Pratt's Sap # 2 (Taranaki) Huirangi, North Island, New Zealand
By G-2 & Gunsmoke on 14-Oct-11. Waypoint GC35ZEA

Did quick maintenance can be gotten from road side new hint 'sign'

Cache was pretty wet, Thanks for the cache.

Thanks for the find, needs new log and bag, it's very wet

Thanks for find. Log, plastic bag and container soaking wet, replaced with piece of paper

Interesting find

Found after navigating long grass

Found it deep in the grass. Nice clue in the write-up TFTC

Not sure where it is grass is very very long

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. We were pleased to get this one after failing to find the other one nearby. It took a few mins to find as its well hidden behind long grass. TFTC G-2 & Gunsmoke and Nicholas Edmunds.

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)…

Auckland Anniversary: We’ve escaped the atrocious weather that has smashed the top of the North Island. Hopefully things won’t be as rough down the country. We’re hoping Taranaki will have enough sunshine and blue skies for our visit…

We avoided entering this historic site, but read the description notes carefully… This cache was a straight forward find though its extraction was tricky. We were surprised to find a G-2 cache this far south! Thanks G-2, Gunsmoke, and Nicholas Edmunds. TFTC.

found after a good look.
TFTC

Pratt's Sap # 2 (Taranaki) was transferred from G_2 to user Nicholasedmunds

Found it great hiding spot and I like the area you chose to hide it

Didn't find today. A bit overgrown and the 5year old gave up. We'll be back.

Found exactly where it says. Behind the sign. The sty is a bit overgrown so takes a bit of clearing. But its still there. Didnt have a pen to sign it.

Found and logged. Beautiful sunny day.

Found it great spot! Some of us went past the fence then I told them I got it!

Found on 3 Oct 2021

Yes it is still there, but the weeds can cover it. Cheers

Grass all fresh cut no sty nothing by sign ? Still activity or moved

AAS

AAS FOUND FIRST

We are up in New Plymouth for a surprise 80 th birthday so today we went up to and around this area to locate a few caches here and have lunch at Tawa Glen _ quite a fav Cafe for us. We visited the two pa sites and a suspension bridge while in the area . I enjoyed the history of these pa sites and the amazing history and unique construction of the suspension bridge where we had our picnic morning tea before exploring further afield.. there was an amazing number of vehicles crossing the bridge which surprised us.
I took photos of the zig zag trenches which i will post.
Thank you for this cache .

this cache had me looking real hard for a while thought i was going to have to leave it for another day ,i was looking at the sign then i reread the hint and soon had the cache in the bag,signed the log then rehid it as found.this cache deserves an fp from me

another hot day and a good find for today.

Checked the cache it was there but very deep in the grass under the stay and wet. So we replaced the log book. So note cache is by biggest post. Cheers

New log, thanks!

Couldn't find anything around the base

Found it. Yay. Thanks for the cache! The cache is not in good condition with no logbook. Second find today. #173. TFTC.

WE parked here and went over the stile. Check the info boards and snagged the cache. Cheers. Then walked up to the Pa. Thanks for the info on the cache page explaining it all.

Day 11- Monday 23 December. Around New Plymouth today with an event at Pukekura Park to top the day off.

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.

There are battens laid out for a new fence here, so it might be a good idea for the CO to check on this say once a month for the next couple of months, just in case the cache gets destroyed in the process. Of course, the battens may be for a fence somewhere else. Someone is looking after the sap - it has been nicely mowed. I would never have guessed what that structure was, so thanks for bringing us here and telling us about it.

ay eleven of Taybeedragon's and my big 3 week circumnavicaching trip around Mt Taranaki, starting from Palmerston North. Today is wandering about New Plymouth

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
* Lots of cache maintenance!

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Ah....took a few minutes for the hint to sink in! Thanks for bringing me to such a beautiful area. Such cool History here!

Easy find

Loved the cache, interesting place and history.

#1005. Day 4 of our Taranaki caching long weekend. Nice easy park and grab en route to Inglewood to visit a cousin. Another cache commemorating the tragic Land Wars of the 1860’s.

Easy find. Slaters filled the cache, and the log is a bit damp. But able to sign ok.

Tftc G-2 and Gunsmoke.

18/08/19 16:15 I like caches like this. Actually shows you something interesting and worth the drive. Down in the ‘Naki visiting family. Taking advantage of a fine day... I can see the hand of the original cache maker here... it needs something I don’t have on me to repair it, so will send photo. Thanks for this, another historic site that just sits there... Cheers, GC.

A nice and quick find.

