Down By The River (Waikato) Te Rapa, North Island, New Zealand
By flyingrat on 09-Jan-10. Waypoint GC22TD1

As this cache has been out of action for too long, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

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Growly Bear
Geocaching.com Volunteer Reviewer.

Cache in obvious disrepair and owner hasn't responded to maintenance requests or even logged into the site since Thursday, 12 January 2012

Very wet inside. Tftc

Easy find. Loved the hint! Collect the marbles

Cache was full of water, everything soaking wet! May need new container that seals better?

had some downtime so Grabbed this. added a page of RITR paper from my notebook. TFTC

This entry was edited by Z-masterNZ on Saturday, 28 June 2014 at 06:07:34 UTC.

Log full & damp

Nice clue TFTC

Easy find TFTC

Log book full
Nice river views

log book totally full.

Beautiful day for a walk

Nice tftc

Nice easy one found by accident

I had a pretty good idea where to look on approach and found the cache in the first place I checked. TFTC, Biggles.

Partner in crime found it very quickly to my surprise.

Just started to look and i already got it TFTC

Good one for kids to find. Cache was wet inside, poor selection of trinkets.

That's one more find for me!, thanks for hiding it! Was poorly put back, very very easy to see

Caught out by a couple going for walk while we were either side of the hint. They thought we might have been assessing things with the GPS's. Told them the truth but they left before we could kill them.
Tempted to enter the river. TFTC

Neither the Drifters nor Bette Midler were there today. Passing muggles thought we were surveying the structural integrity of the hide What a beautiful spot.

Nice litre beach for carter to swim in

Easy

Got it

Done

The river at dusk is so tranquil, serene, and beautiful. TFTC

Great cache, clue was very useful

110 Found while going round the all bridges

A nice easy find, thanks

Lively trail. Tftc.

Popped out this morning to collect our "cache for the day". Very pleasant along this walkway. Thanks for bringing me here.
TFTC

Decided to find a few caches while taking a stroll along the river. TFTC

We were a bit disconcerted by this one being in full view of nearby homes, but it was a quick find and we only hope we weren't spotted. As we returned to our car Mr Whippy turned up- haven't had one of those in years! It was yum.

Nice cache. Good find.

Yay found this one after the last two we looked for we couldn't find. T4TC.

You may have caught me singing on this hunt...like the company of small hands and feet for these caches

Made the most of hamming up my photographer in training skills here which allowed me to find and replace the cache without any hassle. Nice little spot and a cool view of the river too if you walk to the edge. TFTC

Third find of the day with mdo_nz on our river ride

Found with raeofsunshinenz

Found it! Beautiful day for a walk

Found with Geco72 on a Monday evening. A few joggers about but I think the deed was done without bring spotted. Dropped in a TB. TFTC.

Quick find - very open here. A nice after work walk with Davycrockpot to grab a few caches - what a lovely area of Hamilton I haven't visited before - thanks geocaching for bringing me here. TFTC

Nice quick find with the No Boring Bits cycling club...their first Geo Caching outing...maybe a few converts after today

Easy find, don't think I was spotted . TFTC

Tftc luvly day 4 walk

Luckily I chose the right side to lie down and stretch out! In full view too of this houses! Great. TFTC.

We returned to this one as last visit there were lots of muggles about. A quick find by dad in case we got caught!

Tftc

Quick find on a nice walkway. Tftc

The dog decided to take a run to the river at this point. Too bad I was attached to the other end of the lead! Stopped just before I got wet feet. cache was easier than the dog today Tftc

Cache 2149
We did a little walk along Waikato River and passed this cache as well. We enjoyed the view, very nice.
Thanks for the cache Quiri

Nice quick cache on a beautiful walk by the river

Found after attending the numbers event, 8,9,10,11,12 in Hamilton. Great to catch up with so many cachers. Lovely walk. cache was a bit damp but the waterproof log was fine. TFTC

Nice hide. Removed wet paper mush, dried out cache & added a new log. TFTC

FOUND BUT COULDN'T SIGN TOOOOO WET

Log book has been destroyed by water

WET AS

Found with Jnr Kiwiteacher - he checked on side of the 'thing' while I searched the other. He quickly had cache in hand. Log sheet and bag needs replacing - sorry I didn't have spare on me. Signed it as best we could.

