Don't Play Marbles on the Motorway (New Plymouth) Welbourn, North Island, New Zealand
By Southern Augurs on 18-Nov-08. Waypoint GC1J8AD

Hi SouthernAugurs

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

I made the mistake of setting the sat nav to make this the first find of the day, only to read the previous logs once at GZ which I really should have done before setting off, as it would have saved a wasted trip and a DNF.

Found the location but not the cache.

No luck with this one today

Lovely wall through wooded area. Birds are singing. Very pleasant. Tftc

Found it. Rummaging around in the leaves, not finding it. Daughter puts her hand in tree and goes 'is this it!' Nice find Amber.

Very well thought hiding space

About to give up, as it was getting dark and I'm half blind but... found it! Nicely camouflaged container. TFTC

Pretty tricky

Nice walk along this track and found rather quickly. TFTC

Found with trayc.g, logging now as I now have my own account. TFTC

Quick easy find. Thanks!

Lol I was actually in wrong place looking for another cache when high5zoe found this one. Easy find tftc

I found it

Found it

Good hide. Track can be a little slippery. TFTC

Quick easy find TFTC

Found it - thanks for the cache.

Quick find for us on a walkway i didnt know was there. Tftc

Tricky with the river don't pick the wrong side!! It seems like one but it's not

Second tree we checked housed the cache. TFTC

Lovely walk which we didn't know was here. Fact was at right height for a little person to find tftc

Cool walkway we didn't know was here.

Another part of TeHenui explored today. Not the fence I was expecting, but a quick find. Thanks.

GPS is taking me the long way home for the Mega. Finding lots of great caches on the way. TFTC

A very nice day to be out so l decided to go for long walk and get few nearby caches. A very enjoyable 12 km walk. I have been on this walkway a couple of times but happy to go again. TFTC.

its actually pretty easy once you suss out which fence your looking for

It's getting to be a good workout for my 87yr old friend. We always go geocaching when he's down from Auckland.

Managed to find in the dark with a phone light very quickly thanks to the great descriptions!

Have always wanted to visit here - thanks for placing this cache, it finally got me to the top of the Te Henui. Was hoping to take the ducks for a swim but my Miss Four year old wouldn't have managed the climb back to the top. Cache looks good and covered back up with leaves. Thanks

Lovely area great cache

Phew made it back up the hill, was not going to leave until I found this one, which I did, tftc SouthernAugurs

Nice hide quick find tftc

Found it in the pouring rain cool forest

Quick find

Quick find

Day off today! Taking Ellie for walk where we have not been before! Nice to see river below! Nice hide! TFTC

GPS a bit out. Found with hints on the activity. Thanks

Found after a little hunting around.

Good hide

214 Trip to the Naki

(1820) Out caching with Steeveb and Skibow1 to collect some caches around New Plymouth. Thanks for taking us to some interesting spots.

well hidden, but easy with the hints

Finally explored this cool little extension of a familiar walkway. Cache safe and sound. TFTC ☺

Cool hiding spot. Took us a while to find it though haha.

The gps is not very accurate here so when I got to the GZ I was disappointed to see a number of hint objects (cheapskates). Worse I completely failed to see one very thin fence which of course was where we eventually found the cache. A nice piece of forest here. TFTC.

very nice area, would not have come here without the geocache but it was really worth it! the trees are pretty cool, especially on a hot day like this went exploring a bit first before I found the right spot...
TFTC and greets from an Austrian cacher

Found it nice easy one

Found it cleaver hide

out with lady e quick find tftc

Second visit to find this, brought Gnome62 can't believe that I missed this fairly easy find in the end. Thanks left a diamond.

