Bakers Dozen Challenge (Wellington) Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
By boxhill on 27-Jan-13. Waypoint GC44VT8

In the North Island after a great time caching the Dunedin Mega Madness. We have some very specific D/Ts to grab and a few oldies to boot and of coarse no time to complete such tasks.After returning home we were able to prepare this list of Finds:2022-04: 209 geocaches2022-05: 196 geocaches2022-06: 95 geocaches2022-07: 117 geocaches2022-08: 385 geocaches2022-09: 284 geocaches2022-10: 215 geocaches2022-11: 275 geocaches2022-12: 467 geocaches2023-01: 172 geocaches2023-02: 113 geocaches2023-03: 118 geocaches2023-04: 266 geocaches

Muggle65 and l are very partial to a challenge cache. This one, we have never come across before.Thank you for a fun challenge Finds:2022-04: 204 geocaches2022-05: 149 geocaches2022-06: 71 geocaches2022-07: 112 geocaches2022-08: 360 geocaches2022-09: 271 geocaches2022-10: 205 geocaches2022-11: 259 geocaches2022-12: 467 geocaches2023-01: 147 geocaches2023-02: 157 geocaches2023-03: 116 geocaches2023-04: 282 geocaches

Needed a local cache today for a dot day and recently completed this one and found it . Now have 14 months with 50 finds in a row and trying to keep it up. Glad to finally claim a smiley on this cache.. 2023-06: 60 geocaches2023-07: 74 geocaches2023-08: 66 geocaches2023-09: 183 geocaches2023-10: 90 geocaches2023-11: 56 geocaches2023-12: 78 geocaches2024-01: 52 geocaches2024-02: 95 geocaches2024-03: 337 geocaches2024-04: 90 geocaches2024-05: 144 geocaches2024-06: 131 geocaches2024-07: 53 geocachesWas worried the find would be tricky but quick and easy find. Thanks for the challenge and cache.

Stopped here on the way back to Jville. It's dark and almost raining. Under trees and cloud my pocket computer is pretty crappy, so I started with the hint, although frankly, I needn't have bothered. It was a nice easy obvious find.Love challenges, many thanks.---It's another size regular dot-day and as I was perusing the map trying to work out which cache to target, I realised I have a new service available - I am no longer restricted to trains and buses. So I decided to come out this way. And maybe find some of the nearby caches along the way. So I headed into town, waited till 5pm, then got me a by-the-minute car hire. 2 hours maximum if hired overnight, starting at 5pm. I had it for 3 hours and found 12 caches. The first was in daylight - well, evening light, the rest were all in the dark. Love night caching!---[the Seagnoid](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=the%20Seagnoid) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC44VT8/8700 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.Challenge fulfilledFinds:2022-10: 82 geocaches2022-11: 66 geocaches2022-12: 198 geocaches2023-01: 100 geocaches2023-02: 69 geocaches2023-03: 72 geocaches2023-04: 446 geocaches2023-05: 68 geocaches2023-06: 122 geocaches2023-07: 58 geocaches2023-08: 65 geocaches2023-09: 52 geocaches2023-10: 84 geocaches

On a whirlwind caching tour of NZ, with fivegk. Happy to qualify for this challenge!

I made a whirlwind trip to Wellington with karen rinora, on the hunt for some awesome smilies. We scuffed around for a bit before the container was found. Thanks for the challenge!

Made the detour here while heading north to grab this one. Short stroll and quick find. Much better than the double DNF I had earlier! Dropped TB. My qualifying list is below. Up from Dunedin for the weekend and heading to the cannonball run events near Levin.Thanks for the cache, boxhill#5867 ** Make your way to Dunedin for New Zealands next large multi-day event. GCA7ZHD Geo Toroa will be held on NZs Labour Day long weekend 26-27th October 2024 **1 June 2020 562 July 2020 1453 Aug 2020 714 Sept 2020 945 Oct 2020 846 Nov 2020 567 Dec 2020 838 Jan 2021 579 Feb 2021 32010 Mar 2021 14011 Apr 2021 23912 May 2021 15313 June 2021 53

Cache damp, hint spot on, well-covered by hint object and leaf litter.Addendum: Gah! Realised I don't meet the criteria for this cache (13 mos but not 50+ caches in each month) so have deleted my Found log .

This cache just happens to be closest to where I am currently staying temporarily and I already walked past it this morning! I just had time to review what caches are in the area and found this one. Reviewing my past finds (have had 2 years living in Micronesia - not many caches there! - I see that I just squeak in with this one with a baker's dozen of consecutive active months - yay! TFTC boxhill

I first attempted this challenge a few years ago, when I was largely a solo cacher. All went well until the final two months, May and June '21, when circumstances allowed only 56 and 14 finds respectively. This time around, having the support of the local caching community to boost my efforts, I sailed in. So good to finally complete this challenge! FP from me.At GZ with rattll today, found after a short hunt thanks to the hint (and no thanks to GPS, which thought that I was 70m up the hill!) All well inside the container. Thanks for this challenge, boxhill! Screenshot of my monthly record attached.Thanks also to the Wellington Puzzlers Group, and other members of the Wellington and Kapiti caching communities who were cheerleaders for me. Easy to go and get 100 caches in a single month, much harder to sustain a rate of 50 per month for over a year.

Headed down to Wellington and knew that we qualified for a few challenge caches en route. Quick detour off the motorway and parked nearby. At GZ thought I might be there a while but found the right tree quickly. Cache and log all fine. Replaced as described. Searched Project GC and found we had over 100 cache per month for 14 months in 2021/2022. Well qualified. Thanks for the smiley.

I was out and about with supernanny showing her parts of Wellington and finding caches and this was one of the caches on her list of ones she wanted to log. And it was on mine .
The path the cache is near is used by the nearby school as part of the route for the annual cross country as it is the only ‘hill’ close by. Once the team for the Northern Zone cross country has been chosen, they run up the path several times each time they train.

I heard about this challenge about 10 years ago when I met a couple who had to start the the challenge again as they didn’t find 50 caches in one month. I felt so sorry for them, so when I started I knew that wasn’t going to happen to me. I came close to it in March as I lost a week and a half of caching due to Covid.

Many thanks to
* boxhill for the cache;
* Itchyfeet2020 who started me on this journey by saying, “You can do it” and then kept an eye on my monthly totals to make sure I did;
* so many Wellington geocachers (too numerous to mention here) plus other cachers elsewhere in NZ and in Canada/USA/Australia who came caching with me, who published caches during this and previous years. Without them I would found it very hard to complete this challenge.

Kia ora rawa atu for the cache boxhill.

In Wellington to visit family for a week.
Naturally I fitted in some geocaching while they were at work and school!

