Curse of the FTF #24 (Wellington/Kapiti) Paraparaumu, North Island, New Zealand
By Little Blue Hen on 16-Oct-11. Waypoint GC3617Z

Seems to have gone missing

Count found it. But found the hint

I suspect this may have gone. Found the hint object in the area indicated but no sign of the cache. Thanks anyway.

Hint location found easy enough, but no cache to be found.

Quick find thanks. Didn’t have a pen so took a photo.

Nice easy find while checking out this track! Tftc

#6258. Out for an early morning geocaching visit to the Kapiti Coast. Turned off the highway at Mackays Crossing and headed down this side road. Think this is the first time I have been down this road. Quite a few horses in the paddocks. Parked near GZ and wandered over to the likely hiding area. Nice quick find. Great to have another ticked off in the Curse of the FTF series. They still keep popping up. Shame the reviewers stopped the series. Groundspeak clearly doesn't know what the word fun means. Signed the logbook and returned the cache as found. Thanks for hiding it here Little Blue Hen and bringing me to this spot.

Filling in time before dinner at Fishermen's Table in Paekakariki. Headed along this quiet country road to locate a couple of caches. A straightforward find. #2085. TFTC.

Took the wrong turn off the expressway so decided to look for a few caches that we might not have grabbed. This one is easy to find, thanks CO for the cache.

New territory for me this. Keen to explore the Mataihuka walk.
We made a straightforward find on the cache.
Cache all in order, although easily visible. Log signed, cache then safely re-hidden - with a bit of added camo to help.
TFTC I visited here with team cacher zboy wonder.
The Turtle strikes again!

Quick find, next to an awesome gum tree. Sometimes nature just blows you away. All good with the cache, TFTC

Decided to call it a day as the weather had turned and it was now cold and wet.
Picked this quick find up on the way past before returning to the warm

Straightforward cache, found on way to lookout

The GPS on my phone was way out so I'm glad I was caching with Ethnz. Her phone was much more accurate and she had the cache in hand nice and quickly. Thanks for the cache.

Easy find thank you. TFTC

Nice easy find while out for a walk with the kids, niece and nephews. Ttfc

Quick easy find and just time to climb up to the lookout.

TFTC

First today. Quick find.Cycled to Raumati Escarpment - a windy day on coast but sheltered here.
Thanks

Found with Sproggles and Conkycon. Easy fund, now to begin our trek up to the lookout. Tnlnsl TFTC!

The GPS led me directly to the right place and the cache was found in the first place I looked. TFTC.

Phew, so pleased I didn't FTF this one . TFTC .

This was a bonus unplanned find after walking to the lookout for the first time. I will have to return to explore further.

Found with angelblossum. 23/4

Nice easy one for the kids

Must come backand do the walk one day... Cache quickly found in the first spot I checked. Cheers.

A day to get from Wellington to Whanganui. Time to find a few little boxes....

Thanks to the CO's for the hides. Cheers.

Nice and easy find at the end of the track!

Nice and easy find at the end of the track!

A nice little detour on our way home from Wellington. TFTC

Great was my second find not to hard, good for starting and getting an understanding of how this stuff works. Lovely quiet spot

As I was in Wellington at a four day conference at the Michael Fowler Centre, and as it was the third day and my head needed some fresh air... what better way to have a break than by finding a few caches with a couple of really good friends that I had just introduced to this whole thing called geocaching. So welcome aboard RoaminBilly and StillSeeking! RoaminBilly was really getting the hang of this as this was the second cache for the day. As soon as we pulled up close to GZ, I had just entered the area and he had already found the cache thanks to the great hints. So thank you Little Blue Hen for taking the time to set up this cache. This was an awesome one to continue to introduce my friends to caching with... really appreciated your efforts. Great job! I also had no idea that this walkway was here...

Well, having found the first one, I just had to carry on didn't I.

Another type of Cache but again a great way to experience a bit of outdoors NZ. Now that I have 2 finds, there is a desire to find more.

Easy to find and interesting to see that a time-traveler has signed the log before us!

Good find. Cache good and dry. Tftc

Easy with the clue

Quick find with carlaandkids, amazingmark.

Easy find my 4 yr old got it while I was still on my phone lol

Found it!

After a day of work up the Kapiti coast grabbed a couple of caches on the way home. A previous DNF when it was missing previously now rectified. Thanks for the cache.

too easy

The last stop on our caching adventures today. TFTC

Im enjoying these

TFTC

Thanks for replacing - nice easy find in the place it wasn't the last time I looked

About two thirds of the way through the Curse of the FTF series now.

Found with Wafflekitties, TFTC

Nice quick find, thanks for replacing.

New container in place. Tube.

Will check it out later this week.

