There are four stream crossings, but you will be able to boulder-hop and keep your feet dry. A great place to take the children.

The track entry off Whare Flat Rd is marked by a Dept of Conservation sign - Chalkies access track (and hunting access - for caches?). Follow the track through the sycamore trees. Waratahs with orange tops mark the track to Leishmans Creek. Cross the stream - take care on the slippery boulders! - to the true left bank.

You will see an old holding tank which used to be part of the Mosgiel water supply. This Leishmans Creek intake was constructed in 1920 to supplement the 1905 Whare Creek intake. It was replaced by bore supply in the 1960s.

Cross back over the weir, follow the track up the true right, cross twice more and you're at the cache. It's a 2 litre snaplock container which should be completely concealed. The accuracy is only 14 metres, but there is only one place it can be!

The track continues to Leishmans Falls and the Leishmans Ridge track. But, unfortunately the storm in the winter of 2013 caused so much damage it is difficult to get to see the Falls.

The track climbs steeply uphill for 20 metres, slightly away from the stream. When you get to the crest of the bump, follow the track down to your right until you reach the junction of two branches of Leishmans Creek. If it weren't for the fallen trees and the slip, you could walk upstream twenty metres and see Leishmans Falls just around the corner.

On the narrow ridge between the creeks, there is a rope to help you on a track climbing upwards to Timgrin's Walkways of Otago: Leishmans Falls Ridge. That's a highly recommended walk on a fine day.

The creek's name comes from Robert Leishman, who farmed this long strip of hilly land skirting the Silverstream downstream of Whare Flat. He named it “Morven Hills” after the birthplace of his Highland wife and built the homestead from stones from the riverbed. Robert was the only man in the district to own a dray, which was drawn by a bull with a horse in the lead, and he did all the carting. Mistress Leishman was one of the settlement’s midwives.

The Taieri Plains: Tales of the Years that are Gone - Margaret Shaw and Edgar Farrant 1949
Pulse of the Plains: A History of Mosgiel W R Kirk 1985

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Explicit: you won't need to use the clue] Avpurorarnguebpxsnprolgenpx

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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