Hawkes Bay Wine Quest 1 Raukawa, North Island, New Zealand
By angelndemon on 25-Jan-12. Waypoint GC3AXBD

Time to close down this series...Thanks to all who participated

Happy caching

A park and grab while leaving town after the long weekend

GPS sent us a little off and then a lot off and then back to the right spot. Used GC instinct to find the cache in the end TFTC

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Nice one

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The second of ouf vinery collection. Tftc.

Found

easy find

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found while down in the area for a caching week.
Am enjoying finding all the caches

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Found

Another quick find. Tftc

TFTC, quick find

People pruning everywhere today!

Another good clue for a quick find. Much preferred to a hide and seek experience.

Looked too hard... Finally found

TFTC beautiful area

Quick find here. Thanks

Turned this into a night adventure, no trouble with traffic or parking so it worked out very well. Thanks for the series of caches and the fun finding them.

What a lovely name for a winery. Ironic as people usually get louder the more they drink. t4tc

Nice series, tftc!

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Visiting from Australia and local geocachers the Fuddleys gave me a personalised tour around Hastings geocaches. A great series around the wineries. TFTC angelndemon.

Out for a day of Geocaching with Seffnjarah. TFTC

Quick find on the wine trail with Princess-Emily. Last in the series and pulled up right outside the Sileni Estate ... time for lunch Thanks for the series and TFTC worth a favourite for the series.

Found this one while on our drive to Napier. Tftc

Right time of night for a wine or two, quick night find TFTC.

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

Most Christmas holidays involve a road trip of some description and this year is no exception. Today we were travelling from Gisborne to Napier, picking up a few caches along the way. We were actually looking for large numbers today, so this trail looked perfect for the job, unfortunately we didn't have time to sample any of the wines on offer. Quick find at GZ. TFTC

Most Christmas holidays involve a road trip of some description and this year is no exception. Today we were travelling from Gisborne to Napier, picking up a few caches along the way. We were actually looking for large numbers today, so this trail looked perfect for the job, unfortunately we didn't have time to sample any of the wines on offer. Quick find at GZ. TFTC

Down from Gisborne for the weekend to watch granddaughter playing soccer, so thought it a good chance to look for some treasures. Fairly quick find. TFTC

Found at the end of our quest, yeah, we did it backwards....

We saw a cache come up on the GPS as we toured around the area and decided to grab it as you do and realised it was one of a small trail, No 10 was the first so decided to do them all if possible. A bit weary at the entrances like this but traffic seemed to be on the light side and only stumbled across 1 or 2 vehicles leaving the sites, it was 5pm. All in all picked up all but 1. A nice wee trail. TFTC's

Found with Sevren.tftc

More drink cycling for me.

Easy find, thanks.

Short detour off Highway 50, with the Seagnoid on our way to Gisborne for the NI National Daffodil Show.Thanks for the cache

Good idea with a wine quest series. Thanks

This entry was edited by NZ-LuPeTo on Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 08:12:54 UTC.

Working my way through the series as part of a night caching challenge. soon came up with the goods

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11:15h 20130413 TFTC

No searching, just a quick grab. TFTC.

A quick find
- 1000 finds njoyliving GC
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After a quick search of the hint objects we had the cache in our hands. Dropped off tb.

11078...

Quick find... and a few drops of rain to settle down the dust, TFTC.

Found it together with tasdevil13 during our trip through NZ and after a nice wine tasting.

A quick find after some sampling (and shopping) here...

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Roland aka tasdevil13

4969. A quick grab here, and it was time to head back towards hastings. TFTC.

A quick find, then had to do a U-turn to head back to do #3 (which we thought would be easier travelling in this direction) and on to Hastings for a well deserved cup of coffee!
Logbook falling apart.
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As part of a 'cache the bays' drive around whilst the others were orienteering....and I'm sure recognising some other Wellington cachers in the logs - are we stalking each other? TFTC

Quick find after lunch at a nearby cafe. TFTC

See taybee log TFTC

easy Found by Jr taybee on this one He got a saw head he walked into the main sign here TFTC

#2689 @1555
A quick find. TFTC.

A quick early morning find TFTC angelndemon

Found by Mrs Mob ... we seem to be following grobyc about today. TFTC.

