Tate's Treat (Wairarapa) Greytown, North Island, New Zealand
By mumandme on 20-Feb-09. Waypoint GC1MZ2V

This cache has been archived to allow a night cache to be placed in this Reserve.

Quick find while out and about this morning on a small caching raid to the Greytown area. Find no. 22, so far. TFTC

Didn't take long to narrow this one down using the hint. TFTC

nice we walk in the bush
cache fair way into walk

Good quick find PU TB TFTC

This is a nice little secret area. Only came across one set of dog walkers. Picked up the TBs and left one.

What a lovely walk. Yes, we wonder too how many people apart from geocachers know this is here. Shame about the access.
Discovered Bipamac TB and Oddball TB, left them where they were, as we were not sure of our movements today.
Not sure what The Coin Collector looks like, but it appeared there were only two TBs in the cache.

dropped of one tg and picked up 3

awsome find droped stone henge coin off

Bit spooky at night fall. Some friendly cattle kept me company. Left a nice treasure for someone

droped off another couple of TG's

#4357. Very pleasant walk through the reserve; a great spot. Took the Minnie and Wandering Kiwi TBs. TFTC.

A very nice place, but wonder how many visitors (apart from geocachers) that this reserve gets? It seems odd to have a driveway which invites cars down, but with no parking at the end.
We enjoyed our walk and after examining 2 likely hiding spots, found the cache at the third.
This was the last cache of an enjoyable day caching in southern Wairarapa.
Thanks for bringing me here.

dropped of 2 TG's

What a lovely spot, we saw a number of great areas today but this is definitely worth a visit. Tftc

Drop of a TG from Orewa

Found no problems. TFTC.

rotary trapping project under way
wascox

Stopped as a quick treat for the geopup on the way to a friend's wedding reception in Greytown.

A nicely hidden cache in a nice reserve.

I thought it bizarre that 1) there is a lengthy vehicle width path in a place where there is no where to turn around and 2) there are no barriers (or even a sign!) to prevent people from driving down it. It is good that the description warns of this, but who can blame previous searchers from trying to drive closer.

Like others before us we also drove down the accessway only to find there was nowhere to turn at the far end and we had to reverse the camper all the way out. Didn't read the cache page until we arrived. We enjoyed the lovely shady bushwalk to the cache, thanks.

# 4603

Replaced the wet log book today. Thanks for advising it was wet.

Drove down the access road and enjoyed the walk through the lovely bush. Good co-ordinates and a nice hide. Really like these local reserves. Log so wet that signing it will not tear the pages so needs replacing. TFTC

Log soaked, unable to write on any more.

Log book damp but still usuable, nice walk but bring mozzie repellent

We drove down the access road only to find that there was no rom to turn at the other end. Opps, so we had to reverse out.

-TB

Came here on a day's caching expedition in the area. Found cache easily within a couple of minutes. Signed log, TFTC and for showing me this lovely spot.

GPSr was even worse this time so I changed my approach and looked for the first likely spot along the trail. Found very quickly and easily! TFTC

Nice stroll to gz tftc

TFTC nice walk in the trees

Checked on cache today. Still there and in correct place.

GPS was jumping everywhere under the canopy so did not get a firm fix on a location. Looked under several trees to no avail.

cool reserve didn't now this was here. TFTC

Enjoyed the nice little walk around to the cache here. Managed to track the cache down after a short search and picked up the TB as it has been here a few months. TFTC!

- TB

The GPSr had me wondering all over the place until I remembered 'just off the track' which soon had the cache in my hand. TFTC

Early morning find on the way to watching soccer. Quick find. Nice walk and said hello to cows. TFTC

A nice little detour down yet another local road I had never travelled. No-one around today so I biked around the well-maintained circuit. Removed the 'Travelling 2 Cents' geocoin. Thanks MumandYou.

Nice quick drive-in, walk, and find of the cache. Had a fun quick reverse out Cheers Gav [7929]

A great wee bush reserve. TFTC

A nice quiet little spot.

A nice little reserve. Had to navigate around a downed Kowhai tree nearly blocking the entrance. Lost signal under cover, so had to step out of reserve to get it back. Once did went straight to cache. Left the geocoin, took nothing, signed log. TFTC!

Found this cache a little while ago but catching up on missed logs due to holidays. TFTC

Replaced damp log book with a new one - just as well as there was only two pages left in the old one anyway.

Pretty gloomy at 9pm so a good find. Log book is damp.

TNLN, thanks. Botsky and sidekick.

Nice hide, deep native bush cover effecting GPS accuracy, but hint helped. Thanks for bringing me to this thicket of natives in this beautiful region. "Lost My Memory" Travel Bug visited. SL, TFTC.

