Kiwi GeoTrail Wha Tekau ma Ono (46) (Porirua) Camborne, North Island, New Zealand
By created by XboomstickX. Adopted by SAROC on 14-Apr-13. Waypoint GC49RTP

I was a bit worried about getting this one by myself without the junior caches as it's highly used, and been a while between finds, but it was an easy find! HizzahGumboots would have been great, otherwise know that your shoes will get dirty! Left a TB here to reward the next puzzle solver.TFTC.

Easy find, cache sitting snug as for several months waiting to be rediscovered, in this case after a long day at work - and an auto prang! - on a gentle walk on my favouite Porirua walkway. TFTC XbX/SAROC

Another one down on this adventure. Did a few on this kiwi trail yesterday but struggled a bit with finding my waypoints. Discovered last night that I could change things on my map- yes of course you can you say! Not clear for those not in the know! Now I do though and back walking around Paremata. A bit muddy here and overshot things, heading up bank but got there in the end!Many thanks

Bring gumboots.
Cheers.

Day 7: We ( TeamARF, Gcoven and myself) have travelled over from Brisbane, Australia to have a visit since we were not able to make it to the Mega. We have spent some considerable time solving puzzles and making plans in preparation. We have a gigantic list of old, interesting, highly favourited, challenges and a few Geo-arts to try and collect over the next 10 days. There is a good chance we got lazy with our logging, or space saving depending on the log size and do some joint variation of our initials - TGJ, GJT or JGT.

Today the plan is to work on collecting things of our list - some of the very old caches in and around Wellington and trying to complete Kiwi Geo-art. We are also picking up a few challenges (will check qualifying once home).

Please excuse the generic log, just have extremely little data to try and survive on it for the 10 days. However, you can be assured that if we have found your cache it was special to us for some reason or in a special location - so thank you for contributing to our holiday.

I will edit logs when back in Brisbane to add more details to those that need more details and of course I will be adding favourite points as I go along.

Another day in the land of the long white cloud. TeamARF, JACSTeam and I headed south to Wellington. Lots of rainy caching but still some awesome caches and spectacular locations. Thanks to all COs!!

After a big day cache collecting around Wellington we got back here about 4PM. Our aim is now to collect as many kiwi puzzles before the sun goes down, basically our last opportunity before heading north tomorrow. Some DNFs but this was not one of them. Thanks to all the COs for adopting and maintaining their part of this series.

I started solving and finding these caches some years ago but for some unknown reason (or maybe it’s ‘I can’t remember the reason’) I stopped finding them. Anyway, today I was in a new area of the inlet and after helping with the CITO with the Seagnoid and we decided it was time to find caches along the track.

Kia ora rawa atu for the cache SAROC.

Having terrible luck with this series

Such a beautiful day here today. A quick find, thanks for placing and maintaining this series SAROC.

Spent a few hours at various locations around the inlet today mainly trying to knock off a few more Kiwi GeoTrail caches.
Cache number 6 today and after getting close to GZ unfortunately the Smartphone GPS just wouldn’t settle down. Next we switched to Google Satellite Map View and for some reason everything was several meters out (looking like we were in the water when we were on the track etc etc). Finally we pretty much abandoned the technology and used a bit of Geo-sense and soon had cache in hand. Again all in good order, TFTC

Another one on the series getting there bit by bit

Great walking track and the added bonus of finding a cache or two!

We solved this over a year ago during second lockdown. Today, we were invited to go for a blat about in a boat whilst some cousins were water skiing on the inlet. Took a quick walk during some down time.
Thanks!

Glad I had my boots on for this one as it was squelchy underfoot. TFTC

Was down from Northland for a few days visiting daughter who has moved into a new flat in Porirua. The weather wasn't that flash on arrival day, but the following days were quite nice, so managed to get in a little caching.

