Uncle's -- Billy goat Gruff -- (Wairarapa) Eketahuna, North Island, New Zealand
By jr taybee & uncle of jr taybee on 21-Apr-12. Waypoint GC1T191

No luck
Lots of tagging in the greasy under bridge

Spent many summer days here as a teenager. And see others still hang out here. Sadly no cache found but we did find an empty screw container without a lid or contents that may have once been a cache.

Worked in Masterton for the weekend and now slowly wandering home with some detours. Today was a tramp to the Herepei Hut and collecting some caches on the way. This looks like a great place for a swim. Too cold today but would love to come back in the summer. Thanks.

Thanks taybee nz, uncle and Junior for placing this cache

Finders should BEWARE that there is a coating of orange coloured grease all over the underside around here... so be careful what you touch or brush-up-against

Found in the obvious place on a sunny day after a great walk in the hills.
Logbook lovely and dry
TFTC

These little billy goats found the treasure of the bridge!

I didn't manage to find this cache when I called five years ago. Today, I discovered it immediately in a place I would have surely checked last time. Hmmmm! The cache seems to be a bit stuck in place so I just unscrewed the lid to access its contents.

Had a look around but not found today

**taybee** is caching again and taking the old man long for the ride
and doing a maintenance on uncles - billy goat gruff (GC1t191)
Stats for the day was 21 finds 2 DNF's 4 over shoots 9 hours on the road
1 and all had a great day out the police was out in force today saw 12 cops cars on the road
Quick find here to day as the billy goat gruff was home today and we have your lunch in the car
All in good order, sign log book as **taybee** or **tb** TFTC Log by Gsak
Cache was find at **2018-07-17 19:00:00**

#4938. I have had a full on week at work - full of meetings and briefings, reviewing documents as well as chairing another meeting all day Saturday. Of course Wellington was having its hottest and driest spell of weather on record while I was deskbound. So was hanging out for a geocaching expedition today. I love caching in the Wairarapa so decided it was time for another full day visit. It was cloudy and warm over here and mostly dry all day. Managed to get 53 caches found on my ambitious list of 80 with just 4 DNF's. Pulled up and checked a few obvious places by the road but no cache. Read some logs and realised I would have to venture further afield. Soon spied the cache in its lower lair. Signed the logsheet and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache taybee nz.

Two traditionals down here so why not? We soon found the location but took a while to realise where we had to go to actually find the hide. What a beautiful location. Not sure we were supposed to go there ... private property? However, we soon found the cache, signed it and replace where found. TFTC and bringing us to this beautiful spot. (Could be a good place for a picnic if you are around here at lunchtime. )

dnf this time

Nice quick sticky find tftc

Enjoying the countryside collected caches along the way.

Soon had this one found. Sure is a short street.

TFTC

Enjoying a great days caching in around Eketahuna. No problem finding the cache. TFTC

Found it this time. A previous DNF, a year ago, almost to the day.
Got gruff and ready this time and managed to do what we hadn't previously. Carefully red the edvern log and got the wipes at the ready. We didn't really need to go to that extent.
Once at GZ, straightforward find.
Cache in order; log signed, safely re-hidden, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

out and about on a bit of a windy day, all good at GZ, TFTC

This one had us puzzled for quite a while, but in the end the title and the previous log helped. Hand wipes were needed to clean up after dealing with this one, but the contents are fine. Thanks for the challenge taybee nz.

An enjoyable day in the North Western Wairarapa with Waiiti20 and drawp. A generic log due to the many finds, but our thanks to those who have placed caches in this scenic area - both roadside and in the Tararua Forest Park. We enjoyed some fun finds and a few lonely caches but most of all an excuse to drive (on almost every road thanks skindo) through this part of the country. TFTC

One of many great caches found with Envy-Us and Waiiti20 on a 100 plus find caching day in the Wairarapa. Many thanks to the CO's for the cache placements, the many puzzle caches we found, the great journey we had around the many back country roads, and the many interesting places we visited. Sorry for the generic type log. TFTC.