I hadn't noticed this Challenge Cache...
But was very pleased to find I qualify...many thanks NZ_B for driving me around ....

Nice little hide here .
Thanks boxhill.

It was a good feeling to log this one. I’d been meaning to find this one for a while.

I first fulfilled the requirements if this challenge during the years 2014 and 2015.

It was a quick find today. A bit of moisture in the cache and log damp but still writeable.

TFTC and the challenge boxhill.

Thanks for a great challenge boxhill. I became aware of this some time ago and at the time had just had a month under 50, with a nice trend prior to that. But the good news was I would be heading overseas to the HQ event in at least one of the winter months (when my numbers drop). So with a bit of concerted effort to stay above 50 for June and July the rest was reasonably easy. I now find myself with 13 months - yah. After the Cannonball event this weekend my celebration is to come back via this specific cache. Great to get to GZ and find this one tucked away exactly as hint. Thank you. A FAV for sure. Photo of project GC stats attached.

I got as far a a dozen months at the start of last year then my nephew Sir Belac came to stay for the school holidays, he got to choose what he wanted to do for the weekend of Nelson anniversary and that was for me to take him kayaking to my favourite place Lake Rotoroa. One problem, it left me a few caches short right at the end of the month, there's plenty of caches for him to find there but I either own them or have already found them. So I had to start again. This time I made sure I got the numbers earlier in the month rather than leaving it until the last weekend. Started in Feb 2021 and still going strong in May 2022 so at this stage I'm on 16 months. Took longer than it should av to find.thanks for the challenge boxhill

#12294

Found it ok and thought i had qualified but upon real scutiny i dont quite get there ! Lock down in April 20 ruined it completely although June was just a little short. being winter.

this one caused me a bit of a sweat as I was well into it and I realised that I would be in Nepal for month 13 and the whole country at that time had a little over 50 caches that were spread over a large area. Luckily for me once the times were firmed up I had some time at the start of the month to get the numbers.
Today I caught the train and went on a stroll. at first I tried the track by the Playcentre before retracing my tracks and trying again a bit up the hill. For some reason I mis read the hint and spent some considerable time looking inside the elbow before deciding to look outside for what then became a quick find. My finds are as follows:

09-16 98
10-16 88
11-16 51
12-16 75
01-17 70
02-17 111
03-17 70
04-17 60
05-17 52
06-17 57
07-17 131
08-17 52
09-17 78

Wellington trip! Caching with Nosynel. Full log later
#5435

I had a list of chores for today, and some caching based missions to complete, which I was so focused on that I nearly didn't sign one cache!
I was able to swing by this one, which thanks to the excellent hint was a very speedy find.

Thank you boxhill for placing & maintaining this cache.

22 January 2020

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Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2017-01: 76 geocaches
2017-02: 62 geocaches
2017-03: 119 geocaches
2017-04: 137 geocaches
2017-05: 99 geocaches
2017-06: 90 geocaches
2017-07: 96 geocaches
2017-08: 116 geocaches
2017-09: 145 geocaches
2017-10: 95 geocaches
2017-11: 82 geocaches
2017-12: 94 geocaches
2018-01: 91 geocaches

Visited on my Christmas holiday trip to Hong Kong, New Zealand and South Korea. A quick log now to get the correct TB/GC mileage, details later. TFTC!

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Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2015-02: 75 geocaches
2015-03: 53 geocaches
2015-04: 68 geocaches
2015-05: 215 geocaches
2015-06: 211 geocaches
2015-07: 352 geocaches
2015-08: 504 geocaches
2015-09: 285 geocaches
2015-10: 290 geocaches
2015-11: 199 geocaches
2015-12: 227 geocaches
2016-01: 158 geocaches
2016-02: 98 geocaches

A quickly found.

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Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2013-01: 86 geocaches
2013-02: 116 geocaches
2013-03: 144 geocaches
2013-04: 160 geocaches
2013-05: 227 geocaches
2013-06: 270 geocaches
2013-07: 159 geocaches
2013-08: 348 geocaches
2013-09: 165 geocaches
2013-10: 167 geocaches
2013-11: 276 geocaches
2013-12: 102 geocaches
2014-01: 82 geocaches

Yay, my 2000th cache!

I first spotted this interesting Challenge Cache about a year and a half ago, and discovered I had a long way to go to qualify for it. But it piqued my interest and so I persevered until at the end of Feb this year I finally had fulfilled the requirements.

Since then it's just been a matter of when I would get the chance to come down and find it, but with my 2000th looming I had an idea of a Challenge Cache of my own, not dissimilar to this one, so thought it would be appropriate to take advantage of such glorious Spring weather on offer to go for it, and hopefully get the last 32 caches I needed to complete 50 for the month of September which is a requirement in order to complete the qualification for my proposed Challenge Cache.

In the end I managed to get 30 caches, the last 8 or 9 being found in the dark, before I called time on my attempt knowing I would be able to complete my task over the coming weekend, so all in all I had a great afternoon in the sun, which is what a great deal of Geocaching means for me.

A quick and easy find at GZ thanks to the helpful Hint. The contents were slightly damp, but I had no problem signing the logbook. before replacing it all exactly as found. Thank you for this cache, which served both as a memorable landmark cache for me and as a spark for my cache to come later this month. Definitely worthy of a FP from me.

A little over a year ago I decided to have a go at this challenge. And what a year its been. A choice to do a minimum of a cache a day since then, as well as the required minimum of 50 a month, has taken me the length of the island, and to some amazing places. I have saved this find for #1500 for me, and am happy to finally log this one. Now on to the next challenge.

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Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2018-04: 135 geocaches
2018-05: 50 geocaches
2018-06: 161 geocaches
2018-07: 109 geocaches
2018-08: 89 geocaches
2018-09: 101 geocaches
2018-10: 73 geocaches
2018-11: 82 geocaches
2018-12: 136 geocaches
2019-01: 75 geocaches
2019-02: 85 geocaches
2019-03: 72 geocaches
2019-04: 80 geocaches

Dancing Queen 25252, Yogiteam2 and myself are on a 4-weeks-geocaching-tour in New Zealand. Many thanks for the cache and best regards from three German geocachers.

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Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2014-01: 61 geocaches
2014-02: 204 geocaches
2014-03: 325 geocaches
2014-04: 73 geocaches
2014-05: 156 geocaches
2014-06: 127 geocaches
2014-07: 92 geocaches
2014-08: 185 geocaches
2014-09: 464 geocaches
2014-10: 165 geocaches
2014-11: 82 geocaches
2014-12: 121 geocaches
2015-01: 101 geocaches

On the tour with crypto51, Dancing Queen25252 and myself stand very interesting cache in our to-do-list, also this cache. The challenge is satisfied.