The Kiwi Geotrail puzzles were nearby and I had made a point of solving them all in the last month, so they were the prime target today. As luck would have it, fellow Team G0LD member Lis was driving through Porirua today, on her way to the South Island and she still had a few Kiwis left to find, so we teamed up for a few hours, to see if we could knock the series off.

Managed to head straight to this one, even though the surroundings were quite wet and muddy. Log was still dry though, so no problems signing here. TFTC

Had the niece with us so we had to take it in turns searching and looking after the niece. KTG found it while I was on beach rock throwing duty with little miss H. TFTC

Initially searched in the wrong area thanks to the area not being amazing for getting a good GPS reading. However, reading some older logs led and I to the right place. The right one was hidden, but the left was nice and obvious so I took a gamble. The cache was there tucked away safely. Despite the surrounding area being wet and muddy with winter just around the corner, the cache was all good. TFTC. KTG

Last cache of the day, not so many muggles around now its getting a bit later in the afternoon, and a quick find here. Left a new piece of water proof log paper, TFTC

Really enjoyed the track on the water's edge, plenty of friendly muggles saying hello. Easy find, hint pointed the way. Log damp and full on one-side. TFTC.

Solved the puzzle a while ago, and found this today on my second time of looking, once we got the right hint object. The last time I was here the ground was too muddy to have a good look. Very pleased to tick this one off

Bit overcast today and drizzly so good day to wander along here on the quest to find a golden kiwi - took a second look to find. Still a stunning spot though and super friendly locals - TFTC.

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 5.455 E 174° 53.192

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 5.460 E 174° 53.180

Distance from original: 62.8 feet or 19.2 meters.

Repositioning to smooth Kiwi shape

Found out with TharntheHalken on a KiwiGT blitz. Going around in reverse order. Found after a short hunt. Had to pick our time on a busy mornig. All good, Tftc!

Have spent last week solving these puzzles with just 6 unsolved. Spending the weekend in Whitby so decided to start collecting as many as I can today. Ended up walking round the whole loop which took a few hours. Busy on a Saturday afternoon. Cache all fine. Thanks for the smiley.

These caches have taught me a thing or two...
Having never experienced NZ without 7 digit landlines it was hard for me to wrap my head around this - BUT boy does it make sence when you think of the fact that people worked in phone exchanges.

Out with Kimmy+Co and Geeves90 for a morning of biking and caching

Tftc easy find, out biking with geeves90 and hayzz

Dropped by this morning. Replaced cache and log

Introduced my 5 year olds school friend to caching, they enjoyed the walk - this was our last and easiest along the walkway. Lucky as the two boys were both starting to argue over who got to navigate with the GPS We left a few toys in this one out of my stash, and made the mistake of giving the boys a whistle each out of my stash and they whistled loudly all the way back to the car... sigh... SL TFTC

Very wet underfoot here but log all in good shape.
Playing catch up along this trail with a group of morning walkers who once I explained what i was doing were very encouraging. Great fun was had by all.
TFTC

Started solving the kiwi puzzles today. Worked out a few to enable us to find a small number on today’s Sunday walk with the geohound. And yes, there were plenty of muggles about, so had to get the timing right! Found this one at the second hint object under which I looked. #3445. TFTC.

Enjoyed the puzzle and cache. Log pretty wet, but could still sign it. Tftc

Number four find for today on our walk with the Yeomanclan, this one took longer than it should have to be found but Andy was victorious this time. Really loving slowly building the kiwi again.

Out with Andy and Kelly and kids, nice autumn walk

I have lost my notebook! When I go on a geotrip I record my finds and notes in a notebook or, as in the case of this big circumnavicaching trip around Mt Taranaki that Taybeedragon and I did over Christmas, in three notebooks. And I have lost notebook number 3 - 29th December onward. Luckily I enter the caches as found on the GPS (helps with avoiding backtracking) so I am using my GPS log to identify which caches I found/DNFed. Alas, however, no cache notes. So it is now March - and I am relying on memory. A fickle thing, memory. I suspect most will have no notes above. Sorry, folks. I mean, I can see the final on the map, and sometimes that sparks a memory, but mostly - no.
Many thanks for a great geoart. I have been saving this for when I can do the whole lot in one day.

