<<>> (Wairarapa) Gladstone, North Island, New Zealand
By Skindo on 14-Dec-11. Waypoint GC3964G

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

Hi skindo

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

DNF, I would recommend the cache owner check if still there as lots of rubbish in area and the sign has been mangled a bit, also a colony of bees have moved onto the post

The sign is mangled and loads of rubbish around so I recommend a maintenance check also to see if the cache is still there

The hint makes it sound pretty straight forward but I couldn't find anything

DNF, as third one in a row, and a pretty straightforward location, it appears it’s not there any more unfortunately

Could not see

Stayed the night in Martinborough and now collecting some caches on the way home. Sadly no joy here even though it’s recently been found!

TFTC Easy one.

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Haha nice! Unfortunately today was garden tours, so made it more difficult with plenty of muggles! But managed to retrieve, sign, rehide after about 10 minutes

Hardest part was waiting for local muggles to go about their business and depart the scene. Maybe they all know about the cache, and are curious to know who comes looking for it. We took heaps of posed photos of us in front of the signpost while we waited. All in good order. Thanks for bringing us back into this delightful countryside, and placing a cache for us to search for.

A wee loop to the local Stonehenge, and on my way towards Dannevirke, I thought "let's have a look what I could find along the road". That one was easy quick stop. TFTC

TFTC

I arrived here from the nearby church to find a recently parked 4WD and thought I would have to pass this one by. Thankfully the vehicle was empty and the cache was easily found. I was able to log this one, replace it and move on before the vehicle owner returned. TFTC

A random place for a cache, but welcome just the same! TFTC

Not a lot to say about this cache apart from the fact that it’s started raining again but the cache is still dry. Thanks anyway

Driving around exploring our "new" backyard. TFTC

Summer Holiday Time yay! I've just spent 3 days tramping through the Tararuas around Mt Holdsworth with friends, and today I am making my leisurely way home through the Wairarapa and grabbing the opportunity to look for a whole bunch of archived Skindo puzzle and challenge caches before they disappear forever, plus any others that I'm driving right by.

The biggest issue I had was all the dead spots I had to drive through on these backroads. I had anticipated having a few issues so had downloaded Offline data etc but had forgotten that this doesn't help much with archived caches. So whilst I had co-ordinates, I didn't have access to the Hints which proved to be an issue with some of my searches.

This one however was not one of those. and therefore no problem at GZ. A quick and easy find as most of these are, the log was swiftly signed and replaced and I was on my way again

Thanks for placing this cache.

Great cache. Many thanks

A quick find for the last cache for today. TFTC.

Wow amazing found it

Miss 7 found this before we even managed to get out of the car.

Easy find SL TFTC

Love this road. Very pretty, lots of lambs this time of year. TFTC

Thank you

Found it

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Found after dinner at the Gladdy. TFTC.

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Nice sunny day for a drive to Martinborough. Tftc

Awesome find not much traffic

TFTC

Nice Boxing Day adventure with dogs and kids - a bit hairy with on busy road

Thanks for the cache.

After the 2018 WENZ Mega event
mr and mrs went on a Wairarapa tiki tour, and...
Quickly found this cache - logged as MM78. Mrs was expecting something a little bit different...
Tftc

Lots of snts

Day 2 of the Wellington Mega adventure with KJR and we are on our way to find and log a challenge cache series and this was on the way a nice and easy park and grab TFTC

In Wellington for the Mega. Day #2 of our geocaching adventure and off to Martinborough to find some challenge caches with Gadget169. Found this one along the way TFTC

What a pretty drive through here, unfortunately the last half hour was in the dark. TFTC for placing the trail Skindo

#8038

The 3 of us headed out together, with Mr 3Prettys driving, on a gorgeous, sunny afternoon for some Gladstone geocaching. We were delighted to find a perfect parking area and checked the potholes for depth before driving through. Miss 3Prettys made the find and wondered what was originally in these black V containers.
Thank you for the find.

Quick%20find,%20TFTC skindo!

Thanks for the cache

Having visited Stonehenge Aotearoa, it was now time to start the road trip to collect the Challenge caches. Thanks to Skindo for setting up a great series and giving an impetus to try to reach milestones for each month. Along the way we stopped to find some of the traditional caches in the area including this one. Now time to head south to get some more on the Challenge series.

