Crayola 64: Spring Green Karaka, North Island, New Zealand
By kiwicouple on 07-Jul-19. Waypoint GC89WQW

Another easy find --- I have been eyeing up the Crayola series for a while now and when I mentioned a trip plan to some friends they wanted to come along and soon it turned into an epic trip, with all sorts of what-do-we-wants for day two.So here we are, TrinityNZ and maplerosenz and myself. We arrived late friday. I headed out early Saturday morning and walked out to collect the Kirk's bush caches, getting back when the girls were nearly ready to head out. We knocked off the crayolas in 6 hours. Some took a lot of hunting, others we knew were missing and had permission to replace. We also did a couple of the trads amongst there, but other defeated us. Sunday I set off early again. but managed five DNFs in a row. I guess my hearrt wasn't really in it. It rained all Saturday, I had clean sock but they were wet as just from a couple of minutes in my shoes from yesterday. And it is raining still. Today we went out again, in the rain again, to get a bunch of challenge caches and a few odds and sodds specials.Aparently everyone back home had sunny weather. Sigh.Most caches signed as MuTS, for mapleroseNZ, TrinityNZ and the Seagnoid. Some challenge caches signed with our individual names.

In Auckland this wet weekend with maplerosenz and The Seagnoid. Our primary purpose is to complete the Crayola series, so we'd all previously solved the puzzles. Using Cachetur we got a reasonable route to follow, so we set off early on Saturday morning. Thanks to kiwicouple for this series and for giving us a drive through some lovely countryside (despite the weather doing its best to make us miserable!). Logs all signed as MuTS for the three of us.Assume nothing, test everything! Good find by maplerosenz.

Flying in for a short weekend with TrinityNZ & the Seagnoid (Team MuTS!) with a select list of caches to find including this Crayola series. We had used Cachetur to make the best route we could see. We set off before 8am from our base in Rosehill, armed with fruit, muesli bars and plenty of liquids (there are no obvious cafes or dairies on the route, so bring supplies if you are attempting the whole lot in one go. We found one bougie 'rural grocery', which advertised hot drinks but didn't have tea or decaff coffee as per its menu...go figure). After the first 10 or so caches, I managed to fall over on large, sharp gravel and tear an impressive hole in my knee. I was then designated chief driver/navigator and left to drive/bleed quietly for much of the rest of this series, only getting out of the car when caches were not found quickly. As a result, I don't have much individual detail about each cache but will add it where I have notes. We eventually completed this series in a little over 6 hours, including a few non-Crayola caches on the route. We had CO permission to replace missing caches (we replaced 2 or 3 in total) - so the entire series is currently available.Thanks for all your work putting this series together, kiwicouple - it is quite the feat and represents hours and hours of work with a fun theme ,';*={thanks}-*;', ,;:*(thanks}:*;*:{thanks}*:;, ,;{thanks}:;:*{thanks}:;:{thanks);, `;:{thanks};:{thanks}:;{thanks}:;' `*&;:{thanks}:;:{thanks},:;&*' -+;:*{thanks}*:;+- `-\\\||///-' _ \\||// _ / `------' \ | }-(____)-{ | \___/ |||| \___/ /_, |||| ,_\

(10195) Came up to Auckland with Itchyfeet2020 to primarily get the Crayola series. Second day and it has dawned a much better day with no rain about. Got a few others as well. Solved these 5 years ago and finally going for them. Signed the log as McItchy.Thanks kiwicouple for taking the time to place the cache and for bringing me here.

Day 2 of my visit to the big smoke with Mr-Mcgoo for a Crayola coloured crayon adventure. I can't recall when I originally solved all of these - ages ago, but I love these puzzles, and a nice long list was a fun goal. Great to finally years later visit all the locations revealed on my screen so long ago. Our joint caching name for the logs was Mc Itchy. TFTC and fun series kiwicouple. Nice hide here, but it didn't fool Mr-Mcgoo.

Thanks for your amazing cache. I really appreciate the time you took to set up and maintain your caches. All good here Found with Fisha1288 Cheers, Cympull.