WET ASSS COULDN'T SIGN PAPER

Beautiful spot and quick find but log is very very wet - sorry I didnt have any spare logs to replace TFTC

Getting the cache was ok, but boy was returning it tricky while we logged our visit and dropped off a small dinosaur to add the cache indiscreetly from a distance, 3 mini muggles stopped and played, laying their scooter less than a meter from the hiding spot! We waited as long as we could without raising any suspicions and decided to go for a walk and returned 15min later to safely return the cache to its rightful spot. Hope we didn't disappoint any other Geocachers out and about today. The log was pretty wet and hard to write on.

I bit waterloggd so prob needs new notepad. Gd cache though. Stealth

On a weekend caching trip with my best friend SethRaven. No better way to spend a belated significant birthday.

beautiful spot down here, found it with Fencarrows - TFTC

TFTC

Found it
Another one from my easter mission

Log wet and needs replacing

Found with the team on my 2nd time caching highly addictive might I add

Found during a day's caching in the region. TFTC

Lovely spot by the river. TFTC

Another lovely spot by the river. TFTC.

found on a bit of a mission introducing a new cacher

Log book is now completely sodden and unusable. Recommend replacing.

Log book is now completely sodden and unusable. Recommend replacing.

It was the right song

TFTC

log book a little wet but managed to write in it, tftc

A lovely spot to visit, I was was quite suprised at how nice this area is. Logbook getting a tad damp though.

TFTC

Sadly second of the day with wet log needs new ziplock also managed to just prize open and sign tftc

Good hide but requires new plastic bag and log due to water

9.55am. Easy find which was good following the DNF along the path.
Thank you. David.

After finding barking mad we just had to walk done to this one . It always makes us a bit nervous to be looking for a cache right outside someone's house in full view of the neighbours (we reckon it must look really dodgy to muggles), but this one was easy enough - sitting on the boardwalk chatting to the ducks must surely look innocent enough? Had to wait for the foot traffic to subside before grabbing it, but didn't take long. Managed to sign the log although it's rather wet - the paper has pretty much stuck together, so can't unfold it without breaking it... the owner might want to replace it soon (would've done it for you but didn't think of bringing spare paper/logs with us). TFTC!

Paper very wet tried to write on it.

A few muggles out, even on a grotty day. Left a pet rock - an orca. TFTC

Great hiding place, had a talk to the ducks while waiting for muggles to walk past Took pink P, left blue bouncy ball.

This one was just a few steps further on from the Barking Mad cache so I just had to cross it my list.

Cheers for the cache.

An easy find while over in Hamilton for a geocaching event, we had some time to pick up a few local cache's
SL TFTC

Easy find 514

Quite a few people around but had a nice lie down on the grass on a beautiful sunny day. Log book is soaking wet.

Glad it was a rainy day today as our umbrella came in handy for cover so we could grab this one. [8]

Had to be stealth with all the people out and about today.

turned around to check the GPS and there it was, a bit damp

Had to wait a while until a group of muggles passed, but got it in the end!

Found the cache without to much trouble. Muggles kept appearing from nowhere so took much longer to sign the cache and put it back than it did looking for it and retrieving it. TFTC.

It felt bad at night but all the curtains were drawn, I wounder if they know

Great fun, our 2nd one today

A few muggles about even in this awful weather. Managed a quick grab. TFTC

This entry was edited by Me and B2 on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 at 23:24:51 UTC.

TFTC. Lots of prying eyes first time past but got it in the end.

Another one collected by the river today. TFTC.

This was kinda hilarious. Me and my sister were actually singing the hint at ground zero, without reading the hint. Didn't realise until just now what the hint was. Well done