Sanatorium Re-Visited (Bay of Plenty) Ngapuna, North Island, New Zealand
By Eruptn on 10-Jun-07. Waypoint GC13H2Z

As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 14 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

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Came here to complete the second Mission Impossible challenge, but this one wasn't it. Couldn't even find WP1, so gave it away for another day.

Armed with some new information and the ability to skip straight to the final my search began. Two sets of stairs were located and I only had to search west of them. In fairness I may not have searched west enough as indicated by previous logs but I did search and was unsuccessful. I'll be back. Hopefully the CO could clear the 3 maintenance requests after all, this multi is over 9 years old with 278 finds - It deserves to live on

Found it

Cache does not appear to be at GZ, where I've previously found it. Which is, as stated, West of the rather obvious steps... Cheers, GC.

Nothing around GZ resembling steps

Sorry no joy on finding this one

Tried bridge number and that took us to a secure area in town. Went back and found nothing at the hint. The CO needs to check on the first stage.

I think this might need maintenance. Please advise because if this was found a week ago - then they've done a lot of work in this area in seven days. Cheers Eruptn.

Grabbing a few caches in the area with Metzgan, before heading back to Auckland after a fun weekend away, complete with road tripping, caching and running a Team Relay Marathon around Lake Rotorua. Quickly found the first waypoint, and had to expand the search a wee bit for the final. A nice area to explore here, thanks for sharing!

Nice little mini-multi, where I found the cache on the first try. Tnx for the hide.

Caching in New Zealand. Thanks for the fun, puzzles and hides from a Californian cacher. All logs marked with a "Circled GB". Not where expected, further West

*´¨) Thanks for the cache
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(¸.•´¸.•*(¸.•' garybech AKA Circled "GB"

My first multi. 1st found easily. 2nd found just as my mobile battery was dying and I was about to give up. Further west than I initially looked

3rd attempt. Finally got my hands on it thanks to a hint from a previous log. GPS told me it was somewhere completely different. I assume muggles have infiltrated this one as there was explicit grafitti in the logbook. Put it back where I found it. Thanks to CO for bringing me to a new location with interesting history.

Having had two past attempts at this cache the last week I gave in and asked another cacher who had found it before to come with me and show me where it was. He showed me where he had found it (based on the clues and GPS co-ordinates it was where I thought it would be), unfortunately it's no longer there. We had a good scout around the area in case it had been moved with no luck. CO it might pay to check up on this one, based on my friends description of the container it may have been muggled by some kids.

Loved the waypoint. Too many playing to find the final.

Now the first multi. Well placed and protected.

This was great fun finding! I had no idea the second spot was here and it was cool to find out some local history as we haven been in Rotorua long enough to know the local tales. Nice & kid-friendly if they're not too spooked by dark locations... O is 3 and loved it! Easy find when you don't look in the obvious spot (which I did with flashlight & all, hoping no spiders would jump on me!!) Thank you very much for the great cache! We took nothing & left a bunch of swag for the kids

* The log book is a bit damp but nothing major. We could still sign it ok, but just wondering how it will go in winter weather.... if I had a clip seal bag on me I would have popped it in sorry. Next time maybe when I drag a non-local along caching!

Gathered the required info and headed off to gather the cache. Attacked by the thorns and ended up with a few stuck in my head! Gathered the cache and on to the next cache. Thanks for this little multi adventure.

On a brief road trip down to Rotorua to explore part of the Thermal Explorer Highway together with my mom. Decided to take the evening for a quick stroll around the motel area to collect some smileys. TFTC

Found the first part quick enough (very clever hint) but took some looking for the final GZ. Found it after extending my search further than where I thought it would be.

Continuing our 6 week tour of New Zealand and sadly nearing the end, today we drove from Opotiki to Rotorua. After a few stops and then finding somewhere to stay, I went for a walk around town to find some more caches and see some of the geothermal sights.

I had awful trouble with this one. Spent a really long time on the first part - couldn't find anything. Eventually saw something likely and spent 10 minutes extracting a sandwich container from a thorn bush. Eventually wisened up and found what I was looking for. Thankfully the second part was pretty straightforward except for an somewhat aggressive pukeko.

Visiting from UK. Hired a sleeper car and travelling round the north island seeing the sights, visiting a few friends over here and hopefully picking up a few caches. Been up north and seen some wonderful sights, done some walking and learnt some information about the country and it's inhabitants. Came back to our friend in Auckland. Went to the Bunker Folk club at Devonport Monday night, excellent. Set off for Gisborn to see more friends and see sights, including the Coromandel. Saw some very interesting places and met some lovely people . From Gisborne to Napier and Lake Taupo, Whakapapa very cold and wet, visited glow worms at Waitomo now at Rotorua. Had a lovely day at Te Pui and the sun was shining. Out for a walk around the park. Wasn't sure how to work out the first part. Kept checking gps for GZ. Suddenly eagle eyed geohubby spotted something not the same. Went the rest of the way to the final cache. TFTC

Great multi. Final hide took us a few minutes but gps knows best! Cache all good.

