250 Finds In August Challenge (Wairarapa) Longbush, North Island, New Zealand
By skindo on 03-Jun-13. Waypoint GC4DFMM

Have discovered that I now qualify for this cache. Originally signed on 15/1/22 as a note, and now happy to change the status.

[teamsturms](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=teamsturms) heeft [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4DFMM/12857 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") gebruikt om te zien of hij/zij voldoet aan deze challenge en dat is het geval.

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User has 2653 finds (250 needed). Between(month,day) 08-01 & 08-31 Filters:()

Signed this earlier and just realised I at last qualify. Many thanks Skindo for the challenge.

[YetiNZ](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=YetiNZ) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4DFMM/12857 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.User has 347 finds (250 needed). Between 08-01 & 08-31This cache has been found.---I like data. So, I spend a lot of time looking at the project-gc.com website and some of the information it contains. Included in the Stats is the BadgeGen data, and included in that is The Author: Awarded for writing longer logs. Write longer logs to receive a better badge. If the user's Found it logs contain an average of at least 100 words, the user will receive the Diamond. Project-GC has some basic filtering in its word count process, which may affect the count into something the user may not expect. Lab caches are not included in the calculation, since they lack logs.

Found & signed the cache log, but currently do not qualify for the challenge. Will log found when I complete the challenge.

We are on our summer holiday, we usually take a few weeks and travel around the South Island, but this year we are heading around the North Island. Heading up the West coast and back down the East coast. Finding only a select few caches along the way, we are mostly targeting some challenges we have qualified for, some large size caches, some that fill gaps in our date placed grid, a few D/T combinations, some with lots of favourite points, letterboxes and anything else that grabs our fancy.

I had a fall on day two of our holiday, while out geocaching which has resulted in a fractured bone in my leg and I am in a moon boot and with crutches and I was told to keep weight off my leg. So I am only limited use when it comes to our trip now. I tend to stay in the campervan and just hand out suggestions of when and where GK should search.

We had a conversation while on holiday with another cacher who reminded me of the Skindo caches that have been archived that I know we spent time and effort qualifying for. We decided to put a bit of time into finding some of them before someone gathers them up and they are no longer findable. We do love challenge caches so we were chuffed to be in a position to come and find some.

I have attached a photo of our qualifying totals.

This one was out in the open, over by the trees so gk had to climb over the fence to retrieve it, once we signed the log we returned it as per the hint.


Thanks for placing this cache and thank you for the smiley.

time to log this one we find did it back in 28/07/2013

I don’t qualify for this cache - YET. I have signed the log for when I do. A goal for this year is to try and complete it. Thanks for the challenge Skindo.

Day four of my road trip from Auckland to Nelson in my newly acquired convertible cachemobile. Finding a few caches along the way. Today was mostly spent in the countryside around Masterton / Carterton / Martinborough. No problems here. One of my main objectives today was to find as many of these challenges that I had qualified for as I could. As they were all locked records in my GSAK database, I didn't realise that many (all?) of them had been archived. I went in search of these caches in good faith having qualified for the challenges. Apologies for the mainly cut and paste logs. I'll mention anything that stood out for me if I can. To date I have 1239 finds in August so all good with this challenge and all good with the cache. TFTC, Biggles.

Summer Holiday Time yay! I've just spent 3 days tramping through the Tararuas around Mt Holdsworth with friends, and today I am making my leisurely way home through the Wairarapa and grabbing the opportunity to look for a whole bunch of archived Skindo puzzle and challenge caches before they disappear forever, plus any others that I'm driving right by.

The biggest issue I had was all the dead spots I had to drive through on these backroads. I had anticipated having a few issues so had downloaded Offline data etc but had forgotten that this doesn't help much with archived caches. So whilst I had co-ordinates, I didn't have access to the Hints which proved to be an issue with about 1/3rd of my searches today.

This road was the start of the Dead Zone issues. Luckily it was a straightforward find at GZ as these often are so the log was swiftly signed and replaced and I was on my way again.

Thanks for placing this cache. I don't qualify for this one yet, but will log it when I do.

Quick find back in 2019-12-23. Worked hard in August 2020 so can claim this now (2020-08-11). Thanks for the challenge series skindo!