Found with Cympull. TFC

We planned a few days visit to Auckland for two reasons; our last two North Island CANZ caches, and the Crayola series which we had solved several years ago. Unfortunately we didnt think to bring caching supplies (eg extra log sheets) with us.We are back for our second day of the crayola series today. Yesterday we managed to find all 40 of the caches we looked for; we werent so successful today, and we also had more traffic and muggles to contend with, being closer to town. This was #12 for the day, solved in 2021. Our second DNF for the day, not sure if its missing or we just didnt look well enough. We had to search between passing cars and try not to look too weird! We will put it on our watchlist.

Endelig har jeg og MrVon sr kommet oss ned til Australia og New Zealand, -en gammel drm er gtt i oppfyllelse. Team Eika og Ingsve har ogs reist i flge med oss p denne turen. Vi har reist p kryss og tvers i en mned, og mlet er ende opp i Adeleide og megaevent p skuddrsdagen. Vi har spesielt sett etter gamle cacher, for fylle jasmern, for et par stykker, og for oss to andre som har begynt tenke p gjennomgang to.De aller fleste dukket greit frem p plassene sine,noen ganger mtte vi lete litt, men var som regel heldige tilslutt. Noen DNFer ogs ble det ogs.Vi har for det meste logget med fellesnicket N4 (ingsve,Von sr. TeamEika og Ellen Sch) men ogs egne nicknavn er brukt.En stor takk til alle dere COer for utlegg og vedlikehold av cachene deres. Uten deres arbeid, hadde vi aldri kunnet kost oss med denne hobbyen.Alltid hyggelig med et nytt smilefjes p kartet.Cachehilsen fra Ellen Sch, NorgeMe and MrVon sr have come down to Australia and New Zealand, -an old dream has finally come to an end. Team Eika and Ingsve have also traveled with us on this trip.We have been traveling cross-country for a month, and the goal is to end up in Adeleide and mega-event on the leap year. We have especially looked for old caches, to fill jasmer'n, for a couple of pieces, and for the other two of us who have started to think about reviewing more.The vast majority of them showed up at their places, sometimes we had to search a bit, but we were usually lucky in the end. There were also some DNFs.We have mostly logged in with the common nickname N4 (ingsve, Von sr. TeamEika and Ellen Sch), but our own nicknames are also used.A big thank you to all you CO's for laying out and maintaining your caches. Without their work, we would never have been able to make a living with this hobby.Always nice to have a new smiley face on the map.Cache greetings from Ellen Sch, Norway

Out on a geocache trip with Ellen Sch , Team Eika and ingsve on holiday in New Zealand, and today it was this area that was prioritized If nothing else is mentioned, we found the cache at good coordinates and it was fine To save space in the log, we often log in with the nickname N4 Many thanks to CO for laying out and maintaining this Greetings from Norway TFTCUte p en geocache-tur med Ellen Sch,Team Eika og ingsve p ferien i New Zealand og idag var det dette omrdet som ble prioritert Hvis ikke annet er nevnt s fant vi cachen p gode koordinater og den hadde det braFor spare plass i loggen logger vi ofte med nick N4Tusen takk til Til CO for utlegg og vedlikehold av denne Hilsen fra Norge TFTC

As a once in a lifetime holiday, this year we are traveling for 7 weeks to Vietnam, Bali, Australia and New Zealand. In Australia we meet Ellen Sch and MrVon sr and Ingsve to visit these last two countries, so here we cache together. We signed the log with N4. Now we have solved many caches so we have a large number of solved coordinates. But we are interested in all types of caches, so if you receive a log, it means that we have visited your cache. We haven't quite decided where we're going, but we'll probably let the weather decide for us. We want warmth because in Norway it is now freezing. We will stay for about 2 weeks in Australia and 2 weeks in New Zealand and we will end the trip with the Mega event in Adeleide on 29 February. So thank you very much to all of you who make it possible for us to travel around finding caches. On March 6, we set course for Norway again. There are extremely nice people everywhere and we are welcomed, we thank you very much. Thanks to our cache friends for good company on the trip.