Found it after a bit of roundabout folders and others, pukekos included Log very damp, needs a bag but didnt have one with me. Logging very late as stored on my iphone, forgotten and now have to log before the app changes. TFTC

The lunch break at the ulearn conference looked long until I went hunting fur the cache. Only had time for stage one at lunch and had to back for the final at the end of the day. Stage 1 well placed as was the final which was also well protected! A few scratches for my troubles there but all good fun. Tftc

Found at 2:49:00 p.m. on 6/10/2014.

Found on a conference trip to Rotorua.
A well-worked cache - grabbed between rain showers.

TFTC Eruptn

Was a bit wet today, but a nice relatively quick find at lunch time. Lots of pukekos about, we were starting to wonder if they were planning an ambush!

Out and about with HKCB for a day's caching: we left Hamilton bright & early, planning to get to Rotorua via Tokoroa with more than a few stops along the way ... hoping for lots of caches & only a few showers but, with torrential rain all morning & a duo of cachers looking like drowned rats, we thought we were going to have to abandon our initial plans. Thankfully the rain had finally stopped by the time we reached here plus, even better, the recent downpour meant very few muggles wandering around today - phew!

Nicely placed info at stage 1 & then a bit more of a walk around this great location for us before eventually heading off to look for the final. Not in the 1st place we tried but, while I was trying to check past logs for clues, I realised HKCB was already grinning .... nice one! Thanks for a great little multi, Eruptn

Out for a full days caching with Kiwis69. The weather forecast wasn't the best, and we hoped we could make the finds between the gaps in the showers. Unfortunately most of the morning there were very little gaps and we spent a lot of time in the rain, shame we couldn't add "may require wading/swimming" attributes to the caches. Sun had come out by the afternoon which allowed us to dry out. Thanks everyone for the placements.

Great multi!! Had a small hiccup for not reading the instructions properly and had the GPS pointing us into the middle of the lake. Once corrected thou, a short walk to the final. Initially looked in the likely spot but couldn't see anything, but worked out where the cache was once the GPS settled down.

This was a most enjoyable multi where we learnt a lot about the history stopping off at the information signs along the way. Found the first clue and made our way to GZ where we soon had cache in hand. Log book a little damp but still able to be written in. left the TB as already have a few travelling with me. TF the great cache.

First stage found reasonably easily although second stage took a little more looking in the rain. Dropped off a TB from Germany which I had picked up in the UK so should add quite a few more miles to his travelling record. TFTC.

Multis are probably my favourite cache type, particularly liked Stage 1 of this one. 2nd of 4 on a walk with Mr PB, he found the second stage after a search. TFTC

Interesting bit of history here, a couple of snuggling muggles almost GZ but found quickly out of their view when I decided to trust the GPS

TFTC

The finding of this cache has a real interesting story.

TFTC

A bit tricky. Watch out for the blackberry!

An interesting story about this sanatorium. Another fact we would have missed without geocaching... WP1 was a quick find and at the final it took some minutes because the GPS was bouncing in all directions. But after an unsuccessful search in the most obvious hiding place we found it in a more hidden location. TFTC (#9626)

A creepy part of town, well-known by us locals for scary rumours. Thanks for the cache....A few blackberry spikes later.

Caching in Rotorua with nzkeko on a gorgeous day so was nice to do this cache. Once we got to GZ we had quite a search but my mate came up trumps as he always does! TFTC

Omg. Good half hour spent hunting for this one! Just about to give up and boom.

Finally after half hour... And picked up TB tftc

Nice Multi. Left a Travelbug. T4TC

Interesting history, and got to the final location OK. Did not feel very comfortable here (as a woman on my own) with all the rubbish and toilet paper so left after a short look.

Found the first part OK but GZ was a disgusting place full of human waste and toilet paper. Did not find the cache and we were glad to leave.

On the other side of the world we had an amazing experience while traveling New Zealand. Great impressions, lovely places and nice geocaches all over. Thanks for inventing and hiding. Lemmer

On great tour with Lemmer in New Zealnd we foundamazing spots. Thanks for all of it. Flatrate

It took us a few minutes to find this cache, proof that you should always trust the GPSr, sometimes [:o)]

T4tC

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Nice!!! Found with Tammy nadge

Very cool, I love multi-caches!
Very good hide !

good hide

Clever first stage. Seen some like this in the USA. Nearly gave up at stage 2 but decided to widen the search and soon found the cache. Sneaky. Took the TB. TFTC

Nice little cache. Dropped a TB. TFTC

Our GPS took us to a bridge over a pond but the comments that have been logged say it's on some steps by a sanatorium. Not sure what went wrong there!

Failed to find this one previously but no problems this time - looking back I can see what my problem was. TFTC, #5509

We found this cache while our 3,5-week journey through New Zealand. What an amazing country. Sorry for this short log, but time is short and we would see so more things. Thanks for the cache and greetings from Germany. AchSu

Enjoy my holiday in NZ with ALL7.
Nice easy multi
Great park here.
Thanks for bring me here beautiful country.
TFTC

Enjoy wandering around Rotorua for two days with ALL7
Nice easy multi and easy find with help from hint.
Great spot at GZ
Thanks for bring me here and cache

found with whitepaws9..

