Cabbage Tree Cradle (Central Plateau, N.I.) Owhango, North Island, New Zealand
By Clive on 16-Sep-01. Waypoint GC1D22

This cache was the reason we returned home via National Park.Love the old caches.Looks like plenty of work has been done on the track past the slip.Nice easy find once at GZLog signedTFTC

We chose a fine break to attempt this one, and after a slippery walk we were rewarded with the cache. TFTC!

Gave a fave point to the first cache I have found. Good memories from a long time ago!

lovely walk did the whole loop. saw whio and duckling just beyond cache. track is now passable with care. tftc

Gutted to not get to this one - the short track to the cache is closed due to a slip but I thought it may be further on. Unfortunately 260m was the closest I could get to the cache (and I didn't have time to do the loop from the other direction)

Found it. Gorgeous day following a little blackberry clearing.

Ez

Tfc

I was lamenting the accessibility of this cache from Welly, which could satisfy a missing square in my Jasmer grid, when D suggested we claim it on a day outing… and today is road trip day! MetService had turned on every weather warning they had — there were wind gusts, downpours, and flooding on the trip, but the rain held off for retrieval. It was a lovely bush walk. There’s a warning about a slip, but it was easily navigable with a firm though narrow path. Quick find after tunnelling through the undergrowth. An enjoyable 11 hours & 700 ㎞, thanks for the oldie evilC!

This cache was the reason for our epic marathon (>700kms today!), so I was very glad that it was there! Fortunately there were no problems finding and retrieving this very elderly cache. Now, back to Wellington!

Thursday - 20/01/2022 #3,849

On a week long trip up and down the middle part of the North Island. Same weekend as the Mega event in Auckland (but that's not where I will end up). Targeting a few specific caches, and a few others. This is one of them.

A nice walk along the riverside although a little damp today. Great to find an older cache in such great shape in a awesome wee spot. All good here, TFTC.

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

A day trip with two of the kids to National park stopping here on our way. Quick find after a nice walk along the river. Great to get these older caches. Thanks.

GPS hard to locate as off grid. Great spot. TFTC

Put it back in its nest again after airing and drying the inner protective layers. Tried very hard to strengthen the defences against possums and similar who may think of that spot as their own!

Happy 20th Birthday to my first hide!

The logbook appears to indicate it was placed 20 years ago "today" (written with less than 30 minutes to midnight) while the geocaching site shows creation date as "tomorrow". So I think I must be close to correct, one way or the other!

Have been eyeing this up for some time as it fits a Jasmer grid. A nice walk in, to stretch the legs after sitting for awhile. No problems making it to GZ, especially if you stay low! Cheers Clive, #2384

Return visit made today after I accidentally left my hat behind when I dropped in to check the cache yesterday. The box was on the ground (again) yesterday so returned it to the cradle. Today I brought some clippers and gloves and spent a little time clearing some of the blackberry that is threatening to occupy GZ but there is still a lot more there.

Two approaches to GZ are still available - one requires climbing up a little bank but is relatively easy after that. The other is a tight little "tunnel" through the shrubs and fern and blackberry.

Had a nice brisk swim afterwards!

Happy 19th Birthday old cache.

Geocaching.com shows it as having being placed on the 16th, but it was definitely the 15th here in NZ, opening logbook entry confirms!

I have come back to Taumarunui for another visit seeing the last one was three and a bit years ago.

Time to travel 20 kms down the road to Owhango to locate and sign off these caches. I went for a little wak downstream past the Track Closed signs which had been pulled out of the ground and on to the GZ. This is where I found the cache on the ground and on inspection found it still in good nick. Signed the log and placed it back in its nest.

Cheers for the cache.

I walked right passed the 'danger - do not pass' sign and continued on a very pleasant walk for about 700m. Clearly the sign is ignored by most as the path is in very good condition and mowed!

Then I reached the yellow tape, OK... after that it got a little sketchy, but nothing too bad as long as you are careful. It seems this path has been in this state for a very long time as logs from a year ago mention the slip, and the path after it is much wilder than the path before.