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Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2018-01: 67 geocaches
2018-02: 82 geocaches
2018-03: 83 geocaches
2018-04: 121 geocaches
2018-05: 105 geocaches
2018-06: 128 geocaches
2018-07: 111 geocaches
2018-08: 105 geocaches
2018-09: 151 geocaches
2018-10: 140 geocaches
2018-11: 109 geocaches
2018-12: 71 geocaches
2019-01: 76 geocaches

Best regards from a German geocacher. TFTC.

Continuing on our tiki tour and having crossed back over from the South island to the north, we picked a few challenge caches on our way to our next stop over. We didn't have much time so only managed to grab 3.
This was one and looking through our stats we found we had one period of 41 continuous months of finding 50+
However a PGC script output shows an earlier selection suited to this challenge - quick find at gz
TFTC
Tim and Viv - ddm

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Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2011-07: 100 geocaches
2011-08: 133 geocaches
2011-09: 100 geocaches
2011-10: 181 geocaches
2011-11: 80 geocaches
2011-12: 71 geocaches
2012-01: 127 geocaches
2012-02: 115 geocaches
2012-03: 165 geocaches
2012-04: 178 geocaches
2012-05: 159 geocaches
2012-06: 214 geocaches
2012-07: 73 geocaches

Nice idea.
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Challenge fulfilled
Finds:
2011-03: 80 geocaches
2011-04: 57 geocaches
2011-05: 66 geocaches
2011-06: 108 geocaches
2011-07: 50 geocaches
2011-08: 90 geocaches
2011-09: 61 geocaches
2011-10: 57 geocaches
2011-11: 83 geocaches
2011-12: 95 geocaches
2012-01: 94 geocaches
2012-02: 55 geocaches
2012-03: 101 geocaches
TFTC

Back over to Wellington for the second time in in four days but this time for family reasons. I first heard about this challenge when one of my friends was busy chipping away at it. So I had a look and had already qualified due to some changes in my lefestyle a few years ago which left more time for caching for fun and as a distraction. From May 2015 through to July 2016 I found over 50 caches a month. So I made a bit of a detour to sign it off today. TFTC # 13,217

**This was 1 of 27 caches that was found by me on the 13th of 19 days in New Zealand.**
**Which also was the 66th of 75 days that my travels thru southeast Asia and Oceania would last.**

Besides the 13 months that the checker shows I have continued to find at least 50 caches per month after April 2018 to. So now I have 26 consecutive months with 50 finds or more. And that will probably continue for the rest of 2019 to.

2017-04: 131 geocaches
2017-05: 149 geocaches
2017-06: 76 geocaches
2017-07: 157 geocaches
2017-08: 117 geocaches
2017-09: 296 geocaches
2017-10: 83 geocaches
2017-11: 75 geocaches
2017-12: 123 geocaches
2018-01: 130 geocaches
2018-02: 101 geocaches
2018-03: 142 geocaches
2018-04: 254 geocaches


*During 19 days I traveled from Christchurch to Auckland in an SUV, that i also slept in during most of the nights. 5.956 km of driving did it take to visit the 351 caches that I have marked as found in c:geo.*

*Earthcaches was my main focus during the stay. And I manage to visit 106 of them. So New Zealand is right now the only country where earthcaches are my most found cache type .*

Headed over here after grabbing the nearby skindo letter cache for 'J " Johnsonville'. I saw I qualified for this one and have already posted a qualifying note a little while ago. Parked real close by and headed the short distance down the path towards GZ. Following the hint the cache was soon grabbed, signed and replaced. T F T Challenge boxhill, hope you're well.

Looks like I qualify after a purple patch of finds when moving house a couple of years ago.
Jun 14 = 61, Jul 14 = 126, Aug 14 = 82, Sep 14 = 123, Oct 14 = 84, Nov 14 = 285, Dec 14 = 137, Jan 15 = 259,
Feb 15 = 171, Mar 15 = 170, Apr 15 = 149, May 15 = 388, Jun 15 = 152.

I have a meeting on the North Island that I need to head to so I came over the day before rather than risking the travel on the day option which is often fraught with the danger that thw Welly weather gods won't play the game and leave one stranded. So I made it over the ditch in good time to head up for a sociable Indian meal the evening before being planned in the days preceeding. With a little latitude for a couple of leg stretches on the way up to Bulls I targetted some quick stops that would also tick off some other targets.

(# 4767). This one took a little while to get as I would have got this earlier but I had a counting error one month and 49 finds that month. This time all is well. A quick find. Everything in order. TFTC

Here are my stats.

August 2017 54
September 2017 144
October 2017 85
November 2017 50
December 2017 86
January 2018 82
February 2018 59
March '2018 85
April 2018 57
May 2018 60
June '2018 143
July 2018 118
August 2018 58

Cool challenge that I was surprised to have completed. TFTC!!!

I was with some keen fellow cachers today, we have come down from Auckland for the MEGA in Wellington, we're gradually heading south to an old cache Trogdor's Stash, we're meeting up with others but in the mean time I really want to come here and sign this one off. Unfortunately for my cohorts, they don't yet qualify, but me and FMZ do at this time, so I sign in for him and myself today. rusty and Rebel sign in too... I met up with a fellow cacher kotukuSI and had a chat about the MEGA we have attended and gradually we walk back up the hill to my friends waiting in the car. Then we are off for further adventures.

i HAVE QUALIFIED FOR THIS

Dec 2015 265 caches
Jan 2016 97 caches
Feb 2016 145 caches
Mar 2016 131 caches
Apr 2016 161 caches
May 2016 178 caches
Jun 2016 50 caches
Jul 2016 69 caches
Aug 2016 143 caches
Sep 2016 72 caches
Oct 2016 148 caches
Nov 2016 190 caches
Dec 2016 75 caches

Our last day in Wellington for the Mega; I had consciously worked for this cache since I retired last year - and my 13th month was September.
Thanks for setting this Challenge, boxhill. It's a goodie.
Came across Gorby at GZ.

My numbers are : (and I am way behind in Earthcache logging, so they can only increase!)
2017 Sept 83, Oct 119, Nov 117, Dec102 .
2018 Jan 99, Feb 59, March 64, April 82, May 106, June 55, July 68, Aug 83, Sept 54.

One day might qualify. Log signed

Log later

Day two of our MEGA wellington adventure! The weekend was great and the Wellington caching community did a fantastic job of hosting the event and maintaining some great caches and the weather was perfect for caching! We started in Johnsonville and ended the day in Upper Hutt and the back and beyond caching to all hours of the night.

