Opahu Resurrected (Wellington) Lower Hutt, North Island, New Zealand
By J 'N' K on 24-Mar-07. Waypoint GC11MJ0

MIA again, time to archive

Will check on this when next in the area.

Some weeks ago I passed this area and realised with the new coordinates where it might be. However the fence nearby was being replaced so did not linger. Yesterday (27th March) while cycling around to Eastbourne the container was spotted lying on the grass. The log was inside so I nestled it back into a hidey hole. We came back a couple of hours later and deciding to make a log entry went back to sign it. The yellow tape was blowing across the grass and there was no sign of the container. We have brought the tape home and would like to get it back to J 'N' K if possible. It seems a reasonable place for a cache but disappointingly appears to be a high muggle area. TFTC Pat and John

In need of a very quick park and grab in the pouring rain and despite the drive thus fitted the bill.

I do like this waterproof paper. I do think rolling up plenty of it will save maintenance trips. However as I stood in the howling gale holding four long bright yellow streamers I suddenly felt much more conspicuous .

Had a bit of attention from a muggle dog but all good for my 100th cache. Yay. Tftc

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Some days are dnf wonders! Happy to find it on re-try today

These coordinates are much better, found with no problems.

TFTC!

Quick find on way home,TFTC!

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 13.361 E 174° 54.074

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 13.354 E 174° 54.074

Distance from original: 42.3 feet or 12.9 meters.
Doing routine maintenance on our other nearby caches so checked this one out as it had a few DNF's. Found it ok, but thought the co-ords were a bit off so have updated them.

Had a very good look around, but couldn't find it, even after reading logs and hints.

will check this out in the next few days.

Had a good hunt around but nothing turned up today. Maybe next time

Looked for about 20 minutes, read the hints and logs, but could not find anything.

Found it while taking dog for a walk, nicely hidden

TFTC!

Found it! Was about to leave when found it with nouku

TFTC! Tool a bit of looking around but got there in the end...

Came back for a 2nd look. Got a tip from another cacher. I did originally look in that area but not hard enough 1st time. Didn't take long at all on 2nd visit

No joy today

Forgot to log this but found with my big brother brocktk.

Found the cache a number of meters away from where it is supposed to be, after reading other logs but otherwise nice hide.
Found with monkeymoo1 and jazz-Alyssa.

Checked and the cache is where its supposed to be, however its the older (missing) one, not sure why this has happened but regardless there is a logsheet there to sign.

Well yes a definite find ! but of the old mislaid cache! at exactly as the hint said...."near stump, corner" but 4 m. from my GZ- but as the cache hadn't been signed since sept 2012...12 months ago....I think it was an earlier version..the missing cache.....quite a find on a birthday visit very close by, on a glorious Wgtn day .

Had a look for this cache but did not find. We visited the site on the 10th April but were unable to look for the it as there were several men in orange vests working in the area. We are wondering if their activites have disturbed tha cache.

Needed the clue but got it straight after that. Had to hide from regulars but a good find.

Quick grab on a georun.

TFTC

Searched for the cache and had just given up when turning round spyed the obvious

First cache. Thank you.

Noted this was replenished probably for the last time and raced over. First on the list.

Replaced, but this will be the last time.

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Planning on replacing next week.

No joy...

I think this one is gone burger. CO please check

Disabled until we can check.

Had a good hunt all over but no go Not found with Etherlord on a super awesome record breaking 50 cache day trip.

first DNF of Tom&Thomas' 50-something cache road trip to Wainui' to find the oldest cache in NZ, GC46

Couldn't find it hunted, was hard had to keep stopping for muggles.

Seems like the cache site does not meet the description due to changes. Lot's of stumps but no cache.

tftc

Didn't locate this one. Appears to have been recent work in the area. Was a bit tricky to have better look as a lot of muggle traffic

Nice & easy ... the cold was keeping the muggles from venturing out.

TFTC!

Saw the notification come up to say the cache was back online while at work and thought I could do this on the way home. So I did! Have been here a number of times without luck so pretty much knew exactly where it was going to be. A quick find without having to use the GPS and a new clean log.
Thank you for putting out a replacement container, and for the numerous visits to leave empty handed.

Good to go.

Went to replace today but there were a whole lot of youths loitering and they didn't look like they were going to move on soon, so will try again in the next week.

Didn't know it was unavailable because we loaded it on a couple of weeks ago. Found the cache container, or part of it anyway and signed it so hope you will allow us the find.
TFTC Hi from Canadian cachers.

As froog has mentioned, the area the cache was in is smashed up, so we will have to find another spot for it.

"hint" looked pretty smashed up

Second attempt at this one and easy find thanks to the 'new' coordinates given in another log. TFTC.

Found due to others clues on a very windy Wellington Day
TFTC.

As previous finders have indicated, this seems to be almost 15 metres from the indicated coordinates. I am posting what I think are perhaps better coordinates. Other than that, a very clever hide! Visiting from Ohio, USA. SL. TFTFun!

Looked all around where the GPS brought us, but looking at logs now it might not be as close as we initially thought. We did look a little bit away from the location, but might have to try again.

