The Climbing Tree (Kapiti) Paraparaumu, North Island, New Zealand
By Joandra on 26-Sep-09. Waypoint GC1Z4G2

Found it. Thanks

Needed the hint but found it. Thanks

I almost gave up given how jumpy my GPS was being in this area, but given how recently it had been found I persisted and was triumphant! It wasn't where I expected it to be, so it took me quite a while.

Found whilst out for a walk. Interesting park!

Brief trip to Paekak, so brought Aurora11511 to this cache in case her monkey abilities were required. Very impressed with the size of this tree and can see why the kids love it. Aurora11511 shot straight up it, and up, and up, until I squeaked at her to come back down.While I spent ages in the place I thought the hide might be, the geotween backtracked to the grass, followed the instructions and then had the cache in her hands in a few seconds (grrr!).As I spend more time in this park, the geocaches keep taking me to more and more interesting places that I would otherwise be missing.TFTC joandra

Got it! Thank you. Was fun to look for it. It was well camouflaged:)

Didn't find it

Thanks from jaka and finn

Thank you! Our first one ! It was super fun, we want to do another one

Second visit to this site - first attempt thwarted by many muggles. GPS took a while to settle under the trees, but hint did make sense. All safe and dry. Thanks for the placement.

Lovely little area, tftc which brought me here

A bit of struggle, but finally find it!

Been here a few years ago with no find. Today gps took me to the same tree. After picking up after the dog my phones gps really settled and then took me to the right spot Thanks

Couldnt find

No luck here although all 4 of us kept looking. Good location but of course muggle prone

Zilch, nowt, nada.

Cool hiding place here, but no cache

Thanks. It was a good little walk on a drizzly day.

Thank you

One of the last caches I found while wandering the area.

A muggle family were nearby getting set-up for a bike ride, so sat on the nearby table and outwaited them.

Then ducked up the short slope when the coast was clear not long later.

Didn't take too long to spot the cache.
Took the trackable along with me for my trip to Australia tomorrow.

Thanks joandra for hiding and maintaining a cache at this random tree.

Personally I prefer trees I can really get into and climb around on, this gums way too smooth and awkward for anything more than a short climb sadly, or I probably would have gotten my monkey on.

Cheers!

Cache number 4154

Almost gave up, finally found it after looking at photos. The tree it is under has died so area may look a bit different. Any paint that was on container has now worn off.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Camping next door so we thought that we'd check the cache we found last year, but couldn't find it this time around. The sewerage dumped further up the hill is pretty gross too. Yuck.

Cache was in the open, hard to see amongst fallen leaves, we presume it Had been dislodged and rolled down hill a bit. We Put it back in a location a few meters up hill from where it lay, in a location that matched the description, clue and GPS as close best we could. May not necessarily be in the exact location it was originally hidden in.

No luck today.

Hmm signs indcating the area is out of bounds and used for sewage dumpimg were not a good start. And then the cache couldn't be seen either.

Next time.......

Went out for some space after the 6.3 quake which was a good roller. Sounded easy but will have to return. Thanks joandra

No luck here for us today.

Yay! Found it - thanks to Danosaur37's log. Dropped off a trackable here. What a fabulous tree in a fantastic park. TFTC

It wasn't there

Can really only see it from a certain direction but a relatively easy find. Tftc!

Cache checked and it's still there! Follow the clues and you'll find it

Lovely spot, but nothing here?

Thank you for the hint! First were looking at the wrong place!

Nice

great place

Awesome

Found after a bit of a search. Thanks.

Beautiful spot. A good one to challenge the kids!

This was our first experience geocaching. We were about to give up but had one last attempt at following the clues and found it. Signed the logbook and replaced where we found. The adventure begins!

Was looking in the wrong place found it by chance. Cool little cache gems

SaveMyanmar travel bug has been set free on it's journey!

OMG third time lucky! Had to check out the trees as per previously posted photos!

A nice little walk with the fur monsters this morning, a lot of fun was had by all on the climbing tree. Picked up TB and will help it on its adventures. Thanks for the cache

Set Kia Atawhai travel bug free today!