Quick find. Cache still in place. SL TFTC. Project GC verified.

I'm not able to maintain this cache.

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.

On our tour with crypto51, Dancing Queen25252 and myself stood very interesting caches on our to-do-list, also this one. The challenge is satisfied, please see my open statistics. Best regards from a German geocacher. TFTC.

Looking at challenges around New Zealand and found out I qualify - now just need to get to the Wairarapa to find the cache!

**This was 1 of 38 caches that was found by me on the 12th of 19 days in New Zealand.**
**Which also was the 65th of 75 days that my travels thru southeast Asia and Oceania would last.**

886 found caches in August do I have when this log is published on June 1st 2019.

*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 .*

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21.10.2018
Day 3 of my visit to Wellington to attend the Mega weekend. Thank you to all of the CO's who put the caches out in the area and preforming maintenance on them before we descended on the area. I look forwards to coming back to the area again in the near future.
Today was a bit different, going for Kevin Anderson cache, challenges and getting caches which I need for my JASMER challenge.

Signed log, got to get a couple more to qualify for this one.

After the 2018 WENZ Mega event
mr and mrs went on a Wairarapa tiki tour, and...
went hunting out a series of challenge caches
We had solved the puzzle, found this cache - logged as MM78 - but yet to qualify for the challenge
Thanks for this puzzle/challenge in anticipation of future qualifying

We found 250 Finds In August Challenge (Wairarapa) on our Wedding Anniversary getaway to the WENZ Mega.

Thanks skindo for placing this cache and being a part of out geocaching adventure

Day 2 of the Wellington Mega adventure with KJR and we are on our way to find and log a challenge cache series and this was one of them. a nice and easy park and grab I just have 10 months to complete next year TFTC

Thanks for this cache and the series, Skindo.
I have enjoyed a couple of days in the Wairarapa and have set out on this trail on my "way back" to Wellington, for the Mega.

An enjoyable days outing over the hill today, starting in Martinborough then heading up towards Gladstone before making our way to the Kaiwhata Road gravel road trail. Then it was on up to Riversdale Beach and then making our way back to civilisation. 39 finds in total , plus 5 DNFs

I qualified for this one this year, thanks to a family holiday over to the Gold Coast where I managed to pick up enough caches to put me over the threshold. Cache was a quick find, although it depended on which end you started from! All good here. TFTC

[bruzie](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=bruzie) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4DFMM/12857 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

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User has 269 finds (250 needed). Between(month,day) 08-01 & 08-31 Filters:()

This cache was located without problems and the log signed on a big day of geocaching in the Wairarapa, 11.11.17, with haydn.seek and PJMacNZ. We had primarily aimed to sign in for all the 100 and 250 per month Challenge series, and, of course, collect as much else as we could along the way. It's a great idea to be able to sign for caches you didn't yet qualify for while you are there and then claim the find later when qualifying requirements are reached. Thank you for allowing that skindo.
Now, after a recent much more modest day of geocaching in Wanganui, we have finally completed this challenge. We now have 250 caches in August. TFTC

Verification from Geocaching Statistics:
Aug 26 12 2 2 2 1 13 1 1 2 14 32 8 5 3 5 5 28 8 7 1 1 4 11 22 13 5 2 6 1 7 250

(# 4321). I need the numbers to maintain my run for the Bakers Dozen challenge so I decided to head over the "hill" in order to achieve my goal for today. Started off in Martinborough and following the back roads ended in Carterton. A quick find. Everything in order. TFTC

Mr-Mcgoo used Project-GC to see if he qualified for this challenge and he did.

User has 290 finds (250 needed).

Rapidly crossing off the few dot days on the calendar today was going to prove difficult as it is our daughter's birthday so haven't got time to go far or wide. Spent some time on Moother's Day looking for a plan to get the few remaining dot days in May ticked off. (Then two days in June and nothing required to November!) Imagine my delight when I discovered we had qualified last August for 250 finds in August for the Wairarapa puzzle cache but had not noticed and not claimed the find. We physically found and signed the log on 02.07.16. So that will do nicely for today. This is a great series. Only have a couple of months at the end of the year to finish off before putting the series to bed. TFTC

found during an overnight run doing the 100-10-7 Challenge. Thanks to the cache owners for all caches found during this run - particulary Skindo for the many many cintributing caches created and placed. during this run all of the Skindo caches I found were either puzzles and challenges - many many mnay hours if fun solving thr puzzles and a few trips to achieve sorm if the challenges - thanks Skindo for your significant efforts in the local game board. more to follow. . .

