Wetas Cave (Auckland) Pukekohe, North Island, New Zealand
By whittinghams on 26-Dec-12. Waypoint GC43AVM

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

Hi whittinghams

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Looked everywhere, DNF. Please confirm it’s still in place.

Looked everywhere. Poked and prodded every knook but was nowhere

Sadly could not find it spent half an hour looking in all holes to find. Do think it make have been taken. On a upside did find some nice painted rocks from some school kids.

Looked everywhere with no luck. A lot of wood chip put down lately so may have been lost

No luck

Not sure it’s still here

Aarrrggghh

Our first one, thanks

First one I have found

Wet under foot. Paper deteriorated.

Thank you. Easy find

After criss crossing the countryside in search of crayola crayon caches, I had a bit of time and energy left to go and find a few more. I headed to Pukekohe for brunch and then went off in search of more caches. This one took me longer to find than it should have done. Reading a few previous logs helped with the search. Got it in the end. TFTC, Biggles.

Nice back story on wetas. Good hide and all back in order. No room left for signatures could use maintenance.

took us a while but we found it

Easy to find

Found it after really searching. We have put the pine needles back over the opening.

Weta good one

No wetas were harmed during the retrieval of this cache. Tftc

Pazza2, Jag50 and I headed South Auckland way to find a few caches. While Mrs Jag and I checked out other places, Pazza made the find on this one

Headed South with Merlot and Pazza today for a caching trip on the shortest day of the year. Living in the west we are used to wetas, so the title for this cache didn't put us off looking for this one. Cache was quickly located in an obvious cave.

Great hide. Didn't take too long. Tftc

Nice easy find
Got back to the car before it rained again

Not much planned this weekend so we decided to go to Pukekohe.
Nice hide Eyespyben got this one

Great hiding spot

I liked how I write my name in there, thank you for hiding it, thank you so much!
(Maaike age 5)

Decided to take a break from my studies and spend the day out caching. I offered to also take out my 2 nephews and niece along with me. We decided to head out to Pukekohe after picking up my nephew in Opaheke.

We seemed to scare off a woman training her dogs nearby as I approached with 3 boisterous children in tow. Didn't take too long to locate the weta cave, thankfully no weta's were there.

TFTC! Nice hiding spot! Note for others: BYO pen.

Nice Easy Find!!

Didn’t see any wetas - probably best!

I shouldn't be surprised but my gps took me straight to GZ for a very quick find. No muggles about so that made the find super easy.

TFTC

The title made me nervous so I was hoping Mr P would do the honours - but no, I did find the hide and had to do the honours. T4tc

The area was deserted today so we had no problems with muggles and the cache was quickly located.
Thanks whittinghams for the cache and for the interesting information about Wetas.

After a stop to visit my parents at Ryman thought I had time for a couple of caches. Nice quick find.

On a hunt for some caches around town, caching in the evening works in our favor with everywhere being quite and made for easy finds. Thanks for the placement and our first time being in this town. Also took us a little time to find this but after a second sweep soon had the cache in hand

While staying with some friends in Pukekohe I figured I'd go on a small excursion to clean up my map. This cache had me stuck for ages and it really shouldn't have. Hint was good, coords were good - my eyes were not very good. Got there in the end though, cheers whittinghams, TFTC

Snail!

Done and dusted!

Enjoyed my walk here. Well placed hide. Plesant find. TFTC

No problems once the school waggers had cleared off. Took TB

Nice spot for a sitdown and relax. Great hole. My GPS was about 5meters off but all good. Thanx.

Great hide! Was fun for my partner and I to go and seek it out. Quite well hidden under tree bits. I returned it as it was found and added a trackable! tftc

Cool 1st find

Found it easy

Easy parking. Nice stroll across the fields with no-one around. A few "weta" caves around but went straight to the obvious one.

Nice and easy to find your Weta Cave....
Thanks guys !
Very cute idea.

Quick find. Good hide.

Good hiding! Tftc!