Anyway, on I went, and once at GZ I bush bashed but came up blank. I walked along the stream for a bit then spotted the cabbage tree that surely must contain the treasure. Indeed, it was only a few more metres of bush bashing from my last spot, but I had my eye on the prize and pushed through.

So happy to find this, I really love the oldies that have been maintained for many many years. Fave point from me

With Lemmer in New Zealand at amazing caches. Thank you for showing all that beautiful places. flatrate

Great bushwalk to cabbagetree. Thx

Starting from the campsite end it was great to eventually get out of the heat and into the bush shade. The track was better than expected and the track across the slip wasn't too bad but care needed. It took a few looks at various cabbage trees nearby before spying another one that required scrambling through some scrub following a geotrail to the cache. Interesting articles and notes in the cache provided some reading before we returned the same way. Many thanks.

This was what we had targeted and it had lived up to expectations Loads of adventure great views and a tricky little bush bash to finish. Gets a favourite from me TFTC

Today Juty Bug, TaraTed & I went on “a bit” of a road trip to fill a few holes in our respective Jasmer grids.

We left New Plymouth at 07:30 and arrived back 16.5 hours later having driven 700 km and picking up twenty caches with an accumulated age since placement of 138 years.

A couple were local-ish out of the way traditional caches, a few more were previously dnf’d and the total included at least one each of Multi, Puzzle, Letterbox, Virtual, and Earthcaches. Six types in a day, although we all have previously found at least eleven types in a day.

This was the sixth cache find of the day and one of our target dates - none of us having previously found a cache from September 2001.

We took the short route following the river track from the bridge carpark. The track is well maintained, and OK, so there's a "bit of a slip", but we've got official DOC tracks in/on Taranaki that are in worse condition than this little bump.

I truly enjoyed this cache - the walk, the picnic, camping area around GZ, the swimming, the cache. Wow, such memories; finding a copy of the Weekend Herald from 15 September 2001 featuring the World Trade Center act of terrorism in the cache. And the original logbook.

I shall return with KrystalKath so she can experience this great spot. Thank you for maintaining this old geocache. Well worth another favourite point.

This cache was the main determinant of my holiday destination! Locate old cache on the map, find accommodation nearby, done! When I parked up at the further end, a dog ran up to me. I expected the owner to turn up any minute, but no one came, so eventually I started walking, and the dog joined me for the whole walk!! He even went ahead into the bushes toward the cache, i guess he must have known that's where people have been! And then he followed me out again... I hope he located the owner!! Later in the day I bumped into a fellow cacher on a repeated attempt, and realised I have been living the wrong date since I left home! Apologies for that, and I did get confused a few more times on my trip, probably subconsciously trying to add another day to it TFTC!!!

Oh my!! This cache has been quite the adventure! Rain one day, sunshine today! I came down from Auckland to see some cachers do the Welsh Whaler cache a caving adventure at Waitomo that I have done but offered some moral support to. I had in mind to kill 2 birds with one stone and this cache was the other 'bird'.

My friend Sharon (rustynz) was planning to stay the night in Taihape for a few days (after doing the cave adventure) and so, i decided on the spur of the moment I would stay too, because I didn't feel like driving all the way back to the big smoke at around 6pm.

Got to the carpark, put on my boots and decided this time since it wasn't raining I would try for the more direct approach to GZ, i.e along the river. When I got to the big slip, I see someone has cut some steps into the gravel, making it a LOT easier to navigate past. Those steps weren't there last time I visited... so today it was plain sailing past it, I wasn't worried about no hand rail - just don't look down that's what I say! lol.

Got to GZ and the familiar blackberry. Saw a lone cabbage tree and easily dismissed that, looked around and I could see a much more suitable tree that might hide a cradle. Why on earth did I not see THAT tree when I was here last! Made my way thru the undergrowth and the terrain opened out! (Thanks so much Clive for doing that maintenance). Then I see the cradle is indeed back in the tree (I see later that the C.O. has been here today) so I finally with great glee take the container and find the log and sign myself in! OMG, I thought that was never going to happen.! I see you were here at around 1pm Clive, my foto of the cradle I have posted, it was taken at 4:49pm. Shame I missed you too. Thanks for the maintenance and the cache! A relief to have bowled this one now.

