Tapuae rock 'n' roll (Taranaki) New Plymouth, North Island, New Zealand
By knees'n'things on 26-May-13. Waypoint GC4CY8A

When I first looked at the puzzle I thought, might just leave that one...I had a quick play but couldn't come up with anything. Several months later I had another look and things started to click and it wasn't long before I Got a tick on the geocheck. Quickly found once at GZ. thank you for a cool puzzle and cool cache.

Thanks for the puzze and cache! This was one of my favourite finds!Finding the log was harder than solving the puzzle for me haha! I visited gz a few times Finding the log was such a sneaky and frustrating one but I loved it! So many puzzles in finding this one!

Team effort to solve & find. Had solved this a wee while ago over a few weeks off and on. So off we went today checking if we could find the final, and after a wee hunt we came up with the right place. Yippee we said. Nice location for the final.
Thanks to the CO.

Solved as part of a group. Quick find of the final on a bleak day. Love the desolation and picturesqueness of this area, cheers knees'n'things!

Kings Birthday weekend we are off down Taranaki with Squirrel Nutcase , Fap ( Fap & Gap)
and ABCDF4
Some caches will be signed HRP Team or Individual
I think the team say it all
Thanks to all the COs for there placements

Kings Birthday weekend we are off down Taranaki with Squirrel Nutcase and Fap ( Fap & Gap)
and EyespyBen
Some of will be signed HRP Team or Individual
The weather is great {cold}
Got this one in the end
Thanks

planned group attack on new Plymouth for this long weekend.
with squirrel nutcase eyespyben and ABCDF4
kiwiana trail was our main goal but anything else will be great.
solved from home and today thought we would have ago.
some of the previous logs interested us about the area.
first we found the wrong track and soon corrected.
final co.ods spot on and after a bit of looking had cache.TFTC

With ABCDF4, eyespyben, and Gap (of Fap and Gap)... A planned expedition into the Taranaki region. All logs were signed with our individual handles, or Team HRP (Huntly, Rotorua, Papamoa) depending on who accessed the logbook first...

King's Birthday Monday: It feels satisfying to bring closure to a puzzle we’d solved so long ago… The trickiest part was trying to find the right track to the cache. Our initial attempt seemed to lead us away. However, a quick reset sorted things for us. At ground zone, we had no trouble spotting something cache-like. Its rough condition proved otherwise, so we widened our search. We were soon rewarded with success. Thanks knees’n’things. TFTP and TFTC.

Heading off for a long weekend to New Plymouth with tmann421.
The Naki put on perfect weather for us.
Some wonderful caches found and great sites seen.
All logs signed tm/ww NZ
Thanks to the cache owners, without their efforts this game would not be possible.

Fun geocaching trip away with woolwood9.
We enjoyed the drive around and the good finds.

SL *tm/ww NZ*
*Thank you for putting this cache out for us to visit.*
Nice walk to cache, quick easy find.

Having had a bit of a slow start to the holiday period, I finally got on the road and out of town (Wellington) yesterday, making it as far as Wanganui. The plan today was to head to New Plymouth via the coastal road, and collect as many caches as I could find. Sadly, that was not as many as I wanted and I had a record (for me) number of DNF's today. But, regardless, the glorious sunshine and easy driving made it a wonderful day.

This however, was one of the caches I was able to find, correctly this time. Last time I was here I thought i found the ca he, but didn't. This time, no such mistake was made. Cache was found exactly as described. All good here.

Thanks to the CO for placing this geocache and bringing me here.

I enjoy each and every cache I find, and it is only with CO's like this placing them out in the world that this wonderful game continues.

#14,141. Quite a challenging puzzle based at the Waikaranga / Seal Rocks off New Plymouth, Taranaki. Final GZ was all quiet during the time of our visit. Found after a short search. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log (first to sign the replacement log).Thanks for the puzzle and geocache placement, and for bringing us to this site, and .T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e..M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.