Need a hint

Found during an afternoon walk, fairly windy today so no muggles about. We notice the trackable in the inventory was reported as "not in the cache" over 2 years ago, you may want to mark it as missing? Otherwise all good with the cache, nice little hidey hole. TFTC!

What a beautiful sunny day for caching! I had a great walk around the area, picking up caches including this one.

No problems with the waypoint and off to the next. I liked this one as it brought you to somewhere different and showed a bit of local history off the beaten track. No problems finding the cache.

Tftc

Tftc. UNWH.

tftc

Found it

T4tc

Stairs

Found it after a bit of a search My first multicache in NZ. Tftc!

Found today with crispyhaugio.
TFTC

Good hide. Took some time but finally found what i been searching for. Tftc

Thought I would give this ago at lunch today even with all the did not finds . Was a very quick multi and is still in working order.

Clue said near steps, there weren't any as the GPS took us to the board walk over the ponds so couldn't find anything.

Wondering if people who found it can give us a hint?

No wonder there are so many muggles! They seem to be attracted to cacheing spots to canoodle! Damn you!

Didn't find this one. Having the hint would of helped. T4Tc anyway

Easy find!

A good walk after lunch in the park. It is great that there are so many caches in this area to walk to. An interesting piece of history that I had never heard about. Left Rattll's blue whale stone and a CITO bag.

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Found during walking along the lake. Nice easy one.
TFTC

In the area today cleaning up a few of the caches along the lake front. A quick find for the waypoint and found the final in the third place I checked. All in good condition. Signed log, TFTC!

This was one of the caches we found during our holiday in NZ.
We enjoyed caching around this beautiful country. TFTC!

Was over this was today with Mrs Dragon collecting a few caches before visiting friends at Wingspan, we have both enjoyed our walk.
Walked in from Motutara Point, Soon located WP1 and off to the final. Had to wait momenterily for muggles to move off and then soon located it hidden out of sight.

Watched golfers tee off with slice shots, they play about as well as I do
TFTC

Found it on our second visit. Clever hiding place. Thanks.

Found with stairman1. This was a nice and easy multi. Although we had trouble with the final location. The container has serious cache creep . We nearly gave up until but stairman1 persevered and located the container. All is good. TFTC

A great multi here for goldielover and I. Made our way to GZ over some very dry fields. The drought is playing havock with the grass. Took quite a bit to find the cache here. Quite a way from where our co-ords had us. Cache is in great condition
TFTC

Recovered the log book,thanks Alison for your help. All good to go again.

Sounds like this one has been destroyed .... will have to rebuild.
Thanks

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OHK! So me and my friends were looking round the area and we found the box, We didn't have a gps whatsoever...

My friends destroyed the box and all I have is the logbook at home which I'll scan later Tonight...
Fortunately they didn't destroy the note which came with the box telling me about this game..
I'm very sorry T_T :c
Sincerely
-Alison
PS: THIS GAME LOOKS FUN! Immah try it with my phone!

By the wayyyy..... I have the logbook, But I don't know where the actual cache is.... My friends found it beh
ind my back, So umm..... What can I do with the logbook? Is there someone who I can give it to?
I feel like I kinda spoiled the cache...Which has been up since the 14.11.2010
If anyone can help me add me up on facebook
Alison Pinkamena Katherine Dowdney
Cheers
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Located the first waypoint which led us to a place that definitely fitted the description, but could not locate cache.

Multi done & dusted. Replaced plastic bag for the log. All else in good condition. Thanks for the cache.

Short walk and quick easy find. TFTC

Thanks for the really nice multi! First tried looking for the cache from the wrong side though.

What a charming area! No problems with the multi either. TFTC!

Short stop in "stinky" Rotorua very nice place...thanks for the cache which was found quickly on a sunny day

This entry was edited by Inge&Bert on Thursday, 27 December 2012 at 10:19:51 UTC.

A new day in New Zealand on the way from Whakapapa to Rotorua... the weather was absolutely amazing today... whooooooowhooooo...!!! After the arrival made same caching and checked out the city. Enjoy the stay...

TFTC dunestar

Wandered around for this cache, good multi. Tftc.

Did the legwork for this one yesterday when we walked from our campsite to the museum around the lake. The final was a detour, so I left it until today to pick it up in a nice quiet place. TFTC

Our first ever multi-cache, we had fun doing this with the kids after the find. the kids then played on the hill. TFTC.

This entry was edited by Jabbanz on Friday, 09 November 2012 at 10:19:19 UTC.

Not where I first looked but not far away. A bit of natural warmth coming from the hole it is in as well.
TFTC!

Quickly to the final and, typically bloke-ish, jumped to a conclusion that had me ratting around in a somewhat less than salubrious area. Finally rethought it all and there it was, safe and sound and dry as a bone. TFTC