The Rock of Wahine (Wellington) Muritai, North Island, New Zealand
By foxnsox on 13-Jan-07. Waypoint GC10BZ0

This cach has been muggled.

Had a good old search at GZ but no smilie for us here today.

Found the memorial, but could not find the cache. Looked and looked. A few muggles appeared from time to time so did something else so as not to alert them to my true intentions. Very frustrating. Will go back when I am that way again and see if I can find it this time.

Had a reasonable search, but lots of people were about, so we gave up without finding it.

So we can see it from the car (we are only parked 2 metres away to disguise our efforts from the busy carpark)...but there are two young boys playing on the rock..the young one kindly announces he needs to go to the toilet...he start to drop his pants as he walks towards the cache...fortunately his older brother sends him up the back of the rock...to watch he then declares he peed his pants....we got more than we bargained for but at least the cache is dry....

Went passed the new erection for the Wahine and continued down the line to the rock TFTC TNLN

Quick easy find on Wellington caching day trip....TFTC

[This entry was edited by 10centcoin on Sunday, March 07, 2010 at 12:56:32 AM.]

Showing friends around the area and took the chance to see the latest memorial. TNLN TFTC

Had to look close.

31/01/2010 11:06 Found: What a difference a day can make - Yesterday the temps were in the high twenties, with brilliant sunshine. Today a Southerly has kicked in and the temp is down to 14 with rain. Lovely!

Found this one without too many issues. Was able to park about 3m from GZ, which made it easy to grab without getting too wet.

Thanks for the cache, foxnsox

Great spot for a cache with the history of the area. TFTC!

nice hide, easy to find, TFTC

great cache

Easy find TFTC

What a wonderful memorial. I found a Travel Bug and have replaced it with the Travel Bug I found the other day.

I found this one

[190] An afternoon at Days Bay meant a drive further down the coast (to cache!) was in order - Found OK even though the site was swarming with muggles on bikes T4TC!

A wonderful find at the end of an excellent day. We took fish and chips to eat at the beach, then wandered over and retrieved my first ever travel bug which I will log and move on. Great location on a beautiful day (which it was). Thanks for enabling this awesome experience.

Got there 01 Jan 10 but 2010 won't come up as a date so we'll log it as the last visit of 2009. Dropped off PCQ22R Geocoin, took nothing. 10 second find- really easy.

Easy find. First find for 2010. Took Travel Coin PCQ22R. Very windy day. Think we saw ice_cream before us. He was wearing a long over-coat - looking very dodgy. TFTC.

A quick find, at the end of the road. Enjoyable drive here.
Left Ducky TB and picked up two travellers. A great spot for a cache, thanks. Much calmer (just) than I recall on Wahine Day!

Found on a road trip to Wellington from Auckland.

TFTC

Tok Stephen cousin and her two children for a walk along the coast and picked this one along the way.

Nice drive today for a quick find at the end of the road. I was not out with the intent to geocache but when I saw the rock I took a bet with myself that there is a cache nearby - checked the iPhone application and lost the bet. TFTC

This was a good cache to start my 30 km walk along the coast (with six cache possibilities) on a positive note. TFTC.

A nice hide, and thank you for bringing us here. Left Aussie geo coin.

Found as part of my three week caching trip from Wellington to Auckland - # 173. Easy find at a poignant spot. Thanks.

Yes, the role this coast played in the events of the Wahine storm are often forgotten. I was pre-school at the time, but we were one of the few families in our neighbourhood to have a car (a benefit of being immigrants in the 60's with all the controls on foreign exchange and difficulty in buying vehicles locally), so my mum spent most of the morning trying to collect all the neighbourhood kids from school. Dad spent most of the day stuck on the unit (train) because the power went off. A chap at work was a uni student living in Seatoun at the time, so he spent his day helping people ashore at Seatoun - the lucky ones.

A beautiful day out this way today, and a great bike ride for the family.
TFTC.

This is a lovely cache, with a good hint. There were lots of muggles around having picnic dinners, but they were all too busy looking at the view to notice us, althought we did pretend to take photos at one stage when a muggle walked past. Left a pink crayon, took travel bug #430149.

