Coalmine Corner (Taranaki) Tahora, North Island, New Zealand
By Size 13 on 15-Jan-13. Waypoint GC44F8C

The rock has gone and the road realigned and sealed so archiving is the best option at the moment.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Pretty sure I found where it once was, but that's a big DNF from me today.

Dieser Cache konnte heute leider nicht erfolgreich geloggt werden.Danke an den owner fr's legen und pflegen TFTC Schmerzbefreit

Dieser Geocacher hat gemeldet, dass der Cache evtl. verschwunden ist.

we couldn't find the cache at the big stone.

A much better day for some Geocaching..so sick of all this rain. AlmaWoody is needing help to get her caravan stocked up and ready to go on the road for some summer trips so we made an early start to come here first for todays streak day #149. Arrived to where some road improvements are happening and GZ has been wiped out unfortunately. I found one of the OG rocks maybe about 10m away from GZ and have dropped a replacement cache there. A 50ml clear vial tube. CO will need to come and sort this one out in the near future.

Interesting write up! The bush is so thick you can hardly see the river so could see no tram tracks across the way but cool you can go explore it if youre game enough. TFTC

A shame the GZ has been ruined here as by looking at google maps its looked like a good place to hide a cache. Hope all the road works are finished now and the new container lives for awhile. Forgot to take new coords but its now behind the large (and only) rock in the vicinity. Thanks

A pile of dirt añd digger suggest cache gone

Found it. Summer Holiday 2021

Like this one for sure, quick find. Tftc

Heading on to Taumarunui this morning from Whangamomona - the first time I have driven this bit of road since the 1970s when it was all unsealed. No problems here, found it after checking just a few likely spots. Signed log, TFTC!

A stop next to the dirt road. Good to get some distance from other cars and find a cache at while at it. Quick find. Local man driving by asked if we were lost and needed help... No thanks we are all fine.

TFTC Size 13

*** Out on our MEGA Roadtrip with Wilbywarrior. Who says this can only happen when the MEGA is actually held?! Greetings from Dunedin, caching friends
#370 ***

Nice and easy find here. Good break from the long weekend traffic that is driving along here avoiding the Covid level 3 section of Highway 3.
Malinkaly and I planned a road trip to go to the MEGA but Covid has postponed the event again. We decided to continue on with our planned journey making adjustments as we go with the ever-changing travel restrictions.
Greetings from Dunedin!
Thanks for the cache, Size 13
#2615

I like it. My only concern is I hope I can get my small car back on the road! Very shingly and muddy. Tftc

Overran the gorge cache too busy being mesmerised by the scenery. After the lunch stop, I made sure I didn't miss this one. A nice easy find with great coordinates and hint during a fabulous bike ride through from Ohura to the capital of the Republic.
Thanks for your cache placements in this area Size 13.

Still there!!!

Really cool

Thanks Size 13 for the cache. It’s #1394 for us. We found your cache on 16 February 2021. Lovely spot in a spectacular gorge.

Just about missed the rocks, but there they were, and a quick find. Raced out ahead of a camper van I could see coming down the road. TFTC Size 13.

Day 4 of a 10 day road trip round the bottom half of the North Island, and today it was New Plymouth to Owhango.
We weren’t going to go the Forgotten World Highway until it was mentioned to us by our hosts in N.P, so we did some research and thought that would be the way to go.
Pretty cool drive, would be frustrating in parts if you were stuck behind slow traffic, but we did not have that problem with a few regular cache stops. Whangamomona is a real treat of a town - great pub, and you get the feeling there is a great community spirit out here.
Really enjoyed it, great weather, and no problems with any caches, apart from adding some log paper. Thanks all COs.

Located with Ricardinho
TFTC

A nice quick find thanks. Rocks nicely hidden by the long grass!

Ms_KR and I are on our annual pilgrimage to Auckland for our family Christmas. A biggish day km wise, from Gordonton to Stratford, via the Forgotten World Highway. A nice place for driving and views at times of Mounts Ruapehu and Taranaki. Please excuse the generic logs, there have been a few finds and they get muddled up sometimes.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Spotted and as per FriwiNZ ie, me, being wifey, got it. Tftc

Tftc. Found on a lovely day while on our Xmas hols from South Island

TFTC my first time though here

Cute place to stop break up the drive

After talking about it for a few years we decided it was time to drive the forgotten highway.  This was found on day 1 on our way to spend the night at the Whangamomona Hotel.  Found as part of our school holiday North Island road trip.  TFTC

We decided to head away for a few days in the camper and do some geocaching. One of our aims was to travel the Forgotten World Highway. Another one on the highway. Mrs S got out for this one just as a muggle vehicle came around the corner. Why does that always happen. However it didn't take long to pass and she soon found the cache. The grass was long and wet, but the cache was all dry.

