Are We There Yet? # 2 (Waikato) Raglan, North Island, New Zealand
By Cats&Dragons on 04-Nov-11. Waypoint GC37644

end of life

Looked in the obvious places but left after feeling rather uninspired.

Spent far too long looking here

My name is Otis I am the Mostist... you should see me floatis with my own postis

Found on our way to the falls. TFTC

Woke up to a beautiful sunny day, so Nahkins and I set off to conquer "Are you there yet" caches plus the 2 bonuses. Also had two at Bridal Veil falls and two on the way home to do. So that was 20 for the day. Had 3 DNF in the "Are you there yet" caches and 1 at the "4 Brothers". Couldn't find the Bonus Caches as we only found 7 Green clues and 1 Red clue. We were a bit gutted. Waterfall was in full force today. #2. Found a park and walked back. Had to find the correct base and there it was. Got another green letter/number. TFTC.

Woke up to a gorgeous sunny day, so NZPatoto and I set off to conquer "are we there yet" caches plus the 2 bonuses. Added to our list were the two at Bridal Veil falls and two on the way home to do. Total 20 for the day. A little disappointed with 3 DNF in the "are we there yet" caches and 1 at the "4 Brothers". Couldn't find the Bonus Caches as we only found 7 Green clues and 1 Red clue. We were a bit gutted with the DNF’s but absolutely stoke with the beautiful day. The views in some spots were just fantastic. Waterfall was in full force today. #2. It was an easy find by NZPatoto. Finding the base was the trick. Bonus Number collected. TFTC

Quick find...

TFTC, Zynikus

Great straightforward find but a little tricky to find a safe parking spot. Tftc

a quick find today, tftc

Had to walk a little as drove past. Thanks for cache

Found, big day a the stock yard lots of cars

As the weather wasn't really nice today, we decided to look for a couple of caches and these ones we chose because you wouldn't even need to walk around too much
We didn't make it to the end, but found #1-14 (we didn't find 4 and 13 though) and also the Northern bonus. A couple of logbooks were wet and need to be replaced and #10 doesn't have a logbook at all. I put a small slip of paper in there so that I could sign. For the rest, we really enjoyed the tour (even though we sometimes felt a little insecure being so close to the road. TFTC

P.S. I might have written the wrong date a couple of times. Looks like I haven't really arrived in 2017 yet

What a fantastic day on the road weather in our favor and much sun screen was used, the gravel side was quite and very long and we were able to quickly make the grab on most, we did have some issues with parking which we either walked back to the cache or hubby dropped me off so he could go park.
Great to see the weather proof paper, to which I lost my pen and my stamp wouldnt work without making a mess so used my trusty laminated cards to leave.
We have never been here and want to thank you for bringing us here. Sorry about the copy and past logs.

filling in time today as leaving raglan and picking a friend up from the bus stop later thought i would start these ones until i run outta time tftf most of the log books damaged and wet didnt have enough supplies to sort these out sorry aroha and happy caching tftf I will return at some stage to finish the trail off

TFTC

Found on a lovely spring day. tftc

Tftc

Easy find. Hard to park

Easy find

Number ten find in this series, getting close to the Raglan Road now. All good today. Mission accomplished, this one is a wrap.TFTC! Blenheim Bear
This log posted with CacheSense for Android!

Second one found on my journey. Parking a little tricky.

Definitely brightening up the drive!

No luck today

Banian and I found this cache on our autumn northern roadtrip- where we did a circuit of the north island from Wellington right up to Raglan, then across to Napier through Taupo, before heading home, finding masses of caches and discovering a plethora of unique and interesting locations. Today was a day up to Raglan through the Are We There Yet series, plenty of clever cache locations.

Found with Redants on our April Holidays Road Trip. Day one, Wellington to Onaero. Day two Onaero to Kawhia via coast road. Today Kawhia to Kawhia via Raglan.
Nice weather and very little traffic made for a good trip. Found most of the series and one bonus. TFTC.

18:55
On my way from Raglan to Bridal Veil Falls during night. I would like to make the walk more interesting so look for the 13 caches along the way.
Next one in a row.
TFTC

#11167. Having already done #1, the answer was YES! TFTC.

With a good weather forecast for the area and a long weekend starting tonight, we thought we'd better have a trip to Raglan today rather than face the probable hordes during the next few days. Our return trip was via the Bridal Veil Falls with some "Are we there yet?" caches thrown in.
The last in the series, we walked back 50m to the cache. Thanks for the series, the caches were not too difficult to find, but think the placements in terms of parking could have been better in many cases. TFTC.

