Striking Oil--Maui Production Station (Oaonui) Oaonui, North Island, New Zealand
By Taranaki Cache Layers on 06-Sep-08. Waypoint GC1G0KZ

Please see my last log.

Anything happening?

Not realising this cache was temporarily unavailable, we had a ferret around and quickly found it near the logical hide / clue and GPS co-ordinates. Apart from the log book being wet, all is OK with the cache. TFTC.

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please maintain this cache or archive

No luck on this one

I looked for this one for about 15mins before reading the logs and saw the string of DNFs. Perhaps this one needs checking?

Bushbashed the aggies but as earlier cacher no joy at finding cache

No cache here for me today despite a good look.

This entry was edited by agcnz on Sunday, 30 October 2011 at 17:45:15 UTC.

Hmmm, despite good weather and GPS signal this was my first holiday DNF. The garden area/roadside have been very heavily trimmed, GZ according to my GPS was under a pile of trimmed branches. Looked like a car might have hit the fence too. I had a good search around the agapanthus, but found nothing sadly. Quite a pond of water restricting access too. Cache owner may want to check this one.

Took a bit of searching but managed to unearth GC. Interesting area. Log aa bit damp but ok to write on.

Have driven past a few times but not stopped, interesting development on the coast
TFTC

Busy place, cache well out of view, TFTC!

Easy find. TFTC

Had a great chat with the cows. TFTC

easy find. soaking wet needs new log book.

Easy find with clue on our way from Wanganui to New Plymouth on our NI holiday. TFTC TNLN

Interesting spot ... nice hiding place .. ..Thanks

.. log is a bit dump ...

Found after a bit of searching that resulted in wet feet. The area was a bit of a pond today, not sure if it's caused by the nearby water trough or by yesterdays storm. Interesting to come and have a look down here.

Tftc boy it windy over this side of th mountain today

Took T.B Left T.B.
Cache is wet and needs maintenance.

Interesting place to visit, took a little searching for this one T4TC.

Nice quick easy find

#722 Round day trip from NP thru Hawera back to NP with The Rambling Duo. Quick stop. Will take some time another time to do the Earthcache. Sure to be interesting. Quick find. SL. TFTC.

Easy drive by find. Nice to have the time to do some caching with Darby& Joan visiting from Auckland
NINO , TFTC

Needed the hint to make it straight forward find.

Found after a short search. Good area for a cache. SL TFTC

Good view of the oil production station. Quite impressive flames at the top of the funnels. Parked at the side of the road and found cache after a wee search. TFTC and for showing us this place.

Logging in a visit for our TB.

Another quick find. Cache fairly wet, couldn't do much to help - run out of sealy bags.
Patched up as best a we could.
- OI OI OI Tb
#74

out looking for yoda gps is wayout so stoped and droped off Oi Oi Oi coin [8d]

Cache was very wet; the logbook was wet and may need some attention.

Very wet Cache

took abit thing are wet around it

Took me a while to suss this one out, the fact that it was pouring down didn't help TFTC

Have waited two weeks, but haven't received a reply from owner, so have decided to go ahead & log it anyway.
Took us a lot longer than we expected to hunt down all of the clues - even then we weren't sure about a couple of them. (hopefully there all right). Really interesting place to visit though. Thanks for bringing us here.

cache is dry, although log book still a little damp- able to enter name though.
Swapped a pet rock - a fish, & a jandel keyring for an interactive trading card.

The cache was sopping wet. We emptied everything out, dried what we could, and threw away almost everything but the log book. We put the wet log book back into a new, dry baggie. We put in several trinkets and a new pencil and new geocaching instructions, all in another zip lock baggie. Then we put a plastic bag around the cache and put that into a zip lock baggie. I hope the cache holds. The log book really needs to be replaced or dried out.
+ Pencil
+ New geocaching instructions
+ Parrot
+ Binoculars
+ Dinosaur
TFTC
Early Rizers

[19:25] (-12h) #963

CacheTour: New Zealand with foobert
Day: 3 of 23
Previously found geocaches of the day: 11

easily found

TFTC


[This entry was edited by signux on Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 1:20:00 AM.]

TYFTC

got it!!!

everything wet couldin log

Quick find. Thanks

Interesting spot, visited the ec nearby as well. cheers tnln

Found quickly while heading to Cuz's place in Wanganui.

Log book is very wet.

TFTC

Only muggles we saw were of the bovine description. TFTC

Pulled up in carpark near helicopter pad and was about to begin our search when we got muggled by a friendly worker from the plant who then proceeded to give us a very detailed explantion of the workings of the plant and the associated Maui fields. No need to visit the visitors centre if you get muggled by this boy as he'll tell you everything you need to know and much more besides! Finally shook him off with the need to walk the dog and soon had the cache in hand. NINO, TFTC

Good view of the refinery. Quick find. Cache a bit wet. in kiwi badge, Out Souvenir spoon

Need maintenance #6 neat spot tftc

A quick found!