Found on a road trip with Emvy_us and Drawp while exploring some scenic back-roads and lovely scenery which geocaching gets one to. TFTC, #7142

I'm humbled by the fact that huhugrub came in a day ahead of us and made the find. Not sure where we went wrong. Guess we'll need to come back some time.
Congrats to huhugrub for breaking the jinx.
DNF

#5952. Didn't see Billy goat Gruff, but did manage to find the cache. Wow ... 479 days since the last find. Managed to retrieve and replace carefully to avoid the grease, although seeing plenty of evidence where it had stuck to others. TNLNSL. TFTC.

hope check it next time over the hill .

No joy for me either .

Searched and searched but no luck. Off to find some more.

Could find this one.

DNF---had a quick look and then decided to get back onto the main road.

Quick find, on another big day in Wairarapa. Didn't see Billy today!! Thanks for the cache.

#5599. No sign of BGG today. Having read about the grease, I was careful retrieving the cache and managed to avoid getting it on me or my clothes. TFTC.

This entry was edited by StreetWalkerNZ on Wednesday, 05 June 2013 at 06:23:06 UTC.

We wanted to find the cache quickly as it was raining, so after a quick look, then a perusal of the terrain rating, we knew we'd have to look elsewhere. StreetWalker volunteered to retrieve while I stayed dry in the car .
TFTC.

It didn’t take too long to locate this cache, but not before we encountered the dreaded grease. TFTC

Red grease still thick and sticky. tftc

Yuck. That red grease is everywhere. And it's thick and sticky.

Decided to go to the Wairarapa to go and pick up a few caches that were north of Eketahuna, actually west, but who's noting the differences .

Left Wellington early in the morning so that I wasnt going to have to worry about the traffic over the Rimutakas, having travelled along this road a few times now and it didnt take too long for me to make my way to GZ.

Arriving at GZ, I soon noted where this could be and after reading the cache page I soon realised where this cache was going to be. Finally working out where the cache was going to be it didnt take too long to track down the cache in the first spot that I looked. Managed to recover the cache without getting myself covered in the yaky stuff.

Signed and replaced the cache as found, very interesting spot to hide a cache, thanks for placing it here and for bringing me to this spot, TFTC TNLNSL (4834)

Was wary of previous comments, so avoided any messy situation.
A lovely peaceful river area.
Left a pet rock - a big fish. TFTC

Came here this evening towards the end of a day's caching in the Wairarapa to clean up some of the caches that have been beckoning to me for a while. Found by torchlight, it was getting pretty dark by now. Could have ended up in a very sticky situation here, lots of care needed retrieving the cache! Signed log, TFTC!

Sticky indeed! Nice hide. TFTC

Ugh! Anti rust grease. Neat colour, though. Found with Etherlord and Toad.

found with The Seagnoid and Toad during a 60+ cache weekend.
nice play on the 'hint'.
that anti-rust grease is nasty! reminds me of red meconium [xx(]
T4TC

Felt like we were on private property hunting for this one - found after reading previous logs. TFTC

Sticky indeed! Fairly quick find. Nice spot but didn't like having to climb over someone's fence to get to it. TFTC

Rather pleased I picked that the bridge is coated in grease, it's not uncommon, so took appropriate care in looking for the cache.

TFTC

On a night mission with TuisReturn. Thought we might as well get this cache while in the area. Soon had it found in a sticky location. SL TFTC

I got to enjoy the view from the top of the bridge having thought that billy goats walked the top way (thats my story anyway)....tmann421 got it right & soon had the cache in hand tftc

nice easy find but bridge covered in sticky paint watch the clothing TFTC

Uncle's -- Billy goat Gruff -- (Wairarapa) was transferred from taybee to user jr taybee

***FTF*** #106

As soon as I saw this one published I was out the door and up the road to find the cache. A quick find in a great spot thanks for bringing me here Junior taybee

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