Got back to the carpark and who do I meet? Why it was Hinemoana! Hello to you, we had a great chat, she just did the waterfall cache by here on her own.

Log later

Visited around 1 pm today, so probably only just missed Gorbygorbachov. I rebuilt the "nest", checked the contents, put everything back where it was meant to be, and ripped out the blackberry that was growing right at the base of the cabbage tree. Both routes to the cache are pretty overgrown, but I used them both. Approaching from the north, and bending over when required is easiest, and should allow you to thread your way through to GZ!

Sorry, the writing implement has apparently gone walkabout and I didn't have a spare on me.

#6379. After spending the night in Taumarunui, I had to drive back to Owhango as I ran out of time yesterday to do these caches. This cache had been on my radar for a long time as its currently the 11th oldest remaining geocache in the North Island. The recent logs showed it would not be a straight forward find. Decided I wouldn't risk trying to get through the slip. So parked up at the upper track crossing point and headed in the long way. The track closed sign was a bit off-putting but as I knew I wouldn't be going over the slip, I figured it would be ok. The top track passes through some lovely tall podocarp/tawa forest. The drop down to the river certainly was quite a descent. Gradually the distance counted down and soon I was in the clearing. Then the tricky bit began as there is no path into the cache and the area is becoming a thicket of blackberry and dense regrowth. But finally reached my target and there was the cache on the ground near the large cabbage tree. I see the last person put it back up in the cradle but clearly its not staying there. So decided to leave it at ground level. Signed the logbook and left the cache as found. Back out at the clearing I went down to the river and there was a pair of blue ducks, calling away. Very cool to see. Then back on the same path with the grunt up the incline to the plateau and back to the car. A really enjoyable experience on a well formed track. Thanks Clive for hiding this cache here. Favourite awarded.

Sorry if the previous DNF was due to the track being officially closed and my failure to document this fact on this cache listing. There is a bluff about 700m downstream from the bridge over the Whakapapa and a fairly recent slip on that section has led DOC to put up tape and signs saying the whole track north of the road is closed.

In fact you can still get to the cache location without going over the damaged section of the track although it makes for a longer and less easy walk (and you'll have to go past the DOC signs).

Option 1 is to go in from the point where the track crosses the road half way down to the river - about 1 km from Owhango (see hint) - and then return by the same route.

Option 2 is to go in from the bridge and then "bush crash" along the proposed new track route from just upstream of the bluff/slip, following the tape markers going away from the river for about 100m, then climbing up (quite steep and muddy at the top) and over the ridge and down the other side.

Sorry for abrupt log, before. It wasn't your fault. I just got really frustrated on this cache. I came here yesterday and found the track closed, I wasn't too worried by that though and I passed by a guy with dogs that said the slip was passable but you had to be a brave to take the risk. The slip is at 38° 59.426'S 175° 23.917'E I went to it and decided nahh not for me, so I went back but time was not on my side and I had to head to Taupo where I was staying for the night.

Today I was back here again and I knew **this** attempt would be touch and go, it was only about 2pm when I started the walk from the other entrance closer to town, but I suspected this route would be hard going and it SURE was!! It was pouring with rain, and the track was atrocious, got to GZ, had a 10 min hunt, couldn't see no damn cabbage tree, and I was soaked, very cold and I was acutely aware of the light get darker but not because of the evening but the clouds were much darker so I had to abandon my search and it was quite hard to see where I was going as I headed back the way I came. I got naked back at my car and froze while changing into warm and dry clothes.

Really in hindsight, I should never attempted the cache in such conditions but I will be back, but if the C.O could... let us know when the track is repaired, that route by the stream is MUCH easier to travel on!

A bloody DNF!

Had to fight through the bushes but then an easy find. Box was down and wet, reinstalled where it should be.

Visited to check on condition. Yes, undergrowth around GZ has grown, but there are still a couple of ways to get to it! One from the north, and the other from the east. From the north is probably easiest - just bend over and push slowly through the tunnel, also watching out for stray tendrils of blackberry reaching out for your skin..!

The container was lying on the ground and looked like it had been like that for a while but the contents were still in good condition. Repackaged everything after giving it all a bit of an airing and replaced back in the proper place.