Last find for the day. Found quite quickly. I remember that day well - our house lost its roof in the storm. SL TN left TB TFTC

Found with tmann421 and Hugo the dog. Quick find. I was only 4 or 5 when he Wahine went down - we lived in the Wairarapa and the storm was so bad that the chimney blew off. I can remember years (I think it was years) later going to a cousin's in Seatoun and still being able to see part of the ship above the surface of the sea. SL, TNLN, TFTC.

TFTC

TNLN SL

Pleasant stroll back from GC5970 with Diziet Sma, rummaged for the cache while birds twitter and waves foam. Not a muggle in sight, peaceful, calm evening. Took a blue jandal, left a ticket for the half moon bay ferry in Auckland.

Had a good look around as per the clue, but couldn't find it. Hampered by sticky beaks

Better visit today. Only an electrician servicing inside the nearby hut. On Sunday the area had too many people of all ages milling around. Found the cache safe and sound. Marbles, and other small things inside the GREEN click box.

13/9/09 @ 1526 - TFTC

Nice easy one today with hardly anyone around on a weekday. Fairly quick find after looking in another couple of spots first. TNLNSL, thanks foxnsox.

Came here twice on weekends but this spot was muggle capital of NZ. Between the bike hire staffers who seemed to be on watch duty and muggles getting back to their cars just metres away from GZ, we gave up and came back here on 09-09-09. Not a person in sight, a stark contrast to the weekend activity. Thanks foxnsox.

Avoided the muggles - needed to use cunning! Young team member useful in providing diversion activity

Nick and Andrea's first find. Great fun, just a quick walk down the road, TNLN

TFTC! Nice memorial

Visiting Wellington after a 30 year absence. Now living in Montana, USA. I too remember the Wahine Storm sheltering in our house as roofing iron and debris went flying down the street. My Dad, now passed away helped with the search and rescue efforts on the coast as survivors and the not so lucky were coming ashore on that fateful day. TN, Left a US quarter. Not too many muggles about on this blustery winter day. TFTC

Amazing to think that the "Wahine" disaster was 41 years ago! TFTC

Easy find with miss emvy_us. TFTC

Nice place, lots of wind.

Interesting cache site. TFTC
dropped of TB

Popped in to do this one before a big walk down the coast, TFTC, SL. -badge, -turtle, -TB rocket, + fish, + dog, + TB smithville skipper

Way too many people on foot, in cars and mostly on bikes to even think of attempting this cache today. Great place though on a superb day. Interesting memorial too.

A quick find at the start of a walk to Pencarrow Head on a perfect Wellington day, with Mrs agcnz keeping a watch-out for people behind the parked cars while I retrieved and opened the cache. Haven't been down here for many years, it was certainly popular today with bikes everywhere. Signed log, TFTC and for showing me another interesing historical record that I hadn't visited before.

I well remember the day of the big storm. I was in Ch-ch at the time, weather there not bad, but there were lots of radio reports of the Wahine's plight. A time to remember the victims, and the heroes, then a quick find, while other members of the tramping team were on the Butterfly Creek walk, before we went to Somes Is for the night. Get there if you can, it's very interesting, with great 360deg views of the whole harbour from the trig. TNLN. thanks for the cache.

I spent more waiting for the muggles to clear than looking for the cache.

Last find for the day, TFTC

Had to wait a little while till the coast was clear then in for a quick find. TFTC

A neat little cache. Nice easy find.
TFTC TNLN

A nice place to have a coffee & watch the sun go down. TFTC.
+ concrete arrow (sonbubblz)

Blustery. Quite nice to explore what is a rather special place in NZ history.
TNLN

Catherine and Richard's first find
+ small jandal
- spider

Found with LydiaR. TFTC

Visited with john and family - didn't do any doughnuts though'!!
Took TB kiwi.

Easy find. TFTH!

-Canada Geocoin
+Silver Kiwi TB

80: Easy find while showing a friend around on an almost dry but windy day. TFTC
+ Canada Coin
- England Geocoin

Found this morning while my wife was at a garage sale. Surprised how quiet is was here at 9.15. -toy tractor + Fremantle Jail gold coin. TFTC

Found today after a previous attempt (I was scrabbling round at ground level before!), pulled it out of the hedge just as some muggles came round the hedge, so sat a while as if it was my lunchbox before delving into the contents. Took TB, left geocoin.

