The road to Morrinsville (Waikato) Gordonton, North Island, New Zealand
By McCutchan Cache Clan on 17-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3H996

hiding spot has been removed along with the cache

Put my gumboots on and crossed murky ditch...had a look round poplar but no find for me today.

Odloveno s Lucka Black, TFTC )

I am traveling with my daughter Lucinka mundlinka and son Negrritos across the New Zealand. We are from Prague, Czech Republic. We love "geocaching", the main target is caches )
Many beautiful caches, amazing and unforgettable experiences, thank all owners, TFTC )

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Original GZ is clearly no more. Couldn't find it in its temporary spot following mar1sa's log. Sounds like the container is a bad way aswell. Time for some CO intervention I would, politely, suggest.

Followed the advice from the previous log for a quick find.
Tftc

Weather in our favor today and enjoyed some much needed caching ended up with a tally just over 40 replaced logs where needed and enjoyed some good laughs over the course of the day, thanks for taking the time to place the cache.
- turns out the cabbage tree is now 100% gone, pulled up hunted for the tree and found a container that we were very surprised still there - the container is all cracked and needs replacing and have moved it off the grass into the poplar on the farm side so its safe from being muggled I hope this was ok with the CO - I will send you some photos

On a mission to find the finals in some of the geoart around here I had forgotten that my GPSr also had some trads loaded and so, after hitting find next closest and ending up here I was a bit confused. Had missed the extra bit of roading here so ended up walking right around because I was not brave enough to jump the ditch. A quick find at GZ although the cabbage is now dead cabbage and CO might want to keep an eye on this one in case the cabbage is removed! Thanks for hide, McCutchan Cache Clan.

It was a easy find

Good find

Awesome quick find. Many Thanks

Was on my way to do the Icons Series with urbangypsynz & GorbyGorbachov and we stopped here for another quick PnG. TFTC. Dropped TB

I headed down from Auckland to complete the Kiwi Art Project series with merlot58 and Jag50. Met up with McJandals from Tauranga to finally make the finds after solving the puzzles awhile ago. We signed as JAMM to save time and space on the log. Thanks for the cache.

On the road to the icon series, nice quick find, setting the tone for the day. With Jard and Gorby.

Quick find whilst doing the Art series. TFTC

NZPatoto and I had organised to do geocaching today. It's been a while since our last outing. I decided to drive that way - if raining I could send NZPatoto to sign the log. We did not let the weather deter us even though at times it was really wet. We managed to get 9 done without getting wet. 8 of 9 Found by NZPatoto. Easy find. Cabbage trees don't look to healthy TFTC

Nahkins and I decided to do some geocaching today as we hadn't done for sometime. It was showery and a bit heavy at times but we managed to get 9 done without getting wet. Nahkins parked the car and I mad a quick dash to the cabbages as it wasn't raining. I could see as I headed towards GZ. The cabbages don't look too healthy. TFTC

Nice and easy find

Day two of my wee holiday in the Waikato region. I woke up this morning to the sound of steady rain on the tin roof of my awesome Airbnb tank room, but I don't let a bit of water stop me caching as I have a good jacket, wet weather pants and no problem with wet feet.

After a quick breakfast, I prepared lunch and a vague route for the day and was still out the door relatively early, with my main focus completing the New Zealand Icons series and making inroads into the Kiwi Art series.

Having finished the New Zealand Icon series by early afternoon, I was keen to make a start on the Kiwi Art series.

This was one of only three non-mystery caches I found today. Tree has come down, but the cache was still a quick find. TFTC

Easy Peasy for the kids to find! Thanks!

Quick find between the Kiwi GeoArt

TFTC

Deforestation and hoon spoor at GZ gave me doubts but the cache was quickly located and all good. TFTC.

FTW Gorby and FMZ
Sorry for a very late log. Had missed it somehow.

On an all night (and following day) caching bender with harisree and Gorby to clear out the Eyes puzzles currently released, along with the Kiwi art series and any other caches that we drift along past. Who knows where we will get to or when we will get home. but that's the fun of it, right... TFTC!!!

Out and about caching today with FMZ and harisree. We came down from Auckland leaving after FMZ’s midnight Pirate event, cached all morning so far with no sleep. It’s all about numbers today for each of us, all the caches today are park n’ grabs including all the mystery caches we’ve done. It's a gorgeous day, warm too. Thanks MCCC for the cache.

Nice to be able to park off the road, if there had been picnic tables here, we would have had a bite to eat here! The find took us awhile but eventually harisree found it since she had done so on a previous occasion.

Good swaps. Easy find. Took the travel bug. Tftc

Found it, had a bit of cover after storm had to dig a little lucky we dug just in the right spot ..

#294. On business in Morrinsville and decided to take the long way home. Didn't realise this was such a busy road. Quick find in the vegetable container. Tftc.