This was another challenge that we more than qualified for as we spent all of 2015 challenging ourselves to 100 caches a month.

jan 15: 129
Feb 15: 202
Mar 15: 109
Apr 15: 110
May 15: 109
Jun 15: 103
Jul 15: 140
Aug 15: 104
Sep 15: 108
Oct 15: 337
Nov 15: 110
Dec 15: 115
Jan16: 121

and since we were in the area, we decided to grab it. Luckily MrNZT went for this one as it was a bit of a steep climb back up the path. TFTC!

I'm a little surprised I qualify for this...

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Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2011-09: 117 geocaches
2011-10: 98 geocaches
2011-11: 75 geocaches
2011-12: 113 geocaches
2012-01: 64 geocaches
2012-02: 56 geocaches
2012-03: 89 geocaches
2012-04: 76 geocaches
2012-05: 124 geocaches
2012-06: 90 geocaches
2012-07: 66 geocaches
2012-08: 55 geocaches
2012-09: 191 geocaches

I have qualified for this, I thought I would have done so easily, but apparently not! I just scrape in.

Dec 2015 265 caches
Jan 2016 97 caches
Feb 2016 145 caches
Mar 2016 131 caches
Apr 2016 161 caches
May 2016 178 caches
Jun 2016 50 caches
Jul 2016 69 caches
Aug 2016 143 caches
Sep 2016 72 caches
Oct 2016 148 caches
Nov 2016 190 caches
Dec 2016 75 caches

Oh no !
Was in Johnsonville recently....but didn't know about this challenge!
Easy to qualify for an addict like me!

As my personal goal is to never have less than 50-60 geocaches per month, this was easy to qualify for, less easy to see when I might be down to collect it.

Having taken a break from caching for a couple of years, the number of caches locally had got up so much, including a lot of power trails and easy series, I figured this challenge would be a lot easier for me than it would have been at the time it was published. At that time I only had about 100 unfound caches within 100km of home.

I've enjoyed doing this challenge as a way of getting back into more regular caching. GSAK informs me that I have averaged 8.5 caches per caching day for this challenge, which is more efficient than usual! All in all, good fun but I'm glad it's over! I don't normally do challenges that require a streak of some sort, as it starts to lose its fun after a while. I reckon this one was just the right length. Thanks to the CO for setting it up. After I mentioned I had started the challenge, he commented that he was also doing it again over more or less the same period.

Stopped by today to complete the formalities at GZ. A nice easy find, signed and rehidden just in time before muggles wandered past. Nice to come done here again, we used to catch "crawlies" in the stream here on the way to school.
TFTC

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Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2017-01: 110 geocaches
2017-02: 213 geocaches
2017-03: 63 geocaches
2017-04: 75 geocaches
2017-05: 55 geocaches
2017-06: 58 geocaches
2017-07: 121 geocaches
2017-08: 54 geocaches
2017-09: 115 geocaches
2017-10: 62 geocaches
2017-11: 57 geocaches
2017-12: 58 geocaches
2018-01: 60 geocaches

I’ve have now completed the challenge requirements for the second time. I was nearby this afternoon so decided to check up on the container. Everything was ok by the logbook was a bit manky so I replaced it with a new one. BYOP

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Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2016-03: 213 geocaches
2016-04: 50 geocaches
2016-05: 51 geocaches
2016-06: 75 geocaches
2016-07: 110 geocaches
2016-08: 76 geocaches
2016-09: 85 geocaches
2016-10: 80 geocaches
2016-11: 150 geocaches
2016-12: 148 geocaches
2017-01: 95 geocaches
2017-02: 86 geocaches
2017-03: 59 geocaches

When I fist found out about this one I looked at my statistics and realised that over the previous 13 months I only had two where I hadn't found enough. As I haven't been geocaching for too long there are still plenty of unfound caches near home (Dunedin) that I would give this one a go. With 5 months to go I had made pocket queries of 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 traditionals closest to home and it looked very doable with one major hiccup. It looked as though month 13 was going to be spent entirely in Nepal which has less than 60 geocaches in total. I perservered and as time got closer and plans firmed up I ended up having enough time in Dunedin and Auckland before departure to score my 50 caches.
Sept 16 98
Oct 16 88
Nov 16 51
Dec 16 75
Jan 17 69
Feb 17 111
Mar 17 70
Apr 17 59
May 17 52
Jun 17 57
Jul 17 131
Aug 17 53
Sept 17 76
Now I just need to get there and sign the log book which I probably walked past when geocaching in the area a couple of years ago.

[Moneydork](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Moneydork) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC44VT8/8700 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if he/she qualified for this challenge and he/she did.

Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2010-12: 53 geocaches
2011-01: 319 geocaches
2011-02: 163 geocaches
2011-03: 133 geocaches
2011-04: 244 geocaches
2011-05: 460 geocaches
2011-06: 877 geocaches
2011-07: 277 geocaches
2011-08: 155 geocaches
2011-09: 423 geocaches
2011-10: 221 geocaches
2011-11: 181 geocaches
2011-12: 207 geocaches

Will sign when up in Wellington.
[Jude_E](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Jude_E) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC44VT8/8700 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if she qualified for this challenge and she did.

Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2016-04: 81 geocaches
2016-05: 92 geocaches
2016-06: 115 geocaches
2016-07: 162 geocaches
2016-08: 89 geocaches
2016-09: 122 geocaches
2016-10: 160 geocaches
2016-11: 130 geocaches
2016-12: 119 geocaches
2017-01: 181 geocaches
2017-02: 53 geocaches
2017-03: 70 geocaches
2017-04: 68 geocaches

In Wellington for part of an NZ holiday with geopartner. Today, we decided to explore the region and collect a few prize caches.

Since I commenced on 8 Jan 2016, I haven't had a month under 50 caches. November 16 was 51 - that's appears to be the lowest. Once I log all my Christchurch caches from a few days ago, I will cover this month as well. Photo from ProjectGC attached as proof.

Parked on the road a little further up from the path and walked down. Container was found quickly. All in good order. TFTC boxhill

This cache has been on my radar for about 6 months when I first noticed it. At that time I had been finding caches at more than 50/month since I started caching (except for the very first month). So I figured I should be able to sustain that for 13 months. Turns out that happened without really trying. Although my finds for the last few months have been in the 50-60 range there were no close calls.

So today I found my 50th cache of month #13 and the very next cache (#51) is this one! It felt more rewarding having worked my way towards this goal rather than many cachers who just have to check their history! As long timeframe challenges go this was surprisingly much more achievable than it appears. Something like 100/month would be exeedingly challenging I think so thanks for picking a realistic threshold.

I'm not about to slack off (much) having satisfied the requirements for this cache but at least I don't have to "worry" about breaking a 13 month streak any more. TFTC. +FP.

