What is Letterboxing?

Do you like walking in the woods, solving clues, using a compass and map, finding buried treasure, rubber-stamping, and having fun? Then letterboxing may be for you... Here you will find clues for Team Psychokiwi's letterboxes, both in New Zealand and the USA. Further clues and loads more information about Letterboxing can be found at the Atlas Quest and  Letterboxing North America (www.letterboxing.org) websites. Letterboxing in New Zealand: clues, news, and views. Yahoo group about letterboxing in New Zealand.

Psychokiwi Letterbox Clues

Judi, Linton, and The Bunny have been having fun cooking up these clues...

New Zealand Letterboxes

North Island

• The Happy Humpback, Otanewainuku Forest, Tauranga.
• The Eert Neerg Letterbox, Waitomo Valley (with RTRW).
• Bulls-Eye, Te Poi, Waikato (with Leader of the Pack).
• "Eight km Laurel" Quest, Taupo, (with Steve, Heidi, & Madras).
• Taupo Botanical Gardens, Taupo.
• Moab Greetings, Turangi (with Kennamtn & Rivergeek).
• Go Nar!, Turangi (with Kennamtn & Rivergeek).
• Baby Elephant Walk, Dartmoor, Hawkes' Bay.
• A Moo-ving Experience, Bulls, (with Leader of the Pack) - confirmed missing.
• Kaitoke Kayak, Kaitoke Regional Park, Upper Hutt (with AM & PM).
• Eye Spy, Wellington (with AM & PM and RTRW).

South Island

• Marlborough Wine Trail Series (various locations).
• Red Oak Acorns, Havelock (with Butterfly).
• What a Fluke!, Kaikoura.
• Kuddly Koala (part of the Pandamonium series).

Stewart Island

• Kakapo.
• Birds of a Feather.

Mystery Boxes

• Dancing Dolphin (part of the world-wide Pandamonium! Mystery Series).
• Kuddly Koala (part of the world-wide Pandamonium! Mystery Series).
• Hansel & Gretel's Dilemma, somewhere in the lower North Island (with RTRW).
• Sunrise - Sunset, somewhere in Wellington (with RTRW).
• Boogie Bear, greater Wellington region.
• A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush (Greater Wellington Region).

Hitchhikers

• Buzzy Bee Hitchhiker - released October 2004, somewhere in the South Island.

Personal Traveler

• Homesick Psychokiwi Traveler

USA Letterboxes

Connecticut

• Denison Pequotsepos Wildlife Series
  • Joe Pye Weed Letterbox
  • Coneflower Letterbox

• Clueless
• I Love Ice-cream! (placed by Steve & Heidi)

Rhode Island

• Gingerbread Man (part of Wanda & Pete's Favorite Ornament series in Burlingame State Park)

Mystery & Bonus Boxes

• Maeve's Mystery Box was placed for the CT Kid's Day Gathering (20 Oct, 2002).
• The Mystical Peace Mystery Letterboxes are somewhere in South-Eastern Connecticut.
• Otus is a tag-along box somewhere in Connecticut.
• The Ancient Fish Mystery Letterbox is somewhere in Connecticut
• The Thank You for your Random Act of Letterboxing Kindness Letterbox is a box that may find you if you're caught in the act of committing a random act of kindness.
• Pandamonium! is a mystery series originating from New London, Connecticut, but spreading out all over the world... Follow the adventures of Zoe Zebra, the Polar Bears, the Kuddly Koala, and the Dancing Dolphin.

Hitchhikers

• Psycho-Bunny the hitch-hiker left Mystic, CT in August 2002 to find her way back to her stamping-ground in New Zealand. Can you help her get there?
• The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything hitch-hiker set out to explore the galaxy on September 11, 2002.
• There's Always A Catbird flapped away in November, 2002.

• Happy Dance loves visiting mystery boxes. Inspired by Bluebird & Butterfly's victory dance, it was released in a local mystery box July 2003.

Event Stamps

• 2003 Mystery & IALC Gathering (Rhode Island)

Other Useful Odds 'n Sods

You can use this form to search Atlas Quest for letterboxes anywhere in the world. For boxes in New Zealand, just enter a nearby town or city. You can also include "NIS" in the State box for the North Island or "SIS" for the South Island.

Other Folk

• The Leader of the Pack and her followers have been extremely busy placing boxes from Connecticut to Kentucky just for you to find.
• Pink Trotters is a Connecticut based boxer. Here is a complete listing of her clues.

News

• Read Mapsurfer's new book on letterboxing - highly recommended!
• Hide & Seek for Grown-ups: the TIME magazine article on letterboxing.
• An article in the Charlotte Observer about letterboxing in Virginia.
• The 2003-2004 edition of Mystic Places (get a copy in any touristy spot in Mystic) has an article on letterboxing, featuring our Joe Pye Weed Letterbox.

Stuff

• By popular demand, here is our very special Vegetarian Chilli recipe. This recipe seems to be especially popular among letterboxers. Funny that.

Friday, 20 November 2009 01:22 PM

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