Front page of NZ Herald from the weekend after 9/11 (when cache was placed) is still readable, although getting a little fragile in places. I've photographed it for posterity but you will need to visit in person to see it!

Found the tree(s) but they have grown a lot since 2001.

Nice to find an "old School" cache like this - It's the reason I started in this pastime!!!! Sooooo much better than the drive-by-eclipse-under-a-flaxbush. Really enjoyed the reserve (Which I wouldn't have found without the cache.

Anyway, Quick dash between downpours on a wet Easter. Found we'd left the pen in the car, and not going to risk drowning coming back, so no log signed. Have up loaded a photo as proof, but feel free to delete if not happy

After a great weekend on the mountain we headed out this way to complete a multi in Owhango and walk this loop track. A neat place (we once came this way for “stumped by a waterfall” – great cache) today we need an easy walk to loosen up stiff legs. A nice loop it is too. I love these out of the way places where there is not so much foot traffic. Nice hide, thanks for the placement.

LAst time we were in Owhango was about 2 years ago: sveppi and I bagged FTF on the "Stumped by a waterfall" cache. That day we noticed this nice loop walk along a river and thought we should come back some day. So here we are looking for an easy-ish walk after our weekend adventure on The Mountain.
Not as easy as I thought though as sveppi set off almost running and me behind trying to keep up. Wasn't too bad until this cache, but then the inclind started and it got a bit harder! Still I kept up until she ran out of puff then we were able to slow down and enjoy the scenery!
Cache was found after a quick off-track scramble, all in good order, and surprised to find it's quite an oldie to boot! Thanks for bringing us here.
We finished the walk under gentle rain, then had luch on the tailgate in the carpark before making the rest of the way home.

One of the few places to walk the Mob Dog. He had a great swim in the river but got very worried when Mr Mob disappeared into the bush. Had to fight my way through to GZ. Cache had fallen out of it's nest so replaced in hide. TFTC.

Had the nicest walk to GZ. Quick find and I felt like an American Indian as I tracked my way back to the path. My favourite type of caching style. T4tc

Nice walk meeting people and finding cache

A quick easy find after a pleasant walk alongside the river, although the last few metres are a bit of a bush bash. The cache was lying upside down on the ground, but surprisingly was relatively dry. We replaced it in accordance with the hint, with some sticks to hopefully hold it in place. The information board about the Whio was quite interesting. We just made it back to the car before the next shower. TFTC

Made the effort to go and get this cache and was well worth it despite the 3 wasp stings I got on the way. Checked for the TB as per maintenance log and there was not one present in the cache. TFTC

Replaced the rat mangled container with yet another in the same class!

Forgot to check if the listed travel bug is still present. Will try to remember to check again soon.

1742 What a lovely eatly morning walk along the river. With the mist rising it was magical. Boy do we live in a great country. Another oldie ticked off.

found it again. With my granddad kennyg22
it needs another ice-cream container, been eaten by rats.

found it with jphunt2 my grandson

Found on the ground. Replaced in correct position and left Travel Pirate geocoin for someone else to move on.

This entry was edited by evilC on Sunday, 11 October 2015 at 00:25:34 UTC.

The rain hasn't let up, so there was plenty of squelching down the track to GZ today. Peered hopefully into all the traps along the way, but nothing spotted. There has been a load of metal added to the track at the start since I was last down here. That kept me on the dry above flood level for a while. Found GZ easily and spotted the cache before I arrived. I was pleased that the blackberry had been cleared. Everything was nice and dry in the container, and I made sure that the rain didn't pour in while I was signing the log. Now to surf back to the carpark where my pickup was hopefully waiting with a complete change of dry clothes. TFTC

This entry was edited by tparty on Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 06:41:20 UTC.

Was down at the Mountain for the weekend, and went looking for some nearby caches for our drive home. This one looked interesting in that it was a river walk and an old cache hide!

The plan was just to walk along the river to the cache, but then it turned into completing the whole loop (1 hr 30min). A beautiful, stunning walk. We got to see the Whakapapa river (and the swimming hole), the tawa forest, listen to the bird call, spot ducks in the lagoon, and stand beside the Totara tree that is several hundred years old.

