Otautu 3 (Bay of Plenty) Lake Rotoma, North Island, New Zealand
By Peter Bowler on 03-Oct-09. Waypoint GC1ZD1Q

Will be corrected by 9th. Sep.

Keeps getting damaged

Maintenance will completed by the 9th. of Sep.

Another cache in our travels today. Most enjoyable drive with Tufty on roads I've never been on before.beautiful scenery and some lovely lakes views in places.

Butchie Bum and found this cache lying on its side with the top off but the log book still there.

Will need a bit of maintenance.

Cheers for the cache.

2870 In Rotorua to find 12 caches to meet requirements for cache GC42CNY 12-12-12: A Challenge? (Rotorua). This was number 4. Parked and walked back. GPS had me going around in circles before I spotted the cache. All good. Thanks

Cool walk...tftc

I was a little worried about this one as it appeared to be a little further into the bush then usual. My phone isn't great at the best of times but after entering and having a look around I soon had the cache sorted. Coords look good cheers Peter.

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Consecutive day find #37. Getting ever slow close to 50. Nice bush here, birds chorus loud. Looks like wallabies live here though as no undergrowth. Got angle wrong first time and found a road sign, but with eyes open the cache became apparent quickly. Tftc. No doubt will get more in series over coming weeks as I inch closer to 50.

Wow this one wasn't a boar!!! Bit of a walk in but awesome find!!

I got to the intersection of Hamilton Rd and there was a Hepburn electrical van parked up couldn't see if anyone was in it so decided to park a little further down the road and walked back so I wouldn't get muggled by them. Found the cache nice and easy to find these are well placed caches I do appreciate the effort you have put into these.
Tftc

Down this way for the "Tough guy and gal challenge" so had the afternoon free to go find some caches in the area, so decided to head of around the lakes and grab a few on a road less travelled.

Trusted the GPS on this one for a change and it lead me right to the cache. Though it did help that I was able to spot it from a few metres away. Thanks for another great placement.

Nice easy one . Thanks

Nice little walk in the bush, thank you.

Cods okay but gps bouncing around a bit
Tflc

This one took longer than it should have as GPS took awhile to settle. I walked past a couple of times - but as soon as I was on the right angle spotted it straight away. Tftc

Went bush a little but easy find. We are the first time to find this since March. Thanks Otautu.

Nice wee hide. Thanks.

All Otautu caches have well placed,TFTC

Quick find. Nice drive around lakes. Thanks.

Found after a bit of hunting around various trees. Mr S spotted it. Hidden in the open. Very good. TFTC.

I have logged this cache as part of 12-12-12: A Challenge? http://coord.info/GC42CNY

This entry was edited by spiderhouse on Monday, 17 December 2012 at 05:05:50 UTC.

17.55: On the way from Lake Tarawera back to Paengaroa. Taking Manwahe Rd and Hamilton Rd gave us the chance to find the remaining "Otautu"-caches. At first we were unsure where and how to start our search. The old switchbox right beside the road attracted our attention but still 40m or so to go. Very nice place in the bushes and well camouflaged. We decided to continue via Hamilton Road which added a wonderful 4WD-experience in our trusty Landcruiser to our day full of caches.

Weather: clouds, 16°C;
Wheelchair: no, pathless and overgrown bush;
State: all good.

IN & OUT: nothing.

Thank you!

Oliver+Gabi

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

Came down from Auckland and spent a nice weekend caching in Rotorua. Drove around picking up the Otautu 1-4 caches this afternoon. GPS had us circling around a wee bit, but we soon found the cache. TFTC!

Came down from Auckland and spent a nice weekend caching in Rotorua. Drove around picking up the Otautu 1-4 caches this afternoon. GPS had us circling around a wee bit, but we soon found the cache. TFTC!

Had great fun with this series but as is usual for us we did this in reverse, that meant the caches were in the majority on the other side of the road, but it was great driving practise for the 16 year old learner license holder of the team. Interesting place to come and one we would never have visited without these caches. Thanks

Quick easy find in a very nice bit of bush. Thanks!

Watched with interest and excitement as the the Otautu caches went from archived, to disabled, to enabled. Thought it wise to visit while they are activated.