EnglishWe are six Norwegians on a trip to Australia and New Zealand. We arrived in Melbourne at the beginning of February and are traveling home after the mega event in Adelaide. We travel by car and Geocaching helps us discover many nice places and often helps to decide where we choose the route between our goals which are: Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Dunedeen, and Adelaide. This is one of the caches we found on the trip and we thank you for showing us this place. We who are on tour have the nicknames: MrVonsr, ingsve, EllenSch and TeamEika. And signs the logs with N4.Great thanks for showing us and doing our tour wonderful NorwegianVi er seks nordmenn p tur i Australia og New Zealand. Vi ankom Melbourne i begynnelsen av Februar og reiser hjem etter Megaventet i Adelaide.Vi reiser med bil og Geocaching hjelper oss oppdage mange fine steder og bidrar ofte til avgjre hvor vi velger ruten mellom mlene vre som er:Sidney, Melbourne, Aukland, Dunedeen, and Adelaide.Dette er en av cachene vi fant p turen og vi takker for at du viste oss dette stedet.Vi som er p tur har nickene: MrVonsr, ingsve, EllenSch og TeamEika. Og signerer loggene med N4.Stor takk for at dere bidrar til gjre turen s flott

Years after solving these puzzles we finally ventured north in search of the rainbow of colours. Although it It was not supposed to rain our day started with light drizzle which luckily cleared by late morning. Thanks for an enjoyable series of caches, we always enjoy caching around rural areas.Another successful park & grab TFTC.

Matagouri and I found ourselves with a bit of free time before 'house sitting ' duties called, so headed up North for a bit of geocaching. My main focus was to attack this 'crayola series' which had been solved yonks ago in preparation for the Mega event, that I never ended up attending. It's so good to finally complete this series (other than a handful of dnfs).A big thanks to matagouri, who did all the driving around despite the fact he'd already found most of these caches.Thanks for all of the effort you've put into setting up this series

Started off looking in the wrong place and got stabbed my something sharp. Then realised I was in the wrong place and went to the right spot where it was a quick find. TFTC

The parking for this one was a bit dodgy (only a bit, not like being on the edge of the motorway) and I was a bit close to a driveway. I sent GeohoundandI to the wrong hint item and she got stabbed by something prickly. Then she checked her phone and realised that another hint item at the other side of the driveway might have been closer to GZ, so I drove the car to that one.

Nice find. All good here. Thanks Kiwicouple.

️ Trouvée ! / Found it ! ️

Ayant résolu ces puzzles bien avant de venir en Nouvelle-Zélande, il était temps de venir chercher les boîtes. Ce sera en partie chose faite cet après-midi. Merci pour ce bon moment de chasse

3943ème cache trouvée.
Merci kiwicouple pour la cache

Having solved these puzzles long before coming to New Zealand, it was time to pick up the boxes. This will be partly done this afternoon. Thank you for this good hunting time

3943th cache found.
Thank you kiwicouple for the cache

Back again today to try and finish off the Crayola Series. Spring green was an easy find.

Found this - super quick but forgot to get to get a photo

Loved this find, found it with Nonbinosaur on day 1 of the 64, 9 down 55 to go

17/06/23
Found it with HomeSprout

9 down, 55 to go:))

Meandering towards Waiuku where we're visiting friends, and I have some extra time for caching en route.

A nice wee hide here. Something a little different, just to keep me guessing.


Thanks kiwicouple
#4543

I headed out today with AliGle to look for all the caches on the Crayola 64 series. AliGle had worked her way through all the jigsaw puzzles back in the days of Covid lockdowns and it's taken us a while to get around to heading down this way to find the caches. Unfortunately we didn't keep a record of the hints from the puzzle solutions, so that made the day a bit more interesting! However, most caches were easy enough finds without hints. At the end of the day we found 54 caches from the series and DNFed 10. I think half of the DNFs were most likely missing caches (based on DNF logs before us) and the other half were probably there, but we struggled to locate them having not saved the hints! We signed the logsheets with "24/04 V/A" although 2 or 3 couldn't be signed due to dampness. Some logs were also full, but we managed to squeeze our initials in somewhere. All in all it was a great day out in the picturesque countryside. Thanks for the big effort that's obviously gone into creating this series!