The cache hide was not too bad, in that it was only a little bit overgrown. I liked how the cache container is still the icecream container after all this time. Inside was a friendly? NZ native cockroach. The contents where lovely and dry. I had a look at the old brochure of Owhango, and I see the paper survives.

Thanks for keeping this old cache going, and for bringing us to this special place, just beautiful

Found it! Cache set up by my father over 13 years ago! Have been staying with him last two nights. Thanks for having us Dad.

This old cache was pointed out several weeks before leaving Denmark. And as we drove from Tongariro National Park towards New Plymouth (and Mount Taranaki), this was the day to find it.

We followed the path from outside Owhango, as recommended in the description, and after a lovely walk we cacme to the GZ and found the cache .

Thanks for the cache and for the nice walk. That deserves a favourite point [^].

After some days on the Wanganui River we went back on the road. In order not only to drive we used every possibility to make a short stop to admire the landscape, to take pictures and of course to collect some caches. Thanks a lot for the cache.

After much fun at the Whanganui river we came tho Owhango to get back our car... Then we came here to find this cache.

A weekend road trip of epic proportions. Gap (of Fap and Gap) and I plan to carve our way through the Waikato, Manawatu-Wanganui and Taranaki Regions while collecting an assortment of caches for various challenges we are working on. Should be a fun excursion... Day 2 and the long ride homeward.

We had to figure out how to get to the nearest carpark, but soon found the roadway. There were a few vehicles by the river and people enjoying the open spaces in the early evening. The walk down river was quick along a fairly good track. The hint was soon discovered, along with the cache. Another oldie... TFTC.

Another weekend caching with Squirrel Nutcase, due to the kilometres we are travelling this time a over night stop in Stratford was needed. Number off D/T Ratings and old caches was our mission.

7.10pm - Getting late in day and still had to get back to Rotorua. Quick walk to a easily found well placed cache. SLTFTC

Found it. This was my first Geocach and yes you do have to watch out for blackberry.

Cool spot down the river,thanks

Found while tramping around Owhanga after we stopped
for a break and a drink in a clearing on the banks of the
Whakapapa river. Amazing tramping tracks and bush, tall trees
well worth it.

Found on a >41 hour non-stop geo roadtrip from Wellington to Auckland via Cape Palliser and a whole bunch of skinny winding Wairarapa roads, in the esteemed company of slieschke, mike-miss and cretti. We picked up our rental car, dubbed the Idiot Box, and assumed our new identity as Team CRT, shortly after 8am at Wellington Airport and headed north.

We first headed to Porirua Harbour to take on the resident Kiwi geo art trail before heading over to the southern Wairarapa and Cape Palliser where we visited the light house at about midnight and tried our best to avoid seals while searching for a few caches along the southern most shore line of the North Island.

We headed up past Greytown and Carterton, focussing on caching areas west of SH2 this trip. There were some highlight caches, particularly around Carterton (I think) and some way up in the hills looking over the whole area from Masterton to Martinborough.

It was daylight again by the time we hit Masterton and we decided to hit fast forward and skip a planned area (will just have to come back again!) and shot through to Palmerston North where we got back into the swing of things.

We took the back-road up to Mangaweka, discovering some really fanstastic little places along the way, like a picnic area and waterfall way down in a canyon, and then we continued via Taihape, across and up through Owhango, to get some really old caches, and then north through Te Awamutu and back to Auckland to drop off the Idiot Box at the airport.

And of course, despite it then being after 1am on Monday morning, and raining kinda heavily, slieschke and I couldn't resist driving over to the North Shore for an FTF on a cache published earlier in the evening.

Thanks to all the cache owners along the way, even if we couldn't find your cache - all part of the adventure! Sorry for the copy/paste log, but just too many caches to remember *all* of them individually.

About time I got a find on this very old cache - fills a NZ jasmer grid spot for me as well. TFTC!!!

