Bypass (Waikato) Te Rapa, North Island, New Zealand
By Ssmudge on 16-Aug-09. Waypoint GC1XAFB

Unsuccessful to find the cache. I think it is no longer there.

Time is up for this cache. Thanks everyone

Out this evening and had a good look here but no luck for us tonight ??

No one out there. It's still very quite on the street. I went out for a bike ride. Found after a short search.

Still in place,

Thanks for hiding Ssmudge.

No luck here today.

it's still there

A Saturday to spare so the call was made to gather those free for a small raid on the Waikato. McJandals and TNXPro were able to join me and meander through the country side collecting this cache on our travels.

I had some doubts about this one after finding some camo tape and a stash note amongst the bark.... But after a slightly more detailed search I found the cache more or less as described. Cheers ssmudge, TFTC

On another roadie with P.P and McJ.
We initially found remnants of a cache sticker and camo tape and after not finding the cache where described, we thought that the cache had been muggled.
P.P did a more thorough sweep and found the cache IN the flax, not behind.
TFTC

On a roadie (from Tauranga) with Philip Perry and TNXPRO. I am logging using the Cachly app template so please excuse generic logging along the way. It’s just my way of keeping track, but I do genuinely thank each and every one of you cache owners for taking the time and energy to place these caches. Many Thanks for bringing me here. Cheers

Nice quick find TFTC

Good find nice and easy
We took a ball and replaced it with something more

Thanks for the pencil sharpener! We left 50c

Upon arriving at GZ, I checked some of the previous found logs to see how much I have to climb or reach for the cache. After seeing that there was no climbing involved, I concentrated on the reaching instead and managed to find it. TFTC.

There's only a certain amount of time I'm prepared to spend on flax hides so luckily this one turned up before my patience ran out. Weirdly enough, the last find was earlier in the day. TFTC.

This took me way to long to find, especially as there are a few hint items around. This was actually a lot closer to the path than what I first thought and wasted a lot of time looking to far up the bank. At least I found it, and last cache for the day as its getting dark now, TFTC

Bit of a hunt but found container, signed and returned thanks for the cache nice camo

Nice find

Awesome hide - really enjoyed this one

Had to figure out which way was west first lol. Clever hide. But the logs don't match the internet logs.

nice wee find thx.

TFTC, never been here before but was a nice spot all the same

TFTC

I have set myself a challenge for this year to have at least the same number of caches on each day of my calender as the number of years I have been caching.

Today the target is only four. The hardest part of locating this cache was crossing Avalon Dr on foot early in the morning.

In: TB.

Cheers for the cache.

I started on Avalon, but didn't find the right entrance. I had to grab a muggle who showed me where the path was that led to GZ. Took: "Sevilla, Colombia" Unite for Diabetes Travel Bug and Prince Fergus the First TBs.

Awesome camouflage! Tftc

I decided to go find a cache on my way to work. Out I popped to a local pack with my trusty bike lamp (its the brightest torch I have), and parked at the end of the walkway and headed down here. Felt strangely safe - maybe it was because noone could see me, but there is lots of traffic? Got the GZ, and found the cache easily enough. Dropped off 2 TB for future visitors. As I was walking back to the car I encounted my first muggle of the morning - a cyclist heading for work

Found it

omggg i was so scared to reach for it once i found it cause of spiders lol but by far the coolest container iv found so far good luck guys !!

Found it

We LOVED this being so close to motorway. Nice little underpass. TFTC!

Tftc

Hid it a bit better was very out in the open

Found it, nice place for the kids

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Nice quick find dring a run home from Hamilton Zoo. All in good order, tftc.

Nice simple find and a lovely clean cache container. Found a much better car park as I was heading towards the cache but as the roads were reasonably quiet this afternoon parking wasn't a big problem.

Great cache, a lot more straight forward than we thought. Tftc.
Mt Jeck

Cache replaced

Cache replaced. Not too many places to hide here.

Will disable until I am able to replace cache

Did a check and theirs been recent cleanup in this area. Looked all through but couldn't find it

Hint very helpful.

Maintenance check and discovered there has been quite a bit of tidying up done here and no cache. Replaced cache as per hint. All good to go now

Dnf. Despite looking for ages

3rd unloved cache today that is now loved, one bad thing about finding unloved caches is the spiders and creepy crawlies that have had time to make them home, got rid of them and signed the log and returned the cache, tftc

Maintenance visit. Cache dried out and log replaced.
Enjoy

Easy tftc full of water & log unusable

U will need eyes to spot this cache

Bit of a night hunt with Gonna Cache Em All.
Not so much behind the bush as jus behind the flax..
Tftc

Night caching mission with All About That Cache. Success! Tftc.