A nice patch of bush. Enjoyed the walk.
TFTC.

Found during the great Wairarapa weekend cacheathon. Enjoying the wonderful Wairarapa again, a fantastic time, so thanks for bringing us here.

Cache find was straight forward, and cache all in order; rehidden safely as found after signing the log.
TNLN
TFTC - found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

#145 - A quick find and zeroed in on the cache pretty quickly. Cache was mostly out in the open, and was being used by a spider for a web... SL TFTC!

Really deserve this tick today as I had a nasty fall near the cache ,TFTC

Gps was a bit variable with tree cover, but found eventually

Found in the dark, number 41 to end a great days caching. TFTC

Great little walking track. Very peaceful. TFTC

Lovely patch of bush, appreciated the excuse for a short, peaceful walk.

[292] Nice wee spot that we would never had visited were it not for Geocaching - Didn't read the description closely so had some reversing practise when leaving the site T4TC!

Mrs Sobad and her sister spent a lovely Saturday in the area. Had a nice lunch at Greytown and walked part of it off here. Met a fellow cacher leaving the area - the printouts in the car were the giveaway. Took TB yet to be dropped in. Left nothing. TFTC

Nice little walk in Bush Met up with S Is. geocacher Sobad.

Nice, there are just so many little places along the road that you wouldn't know they're there, TFTC

Sonikdevil didn't mention parking on the side of the road, so had a lot of reversing to do after this cache. Nice area though. TFTC

TFTC. 1 of 31 found on geo road trip , Thanks

#1199. Nice walk. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Tftc

Nice easy find with the PBH team. TFTC.

quick find with the Ebognz team. - TB + tamagotchie. SL TFTC

Nice little evening wander until the mossie bites kick in. Very nice walk. TFTC #1192

Found using the geocaching app on my iPhone. Bit of a hit and miss affair the iPhone claiming to be 64 feet away as I stood cache in hand. Not really tempted to trade in the garmin just yet! Nice patch of bush although I suspect some possum trapping wouldn't go amis, almost no undergrowth left! Tnln.

A real treat indeed! Lovely bush area left to naturalise. Left TB Jeep Alhrick

Quick little loop although the coords threw us off a bit at the final. TFTC.

On our way. Quickly jogged in and out. TFTC GPS worked well in bush.

Found while on a raid down in Wellington from my hometown of Auckland over the xmas break.

TFTC

nice walk

A nice area of bush and good to see their is access.

Found as part of my three week caching trip from Wellington to Auckland - # 218. Nice little walk, Thanks.

Co-ordinates were spot on. Quick and easy find. TNLNSL TFTC

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

2rd for the day thanks for the walk #360

#3243
What a treat, great piece of native bush… thanks to Mr Tate’s foresight.
TNLNSL, TFTC

A nice little walk to pick this one up.
- picked up Wild Blue Yonder TB
TFTC

Great spot - Looked for about 10 minutes then gave up, only to find it on the way out. TNLN TFTC

Last of the day, did 17 today. #651

Forgot to log that i dropped of the Wild Blue Younder TB into this cache

Would have not know about this reserve if it was not for Geocaching, what an interesting little hidden spot, cool, thanks for bring me here, found cache easily, TFTC TNLNSL (982)

Nice little park dropped some TBs for Ks
TFTC.

Quick walk to cache - had some time so walked the rest of the track. Nice compact reserve. SL TNLN TFTC

Found at 1544. Lost this one under the trees I thought, but zeroing in for a relatively easy, clever hide. Great little reserve.

nice easy find, lots of new regrowth. Nice and safe and you do not have to trample off the path...

An all too rare out geocaching expedition in south Wairarapa, but all too enjoyable as usual. TFTC

Great location.
Dropped off a herd of elephants that likes bush
TFTC

tftc - my favorite for the day. loved the bush. it was a "treat"

Quick and cheerful. Nice to see that these hidden spots still exist. TFTC

Nice walk in pleasant surroundings TFTC!!!!

A nice pleasant easy walk, found the cache after looking in a couple of likely places. TFTC, took the "Duck" travel bug, and left a 'winners medal'.

found it. Nice little walk

Nice little reserve and pleased to find such a well drained and formed track, not muddy at all. Always enjoy a visit to these hidden away little pockets of original bush.
TFTC

Nice spot, but getting dark in here even at 4.30pm. NINO, TFTC

Neat spot. Took me quite a while to find my way to the entrance. Cheers.

Pleasant walk after a hard day's exercise TFTC

A great spot that we did not know existed. Some nice work going on in here to. TFTC