Vistra and I headed out today to look for all the caches on the Crayola 64 series. I solved all of the jigsaws during lockdown but we only got around to looking for them today. Unfortunately in my haste to complete the puzzles, I didn't keep a record of the hints from the puzzle solutions when they appeared at the end of the puzzles, so that made finding the caches from the coordinates alone a bit more challenging! Nonetheless we had a pretty successful day and found 54 caches from the series and DNF'd 10. We signed the log sheets with "24/04 V/A" but couldn't sign a couple because the logs were very damp. A few of the log sheets were full too and need replacing, but we managed to find a small corner to initial. Thanks very much to the COs for all the work that has gone into creating this fun series of caches and for giving us a productive and fun day out!

Back to the series for some more fun! Thank you for all the puzzles and caches!

After waiting for a few cars to pass we soon spotted the nicely placed cache.
The road was quite busy and the drivers were made up of those who wanted to speed and those who wanted to go slowly, so not a good combination.
We fit into a third category of "those who want to stop and look at poles, bushes, trees and fences".
TFTC.

Did all the puzzles a while ago hoping we would get to nz. We are.here and have Sunday off tftc

Nice pull off area. Thats what I'd like to find at every Geocache, especially as these country roads can be unexpectedly busy. All as hint suggests. .

#12,520. I finished solving the Crayola puzzles last year and was keen to come here today and find all the ones I had not solved before my previous visit. The weather was good and things were looking promising. I was borrowing my mother'n'laws little car that has barely made its way out of west Auckland in the past 20 years. All was going well until I heard the thump thump thump of a flat tyre out in the back blocks of Karaka. Changed that and discovered the spare had deflated. So two flat tyres. Rang the AA and an hour later the spare was inflated and seemed to be OK. But with no back up thought it best to bale out of caching after 24 finds and head back to the city. Will need to come back another time to complete this series.

I struggled with this one. There was nothing obvious where the hint directed. Read some logs and found one saying the cache had been moved. Looking a bit further off I saw something of interest and yes it was the cache. Signed the log and replaced it next to the hinted object. Thanks kiwicouple for the geoart series.

Today I was driving out of my save Camp for about 4 hours but then it seams the wind was geting stronger, My high JUCY Camper was shaking a lot so I stoped caching. I had 16 finds, 2 was not writable and 4 No finds.
It seems I make the job from the Owner, look if all OK but I get no smiley for the no finds.
Thanks a lot.

Find #8 of the day. Solved these a while back at home so wanting to turn as many of these into smiley faces as fast as possible today. Great hide this one. TFTC

Quick park and sign, put in a new log sheet. TFTC

Out with Mum TFTC

Love this hide. A nice muggle stopped to ask if I had run out of petrol and was OK just after I jumped out of the car. TFTC

Found with Reny90 on a wet day. Clever hide!!

Found with toby84

Nice quick find here.
The new power pole has been installed, so I wasn't too sure if the cache had survived it. But it did. So all good here.
Log is full, so I squeezed myself in somewhere.
Tftc

We were in Patty for afternoon activities when we discovered the first of them was cancelled. What could we do but go get a couple more Crayola’s rather than driving all the way back home. Another quick easy find. The new powe pole looks ready to go in so shouldn’t be much longer. We were lucky to find an empty spot in the middle of the log to sign it .

Took a few mins to find it. But liked the find. TFTC

Log book full

Out and about collecting all the colours today. This one was a quick easy find (as were they all except one). Lots of water lying around the place after a week of rain but all nice and dry today. TFTC.

The power company are about to replace all the poles along this road. I have moved the cache into the hedge to protect it while this work is done. It will need to be relocated once the poles are replaced.

4 July 2022 10:17 log pretty full, and looks as if they are about to de some maintenance which could affect the hide. Tftc.

#12,970. We enjoyed solving this interesting puzzle based in Karaka. Park and grab at final GZ, which was fortunately all quiet at the time of our visit. Found after a short search. Good hide. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

It appears that the hint object is about to be replaced in the near future, and likely to affect the hide.