I have looked and wondered at this cache each time i visit new Plymouth and with a little help i was able to finally tick this off my list to ' to do's ' we approached the long way and rather rough track, but used a more direct track heading back to the parked car. it is certainly a 'little trick' once you are at ground zero with emphasis on "little' but it was finally located signed and all was replaced. lovely views to be seen along the rough track.
Quite a scramble once at G Z . i took nothing but photos and left nothing. thank you for this cache. all was well at the cache .

Cache has been replaced and there's now more rock amd more roll and there was definitely more nnn involved.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on our first day in and around New Plymouth. The weather was gorgeous and there were a lot of people out and about.
I was a bit worried about doing this cache with the high terrain as I am still recovering from breaking 2 arms a few months back and definitely do not want to have another fall. It was pretty dry along the track, and used my walking pole on the steeper bits. It turned out to be (almost) a walk in the park.
A bit of a hiccup at the final, the CO has been informed. Great hide. TFTC.

#20980. We enjoyed finding our way to GZ. Found there were some issues with the cache (which I see the CO has quickly rectified). TFTC.

Joined in with cuzincori and his daughter to find this one! Glad they were more on to it than I was!
Tftc and thanks for the views!

Hmm I’m not sure if I enjoyed trying to solve this puzzle, definitely one of the most challenging to date, I reached out to friend for assistance and after throwing ideas around managed to make my to gz or so I thought hmmm a bit more work to do and a return trip the next day had the Cigar in hand.
TFTC

Found at 6 January 2021 11:32 am.

I'm on a short geocaching roadtrip to Taranaki, logging my finds as I go (where possible). Will expand when I get home. TFTC

After yesterdays effort and failure and extensive searching, we contacted the CO for a small hint. And well, what a bunch of muppets we felt. Navigated back to GZ and found in seconds, why the heck hadn't we looked there well enough before (despite at least 2 of us having thought we had done so!). Great puzzle and glad to have it ticked off.

Up here for an awesome weekend jaunt with TheWanglers, Karma Reprint and Team Gators to do a loop of the mountain in 48 hours grabbing as many caches as we could while having a good laugh. Logs signed as some derivative of (KT)^2

Cheers knees'n'things for the cache

A planned geocaching trip to the USA was shelved (but is all go for this time next year!) so we came up with a weekends Plan B. Taranaki with TheWanglers, KarmaReprint and KiwiMoose - logs signed (TK)^2 or a variation of. A really fun trip with the forecast rain and thunder seemingly always in the distance but never hindering us. A really fun weekend.
Day 3 New Plymouth to Christchurch via a few hours in Auckland!
Brilliant thunderstorm shattering the nights sleep. But the day dawned fine. A morning caching in NP before our lunchtime flight to Auckland.
Hah. Had it in hand and should have been signing it yesterday. Ah well. Yesterday after the DNF whilst we were having tea KM messaged knees'n'things and got a quick reply. Hmmm - ok - thought we'd done that (several times!).... shoulda woulda coulda. The puzzle was so good and the hide niggley enough that everyone was keen to head back again this morning for another look. Fast tracked it to GZ and made the quick find and sign. Doh. Brilliant. Cheers....and thanks for the quick reply last night.

Day three New Plymouth to Christchurch, via Auckland.

Nice thunderstorm last night. Lucky for us the day started out mostly dry! Find quickly made. Why we didn't make the find yesterday I don't know. Thanks h=knees'n'things for the prompt response to the query. FP from me. Cheers

A long weekend cache raid to Taranaki. The weather didn't stop us doing anything, and we had fun times. Logs were signed with a combination of KT and 2 depending one which of did the signing. Thanks Kiwi Moose, Team_Gaters and TheWanglers for a choice time.