Thx

#1567

EDE

#584
Found it after we have had a look at the production site visitors centre.
Thank you for the cache and greetings from Germany, kesteri

Nice journey beyond where we would have gone. Thanks for that. Needs maintenance. Soggy. Maybe the container is a goner? TFTC.

Just down the road from a lovely earth cache. BookwormMum, Kayaknkiwi, Indiana Jill and I drove past this one and had to turn around. Indiana Jill had her caching antennae on and found this one quickly. TFTC!

In NP with Indiana Jill, Seattle’s Best and Kayaknkiwi for some caching and other fun. Were nearby getting info for earth cache - I hardly managed to get out of the car for this one before IJ had it in hand. No helicopters around - pity! TFTC!

Found with the team after doing the earth cache near by. IJ came up with the goods on this one. Thanks for the adventure on this one. Log wet. TFTC!

Impressive and a bit freightening scenery here. But a quick find and the logbook was reasonably dry.
TFTC and Merry Christmas

Nice Location
Needs new container
TNLN

Good spot
needs a new bigger waterproof container
TNLN

Cheers

Wow, this brought back memories. A few years ago STOS was one of our clients and I helped them developing some of those plans that would be used Knew the names of a lot of their sites, good to actually get out and see MPS today Thanks. Cheers Gav [4715]

Every thing is wet signed log book,dried log book a bit with car heater, going to leave a GC but to wet TNLN

No choppers tonight but found (slightly damp) cache.

We found it great cache thanks Took nothing left kinder suprise

Found this cache quickly, signed and replaced it quickly, like the location in this area, TFTC TNLNSL (1048)

great find quick and easy. The cache is very wet and had to empty the water out of container. Took the slug geo coin very rusty and starting to corrode will clean it up and put it somewhere dry.

Took: Slug Geo Coin
Left: Spoon

This cache is very wet and could do with a new container and be put into a plastic bag. Took the Slug geo coin very rusty and starting to corrode.

Quite an impressive plant.. Quick cache..Thanks for the cache..

Hi, first cache on our way around Mt. Taranaki
TFTC In: TravelSlag

A bit of a hunt but thankfully no flies. TFTC NINO.

#421. Many huge flies around GZ ... glad it was a quick find.
+ huhugrub pebble
TNSL. TFTC.

Pheww! We were glad of a quick find on this one after taking our time to find the info for the nearby earthcache! The hint was spot on and helpful for finding this one. Wonder if all those poor cows will get evacuated if there is an emergency?
TNLN TFTC

Nice location, no probs for us.

Thank you

Easy to find after driving right up to it.
TNLNSL TFTC

After searching for quite a while, we gave up on this one. We couldn't make sense of the clue either.

Nice easy cache after spending over an hour looking for clues in a very hot visitors centre for GC1G4TP. GPS and clues bang on. NINO TFTC

JDSavannah strikes again! Well, in conjunction with TreMichLan. [8)] A lovely day of caching in Taranaki

A windy spot today, but suspect it might be any day. Good to see an attempt to beautify a small area so close to a huge industrial site.
Left smiley in blue GC & Faber Optime - Holy TB in the cache.

Nice easy find. Not a good day to view the mountain, unfortunately. TNLN. TFTC.

Got an email about that: they can arrive at anytime but workers spend two-three weeks on the rig in shift rotations so not that common to see the helicopter on the pad, much less flying overhead. Id you do, snap a photo and post it here! ;P

This cache was orginally layed by a member now no longer residing in the district. I now have administrative rights for both Oaonui caches. Signed the logbook in error, and have deleted my entry after SouthernAugurs brought this to my attention. Apologies for any inconvenience.

[This entry was edited by Manaia on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 at 12:53:20 AM.]

Quick find in the rain, at the end of the day. TFTC.

Quick find as the night draws near. All quiet at this time of the day. TNLN TFTC

(1729)
No choppers interrupted our hunt today. We didn’t attempt the nearby Earthcache, as the information centre had closed for the day. Many thanks for bringing us to this interesting spot.
TNLNSL, TFTC

We'd not been here before and it was interesting to see the Maui Production Station.
+ a marble
- nothing

Very quiet Sunday morning with no helicopters seen and even better, no wind! Nice quick find and a great spot to view the nearby installation. Gotta watch the parking alright, a very blind corner.
No swaps, TFTC.

Easy find; bit of a dangerous spot behind a blind corner, watch for traffic, especially the local farmer who lives at the bottom of the road. Helicopters fly across this road as well, so caution is the watchword. TNLNSL

[This entry was edited by SouthernAugurs on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 12:21:07 AM.]

Well, not oil, but cache gold! A very straightforward cache competely after the mental agility demanded by 'Natural Gas Naturally'. It was super windy today (isn't it always) so the weekly Helicopter was nowhere in sight. TFTC.

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