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

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

Mr Kiwi and I spent Matariki exploring this new part of the country to us. We found snails, slugs, ants and slatters along with 83 caches. Many thanks for putting the series together. I love jigsaw puzzles, so these caches were right up my alley. I loved the hidden in plain sight caches.

Solved these a while back and in the (very general) area today with some time…. So making a start in collecting then. Thanks.

Power poles in process of being replaced, don't think this will last long. Day of from work and some fun caching for the day, early start just before sunrise, Nice find, T4T$

Another day, another 5 from this series.

Quick find here, as per hint. TFTC

Great disguise. Quick find out with buzzybb. Tftc

Solved these great, easy to solve puzzles a while back. Decided to tackle these caches today on a nice day out.
A nice quick find, cool disguise. TFTC.

I had to head to the racetrack at Pukekohe Park for driver training today for my job, so what better opportunity than to grab some caches beforehand, as I don't often get this far south very often. My intention was to find the remaining Crayola 64 puzzles that were published after my FTF run, as well as one of the MEGA adventure lab waypoints at Pukekohe Hill. Nice to finally get the remainder of the Crayola puzzles knocked off.

Decided to leave home at 5am which meant that I got to Karaka around 5.45am, leaving me enough time before our 8.30am start. Armed with my headlamp I started searching under the cover of darkness. Luckily not too many people off the main road, which made searching much easier. The one big hazard I had to watch out for was the dozens of bunnies running around on one of the open back roads.

Last one for the morning and another quick find. Thank you for a wonderful series. So nice to get them all completed now.

Apologies for the late logging and the cut and paste, we solved these puzzles over the last two years so now was the time we started visiting them. Joined forces with TaraTed to attend the Mega and take an organised trip to Brown's Island along with other cacher's who had also attended Mega.
In the following days we visited and cached in and around Auckland and South Auckland, including visits to this Crayola series. We signed ourselves as BBTT or vice versa.
Thanks kiwicouple for the great series we have seen so far. TFTC Blenheim Bear

This was Crayola cache #56 of 64, and cache #64 that we found today. My overall log for the series is on [Crayola 64: Silver](https://coord.info/GL16JWD2E).

An interesting (and sneaky!!) container here. It took me a while to find it. It's not spring at the moment, but I think it would have been nice doing this series in spring because it was a very hot day, and even though we were spending most of the time in merlot's car, we still got very hot when jumping out to find each cache.

Thank you kiwicouple!

As Lumin said....sneaky but we persevered....no dnfs for us today.
Enjoyed the puzzles...and now our big day out to get big numbers ..

These puzzles were solved over the last two years so it was time we started visiting them. Joined forces with Blenheim Bear to attend the Mega and take an organised trip to Brown's Island along with other cachers who had also attended Mega.
In the following days we visited and cached in and around Auckland and South Auckland, including visits to this Crayola series. We signed ourselves as BBTT or vice versa.
Thanks kiwicouple for this cache.

With TwigNZ on a day of caching fun, finding the puzzle caches that are part of the Crayola 64 power trail around Karaka and Waiuku

Solved these about a year ago, was solving so that I could perhaps combine with the NZ MEGA, and so today was the day, only a couple of days after the MEGA which was held on the 22 January.

A joint effort, thanks again TwigNZ for having me tag along, so many roads not travelled before, cool hides, and interesting landscapes.

Cool trail, thanks kiwicouple for the puzzles, hides and the adventure

NZ MEGA 2020 (in 2022) road trip - Day 7
Apologies in advance for the C&P logging, but will mention anything that stands out. Just about all the finds were straightforward in accordance with the Hint.

As one of the things I thought I might attempt on this trip, I've been itching to have a crack at trying to get a day of finding a large number of caches. 200 was a target I had set myself a while back. I had noticed that there was a large concentration of caches just north of Auckland Airport, and I had also solved the Crayola 64 geo-art series a couple of years ago, and hoped that between those 2 locations I would be able to get the numbers I wanted. But doing it all on my own would be the biggest challenge.

