Tasman Outlook (Taranaki) Tongaporutu, North Island, New Zealand
By Southern Augurs on 07-Feb-09. Waypoint GC1MDW2

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Could not find it for the life of us. Several people havent been able to find it so maybe it hasnt been placed back? Or not looking hard enough.

Day #1 of a 3 day road trip to the Taranaki.

No luck finding this one today

Did not find. Maybe needs maintenance?

Day 3 of the KiwiFruitsNZ/Vamber road trip saw us head back to Auckland, picking up some more lonely caches and some D/T combinations to help us with our GIO License requirements.

This was our first DNF for the day. Previous logger had also not found it so didn't spend too long in the rain looking.

This entry was edited by KiwifruitsNZ on Monday, 27 October 2014 at 03:14:31 UTC.

The last day of our trip down to Taranaki with KiwifruitsNZ, saw us heading on our way back home to Auckland, picking up some solved puzzles and lonely caches on the way to meet the requirements for the GIO Licence series.

We found the offending rubbish bag mentioned by the previous logger, but no cache....

Intended to grab this one on the way to Rotorua for a long weekend break. Been here many times BCE (Before Caching Era). Unfortunately not to be found today. Did find a rubbish bag with a woman's adult toy inside. Battery compartment full of water, but toy still operative, lol. Not sure whether to CITO or put in GZ tree. So funny.

Haven't been caching in ages, so decided to take advantage of a 'mini' break away. Too many muggles on our first stop here, so after 20 mins or so drove on for a while and on the way back was a quick and easy find having the place to ourselves

Such a glorious scenic view today, every muggle is coming in! Abandoned the search as there are only so many ways to look nonchalant

I logged that i gave up cos too many people about - and then they left! So did find it after all

Nice location. Quick find today. Enjoyed looking for this, thanks.

Good spot

perfect spot for stretching the legs with a lovely view TFTF

[late log: found on 17/3/14]
Nice easy park and grab. Muggles around so had to find stealthily!

Finally stopped to grab this one today... Beautiful day to take a drive north... TNLN TFTC

Finally a cache where there are no muggles about

Nice view. Thank you for this cache.

After the Womad and our stay in New Plymouth, Karapo88 joined us for a week end in the surroundings of the mount taranaki. We explored the East and South entrances. Very nices walks over there. Then, we picked our car in New Plymouth and went to the way to Hamilton. During the way, we decided to stop on this rest area to enjoy the view and find the cache. That was a nice moment. Then, we went until otorohanga, where we splitted.
Thanks for the cache.

Après le Womad et notre séjour à New Plymouth, Karapo88 nous a rejoint pour un week end autour du mont taranaki. Nous avons exploré les entrées Est et Sud. Il y a des balades très sympas là bas. Après cela, nous avons récupéré notre voiture à New Plymouth et sommes allés en direction de Hamilton. Sur le chemin, nous décidons de nous arrêter là pour la cache et pour faire une pause manger. Ce fut un moment sympa. Après cela, nous sommes allés jusqu’à otorohange, où nous nous sommes séparés.
Merci pour la cache.

Lunch break with a nice view by the sea. TFTC.

C'est la fin du weekend, petit picnic avec vue sur a mer.

Stopped off to admire the view and pick up the cache on our way north to the caves. TFTC

#2682.
#134 in NZ.

We were grateful for this pit stop on our way to New Plymouth from Waitomo caves. We stretched our legs and found the cache, while taking in the beautiful view. TFTC!

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A big thank you to all the geocache owners for being our “tour guides” in New Zealand while we are on our short holiday visit to this extraordinarily beautiful country! We traveled the North Island in our little camper van and we came across minimal damaged caches and we only had very few DNF’s.

"Groete" all the way from South Africa!

Dropped off TB. Full log will follow soon.

Sent the geo-hubby out while lunch was prepared by the geo-wife. Beautiful waves, nice spot; SL, TFTC

Nice stop on my way to NP. TFTC

A short break on the way to Hamilton. tftc

Quick find with Passport11 on our days drive from Waitomo to New Plymouth. TFTC!!

A quick find while traveling from Waitomo to New Plymouth.

Day 19 of our NZ-Road Trip brought us up to Taupo.
Along the road and in Taupo itself, we found some beautiful Caches.
Thanks for hiding and showing us some nice spot.

MfG
Coint82
23.02.2014 / 09:00

We had a nice stop here on our way from Palmerston North to Te Kuiti. Weather was perfect: sun was shining and the Tasman Sea was calm. And loved those curious young cows! TFTC & greetings from Finland!

very nice rest place, thank you

Heading north with a slight diversion (Wellington to Hamilton) via New Plymouth looking for caches that are further than two km's from there neighbour, quickly located and off again
Always enjoy the view from here

TFTC

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

Lovely sea views

Tftc. Lovely views. Surf is up!

tftc

nice view, thanks for showing.

103 A find on the way back to Hamilton after tramping round Mt Taranaki

After spending Christmas with family in Wellington, we made our way slowly North again, having explored New Plymouth we were now making the final stretch to Auckland, all the while collecting a few caches along the way. Pulled in to the rest area and made the quick find. TFTC

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

After spending Christmas with family in Wellington, we made our way slowly North again, having explored New Plymouth we were now making the final stretch to Auckland, all the while collecting a few caches along the way. Pulled in to the rest area and made the quick find. TFTC

Nice stop to get a view of the coast. TFTC.

Fast found at one of the last views to the Tasman Sea at this trip. TFTC

Stopped off while it was drizzling. Talked with a motorhome owner as he had parked within 10m of the GZ and didn't look like moving anytime soon.

Out: TB.

Cheers for the cache.