The iPhone brought me to ground zone, but played up under the trees. Decided to put it away and let my cache hunting instinct kick in. Found the cache with ease. TFTC. Very happy to have completed the Otautu series.

Reopened. Hamilton road is still rutted. Take care. If unsure us Manawahe road.

Open again

Gonna reopen. Most have got this one before

Checking

Enable listing

open now. Go find it. Easy find.

closed due to fire season

Between the tree cover and the overcast sky I thought the GPS was sending me in the wrong direction. Still I decided to trust it, and it was an easy find. Nice cache. Took spider left rhino and soldier. TFTC

A very cheering 'easy to find' as we DNF =THREE= other caches we have looked for today! Cache in good condition. TFTC

Great to have a successful return visit --- thank you!!

Coordinates changed from:
S 38° 01.183 E 176° 34.696

Coordinates changed to:
S 38° 01.194 E 176° 34.693

Distance from original: 68.3 feet or 20.8 meters.

Original caches has gone missing so have moved new one further away from the road into the bush. Painted green container easy to find.

Couldn't spot it at all!!

2nd of 4 of my finds around this loop. another straight forward find. Thanks

Log book very wet.

Found on a quick drive around the back roads.

Love the country roads.TFTC

A nice simple cache by the lake. Cheers

Easy find couldn't sign log as it was wet and I didn't have a spare

Very damp cache and logbook falling apart. A nice spot though. Cheers

9.50am - Well we got all 4, had to back track to get this one, realised that we could have done the 4 more easier.Did it 4,1,2,3 should have done it 1,2,3,4

A nice quick find, right where I picked it would be.
TFTC

Second find in the series. Easy find T4TC.

Quickly located the cache - nice drive. SL TFTC

Almost got them all

Very quick find. Decided to pick up all 4 in the series. TFTC and the scenic drive with the family.

Found this one on my trip through the north island. Visited some great places and saw heaps of cool stuff. Thanks for showing me around and thanks for the cache.

Nirusu.

quick driveby find after Otautu 4 TFTC

Another one bites the dust

TFTC

Found this one out in the open, so placed it where we thought it should be. Quick and easy find because of that, NINO TFTC

Found no problem

Nice little adventure for a new geo cacher on her Mt bike doing Manawahae, Hamilton and Pongakawa Rds as loop ride.
Thanx for easy finds

The roll continues ..... 3 from 4, time to pop down to the lake for lunch ...... thanks

Came up the back way from Pukehina to Lake Rotoiti so did these in a different order - and without any printouts or cellphone coverage, we put items in the first cache, then later discovered the "Leave No Goodies" in the description and then had to return back and retrieve the goodies we left.

So we did these four caches in this order; 2, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1????
TFTC

found by cpt easy find could see it from the road

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Quick find... the nearby road sign had that peppered look to it.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Nice circuit off the beaten track. Thanks

Found as part of my three week caching trip from Wellington to Auckland - # 562. Thanks.

Did all four caches. Nice to be able to drive in this part of the country. Loved the places.
Had more luck than previous visitor. Cache ok and dry. Big container and plenty of room. TNLN SL
Easy find
TFTC
Cheers
nzkeko

Had a look today, but was unable to find. On our way back from Rotoma Motor Camp, will try again during the Christmas break

Quickly found it. TFTC MacBanger

18:20 Found: Native bush, bird song, peeks of a calm lake, dusty roads... This was NZ several decades ago...

Cheers, GC.

We decided to tackle this series today. It was a beautiful sunny day to be out and about.

We started off looking on the wrong side of the road, but once we realised the error of our ways it didn't take us very long at all to locate the cache.

We got a few strange looks from muggles in a couple of passing vehicles, but we are used to that by now .

Thanks for the hide.

Easy find.

2TF, and the second Otautu cache for us. Much easier this time, and on discovering that tjr-nz had signed the back page, we labelled the front and back pages and signed at the front of the logbook, before retracing our steps to Otautu 4 to check he hadn't done the same there. TFTC

Nice drive out this way just be careful of on coming traffic, good swimming spot this side of the lake too. No boys with me today so FTF by myself. Thanks

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