1st Taupo Scout Swap Badge(Bay of Plenty) GeoScout Taupo, North Island, New Zealand
By 1st Taupo Scout Group on 10-Jun-06. Waypoint GCWH5Q

Hi Secretsquirrelzn,

It has been a while since I first looked at this cache. I can't find any recent responses about maintaining this cache so it will be archived and removed from the active cache listings.

When you have repaired this cache, drop me a line and I can review it again for listing on the geocaching.com site.

If you decide not to continue on with this particular cache, please remove any remaining cache bits from the area.

Thanks for your understanding

Regards,
Zero Gravitas
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Hi secretsquirrelnz

It appears that this cache has been inactive for quite some time. Is it going to be replaced or should it be archived to make room for possible future caches? If the cache owner does not contact me by 21 October, I'll assume the cache needs to be archived.

While I feel that Geocaching.com should hold the location for you and block other cachers from entering the area around this cache for a reasonable amount of time, we can't do so forever. Please either repair/replace this cache, or archive it so that someone else can place a cache in the area, and geocachers can once again enjoy visiting this location. Also, if you haven’t done so already, please pick up any remaining cache bits as soon as possible.

I want to thank you for the time that you have taken to contribute to geocaching in the past and am looking forward to seeing your cache up and running in the future.

Thanks for your understanding,

Regards,
Zero Gravitas
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Either we are blind or have been outwitted by the Taupo Scout Group! Finally used the clue, which was where we were searching & still couldn't locate it. Also looked further afield but no luck. At least we now know where the scout hall is!

This has been stolen

NZ trip cache #19 / Dissapointment #1

Found the remmnants of the cache, the laminated geocache info sheet. Been muggled, near by under ramp was a pill container a cigarette light and a pill. not a nice find.
such a chame this thing happens. was intending to hide a Australia scout Geocoin here.

The Police had this cache in their hands but have replaced it. I found it not in the original position so placed it where I thought it should be. It will need to be checked out.

Had no badges to swap but had a son in Scouts and 2 daughters in Guides.

Cheers for the cache.

Emailed owner..to check that I am not going blind

Hello to all Scouts,
We enjoyed this one...hope you have more caches.
It is absolutely pouring with rain but us cachers just
don't know when to stop!
In: Fridge magnet and badge
Out:Town of Winsor badge.
T4TC

jandys007 Czech Republic

TNLN, TFTC - Miowmix and Ben from UK : )

Lovely day in sunny Taupo... slight distraction with playground next door:-) TNLN.. Thanks for the Cache

Found with family and friends but never logged

Found by an EX Scout Leader of over 30 years leading.
TFTC
15th of 101 for the 5 day trip.

Visiting from Canada. Blustery weather so no kayaking on the lake.

Took nothing, left Canadain bandana & two pins

Found easily. What a great way to introduce a team of young kids to geocaching. Thanks Carla

great little spot.... picked up this find on the run

TNLNSL...

Second visitor there today

Great Stuff. No trades

4.20pm. Easy find. We had forgotten to bring a Waitwheta Camp Badge so had nothing to swap. Picked up the T.B.
Thank you David & Noeline

This is a great idea for a cache. It has been 40 years since I was a boy scout so we didnt have any badges, however we dropped off a Travel Bug instead and hope that it gets picked up soon.

Quick find while in town. No badges today sorry.

Nice and easy drive-in cache. Annari found the cache as I was still looking on the wrong side. Greetings from Austria,
hixxx

Found this big box together with hixxx on our tour from Taupo towards south.
TFTC!
Annari from Austria

Out and about turning the Waitangi Day holiday into a super long weekend, the Turtle embarks on a ‘cachexpedition’ in the Central North. Accompanied of course by team cacher Sweet P.

TFTC TNLNSL

The Turtle Strikes again!

A straight forward find, with the company of Tramper Ted.
Enjoying a geocaching weekend together in Taupo. TFTC

A nice concept for a cache. No swaps today. Caching with Edvern whilst in Taupo for the holiday weekend. TFTC

Found this one, but made no sways just signed logbook. Nearby neighbours were very curious as to what we were doing.

A good easy find. Cache was found by my Niece (her first find ever).Removed TB Troop 185 Travel Bug.

Hubby used to be a cub scout leader when we lived in Weymouth, Dorset, UK. So he enjoyed finding this cache. He can't wait until our 5 year old son is old enough to join a local group over here in New Zealand! Maybe he could introduce geocaching to them too!

[Figured out where it was and the hint confirmed it], but was faced with a locked gate. [Is this cache only available during certain hours or on certain days?

I did not know about the GeoScout caches before this. Seems like a great idea and they make trading badges much easier than the old days.

Cheers]

The gate will be locked but you can walk right up to it any time just not take the car. it is about 20m from the gate, I also wornder if you where on the wrong side of the building?

Nice easy find whilst leaving the rest of the troop to settle in after checking into our motel for the night. Great idea and my best wishes for it's continued sucess.

Nil in or out, signed log. Many thanks.

Easy find thank you, took nothing but left a USA Scouting TB with a badge on it.

I was many years scout in Germany.Nice to find this place.ge0rg
in:EURO 2000-pin
out:Canada-pin

11h50 Nice one!! We are from the Taiaotea Air Scouts, Browns Bay, Auckland. Sorry we do not have a badge with us to trade, but will post a pic, or maybe even send one to you! Great Stuff!
- Shooting tournament scarf
TFTC

Excited to find a Scout cache during our trip to NZ. We're sorry we couldn't leave an American scout badge. We weren't prepared. We left a USA penny and gel pen. Took Founders Day badge and will send to our cousin in Texas who just made Eagle Scout and has completed a geocache project for his town. We found this on 1/1/07 at lunch time.....very rainy!

