Five Go Adventuring Again No.1 (Waipa) Te Awamutu, North Island, New Zealand
By GlennandMagsPhilip on 11-Jan-21. Waypoint GC95273

Enjoying a day in Te Awamutu clearing some caches. Did the nearby Adlab and then tried this one It did take awhile and I was doing a final look before giving up. At least it was a bit bigger than the others So pleased when I spotted it TFTC

Found it at shoulder height as described. Log full

Very hard

Picked up five caches on my drive through to Otorohanga this afternoon. However this wasnt one of them. Id found a couple of other caches nearby, then wandered along to this one. Spent several minutes looking for it. There seemed to be one obvious hiding spot, even though my coords were indicating the cache to be several metres away. Peered inside from three different vantage points but couldnt spot anything. I admit Im not always successful with this sort of hide! Based on the number of DNFs over time I would suggest the difficulty rating for this one would be at least 2.0! May try again when Im next in the area.

Thank you was hard to find but heaps of fun

**S 38 00.546 E 175 19.667**#15,306. Park, walk and grab on Arawata Street in Te Awamutu. Fortunately, the GZ was all quiet at the time of our visit. Took a while to eventually spot the container about 8 metres away. The cache itself was in good condition, but the logbook was full. Managed to find some white space at the top to sign. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.*Thanks for the geocache 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.*---### LET US HAVE A BLOCK PARTY!!! ###On **May 3rd, 2025**, we will be celebrating 25 years of geocaching in **Rotorua, New Zealand** with a special **Block Party** event. Join us to celebrate 25 years of this amazing game, and that the very first geocache hidden outside of the United States, 25 years ago, was hidden here in New Zealand.You do not want to miss this event, so check out the ["25 Years of Geocaching NZ! (GCAKR25)" event page]( https://coord.info/GCAKR25) and [event website](http://25years.geocache.nz) for more details, join the [facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/924894455969387) group, and sign up to the [email list](http://25years.geocache.nz?p=4) to get updates...If you intend to come, please make sure you get your ["Will Attend" log]( https://www.geocaching.com/live/geocache/GCAKR25/log) onto the page as soon as you can in order to assist with planning the first ever Block Party in New Zealand.**Happy caching and we will see you in 2025!**---

Bit of a wet day couldnt find it but also didnt look very long

Looked in both bushes/trees on either side of church door, and could not find it anywhere

Looked both sides of church door and couldn't find the cache, must be very well hidden/camouflaged

We have been here a few times but today came with new determination. And suddenly there it was. How we missed it before I have no idea. Log book full, squeezed initials in by another log. TFTC

Set out today for a goal of 1000 caches. Headed off from Rotorua detouring around seeing where we end up, appreciate the cache! Full log book here.

A random caching mission, lets try to eliminate Te Awamutu. Log book could do with replacing

We ended up here while completing the 1863 Waikato War multi which started in Pokeno and bought us here, among many of other places. We decided Matariki long weekend was a great opportunity for a road trip and a history lesson for our three boys. Seeing as we were very close by we decided to grab this traditional while in the vicinity. Took a few minutes to locate, bu it was raining so luckily there were not many muggles about. TFTF.

Aunt Fanny was under the weather and there was nothing in the larder so we headed out at dawn to enjoy breakfast at the local tea rooms only to find they were yet to open. So an early morning adventure was immediately on the cards.Hoorah!It was jolly chilly this morning but we didn't allow this to besmirch our progress as we knew it would be a jolly smashing experience and as the sun rose we headed into the unknown.After arriving at the church we began a game of round and round the mulburry bush but our valiant attempts were dashed and we couldn't locate this most tricky and challenging cache. What a conundrum.Our heads were deeply entombed in the foliage and any passers by must have thought we were barmy but it was not in vain and all of a sudden our frowns turned to a jovial cheer as the little blighter was spotted.A hearty cheer and and many moments of congratulations and frolicking followed.What a way to build up an appetite. We headed over to the tea rooms with a spring in our steps and thoughts of a hearty breakfast to warm our cockles. Not to mention the excitement of continuing our adventure afterwards.Many thanks for a most spiffing start to our day.