I did have a few people say to me that I was being over-ambitious, as the Crayola series would take the best part of a day in itself to visit all the locations. I can now confirm that those people were right.

Having had a fantastic day on Browns Island on Sunday, another member of Team Done by 1 (RustyNZ) and I arranged to do just the Crayola series, and anything more would be a bonus. She had been wanting an excuse to come and find these, so it was a good opportunity for both of us. We met up just off the motorway and carpooled from there.

A quick find at GZ, the log was soon sporting both our names and we were back off on what would end up being a really long, but worthwhile day. I didn't get my 200, but I had my best single day ever with over 100 finds

Thanks for placing this series of caches.

18/64 #278. Quick find. Cheers.

After the fun of the Mega yesterday back to the hard graft. Need 50 today. This series seemed ideal.

This is number 5. Sneaky.

Out trying to complete this series fingers crossed we can achieve this today
TFTC and hard work put into creating these caches.#15

Found with matagouri on Mega day. TFTC and a great series.

Nice hide!

In Auckland for the much delayed Mega with TharntheHalken. Yay! Today we decided to work as many of the Crayola series as we possibly could, having solved the entire series during lockdown (in Wellington). No problems finding these caches. Tftc!

It's my Mega weekend road trip! This is day two, a bulk find day, attempting to complete the Crayola 64. Will expand on my logs, post photos, qualifying caches for challenges, etc. When I get home. TFTC

Neat little hide.

21 January 2022 12:14 pm Find #4661

Passing through on my way to Hamilton and finally able to make a start on this great piece of GeoArt (was supposed to do it in February but got a bit sidetracked by the recent GeoTour). Probably won't be back up this way untill October to finish it. All good here with another quick find as described. TFTC

#19543. Troodles was keen to include a couple of major pieces of geoart on our trip north, and today it was time to try to find all of the Crayola 64 caches (we managed to find all but 2 I think). This was the first of the day. I'll make some overall comments here, with my other logs for the series being short and sweet (especially for the ones I can't remember anything about nearly 2 weeks after finding them). We spent an enjoyable 5 or 6 hours doing the series (and a few other caches we passed). Despite it being a week day, traffic wasn't a problem; there were no caches on the busier roads, and generally caches were placed in spots where good parking was available. Most of the caches were quick P+Gs, and this one was no exception TFTC (and the series).

Today we had set aside for doing the Crayola 64 series, and StreetWalkerNZ had spent time last night working out the optimal route, though a bit of back tracking could not be avoided. A successful day, with just a couple of DNFs (think these caches are missing, rather than through our incompetence [:p]). Appreciated the quiet roads and variety of hides.
This was the first in the series for us and a quick find - nice hide. TFTC.

13th on our 64 Crayons adventure...with Sportynz

Crayon #13 found with Lex007

Worked out the answers to all the puzzles during lock down and took a drive to the area today to see how many we could fine. Managed to find about 28 and happy with this. Thanks CO for the caches

Quicker to find all the caches than work them out at home. Interesting set. TFTC

QEF by Bird - great container, although was somewhat distracted by the decoys (?). They may have a genuine purpose but have never seen them before. Anyway SL TFTC

It was over the road from gz. We are over half way there. It's now 1:02 pm and we started at 9am The DBees have left us so we are signing Jeng. This series was fun to solve and find thanks. We found a travel bug in it.
This is supposed to be a Mega trip. Jude_E and I flew up from Christchurch. Ethness flew up from Wellington. The DBees and Gracie's GPS fun drove down from Northland.
Thanks kiwicouple for creating this hide. It was find 9254 for me.

======== NZ Mega 2021 ========
Planning for the NZ Mega 2021 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, October 2021

In Auckland for the mega that isn't! We are looking for crayola caches today. We signed as JENG to save log space: Jude_E, Ethness, Nosynel and graciesgpsfun. Anotjer prrfect container for a pp. Tftc.
#6416

Jude_E, NosyNel, GraciesGPSFun and I are on the ‘Mega that wasn’t’ trip in Auckland the weekend. We’re collecting the ‘Tour’ caches, plus others, plus seeing the scenery, plus having a good old time -as usual . TFTC.