Running around Pahatahanui Inlet today to capture a family of Kiwis roaming around here. And Kiwi #46 is bagged and tagged. Cheers
Thanks to The Seagnoid for his puzzle solving abilities.

Day 23 - Saturday, 4 January 2020. Wellington. It the Kiwi series at Paramata today thats been on The Seagnoids 'must do' list for some time. Then The Seagnoid ships out. Sadly our 3 week holiday to Taranaki is over today.
Seen heaps, done heaps. Loved it. The Kiwi series is our finale. Cheers

Another great afternoon with MightyMicra pitting his wits and new Garmin against my old cell phone, still about 60/40 in my favour. Very high muggle area had to be careful. TFTC.

Another great day out with RedEcho finding caches round this side of the inlet. Thanks for placing and maintaining these caches.

I solved all of the Kiwi GeoTrail puzzles earlier in the year, but haven't had the chance to head out this way to find them yet. (If I recall correctly this was one of the harder puzzles to solve - not all the information was easy to come by.) Today I put a couple or three hours aside to grab a few of them, and managed 15 (plus some that weren't part of the series.

A bit mucky and slippery here, but it is winter!

Thanks for the cache and series.

Nice easy find that also provided a spot to sit and sign the log. Had a fantail following me part of the way. Tftc!

Today is the 14th day of our journey to the south island. I had planned to complete the Kiwi Geotrail before we head to Wellington to take the ferry to the south island. Having arrived near the Lake yesterday I was able to pick up seven of the series on our way to the campsite after visiting Rivendell and eating dinner in the Upper Hut area. We spent the night at the edge of the lake and after eating breakfast I started to collect the Kiwi Caches at around 9:30am.
I mannaged to find 55 caches today, 54 of which to complete the Kiwi. It took me a total of 10 1/2 hours to complete the trail at 8:00pm in a rather slow pace.
This was # 21 of 55 caches today.
The puzzle was solved a few weeks ago. We parked the car and entered the walkway midway walking to one side and then the other picking up 6 of the Kiwi caches along the way. This one was a ticky find and a muddy one too. The log is dry but the container is covered in a lot of mudd. Very bussy walkway today as it is a nice and sunny day. Tftc.

I was out and about today as part of Team GST (Gr33nslime, Stardust718, TwigNZ), working our way around the Pauatahanua Inlet finding all the Porirua Kiwi GeoTrail series of puzzle caches, plus a few selected others along the way.

In spite of the recent bad weather, we were lucky enough to have mainly sunshine today although the blowing southerly certainly left the air very fresh at times. I had already found a few of this series, as had Gr33nslime, but for the sake of ease whilst logging, all logs today were signed 'Team GST' regardless of whether we had found them before or not.

When I used to live near here a while back I remember that this walkway was popular with dog walkers, and obviously it still is many years later. Trying to pick a moment to search for this one without attracting attention was the hardest part! The cache itself was a quick find at GZ, although it was in a fairly disgusting state. We ended up replacing both the logbook and the protective baggie, and can only hope that they will remain fine for a while.

Thanks for the Puzzle, and the cache. A great way to help me celebrate 2 years of caching.

Team GST (Gr33nslime, Stardust718, TwigNZ) got together again for another caching trip. This time with a focus on finding all the Porirua Kiwi GeoTrail. We had a lovely drive around the area over 7-8 hours in which I found 70 caches. The parking at times was quite tricky and crossing the busy road was even worse but we all ended the day mostly unharmed (except for a few scratches from gorse).

I started solving all the kiwi caches only 2 weeks before our trip. Fortunately most of them were quite straight forward and the information that was required was almost immediately obvious.