I took my youngest son up to Wellington in the camper van. I dropped him off at his friend's house where he will stay. Meanwhile I get to geocache and be on standby.
I stayed in Martinburough last night and will slowly head to a walk and back looking for geocaches.
It is starting to get warmer in August so it is easier to find geocaches.
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Did you know that planning has started for a Mega Event in Wellington in 2018? Check out the details on the [WENZ Website](https://sites.google.com/site/wenzgeo2018/home) or visit the event's page on [FaceBook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/590545297801072/) and don't forget to log your attendance on the [WENZ Event Page](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC78NMQ_wenz-event-2018-wellington?guid=23f451a2-08ac-4374-883 f-ed6814687147)

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

I'm from Norway, escaping the cold winter and travelling around New Zealand for 7 weeks, using geocaching as my tourguide. Today I had to drive from Wellington to Ohakune, via the challengetrail near Martinborough. Therefore I started geocaching at 6 am to try to get as much done as possible. My main focus today was challenge-caches.

This challengetrail was just shouting "come get me!!!" on the challengecaches- map at projectgc, and I had no intension of going home without coming here first. I wasn't sure if I would be able to find them all before time was up, I calculated that it would take 3 hours if the caches was quickly found, and I was right. Thankfully all caches had good hints, they were easily found without any bushbashing. It was a beautiful drive with hardly no cars and it was easy to find parking. That's exactly the way I like powertrails to be, thank you so much, I really loved these series.

[hegenor](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=hegenor) har brukt [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4DFMM/12857 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") for å se om vedkommende er kvalifisert for denne utfordringen, og det er vedkommende.

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User has 293 finds (250 needed). Between(month,day) 08-01 & 08-31 Filters:()

I qualify for all these 100 and 250 find for each month as can be seen on my stats page.
A serious geo caching day! Not so much about numbers but a dedicated pre planned set of caches covering a fairly large area and many of the caches were puzzle caches we had solved or had qualified for. . We travelled 400km, found about 70 caches and were out on the trail for 15hours, so it was a big serious day.
We left about 6.30am from Palmerston North and travelled thro to Masterton where were picked up out first puzzle cache. And then travelled down the back road towards martinborough locating the 100 and 250 caches for a month -our main objective!. We stopped at Kokotau reserve for a late morning tea cum lunch but the cache here eluded us even with three searchers and a double look before and again after lunch. We replaced several skindo caches along the route with either new containers or water proof logs as so often they were soaking wet. We side tracked up several side roads for caches and we visited Stonehenge on the way. and then headed into Martinborough to initally look for the cache in the town square which had stumped geodatum earlier. As always PJMacNZ solved the retrieval of this cache and we then headed to the pub for a much earned break and tea with Devonshire scones Yummy! We then continued on our way towards home locating other caches in Martin borough and then on the back route up to Greytown to locate the Cobblestone museum cache which I have searched for on numerous occasions. PJM was able to find the Virtual cache there which was a plus for him. By the time we left Masterton it was starting to darken so we gave away the idea of locating the newer Eketahuna caches. They will wait for another day!.
It was a great day and combined effort by all three of us. Thank you to my partners and the Cos for these caches. Lots of smiley faces and project GC points to boot!!

I easily qualify for this one.

#4613. I had a day of leave available and with a great weather forecast, decided a numbers trip to the Wairarapa was on the cards. My mission today was to pick up more solved puzzle finals. Also to mop up a few traditional outliers that seem to have been missed on days doing big caching runs. Had reached the Aug target a month ago and so good to be able to claim the final today. Easy find. Signed and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for the challenge cache skindo.

I only had August remaining as the month to get 250 cache finds. Not helped by a field trip for the first two weeks of August where I could do almost no caching as I was on an island. So in the second half of the month I made sure I found enough to go over 250. Will hopefully pick this one up some stage in the next month.