Found in the company of Cretti, funkymunkyzone and mike-miss on a crazy Wellington to Auckland road trip in the idiot box. We traveled via the Kiwi GeoTrail in Porirua, the Wairarapa including Cape Palliser, the Manawatu, and back to Auckland via the western side of the Central Plateau. Signed as Team CRT. Despite very little sleep the weekend was a blast!

Found under the cover of darkness at this point. Saw some familiar faces had signed the log before us earlier in the day.

Thanks!

A plan was hatched for yet another extreme, fly down, drive back caching weekend from Wellington to Auckland. This time, Cretti and slieschke joined in on what turned out to be another epic road trip with myself and funkymunkyzone (our third trip this year).
We all met up at Wellington Saturday morning as i ended up being on an earlier flight to the rest of the crew. Jumped in our rental which happened to be a Ssangyong SUV this time round and headed straight to Porirua Harbour to hit the Kiwi GeoTrail. From there on, we zig zagged our way through Wiararapa to Cape Palliser, back up through Martinborough, Masterton, Ekatahuna, Pahiatua, Palmerston North, Taihape, Te Awamutu and back home to Auckland in the early hours of Monday morning.

To save time and log space, we stamped the logs as "Team CRT" travelling in the idiot box for the weekend. Lots of laughs were had over our 1500km+ / 41 hour road trip which consisted mainly of narrow gravel roads, some of which had spectacular scenery and views. Sorry for the copy/paste logs as its now all abit of a blur having only a few short naps in between. Many thanks to all the cache owners who have placed caches for us to find on another epic little adventure. TFTC!

We decided that we needed a short walk to wake ourselves up abit during our final leg of the journey. The freezing cold breeze on our way to GZ sure woke us up! Enjoyed the walk in the darkness to GZ and the cache was quickly found. Great to pickup an old cache. Cheers!

Team CRT - traveling in The IdiotBox - For the first time, I have joined in with the mad crew of: FunkyMonkeyZone, Slieschke and Mike-Miss in a mad 40 hr caching drive from Wellington back to Auckland.

We're into hour 35.

Find #907. Thanks for the cache. 31/08/2014 19:22

Driving a loop from Turangi to National Park and back around, picking up some older and interesting caches. The Owhango caches were a driving force in our planning for today - great to pick up the oldest multi in NZ plus the 2001 Cabbage Tree Cradle.
Drove out to the parking area by the bridge and made our way along the track to the Cabbage Tree Cradle. Fantastic views of the river from many spots along the track, and an interesting picnic spot near GZ. Found the container on the ground. Looks like some critter has been trying to nibble its way in. The contents are all safe and sound and we replaced the cache in its cradle. Thanks for showing us this lovely walk, and for keeping this old cache going. We'll add a favourite point.

We were in the area doing the nearby multi so this cache was on our list to do while here. Parked the camper van at the suggested spot and headed towards GZ. The track is obviously well used and there were great views of the river on the way. When we got close to GZ there appeared to be an obvious geotrail so followed this and the cache was soon in hand. Had a quick read of the newspaper article, signed the log and headed back up the track. This is another great spot we would not have found if it wasn't for this cache placement. TFTC.

I didn't have to forge new ground here as it looked like many had gone before me. Not too many prickly bushes at this time of the year but walking through the forest to get to this point was very creepy. I kept hearing the ents talking to each other. As in a previous log the cache was upside on the ground. It looks like something has been chewing on the container. I've put it back in the location mentioned in the hint.

Headed south with C&D, for a full weekend of caching, with the first cache being found at 6.00pm Friday night and finishing with an Event in Hamilton at 1.30pm on Sunday afternoon. Both of us had certain caches we were targeting for the Geo Licence series, as well as finding anything else we driving past, or near. All up we found 165 caches, travelled just over 1700kms and had around 5 hours sleep.

All in all it was an EPIC adventure, exploring in and around the Whanganui to Dannevirke area. We found some great caches along the way and saw some great sights. Thanks to everyone for placing all the caches.

Great stroll in the dark to the cache, a few large puddles needed to be skipped around on the track so our feet didn't get wet, but nothing too difficult. Cache had fallen out of place but replaced back as hint suggested.