The New Year brings a new challenge and seeing as we are just casual family cachers we have very rarely managed more than 5-6 in one day. So today we had to hit double figures!
This was number one!
A good stroll through the bush to start off and the hint was spot on. Lovely bush reserve we have only ever driven past before. TFTC

Nice hide tftc

nice little walkway, nice to explore a new part of town for us. TFTC

after a little walk we had this one found. TFTC

Tftc

Very difficult with bad GPS signal but found in the end.

took a little bit to find this but once gps started working we had it soon in hand, lovely walk TFTC

I agree with Blenheim Bear. Don't expect GPS to find GZ. Persistence paid off eventually. dug27

I looked carefully on the wrong side before I found it. TFTC.

Nice easy find on a walkway I knew nothing about. Log is a bit wet

Well some advice to the next cacher, don't come with a Smart phone and expect to get the co-ords to work well. I walked back and forwards and up and down to find this one. In the end the hint proved to be excellent and I found the right place, then a quick furtle and the cache container was in hand. Don't know abou the name, very misleading, marbles here would be a very quick game.. But it's Mission Accomplished TFTC! This log posted with CacheSense for Android!

This entry was edited by Blenheim Bear on Sunday, 26 April 2015 at 07:50:53 UTC.

Great little walk! Neat cache!

Lunchtime cache! Nice easy find, thanks!

#6390. Nice walk from Durham Avenue on the Te Henui Walkway Extension. The track was all quiet. Relatively quick find. The cache itself was in excellent condition, but it was no longer an aluminium container. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log. Thanks for the cache.

Log wet TFTC.

As well as not playing marbles on the motorway the GZ is an unlikely spot to attempt to play marbles as well. A gloomy shady spot on a wet overcast day. TFTC

This entry was edited by Zissas on Friday, 06 March 2015 at 08:04:27 UTC.

Quick walk after solving another cache. TFTC

Found it!

Our first Geocache yay we found it!!

What a really good spot for a cache.
Thank you for that cache.
Regards from Bavaria
CR

TFTC Quick find small pill container with log only.

We were in New Plymouth on holiday and once the kids were squared away in bed I was granted a leave pass to grab some caches late in the evening. It was pretty dark at GZ but that wasn't the problem I just couldn't get a clear reading on my GPS which pointed to three possible spots some 30+ meters apart. I left frustrated.

Found with nzanz. Tracking pretty well today. Cool path. Tftc

Nice trees! tftc

TFTC

Easy night find tftc

Great hide, we had the wrong fence at first! TFTC

Found with neverlandx, very wet

The gps had all sorts of fun and games under the canopy and at one point had me scrabbling up the hill to check out a cool looking tree with lots of good cache hiding spots. Luckily a good hint had me back on the right track and soon I was signing the log.

TFTC

Simple to find with the hint, otherwise had no idea where or what to look for. Logged entry. Thanks.

Found this yesterday, but being my first, I managed to only log a note! However find it I did, delightful camo container nicely placed in its hollow! Pencil is included albeit quite a small cache. TFTC Chris

Quick walk from work at afternoon tea! Lovely environment, excellent clue and first find using L4C Pro on iPhone. Little camo container very nice, well matched to environ. Thanks to maintainer - I put back plenty of litter.

Great to find another piece of track! TFTC

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Exactly as described, so nice easy cache to start the day. Nice camo. TFTC

Beautiful area. Thanks for the cache

Found it after walking along the track to far as the compass was off but fou d it in the end. Tftc.

Found under the name timpenn. Part of the track I hadn't visited in years, thank you.

TFTC

Was found uncovered. Signed log TNLN covered up with leaf litter TFTC

All good sweet as

Would recomend long pants mozzies are starving tftc

Well that was a bit of hard yakka. We were after a bit of exercise and definitely got it here. Nice stroll from the motel to track start. Well hidden cache on a lovely walk. Thanks.

Up to date

Nicely camouflaged - listen for joggers! tftc

145th find for The Great Scouts Australia Geocaching Competition 2013. Found with sunhalo, TFTC SouthernAugurs.

We started the walk at the Cumberland Street entrance and actually walked right past the GZ due to the GPSr not getting a satellite lock. We found the correct location on the return stroll, and a short rummage soon had the cache in hand. Very nice camo job.