The title of this cache made sense as I parked up to GZ. A quick find.

TFTC

We headed off to the Wairarapa today on a caching expedition - the terrific trio of haydn.seek, PJMacNZ and geodatum. Primarily we aimed to sign in for all the 100 and 250 per month Challenge series, but, of course, would collect as much else as we could along the way. We checked out about 75 caches and had very few failures. We left home at 6.30 am and returned at 9.30 pm. The weather was good - sunny and warm, if a little chilly in windy spots, and dry underfoot. We were good company and our team worked together efficiently. So, in all, a very successful day.
A quick and straightforward find, with convenient parking here. TFTC

A serious geo caching day! Not so much about numbers but a dedicated pre planned set of caches covering a fairly large area and many of the caches were puzzle caches we had solved or had qualified for. . We travelled 400km, found about 70 caches and were out on the trail for 15hours, so it was a big serious day.
We left about 6.30am from Palmerston North and travelled thro to Masterton where were picked up out first puzzle cache. And then travelled down the back road towards martinborough locating the 100 and 250 caches for a month -our main objective!. We stopped at Kokotau reserve for a late morning tea cum lunch but the cache here eluded us even with three searchers and a double look before and again after lunch. We replaced several skindo caches along the route with either new containers or water proof logs as so often they were soaking wet. We side tracked up several side roads for caches and then headed into martinborough to in itally look for the cache in the town square which had stumped geodatum earlier. As always PJMacNZ solved the retrieval of this cache and we then headed to the pub for a much earned break and tea with Devonshire scones Yummy! We then continued on our way towards home locating other caches in Martin borough and then on the back route up to Greytown to locate the Cobblestone museum cache which I have searched for on numerous occasions. PJM was able to find the Virtual cache there which was a plus for him. By the time we left Masterton it was starting to darken so we gave away the idea of locating the newer Eketahuna caches. They will wait for another day!.
It was a great day and combined effort by all three of us. Thank you to my partners and the Cos for these caches. Lots of smiley faces and project GC points to boot!!

A good day out,TFTC!

Out for a drive with members of Grandma-A-Team. Looking forward to the drive; TFTC

Quick easy find.

Couple of days off to find a few. TFTC

That was a nice distraction.

Though I had to cycle 20km to get here, so it was rewarding that it was such an easy find.

The travelling fox is happy =^,^=

14:40. TFTC, exactly where described, many thanks.

Heading up to Palmerston North the slow way - via Skindoland. Cache was seriously wet and muddy here, but inside - dry as a bone.

All good at GZ. Quick find. Thanks for another smilie

Building numbers for the [100,10,7](https://coord.info/GC5G2PM) challenge today - sorry about the cut-and-paste logs.

I found the cache stuck in a hiding place and had trouble removing it. I've replaced it in a similar hidey-hole a few inches away where that won't happen.

TFTC

Day # 12 in New Zealand on a geocaching holiday-trip covering Thailand, Australia and finally my beloved NZ .
Made it from far and rainy South to the North Island. After two splendid days in beautiful Wellington [:X], todays sunny and pleasant tour took me further up north to Masterton .
On the huge cache-menu there were quite some big points for today - Yummie! [:o)]:
1) some challenges in the Hutt-Area I had identified as being "green" for me and
2) a lot of challenges created by skindo that are placed on the way to Masterton.
All this decorated with some traditional ‘green boxes’ along the route.
Missions successfully accomplished . At the end of the busy day the record of the menu contained 44 finds, including 33 (!) challenges that I am a little bit proud to have met the requirements [^]! - so cool! [^]

This little container was quite stuck in its place...
Managed to get it out ... and in again ...

Hey - owners on the way up north - you have cool caches [^] !
A big thanks [:X] to all Owners involved [^] for hiding and maintaining .
Special thanks [:X] [:X] to skindo who contributed the majority of my finds today .
Cheers from Germany

One of 20 caches located on this day, mostly between Masterton and Castlepoint. Logged this about a month after the event. Anticipating logging a DNF for this before noticed it stuck some way down. Needed a tool to dig it out. #1421. TFTC.

Dipping TBs through we had with us

41st of the day and another quick find. The name appeared different on my phone. TFTC.