Quickly spotted in the first spot i looked

An easier find than we expected, given the hint, although we did look in a few wrong places first. TFTC

19/12/2012 9:36:00 PM
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This cache was found as part of my epic as move down south to Christchurch from Auckland - A drive that involved around 3,000km, 350 caches, 14 days, and a bit of a detour through East Cape, Gisbourne, Napier/Hastings, some back roads in the Wairarapa, Cape Pallisier and Nelson/Tasman as well as every CANZ cache along the way that I was still missing. (Hence my excuse for the not as interesting log as I usually try to make mine.) But thanks to every awesome amazing as cacher that placed caches along these roads, you made my trip awesome, and very cache happy!

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Found on our caching trip through Waiarapa and Hawkes Bay. Many Thanks to the CO.s for taking us to so many interesting places which we would never had visited without searching for your cache. TFTC Drawp

Relogging this under individual account, previously a member of Gaz'n'Kab account.

Previously logged under a team account. Re-logging with my individual account.

Another quick find for us and the last of the trail for us today. Lovely area to have a little trail.

TFTC anglendemon

Gaz'n'Kab

Was a little bored this afternoon, so an unplanned caching trip was in order. Hit the winery cache tour just after 5 and found most of the series, some a little easier than others and a couple of DNFs to come back to. Thanks for the series.

Mrs F came up with this one.
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Nearly missed it and it was in such an obvious spot. TFTC

Found at 5:17:00 PM. Driving around seeing the sights of Napier before heading South for the Mega in Dunedin.

Thanks angelndemon

A quick find while in the area today. Getting a great tour of the area! Signed log, TFTC!

Easy find, left Chrisified's in the mood TC. TFTC

Did this Wine series in the dark - looked funny to TuisReturn who had previously found the cache as I searched every location except where the cache was. However got it in the end. SL TFTC

Thanks for the cache - Carla6

Last one in the series which we've done from No. 11 backwards, as we live in the Twyford area, and more logical for us that way. TFTC.

Quick find while on a wee tour of an area I am familiar with - TFTC

Drank some fine wine first then off to the hide. TN LN SL, TFTH

We gave in to temptation here and went in and bought some wine.
+ a marble, - nothing.

Found with vindstille. TFTC

Made a very early 7am start on the series and all done by 8am so it was well outside opening hours, plus had the additional benefit of very little passing traffic. Some names here I recognised plus some others I have never heard of so quite an interesting tour on both accounts. This sure is wine country!

Many thanks for the placements and the tour.

As with others before me...took longer than expected. Luckily agapanthus is not quite as tough to search as flax! Guess it helps to read the info giving the size of the cache

Will be fun to do the whole series...thanks for creating it.TNLN.SL.

nzyetje

FInshed we take that from otherside In: TB

A geocoin visit.

First cache of the day. Took a little longer than expected but soon found it.TFTC SiLiRy

Doing a few caches whilst in the area for Easter. TFTC

No luck here today

Took a lot longer than id hoped to start a series, but finally uncovered the cache

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Nice quest and good fun without wine this time.
Coin out.
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Started out on the bicycle for the first tasting with an easy find to follow. TFTC

Night caching the HBWQ tonight. A fast find of the final cache of the Quest for us. Despite a slow start we managed to find them all in little over an hour, and not a drop was drunk! Many thanks for this fine wine trail.

# 5275

Tricky to retrieve without attracting attention from passing traffic. TFTC

Quik find saw from road. No tb in cache put a coin in tftc and trial lots of fun!!

I enjoyed this series

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Found with Etherlord and Seagnoid on the geocaching road trip.

Had fun on these trails. I don't think Seagnoid knew Etherlord was showing me the clues before we got out of the car.

found on the return leg of Etherlord, Seagnoid and Lillianavess' 52-cache geo-road trip to Napier, find 38/46.
+TB
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Cache 38 of 45 on a super awesome cache day road trip to Hawkes Bay. Seagnoid, Lillianavess and Etherlord

Was visiting Sileni who is a client & did a quick check for caches nearby & what do you know? One right at the gate ! TFTC.

Found and logged, not hidden too well but I guess it doesn't need to be, left in place found.

Doing some quick caches while we were on the way to the cricket in Napier. Went to the wrong side at first, but found it quickly enough anyway. Left a pet rock - a lion. TFTC

We had with Simal day off in pumpkin packhouse, so we had plenty of time to visit this small powertrail. TFTC and greetings from Czech republic!