Was not where the coordinates took me and I looked around the area for ages and couldn’t find

Another nice piece of history

Grandparents with Asha11, Sophie 8, Cooper 6. Our first day caching. Thank you for your effort.

Found

Found

Found

Had planned to grab 5 geocaches in New Plymouth today to bring my March total upto 100 for one of the Wiarapa challenges but since work finished up early and there was plenty of time for the journey home I looked for a route that took me passed a few rural caches off the main highway circuit.

First stop along this road and we were rewarded with a quick find and by walking just a little further for information for an element of a multi.

Quite a few flies around today but otherwise a good spot to visit.

Thanks.

Wow, this sap is impressive. We looked at the signs on the road in showing where the earlier redoubts were built - couldn't believe how far the sap went. There is a mowed path down from the pa to the sap, so you can park at the carpark and walk down that way without difficulty.
Box is very nice, but was inside plastic bag, had mould growing over it and log wet. Couldn't sign it. Photo attached.

TFTC.
Cache log is unusable, someone left a stamp in with the bag and ink leaked all over the Cache.
Still good to find!
Thanks!

TFTC.
Cache log is unusable, someone left a stamp in with the bag and ink leaked all over the Cache.
Still good to find!
Thanks!

Cool box

Cool.

With a dot day to fill I took the long way home from work to get this. Even though the hint was pretty explicit it took a bit of digging around in the long grass to find it. Log is a bit soggy but still ok to write on. Thanks for the cache.
[#747]

Thanks for the cache! Nice sneaky find (:

Nice quick find while passing today

TFTC

Good cache cool set up. Just quite wet. Thanks for the effort. Great history around this area

Found while on PatandJohn's HVTC cycle and tramping Xmas trip.
Be better if there was some interpretation information.
Needs log dried and new plastic bag.
TFTC

As before log is wet

Rather lovely to get a G--2 cache so far from home and so far from some weird warring nonsense between North Shore and West Auckland. Thank goodness the People's Republic of Auckland is neutral.

Nice crafting on the cache here and found quickly which was great. Shame DOC don't want us to visit. All good here and thanks for the cache.

Fun find tftc

Moist log

Couldn’t find :/ no stay there anymore. Grass it overgrown

Just a day trip to Waitara visited my mother now to head back home we were working on a multi and to our surprise there were traditionals close by to so ended up getting another cache or two. Awesome nice quick find signed the log and placed the cache back where i found it. Tftc now on our way home here we come

Awesome quick find. Nifty work on the cache

Hint is good if ya know what a stay is

Nice little hiding spot with some interesting history

Second day of my long weekend in New Plymouth, or more technically Taranaki.
Today I decided to forgo numbers to do something that I have always wanted to do, albeit I wanted to do it on a motorbike, but a car is second choice - drive the Forgotten World Highway to Whangamomona. So I set off nice and early.

Heading back to New Plymouth albeit the long way now.Another quick find of another nicely constructed cache. TFTC

walked down the mown track from the pa site, found this nicely camoed cache quickly and explored the Saps , great illustration of of trench design from yet another battle for this pa, this time colonials up against maori 40 odd years later than the massacre .

Great hide. Love the camp! TFTC

Found it had no "prize" so added one to it a easy but tricky find

Found it! Also emptied the cache of its inhabitants after screeching and dropping it into the grass. TFTC.

Coordinates changed from:
S 39° 3.831 E 174° 15.702

Coordinates changed to:
S 39° 3.830 E 174° 15.694

Distance from original: 38.3 feet or 11.7 meters.

slight shift

all ok, thanks Gunsmoke!

Unfortunately the style is no longer there. We hunted through the timber but had no luck.

I came here the other day for the multi, didn't realize there was a cache here as well, a wee bit tricky to find,tftc

Confused my front to back fence. Good find

Found it interesting didn't know this place existed

Found the original placement some years ago so a re-visit for me.

TFTC G-2

Nice stop & grab, found by my 3yr old daughter

Mission not accomplished, this one is a bust but TFTC anyway! Couldn't find it Blenheim Bear
This log posted with CacheSense for Android!

Found with Trayc.g, logging now as I have my own account. TFTC

Quick find

Quick find

Quick find

Found it, another lone jogger passes by just after I found it thank goodness, tftc

Found it

Found

Yes found it. Never been here before

TFTC!!

Doing a caching trip on our way to the meet and greet this evening

Doing a caching trip on our way to the meet and greet this evening

Doing a caching trip on our way to the meet and greet this evening

Found it

Cool historical land

Spent awhile here but no luck

Was looking n the wrong place for a while but once read correctly I found it. Thanks

Nice!

Nice walk.

Found it