Found No 1, 2, 5, 7.....did not stop for the others. Need maintenance. TFTC

Easy find. Needs maintenance. Log very wet.

Found this cache on our 4 week trip through New Zealand, on the way from Raglan to Omokoroa. Greetings from Germany.
TFTC
NZ-Cache # 166

Another one down TFTC

Dangerous parking.
Cheers

1340 For Christmas I aimed to do this series. Managed 30 out of the 33. Enjoyed the ride. It has been a few years (Pre Geocaching) since I last drove this. Was surprised at the amount of traffic early on Christmas Day.

Last one of these for today, have to come back another time to finish off the series. TFTC's

Last one of this series for the day.

Tftc

The 2nd one took slightly longer than the first, but yay, found it!

Quick find although the couldn't get log out to write in it b

Found it this time. Thanks

After a great night on the water kayaking with the CO and a bunch of crazy people Evilno9 and I made our way south from Raglan in the morning to collect all those "are we there yet" trads. Mhh not there yet as we are still missing out on the bonus finds. TFTC

Ducking in and out of the rain with alpenmilch80 today trying to work our way through the series. Some took longer than others, and some we almost didn't need to leave the car (which would have been nice), but at this stage of the day we were still keeping relatively dry here. Nice quick find - TFTC

Decided to pick up all of these on our way to the Bridal Veil falls. They were a but easy, so eventually we decided not to get them all. But it was fun very quick to find all of the ones we tried to. TFTC

Greetings from Denmark
Our daytrip today was the Bridal Veil Fall and a special place at a beach that we visited 14 years ago.
On our way to the fall we found this nice serial of caches. Very easy to find and the road was not to busy today.
We collected numbers hoping to find the bonus.
We signed all caches with our second nickname: HFDK
TFTC

tftc!

Quite easy to find, and goof company from the jerseys tftc

Thanks. Had slipped down so really fiddly to extract. Hopefully I left it easier for the next finder!

Small hands required

Missed it. Very overgrown. Went and found #1 and came back to find a sneaky hide. Cool, had me fooled after a long day of caching.

Just one off with the count down nearly complete TFTC

The end is nigh(in sight).

It was an awesome day for caching. Thought I would take this way through to Raglan from Cambridge. TFTC.

We are 2 for 2 so far! Tftc

On the way out to the falls

Short little walk back down from where I parked.
TFTC

Queens birthday hunt ... Perfect day and perfect company

On our way to Raglan for the long weekend. Toured the route via the falls. Were joined by Wasgij for a great outing. Most caches were easy to find. TFTSC

2 of 33
Thanks Cats&Dragons a very enjoyable day caching

An easy find on an evening ride out from Raglan. TFTC

Tftc.

Vistra and I decided it was a lovely day to go for a drive, headed down this was as the trail looked to be perfect for this situation. Quick find, Thanks for the cache.

It was a lovely day for a drive, so Yorkshirekiwi83 and I decided to head down to Raglan for a day of caching. After picking up a few caches around Raglan, we then hit the "Are We There Yet?" power trail in the afternoon, and managed to find all caches in the series! A quick find here, thanks for the cache and the series!

After finishing some work out beyond Morrinsville I had some time to go and find a few caches before I had to head to the airport and home. I had spotted this trail only yesterday so on a spur of the moment decision decided to see how far I could get before I had to head to the airport. Overshot this one in search of a safe place to park. Walked back to the cache and although it wasn't in the first spot I checked it didn't take too long to find. TFTC, Biggles.

Another successful stop on the way to Kawhia. TFTC

9.15am. Thank you for this series.
Thank you. David and Noeline.

Off we go

Back to finish this series hopeful start this one back in 2012,got a drive [Dave}
So off we go will Eyespyben

found it, found it. cool series thanks.

I'm sure its there....but alas I couldn't see it. Spent a good 5 minutes looking as it was only the second on my route, but no....no joy.

Thanks anyway....(I'd like to say maybe next time I'm in the area....but could be years away....)

Cheers Gav

One to go!!
Cheers Gav

Which one 3 goes. Found cache on a road trip to Auckland Mega with Rediguana. TFTC

New Zealand 2103 trip for the Auckland Mega at Albany. Day 11, Te Kuiti to Waingaro. I was not planning on a trail before getting back to Auckland, but I was out this way and the line of icons called to me on my map, so I had to give it a go. This was quite an interesting series, plenty of different hides, a pity some seemed to be many meters out, but persistence usually was all that was needed. The road was not too busy so stopping all the time did not seem to be an issue. It has been great to see a section of NZ in pretty close detail. Thanks.