Thanks for a fun challenge boxhill! I was streaking for 13 months, so by ensuring I claimed an extra 20 a month I also qualified for this cache.

Finds:
2013-09: 135 geocaches
2013-10: 165 geocaches
2013-11: 130 geocaches
2013-12: 114 geocaches
2014-01: 141 geocaches
2014-02: 115 geocaches
2014-03: 127 geocaches
2014-04: 91 geocaches
2014-05: 101 geocaches
2014-06: 94 geocaches
2014-07: 126 geocaches
2014-08: 112 geocaches
2014-09: 56 geocaches

My first find on a short visit to Wellington. My qualifications will follow later.

Find out more about New Zealand's next big event [Oamaru Geofest](http://oamarugeofest2017.wixsite.com/geocachingevent)

Thanks. boxhill for putting in the effort to hide this geocache. This was find 4770 for me.

Looks like I qualify after a purple patch of finds when moving house a couple of years ago.
Jun 14 = 61, Jul 14 = 126, Aug 14 = 82, Sep 14 = 123, Oct 14 = 84, Nov 14 = 285, Dec 14 = 137, Jan 15 = 259,
Feb 15 = 171, Mar 15 = 170, Apr 15 = 149, May 15 = 388, Jun 15 = 152.

Found with NZDi while on a five day holiday in the North Island. We managed to get some free tickets through work to the RNZAF 80th Anniversary Air Tattoo held at Ohakea over the weekend 25/26 Feb 2017 and decided we should use the opportunity to tick off a couple of other things we wanted to do while we were there. One of these was a 'Bucket List' item to do the Tongariro Alpine Crossing and another was to visit the Gallipoli Exhibition at Te Papa. Of-course the North Island was a "Target-rich' environment as far as geocaching was concerned as well
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Yesterday was a travel day with a flight across the 'ditch', then pick up a rental car and drive up to National Park in preparation to do the TAC today and was not intended as a big caching day but we picked off three targeted caches just as an entrée for the long weekend. These were a challenge cache closer to Wellington and a couple of caches either side of the Bulls bridge. However once we had checked into our accommodation in National Park we discovered we had two or three spare hours before dinner so decided to do a few local caches. Looking at the geocaching map, I saw a plethora of caches out this way and decided to take advantage of the opportunity to increase our numbers. So we ended up doing some of the LOTR series around Whakapapa and ended up with 37 for the day.

Today was the day we ticked off one of our bucket list items, the Tongariro Alpine Crossing and although we awoke at 5.30am we had to cool our heels in anticipation while we waited for breakfast to be served at the lodge and then for our shuttle to arrive. The best thing about is was we awoke to a beautiful blue sky day, it was going to be a cracker on the track which when planning these trips months in advance is never guaranteed.

While planning this trip, I did a search for any caches that might increase the finds on my D/T Matrix, and discovered this one. I have listed my qualifying data on my Write Note log on the 12th of January 2017. Funnily enough, thanks to this trip, this is the first month since February 2016 that I have completed more than 50 caches. This was a QEF PnG at GZ.

TFTC boxhill and a FP from me.

Somebody said to me early on that I shouldn't clear out too many of the local caches too early because it makes challenges like this difficult. Great advice, but I've been rationing the nearby caches for six months to make this happen and also to complete a 366 day streak. This week both came to fruition and, for now, I can find caches if I want to, and not when the weather's grim! It's been fun completing this but the last month has been frustrating as the finds ticked slowly upwards.

The cache itself is an easy find, although I'm not sure the hint object still qualifies as small.

The list of qualifying caches is in the attached image.

TFTC!

I am coming to New Zealand very soon now and hoping to do some challenge caches whilst we're over here. I qualify for this one very easily having found more than 50 caches per month from August 2012 til May 2016! please see attached photo.

Day # 11 in New Zealand on a geocaching holiday-trip covering Thailand, Australia and finally my beloved NZ .
Today was a very important day in my current life as a NZ-guest-cacher :
Main goals:
1) Visit NZ's oldest cache [^] and
2) Collect 7 Kiwi-cache-types in one day
Both missions could be successfully accomplished . At the end of the busy day the daily record contained 23 finds of 7 distinct types and on top a wonderful [^] (unexpected) event . This added even one more icon to the list of cache-variety for today - so cool! [^]

This interesting challenge was on my list as well .
As I found the box, it was really buried in the soil and I had to dig it out. But everything's fine here! [^]
Logproof enclosed: 23 Month of finds > 50.

Hey - Wellington area - you have cool caches and of course sympathetic cachers and owners [^] !
A big thanks [:X] to all Owners involved [^] for hiding and maintaining .
Cheers from Germany

Living in the South Island, I don't usually target North Island caches, but I am planning a trip to the NI next month and thought I would search for caches that I have missing on my D/T grid and this on turned up. It had a tick next to it which I assumed meant I qualified for it and when I checked, I did (qualify).

I started caching on the 20th of January 2015 and my qualifying caches are the first thirteen full months after that (Feb 2015 to Feb 2016). Funnily enough, I haven't exceed 50 caches in a month since then.

My stats are:
Feb 2015 - 75
Mar 2015 - 82
Apr 2015 - 59
May 2015 - 76
Jun 2015 - 65
Jul 2015 - 144
Aug 2015 - 104
Sep 2015 - 167
Oct 2015 - 119
Nov 2015 - 111
Dec 2015 - 114
Jan 2016 - 91
Feb 2016 - 113

I don't know if my schedule will give me time to go for the final, but who knows.

TFTC boxhill I hope you enjoyed cleaning out Blenheim

Noticed this a while ago but didnt qualify. Last Xmas do nearby, SJTNZ was saying they had just found their 50th cache for the 13th month and thought I could do this also. Now completed (Dec2015-Dec2016) and found the (lonely) cache after the Xmas do this year. Some months were easy (Decembers). Thank goodness for some geotrails up past Foxton (helped in the winter). and plenty in the Wairarapa, and other odd trails like the river series at Island Bay. Easy find where all quiet. Thanks for the challenge boxhill. Worth a Fav.
Stats from project-gc
2015-12: 58 geocaches
2016-01: 55 geocaches
2016-02: 64 geocaches
2016-03: 51 geocaches
2016-04: 53 geocaches
2016-05: 51 geocaches
2016-06: 51 geocaches
2016-07: 52 geocaches
2016-08: 51 geocaches
2016-09: 56 geocaches
2016-10: 53 geocaches
2016-11: 51 geocaches
2016-12: 51 geocaches
qualified

Preparing for our trip to NZ next year and scrolling through the challenge caches…..
Pleased to say that my public profile shows that I qualify easily for this challenge cache already which I hope the CO finds acceptable. Thanks,
All we now need to do is to find this cache on our travels!