Thanks Size 13. Another smilie on the Forgotten World Highway.

Coal cool. Thanks for the explanation. TFTC

Unfortunately not the best day to venture down the river to find the coal mine entrance. Spotted the cache from the car and send wifey to grab it. TFTC

After we found the cache we just had to check out the coalmine. The way to the caves was adventurous! first crossing the river and then finding the way to the mine. We loved going up the stream. We entered at a hole but it was very narrow. 10 meters in a duck walk and we were exhausted but felt like real miners We are not quite sure if it was the fourth or right one. Nevertheless it was a lot of fun! Thanks so much for sharing.
TFTC eSirius89

Many things have been forgotten on this highway, including this mine!
Thanks, Greetings Häschensucher
 

Found with MrsC on our NZ travels, thanks. A great day travelling the Forgotten World Highway. Loved the gorge and a really rough gravel road

Very interesting place on our gravel road. Found with mr c on our travels from the UK thank you.

Found with our 3 and 6 y.o. Thank you Size 13 for making us stop here and for the wealth of information. Thank you.

Found with our 3 and 6 y.o. Thank you Size 13 for making us stop here.

Found on our way through the Forgotten World... TFTC

Heading south along the Forgotten Highway, with the team back together. Stopped off to check out Coal Miner Corner and to get this one snagged and tagged. Cheers. Thanks for info on cache page.

Day 17 - Sunday 29 December. Taumaranui through to Hawera today. So lets go!!

The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby and I are spending Christmas exploring Taranaki via geocaching. Its been an amazing 3 week adventure. Rattls BBQ was a great event, meeting many other cachers. But also managed to fit in a few more events, especially New Years Day celebrating the start of 2020. Lots of caches - over 500. Lots of cache maintenance. Lots and lots of kilometers. And lots of amazing places visited along our journey. Mt Taranaki remained elusive for much of our travels and the caches on it at the top. Loved Pukekura Park Night Lights Show and the the Wooden Mechanical toy exhibition at NP Info centre.

Damn. we totally missed the cache description here. Would have loved to visit the mine. Oh well.

I have lost my notebook! When I go on a geotrip I record my finds and notes in a log book or, in the case of this big circumnavicaching trip around Mt Taranaki that Taybeedragon and I did over Christmas, in three notebooks. And I have lost notebook number 3 - 29th December onward. Luckily I enter the caches as found on the GPS (helps with avoiding backtracking) so I am using my GPS log to identify which caches I found/DNFed. Alas, however, no cache notes. So it is now March - and I am relying on memory. A fickle thing, memory. I suspect most will have no notes above. Sorry, folks.

Short stop, quick find.

Greets from Germany
Tftc. Danke fürs Dösle

Quick find. Tftc

With kiwitien. TFTC

Niet moeilijk. TFTC

For our NZ visit we created a "wishful-thinking-to-do-list" ... knowing we can not do them all but we can at least try. Old caches, earth, virtual and webcam are on the top of our list... but also some traditionals, multi etc...

They can’t get any easier [:o)]
TFTC

Short stop at the coal mine ...

Escorting Yeetrees on an outstanding Taranaki geocache hunt today. This was my second find of the day, but Yt must be up to about a dozen or more. Every time I’ve travelled SH43 I’ve overshot this cache and there’s nowhere really to turn around and backing up isn’t really an option so it was great to get it on this occasion. We’re running short of time to actually investigate the mine workings although the river flow is almost non-existent. Another time for that. TFTC

tftc found it on a waitangi day trip

We are in New Zealand again visiting my eldest son and thought we would do some caches along the Forgotten World Highway. Easy find.
TFTC

TFTC

We are on vacation in New Zealand and of course we seek some caches.
Thanks for this one!
Greetings from the Dutch.

It was time to assemble Team BOP as I hadn't seen these crazy people since the Mega. The plan was Taranaki via the Forgotten World Highway and we were all pretty excited about it. It was a big couple of days so forgive the cut'n'paste logs as I'm logging retrospectively and a few of the hides are blurring together. TNXPro, McJandals, Davidson Clan & myself signed our logs individually or as TEAM BOP depending on time, log space or mood.

This cache was found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords and a straight forward placement. Cheers Size 13, TFTC

TeamBOP have come together again for a trip to the Naki.
We decided to take the long way there, via the Forgotten Highway, experiencing the world famous in New Zealand Republic of Whangamomona Day.