We are back in New Zealand to have the holiday we should have had 4 years ago, Covid-19 put an abrupt end to that holiday.Today we are on a visit to Te Awamutu.Greetings from the UK.As an Ad Lab stage was also at this location it would have been rude not to have a look for the cache. We noted that there are a couple of DNF's against this cache but we had a look anyway. Sue took one side and I took the other. I came up trumps finding this well blended in cache. The logbook is ful but I mnaged to squeeze a signature in. I will contact the CO about the log book.Many thanks to GlennandMagsPhillip for placing

Couldnt find it like the previous people

We couldnt find it

Out & about while in the area, luckily sll quiet at GZ and soon spotted TFTC.

Hard one, still hanging

Very nice minister chatted with us. Still hanging, just need to forage

Looked for a long time. No find

We had to look for ages, be patient and thorough

We were 4 going adventuring around Waipa and enjoying ourselves. I wondered what people thought about the four of us when they saw us sticking our heads in the bush.Day 2 of The Wellington Anniversary Weekend tour with Mr-Mcgoo, Itchyfeet2020, TwigNZ. We are targeting specific caches -oldies, puzzles we have solved and ones with a D/T of 2.5+/2.5+ for the [GC30AD8](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC30AD8) DGSC Challenge (West Coast) challenge. Of course, there will be days of laughter, no doubt at my expense ??????.During our time here, all found caches were signed as MINT, regardless of whether 2, 3 or all 4 of us have found it previously, or with individual names for Challenge Caches according to whomever was claiming the find.Kia ora rawa atu for the cache GlennandMagsPhilip.

Team MINT (Mr-Mcgoo, Itchyfeet2020, NZ_B & TwigNZ) is up in the central north exploring. Our wanderings included coming thru Te Awamatu today. Small wander around town included this one. TFTC

(# 8633) As it is a long weekend in Wellington I took a caching jaunt up to the Waikato and Bay of Plenty with TwigNZ, NZ_B and Itchyfeet2020. Stayed in Tokoroa which was the centre of the caching universe for this weekend. Day 2 was going to Te Awamutu, Mt Pirongia and Hamilton. We found the hiding place but it took a little bit of putting our heads into the bush to locate the container.Logs were either signed MINT (being our initials) or Mr-Mcgoo.Thanks GlennandMagsPhilip for bringing me here.

Having taken yesterday off as leave, and with Monday being Wellington Anniversary, I am making the most of a 4-day weekend by spending it with friends in the Waikato in order to try to target a few specific caches up here and otherwise boost my numbers for January. Our crew consists of Mr-Mcgoo, Itchyfeet2020, NZ_B and myself TwigNZ, and so to save space on logs we simply signed our finds today with either MINT or Team MINT depending on log size.Today involved a great deal of driving to a lot of beautiful places which make me want to come back and spend a lot more time at. One of the joys of geocaching for me is that I get to see places that I wouldn't have thought to visit otherwise, but often you just get a 'taste' of a place because you're rushing off to get another cache somewhere.That was the case a couple of years ago when I came to Te Awamutu whilst looking for PWGT caches. Here I am again, but this time with friends. We stopped here today for them to do some of the caches that I'd done previously, but there were a few like this one that we all wanted.Mr-Mcgoo made the find here, with the 4 of us all sticking our heads into the bush. No issues to report, and the log soon had our team name added to it before the whole thing was replaced as found.Thanks for setting this one up.

Didnt find it and the person I was searching for it gave up at looked at the graves

3 weeks (adventure) vacation in New Zealand ???????? for dschinny and me. We are very excited about what awaits us, what we will experience and simply are looking forward to a wonderful time together in this beautiful country ?? We will spend 1.5 weeks on the North Island and the rest of the time on the South Island. Today weve visited Waitomo Caves via Black Labyrinth Tour - Black Water Rafting - such a great adventure - wow! We had lots of fun and the caves a truly a must visit while staying in New Zealand. After discovering the cave and its glowworms we drove to Rotorua, our next stop for the next 2 days.On our way we also made some stops for some caches - like this cache. It took some time but finally we could find the well hidden cache container.Thanks a lot for this cache and many greetings from two German GC-crazy New Zealand vacationers ???? zh9 ??

