Touch the sky (Wellington) Karori, North Island, New Zealand
By grmblzmpf on 15-Jul-07. Waypoint GC14C31

Sorry, the cache location is no longer suitable as a safe hiding place. Thanks everyone for visiting "Touch the sky"!

Cache needs maintenance, will be back in a couple of days...

Cache is soping wet and lid is broken..

Last cache of the day.. This cache needs urgent maintenance. The top lid is completely cracked and the contents of the cache completely soaked. Thanks for the cache..

Cache lid is broken and requires replacing. Entire container was full of water

Nice easy find at GZ but found the lid cracked in half with the weight of the rock on top of it so the entire container was full of water. Not much I could do so tipped out the water, managed to sign the logbook, and returned the cache upside down to hopefully stop it filling again, but will require maintenance. TFTC

Found - very exposed location. The bush it was under has been killed!

An easy find, and part of a good bike ride. TFTC. Number 50 for me. + Aussie $1 coin; - Koala TB

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

easy find put more rocks around the cache it was out in open.

Retraced my steps back to this one after 'Moo', quick find as the cache was out in the open a little. Its cover has gone some what due to roundup poisoning, as stated in previous entry.TNLN TFTC

Came down to this one from Paddington's Johnson, made a quick find as the cover has been killed off with spray so cache is visible from the trail. Will need some attention before there is some clearing done and the cache is lost. Once log was signed then was faced with the task of going back the way I came to the car. More hill but less distance. Was a good workout and a nice day for a walk. TFTC.

(1873)
Jeez, that Wellington wind can be bitterly cold, quickly made it up the hill, not cold anymore. Spotted the container from ~15m away, fortunately the concealing plant lost its sting a long time ago. Tried to hide a bit better, but had as much luck as the previous finder.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Easy find after a short walk up the track. Cache exposed and in view from the track but seems otherwise fine.
+ Jessica's Koala TB

Nice and accessible GC if you come in the right way! Introduce firend Krissy to GC-ing and di 3 this mornging!!Good walk with great views. Took geocoin, almost severly muggled so LN. TFTC

We walked passed this one at first and had to backtrack to find the cache. Enjoyed the walk although the weather was not that great.
TFTC.

(#0034 - 1415hrs)

Stopped by on this nice Wellington day, windy = nice this time of year!

A quick walk up the hill and back. Will have to go further some other time.

+Dinosaur

Hid the cache with rocks to obscure somewhat as was visible from the track.

Was in the area and couldnt resist in doing this cache while waiting for Mrs Yeetree. Great spot and great views for a cache. TFTC TNLNSL

Slugged In

We found the cache covered under a pile of rocks in the middle of dried (gorse?) bush. Not sure if all this dried/dead bush will be cleared in the future thus exposing the cache to anyone working in this area. Otherwise, [ nice views from up here. TFTC. Edit: We picked up the Traveller Australia geocoin from this cache but forgot to record the tracking number before we dropped it off in Digital Exchange (GC13F40) ]

[This entry was edited by bjtrekker on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 at 12:01:40 AM.]

Quick find on a lovely sunny winter day. Had to escape the farmer who drove by on his quad.
Dropped two GeoCoins.

Lovely walk before dusk, very cold walk back to the car but would be really lovely in summer

Found it. Traded Blue china star for dog collar! Kids loved it.

Took the short trip to the cache. The cache was easy to spot from the track. I picked up a travel bug which I am going to take on holiday with me next week.

Crazy little valley. The bush is getting a chance to recover but it is mostly farm paddock at this end of the walkway.

Found this while showing Charlotte a few of the caches in the Wellington area. Glad I wore some boots I don't mind getting muddy.

mmmm mud

in Gedanken war ich heute da, aber ich verspreche dir, ich werd ihn eines tages heben.[:X]
liebe gruesse aus deutschland

Good walk up to the Skyline Walkway. The cache was uncovered and easy to find. Tried to re-hide as best we could.
- Aragorn t/b
- Marie's t/b
+ magnetic ducklet
+ huhugrub marble
SL. TFTC.

