Te Araroa - P2P - Rock (Wellington) Paekakariki, North Island, New Zealand
By Yeetrees on 25-Dec-12. Waypoint GC3M147

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Rock on!

It's the last full day of our extraordinary trip across the ditch to NZ, so what better way to top it off with another 10+km hike up a steep hill. It seems to be all we've done over the past month... The weather in this case was a little too good, as the sun was hot and bearing down on us the whole way, really putting the sunscreen to work. We quickly learned that this is a early morning kind of walk, not one to start at 2pm.

After a couple of GPS mishaps and a lovely lunch at the Bakery in Paekakariki, we eventually made it to Pukerua Bay train station and parked the car. Only to find the trains weren't running today and that they had been replaced by buses. Ok - that's fine, now where does the bus leave from??? There were no signs directing us anywhere, and we eventually had to team up with a few other lost hikers to find the bus stop at what felt like a 400m walk away from the Station. Why the closest bus stop is that far away I'll never know...

So after all that shamozzle we made a start on the track. The caches I picked up along the route all depended on what the muggle situation was like, if I found it within 10 seconds of looking, or if it had a D/T rating I liked the look of. These days I tend to take a less is more approach to my caching so wasn't too disheartened to walk past a few.

Number 2 for the hike, took a little bit more of a search and wait for a few muggles to pass by.

Thanks for the hunt!

Good clue, nice and easy find. Nearing the end of our walk

Saw the sign, thought "yep, that's the cache".. read the hint, thought "yup, that's definitely the cache"... should've read the title instead lol

Easy find and love the colours out here! Tftc

Nice find

cache count for the day #7

Lovely calm day out caching with Greml1n tftc

Plenty of rocks but GPS couldn't get close

A lovely day, out to pick up the remaining Escarpment caches. Easy, quick find. Plus an interesting info board to read while signing! All good in cache. Tftc!

Yay, an easy one here, TFTC

Nice and easy find walking along the escarpment track with KTG. TFTC

Just as the name says. Found with . TFTC. KTG.

Yay! A big smile here after 3 dnfs further south. Many thanks.
In awe of these Maori gardeners!

Good

Good to have these information boards around. Stops me looking so suspicious when the muggles arrive

I saw the most likely candidate straight away from the path and sure enough there it was. So the log book has been signed and the cache is nicely back in its spot all ready for the next geo-hunter. Thanks heaps for taking the time to set up this cache. I really appreciate your efforts in doing so. TFTC

Pretty straight forward find
TFTC

Quick find, thankfully, as we're getting tired!

14YO found this one. At this point he was enjoying the walk, for now. Having an excuse to stop and poke around a bit every 200m or so was welcome relief to my feet. TFTC

Nice quick find along our walk. Tftc

Found it. TFTC

Cache is in great condition

Found it. Full log later...

Maintenance check

All good here no issues as all logs are waterproof paper

Another successful find on a sunny midweek walk. Nice resting spot All in good condition. TFTC

Easy find, all good, thank you so much for placing this trail, I've been wanting to walk it for years so the weather was perfect today and the kids and I had a great time! Made even better for me by your caches!

Had to be one of them.

6th find today of 21 I am hoping to locate. Quick find. Check the name of the cache! TFTC.

There sure are a lot of rocks around here...

The “hint” was actually no help, but if Rocks could talk, I would’ve asked them for help.

Easy peesy lemon squeeze tftc

Thanks Yeetrees for placing this cache quick find - all nice and dry TNLNSL

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).

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.

Beautiful sunshine, fantastic views and geocaching. What could be better? TFTC

Enjoyed the walk. Wanted to do a few of these

This one rocked

Yes! Was right on spot according to GPS, lots of rocks, but not obvious place for .cache

What a nice hike. I really enjoyed it.

TFTC

From Canada

SaxGuit

Found with GeoBecky8 on 29/9/18 but forgot to update electronic log when I got home!

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 four since then.

I agree with the CO on this one, no need for a hint, it is all in the name.

TFTC Yeetrees

Well I am getting the hurry up talk now, as we don't want to be on the track in the dark, so I have to work quickly to find the caches.

Luckily this one wanted to be found. Thanks for the hide Yeetrees, loving the walkway today. AMAZING......

We rocked this one with a find

Ste went up for thus while jess read the sign and admired the view. It us very warm despite it now being 5pm!

Second time walking this track, but this time took the time to do a few of the caches along the way. We had perfect weather and only came across 3 other people on the track. Quick easy find, thanks.

Oh yes! 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!

Yay

How appropriate in Maori language week to walk the Te Araroa Escarpment Walk and pick up a few caches along the way. There are so many that to do all would have taken too long and so it was a case of find one and then miss some etc.
Quick find thanks Yeetrees.

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!

Checked cache and logbook all good here

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.

Unroll unroll unroll, find the end of the list of signatures, sign, roll roll roll...
(Though the pill bottles are a very effective way of keeping the logbook dry...)
TFTC

Went for a walk from pukarua Bay to paekakariki. Stunning view along the way. Some caches were slightly wet, others more difficult to find. Great walk tftc

Quick find. TFTC

Nice easy find, great view

Quick find. TC!

TFTC

In Wgtn catching up on family and friends. Monday to myself so its a walk along the Escarpment - Pukerua Bay to Paekakariki. So lets go!
Yes just another rock and just another cache tagged. Cheers

Easy.....TFTC

No, didn’t need to ask!

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

Submitted via Garmin Oregon 7xx

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

TFTC

TFTC
Found on our TA

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. 
Nice to be at the bottom at long last. I guess this cache got placed before the sign went up, the sign was certainly an interesting read (by the way, don't take me to a museum unless you have a day to spare!)
Not far to go....

Tftc.

Tftc

Out enjoying the escarpment track & grabbed caches when we stopped for photos or a break. Nice quick find. Amazing views. TFTC

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.

Dropped tracable

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

Nice quick find with no need for the hint!!

TFTC Yeetrees #623, 19 May 2017

The cache name gives it away. Nice easy find. TFTC

Quick find, the name of the cache already explain the whole thing. TFTC

Found

An easy find after some of the previous ones! TFTC

Easy find just off track

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.

5th for the day

TFTC

This is such a great walk, we are really enjoying it and the bonus of caches along the way is wonderful! TFTC

A quick find here, finally! We are really loving the walk!

Easy find as expected on this one.

Arghh, didn't bring a pen.

This seems like a good place to put a cache - sure enough. Just started some fine drizzle which is nice and cooling. Just a passing cloud so on we go. TFTC.

#3099. 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 one way stopping to find all the caches and then catch the train back to your car. The weather was glorious and sunny today with light winds. The hint here suggested that this should be a quick find. Once I saw the full cache title that made a lot more sense. The container was soon located in its snug hiding spot. Signed the dry logbook and replaced as found. Had a few muggles walk past while sitting here and none saw me in the long grass! Thanks for hiding another cache along the walkway.

Tftc

Enjoying the views on the walk south. Steep gardens, would have taken an effort to keep irrigated. TFTC!

We could hear a couple of muggles chattering away from behind us so I sat down pretending to be having a break, as they went past. One of them asked if I was giving up on the walk. Haha, can't really quit here can I, I'd at least have to walk back again!
Left an alphabet stone - the letter "K".
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

Found with quinella

Tftc