TFTC

A fun find

Found to earn a souvenir ( Goodbye 2017) together with Piratenschatzsucher!.
Signed as team Piraten. Nice and easy find.
Tftc

Found to earn a souvenir ( Goodbye 2017) together with Greenkiwikids.
Signed as team Piraten. Nice and easy find.
Tftc

Good find!

All the wat from the Netherlands. Her on a combined bussiness and holiday trip. While my huisband was werking I cuold find time to search.
Found this one.
A smiley in New Zealand

1st chache! Woop!

Yay we did it

Found after a bit of looking 17/6-2017

Our 4th find of the day in Pukekohe. An easy one. Tftc

Happened to come along just as training was finishing so we were like rabbits in the floodlights as we walked round to GZ. While we started our search the lights went out so we were a bit more covered up. After a couple of minutes the cache was in hand exactly where Mr. O. had started looking...obviously a boy look. TFTC!

Sorry for the delay in logging this cache. We got caught up moving house and have only just got around to catching up on our logs.
So pleased not to find a weta here. A nice quick find with darthcacher1 and purply. Empty park today so easy to search.

Great spot took a bit of looking- thanks!

Benji

We made this harder than it needed to be as this one was nicely hidden but the coordinates were good. Searched multiple options then spotted it when Mrs beconaze was at the right angle. TFTC

First find with the kids.

look low!

Was a little hard,but it in he end.TFTC

Found this a little bit hidden TFTC

This was an easy one TFTC

Nice quick find before heading home on boxing day

A Little walk to find past the rugby grounds, feet getting a little wet. should have warn better footwear in the rain. TFTF

At the north counties primary school track and field and thought it would be rude not to collect

Headed out this way as a friend was meant to have a stall at the local market but she left early as was not feeling well so after a bit of lunch we decided to check out some of the local spots and take a walk.

The ground was not too wet today but we did have to battle the spider who had made this spot its home .

Thanks for the cache.

Found whilst out with keylev, laval and NZ Iceman.

Thanks for the fun and cache here.

Found whilst out with keylev, cragger and NZ Iceman.

Thanks for the cache.

I was expecting a "wet as cave" [:o]
Instead I got a "wet as" walk across the soggy grass
And a good cache hide at the end of me wander too [^]

TFTC

2367 Spotted cache quickly. Only weta at home today was on the cache.

Wasn't hidden away very well. Tftc

Tftc cool hide

Pukekohe Police section 3.we are swapping out the sheriff badge

TDTC

Pukekohe police section 3

5:30pm 18th and final cache for the day! Good days hunt tftc good find

It cool

Yeah, great place for weta eh! I was about to sign the log when I had to pause to take a phone call. - - - The caller had no idea I wasn't at home. Don't you just love modern technology?!
The cache had taken a few minutes to spot then just when I thought I had exhausted all possibilities - - - there it was. TFTC .

Found by the 5 year old "It was an amazing stash, I found all by my self". TFTC

Nice easy find. No wetas thank god. Needs new log sorry didn't have to replace. TFTC

Yay. Nice lil hide. Took pirates treasure left Jandal. TFTC

Fun with my 4 yr old granddaughter on her birthday.

Found with theochiais and ochiai1 hahahah. Nice hide! Tftc.

Our first find! Found actual wetas! Just kidding

Found it. TFTC found with Ochiai and Theochiais

Found by The Black Pirate

Uncle found and said eyes are greatest invention. Got a fright when saw what was on top of cache.

TFTC
My phone sent me the wrong way many times
Panda0505

Tftc

Too easy it's in the same place but I have hidden it with leaves so it's hard to find lol hahah

Woohoo! First ever geocache. Thanks muchly. Got us trying some alternative walking routes through our home town. Took us a while to find and got mucky with unnecessary tree climbing - fun though!!
Can you please put in a new logbook? Writing our log on a scrappy bit of paper was a bit of a bum end to our hunt.

First one for us! Exciting!

A stick did the trick and the cache was in the first place we looked. Thanks for the cache in a really nice spot.