Te Araroa - P2P - Rest Area (Wellington) Paekākāriki, North Island, New Zealand
By Yeetrees on 28-May-12. Waypoint GC3M142

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After school mission to grab a couple at the start of the trail. Hard to lock in our position due to tree cover. Searched and searched but alas, nothing. Found the base of a Sistema container about 20ish metres from GZ. Muggled?
Cheers
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Had a good search here today and previously. Not sure about this one

Nice

I had trouble getting a reliable fix here under the canopy. The clue made sense once I arrived (I think), but with regular muggles and so much detritus around from the storm overnight I had to give this one away.

Found but unfortunately I left my pen in the car.

I had to think about this one for a while and then I found it. Log book signed. All good. Thanks.

Quick find. Well nestled.

3rd find for today. 14YO found this one. Relaxing stroll starting to ascend. TFTC

Tftc easy find

Hint seemed too illusive for me

Tftc more later

Found it. Full log later...

Maintenance check


All good here no issues as all logs are waterproof paper

Spent a few days around Paekakariki and locating a few caches. I went with hubby opn the start of this track locating three before turning back while Hubby walked on to Pukerua station where he would catch train back to Paekakarirki.
I had tried these three years ago but had no luck so gave up the trail but this time around they were all located without too much searching. I saw amazing shaped tree s and took photos which i will log later and an interesting succulant plant.
Thanks for this series of caches which one day i may complete.

Definitely need a rest.

3rd one of the day of 21 I am hoping to find - starting to take a little longer to find. TFTC.

Find #3. Loving how quick these are- they're keeping us moving along this trail!

#1057. Today I decided to tackle the Paekakariki Escarpment Trail, accompanied by GB Leader and our German wwoofer, Amelie. With my GC App playing up on my phone, and my expertise with Garmin not up to scratch, I was pushing it uphill! GBL came to the party with a short term GC upgrade, and we were away! Having checked the weather forecast, and deciding it was good enough to go, off we set, SuperGold Cards in hand on the Metlink train to Paekak.

Easy enough start, but as the legs got tireder, the route got steeper, and the wind got stronger. We searched for most of the early caches, but by the top, dodging the 54-strong Ngati Toa group who were manfully (& boy-fully and girl-fully!) climbing up with us, we were getting tired, and skipped a few searches.

The two swing bridges were really the highlight, especially the second, given the wind buffeting it about. The downhill second half gave some relief, and it was great to finally reach the end of the Trail. Only seven caches found, a dozen searched for unsuccessfully but a triumph of age over the adversity of Yeetrees’ magnificent job in setting up the challenge. Thank you, and of course, I’ll be back another day for another go at the rest.

This was #2 of the seven. Found at 10.25 pm. Nice easy find. Tftc Yeetrees.

Got an legged shock when we found this one haha

Thanks for placing these caches Yeetrees
Today was a beautiful day for a walk and what a great trail this is!!
This cache was well hidden so took a bit of searching TFTC

Enjoying a Friday walk along this track. Was expecting a sistema container. The cache found is in good order. TFTC

I was asked to join TwigNZ and ThatWeirdGuy on the Te Araroa Paekakariki to Pukerua Bay escarpment walkway today. It was a glorious day with minimal wind and we set off hopeful to find all 32 caches available on the trail.

After driving to Paekakariki then catching the train to Pukerua Bay we headed off on the trail at 9am. I was thankful to find all 32 caches (with help from the team) and finished the walk in 4 hrs 20 minutes. Logs were signed as Team STT (stardust718, TwigNZ, ThatWeirdGuy).

This cache was clearly visible as we walked up to the area. I signed the log and replaced it back in the same spot but with a bit more natural cover. Container and contents all in good condition.

Thanks to the CO for this trail and encouraging me to get out and explore more local(ish) trails.

Easy find. TFTC

A good nest.

Walked the track about 4 weeks ago but not able to geocache, so just finding a few of these today! Will be back.

What a nice hike. I really enjoyed it.

TFTC

From Canada

SaxGuit

We parked the geo mobile at the parking lot by the fisherman basket and hoofed it up to the overpass where we started this walk. I hope one day To come back and do all of this series many thanks

A few weeks ago my boss in Wellington sent out a notice that our Unit was going to do the Paekakariki Escarpment Track as a Team Building exercise. As a keen geocacher I knew the track had a few caches on it but even I was surprised when I saw there were over 30. That made it a must do, but how could I justify the airfares from Blenheim. I know, there is some training that I need to do and the options were to send me to Wellington to do it or send the trainer to Blenheim. Guess what option I chose.