Day 17: Farewell to TaranakiTodays trip was the journey back to Auckland from New Plymouth, along SH 3 and SH 1, picking up whatever caches that was convenient along the very long drive back. There were a few fun finds (especially around Piopio and interesting stops in small towns that we would have other missed on the road back. Thanks for all the fun!(End of the cut and paste bit)Heres the specific log for this cache: Picked up this one after spending a lot of time looking like a madman in front of the church. Caches in such places are always a bit of a challenge and this was no different. But managed to get it in the end and signed in somehow in a very full logsheet. TFTC!

Found on this wet day as we head through town. Just as we anticipated. Thanks so much for the cache and the smiley . Log full as recorded previously but found a spare spot at number 57.

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

Was pretty confident on where it was hiding, just took me a while to spot it as it blended in very well TFTC Log was full on this one

Gps was jumping around a bit and this took bit of a search but found it after a little perseverance. TFTC

Nice tidy church with a stack of history in the old grave stones thanks for setting this cache

We ended up in Te Awamutu today. This was this first of our randomly found caches. It must have looked wierd with two of us peering into a tree. The Log is now full. Im glad that there were no parishioners nearby! Thanks for the placement

Took awhile but found it

Took us ages to find!

Awesome! Took us a while to find it but walked about 5 meters from the cache point and spotted it! Great fun!!

Quick find. Nice church

Mrs B used to read these books when she was much younger. MrB made the find in pretty quick time!! TFTC

No luck today…either we didn’t look hard enough, or it’s a very good hide, or it’s no longer there! ️

spent 6 great weeks in New Zealand with my The start was a bit bumpy (Cyclone Gabrielle) but then it got better and better. We travelled to both islands and discovered a lot. We photographed and filmed many beautiful things, but most of it stayed in our hearts.
Almost everywhere we stopped, a cache was already waiting for us. Most of the caches are well maintained and easy to find.

With mostly very nice weather, we saw a lot of this impressive island. In many places, caches were waiting for us, which were sometimes easy and sometimes difficult to find. This cache was also included and was successfully signed

We puzzled a lot in advance and the tours were well prepared
So this box was also well found.

now I have another on my personal cache card.

many thanks to [^] **GlennandMagsPhilip** [^] for the effort and the cache and greetings from Germany

TFTF

**Geistercacher**
#34295

Visited the farmers market brought some pears, the way was clear so I made it to no1 the Adventure had begun found thanks to the hint and now off to 2 TFTC

Today was a good opportunity for a wander round Te Awamutu and a few caches.Took a bit of time to find this one, but only because I wasn't thinking like a geocacher! Then it was straightforward..... TFTC

Looked but not this time

This tricky little hide took a few minutes to discover.
We visited the farmers market, worked out a multicache and bagged an Ad-Lab location all within a short distance away.

T4tC GlennandMagsPhilip, Civvnr & MissTreadlightly ....(UK)

Find number 10473

This was the toughest of the 5 caches I did this afternoon.
I was fortunate enough to arrive after church had finished, but still felt a little conspicuous here.
I knew where it would be, what it probably would look like etc, but it still took several attempts while in the area to finally spot it.
Thanks for the challenging cache

TFTC but a bit exposed where I came across it. Possibly from the recent cyclone.
Not far from a mark of one of the 'rival' hobbies

Yippee! Found it exactly where it should be. Great camo! Wasn't sure if I'd find it after previous logs so really stoked to have spotted it! TFTC!

Checked cache it is still there at eye level. Happy hunting

Couldn’t find it

It appears to have been moved ?

Up from Southland with Cantabrian Kiwicampnut to get the final piece of the PWGT puzzle.
Day 2 - Hamilton to Te Awamutu... via the scenic route!

We were here collecting info and tried for this one.
It sounds (and looks from the satellite version of the map) like the original location had a prune to below GL and its been relocated.

Or maybe our brains are fried after caching all day in the heat and probably not drinking enough. Looked 3 times between waypoints for PWGT1 caches and adlab locations.

19 January 2023 6:00 pm

Sad, nope couldn't find it with my junior hunters!

Tftc!

Found it tftc

Found after a short search in the most obvious place within 5m of posted coords.
Tftc

Took us a while but we eventually found it.

Found on a great day out with grandies geocaching. Thanks

On the road to the Waitomo Caves we stopped here to have a look at the rose garden and the nice church nearby.
Thank you for the cache
NathanS05

Quickly found

Was in the first place I thought it would be but didn’t see it, came back after searching and sure enough there it was tftc

Found with trayc.g on our way to Beach Hop in Whangamata. Am looking forward to some family adventures over the next week.