Part of southern raiders. Nice day to be driving around collecting this series
Spring green reminds you of the new green grass that grows in spring. Nothing like the colour shown here. Pleased we live in New Zealand and our green is a much nicer colour

It's a bit surprising to me that the colour of spring green doesn't seem a lot more vivid than it is. Again, no problems with tracking down the cache's whereabouts.

Visiting North Island from Otago as I still had my flights etc all booked last Christmas for what was going to be the Mega Weekend. Joined up with the Southland Geocachers (MrandMrsChosen1978, Wombat_4, NZBozzy, Kiscardi, Mrs Hazzer, Tregram and I) formed the Southern Raiders to have a Mega time caching in Auckland and Rotorua.

Day 3 - a nice morning chilling at the hotel and then it was time to hit the 64 Crayola series. As one of two who had all of the puzzle final locations loaded on my phone I became the navigator in the cark with NZBozzy and Kiscardi. So much fun was had travelling around the area and on the roads we saw and waved to drivers in some very old classic cars.

***[======== NZ Mega 2020 ========](http://nzmega.com)***

[NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) is definitely happening, but has been postponed until 2021. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 22 to 25 October 2021. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:

* 20+ years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20+ years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* All the 20s and now 21 as well!

Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](http://nzmega.com) - you won't want to miss it!

Signed as Southern Raiders
Enjoying a trip around a part of the country I have not visited before
That's for the cache and a great series

Today is Crayola day; everyone has done the puzzles, back in lockdown, and this is very much a focus of the trip, while also doing a couple of the not-this-year-Mega-2020 events.
Travelling with South Island cachers, we found a number of caches including this one, on Labour Weekend Sunday.
We have typically signed as mrandmrschosen1978 or occasionally MM78. Crayola have been signed as Southern Raiders
Tftc

Day 3 with a group of us South Island cachers hitting the area around Auckland. Today we were on a mission to nab all of the Crayola series, grabbing a few others along the way.
All logs signed as the Southern Raiders today (wombats_4, Natalie247, mrandmrschosen1978.. with Kiscardi, NZbozzy) Thankyou to kiwicouple nice to meet you in person at an event this weekend. All caches found and in good order, great series, enjoy jigsaws so these were a pleasure solving! tftc

After a good start leaving home got held up in Wellington which made us late. But finally arrived & headed out this way to start the series. Sorry for cut & past.
Enjoyed solving all these. Quick easy start to our afternoon TFTP:-)

Came up with my sister for a weekend of caching. The Crayola series was on our bucket list. Apologize for cut & paste. All finds were straight forward to find. Signed logs as T or Tgram TFTC

Today was the day Team G0LD (Geocachers 0B80B8, Lis's crew and DaffyNZ) finally got to collect these puzzles. As Pete said we'd planned this trip ages ago but covid-19 got in the way.

I left my sons in Whangarei at 5am and got back home to Paihia at 11pm. It was a long day but I really enjoyed it. We found all the crayola series, a few trads near them, a few other solved puzzles. In the middle of the series we headed up to Awhitu Regional park to get a cache that required low tide. Along the way we even managed two FTF's giving us a total of just over 100 for the day.

I enjoy jigsaw puzzles so this was a fun series which I solved back in July/August 2019. A bit of a different hide here which looked great. Thanks for the series

Off on a mission today with Team G0LD ( Geocachers 0B8, Lis & Daffy ) to finally do the Crayola 64 series. The puzzles had been solved ages ago, but due to two Covid forced delays, it was only now we could coordinate schedules and head south from Whangarei to make the finds.

We managed over 100 caches today, including all 64 Crayola puzzles, some extra puzzles, a few trads and a "slight" detour up to Awhitu Park to do the walk around there as well. A neat bonus was a couple of FTF's as well for the day. Finally made it back to Whangarei 17 hours later after over 500kms travel. Thx Greg for the driving, Lis for doing a lot of the hard yards in and out of the vehicle and yours truly for not getting us lost in an area of the country I certainly had never been before.