Red.Roaming has used [Project-GC](http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC44VT8/8700 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if she qualified for this challenge and she did.
Challenge fulfilled
Finds:
2011-12: 114 geocaches
2012-01: 85 geocaches
2012-02: 207 geocaches
2012-03: 122 geocaches
2012-04: 102 geocaches
2012-05: 118 geocaches
2012-06: 164 geocaches
2012-07: 215 geocaches
2012-08: 285 geocaches
2012-09: 65 geocaches
2012-10: 279 geocaches
2012-11: 59 geocaches
2012-12: 118 geocaches

We had time for just one more find before heading to catch our ferry. Made the short walk in to GZ and managed to find the cache after searching a few possible locations.
We began caching with great enthusiasm on 1st January 2009 and found in excess of 50 caches per month in every month up to July 2010. Thanks for this Challenge cache.

Es ist schon ein ganzes Jahr her dass wir hier vor Ort waren und die Dose fanden..

Nun darf diese Challenge endlich geloggt werden [^]

Danke für diese Herausforderung und den Cache,
MimiNemo

The last month that I found less than September 2013. You can check this out on my stats page.
Thanks for the challenge, parking was the biggest problem! Cheers.

The holiday season at last! Off to Auckland to see my folks. Caching all the way.

Thanks to all the CO's for their hides.

Qualified for this at the CO's event on Sunday. The cache itself was a quick find with TregearP on yet another new path. All in good condition, although a little water had made its way into the container. Log still fine within its bag. Dried, signed and replaced as found.

The challenge seemed like a good idea at the start, but as the numbers started climbing and the number of close-to-home caches dried up it became increasingly difficult. We didn't help ourselves by missing the target last November whilst travelling internationally and needing to start again in December, Stats as at 15 Dec 15 attached although with still over half a month to go I'm sure that the 51 this month will increase.

Thanks for the challenge, and of course the cache.

Had two pretty good months under our belt when we committed to this challenge and then there was Vietnam, a great travelling experience but where we were caching was limited so came under the bar. Back to square one, overall it has been fun, explored lots of places we hadn't been for many years or at all. We've really appreciated some of the power trails to get those numbers up and enjoyed most of them as well. Over the last few months we've focused more on the grey matter and getting into a few more puzzles, there's been some challenges and some I've parked until I grow up a little bit more as a cacher but really enjoyed meeting the super puzzle fraternity. Thanks for a super challenge although I'm pleased it is over. Cache and easy find.

Qualified for this cache without actually having to try but only just for one month with 53 finds! Final was an easy find, well hidden amongst the debris. TFTC

Glad to qualify for this one with Wafflekitties, TFTC

Signed this one, but did have the data to support a found log. Then life got easier when I discovered the Project GC checker! I suspect that we satisfy this one for every month since Dec 2008, but the first 13 are shown below. Thanks for the extra bonus for many months of fun.

Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2008-12: 84 geocaches
2009-01: 162 geocaches
2009-02: 105 geocaches
2009-03: 116 geocaches
2009-04: 346 geocaches
2009-05: 88 geocaches
2009-06: 129 geocaches
2009-07: 225 geocaches
2009-08: 103 geocaches
2009-09: 109 geocaches
2009-10: 196 geocaches
2009-11: 68 geocaches
2009-12: 97 geocaches

Found the cache without a problem once we sorted out the parking problem. Our campervan is small, but still does need a little space! I think we qualify for this one for any 13 month stretch since we began caching seriously in January 2007, but will leave this as a note until I can upload a representative list. Thanks for the extra fun.

Found it with Team FIN [janahola, kapeka, laalaa & temyllyl]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in New Zealand. Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was pretty good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and really scenary country!

Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2010-03: 113 geocaches
2010-04: 259 geocaches
2010-05: 229 geocaches
2010-06: 111 geocaches
2010-07: 182 geocaches
2010-08: 109 geocaches
2010-09: 130 geocaches
2010-10: 166 geocaches
2010-11: 116 geocaches
2010-12: 132 geocaches
2011-01: 100 geocaches
2011-02: 68 geocaches
2011-03: 96 geocaches

Greetings from Finland

FIN (laalaa, janahola, temyllyl, kapeka) holiday in New Zealand. Marvelous country and nice landscape. The journey continues to Wellington.
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the challenge.
'

Fifth day on our geo-roadtrip in New Zealand, and caching our way towards south. Logged using our group nickname FIN with janahola, laalaa and kapeka. Driving to south and heading to Christchurch Mega event. Today we headed to Wellington to catch a ferry tomorrow. Tooking some 'detours' via caches of course.

I have used [url=http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC44VT8/8700]Project-GC[/url] to see if I qualify for this challenge and I do.

Challenge fulfilled

Finds:
2013-05: 102 geocaches
2013-06: 153 geocaches
2013-07: 181 geocaches
2013-08: 191 geocaches
2013-09: 274 geocaches
2013-10: 134 geocaches
2013-11: 69 geocaches
2013-12: 65 geocaches
2014-01: 74 geocaches
2014-02: 305 geocaches
2014-03: 181 geocaches
2014-04: 224 geocaches
2014-05: 546 geocaches

On a geoholiday road tripping to Christchurch MEGA and around beautiful New Zealand. Our four people group (temyllyl, laalaa, kapeka and myself) from Finland used group tag FIN to log the caches.

Today we drove from Whanganui to Wellington and stopped to some caches on the way. TFTC!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

Here are proof for challenge:

January 2014 113

February 2014 215

March 2014 182

April 2014 227

May 2014 522

June 2014 194

July 2014 448

August 2014 1009

Septenber 2014 224

October 2014 393

November 2014 390

December 2014 297

January 2015 141

#1414. Guess it should it have been #1313 to fit the theme but needed all these numbers to get this challenge completed. Its been a long time coming. Soon after starting geocaching we spied this challenge and decided it was worth starting it early while we had lots of local caches. After getting 52 caches in the first month (Oct 2014) it has been pretty easy to get 50 every month provided you do one big weekend per month. A few months when I have been away on field trips has made it a bit harder at times. Enjoyed doing the challenge but will be nice not to have the pressure of it each month. Still I expect we will keep going at well over this number each month as there are a number of skindo 100 and 250 cache finds per month still to earn. This is our last dot day until mid-Feb (thanks to last summers 100 day streak) so a dual cause for celebration. I'll add a snip from our profile as proof of the achievement. Thanks for the challenge and the cache.

At long last I can knock this one off! When I first saw this cache I had a three month streak of qualifying months, so it's been a long 10 months trying to make sure I kept on top of my finds. I almost gave up in April or May when I had ten caches to find on the last day of the month, but I managed to find them to keep the streak going. I finished September with 1150 finds so my 1200 find was going to be my qualifying find, which I made special by picking up on of the seagnoid's spelling challenges.