So yesterday morning I flew to Wellington to do the training. I turned up to discover the server was down so sat around chewing the fat with some of the Wellington team. Eventually the IT boffins got the server up and running and being the quick learner that I am, I managed to complete the training before knock off.

That gave me time to do the Rata Street loop track behind Naenae after work. Not ideal tramping around in the wet bush after the recent rain which continued sporadically while I was out there.

Today a group of about twenty five of us of varying ages and fitness meet at Pukerua Bay station and headed north. the trip got off to a bad start with a DNF at the first, and another five since then.


This one was a lot easier than I expected which was good because my reporting time was looming and I needed to get back to the airport through peak hour traffic and could not afford any more hold ups.

TFTC Yeetrees

No time for rest, its after 7pm, we have been walking/caching for over 5 hours.... so cache found quickly, and I am on my way.

Thanks for the hides Yeetrees

Perfect day to do the walk, not too hot, or too cold. The rain has stayed away, and so have the winds....

No time to rest. Its getting late and we have a train to catch

First out the three we've found today. Luckily easy find. Tftc.

A fantastic day to walk this track, thought I'd do a few caches along the way. Tftc

Thought we were going well. Tftc

A quick and easy find on a nice walking day. I've been meaning to do this walkway for a while now. Thanks

Today we moved lodging from Lower Hutt to Plimmerton. We cached on the way and did a great walk from Paekakeriki to Pukerua Bay. Signed the cache logs as Ms+Mr KR.

Thanks to all CO's for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers

Third time on this track but first time looking for caches here!
Had limited time so started at Paekak, walked to the top and came back down the same way. All caches along the way were easy enough finds with good co-ords and hints
TFTC!

Couldn’t find

Finally, a day where both jgirl1880 and I found ourselves rostered off on a day where the sun was shining and the wind was minimal. A perfect opportunity for us to tick the escarpment track off our "to walk" list. An amazing walk with views better than I had imagined. I can't wait to do this walk again!

Had some time to spare so decided to come and find some caches that I didn't find last time, pleased to find this one easily today, about 10 minutes walk from my car

Replaced cache and logbook and moved to new home

Coordinates changed from:
S 40° 59.854 E 174° 56.648

Coordinates changed to:
S 40° 59.844 E 174° 56.652

Distance from original: 63.7 feet or 19.4 meters.

Replaced cache and moved to new location

A year and a half ago I did the escarpment walk with the family; there were too many people to cache, and the family is too impatient to stop every 161m. I came back today, in the middle of winter and starting early (in the dark at 6am) to avoid as many other walkers as possible. I did the walk out-and-back, doing the caching on the way out; it took 3 and a half hours to get to the rail bridge. The trip back was an hour and a half with no stops, but it did include a detour round the kohekohe loop.

Couldn't find anything from the track I'm afraid. Sixth DNF of the day.

Couldn't find this one unfortunately

No joy here

Started out on this walk early this morning as we knew it was going to be a scorcher. Beautiful track and wonderful views.
Thanks to the two teenagers that were with us for doing a lot of the scrambling up the banks
Enjoyed the caches

Submitted via Garmin Oregon 7xx

** This is a log from an account split. Logged as YetiNZ **

TFTC

On the way north to Palmerston North and Rotorua for Christmas. Walked onto the ferrry, then picked up a car at Upper Hutt from a fellow geocacher (a saving of $240 from not having to carry it on the ferry). Drove to Pukerua Bay and abandoned it there. Now walking to Paekakariki to pick up a train. 
No rest area here anymore. And in the spirit of that I too carried on. A big sign here requesting volunteers for trapping. I already work on two trapping lines in Blenheim. On one, when they started they were getting 40 rats and mice out of 80 traps every week! Impressive. When I started that figure had dropped to 10. Now, just before this holiday trip, the take is two to three. AWESOME!!!!
I did find one trap way back there with a rat in it. Needs clearing and resetting.

Rest area? Tftc.

Tftc. Number 3 on our walk

Great work by. Planters

Wow, the P2P trail. What a day! After parking the car at Paekakariki and walking to the start of the trail we decided to take our time, we took a little too much time though. After starting the trail at roughly 11 am we had finally gotten off of the trail by 5 pm. We had some good luck finding caches but towards the end, I think TwigNZ and I gave up on the last few.
Nice quick easy find here.
T H A N K S F O R T H E C A C H E.