I was right! When I signed the log way back in 2014, I reckoned I might be able to complete this by 2017 - fortunately at the end of the month, I'd reached 273 caches in August (Just November outstanding now). TFTC - another one towards the DGSc 2.5+ challenge.

I found the physical cache for this in September last year and I had to wait until now to reach the requirements to log the cache. After a mini break last weekend, I have now qualified and can place an online log. Here's my qualifying finds.

Only at 236 will work on this signed the log book

I found the physical cache for this in September last year and I had to wait until now to reach the requirements to log the cache. After a mini break this weekend, I have now qualified and can place an online log. Here's my qualifying finds.

cache found with no problems
Out with Red Roaming as we tour the globe but spending most time here in this beautiful country. another lovely day. Cache log signed with our full names or DD & RR, depending upon space and time. On our way from Martinborough, what a lovely camp site that was. and going back past Wellington to Plimmerton and doing some caching on the way. TFTC
apologies for the cut and paste logs and the lateness of logging.
please see my write note of 27.02.17 for my qualification for this cache

Cache found with no problems having posted my qualification on 11.12.16. Apologies fir cut and paste logs. Many thanks

Travelling around the world with Dartmoor Deliverer to help her celebrate taking early retirement!

NB Dont forget our Devon UK Mega 2017 GC6JZNY this August in the beautiful East Devon area of our county. UK Megas are over one week full of events and geocaching - a wonderful way to enjoy our county!

While visiting New Zealand, we came to Matinborough for a couple of days to check out the vineyards. I decided to get up early this morning to get out and grab some of the caches that piqued my interest. This one made the list. You can check my public profile for qualifications (my lowest monthly find is over 300). Thanks for adding to an awesome vacation.

SL TFTC skindo

In town for one day for some wine tasting and grabbed a few challenge caches in the morning but then realised that they extended further up the road so after enjoying the local fare we came back to grab a select few more.

This was one I easily qualified for - August must be a good month! TNLN TFTC

There was a lamb on the wrong side of the fence right beside gz that started head butting the fence when it saw me pull up, I backed off to give it room and it took off. TFTC 

#6157

Day one of a two-day caching trip in southern Wairarapa. The 250 finds-per-month challenge caches are on my to-do list. Will log stats later. Thanks skindo for this challenge cache.

I and red Roaming are coming over in less that 4 weeks now - Yipee!! really looking forward to this. we will be doing some caching whilst here and we hope this will be one of them.
Please see attached photo.

we have been to the Wairapa so many times to collect just Skindo puzzles and traditionals, the car goes to the area automatically, well with some help but it is such an amazing area we really do enjoy coming back this way often and usually we stay and make a lovely weekend away of it. so it was time to claim our August finds. found log quickly cache was all good signed the log and placed it back where we found it. Thank you Skindo for having so many caches for us to find helps our numbers grow alot faster, we do enjoy all the series you put out and it feels like a real achievement when we complete them. TFTPC yay August is achieved.

When we plant our trip through New Zealand, we found these Challenges.
Oh yes, that met exactly our taste.
The route from Masterton down to Martinborough was very nice and little traffic.
So we could stop and search without problems.
All conditions can be fulfilled, logproof is attached (shot from my profile).
Some we found very fast, and some we had to search a little bit, but we always had our fun.

Thank you for hiding and maintaining, greetings from Germany, dopsi5

Day # 12 in New Zealand on a geocaching holiday-trip covering Thailand, Australia and finally my beloved NZ .
Made it from far and rainy South to the North Island. After two splendid days in beautiful Wellington [:X], todays sunny and pleasant tour took me further up north to Masterton .
On the huge cache-menu there were quite some big points for today - Yummie! [:o)]:
1) some challenges in the Hutt-Area I had identified as being "green" for me and
2) a lot of challenges created by skindo that are placed on the way to Masterton.
All this decorated with some traditional ‘green boxes’ along the route.
Missions successfully accomplished . At the end of the busy day the record of the menu contained 44 finds, including 33 (!) challenges that I am a little bit proud to have met the requirements [^]! - so cool! [^]

This challenge-series attracted my hunting-instinct while preparing this trip to NZ . And - BIGO - I can meet all the requirements !!
A great route with a lot to see and a lot to collect [8)] ...
Logproof is attached (shot from my official profile from Geocaching.com or Project GC) [^].
All boxes in great condition and mmmmmh - easy to find - unless stated otherwise .
I rewarded favorite-points to my 3 favoured challenges [^].