Nice easy find on the way to Morrinsville

Great hint. Nice easy park and grab. Left one of our black marbles behind to add to the other cool swaps inside.

Didn't found.

Out for a mystery cache Hunt with Mr and Mrs 2BB, had a couple of tbs to drop off, took 2 left 2. Mission accomplished, this one is a wrap. Thanks for the cache from Blenheim Bear!
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I was in Hamilton for the weekend for the Dahlia Show. Today I planned to find 120+ caches. 123 caches for the day. Stopped here while doing Kiwi Art Project series. Dropped off TB. Thanks McCutchan Cache Clan for the cache.

Been here before but a lovely place to help little bugs on their adventures of NZ

Bit wet but quick grab on way home tftc

Finally stopped to donut on the way past

A nice quick cache and dash, it was soon in hand, log signed and replaced as found
TYFTC

Left the city behind us today heading towards Morrinsville to complete some geoart. We picked up a couple of roadside caches along the way.
I sit here at my B&B for the night, gazing out the window of the perfect green NZ dairy farmland.
Very typcle of the landscape where we found most of our caches today.

We ventured into Morrinsville & had a lunch break of some seriously good pies.
Left a TB here.
Thanks for placing this cache McCutchan Cache Clan

Great parking, traffic held up a few km back at roadworks so no muggles watching. Nice spot to walk the 4 legged team leader.

I drive past this one every day on my way to work. Finally have time to stop today

Be careful not to get jabbed in the eye! Took nothing, left a bling pen.

Going by while finding the Kiwi Art searies caches.
Thought at first I would have to give thisone a miss, as there was a large truck and trailer parked here. However as i passed the entrance the track statred to pull out, leaving the tailer behind. I was able to pullinto the second entrance.
While walking toward GZ andother vehicle drove into layby, thankfully it parked behind the trailer which meant that GZ was blocked from view..
Took a little while to find cache as it was slightly higher than what I was expecting. TFTC

Buried deep in cabbage! Tftc

Just finished the kiwi arts mystery caches and passing so had to get this as well. Such a very busy road today - gypsy day!. Thanks for the cache

Out for a few caches today spied this cache ...after a quick search soon had log in hand and signing ...dropped of TB thanks for a great cache

Found with Philip.Perry and Tnxpro today on a mission to collect the nearby kiwiart series and NZ icon series. It was dark by the time we got here.

Found this with Davidsonclan and Philip.Perry while we were in the area picking up the Kiwi Icon and Kiwi Art puzzle series caches and any others in the vicinity. Part of a haul of about 150 caches in the same day.

We parked in the middle of the road here as it was dark and we assumed this was an unused road, but a car came up behind us and sort of waited for us to move on. They must have wondered what we were up to.

TFTC

What the guys said plus: we knew we were in the right spot, but with 3 of us looking somehow it still took longer then it should have - especially considering the sun had set and we still hadn't finished all of the puzzles! Cheers MCC

Off on a little adventure to grab seven caches between Gordonton and Waihou. A easy first stop, found between traffic, grabbed tbs.

Nice quiet drive home TFTC

Out for the day so stopped off to grab this one. A nice easy park and grab. + a domino, - nothing. SL. TFTC!

My daughter enjoying one of the treasures inside ^_^

25th Waikato guides found it. Easy clue

Quick and easy cache! Tftc

Kids are having a blast. My 4year & 6 year olds are learning all about swapping. Enjoy the pink heart sunglasses

Quick find on the way home from a weekend in raglan. TFTC

On our way to Hamilton for the night and decided to grab this along the way. My Internet decided to stop working but luckily I remembered the clue and found the cache quickly. Tftc

Quick find on a quiet evening, there goes one more dot day. TFTC

Nice cache tftc

Nice cache tftc

Awesome find!!! Tftc

Found it after abit of searching, cool place to put one. TFTC.

Found it today with my kids. We were on the way back from hamilton. Kids got a bit confused by the hint but after a little help from me they found it. My son even found a tape measure in his search hahaha. Thanks

Had a nice quick find here. Driven past this test stop many times and never noticed it. Found with evisser8. Tftc

Cool rest spot! TFTC! Found with Osbourneroadoddballs.

Nice cache

Quick find thanks

Found it with the geo grandkid visiting from Australia!

Found on the way back from a daytrip, while we are visiting from Perth WA. Getting the grandparents hooked on geocaching along the way!

Managed to squeeze only one find in on this day, on our way back from some shopping. It was good timing because a long (by nz standards) train came past which entertained the kids. It also proved good motivation in hurrying them back into the car in the hope of catching up to the train. Tftc

Another quick find on the way home. Slowly but surely I am getting my numbers up. TFTC

Master Seth and I had to take a little trip to Morrinsville today to deliver Tents to the shipping container to go to Girl Guide Jamboree in Christchurch so I took this opportunity to grab a few caches on our way back. I pointed Master Seth in the right direction and I arrived to GZ behind him to hear "found it" and the smiles on his face for the size of the container and the fact that there might be some cool swag . . . . . he wanted the 10 cent coin, tucked it into the top pocket of his pyjama top (Yes pyjamas - the attire of his choice most days) he put some goodies in and we moved on towards home. TFTC - neat little hide.