I wish I read this cache page while we were here, as it would have been interesting to find the mine. The cache was a very easy find.

Thanks for bringing us to this awesome countryside.
TFTC

A quick find here after overshooting GZ by a few metres!TFTC!

Found using Cachly app and logged using the text template, so please excuse generic logging in advance. On a spur of the moment roadie with Phillip.Perry, TNXPRO and Davidson Clan from the Bay of Plenty, a plan was hatched and here we are. Great to have these places to visit and many thanks to all you COs for the placements. Cheers

Out with Tnxpro McJandals and Philip.Perry for a weekend road trip towards New Plymouth.

Drove the Forgotten World Highway as part of a family road trip. The caches helped keep the kids motivated. We didn't notice any coal, but the cache was an easy find. TFTC

Well this is the sort of cache that I love, because it taught me something new and unexpected.
With all the bush here now, you'd never have known there used to be an aerial cableway and tramway opposite. Thanks for the history lesson and TFTC!

Found with Na Skyliner. Tfgc.

Aiming to get to New Plymouth by dinner time, taking the scenic option. Quick find and luckily no traffic as I was very close to the middle of the road trying to avoid the gravel! TFTC!!

Not great for parking, but not much traffic (in fact: no traffic...) Quick find, TFTC

#10,537. Today we took a nice drive to Aukopae, Tokirima and Tangarakau on the Forgotten World Highway (New Zealand State Highway 43). GZ was all quiet at the time of our visit. Quick find. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Thanks for the interesting history and placement, and for bringing us to this site, and …

.T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e.
.M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.

Today we made a trip from Stratford to the National Park Village, just short before Whakapapa, thereby visiting many new sightseeing locations and looking for caches, too. On this trip we searched, found and logged a lot of caches. The weather was between good and not so good all day long, colder in the morning but it got warmer in the afternoon. Clouds were our compagnions the whole trip.
Almost no muggels observed us as they had other things to do than observing harmless geocachers.

Thanks to Size 13 for showing us this location and for the fun we had at Coalmine Corner (Taranaki). The search we had here today didn't take too much time.

Greetings from Germany and hope to see you soon in the forest.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 28. Oktober 2018 @ 11:37 Uhr @ [#12175](https://coord.info/GC44F8C)

Didn't stop for this one as the ground looked a little too soft for our heavy motor home

On a road trip doing the forgotten highway on our way to Whangamomona. Loving the history supplied by the information oards and the CO's. Work must have been hard in this area - Where men were men!!! TFTC

This was a great hide that we found on a damp day travelling the Forgotten Highway. Cache was dampish bit not wet. Thanks for the hide and the historic info.

Quick find. TFTC.

Found on the way from Taranaki to Auckland via forgotten highway ... TFTC

On the road for our first venture into the North Island with our little caravan to explore this part of the country. It is not a caching expedition as such, but we do manage to stop for one or two . We’ve been on the road now for 36 days since arriving in Wellington and are now on stage 2 of our trip – ‘The Crossing’ – from the East coast to the West coast. We arrived in New Plymouth, via the Forgotten World Highway from Tauramanu, Rotorua, and Whakatane. Stage 1 was the East Coast, Gisborne, Mahia, Wairoa, Napier, Cape Kidnappers, the Wairarapa, Cape Turnagain and Cape Palliser. We’ve had a variety of weathers, but mostly ‘good’, although a few days have been a bit , Hola was a somewhat of a ‘no show’, thank goodness. We have already seen and discovered lots of interesting things about our country that are new to us. Our travels lead us to your cache, as we travelled across the island, many thanks, Size 13, for bringing us here. We’ve had great fun so far and look forward to finding a couple more caches as we travel on our way. TFTC.

Following the Forgotten highway (43) finding a couple of caches along the way

Another stop to explore this amazing place. Sadly not enough time to explore the tunnels, and river to high to wade across. Thanks again Size 13 for the hide, and sharing the history of this place.

Out on a work trip with a Polish mate, a chance to intro him to the joys of GC. We had a great day and did do some actual work as well. Mission accomplished, this one is a wrap. Thanks for the cache from Blenheim Bear!
This cache posted with CacheSense for Android.

schnell gefunden an dem einzigen und offensichtlichen Standort

This road is getting a bit exciting!! TFTC

More interesting history and geography.

Quick find, got caught in the rain, thanks

quick stop

Rather wet today but impressive forest and gorge. Tftc

Found during our holiday to New Zealand together with GeoFinn. Touring in a campervan through this amazing country; second time here, now with our son. 5 weeks was over in a blink; already plans for a third time.