Hey - owners on the way up north - you have cool caches [^] !
A big thanks [:X] to all Owners involved [^] for hiding and maintaining .
Special thanks [:X] [:X] to skindo who contributed the majority of my finds today .
Cheers from Germany

Mrs G was coming over to the Martinborough Fair with her buddies in their annual camping and fair expedition. Somehow I got invited along this year, but the fair was definitely not on my agenda! It sounded like a lot more fun to hit some Wairarapa back roads and mop up the many challenges, puzzles and trads that have popped up around Martinborough since I last cleaned out the area a couple of years ago.

TFTC skindo

Cache found together with Lady Murazor during our New Zealand trip.

Here are my finds in months of the year (may be a bit outdated for December, currently I have more).
January: 270
February: 531
March: 744
April: 569
May: 1541
June: 1544
July: 2713
August: 963
September: 714
October: 624
November: 469
December: 746+
So it seems I fulfill the conditions for all the "monthly" challenges.

No trade.
Thank you for this cache and greetings from Kraków, Poland!

Visited with Murazor - log will follow.

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!

At World’s End – New Zealand – One of our dream become true.

Our plan was to stay 4 weeks in New Zealand. But this wasn’t this easy to manage at work. So we moved spontanic the plan from march to november. We informed us before about point of interessts. The list was this long so we decided to go by campervan from the north to the south to have the most mobility. We arrived after way to much hours in Auckland and started there our round trip. At first we enjoyed the area in auckland and the north. In Waitomo we were able to see and enjoy glohworms in one of the famous caves. But this area had a lot of nice hiking trails were we could discovered the Piripiri Caves, Natural Bridge and the Marokopa Falls. This was already impressive to see and still the beginning of our adventure for life. The trip went on over Okere Falls Scenic Reserve direction Rotorua. In this area we enjoyed each hour, because each corner was different. We visited the Haumurana Springs – what amazing water -, Blue Lake and Green Lake and relaxed in Kerosene Creek. We liked all the water and in our travel guide we found a hike cloth to the Huka Falls, which ofcourse we did as well. All this flowers were bloom. One oft the Highlights was Wai-O-Tapu. The weather was perfect and all this colors awesome and the geysir a nice shower. By Campercan the to tour went on direction Tongariro Alpine with a short stop at Orakei Korako and the Tongariro River Loop Track. Lu like nice hiking tours and what could be the best for her birthday? Of course the famous Tongariro Alpine Crossing. We started early in the morning and walked approximately 9 hours over gras, stones, snow and colorful water. Now we had to leave the Heart of North New Zealand and went over Taranaki Falls to the East Coast with the goal Napier. The weather was cloudy and often raining but a small sightseeing was a must have. The last stop on the North Irland was Wellington. But it was only raining and some streets were already flooded. That’s why we change spontanic our plan and only did the First Cache of New Zealand and went by ship over the Marlboro Sound to Picton. We went over Farewell Spit to the lonely Wharariki Beach with sea lions. On the way back to the big streets we stopped at Waikoropupu Spring and Janie Sesson Shipwreck and drove untypical to Karamea. In Germany we do not have this much and public caves and that’s way we enjoyed this area! Cloth to the West Coast we took a look at the Pancake Rocks. The weather was just raining and so we could not see the Franz Josef and Fox Glacier, but we still visited them. We leaved the bad weather in the hills and enjoyed the Sun at Ship Creek, Thunder Creek, Fantail Falls and the Blue Pools. Wow they were relly blue and this clean and deep. I never saw something similar before. About Wanaka we read a lot in our travel guide and looked forward to it. There arrived we visited the Puzzling World and walked around the sea. Queenstown the next town we drove just through because at this time there was a marathon and it was really campervan unfriendly. So we used the time and drove to Milford Sound and enjoyed the hills surround us on the water. I never felt this small. After we are landed again on land the trip goes on to the Chasm and Clifden Caves and the Clifden Suspension Bridge. Wow what an adventure. At the end we visited a few cities like Bluff, Duneding, Moeraki Boulders and Christchurch were our Trip sadly ends.