Thx also to Kiwi Couple for putting out this series and bringing us to this new area. Certainly interested to see all the flash "shacks" dotted around. The variety of containers was also much appreciated and some nicely crafted examples were found, which does make the experience more enjoyable.

Back into our Crayola finds now after getting back from our Awhitu detour and a nice quick find here in the hint location. TFTC (Series)

Out with Team Gold (Liz Crew and 0B80B8) picking up as many caches as possible in the South Auckland area. We solved a lot puzzle prior to heading down, so it was time to collect them.
Nice quick find at the hint location.

Up in Auckland visiting family for the school holidays. Heading south we decided to stop and collect as many Crayola as we could. Having the camper van is not ideal for small roads so we parked up and got on our bikes. Most of the finds were straight forward however some of the hints had changed. It may be that we solved these so long ago that we haven’t updated the hint. Thanks for the series.

We have a significant caching milestone approaching which we want to obtain on a trip away over Labour weekend. To get there we needed a few more caches and so a plan was hatched, the collective solving power of Team SEAC was put to the task and today was the day to collect this whole series.

The weather forecast wasn't the greatest and there was some initial discussion about postponing however the decision was made to carry on.

We meet at a predetermined spot and with Keylev, NZIceman, Laval, Cragger and Graffin we set out to conquer this series.

Thanks to Kiwicouple for placing this series!!!!!

Out for the day with Team SEAC to try and clear out the Crayola series plus a few extra thrown in for good luck

This was cache find # 64 of the day. All logs signed as Team SEAC to save space, TFTC!

This was my last one to find today which means the 62nd Crayola colour. Thanks so much for all the time and effort that's gone into this series, and your other cache hides.

Another weekend day dawns, later than usual due to daylight saving adjustment in the night and my plan for today was a good one. I've been steadily solving the jigidi Crayola puzzles at the rate of 5 or 6 a night with some gaps in solving but steadily enough anyway. mrs capperz is away for the weekend so I'm at a loose end for things to do - lol! So caching in the Drury area it is then. There was supposed to be some unsavoury weather around with a storm moving across the country, but meh. I can always take a change of clothing. As it was the rain came down for an hour or so and I got really wet, but the sun made an appearance and a breeze picked up to dry me off. Which was nice.

And so it came to pass. The Crayolas were put back in their carton, except for 2 DNFs (one missing, one not sure why everyone else found it but not me!), 62/64. Also managed to get some collateral caches when passing as well as my 200th Earthcache, some GROTTYs, and a trip to Puhinui Reserve to get the Multi cache details for our US and UK partners. Home by 1730 so didn't even make use of the extra hours light today. I'd had enough by then.
Thanks to all COs whose caches I found, individual logs where I remember or have notes.

NZ Travellers have a big milestone in sight and a cache they are aiming for so they need to get their numbers up a bit for the stars to align at the right time. These puzzles were all solved during the first lockdown so we thought we would take the opportunity to finally collect them. We had NZ Travellers, NZ Iceman, cragger, laval, draffin and myself along for the ride. The log was signed as SEAC to save time and space on the log.

Thanks for the cache.

Had a great day out with some of the Team SEAC crew.

Thanks for the cache.

Had a lot of fun with the Team SEAC crew today. I did some of the navigating for our car.

Thanks for the cache.

That’s a nice one!
Allok
Thanks!

Pulled up to GZ and was like wait I found this the other day. All still intact

I have a 3 month sabbatical mostly traveling around the planet. My goal is to find and log 1000 caches. New Zealand is my 4th station traveling from south Christchurch to north Auckland, my first visit here, its far away. This series I already solved before my sabbatical all but 7 of whom I found 2 anyway . This is my sabbatical-cache #955.

Found

I solved all the Crayola 64 mysteries at home and came well prepared with all the hints. The landscape was so quiet and peaceful and the boxes were well done. With more or less searching I signed the logbooks and finished the series. Thanks for all the mysteries and the work to make my day a happy geocaching day!
luckyfour from Switzerland

taking my time and enjoying the weather while getting some of this series, tftc