T H A N K S Y E E T R E E S

The Paekakariki Escarpment Track had been high on my 'to do' list for quite some time, ever since it opened. Back in July we tackled it for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed it, although at the time we did it as part of a group of Inline Hockey kids (and parents) so we didn't attempt to do any Geocaching on that trip, but promised ourselves that we would come back and do it again as a Geo excursion.

So today was that day. Good stable weather meant that there were quite a few people on the track which made for some interesting times when trying to hunt without attracting attention from Muggles, or 'Pineapples' as was our code word for the day lol.

I have to admit, that whilst I figured the trip would take longer than the previous time, I wasn't expecting to take almost 6 hours to complete the trail. We started from the North with a hiss and a roar, hoping to have zero DNF's for the day, but we encountered a few genuine DNF's (as in we genuinely think they are missing) and towards the end we had more and more DNF's simply due to tiredness from the heat and a bit of a loss of enthusiasm, but our thanks go to Yeetrees for setting up all these Caches, even though some of the hints left us thinking “you're kidding right???” But this trail enabled us to fill in a few D/T chart 'dots' too, so thanks again.

I apologise in advance for the generic log, but there was no way I would have been able to write up each Cache as I went along, so am logging them now in bulk (sort of)

Quick and easy find. Signed the log as "T & T" for myself and my son (Thatweirdguy04).

Thanks for the Cache

Walking southwards, the day turned out beautiful and sunny. Thanks for the caches, it was a great introduction for two new cachers I was with, and certainly inspired us to keep racing along the trail to the next one.

This series was found and logged over two weekends The first round was over the labour weekend and the second round to weeks later. Some caches were easy finds, others were hidden well and I and JoshThePirate had to search for a while. Thanks for the caches along this nice walk way [^] Logbook singed with C.M. + JTP.

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Cache.Mike

Cache.Mike and I (JoshThePirate) found them over two weekends - it was a lot of fun

** .... JoshThePirate**

This series of caches has been on my hit list for the last few days but because of nasty weather it was put off until today. The idea was to catch a train from Plimmerton, where my caravan is parked, to Paekakariri but the trains weren't running so caught a replacement bus. I had a bit of a walk from the train station, where the bus dropped me off to the start of the track.

Managed to find this one without too much trouble.

Cheers for the cache.

A quick log to sort out the found its from the DNFS, more later when I get better Internet.
A trip overseas was on the cards with a long haul pencil aircraft trip of 16 minutes had me away from the Mainland for a week and a half on a course in Upper Hutt. Luckily I had a set of wheels at my disposal with big thanks to caching friend wb so I wasn't to be stranded at my digs and able to get out and make some local finds. With a whole weekend at my disposal, I decided on a two-prong attack; Paekakariki to Pukerua Bay trail on Saturday, with a couple of earthcaches thrown in and a planned trip around the headland at Porirua on the Sunday. I managed a repsectable half-century of finds on the Saturday, but the weather never played fair on Sunday so pland were amended. A great walk was had on the Saturday with fantastic views all around and a pleasant stroll which, with caching, took over 4 hours and followed up with a quick 8 minute train trip baqck to get the car. Good time caching in the area, thansk to all the COs for their placements, and therefore my enjoyment.

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Thanks to the Cache Owner who has gone to the trouble of creating this cache, determining the coordinates and then averaging them to make sure they are accurate, placing the cache and registering it online for our enjoyment. Without Cache Owners doing their bit, there wouldn't be a fun hobby that we all love - so again a big THANK YOU. For our bit, all we need to do is find and log the cache that was carefully placed for our personal enjoyment. As we log it we should consider that the Cache Owner also needs to maintain it - when the log sheet fills up, they must replace it. When the container becomes full of water, they need to empty it. When the container is broken, they need to repair it. When it goes missing they need to find or replace it. Well..... the great news is we can do our bit too - make sure your log doesn't take an entire page - just a name and date. If full of water, empty and dry the cache as best as possible. Be careful when handling the cache and make sure you replace it where you found it. If it has a bag, seal it. Just remember - the Cache Owner showed respect to you by placing the cache - please respect them and fellow cachers that follow you by being careful with the cache. And if you have a spare log sheet and the cache you are at needs one, please leave it behind. Finally, if the cache does need maintenance, please let the Cache Owner know - you can log a Maintenance Log or you can drop a line to the Cache Owner. Above all - have fun and remember the Geocaching Code.