At all this places we looked for nice and unique caches which shows us places which we never would had seen without. We enjoyed the nature and wildlife each day and it was really an adventure for life. At the end we drove approximately 5000 kilometeres and felt this relaxed.
Thanks to all owners for placing this caches and this much informations which we got about the particular areas. This was an adventure for life for us. Thanks for this beauty time.

Greetings from Germany – Luco235

*French*
On quitte Palmerston North pour le sud de l'ïle du nord et en chemin nous ferons quelques caches challenges sur la route

Promenade en campervan dans les campagnes environantes, mais cela nous prendrait trop de temps pour faire la totale et c'est parfois pas "savety" de faire un stop le long de la route [xx(]. Nous avons donc décidé de faire les chalenges avec un bon ratio d'étoiles

[franketmuriel](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=franketmuriel) a utilisé [Project-GC](http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4DFMM/12857 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") pour voir s'il/elle était qualifié(e) pour ce challenge et il/elle l'est.

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User has 1009 finds (250 needed). Between(month,day) 08-01 & 08-31 Filters:()

skindo, thanks for the geocache
Frank et Muriel
#10102
Belgique
Log with GSAK

A kinda 'sparta'-moment here, as I've found 300 caches in august in total.. ("THIS... IS... GEOCACHING!")

Found at 18:24 - #6571

TFTC

Dipping TBs through we had with us

25th of the day and August is my third best month for caching. TFTC.

Having just found our 250th cache in August we are now able to log this one. TFTC

Have yet to reached the qualification count for this cache. Not far off so will post as found in August.

Which set of five lol. Found and signed to log another day. Tftc

After overnighting at Wairarapa Lake Domain we are making our way north to Ashhurst, via a rather circuitous route, collecting solved puzzles and a few challenge caches along the way. We did not qualify for this challenge when we were last in the area back in 2013, but we do now. Parked and walked to GZ where the cache was quickly spotted. Thanks.

I'm pleased to qualify for this challenge with a grand total of 650 finds for the month at the end of August last year. Found a sunhat lying in the grass approaching the cache. TFTC #8419

It is well past time that I signed these Finds Challenges off. Now that I am staying in Masterton for a few days there is no time like the present. There might be the odd Traditional cache as well that are in between the Challenge caches.

Cheers for the cache.

I was aiming to make the most of the stay up north, find some interesting caches and challenges, and have a ball. I looked at the map to see the whereabouts of some challenges, and planned my journey accordingly. Very nice and sunny day after the early morning drizzle, and a few people about enjoying the weekend. Plenty of breaks between traffic though to look for caches and enjoy the scenery. Thank you to all the CO’s who lured me out!!

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!

I have found at least 550 caches in every month of the year.

Greetings from Finland

FIN (laalaa, janahola, temyllyl, kapeka) holiday in New Zealand. Wonderful country, I loved it.
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the challenge.

I have used [url=http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4DFMM/12857]Project-GC[/url] to see if I qualify for this challenge and I do.

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User has 4332 finds (250 needed). Between(month,day) 08-01 & 08-31 Filters:()

13th day on our geo-roadtrip in New Zealand, and caching our way towards north. Logged using our group nickname FIN with janahola, laalaa and kapeka. After having a blast in South Island and in Christchurch Mega event, we had to start heading back home. Fortunately we still had few days left to spend in NZ while driving to Auckland.

Here is [url=https://d1u1p2xjjiahg3.cloudfront.net/465eb15c-b61c-467a-b0ee-540750025a5f_l.png]the proof.[/url]

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 Wellington to Masterton. We saw many nice places and caches. Thanks for the cache!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!



Here's the proof

1.15pm - Found Cache

Well with a few on full days down in Christchurch attending the Mega Event and back in Wellington we are heading home but not before heading to the Martinborough area to collect a few Challenge caches that we qualify for and perhaps any other cache that happens to pop up along the way and both the Squirrel and I have never been in this part of the country before.
We thought we would get phone coverage in area but had to back track a few times and save caches offline, which seemed to be the only thing that held us up finding caches. Signed logs and thanks so much for these caches and as I have a fair amount of logging have found it necessary to cut and paste. (My apologies)

Thanks
FapAndGap

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)...