Returned before work after a failed attempt months ago. Its a lot easier when you decrypt the clue correctly! Took a minute. -USA geocoin. TFTC

Drove out here today.. Was very funny to see a wave break on the coastal road and Heidi got soaked in the car.. Interesting spot and history. Left some TB's.. Thanks for the cache..

First move, Strategic parking of car. Second move, open car doors. Bingo!! A quick find and that little kid at the bike shed saw nothing!! TFTC. Nice spot.

Found with Scoop81 just before dusk. Patience was the name of the game here as multiple muggles arriving and departing made this a test of perseverance. Tremichlan found surreptiously, and Scoop81 inconspicuously returned. TFTC

Muggles muggles everywhere, but we got there in the end!

Nice spot... Been to this area many times before, so was a reasonably quick find (I went early and missed the muggles with their dogs and water bottles)

Took nothing and left a handful of marbles.

thanks!

never been there before grate find

Had 4 juniors (2muggles) in tow so drove to Terminus for a 10minute walk. Hunted for a while b4 finding cache in the most obvious (& initialy searched) place!
+ Turtle ex "Martha's Rest" Canterbury
- Spinning Top
TFTC

Found after a little rumaging and clue.
Grabbed Marine TB for further travels.
Left nothing.
TFTC. SL.

#130. Arrived at GZ at dusk, so no many muggles about.
- Tempo the sail boat TB
- 2 x 5c coins (to take for overseas caches)
+ North Island Hector's Dolphin Geocoin
+ huhugrub pebbles x 2
SL. TFTC.

Jr taybee has this own account how am logging this old find under his new Username (Jr taybee) was log as part of taybee team

1St for the day no one around drop off the Sail boat travel bug so it can help out..

thanks

Tricky spot even on a rainy day

Found after looking in slightly wrong place.
Interesting but tragic bit of history.
TNLN, Thanks for the cache

[This entry was edited by Billhillies on Monday, February 25, 2008 at 1:05:45 AM.]

Our first find, with markypark

Easy find and great day on the coast!

Nice day.
- wooden apple
+ plastic balloon

#1036
Quick find with Yeetrees, a conveniently parked vehicle acted as our muggle screen on a very busy day.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Found really quickly, no rats! Time to get a well deserved ice cream! Phew!
TFTC TNLNSL

9.15am. Have been here a number of times but never knew this memorial was here. It is a bit hard to see for the casual observer. Cache was easy to see though. - Daice + Tissues
Thank you. David with Michael.

lol stuffed this right up but found it in the end
didn't read the description completely and ended up at the wrong wahine rock( the one near the air port) then I went down he road further and was trying to figure out why the gps was pointing to the rocks in the harbor, came home and reread the description and kicked myself

the muggles just come out of no where at the cache site, almost got caught

- mini radio
+ set of rpg dice

Quick find in an interesting place. TFTC TNLN

sweet

Wet view today. Found with help of nzcoozer.

Easy find (using the hint).
Interesting location.
TFTC

Nice place. We had to wait a little on the bench before we could hide the cache again.
GeoTurtles!

TFTC
TNLN
Remember the day well. One heck of a storm.

Great spot, however I had to wait for a car across the road to leave.

A nice easy find on a muggle-free day.

TNLN
TFTC

Patience required for a muggle free spell. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Cool find, must have been to this spot a thousand times before but just found out the geocache was here.

- TB Jack
+ Wooden Apple

My first cache in Wellington, I have lived in Nelson for 23 years but Wellington was my home town and a remember that day well, Next caches around the coast a nice we MTB

+ TB Jack (From Nelson)

Was able to park about 2m from GZ, so not a long search! Not too many muggles on a cold afternoon. -cat toy, +BP keyring.

Good cache, found it after I had been fishing a bit further south on the beach with MiiR. Caught a skate and several bits of seaweed, some with big mussels. Cold though.

Found it.

Easy find, lots of Muggles though. Nice Drive

+ Bear
- Magnifying Glass