Coastline Views (Taranaki) Spotswood, North Island, New Zealand
By Kyzahh on 22-Aug-11. Waypoint GC32TD1

I am archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in a prior reviewer note.

Looks like it may be gone, certainly wasnt the trap. Will leave it disabled till I can investigate.

Think it's the trap:/

Unsure if it was the trap but dont wanna poke around n find out- couldnt find

Looked for some time

Didn't find, still grea views

Searched for a while but did not find

Dnf I've searched a couple of times but still haven't found it

Tftc greetings from Austria

Wouldn't have had it without the comment's, Nice view

Awesome found. Definitely a trap lol took us Sheila but finally got it!

Whoop whoop. We found it!

Found it

It's a trap

Nice one!! Took awhile but we got there eventually

We got there in the end

Good find!

GPS had me going up hill down hill and all around but paitece is a vertue and cache soon in the bag

We returned for a second day to hunt for this with no luck again. Beautiful view though :0)

cool spot, nice view, very fun

Great find

After trying to find the route to GC5CZDH Into the Lion's Den (Taranaki), and not being successful , it was time to find some trads. Used my caching nouse and found this cache. Yippee. Great views.

After driving here, there and everywhere yesterday, today we decided to cache in the city.

Out and about with LNM1961 revisiting Taranaki and collecting caches.

Kia ora rawa atu for the cache Kyzahh.

Redemption for NZ_B who had us on a wild goose hunt this morning. Her eagle eyes spotted after a short hunt.

On a two month trip to Aotearoa New Zealand from Scotland, only took me 3/4 of the trip to look for a cache. Took me far too long to find lol
TFTC, tapadh leibh

Weekend getaway in New Plymouth. Sunday drive checking out the coastline. Some nice surf today and the locals are out making the most of it. Kiwi regretting not tying his board to the top of the car. TFTC

Log to follow

TFTC after a lovely walk up the rock we found this lovely spot

While in the Taranaki area this week, we are trying to find the last few caches we need to qualify for the 174 East challenge. A beautiful day today and fantastic views from here. When Mrs nzk saw the flax she thought oh no!! and it did take some time to locate the cache, so thankfully very few people were on the trail. There is a predator (?) trap and pink ribbon marker nearby. TFTC Kyzahh.

TFTC great sunset

Beautiful spot. Added a couple of items.

Great views from here, we wouldn't have visited except for geocaching.thanks.

First time playing and we did not find. Must have been hidden well!

Having had a bit of a slow start to the holiday period, I finally got on the road and out of town (Wellington) and made it to New Plymouth for a few days. The plan today was to collect a number of specific caches in the area this morning before other plans took me away from geocaching. Another stunning summers day here.

No problems finding this one thanks to the coordinates being spot on. All good here.

Thanks to the CO for placing this geocache and bringing me here.

I enjoy each and every cache I find, and it is only with CO's like this placing them out in the world that this wonderful game continues.

Great view and cache condition too! Smart hint!
I've found this cache during my third day of the Queen memorial weekend in Taranaki.
TFTC

Didn't find
stunning view and cool path walk tho.

Good views alright
Taranaki Hardcore

Mountain and ocean views
Churrrr

#13,058. Parked on Centennial Drive in Spotswood, New Plymouth for a short walk. Great view of Paritutu Rock. GZ was all quiet at the time of our visit. Found after a bit of a search. Well hidden. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. Great to sign the original logbook that dated back to August 2011. Unfortunately, The EarthCache bee was not in the cache. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Thanks for the placement, and for bringing us to this site, and …

.T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e.
.M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.

Didn't find it sadly, enjoyed the hunt though.

Was a good hide, had to look twice tho

Tftc good hide

GPS failed us again but we tracked back and managed to find it

Found

We took too long to find this one. Should have been an easy one! Dropped TB. Thanks for placing the cache

Not too hard due to the great description

It was a fun time

Found it It was the hardest one so far

I think it got pinched

Can't find it

TFTC - treasures incl

Nice walk for the kids

Great walk with awesome views

Kids had a lot of fun thanks for a great walk during covid kids are hooked!!!!

Found read the clue

Spending the weekend in New Plymouth. Lots of caching to be done. Enjoyed a climb up Paritutu rock then came here for a picnic. No problems finding the cache. Log all fine. Thanks for the smiley.

Great view.tftc

Kool veiw

Fount it and amazing views

Tftf traceable dropped

Stellar view! Pretty rad that to see first log entry is from 10 years ago.

Found it

To easy

Found it

Nice thank you!!!

2nd time looking and found it very quickly many thanks

Gave up hard one to find

Found

Found at 6 January 2021 11:46 am.

I'm on a short geocaching roadtrip to Taranaki, logging my finds as I go (where possible). Will expand when I get home. TFTC

Beautiful spot watching the surfers

Beautiful spot to watch some surfers. TFTC

Fun find! Left a lil something

Great fond lots of treasures

Finished work so off for a walk to get some north island caches TFTC

Amazing view and perfect weather today! Tftc

Another kool find, and honestly amazing damn views, plan on coming back here again. TFTC!