Labour Day... Heading home from Mega. The plan is simple... Get home to Rotorua with enough time to unwind and relax before work again on Tuesday. But first, there are some important caches to visit along the way home (If you consider Wainuiomata and Wairarapa the way home)...

We decided to pass this way because of the series of challenges in the area. We qualify to find most of the caches in the series... For this hide, we have found:

August - 301 caches

All of the challenge caches we found today were in place. However, some logs were marginal, while others were wet and in need of replacement. We were unprepared to do this ourselves, but maintenance is required on several of these caches. Many thanks for the challenges and TFTC.

Nice day for a drive in the country and a little caching. Our stats show we have more than 1900 Aug finds, so that should do it. Thanks.

On a geocaching trip over the Wairarapa.

Great to be able to qualify.

A quick find. Cache in good order and log nice and dry.

TFTC

I qualified for this cache with 263 August finds. After nearly missing a very good parking space, the rest of the mission was plain sailing with the cache being exactly where I figured it would be.

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 18: [Green]Martinborough[/Green] to [red]Palmerston-North[/red]
For this day we had a lot of unknown caches from 'skindo' at our wish list...but we also stopped for some other caches
This challenge cache of a great series was one of these caches
According to my statistics I have at least 350 finds every month...so I'm qualified for this challenge

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

Together with [url=http://coord.info/PR3BC8B][red]'Dev46'[/navy][/url][/red] I was on a 'sightseeing-tour' through lovely [Green]'New Zealand'[/Green]
During our great time we could see a lot of beautiful places and we also could find 'some' caches in the area...this was one them [:X]

In my public statistics you can see that I'm also qualified for this challenge

Many thanks to all CO's for all these nice caches
Dev46

Gotcha please see our profile or GC4DFM7 for qualification TFTC

An this is the last challenge find for me for the night as I slowly make my way home. TFTC skindo, #7442

I was heading from Masterton to Wellington today and had previously noticed all of the challenge caches along the back roads from Masterton to Featherston, so I decided I would take this route in order to pick up those caches! I have found over 250 caches in all 12 months of the year, so qualify for all of the 100 or 250 finds in a month challenges. I will upload a screen shot of my stats to the "100 Finds in Every Month of Year Challenge" and also the "250 Finds in Every Month of Year Challenge" rather than uploading this to all 26 of these challenges! It was a hot day travelling these roads and the majority of caches were quick and easy finds, although my shoes are now full of grass seeds! Thanks for this series of challenges and the cache!

[green] I had solved a set of skindo puzzles a long time ago (like maybe over a year) and had been planning a puzzle raid in skindo land for some time. I managed to do one with Etherlord, but he kept wanting to stop at a random traditional that we happened to be passing and that ate into puzzle time. So today I got to do one on my terms - no passengers! So got onto Project-GC, downloaded my solved puzzles into the GPS, making sure there was nothing else in there to clutter my ambitions (I have the cellphone if I really get desperate to do a traditional) and headed off. Lord knows how many kilometres, or how many traditionals I passed. But it was only half a day, lunch to 10pm, and 40 caches.
This series seemed to be all on dirt roads, an interesting exercise for my little rental car. But I got to see lots of rabbits, hares, magpies and yellowhammers. And some REALLY close up views of sheep trucks!
Many thanks, skindo!

Oops - I obviously forgot to remove the "require corrected coords" tick, so these challenges were not in my query. Out with the cellphone. Now I am not sure which I qualified for so I found each cache from June onwards. Drat, I qualify for May! Oh, well, I have to go back sometime anyway. At least i got this one sorted!

Found in 2014.
Completed the challenge in 2019.
TFTC.

With over 700 finds for each month, we easily qualified for all the challenges in this series. The cache was a quick easy find with markhnz and hayleyhnz. TFTC

With over 100 finds needed this month I really had no put nose on the caching grindstone and just get this done. Sucked it up and did a big chunk of a power trail. Log signed, numbers now in order, mission accomplished! Cheers for the cache placement!

A big road trip via Wellington to Auckland this month meant im now able to sign this one off. Log signed 01/02/14, TFTCC!