I was out collecting a few Kiwi Art caches and enjoying the second day of Daylight Saving and this one popped up on the GPS.
A few items looking seriously burnt where I parked the car.
Strolled over for a quick find.
TFTC

I have been driving down this road for 10 years - 1st time I've ever stopped! Also never realised there was that much traffic along the road!

Quite an interesting place to find a cache. We parked our car on the road. Got plenty of time to search.

Tftc. Quick find today on our way to hamilton.

Off to finish the T2A-R series grabbing a few park n grabs along the way with Drulisa. Tftc

Quick find, love the big container. tftc

Quick stop on our Waikato adventure

Finally!!

Found a lucky treasure

Thanks for an interesting cache write-up, Morrinsville is a place I normally just pass through. TFTC McCutchan Cache Clan, #7853

drove right passed this one ,turned back and soon had it in hand.

Tftc

Really good cache, great parking, nice well-known local location. High muggle traffic on some days.

Easy find

Nice find here, tucked away. Cheers MCC

Nice easy find on the way to Morrinsville tonight where everything was lovely and dry. Loved the nice big container too. Took a loom band, left a bell.

On a mission with Keylev, NZTravellers, Stik-a-crane, Eir-ot, Hinemoana & Agazo. We did both “Kiwi Art Project” and “NZ Icons”, and a few random traditional’s on the way.

Was a great day out. Left Auckland just before 8am and got back just after 8pm. We got almost 150 caches in the day….had a great time doing it. I think I got Sun burnt over my sun burn from yesterday.

TFTC

A group of 8 of us set out today to find all the NZ and Kiwi Art series that had been solved a while back. It was a great day and we covered many km's whilst exploring the Waikato outback. We stopped for some traditionals along the way where possible and this was one of them.

Thanks for the cache. Log signed as TAS.

Out on a mission to collect the Kiwi puzzle series, met up with UncleSamNZ, Keylev, NZTravellers, Stik-a-crane, Eir-ot, Hinemoana & Agazo around the corner, so joined them for this cache before we both headed off in our own directions to complete the series. Darthcacher1, Purply and Eir-ot raced to find this one, with them all calling out successfully at the same time. TFTC.

The mission today was Kiwi Art Project, NZ series (revisit), and any individual caches in the area
The team was great (and large), Agazo, Hinemoana, (great to meet you both), Eir-ot, keylev, NZTravellers, and UncleSamNZ. totalling 8 sets of eyes, bodies, and minds, and two cars.

Signing logs as TAS (SATurday) to save space on the log sheets.

We had crossed paths with team HeMaLuDy, Purply, and Darthcacher1, who joined the team for this one.
The guy, talking on his phone, parked in the car park would not have know what was going on when 3 cars screamed in, 11 people jump out of cars and the 3 junior caches dive into the various bushes while the adults subtly try to hide it all... and then we were gone...

TFTC.


This entry was edited by Stik-a-crane on Saturday, 07 February 2015 at 19:58:35 UTC.

Found with HeMaLuDy and Purply while out collecting the Kiwi puzzle series. TFTC. Raced Eir-ot to find this.

Our NZ Icon-Kiwi Art series team met up with the HeMaLuDy family and we went after this one. The three junior cachers sped off to find this one as the rest of us just walked over. I'm sure many people driving by were wondering what so many people were all doing in that spot. TFTC.

Out for a day with NZTravellers, Keylev, UncleSamNZ, Agazo, Hinemoana and Mr Stik-a-crane to do the Kiwi Art Project.
TFTC

Signed the log as TAS to save space.

Teamed up with amazing crazy cachers for a fun filled day in the Waikato! Our main aims involved the kiwi icons and art - very appropriate weekend to be having fun with these [^] Additionally for me, this year I will celebrate 20 years in New Zealand, so plenty of time to get familiar with the topics covered - still plenty to learn also. We also found some cool trads, both on the way and once we finished the trails with time to cache some more. Team TAS had a ball, thank you heaps!!!

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In the Waikato today as part of team TAS - Keylev, ERI-OT, Stik-a-crane, Hinemoana, UnclesamNZ, Agazo and us! Had a fabulous day with the team doing the NZ series and the Kiwi art series. As we drove around we also took the opportunity to do a few other caches around the area. Teamed up with HeMaLuDy briefly at the cache and it was a veritable gaggle of cachers at this hide, begging the question as to just how many cachers DOES it take to find a cache??? TFTC.

Found with HeMaLuDy and Darthcacher1. A quick detour while collecting the kiwi puzzle series. Fine weather today.