Nice quick find after reading previous log and not relying on GPS. TFTC

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I just remembered to add this photo of enjoying some of the treasures we found in the cache

Awesome hide. Found it with the phenomenal KTG. The GPS seemed to be off a little bit. But we put it down to being under the tree tops. Really awesome treasures for the kiddies to find also. Have left yhem all as they were after giving them them bit of a play with myself. Lol. TFTC

Found with after a bit of searching, after initially placing too much trust in my phone’s GPS. Hint was helpful to eventually get us to the right place.

Checked again yesterday and it’s still there for the finding.

Find a likely looking spot but like the last two visitors no luck on the cache

Container and log book replaced. All good to go again!

Unfortunately this time it has been snaffled by pesky muggles. I'm replacing this afternoon, so should be all good to go again. Happy geocaching!

Had a little look but little 14month didn't want to wait round. He enjoyed sitting in the tree though!

No luck unfortunately

Out with Geeves90 (who has already found the cache) and Kowhai Guides doing a weekend camp.

Treeific!

I have found before but with other cachers today could not find

Cool tree! Thanks!

Well my GPS has sent me in the wrong direction the last times we've looked but got it today! Very cool! TFTC

Nice quick and easy find. Instructions were nice and clear. Tftc

Great little hidey hole!

What a cool tree! Thanks heaps. Thrilled to find this -especially after last 3 were dnfs. That’s 17/20 today
Out of water and out of puff=heading home!

Early morning find, lovely

Helped diannewhight and geeves90 find this one this morning

Success with Kimmy+co and Dianne at the start of our day biking the QE park

Thought we'd try this one again since it'd been found recently but still no luck. We were definitely hunting in the wrong spot last time but still nothing. Found a pencil on the ground so wonder if it may have been muggled ?

Was expecting a bit of a longer hunt, but no. Second place I looked. All good, tftc!

Found again

Found it so much fun. lots of muggles tho tyftc

Nice hiding spot. It was good that there was a pencil there.

The cache is still there! In fact, when I went to check on it, it was lying out in the open. Safely popped back in it's hidey hole. Read the clues carefully so you don't fall down a rabbit hole.

Hi joandra

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. 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

Had a look but no luck today.

Checked everywhere but no cache

Such an amazing tree that the geokids loved but no luck with finding the cache

Great tree, but couldn’t find the cache

Found a burrow but no cache.

Thanks Joandra for placing this cool cache and bringing us here What a beautiful gum tree!!

I waited for a muggle to walk past with his dogs before approaching GZ for a quick find.

Cache was in great condition. TNLNSL TFTC

Awesome tree! Thanks for hiding one here!

I had visions of having to do the climbing Hmm! But no just mini walk up behind and there it was!
We decided to come for a mini holiday and at the same time help out NZ tourist industry so we came down to Paekakariki for a few days staying at the local motel which is very pleasant and run by friendly and helpful hosts. so we drove around the Q E park before we could check in and discovered we were actually passing a couple of caches .
All is well here with this cache Thank you for this cache. and i took photos of the lovely gum tree which i will post later .

Just look everywhere but I don’t find it

I think the cache is gone

Nice wee hiding spot, tftc

Located this one during a cache raid of Wellington chasing TMTG caches. No problem with the find once we located the right tree. TFTC.

Great find! The climbing tree was a sight to see Thank you!

9 February 2020

Found

Toller Baum. 63 hatte sofort eine Idee und dort war er dann. Dfdc

Out for a walk with a bunch of ten kids. Took quite a lot of searching and snooping around trees. Yep it’s all about finding the right tree! Beautiful spot. TFTC.

Not a very helpful hint but had fun trying to find it

Looking back at our previous searches we don't know how we missed it! So much SWAG! TFTC

Waited for 10mins for muggles to move on gave up and when to search for some others. Came back and cache in hand after some tree climbing. Tftc took sticker and left some beads.

Awesome find with Saana and Maia. Thanks!

DNF we have tried looking for this one before. Hoping for a find this time but still a DNF. Oh well. Might come back later.

Could not find, even with a helpful muggle aiding us.

Nice easy find lovely tree and nice time with whanau out at queen elizabeth park tftf