At current rate, I might be able to claim this by August 2017 - TFTC.

A big caching day which started with Dawn Service in Masterton and ended with a night cache. Approx 80 caches in total while on the road with Pagenz. Thanks to all who placed caches for us to find.

Proof attached

August a busy month. Qualifying evidence in GC4DFN3 t4tc

Managed to wangle most of a weekend in the Wairarapa. Knew it was coming up for a while so had put in a bit of an effort solving some puzzles. Had a great couple of days and wound up with about 300 finds. Hardly scratched the surface really - I'll be back!

Was on a day trip from Hamilton to pick up a couple of caches in Wellington and deviated through the Wairarapa on the way home to dip my toe into Skindo country.
Just concentrated on the Challenges but will be back one day to do some more. Beautiful countryside around here and usually plenty of room to pull off the road which was appreciated.
Another team must have been doing the same thing today as they had logged all the same challenge caches I was doing.
Got back home just after 2:00 am
Many thanks

Headed down to Wellington for a fly-down-drive-back-caching weekend with mike-miss and Lostcourse - basically a caching binge drive back to Auckland, caching under the moniker "Team F.M.L." We headed out of Wellington as quickly as possible to get some serious caching done in the Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay before heading back to Auckland. Apologies for the copy/paste log, but we found >310 caches in 36 hours and for many it's hard to remember specific details. We headed through a bunch of interesting winding back roads and saw a lot of beautiful sights and historic spots. We shared the driving and stopped for about an hour to catch some shut eye in Pongaroa before continuing, caching all the way. Saturday was my biggest caching day ever, and this Feb, after just the first 36 hours, is already my biggest month ever. Challenge qualification attached. TFTC!!!

Signed the log as part of Team FML!'s cache raid into the Wairarapa. Well short of qualifying so won't be logging as found until thats rectified come August hopefully. 170 finds in August to date.

Signed the log as part of Team FML!'s cache raid into the Wairarapa. Well short of qualifying so won't be logging as found until that is rectified come August hopefully. 134 finds in August to date.

Today we saw many wonderful places and we found many good cache.
Nice challenge. I add a table later.
Greetings from Finland
TFTC

Tänään lähdettiin etsimään näitä haasteita, kun minun löytömäärät on täynnä. Tällä hetkellä minulla on Elokuussa 1747 kätköä löydetty. Kätkö löytyi nopeasti. Kiitos mukavasta haasteesta mukava saada tämäkin haaste, meillä suomessa ei ole kuukausi haasteita. TFTC Greetings from Finland.

On to Martinborough from Castle Point. Challenge qualified ages ago, and now smilified. Another great holiday day. Thanks for the hide.

Picking up a few challenge caches in Skindoland. Thanks for setting up this series, evidence of qualification attached in photo (1002 finds for us in August) TFTC.

A perfect day for caching, warm sunny with not much wind, and not a lot of traffic on the roads. A nice wee Challenge, feel free to check out my stats page to confirm compliance. Cheers and TFTC

Together with Geparderna we arrived to New Zealand for the Mega event and a tree week caching and sightseeing tour.
We had solved many of the "language" mysteries at home and during a pleasant stay in Martinborough we took the opportunity
to log these and a number of challenge caches that we had qualified for.

Greetings from Sweden

Together with Busther we are on a visit in New Zeeland where we have attended the Auckland MEGA and now are doing some turisting and some geocaching while we are traveling from Auckland to Christchurch.

We spend some days in Martinborugh and today we took our rental car for to look at the surroundings.
It was amazing with all the green hills and the cattle and sheep everywhere. During the trip we took so many of the month challanges that we were able to do.

Sorry for duplicating the log.

Thank you so much for the challenge and for the cache.

Greeetings from Sweden.

This entry was edited by Geparderna on Thursday, 07 November 2013 at 10:05:11 UTC.

On the road to the MEGA; to Auckland via Martinborough and Napier. I must be mad!
At last, the real reason for the minor deviation on my drive to the MEGA. A few Challenge caches that needed finding.
Nice wee series.
TFTC

The only one in the 250 finds that I am able to do at present - tftc and a quick find.

#4673. Qualified. Quick find. TNLNSL. TFTC.