Another DNF, looks like this one has disappeared too?

Not found. Hasn't been found in a while.

Not where the the hint said it would be.

Found with deonrocks and twistiedog. Left SWAG. TFTC

A great find in a great spot.

Killing time between ceremony and reception, decided to go for a Pi Day wander along the escarpment. Nice easy find, and considering the heat today, glad it was in the shade. TFTC.

Cache sitting in the open so used the hint object to hide it a little more. Nice to be out caching again, it's been a little while! Tftc

A quick find since it was not covered up. We signed the log and carefully hid it so hope it remains covered. Now off up the hill to the next cache. TFTC.

Nice quick find here - just before hitting the track.
Out on a bit of a cache-hunt and hill-walk with the youngest geo-son. Boy made friends with a bloody big sheep close by!

TFTC!
with FiddlefingersNZ

Nice quick park and grab. Now we are off up the track to the next one. Tftc.

Macfam41 found it as we started our walk along the track. Ftf in 2015. Tftc

Nice to still be able to collect a few in this series, I also managed to also join the fun just before it was ended. TFTC, #7241

I actually found this quite a while ago but didn't bring a pen on that day. So this time I was prepared to put myself in the logbook TFTC

A simple park and grab find, and one more knocked off in the series (first of three today). TFTC

On a caching expedition with metal-art when just before we hit this cache spots appear in front of someone's eyes, speech gets drunken.....hello migraine! "I'll take you back to the camping ground" I say. "No, but you'd better drive from here on." Nothing deters a keen cacher on the hunt! A quick find with a slightly befuddled metal-art.

2nd find of the day, just as a migraine set in, so with blurry vison and slurred speech we continued our quest with z new driver to find more caches. With Jax479 TFTC

Another quick park and grab find in this evenings rain. Although it was quite tempting to continue up the hill and take on the other caches along the escarpment, I think they are best left for better weather. SLTFTC

Nice quick and easy find, still looking for a nice container to drop my TB in!

Thanks for the cache. I found it at 5:13 pm on 10/10/14.

Easy find. Took 5 minutes to get log out to sign due to large toy and golf ball jammed in. Removed large toy. Tftc

Found this quite some time ago, but hadn't logged. Thanks

TFTC. A nice walk along the track too.

Quick find on my way up the track. TFTC

Quick find for this one TFTC

nice find took tb

Nice easy find, dropped off a small duck. TFTC

Nice quick grab on way to Wellington - must come back and walk the walkway TFTC

13906... Nice spot for a cache... will have to explore the walkway one day, TFTC.

1st one on my walk along the ridge today. In. GC. TFTC. Sherlock Hood.

Find #1572. A quick find after completing the Mataihuka track. SL TFTC

Very quick find on this one.
Walked straight up and grabbed it.
TFTC

Had a picnic while waiting for muffles to disperse, then a quick grab with all the Penguins.

tftc

Jr Cacher #2 found this well before the GPSr had settled. TFTC.

DNF in the dark without lights.

A quick grab this morning. Will have to the escarpment on a nicer day. TFTC

Quick park and grab.
TFTC

nice spot I want to come back and do the walk when it isnt raining

Found with -tink- and matatuana

Found it with Matatuana & paisynsmummy!

Found with -tink- and PaisynsMummy TFTC

This one made a nice and simple find as had had to drive past #23 as road workers were at GZ so thought it best not to stop

TFTC

Found on Mr & Mrs TallGuy789's honeymoon trip around the Coromandel and back down to Wellington. Patchy GPS had me wondering all over the place trying to find this. Up the hill, down the hill, up the stream, down the stream, over lots of fences. Turns out that absolutely none of that was necessary and it could have pretty much been a park and grab. Oh well - it was a lovely spot and good to stretch the legs. TFTC.

TFTC also dropped off GeoDuck trackable as I think Duckie would like the area in the wet.

Second of three curses found in the area today. StreetWalker already had the logbook in his hands by the time I had changed into my walking shoes (we were tackling the escarpment caches too). Good to have a nice and easy one to ease us into the effort of the walk.
TFTC.

#4824. Have driven past the escarpment many times; good to finally call in today and find the caches along here. Hot today with little wind, but the find was quick. Then it was off along the track. TFTC.

started at QE park with the geo kids , grabbed before the big climb.

Tftc, easily found. Cache #100.

Easy find for us. Tftc.

Quick find at the end of a walk up the hill. TFTC !

Quick find on our way down from a trip up the road in search for a lookout.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Found during cycle ride with local geocaching buddy. Nice straight forward cache.

On the way back to Wellie after a great New Year at Mangaweka Campground.
Easy find and paperwork done.

TNLNSL TFTC

TFTC