Are We There Yet? #18 Revisited (Waikato) Raglan, North Island, New Zealand
By Cats&Dragons on 22-Feb-12. Waypoint GC3D320

done with

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.

TFTC

I couldn't leave this one in the series unsigned. Now it is time to head west so that I can circumnavigate Mt Karioi and sign off the caches on the coast.

Cheers for the cache.

A spur of the moment decision to go for a drive to Kawhia this afternoon. I knew I couldn't be too greedy and get them all today or I would be risking being left on the side of the road, so we compromised and negotiated and I decided to start caching from about half way and knock off the Kawhia end ones, being the furtherest from home and I can come back another day by myself and get the Raglan ones. A fantastic trail, and one that we all enjoyed (except for the dog, who gets violently car sick) Was well worth it though and I think everyone enjoyed themselves. Will have to come back for the others and the bonuses another day.

This was the first of the day and it took a bit of looking around before I spotted the nicely camo'ed cache. Not were I was expecting but GPS led me to it.

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.

It looked as though there may have been a wasp nest close to GZ,so decided to keep clear.

Nice series while out on a weekend drive - it always makes a drive more exciting. Thanks!

1355 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.

Had taken the day off work, and at this point was starting to miss emails & phone calls. What's wrong with us? time to have some water, restock, and continue on the trip

Making a day of avoiding showers and quite a lot of weekend traffic by hitting the trail today with alpenmilch80 after an awesome night on the water the evening prior. Found ourselves making pretty good time with the majority of these caches proving to be well hidden, but easily found. Another one down in the rain, and off to the next - TFTC

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

Really enjoyed this series and finished it with a good feed in Kawhia, great day out.
TFTC

I was in the region with some spare time today so decided to go and find a few caches in the countryside. I don't usually write cut / paste / template logs but will make exceptions for 'power trail' caches. I did some of this trail just on a year ago and wasn't sure when I'd get the change to do any more of them, let alone finish it. Today I had enough time to finish the trail. I didn't collect the bonus information though so no bonus for me. Getting all the caches on the main trail was enough for me. My first visit to this revisited cache. Thanks for setting up all these caches and TFTC, Biggles.

Greetings from Denmark
After our visit at the Bridal Veil Fall and 2 hour at the beach we desited to go for the south serie. The caches at this route were a little more tuff to find so due to the nightfall we didn't finish it. When we got down to the main road it was dark.....
We signed all caches with our second nickname: HFDK
TFTC

I did some of this series while cycling around NZ, here from Raglan to Waitomo. I had not plenty of Time, so I skipped some of them.
No chance here, but in the place where my gps located the coords was the street and I went on after 5mins of looking.

This entry was edited by Taurandir on Monday, 12 January 2015 at 03:34:13 UTC.

Funny ... couldn't find, but knew it was there (geocacher ESP). Discovered it 6" in front of my nose. Had to laugh at myself.

The weather gave us a reminder that we needed to be prepared raincoats on made to slower to find TFTC

Thank goodness we are making good progress - despite the stops and starts.

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

"Are we there yet?" Quiet son, looks there's another one... Go and get it

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

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

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!

Another successful stop on the way to Kawhia. TFTC

20am. Thank you for this series.
Thank you. David and Noeline.

Having a stop over

Time for a cuppa good job dave

another neat little find while out and about today thanks.

Ohhhhh sealed road. Luxury
Cheers Gav

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.

12309.264 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2007 Satellite V5 A#84

Albida

Thanks to Cats&Dragons for putting this series together. Neither my wife and I had been to Kawhia and this power trail was just the excuse we needed to have a look. We appreciated the well thought out hides, consistent containers and waterproof paper.

11.40am - Found #18. 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.

Quickly found where the seal turns to gravel.

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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

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.

a nice little drive in the country, plenty of rain and wind to keep the muggles out of sight - well we thought so.. but what with the safe parking not always matching the GZ's every time they saw mrs alligatorsnz treking to and from, cars stopped for concerned "are you ok's", but they just drove straight past Mr alligatorsnz - beats me how they told the difference since we both tall and wearing full length rain coats....

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.

#1342

A nice little trail

Many thanks

Now we will be onto the unsealed road.

Out with Becsicasa getting some out-of-the-city caches, and decided to try for the local earthcaches in Waitomo. TFTC

Out for a mission day with Z-masterNZ to try and grab some new cache types.
Was nice to see the countryside from Waitomo to Kawhia to Raglan.
#18 for the mission.
TFTC

On the way to get In Search of the Pipiwharauroa (Waikato). As this had been replaced got it on the way TFTC

Cache 500. Finally!! Many of these have been C&D caches - thanks for all the fun.

Lovely bellbirds singing.

Farewell tar seal road.

Another find, didn't have to get out and help search for this one. TFTC

With Mr. Quilty driving and me running and grabbing made for a successful run. It was my first trail. TFTT!

Quick find. TFTC

Out for a scenic drive. Great series, another quick find here, TFTC

Great series for the first day of the new year.

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

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.

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

Great to see the tarseal after all that dust & bumps. TFTC

The longest sunday drive on a thursday we've ever taken. Thankyou cats and dragon

Headed out today with the cache owner on a maintenance run. Easy finds when you have the owner with you. TFTC

Carried out a maintenance run accompanied by Nova Lightining, everything ship shape and hunky dory

In the area for a FTF in Raglan.
Been meaning to get to this one so today was a real good excuse. Just enough time before I goto head off to work too.

Perfect spot. Where the hard meets the soft. TFTC

This entry was edited by tparty on Sunday, 06 May 2012 at 10:18:15 UTC.

Revisiting #18. Even remembered where the original was.
MAny thanks

GPS was miles out. Down the bank made this one slithery.

TFTC! No 15 for me today.

Nice set of drive by caches, good for getting lots in one day.

9036 Are We There Yet... coming to the end of the Chip seal section of the road and starting our Pot (at) hOle and Gravy gravel excursion, TFTC.

Finishing off what we started last weekend, Started at the Kawhia end this time...
Great series, Thanks for setting it up.... TFTC's

found on a late night mission to gain the rest of "are we there yet" we may or may not have been caching in pajamas, desperate to reach 100 caches.

Gps was playing up but found anyway

Still heading north, still a nice day.

Actually found it using the original #18 co-ordinates, and yes, the original was 50m out for me too, but the new co-ords are bang-on. TFTC!

On a mission to do some night caching, and this Are We There Yet? trail is the perfect place to build up our tally. We had noticed before we left home that one of this series was archived, and then we saw this new AWTY? #18 Revisited cache get published. That seemed good timing for us, as we had already planned to do the trail tonight. Thought we had a chance at an FTF on the Revisited cache. No problem finding this one with the new co-ords, but then we saw the logbook was the original #18 logbook. Are we FTF or not?? To further confuse us, the next 2 caches we found (#19 and #20) did have brand new blank logbooks.
We had just got back in the camper and were about to drive off when a local pulled up in his ute and asked if we had stopped for a rest and told us there was a good spot to park up just down the road (well, it was midnight!). We told him we were on a bit of a treasure hunt, and he recalled seeing several other groups of people searching the bushes at the side of the road. He commented that most of them were travelling in the opposite direction to us (ie south to north). He wished us luck, and roared off along the gravel road.

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