My monthly stats are:

2014-10 74
2014-11 100
2014-12 57
2015-01 129
2015-02 57
2015-03 50
2015-04 50
2015-05 50
2015-06 50
2015-07 50
2015-08 57
2015-09 54
2015-10 55 (so far, this is 56)

TFTC+Fav

Hi

You have misinterpreted what is said. Any cache anywhere is acceptable. The places given are only examples of where they could be. If you have met the monthly requirements and you are a Premium Member you are free to find the cache, sign the logbook and claim the find.

Cheers boxhill

I think it's unfair that the cache must be only in New Zealand, Australia, Timbuktu or Kalamazoo. I'm from Europe (Czech Republic), I will go to New Zealand, I meet the conditions for European geocaches and this I can not log on.

#1495 I started this challenge the day I got out of a moonboot after ankle surgery. I literally took the thing off after visiting the specialist and drove to Whanganui for work. I stopped for three or four drive-bys that day. It was pretty tricky / unstable work. The caches deserved a higher terrain rating just for that day! Work in Whanganui kept me hunting there and on the road to Whanganui for several months. Doing the 100 day challenge also helped. Hunting generally for this challenge took me to Christchurch, Napier, Hastings, Whanganui, Palmerston North, the Horowhenua, the Wairarapa, Paraparaumu, Greater Wellington and the Hutt (of course), Rakaia, Dunedin, Timaru, Oamaru, the road between Christchurch and Picton, and Nelson. I’ve probably missed a few places – a couple in Auckland definitely (that place is still untapped by me generally). The furthest south was near the Catlands in Southland and the furthest North was Auckland (Takanini). The biggest day was July 13th 2015 (100 caches in 6.45 hours – my personal best) doing the newish power trail north of Foxton in the Horowhenua. Another power trail was finished near Rakaia on January 28th 2015 (68 caches in four hours), the Te Araora trail near Paekakariki (14 caches, 31st August 2014) and a short one behind Sanson (17 caches). The last couple of months has been a real struggle to keep the numbers up. I tended to wait until near the end of the month and then panic. June was the worst but fortunately I had a whole day to drive to Picton after a few days in Christchurch right at the end of the month. The average was 80 per month with a total of 1042 (not counting this one). I finished with the Horowhenua (KAS) power trail – 100 for the day – now I can rest for the remainder of the month while I plot a sub-zero time for the 100, 10, 7 challenge (already well advanced). Boxhill as always – well enjoyed – but I’m really glad it’s over. Worth a favourite point.

No idea how to turn a graph into a image
Have to do it the boring way. Give me half an hour.

Nice quick find this evening. A fantastic challenge and a lot of caching at various places in New Zealand and around the world. A lot of them I would never of visited without my geocaching guide. Finally achieved last month the qualification and a walk with the dog this evening to collect. Fav point of course.

My qualifications are
May 2014 55
June 2014 80
July 2014 64
August 2014 71
September 2014 53
October 2014 61
November 2014 123
December 2015 50
January 2015 52
February 2015 102
March 2015 51
April 2015 60
May 2015 79

One of many finds during a weekend cache raid of the area. We enjoyed great weather, fun caches and we managed to fill a few boxes on some challenges we are working towards. Our run starts December 2011 and continues throughout 2012 - photo of stat page attached. Quick find for this one then we visited a niece who lives just around the corner TFTC.

Finally managed to arrange a work trip to Wellington that was more than a fly-in/fly-out … with a spare day up my sleeve, started bright & early on the Zealandia power trail and, with that under my belt, set about collecting a few 'must-find' caches, which included this one. Qualified for this one in 2012-13 when I first caught the caching bug, then real-life got in the way & ruined my 50/month streak. Back up and re-infected with that caching bug again, although not quite enough time has gone by to be able to say I've qualified for a second time lol. Glad to be able to park close by & saunter down for a nice easy find - the legs weren't that thrilled about going too far by this stage in the day. Cache all good, thanks for the challenge & TFTC

Last summer the idea was born to visit [Green]'New Zealand'[/Green], together with [url=http://coord.info/PR3NXJG][red]'MimiNemo'[/red][/url]
After some important decisions regarding the beginning of our trip, the flights, the general route and the car were made, the most important question was still unanswered: which caches can we visit during our tour [?]
To get an answer for this topic I was fetching almost every cache from both islands [8)][:X]
[url=http://coord.info/PR3NXJG][red]'MimiNemo'[/red][/url] and I love [Teal]'Geo-Arts'[/Teal]...so we added all these cache series to our wish list
After this decision was made this list was more than 300 puzzle caches long...unsolved puzzle caches
Two weeks before Christmas it was getting time to start solving all these mystery caches
Even with the different language I could find almost every solution
In the case I was not so successful I was contacting some of the CO's...and was always getting help from them...many thanks for this support [:X]

During the following weeks our cache list was growing and growing...meanwhile more than 1000 caches long...too long for a simple bookmark list from GC
Time to get our route and caches in sync...time to save the PQ's to our Garmins...time to start this holiday:

Chapter 17: [red]Wellington[/red] to [Green]Martinborough[/Green]
Yesterday we could finish our second geocaching art: [teal]KiwiGeotrail[/teal]
Today it was time to get to our next destination of our journey: [Green]Martinborough[/Green]

During this drive we also stopped for some caches
This challenge cache was one of these caches

I would like to thank all the cache owners for showing us these great places and maintaining all these caches,
Dev46

No problems here soon at GZ for a quick grab and here are lots nof months with more than enough caches each TFTC

Started this one quite some time back and completed a few months ago. A few work trips and a couple of holidays/long weekends made most of the challenge relatively do-able. Only a couple of months where I had to go and get a few extra, however, with not having done much caching for a while locally there was sufficient 'supply' around. Qualification attached.

An enjoyable challenge, gets a fav from us. Convenient to collect as i had to attend a meeting nearby. TFTC boxhill, #7540

Mrs Biggles and I spent the weekend in Wellington and managed to find a few caches while we were and made it to two events as well. After we left the nearby event we had time to find a couple more caches before heading to the next place we needed to be. Always up for a challenge, I must have marked this one as one to go for some time ago as it was in my GPS. No problem finding the cache. Although its contents were a little damp, the log was still OK to sign.

So here's a sample list of 13 qualifying months:
1. January 2010 - 160
2. February 2010 - 99
3. March 2010 - 357
4. April 2010 - 96
5. May 2010 - 116
6. June 2010 - 114
7. July 2010 - 110
8. August 2010 - 134
9. September 2010 - 142
10. October 2010 - 191
11. November 2010 - 137
12. December 2010 - 102
13. January 2011 - 280

TFTC, Biggles.