#14 of 70 today. I made the journey to GZ at this location being careful to avoid all the new plantings. I only got 1 muddy shoe. The container was slimy and muddy, I tipped water out of the container. The contents were all sodden. We placed a new logsheet and plastic bag in the container and removed the mush.

There seemed to be three hint items from what I could see. The first had recently had a bit of weed eating maintenance and I couldn't find it there but at the second one I struck gold. TFTC # 13,733

We were staying in Upper Hutt for the week over Easter break and hoped today was finally the day we finished off the Kiwi Geo Trail. Our first go was in Oct 2013 and we did roughly 1/3, we did some more in Oct 2016 and finally wanted to finish it today. Mum had fallen over on the path earlier but being tough as old boots she insisted we carried on. Everything was still wet and dewy so Mum opted to go through the long grass to retrieve the cache and to try and wipe off some of the doggie poop she had stepped in earlier. The logs were wet - even the new one was quite damp. We managed to sign and return before the next set of people started coming. Thanks to both the original owner and now the adoptive owner for the effort involved in placing and creating this series for all of us to enjoy.

Very wet inside, log book soaked. Put a new log sheet in with some silica gel but this one really needs owner maintenance

Soaking wet

Find #215. Soaked log book and container. For what it's worth, have added a few sheets of paper for a new log and a couple of silica gel packets. Not sure that will do too much good, though. TFTC.

Today was the last official day of the Mega.
Plans were to collect as many puzzle caches that we had solved in the area plus anything else that came along.
Most of the puzzles were road side witch was extremely busy so parking in some cases were peoples driveways and balancing on road edges and some we didn't go for as they were to difficult to get to. Another day and we have to return.
Al in all a very successful day. SLTFTC

TFTC. Kiwi GeoTrail was oe of the targets for three keen MEGA attendees. KotukuSI and warfi were great companions and puzzle solvers in prep for this adventure.
We manged to complete the caches in a day (minus 2) and were truely warn out after our activities.
thanks to the original placer and the cachers who have taken over maintainence of the trail.

WENZ Mega Weekend is finally here... Our big focus for today will be to clear out the Kiwi Geo Art trail around the Pauatahanui Basin. We are expecting some challenges here - narrow roads and lots of muggles. With Gap (of Fap and Gap), NZFlossy, and McJandals...

Sunday: We were a little more relaxed today, since there were no pressures to be at certain places on time... Onto the Kiwi Geo Trail. We enjoyed solving each of the puzzles in this series. Each one provided just the right amount of challenge. What a great variety of authentic kiwiana puzzles...

We managed to find most of the Kiwis in their hides. Some were in a lot better condition than others, and we can imagine how challenging it might be to maintain some of them. We found the speed and flow of traffic, and tight parking made things difficult at times. We learnt to be resourceful and resilient as the day drew on. In all, thanks to each of the COs for your input into this series... Apologies for the cut and paste logs. TFTP and TFTC.

Caching the GeoArt trail with purdiepurdie & warfi; we are still at the early part of our trail.
Thanks for maintaining these caches, SAROC.

Absolutely loving this area. Wish we had longer to enjoy it

Solved this series a while ago, many of the puzzles were reasonably straightforward but a few required a bit more work to get the right answer. We came down this weekend to attend the MEGA nearby so planned to spend a few hours on the Sunday in this area to pickup this series. That proved a little more challenging than first thought as we had plenty of other distractions in Upper Hutt and there is a lot more walking involved to grab some of these caches than we had anticipated. We ended up getting around half of them on the Northern side of the harbour (some of which proved to be difficult to find places to park on the side of a busy road) before we had to get back to the airport. Thanks for this interesting series.

We parked at a small beach area we walked the nice track along this area to all 5 caches - got a lot more exercise than I bargained for along this section of the series. All good at this cache.