Tftc

No pen!

We started on the track from Paekakariki on a sunny, warm, near windless day. Just magic for late May. Clear views of Kapiti Island, the coastal villages and across to the ranges in the South Island. TFTC

3rd cache from the escarpment Walkway. TFTC

East find using GPS, first place I looked. TFTC

An easy find allowing us to move along with daylight fading. TFTC

This was an easy find in the first place I put my hand. Tftc onto the next one

I will say sorry for the copy and past logs now, we were to leave home at 7.30am so we could get in an early start, turns out we mucked around so much not leaving until close to 8 earning how to use the gps unit (note to self learn and load before a big day caching) stopping for a coffee and muffin and then looking at stuff around town, and trying for a cache up a tree with no luck, so we did it in 5 hours with many stops for the views and chatting to others, and when climbing we were more than happy to wait for people to come down, I personally think it would be easier going in on the north end so you are not doing so many up hill stairs, we loved the walk, as my hiking shoes were still drying for the weekend before I wore a pair of 35.00 sneakers I brought to cover me while my other ones were drying, they did well but feet were killing me by the end, both dad and I loved the walk and all the effort you have put into the caches.

No joy

We're enjoying this so far - might not be saying that at the end. Had to be patient and wait for a muggle free gap as it seems this is rush hour! TFTC

No joy again! We are with a group of five muggles, so haven't really got the time for a good look. They are already out of sight!

Nice quick find today.

Good quick find, but didn't bring a pen.

Good quick find, but didn't bring a pen.

Overshot the hide by about 10m because the GPS was being a bit laggy. Found in the logical place after a short search. TFTC.

Beware of the spiders Web. Found on a lovely walk in the sun

Mr PomsAway was enjoying the opportunity to rest while Mrs PomsAway and I hunted for the cache. Nice hide, had to be brave and fend off the monster spider who has made this location his home!

TFTC Yeetrees #516, 20 December 2016

#3104. I was at the Mana Island photoshoot event this morning and meet up with Chris (Yeetrees) who said he was off to walk this track. He wanted to check up on the caches along here to see if any had been affected by the earthquakes and heavy rain in November. He asked if I wanted to join him. I wasn't sure as I had to have the car back home by 3pm. But Chris thought we would have the walk completed by lunchtime. Well that might have been a bit optimistic. I would allow 4-5 hours to complete the 10-12 km walk and find all the caches. Another quick find here with reasonable coordinates and a good hint. Signed the dry logbook and replaced the cache where found. Thanks for hiding another cache along this walkway. We stopped at the nearby picnic table for a drink and to see when the next train was due at Paekakariki. While sitting there the 2.15pm train went roaring past. Oh well, that gives us half hour until the next one arrives and yes I will be a bit late getting home.

In town to watch my Daughter play at the Keith Urban concert and such a beautiful day we couldnt resist doing this walk although with limited time we only did the few caches we could find basically straight away, this is such a great walk that it we will do again next time down this way and get the rest.
We parked at Pukerua bay station and trained to Paikakariki and walked back.
This one was right out in the open and the log was not in the container but still all in good condition.
TFTC

Enjoying the walk south to Pukerua bay on a still day with a flat slate coloured sea and no rain - yet! TFTC!

A bit early for a rest, but if you insist......
No problems here in this nice shady little spot.
Left a pet rock - a calf. Thanks Yeetrees

Out for a walk with Ms M this morning.
Nice track. Great views and the odd spot of rain.
Plenty of other walkers about.
Good to see it getting plenty of use.
TFTC

Back in the area today so decided to try and turn that blue frown upside down! No problems this time as cache was quickly located. All in good order TFTC

Found with quinella last Sunday - a good excuse for rest stops these caches.

Tftc

This one seemed out of position and not well covered. Left as found but better covered. Likely to be muggled ? Thanks

Fun find with friends

Grassy

Thanks for placing the cache. Quick find on a Sunday walk with the junior cachers.

Enjoying a good hike south to north here today.
And a few caches that I'd not collected on the visit to the incomplete track.
TFTC

On a roll!

TFTC!

Another easy find on my windy escarpment walk

Another very quick find. I am enjoying the walk so far.

Found this with EJinNZ. TFTC.

A quick find, thanks for the helpful hint Yeetrees.

Straightforward find. tftc

#3

Awesome set of caches, tftc

First find for the day

Found this fairly easily.
A lovely Autumn day on the coast.
Thanks