Cache # 2,072 - My cache for the day on the way to work. Well, this one is more than a cache for a day. It is the culmination of more than a year of caching. When I first saw this cache published I laughed it off as unachievable. Then I started my streak towards 100 days. A couple of months into that streak I looked at this challenge again, and realised that with a cache a day I was already 2/3rds of the way to this goal each month. A little extra effort and I could get to 50 a month without too much sweat. And then I made it happen, with most months featuring a trip to either skindo land or north of Levin to grab a big batch of caches. Finished off last month with my 13th in a row, and we'll see how much further this run can go - secondary to my daily streak. Thanks for the challenge. Quick find this morning, and all is well in the cache.

Called by for a quick find and my last find of the day. I was fairly sure I qualified but needed to get back to base to confirm. Managed 20 months in a row up to Feb this year.
I'll had a capture pic when I have the technology. In the meantime my stats on my home page can be checked.
TFTCC

This was because of the D/T combination an interesting cache for me. So on a day tour this was the first stop. While raining it was a bit slippery by finally I managed to sign the log book.
Thanks for the cache and greetings from Germany, Peter M.

Another Challenge cache that followed on from 2013's "31-days of August" (that itself led to the 100-day challenge). Completed my 13th month during a recent trip to Singapore & Malaysia, but this was the first opportunity to get in this neck of the woods. Pretty scungey weather early this morning - a pretty cool southerly driving the rain in - but fairly sheltered close to GZ. No problems finding the cache, and signing the log. A couple of months were close-run things, but managed to keep the Challenge alive.
Seems like July and December are my most difficult months!

Thanks for another interesting Challenge Boxhill - I plan to keep trying to collect at least 50 caches a month going forward.

TFTC!

Wow! This challenge started last August when I did part of the August streak which led into the 100 day challenge. Included multi and puzzle streak challenges and did this alongside the Club 732 challenge which I have also just finished!
Thank you for getting me off the couch and out of the house on good days and bad, in sunshine and rain. I've explored parts of Wellington I didn't know were there and learned so much local history, general knowledge and 'great' puzzle solving techniques.
Thanks Boxhill - and can you avoid Jville for anymore mega challenges. I still have the Odyssey to complete!

Another challenge cache find while down in Wellington for the day caching. I've found 50+ finds each month since October 2012 however I'll post the last 13 completed months here:

June 2013: 98
July 2013: 80
August 2013: 70
September 2013: 144
October 2013: 246
November 2013: 76
December 2013: 75
January 2014: 204
February 2014: 132
March 2014: 71
April 2014: 1431
May 2014: 168
June 2014: 109

Quickly found at GZ with the hint.

Thanks!

This cache formed part of Day 2 of our 2 day assault on Wellington puzzle caches (with a few traditionals thrown in as well) whilst we prepared to attend SAROCs Winter Solstice event and pick up Grunta1's Bakers Dozen challenge.

YES!

Finally got there! Completed the requirements this morning and decided to collect after the Winter Solstice event. Logging now (proof of accomplishment to follow when we get home) as want to keep logs in order.

A quick find at GZ.

#2886

This entry was edited by KiwifruitsNZ on Sunday, 22 June 2014 at 03:37:58 UTC.

Finally done, getting the 13 months of 50 caches required a couple of numbers runs over to the Wairarapa and one up to the Manawatu on months that were looking a bit thin.

Feb 2013 - 53
Mar 2014 - 66
Apr 2013 - 51
May 2013 - 50
Jun 2013 - 57
July 2013 - 54
Aug 2013 - 57
Sep 2013 - 50
Oct 2013 - 56
Nov 2013 - 58
Dec 2013 - 54
Jan 2014 - 51
Feb 2014 - 51

Thanks for the challenge

The start of a new month and finaly I get to place my name in this log. It has been a long 13 months during which I had largely neglected the Wellington caches in case I needed some at short notice to complete a month. Given that I had already cleared out the bulk of the local caches I knew that I really only had one shot at meeting the requirements this challenge. As such there have been a number of trips to the fertile lands of the Wairarappa plus trips to Auckland and Queensland along he way to attain the numbers. There were also a few months where the nerves began to set in and the requirements had to be met very late in the piece.

Thanks for the challenge but I'm glad that it is over.

Apr 2013 - 159
May 2013 - 85
Jun 2013 - 54
Jul 2013 - 54
Aug 2013 - 61
Sep 2013 - 54
Oct 2013 - 85
Nov 2013 - 53
Dec 2013 - 52
Jan 2014 - 52
Feb 2014 - 85
Mar 2104 - 55
Apr 2014 - 54

TFTC

Wow, what a fantastic challenge!
I had a great time completing this, it definitely pushed me to think about some of the days that I was caching.
Rather than being happy to go and get a few, I had to plan to go and get 10-15 or more at a time.
Need to thank Mrs 1Grunta for not only allowing me to spend so much time caching, but actually pushing me to complete this.
I left the actual find of this one as it was the closest to home, and was my "emergency cache" while completing the "100 Day Challenge". This was day 100.

Thanks for another great challenge boxhill.

Jan-13 159
Feb-13 79
Mar-13 88
Apr-13 157
May-13 50
Jun-13 62
Jul-13 75
Aug-13 63
Sep-13 97
Oct-13 123
Nov-13 133
Dec-13 276
Jan-14 90

TFTC - found with team cacher Sweet P too
2013 was planned as the 50-a-month year. The most 'active' of caching years we have had.
The Turtle strikes again!

Oh yeah, baby! Its done, finally. It took a couple of trips over to Skindoland, a couple to Auckland and further north too and of course the Pauatahanui Kiwi. A very good challenge and I feel pretty good completing it, as for the next few months I have a number of things on my plate which will cutdown on my ability to chase numbers. TFTC

Pleased to note this challenge as have already completed the formalities and will collect next time I'm down that part of the country

Finally made it
Heading south for work on Monday so made the best of the late arrival into town by collecting a few caches. I submitted the qualifying caches back in November 2013.
Thank you for another great challenge that helps me reflect on caches collected over time.

TFTC

This entry was edited by Cats&Dragons on Thursday, 06 February 2014 at 04:11:31 UTC.

When I first saw this challenge, I thought no way could I ever do this.....but then I thought some more, and realised it was little more than one a day, and that I'd already found 100 caches in January 2013, so I thought I'd keep going and see what happened. Thanks to trips outside Wellington, I got there with ease in the end, and managed to fit in 3 challenges, including the BGSC and 100 day streak challenges. TFTC - to omit to award it a FP would be ungracious.