Attending the Wellington MEGA, great to visit here from the sunny Bay of Plenty, these finds have been found with my team members, which include myself, NZ Flossy, Squirrel Nutcase, FapandGap, Philip Perry, TNXPRO and Davidson Clan (To save room on logs) We are having a blast and gathering lots of smileys along the way. Please excuse generic logs in advance. (as I have saved the template using Cachly) Many Thanks to all you cache owners for the placements. Cheers

Attending the mega with TeamBOP. Great time to catch up with other cachers and visit Wellington lLots of fun and laughs while finding lots of great caches Thanks to all the COs for providing all the caches and the work that goes into them. Sorry for the generic logs will try to add to them once back home Thanks

Nanzie and I solved all of the trail in preparation for the Mega trip, now its time to see how many we can find. Thanks for the trail

#8170

Nice easy find the log was quite wet.Tftc

These phone prefixes were a new thing when I was growing up. Our old phone number was 3K. Our old Okaihau exchange and phone number is now at the MOTAT museum in Auckland. We were on a party line and had to listen for our ring (long short long). It was neat to hear it again at MOTAT last time I went. I frightened my Dad once. I was waiting to use the phone and Dad jokingly said tell them to hurry up. I picked up the headset, hung up by pushing the button down, and told them to hurry up. My Dad was horrified. The tricks you play, lol. Mum always said the lady who worked the exchange knew all the town gossip. A quick find of the cache here, thanks

On a long trip down to the mega with Lis's crew. So for me it good for numbers and favorites caches. With several stops and a lot of caches and several souvenirs up for grabs the trip was the perfect opportunity to get my numbers up and get some challenges that I have qualified for. Today we were targeting the Kiwi GeoTrail and trying to get fifty in a day which we just managed. This happened to include a lo of driving back and forth around the inlet and getting other side caches. but we managed a few walks in between for some of the other caches. Thanks to everyone who is maintaining these caches and keeping them going.

17th of the kiwi geoart puzzle day with gely57. I was around in the 90s when the changes were made. Another easy find of the day and the end of our walking part of the day. TFTC.

Worked out the co-ords with Teahan Family and as we are both over for the MEGA event we tried to complete the series today. Some caches were found in very good condition (being looked after by SAROC) and some that are in need of attention with wet logs and rusty containers. Really enjoyed the series, thanks CO.

I am on a solo geocaching trip. I flew in from Christchurch yesterday. My focus today was my visit to the Dutch Embassy yo renew my passport. Once that was done it was back to geocaching. Concentrating on the Geo art and anything else that grabbed my attention.

Sadly there is no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. I plan on going to the OzGeomuster in July. To find out more visit this site: https://www.ozgeomuster.com.au

Enjoyed the puzzle and finding the cache was straightforward, nice view from here, lots of walkers on the track, cache contents are very wet but log was still able to be signed

Another beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon to be caching in Wellington. Time to continue with the Kiwi. A quick find. All safe here, although a bit damp inside. TFTC.

This afternoon Gr33nslime, DangerSAM and I went out for another mission to travel the solar system. We blasted back over the hill to the Kiwi GeoTrail series over in the Porirua Harbour area. And this time we had a little more knowledge of where to go and what we were looking for exactly. Again we decided to knock off a bunch of caches clustered around an easy to access area. At first this involved a couple of park and grabs as Gr33nslime navigated us through some windy streets. These were a big change from yesterday, so nice and discrete, giving plenty of time to have a decent poke around for the cache. No muggles about so that was very much appreciated. Do not know why as today the weather was stunning, hardly a cloud in the sky. Well I must have spoken too soon as when we came to the main chuck of caches we intended to do, the fine day seemed to have drawn out all the family walkers and those little dog shaped things that seem intent to poo right where I put DangerSAM DangerPram wheels, all well. We ended up having a great walk around the coast on a very smooth track admiring the still bay and the clear view we had out across the inlet. I never would have come down here if it wasn’t for these caches so I thank the CO for that. After walking past some boat houses, we stopped for ice cream (mandatory for the little one) and set off home. Even then the day was not so quickly over as we managed to grab a few of the series on the way home, with Gr33nslime being a master of the dash, dig and retrieve method, perfect for those busy places. In all a very rewarding day today with only one cache we could not locate, but we will be back.