Good fine verry easy

A amazing view down the coast. TFTC

sensational!

Didn’t have a pen so I’ll be back tomorrow to write in it

Out for a walk taking the cousins geocaching. Stunning views. Thanks

Cool beach

Got to gz but no luck for me

Despite a lengthy search, we were unable to find this cache today.

Another beautiful location on the cliff top. Easy find and cute trinkets in the container.

Thanks for bringing me here. Great views. Cache nicely positioned and nice size. Tftc

Took me Awhile but found in the end

Found this on our walk to the sand dune, great day for it!

From the rock we wandered over this way to snag and tag this one. Cheers

Day 7 - Friday 20 December. New Plymouth area today.

The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby and I are spending Christmas exploring Taranaki via geocaching. Its been an amazing 3 week adventure. Rattls BBQ was a great event, meeting many other cachers. But also managed to fit in a few more events, especially New Years Day celebrating the start of 2020. Lots of caches - over 500. Lots of cache maintenance. Lots and lots of kilometers. And lots of amazing places visited along our journey. Mt Taranaki remained elusive for much of our travels and the caches on it at the top. Loved Pukekura Park Night Lights Show and the the Wooden Mechanical toy exhibition at NP Info centre.

Nice view of the coast, left a path tag.

Day seven of Taybeedragon's and my big 3 week circumnavicaching trip around Mt Taranaki, starting from Palmerston North. Today is New Plymouth - we got here at long last! Yes, it's been a slow trip!!
Highlights:
* 3 weeks, 536 caches
* Mt Taranaki had been removed for washing, which was a bit of a shame. Even after it had been returned we were only allowed to see it for it was less than half an hour a day.
* High percentage of caches with crappy coordinates
* Amazing Pukekura Park
* AMAZING Pukekura Park light show!
* Pukeiti Gardens
* 3 notebooks full of cache notes for later logging
* Lots of cache maintenance!

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Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:

* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!

Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](https://coord.info/GC87777) - you won't want to miss it!

Nice view! We nearly gave upon this one as coords were a bit off. Try a few steps down the path, turn your eyes away from the view, good luck! Tftc

Forgot to log this a few weeks ago. Amazing view TFTC

Erster Cache in NZ. TFC

Almost gave up on this one after checking some spots without success but with some scratches. In the end it was pretty visible. TFTC!

Not a quick find and got a scratch. Great views. TFTC

TFTC

Navigation wasn’t exact but hints helped heaps. Thanks

Indeed some great views of the sea and islands below

Up here for an awesome weekend jaunt with Karma Reprint, Team Gators and TheWanglers and to do a loop of the mountain in 48 hours grabbing as many caches as we could while having a good laugh. Logs signed as some derivative of (KT)^2

Cheers Kyzahh for the cache

A planned geocaching trip to the USA was shelved (but is all go for this time next year!) so we came up with a weekends Plan B. Taranaki with TheWanglers, KarmaReprint and KiwiMoose - logs signed (TK)^2 or a variation of. A really fun trip with the forecast rain and thunder seemingly always in the distance but never hindering us. A really fun weekend.
Day 2 dawned with a bit of drizzle but that soon cleared (whilst eating breakfast) and we had a lovely trip missing all the bad weather again. Harwea to New Plymouth the long way. Heaps of history; cool scenery and lots of laughs. Cheers all!
Nice views alright. Cheers.

Day two Hawera to New Plymouth via Opunake

Great to be out and about, find quickly made. Cheers

A long weekend cache raid to Taranaki. The weather didn't stop us doing anything, and we had fun times. Logs were signed with a combination of KT and 2 depending one which of did the signing. Thanks Kiwi Moose, Team_Gaters and TheWanglers for a choice time.

Thanks to all CO's for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers

A plan was hatched for a few of us to head to America for a Mad Mission. With life getting a bit crazy a downsized trip was organised as I had sorted childcare for the cachelets. The big America trip is now set for next year. We asked a member of our crew if we could go to Nelson, Dunedin, Auckland, Wellington, Hastings the answer all came back "I don't have many to find there". We left it to that member to suggest an area. He came up with New Plymouth and a loop around the mountain. That's a go from the rest of us. We sorted puzzles, gpxs, motels and a car and hit the ground running. The forecast was doom, gloom, rain, hail and lightning. Oh well, sounds exciting. We had very little of any of the weather that affected our caching and found we had all overpacked (thank God!).
Day 2: Today was a long day in the car 14 hours or so to our home for the night and then an hour or two after dinner before having a beer at the campground. We started in Hawera and went the long way around the coast with many detours. The history was amazing and the the lack of irrigation was very noticable to us Cantabrians. We once again missed the horrible weather!
Quick park n grab.

Thanks for the cache Kyzahh.
#6179
Find 45 of 80 for today.
Find 125 of 224 for the trip.

TFTC! Beautiful spot! I took the TB!