On a weeks holiday with the kids before busy xmas events take over our lives soon. Heading to Beach Hop first and this was our first cache for the day while getting information for the nearby multi. A fun hide, thanks.

Found on a trip from Australia. Thank you!

Found with Cympul. Took a while. TFC

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

Church yard cache. Took a while to get the right location. The hanging place had had a heavy cut back, exposing the cache, hopefully it doesn't catch a muggles eye.

A little busy on a Sunday morning.

Over from the UK visiting family, exploring and caching!Quick find TFTC(Sorry for the very very late Log, between limited Data, some issues with our travel, some personal issues and a build up meaning the ADHD couldn't cope tackling these but finally getting logged Please forgive)

Nothing here but grass and nothing hanging nearby trees

Was abit stumped trying to find it lol

A quick easy find on a wet and windy day. Thankyou for the cache.

Quick find, thank you.

Quick find on our way to accommodation. Beautiful day for it. Easy find.

I NEED MORE HINTS

I was kangaroo hunting when us saw something weird behind a kangaroo and it said gaycatch so I downloaded and now I write here hello

Easy find.TFTC

Found it quite fast, I think I'm going to try another one for today.

Travelling for work for the First time in c while. Out for a walk to grab some new caches. Spotted the likely hiding place and after a short search found the cache. TFTC

We were in this area to do the PWGT cache and the adventure lab cache, while I went to do that gk made us some lunch. It was while eating lunch and looking at my phone I realised I had been within about a meter of this traitional. So once I had eaten lunch I popped back across the road and made an instant find on this one. I took it a few meters away to open and while doing so a couple of people approached and started looking at the headstones nearby. I did wonder how long it would be before I could return it, but as it turned out it was only a few minutes.

We are in the North Island to try to complete the PWGT Tahi section so we are having to head to the far north. Along the way we will pick up a few other caches that take our interest such as those with lots of favourites or size large or letterbox caches or some that will just help us to fulfil some of the various challenges we are working on.

With the new souvenir challenge we need to use the app to log the finds, but as I like to waffle on and write my stories on my laptop I am writing these while back at the campervan.

Thank you for placing this cache and thank you for the smiley

Quick find. Great history across road of famous locals. Enjoying staying at club in our motorhome and exploring the town.

Out on a Sunday afternoon drive - aka picking up goecaches - and managed to pick up a few in Te Awamutu. Great spot here although my phone was a few metres out, TFTC

TFTC

Was doing the geotour cache and suddenly realized I was standing 4 meters from this one.

Easy find!

Thanks!

11.40am. No one anywhere near here so an easy search that did not take long.
Thank you. David and Noeline.

Found after a few moments. Nice hidden spot. Church area is lovely.

#10,771. The plan today is to do a series of geotour caches around the Waikato before returning to Auckland and dropping off Infoferret for her flight back to Wellington. We are also doing a few adventure labs today. We were at this church earlier doing the PWGT multicache but neither of us checked to see if any other caches were present here. Over lunch IF spotted that we had overlooked this one so decided to drive back here and pick it up while doing the Adventure lab. I was looking on one side of the shrub and IF was on the other side. She found it. Signed the logbook and returned the container where found. Thanks GlennandMagsPhilip for hiding it here.

24 January 2022 13:26. Should have checked more thoroughly when we were here earlier getting info for the PWGT multi, so we had to come back for this one!

By this time it had started to rain, so I was grateful to look from just the right angle to spot this one. TFTC GlennandMagsPhilip.

Cache checked and in good condition no repairs needed. Enjoy!

i couldn’t find it

??

Parked up right beside while solving the multis.

Took too long but got there...TFTC

Even though I was almost certain of where it might be hidden, this took way to long to find, but TFTC

saw in the first place looked. Nice and quiet at this one. Interesting church. TFTC

For some reason this kept taking me to an object that was obviously wrong so I spread out to look further and assumed the word shoulder was missing from the clue because once looking in the right space I quickly spotted the cache for a quick grab.

Couldn't find it

Out for a walk with my sister. Was dark but after searching with the torches on our phones it was finally found. Very clever hide!

On my evening walk thought I'd check this one out, passed this spot many time but never had time to check.
After abit of searching in the dark finally found! Great spot!