Park & grab, quick find
Tfth sl

On our way south for a few days and a bit of caching. After enjoying some whitebait at Mokau we stopped here for the view and cache. Enjoyed the views....TB in. TFTC

Great spot for a cache. The views were excellent on this perfectly fine. Enjoying a day out caching on our way to New Plymouth. Thanks for setting the cache at such a wonderful site.

I love the drive along this coast. Happy to stop and hear the ocean. TFTC

Found without too many problems. Picked up a trackable. TFTC

Up to date

Can't wait to come back and see this on a clear day. Even good on a cloudy one. Thanks.

Got to this one and found quickly the cows nearby thought I had food so all walked up to me. I thought get out of the way will you I want to see the view TFTC

Found cache on a road trip to Auckland Mega with Rediguana who had previously found cache here. TFTC

A quick stop on the way back to our hotel after a day at Waitomo Caves. We pulled in here for a stretch and a view of the beach. I picked up a nice Kitty brooch - wasn't expecting that! Thanks for the cache - a nice quick stop on the way back

Took me a little bit to find but spotted it in the end TFTC really wild weather today!

Stopped for a coffee on the way home and did this cache at the same time. TFTC.

Just realised that we didn't log this last year when going to Taranaki. Better late than never.

Found on a trip south. TFTC.

NZ no 27 4 me

We slept on this parking during our roadtrip and searched the cache this morning after a windy night.
The view was nice with the sunrise.
In : 1 TB
Out : 1 TB
Thanks for the cache !
Greetings from France !
(S)

I had just said to the navigator "check the GPS, there's a cache around here somewhere" when it beeped and she said "that was it back there." Managed to pull into the exit and back track to the rough area. Signed the log, and dropped off a travel bug.

What a lovely spot, thanks for bringing us here and for the cache.

Got this one yesterday!! Fabulous site! Took a trackable. TFTC

Going to New Plymouth for 3 days, I've been in the car for 3 hours and I need a leg stretch! Perfect, there's a cache in a rest area, I manage to park the car in the line of sight of muggles and retreive the cache. -Gc, -TB, +GC TFTC

No muggles around today so was easy find. SL. Left travel bugs TFTC

1.10pm. Great views with a very rough sea today. An easy find. A favourite point for the views.
Thank you. David and Noeline.

Lovely area, TFTC

Lovely area, TFTC

TFTC. Lovely day and a great view

With both Z-masterNZ and I on leave from work, what better way to spend our time than heading down country and getting a few caches from out of town. The plan was to head for New Plymouth as I have never been there before and wanted to see some of the sights. The plan changed and we ended up in Wanganui, before carrying on to Wellington.
No-one was around when we stopped by to pick this one up. Lovely and quiet and a nice easy find.
#511.
TFTC

Tripping around with Becsicasa, while on annual leave. TFTC

Quick find in busy rest area. TFTC

A quick stop in the way home. TFTC

A nice spot to stop. TFTC

Found today on our way back to Hamilton, Lovely looking sea today. Dropped off TB that we collected at Uriti yesterday and took to Stratford and back to here.

We pulled in here on the 8th to do this one but muggles were having a picnic so called in today on the way home only to find more muggles but the way we angled the van in it hid my activity from others found it after a bit of a search round and round the tree many thanks

Last cache of the day on our drive to New Plymouth from Otorohanga, enjoying the scenery tftc from this Canadian.

Found on the way home, sea was looking good.

A quick stop after lunch. TFTC!!!

Lovely spot. TFTC.

Traveling through New Zealand in February with the Campervan we visited your Cache.
Thanks for showing us this place.

TFTC Mammut75 with LumpiMaus / Austria

Great spot to stop for views of Mt Taranaki in clear weather. No Back to Berne TB present. TFTC!

Great spot, often stop here. left geo coin.

Quick grab on our way north. Thanks.

My sixth cache on my trip to New Plymouth, the wind was really blowing today! A nice easy find. There was a camper van near by but they were no trouble. TFTC

Nice spot for taking my first picture of Mt. Egmont and finding a geocache.
Thanks! smorp7

Thanks for the Cache, Hunt2r

04-01-2013 # 753 @ pm. 5.20

as my written English is very bad, I hope that I can get a good sense rather than using google translated from Danish to English, I expect our online time is short, so hope you even want to do it ... thank you

På vores vej syd over gjorde vi et hurtig stop her, for at se der er sne på toppen :0)

HC & HAT from Denmark

Quick find. Grabbed GC. TFTC

Stunning spot, nice find. TFTC.

Quick find on a quick stop, with Yetiballer. TFTC

Cache 2162
On the way from Hamilton to New Plymouth this was one of the caches we visited. Nice view.
Thanks for hiding it Quiri

A brief and thankful stop. A strange muggle car was parked near GZ but we used the rain as cover for our activities. t4tc

#1073, Quick find, good to stretch the legs. TFTC

It was a nice experience to have found this Cache as part of our New Zealand vacation.
We were able to discover many interesting places and take back home beautiful memories.

TFTC
Spiky (D)

Nice stop to cool down the engine and enjoy the view.

TFTC
Wanderratte

lovely spot

Waited for the bucketing down to stop! Could hardly see the sea with all the mist!
TFTC

Found with Wasptor, fraggle_rock and t-rex05. TFTC!

Found with Wasptor and Fraggle_Rock while out on a caching trip. TFTC!

Another stop in our long drive, but this one came with an amazing view. TFTC!

We made it through the mountains and to the coast!! Told the crew in the car this would be a good place to stop for a stretch... Fraggles knew better, and looked at the GPS to see where the nearest cache was. About 20 metres away... TFTC