# 1044 The Planetary Challenge encouraged me to revisit this series of caches that I had solved about four years ago and hadn't yet got around to collecting, as I had left the area and was now back. I was happy that in four years only four had to be resolved, so that is a great effort for a big series like this!

With DangerSAM in the DangerPRAM and Jimmy NZ in tow, we were heading for a walk along the lovely inlet on a mild sunday afternoon to pick up a few of the kiwi geotrail.. What a lovely track this is and how very popular on a sunday afternoon which makes it tricky to time to extraction of a cache. I again took the hit on this one and found it easily enough not where the GPS was showing me, but where JimmyNZ told me to go! Cache is in good condition!

8/61 of the Kiwi GeoTrail! Thanks to all CO and cachers who have contributed to this geo art and kept it going.

Took a few tries to solve, but not too bad. We’d had a few DNFs on our 100, 10, 7 mission so needed to jog to this backup option — a steamy hot day even at 8am, and we’d been up all night! Quick find, signed as B&D. Cheers SAROC!

Oh, the days of toll operators and having to book international calls. And I'm not that old! Found with barefootguru as part of 100,10,7 challenge on 2/1/18. TFTC!

Well there is a few to choose from. Got it. All good here. Kiwis are being found today. TFTC

Found while out with NZ1, Glad-NZ,tftc

Found while out with ref nz and NZ1. Cache in good order. TNLNSL, TFTC.

Found with GLAD-NZ and NZREF. Solved sometime ago but managed to get out to find a few. TFTC

Our GPS was pointing in an unlikely direction when Mrs Sobad noticed something in a likely direction. Managed to sign the log and return the cache in a break from others on the track. It was popular today, mainly with dog owners.
Thanks.

Today is the day to head back down South to catch the ferry back to the Mainland, but first there are some formalities to take care of at the end of this recent course. With all that taken care of by 10 this morning, and having a G P S bursting with potential stop-offs down the line I set out with all sorts of different plots and plans. As it was I grabbed a handful of traditionals and a smattering of kiwi art puzzles in Porirua harbor (which was rather brown today) I probably ended up driving past numerous other unsolved caches there but that's for another day, or not.
A pleasant few caches and arrived at the ferry in plenty of time for a sleep in the car as the afternoon sun belied the coolness of the Southerly blow.
T F T Cs from all the COs.

Found the new caches on Te Araoa track this morning, now its time to do some more solved Kiwis. A straightforward find. Thanks for the cache.

This was as far as we walked along the walkway today, finding some caches along the way.
+ a marble, - nothing.

Another find on the Kiwi GeoTrail. Extremely muddy at the GZ but managed to get at the cache without falling over. TFTC

Mud mud and more mud at gz glad to be wearing jandals and had access to water to wash my feet in. Left Havelock North at 5am this morning picking up jordiporsche on the way. An overnight stay in welly to grab as many caches as we can including all the kiwi geo art puzzle's. Log signed as b&p.Tftc created by XboomstickX. Adopted by SAROC. Find # 3171

Solved these puzzles a year ago and we finally got a chance to come and find them. A lovely walkway. TFTC

Quick find while I stood at GZ scanning for hiding places. Nice day but suprisingly not a muggle in sight.

#2399. I solved a cluster of these kiwi geotrail puzzles on the weekend so I had some available for my next burst of night-caching. Needed three caches tonight so headed north to Porirua and onto the trail again. A pleasant stroll in the dark to the GZ with my headlamp. No muggles in sight after a day of rain. The clamber to the cache was a bit greasy but got there without mishap. The cache hide was fairly obvious for this one. The cache was sitting in a pool of muddy water but surprisingly was dry inside the container. Signed the well sealed logbook and returned the cache as found. Thanks for the puzzle and thanks for the cache. Cheers GSEL

hurray! found a kiwi cache

A pleasant morning - ideal to add some more smilies to the Porirua Kiwi! TFTC

Quick find by Mama Bear on a day out picking up the smilies on some puzzles we solved awhile ago. Another one ticked off on the kiwi trail. TFTC

Had to wait ages for a stream of muggles from both directions to retrieve and then replace this cache. Nice area, a good day for walks, not too hot and no wind. Lovely view. Tftc.