Met two friendly kids at this site...one said she was a scout here! Took a scouting tool...left some magnets and pins from Canada. SL TFTH TFTC

Found the cache after several wrong turns...streets never seem to do what the GPSr wants! We read the Baden Powell plaque. Thanks for the hunt. This makes 300 finds for the graniteers! TNLNSL

Found this after analyzing which was the correct answer to the clue. Left kindness coin. TFTC From the USA but living in China

1st find for 2007. Nice to see Scouts involved in geocaching or is that geoscouting? TNLN T4TC.

Quick and easy find. As a Scout for many years this cache fascinated me. What a great idea. Hope you end up with lots of great badges.

In 1979 the Auckland Scout and Guide Associations combined with Boys and Girls Brigade to hold an expo at Greenlane and we have left one of the Badges from this event. These badges must be getting very rare now.
out 2x TB

TFTC,

Found while up in Taupo for New Years
Left 3 TB's

Found after lots of false checking.
TNLNSL

Thanks
Couff, Jinpot, and Peter

07:25 Well no luck on this one, I didn't have the hint so that might help on our next visit. Thanks for the cache.

Sorry it took me so Long!!!! I found a lot of the badges stolen. So come and swap.

Was there at 12.30 hrs. The one spot as in the hint was full of dirty clothes and rubbish(scouts unworthy) and the other spot gate closed and my arms too short. Red now in the logs of the unavailability in October. It is now mid November! NZ scouts are very slow!!
Meryl(from Holland)

Sorry it got Talken, Will replace this weekend

found by Minimac - a scout. this was a must do cache on our great school holiday road trip. We had brought a badge with us especially. It is from our scout groups golden jubilee that happened this year. They were made especially for the occassion so there won't be many of them around to swap. Minimac took the Taupo badge for his collection.
Thank you so much for a very special cache.
Yours in scouting - Mrs Mac (Jill McCaw, Venturer leader), Minimac (robert McCaw, Scout), Num1find (Alex McCaw, Venterer)

Nice One!!!!!! One of many caches on a great family holiday from across the "Ditch". You brought back many youth memories from the 1940's. Wolf Patrol, Troop 22, Newfane, New York, USA. Thanks

Really nice idea to put a cache at this place. after a long car trip we needed a walk and so we looked for this cache.

thx a lot and greetings from switzerland.

Great idea, unfortunately left my Scout badge's back in England, was once a member of the 1st Andover Air Scouts.
TFTC

No badge to swap but enjoyed scouting memories and refreshed motivation from BPs letter at gate.
Neighbours must be amused by cache hunters!

1st of two found on the way to work this morning. Felt a bit guilty skulking off round the back of the building. Thankfully cache found quickly.
Left a district badge TFTC.

I felt rather exposed to locals' gaze as I approached this one but thanks to B&Bs co-ords I quickly got to the right area only to find my arm was not long enough to fetch out the cache. However a bit of ingenuity solved that problem.

Sorry, I had no swaps for this one. T4tc

Found it today, almost missed it, as we headed to the wrong side of the building. Found what looked like a likely hidey hole, reached in and under but no luck. GPSr stated we were a few metres out, which would have put us in the middle of the building, so resorted to hint. Yep, our discovered hidey hole matched the hint - but no cache. So explored the building and found another match on other side. Reached under and bingo! success Left a few old Brownie Badges, including "Walk a mile in another girl's shoes". Took nothing. Great to have visited this cache at last. Thanks.

Ha! Cool! We aint scouts so no swaps for us. Coordinates were a bit off for us, attached are what our GPS came up with...

did alot of caches today on our way home to tauranga , most of them due to the rain they were impossible to sign the logs.
taupo is a awesome playground

this 1 we had to wait and use caution as the place was being used


TFTC TNLN

myself and tribe of 4 did a large amount of caches today and the rain was that heavy and with no cover to help sign the logs. we will return on our next trip and complete the log in book. wet hands and wet log book not a good mix

awesome places around Taupo

TNLNS SOME L

Thank you The Scouts liked seeing MBG TB

Heading down to Ruapehu for the weekend for a scout snow camp so had to stop here! It was well after dark when we arrived so tried to shield the torchlight as best we could to minimise the chance of the neighbours thinking we were breaking in. Sadly we forgot to bring along a badge to swap so TNLN. Thanks.

Found Cache, lots of great badges - TNLN

What a neat idea - thanks for the cache.

TNLN

No one around, but I guess anyone there would know what I was up to . TNLN. Cheers - M@

Had fun driving around the streets trying to find the Scout Den, thankfully the GPS led us here, we thought you were somewhere else. Interesting badges in the cache, our sons were both Scouts many years ago.
We left a 2004 JOTI badge that we found in another cache
Took a Taupo badge. Thanks.

Good Luck with your Cache.

17:30 Thought I may have snuck in a FTF but no such luck... Settle for 2nd instead. The plaque gives food for thought.

TNLNSL. TFTC. Brrrr

TB In : Scout Group photo
TB Out: Spidey

Found cache and swopped some badges. Well hidden - good luck with your badges.

Just Put Spidey in there

Great idea for a cache.... hope to visit next time I'm in the area. Thanks guys for placing this cache.

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