Had to do some bush bashing to get this one. It was lying on the ground upside down, so perhaps a possum booted it from its nesting place to which it was returned. TFTC

Took a while to carefully pick our way through the blackberries but being "so close" over rides the prickles and blood .
Great spot for a walk.
TFTC.

Great place but a shame the sand flies came out for a feed

Beautiful location beside my favourite river in the world, the Whakapapa. Grew up near here and kayaked and swam a lot in this water. Thanks for bringing me back here. Found on an afternoon caching with KiwiRupen. TFTC

#5061. Interesting scenic walk along the river. Needed a bit of careful negotiation as we approached GZ, but all good. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Found it.. Including a cockroache!!

Container has newspaper clippings,map, sellotape, left a new world miniture margerine and took wooden peg

0118hrs
On a reconnaissance trip for some SH43 caches, and decided, hey, what the hell!

Found nice and dry in its nest. Great picnic and swimming area. SL TFTC

This entry was edited by Priceless Time on Tuesday, 31 December 2013 at 22:12:43 UTC.

Lovely part of the country and a nice walk to GZ.
Cache all good.
TFTC

Arrived at the parking area at just after 7.30am as was wanting to collect a few of the older caches around the region.
A beautiful, easy walking track along the river into the GZ and plenty of early morning bird life to keep me company. almost placed my hand on a wood pigeon along one part of the track.
Located the cache without a problem and then took a couple of minutes down on the river bank to check out just how cold that water was. Thanks for keeping this old cache still going

TFTC

Rescued by someone called Kate. I've been informed that she found it nearby and has put it back in the correct spot... and there was much rejoicing! I swear that the next time it goes "missing" I will look harder.

A nice evening walk on my way south for a weeks work in Wanganui, got to stretch the legs and to find a cache at the same time

Checked today as I wandered by, and was disappointed to find it completely missing. Apparently deliberately removed by someone. So, nothing to find right now, except for an indentation.

Must be beautiful in summer too!

#2301
Geocaching with Jykk€. Nice little walk. Greetings from Finland. TFTC! TB out and GC out.

#2491
There was tree mugglers so we waited. Easy found.
TFTC.

Went for walk, had a swim (brisk but refreshing) and read my book in the sun for a while as I dried off. Finally, when the fishermen muggles and friends had left the scene I dropped off TB Myrtle and her Turtle and the Cache a Day geocoin.

As we were staying here in the campervan we went out after tea,.all still in good condition.
many thanks

Have had this on my wish list since I first started geocaching so I was very pleased to find the time to look for it today. Really great to find such an old cache and it even still has the original logbook, very cool. A lovely walk, awesome scenery.

TFTC

TNLN TFTC, nice spot, didn't know about the fireplace before coming here

This one had us "fooled" for a while.
Once we had picked it up off the ground, not out of the tree, we were happy despite the scramble through the brambles to get to it!
TN LN.

Nice old cache did with tejay before dinner.

Lovely walk to a great spot. Almost tricky to get to ground zero, but once we (psychrn and I) made it by doing a bit of discreet bush bashing, the cache was easy to find.

A nice walk in this beautiful forest. Cache was an easy find. TFTC

Over visiting my parents and I just had to grab this one. Many a time I have walked past this area carrying a rifle. Nowadays I carry a GPS . It is so good to get back and see my old hunting grounds. Thanks for bringing me here again. It was great to bring Goldielover to see some New Zealand bush.

Stairman1 and I decided to take a nice stroll through the bush to grab this one. This is such a beautiful spot. And there are no snakes in New Zealand We arrived at the GZ and quickly had the cache in hand. We decided to sit on the ground to have a good look at the goodies but I sat on a blackberry bush . Read the newspaper articles, and took the GC to continue its journey around Queensland. After the log was put back, Stairman1 and I sat by the river and enjoyed the views. Thanks evilC for bringing us to a great part of New Zealand.

Went for a walk, dropped off "2nd Billericay - Kiwi Roamer" geocoin on my way past.

We went there and back along the lower track beside the river. There are some large trees in the bush here and attractive ferns on the forest floor.
+ a marble, - nothing.

Found it with group rafting. YFTC

Daddy treasure hunter used to BMX down here before off road biking was cool! A nice walk in the afternoon sunshine.