Took two visits but there with the help of the hint. Tftc

My second attempt at this cache did not go unrewarded today and I finally managed to cross this off the list, YAY!! TFTC

Took two attempts fo find. But find it we did.

Found it. Second time was the charm. Very well hidden, and clue helped. As others have said, somewhere between 10 and 15 metres away from coordinates. TFTC!

K is out on a caching maintenance afternoon. Checked this one as I was in the area, it had suffered from "cache creep" so the hint wasn't that helpful, but its now back in the right place.

No luck on this one today. Will try again soon. It was the last one we went after today, so gave it less time than we otherwise would have.

Went right to it using the hint. The rain died to a drizzle while we were here but still no one around which made hunting easy.

Was looking in the wrong place but a quick read of the logs & the hint meant we soon had this in hand.

Got a bit side tracked here and didn't read the logs or hint so no luck today, will try again soon

Nice easy find walking the geohound while hubby playing football at nearby park, lots of muggles around today including 4 legged ones. TB's visited but no room in cache for them. SL TFTC

Cold Wellington day! Cache about 10m from coords so hard find. Had to back track a bit. Good hide, kept us on our toes SL, TFTC

I wouldn't want to attempt this during peak service times. However a wet afternoon just after lunch was ideal and the muggle factor was not an issue. After not having any success where the gps was pointing I went for the hint and quickly had the business done. My gps (GPSMap 62s) had the cache about 12m away from the actual coordinates. A cool location. I would like to be under the bridge when a freight train went over. TFTC

2/3 for the day, while the geo-kids rode around on their bikes.
Took a while before we found the hint, but we had a geo-boy with us who needed to do what boys do best by the bushes, and a quick find after that.

i love rail roads this is so cool nice to see and as i almost missed it good cach hide also

Find #449 - Not an easy cache in the evening rush hour! An onslaught of cyclists, walkers, joggers and runners - however, there were short two to three minute breaks in the muggle traffic when we maximized our searching potential. We couldn't find anything for about 20 minutes, and we didn't see any hint objects. However, one of us spotted the relevant object a distance away from where we were searching. Yes! The cache was there... but our Oregon was telling us that we were 15 (!) metres away from GZ. Oh well... there's a smiley face now! Cheers, SL TFTC.

Found on a damp and windy Lower Hutt evening.

wet and windy

Found with help of the hint, some kind of muggle bike ride on made stealth essential TFTC

We biked to this cache only to find council workers had closed the relevant area and are doing some work on the bridge - we walked up to workers, nice chap, who told us they'd been doing construction since Feb 13, but they aren't intending on removing anything...

TFTC

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#1883 (6/6 on a Tuesday afternoon). Took us a while to find this (coords seemed a bit out). Eventually I spotted the hint object, and soon had cache in hand. TFTC.

It always seems that we make hard work of the so-called "easy" caches. After several minutes searching, StreetWalker spotted something well away from our GZ. Eureka!
TFTC.

Nice easy cache found on the way to couple of others. TFTC.

Found on my third visit, I had been looking in the wrong place the other two visits, TFTC J 'N' K

sneaky

Found on a nice day of geocaching in the sunshine. TFTC

Another (and the final) one found on a pleasant early evening stroll along the Hutt River trail.
Took me a few minutes to recognise the clue item, was expecting something slightly different but once I realised what and where it was a quick easy find.
No muggles that caused me any problems, a few did pass by after I had completed the task.
Had a Danish coin with me so logging that through.
TFTC.

Done in conjunction with Sudoku on Sladden. Lots of muggle management required on a busy Labour Weekend Sunday.

Cache found in order, log signed, and rehidden safely, as found.

TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

Took me longer to find the right entranceway than it did to locate the replacement hide. Pretty area after dark, though the graffiti suggests it's not always so calm.

DNF this time around but I'll be back for you!

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 41° 13.356 E 174° 54.076
Distance From Old: 31.7 feet or 9.7 meters.
Have replaced with a temporary cache (film cannister) while we think of a better idea.

up and running again with a temporary cache in a different place

Went to replace cache today but the area we had thought would be ok was unsuitable, so we'll put our thinking caps on and try again soon.

Checked and it is missing as the structure it was on has been replaced by a new wooden one. Will replace asap.

returning after finding Sudoku Sladden but couldn't pin point it at all.

This was my first find - pretty easy.

Nice walk for this one. TFTC

Mrs Sobad and her sister walked along the trail from Ewen bridge just before it go dark. Quick find here as GPS pointed to an obvious spot. Trail was reasonably busy with skateboarders, runners and other walkers. TFTC

Easy find after a leisurely stroll along the river. TFTC

We found this as the start of a J n K seek and destroy mission this evening. Certainly not destroy caches, but who knows what collateral damage is left behind as we go onto their famous urban warfare caches around the Hutt tonight. A nice mission to start the sortie, thanks.

Found this on a caching expedition with Oggies. TFTC.

Good walk thanks AJ

Got to the cords but lost the light so could not find cache

Tftc quick find