12325.280 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Gold Shuttle A#233

Albida

This was our first find in this series today having spent the morning collecting caches around Manu Bay in Raglan first. We had collected #1 on a previous trip to Raglan. No problems with the find. The waterproof paper was a happy sight after seeing the soggy old log book at the bottom of the cache and rain clouds on the horizon.

2.05pm - Found #2. SLTFTC

Woohoo!!! another Cats and Dragons power trail. Always love these, as the caches in placed in nice sensible places (despite a couple of thorns which we have later found out were not there on placement) and great parking spaces. Found all the caches which enabled the bonuses to be located although we replaced one with the owners permission and another cache site had two caches there (one on the ground and one secured to a tree) More details on caches #11 and #19. Thanks for another great day's caching and making us enthusiastic about caching again after a big slump in September.

A quick easy find.

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I was headed to Otorohanga/Waitomo overnight so took the long way after popping into Raglan to find a newly published challenge cache. I didn't quite end up with enough time to complete the trail, having to skip the final three caches because I needed to get to my accommodation in Otorohanga before reception closed for the evening. (I didn't realise the road became gravel halfway or so along, and wondered if the Rally of NZ had ever come through here.) Found all the green numbers except for "J" but have since found worked out the final coordinates. At this point I've only got 5 red numbers however I think I had 5 caches that I DNF'd or did not attempt on the last half of the course.

Thanks for the trail, I'll return one day to complete the unfinished bits!

TFTC

Ouch yow! Will save the others for a longer trip. T4TC.

First time on this road for 25 years. Some great views along the way although there are many slips due to all the rain. When we saw how many caches there were on the road we couldn’t resist the challenge TFTCs. It cache is more nestled than base.

couldn't find any thing at GZ that resembled the clue.. other than a freshly covered telecom trench, installation and Dial 123 before you dig right at GZ... wonder if they took the fixture and the cache?>

Found with Team Kiwifruits on our day of conquering Raglan's power trail! What a great day of laughs, music, (almost) missing eyes and some good food at The Shack. What a memorable day of geocaching.

Thank you Cats&Dragons for the power trail, we really enjoyed it!

Secured this cache as part of our "Day of Raglan Geocaching Expedition" with Vamber.

What a day! Laughter, scratches, loss of eyes, Neil Diamond (actually there wasn't any of that - just a dam good playlist!), and 1 too many pine trees!

Thanks Vamber for such an awesome day of caching and thanks to Cats&Dragons for a fantastic trail.

#1325

Quick find on our way to the Bridal Veil Falls.
Thanks.

A nice find

TFTC

To find out this is the last one of the caches we didn't pickup on our way to the Bridal falls.
Hmm to find the right base, then it was an easy find.

Also overshot and turned then overshot again - parked in a driveway but had dogs barking at us - not so sure about this ones placement - brow of hill and double yellow lines - was glad road fairly quiet today- TFTC though

Catching up on caches unlogged. TFTC

Drat. Over shot the mark and had to run back to cache.

Quick find. TFTC

Attracted plenty of cows attention whilst grabbing this one. [8]

I really enjoyed this series of caches TFTC

TFTC! We grabbed a few of these on the way to the Bridal Veil falls.

Picked up a few of these on the way to the waterfalls. TFTC!

We really enjoyed this series of caches far out to the west. The caches were well positioned to allow safe parking nearby unlike another series we recently completed. Although we gather as many of the bonus codes we could we missed too many to locate the bonus. Many thanks for taking us on a great journey the highlight being the falls. TFTC

Spiky!

Heading to Kawhia for the night, so decided to make a day of it and go the long scenic way and grab a few caches along the way. Mostly easy finds, one or two had us stumped but persisted with it and eventually found them all. Had a couple of close calls with some muggles, especially trying to find a safe place to park, but managed to get at all the logs without any troubles.
Missed two numbers throughout the trail, one for green, and one for red, but managed to bash the geochecker and got him to cough up the co-ords for the bonuses. Didn't have time to collect them on this run so will have to come back soon and get them.

Great trail, and fantastic views of the harbours.

Nice little side trip on way to Raglan for the weekend.
Some took a little search. TFTC.

Really enjoyed this series of caches, thanks for the effort putting it in place C&D