Travelling, geocaching, hiking, kayakking, swimming, mountains, lakes, geyers, beaches; it was amazing. CO's thanks for your cache, it made our trips even more fun.

Easy find. TFTC

On our way along the Lost World Highway we stopped on several occasions and learned a lot about the pioneers who built the first version of this road.
All the caches coïncide with these places.
A great way to explore this part of New Zealand.
Team Mavos - Albert and Maria

After taking a wrong turn as we had no map we eventually found the right road and then found the cache. Off now to Mt Damper Falls! TFTC.

big rock yes //easy found in the very heavy rain

TregearP, Kanga&Bear and I had decided to take the Forgotten Highway from New Plymouth to Taupo.

We didn't have time to complete all the caches, but we selected ones along the way that marked historic places or points of interest. Thanks to all the COs whose caches we visited - this is a great route to follow, although after all the recent rain it was a tad gnarly in places with trees down, slips, and large boulders on the round. All part of the journey.

Thanks to the COs for the caches.

A road trip on through the forgotten highway with SJT_NZ and Kanga&Bear. Although weather hasn't been great, hospitality along the way was fantastic and a really interesting drive and some fun caches.

A road trip on through the forgotten highway with SJT_NZ and Tregearp. Although weather hasn't been great, hospitality along the way was fantastic and a really interesting drive and some fun caches.

I found this geocache in the company of Cats&Dragons, HKCB and Kyb3r. We were together thanks to Cats&Dragons who had organised another one of his infamous Geocaching ‘missions’. The goal was to pick up a bunch of T5 caches along the Wanganui river via speedboat. We met at his place after work on Friday night and headed out into the night taking the kind of detours only an overachieving Geocacher can appreciate on our way to Tamaranui which is how we ended up here. We signed the log HOAC to save on space and as a reference to our crazy trip together. We did eventually get to Tamaranui at about 4am after Geocaching throughout the night. We pulled the car over, got maybe an hour and a half of uncomfortable, disrupted sleep, and then set off again to meet with six other Geocachers from Hamilton and Auckland who were joining us on the boat trip. It was certainly a memorable trip.

One of our quicker finds during our trip. Thanks for placing it.

We had planned a trip a few weeks ago to Jet Boat down the Whanganui River, something that had been on my to do list for a few years now, and the time had now come to head down to Taumarunui and jump on the water. However while discussing this with C&D we decided to throw in a side mission and try and locate a few caches along the Northern end of the "Forgotten Highway" including Mt. Damper Falls and finishing with a clean out of Taumarunui the night before because as C&D constantly reminds us "sleep is for the weak!".

So we set off at 5.30pm Friday night, with Iammrwalker and Kyb3r in tow heading to the first cache of the trip. This side mission turned out to be very successful with us completing everything we wanted with a few hours of darkness left to grab an hour or two of sleep before making our way to the Jet Boat. We signed the logbooks with HOAC a group caching name we use from time to time. A big thanks to all the CO's whose caches we found on this side mission.

A bit of luck happened while finding this cache. Used the headlights on the car to get near GZ and I when I turned the torch on it was pointing straight at the cache, so a very quick find.

Another quick found for us

Tftc

Found it. Having a fantastic drive and caching adventure. TFTC

CZECH
rychlá zastávka, jasný hint, jasná skrýš

Found on our way through the Forgotten Highway on a very hot day. Quick find - tftc

A bit damp at gz today and the road greasy, but the cache was safely dry. Tftc.

with a last minute trip up north we decided to make a big push to my goal of getting 3000 before the end of the year, I think we will get close starting with picking up some park in grabs, weather is lovely and always glad of the aircon in the car, hubby driving and kaleb helping when he could, thanks for the placement. First time hubby and I have been on this road on our way to raglan for some trail finding.

We stayed the night on Waiwhena Rd and are now caching our way towards New Plymouth for Christmas. Thanks for the interesting history about the mine, what a hard life the early residents of the area had. We would have loved to have seen it, but getting there sounded a bit intrepid for a spur of the moment side trip.
We are now going to visit Tangarakau, so will see where the coal ended up.

Easy drive by TFTC and the history

We found this Cache today. TFTC
TB out

Thank you for this cache

Today we drove the Forgotten World Highway as a beautiful detour on our way to Wellington. We loved driving this road and a very nice part was the gorge.
The cache there was easy to find so we did right away at 10:10 am.
Thanks for the hide.

left Geocoin “Groky's Czech Republic Geocoin”
TN
#4966

We are honeymooning around New Zealand picking up a few caches as we go,
Just grabbing a few here and there on our way to Waitomo.
Found the cache no problems at all, and enjoyed the area
Thanks for the cache!