Herekawe Valley (Taranaki) New Plymouth, North Island, New Zealand
By Team SKAM on 20-Nov-11. Waypoint GC385RR

Little 4 year old found this one

Took kids out for the first time, they loved finding this cache

Found TFTC

Tftf

Neat

Our first ever find thank you whanau! My daughter and I love the adventure, such a beautiful walk to start the day off

Am I an idiot?!

cool fond thanks guys

Easy find

TFTC

Thanks for the find

TY, good one for a kid to find

Thanks, good first find

My first ever

Cheers

Nice and amazing find

Found it

Boh found it

Thank you!

Found!! Nice walkway

Yay! Our first successful Geocache. The 9 year old is loving it!

#13,240. Parked and walked in from Manadon Street in Spotswood, New Plymouth. Fortunately no muggles were around GZ at the time of our visit. Found after a short search. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. 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.

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Tftc Cache dry

Out and about on our bikes today, enjoying our geocaching and the lovely sunny weather. Met a couple of enterprising young children selling fresh lemonade along here, but unfortunately we didn't have any money with us. Got further along the track and found there were stairs! Back we had to go. Luckily the cache had an old 20c coin in it and it gave me an idea. When we went back I gave them some geocaching swaps I had in my goodie bag. Win-win. We were both delighted. Cache is all good. TFTC

Spending a very wet Labour weekend in New Plymouth. The rain eased a bit so decided to go for a walk and get a few caches. Straightforward find. Thanks for placing the cache

Sweet spot g

Noice walk

Found

Thank you. Found it

Our first geo we found

Took a few minutes to find but very fun

Spotted as walked up onto GZ. All good here. Quick sign and on my way. TFTC

Thanks :] was cool, wanted to see the sloth woman but it's okay.

Quick easy find for the kids they didn’t even wait for us

Pencil gone, but fun find. TFTC x

I was out getting some caches in the clearing rain for today's souvenir. A little mission sort of focused around an old multi cache.
After a short walk I found the cache fairly quickly at the expected spot.
T F T C Team SKAM.

A quick easy find after a short walk down the walkway. TFTC

Thanks

Thanks

Tftc

TFTC

Very straightforward find. No pencil so couldn’t leave a note need to remember to always take my own pen when geocaching

Pre cool lil treats

Found this one on a stroll with Mr 5. Thank you!

Very easy find. TFTC

.Out for a walk along Herekawe Valley Walkway to visit this cache. 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.

Log book needs replacing - it's all just loose sheets of paper.

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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Nicely hidden cache on a walkway. Tftc!

Super easy find. We have left a small toy in the container. Thanks again.

After a fun walk to the beach - kids thrilled!

Easy one!

My 2nd find. Day one.

Nice easy find

filling a dot day, took TB as planning a trip to wellington soon, nice easy find after all the steps then back up them again, log book a little damp even in this heat, TFTC

One of three we located in the immediate vicinity on a pleasant walk at the end of the day. Found this one reasonably quickly. #2222. TFTC.

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Nice day for a stroll. Easy find. TfTC

Too easy

Easy to find spot along nice walkway. Logbook damp but OK.

Checked geocache and renewed the container.

This year I am attempting to turn my finds calendar green so this cache was a good little target while stopping at the nearby supermarket.

Cache was quick to locate with it being exactly where the hint would have you belive.

In serious need of maintenance however with no container in play and a torn plastic bag. Log book wet but usable. Messaging photo to CO.

Found on a dog walk, emigrated from uk just starting our NZ life TFTC

Nice easy one to start the day's caching, was out in the open, probably from the recent storm, so recovered.

Decided to make a start on my holiday geocaching campaign with this one. After a nice walk along the walkway the cache was soon spotted.

Awesome little track miss 3 found the cache quickly also met a very friendly horse which made her day tftc

Found it. Path a little mucky today! Tftc

Found with Trayc.g, logging now as I have my own account. Loved this walk!

Haven't been on this walkway before so had no idea where one of the various entrances were so just picked a street nearby and kept our eyes peeled for an entrance, sure enough we spotted a likely alleyway that would take us down to the track. Luckily we brought our gumboots! Lots & lots of rain recently so the track is very muddy in areas. Had to jump off the track after seeing a mountain biker coming at us at full speed flicking mud up and around everywhere. Slipped & slided about 450m to GZ & found cache pretty quickly. Took 2 TB to further them on their journey. No sign of the TB called Jo though. Was a good 1/2hr spent. Thanks.

Found it after a search. Good camo!

Dropped off Swedish moose travel bug.

Spotted very clearly in view of muggels placed back with extra camouflage also spotted TB COSMAC CHUCK 493722

what a lovely walkway, didn't know it was even there

dropped off the cosmic CHUCK

Quick find with Miss Three! Thanks for cache!

Fairly easy to find, thanks heaps

Yay! Found it!

Found it

Lovely walkway. Quick easy find.

Beautiful path & great day for a walk

Awesome walk on a nice day. Tftc

Walked and biked up here numerous times... but stopped today to find this cache...

Awesome morning walk, decided to pick up a few caches. TFTC

Done

Thanks great cache big enough

Excellent hide, nice place to travel to!
Retrieved kiwi Lego trackable.

A quick find, a lovely walk, even on a rainy day. Picked up the RIP Evo trackable.

Staying here for a week visiting my sister before heading up to the weekend mega event, time to get some local caches. Walked down from the street immediately above and made a quick find here, not too squelchy on the way down. Thanks Team SKAM.

Dropped off 2 trackables and picked up Soundview Trackable, did not see the other trackable 'Jo' in the cache

Cool find

Nice day for walk while in NP. Nice quick find. A little muddy on track but I'm tuff. Lol. Cheers for the cache. Took one of the TBs to move on.

Easy one, nice walk

Harder than we thought but found it thanks!

Took us 2 tries but was such a great cache! Lots of fun objects to look at.

Full of treasure, nice walkway too, thank you!

Quick find on a nice clear day.

Found the 1 Ltr Geocache in a dry condition.

In: Rudolph the Reindeer Travel Tag
JO

Out : Elephant GC

T4TC

Kids grossed out by the bugs accompanying it haha bloody townies

Found it, and that is after explaining to a Muggle why I was down on the ground searching, he thought I was after a 'Sugar' fix ???? tftc Team SKAM

Fun and easy find