I found the subject for this puzzle the easiest to solve.

Nice to find a larger container which added a bit of variety, I note that this was upgraded comparatively recently - the cache size and description need updating correspondingly.

This is a pleasant spot, it was about on the borderline between the areas sheltered from the wind and those where the blustery gale that was developing could find its way through. I needed to get going back to town at this stage, but I was wishing I had brought a picnic lunch to have here.

At present owing to time constraints I am doing a piecemeal approach to the trail, hopefully after Christmas weather permitting I will be able to have longer sessions to cover more of the trail.

TFTC.

Day #3 geocaching in NZ/ and first day of two spent in Wellington + surroundings, in good company (=vipema, Veke68 & Katsukka = VVK-FIN in the logbooks, most of the time). Had a great time and found a lot of caches + saw so many interesting/beautiful places.

Thank you!!!!

Long time dream came true and we could visit New Zealand. NZ Mega was our maingoal and we had time to find others too. We travelled together with Veke68 and Katsukka and had great time. We used VVK Fin (that is vipema, Veke68 and Katsukka) in mostly logbooks to save space.

Thanks for the cache.

Greetings from Finland.

Two days Wellington trip with Vipema and Katsukka. Many nice views and caches. We logged mostly only VVK-FIN to save space in the logbook.

Greetings from Finland!

Thanks

I had solved these back in June 2013 and had signed off 12 of them in November 2013. I am now on my way south and have stopped off in the Ngatitoa Domain for a couple of nights before catching the ferry. So it is time to sign off a few more with this and a 18 others on a 8.3km return walk.

Cheers for the cache and series of puzzles.

We had solved this fun series of puzzles back in 2013 in preparation for a trip south in September of that year. As it happened we chose to spend longer in the Wairapapa and never made it over the hill to Wellington. The following September (2014) we made a fleeting visit to Wellington, while staying at Turangi. We concentrated on picking up some other puzzles and ran out of time to tackle the geotrail. This September we are back and have made the Kiwi Trail our first port of call.
We decided to drive the trail clock-wise starting on the northern shore just after daybreak. The driver was not looking forward to finding parking spots at each cache, but as it turned out this was less of an issue than feared - thanks to good preparation by the navigator, and to starting the trail early on a weekend day. In all we found 58 of the 61 caches and had a great day. Thanks to those who have taken on this series to keep it alive.
This cache was the furthest extent of our walk this afternoon. Found it and headed back to the van.

A nice find thanks very much.

I found this one while out and about with Mermaid Man. Thanks for the cache.

Yep, the log was a wet pulp of paper alright. Have replaced the whole cache with a new larger container and new log. Please ensure its covered up again when you return.
Enjoy this part of the estuary, it was looking very nice at lunch time today.

Firstly, apologies for the generic logs for this series. We were on a long weekend with Pagenz and a hit list of 302 solved puzzles. This art series was a high priority and the puzzles had been solved some time ago. Conscious of safety first when geocaching meant some back tracking as we didn't know the area and wanted to ensure we were safe with our parking. Managed to find some safe places and then walk to a few at a time. Some required emailing the now current owners for confirmation but overall we did pretty well. Thank you to those cachers that adopted this series so it can be maintained. TFTC

Log pulp. Tried to dry it out but it was very wet. T4tc

Quick find of a very muddy cache on the outside, and wet on the inside. Log was soaked so almost impossible to write on. tftc and enjoyable walk

Kiwi GeoTrail Wha Tekau ma Ono (Porirua) was transferred from XboomstickX to user SAROC