Released "Green Aventurine" into the wild, hope it will make its way through the world and end up in Germany with my god daughter...

Went up to the cache and camouflaged it a bit better due to the dying goarse. Also dropped Aragorn LOTR Travelbug.

Nice walk, and an easy find.

TNLN TFTC.

Pleasant walk up from the street end. Dead gorse makes a VERY easy find. Needs to be moved before the farmer burns off. TNLNSL.

The second of two after having cleaned up Paddington's Johnson a little earlier on an afternoon walk from home. This one was a little too obvious for comfort - it was at the base of a gorse bush but all the gorse around had been sprayed and was dead so the cache container was visible from quite a long way away. A well-worn path off the road to it made it a 30-second job to find it. I see others have commented similarly about the exposure so it should probably be moved slightly to somewhere a little more challenging to find. TNLN & TFTC!

Cache is uncovered as gorse has been sprayed.Easy to find once you are close.

TFTC grmblzmpf

Visited this cache via Skyline Walkway. Descended down track until we were about 16m away. I turned on the compass on my GPS for a more precise bearing and pointed up the hill - "up there, 16m away, in that dead gorse somewhere". The gorse has been recently sprayed and it's all totally dead and totally unattractive. Unfortunately I'd spent an hour only two days ago walking though gorse with bare legs and I wasn't really up for another Death By A Thousand Prickles. So we had just given up and started back to Skyline when I glimpsed a shot of blue in my peripheral vision. Turning to look more closely I spotted the cache lid from 16 metres away, under a very dead gorsebush.

Now that all the gorse is dead, it might make sense to rehide this somewhere else nearby.

Found!!

We went up to cache after yesterdays "cache is wet and damp" alert - wasn't too bad, moved the content in a hopefully more waterproof box (please close it properly after you found it).

Also:

+ TB Felton Road

Really nice weather in Wellington today. Wanted to go for a walk with a friend, and we did some caches along the way.

Cache was a bit wet when we found it, shook out as much water as I could, but probably still damp.

TNLN, really nice view, thanks for the cache.

Enjoyed the walk up to this one.
Thanks for the cache.

Out and about with morriskiwi on a wet wellytown afternoon(whats new!)
we came up from below via park vale road but ended up coming down to find this cache which seemed a lot easier than climbing up to it ,we both ended up going for a slip and slide on the way down again;)
+bottle opener multi tool
-karabiner
-geocoin

TFTC

Out with roaming kiwi, 2nd of the night, came down apon cache rather easy, it was wet so a good thing we found it quick. Droped off Lady bug geo coin, taken nothing.

TFTC Morriskiwi

Found with Alpha Foxtrot (who had forgotten her name and thought it might be Goldfish!

Second cache of the day. Nice to know where the end of the Skyline Walkway is!
TNLN TFTC!

Quick find in the evening light.
TFTC

Well we found it after being spiked in the butt and legs many times! Great view, but the wind was starting to pick up so we decided not to proceed to the skyline walkway today.

- squishy head
+ faux play doh
+ lobster (to keep crab company)

Thanks for the cache,

~ Chrispy Twitch and Boots

Nice walk up the hill to the cache, was a bit worried it may have gone as their had been a lot of clearing going on but their it was TFTC

Stunning day - has summer come?
-Cube , + Dog Collar
TFTC

Slippery walk down the hill from above

Took the easy option. Bit muddy after overnight rain but was well prepared with my gumboots. Nice suprise to meet the cache owner and have a bit of a chat.

No trades, TFTC.

Cruisy find and as I came up the easy way I continued on and did some photography near the windswept pines and old cattle yard.

- lanyard
+ shower cap

FTF

Took the easy way in from Parkvale Rd and found with no problems. Weather was a bit damp and misty, but didn't get too muddy.

A nicely stocked cache.

- SIM card backup reader
+ apple carabiner
+ Batteries for GPSr

TFTC

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