On a trip to Wairarapa today to make a dent in collecting some of the 100 Wairarapa puzzles I've solved over winter. Left home relatively early to collect as many of the puzzles and other cache types that I passed. Lovely day in the Wairarapa today.

quick and easy find here at the GZ. TFTC

#2656. I have been planning on another big day over in the Wairarapa for quite a while. But a series of wet weekends put paid to that idea. But today dawned bright and sunny. So at last a chance to pick up a few solved puzzles and challenge caches, as well as a scattering of traditional caches. Heading back towards Wellington now and still had time to locate a few last caches down this road. This was another nice quick find right on dusk. Signed the dry logbook and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for hiding it here.

TFTC

No cars on the road until we stop! TFTC

Nice quick find on a Anzac weekend tftc

Had driven past on our way over to the Gladstone Reserve etc, but a big truck was parked up at GZ. The truckie teased us by climbing into his cab when we pulled up a little way past, but then he climbed back out again so we drove off in the hope he'd be gone when we came back...and he was! TFTC

A nice quick park n grab. Roads quiet today tftc

Quick and easy find, TFTC!
#400!

Straightforward enough. Gladstone pub was shut for a wedding though so no reward beer! Grr.

#230 tftc first time meeting other geocachers too.

Simple park and grab

Met some others along the way tftc

Tftc, meet some other geocachers here was good first time seeing others doing the same thing

Found it with Team FIN [janahola, kapeka, laalaa & temyllyl]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in New Zealand. Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was pretty good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and really scenary country!

Greetings from Finland

FIN (laalaa, janahola, temyllyl, kapeka) holiday in New Zealand. Wonderful country, I loved it.
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the cache.

13th day on our geo-roadtrip in New Zealand, and caching our way towards north. Logged using our group nickname FIN with janahola, laalaa and kapeka. After having a blast in South Island and in Christchurch Mega event, we had to start heading back home. Fortunately we still had few days left to spend in NZ while driving to Auckland.

On a geoholiday road tripping to Christchurch MEGA and around beautiful New Zealand. Our four people group (temyllyl, laalaa, kapeka and myself) from Finland used group tag FIN to log the caches.

Today we drove from Wellington to Masterton. We saw many nice places and caches. Thanks for the cache!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

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Found it

TFTC

Someone had well and truly wedged it under something that was also wedged looking very dodgy trying to get it out tftc

This entry was edited by peniknz on Friday, 03 April 2015 at 05:48:50 UTC.

Down in the area for a caching week.
Enjoying finding all your caches and the area.
TFTC

Found it with tu2 tracker after day three of the wings over the wairarapa air show.

Thanks. Found after a fun day at the air show.

The relevance of the cache name eludes me, but it was good to log another one of your caches thanks to the good clue.

Easy find on a hot Wairarapa Day, lunch at the nearby, busy Gladstone Inn was great. TFTC.

Tftc

I left with the geokids early this morning for my first foray into skindoland, on an attempt to qualify for the 100,10,7 challenge in one day. Unfortunately I did not achieve this (but qualified with my previous few days' finds). All in all, I achieved my best day's hunting, collecting 61 traditionals, 20 mystery caches including 4 challenge caches, and one virtual. Many thanks to all the cache owners and players who make this game/hobby what it is (and apologies for the copy and paste).

Tftc

The wee wiggle found this one. Took a little while to retrieve from it's home but got there in the end. TFTC Cheers!

Easy to find, hard to retrieve!! Tftc!

Easy to find hard to retrieve

Very difficult to retrieve. That exercise was harder than finding it but after a few minutest the logbook was signed.

Found on a day trip to the Wairarapa with Wandering Dragons, Violet Butterfly and Astro Hunter.
Was a little tricky to get out of its hiding place - needed nimble fingers! Got there in the end though. TFTC

Nice day 4 outing. Beautiful view. Visited garden fund raising 4 life flight trust. Tftc

We found it!
It was really hard at first but we found it in two minutes

TFTC

Found it hard to get out of hiding place.... Oh no broke a nail. TFTC

Tftc

we started with 112 caches on the list to do in 1.5 days while the weather looked ok here, we managed 88 caches in total and 15 dnf so not a bad run at all, thanks skindo for putting these together, hubby really enjoyed taking the back roads and the roads he used to travel down when carting logs.
going through farm land was something different and made a lovely change.
TFTC, we have added our calling card and handmade swag to all the caches we could. (sorry for the copy and paste)