Woohoo cool lil find. Whanau stroll from our house

As beginners this was a great find.

Great place to hide a cache! So hot here today!! TFTC

Took a moment figuring out where the walk way started At GZ it was surprisingly quiet given all the traffic that must have been around us. Tftc

Had more trouble finding the start of the walkway than finding the cache lol.

Never knew this path went under road. Cheers.

Last one for the day while in Kirikiriroa with Waru8. Pretty kooL hide...lucky the rain held off for us. TFTC.

Cool find no bush bashing needed. TFTC love the bright orange pen lol

A pit stop as heading out town after an arvo of caching. Boys loved the camo. Tftc

This entry was edited by Fencarrows on Wednesday, 08 October 2014 at 08:35:23 UTC.

The rain lifted and we decided to get out of the house and go for a ride... Ended up in Hamilton. How convenient...

After countless journeys past ground zone, I finally paid enough attention to work out how to make the best approach. We drove up the access path... it was that quiet. The hardest part was interpreting the hint. There is a lot of flax here. After several minutes, we resorted to reading some logs, and a recent posting was the turning point. Thrilled to take this off the unfound list. TFTC.

My car over heated while driving so I pulled over and while waiting for my car to cool I went for a walk to find this cache. It's almost surreal standing below the roundabout with cars whizzing past above you but you remain hidden, like standing in the centre of a crater. I'm really glad there was a pen in the cache, I pulled mine out to write on the log and it had no tip [8)] and I would definitely say its wheelchair accessible.

TFTC

This entry was edited by Skud_NZ on Friday, 05 September 2014 at 22:06:35 UTC.

Wow thanks! Didnt have any idea this walkway un der the busy roundabout was here.

Doing this one again with bumbascis

nice cache so peaceful in the middle of a busy intersection

Didn't have to climb thankfully

Fun find never new this little tunnel was even here

361 A quick find on the way to see the Warriors play the Bulldogs at the rugby park in Hamilton

TFTC looked at this one a while ago with no success this time got it

New cache in place. Not too many places to hide here but the location is great. Hopefully this one will last a bit better.

Couldn't find it

Will replace as soon as I can.

There is a lot of dead vegetation here and a lot of it has been cleared. Perhaps the cache was removed along with it?

Bypass (Waikato) was transferred from earthie to user ssmudge

I found this geocache using the Geocaching Intro App. TFTC!

Nice long walk today with a friend, found this one easily, tftc

tftf enjoyed figuring out how to get here

Out caching for a couple of hours this morning. Came across this one and wondered how the heck do I get to it. It wasn't particularly pretty but the egress went a lot smoother. A well hidden bypass. Does anybody actually use it I wonder?
TFTC

Found with Z-masterNZ, #577, TFTC

Quick walk and grab for day 10/31. TFTC

This entry was edited by Z-masterNZ on Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 23:32:39 UTC.

Found it A little climbing required.

Interesting place to find a cache ! Not as dangerous as we had imagined !

Area was not as I had imagined. Great place. TFTC.

Easy find

Bit easy dont ya think

nice hint TFTC

A very quiet day today being Easter Friday so a nice quick find. TFTC.

Great first find of the day as there was absolutely no one around. You could get caught easily at busier times. Left a round tuit roundabout here.

Nice easy parking and short walk to cache - good hint and cache in hand - no muggles today TFTC

Finally - this time found it with my new GPS instead of trying to use iphone. Nice to have another yellow smiley face on the map...but I still dislike flax bushes!

Interesting spot, quick and relatively easy find, added a cool marble to the stash.

Found on a late night walk. Thanks for the cache.

out with dad today nice easy find tftc

out with insanekids today nice easy find tftc

We also looked in all the difficult to access bushes too then finally found it

Found by Geco72 whilst I was faffing with my phone. TFTC.

Went searching behind all the difficult to access Flaxes...then when Davycrockpot was Faffing with his phone (as usual) I stumbled across it. TFTC

Quick find. Tftc

Quick find in the rain today, TFTC

Hopefully it was my dislike for searching in Flax that made this a DNF and not because its gone walkies.