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

A plan was hatched for a few of us to head to America for a Mad Mission. With life getting a bit crazy a downsized trip was organised as I had sorted childcare for the cachelets. The big America trip is now set for next year. We asked a member of our crew if we could go to Nelson, Dunedin, Auckland, Wellington, Hastings the answer all came back "I don't have many to find there". We left it to that member to suggest an area. He came up with New Plymouth and a loop around the mountain. That's a go from the rest of us. We sorted puzzles, gpxs, motels and a car and hit the ground running. The forecast was doom, gloom, rain, hail and lightning. Oh well, sounds exciting. We had very little of any of the weather that affected our caching and found we had all overpacked (thank God!).
Day 3: We headed out after an enormous thunderstorm last night to a lovely morning to do a few more around NP before returning the car and head to Auckland for a few hours to do the Crayola series. Our morning in NP was a bit tough due to a few DNFs. The Auckland leg was fantastic we gave the poor wee Yaris a good go cruising around the countryside. We got back to the airport in plenty of time to end up waiting for and hour or so due to the inclement weather around the country.
We came here yesterday and walked away without the smillie. Contacted CO and we were sure we looked there. Came back and found it in millisecongs. Fun.

Thanks for the cache knees'n'things.
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Find 12 of 64 for today.
Find 172 of 224 for the trip.

Well, the maths was good but the luck was not, and after all that scratching. We'll be back

A planned geocaching trip to the USA was shelved (but is all go for this time next year!) so we came up with a weekends Plan B. Taranaki with TheWanglers, KarmaReprint and KiwiMoose - logs signed (TK)^2 or a variation of. A really fun trip with the forecast rain and thunder seemingly always in the distance but never hindering us. A really fun weekend.
Day 2 dawned with a bit of drizzle but that soon cleared (whilst eating breakfast) and we had a lovely trip missing all the bad weather again. Harwea to New Plymouth the long way. Heaps of history; cool scenery and lots of laughs. Cheers all!
Thrashed our way to GZ in the late afternoon...but somehow overlooked what we were looking for....hmmm....headed back out with a DNF, but over tea messaged CO and got a hint...hmm...I'm sure we checked there...hmm...ok; time allowing we'll be back tomorrow!

No luck today.

Got to GZ no problem but we spent a long time looking for the prize. Message the CO over dinner and got further hints, so we'll go back for another looksy tomorrow.

Next time.......

It was time to assemble Team BOP as I hadn't seen these crazy people since the Mega. The plan was Taranaki via the Forgotten World Highway and we were all pretty excited about it. It was a big couple of days so forgive the cut'n'paste logs as I'm logging retrospectively and a few of the hides are starting to blur together. Not this one though - this one took us ages to find! You could argue I suppose that we found it straight away but we missed the log unfortunately. Got there in the end though. TNXPro, McJandals, Davidson Clan & myself signed our logs individually or as TEAM BOP depending on time, log space or mood. Cheers & TFTC A favourite from me.

TeamBOP have come together again for a trip to the Naki. Team BOP consists of myself (obviously), McJandals, Philip.Perry and DavidsonClan.
A great puzzle and a great location.
Thanks to all the CO's for attracting us to the Taranaki.
TFTC

Found using Cachly app and logged using the text template, so please excuse generic logging in advance. On a spur of the moment roadie with Phillip.Perry, TNXPRO and Davidson Clan from the Bay of Plenty, a plan was hatched and here we are. Great to have these places to visit and many thanks to all you COs for the placements. Cheers I am definitely going to run out of FPS today. Love it!!

In New Plymouth for the weekend caching with Team Bop . Philip.Perry Mcjandals and Tnxpro.
FP added great final.

Replaced the worn piece with an upgraded version and put in a fresh log sheet.

Easy puzzle solved at home but not enough time to find while we were in New Plymouth.

Quite an adventure to get to sign this one, part of which involved flying from Oz.
Great walk, great scenes. great hide.
Challenge to sign but with Baktrak persistence we won through.
Thanks knees'n'things

A cache of many parts. Parts 1 - n were executed back home before we hopped across the ditch. That was an entertaining evening. Today after a false start, we found a sensible way to approach GZ. MummyPenny seemed to pounce on the cache straight away. Seemed to. Some time later we had a log in hand but its container has perished and it's ragged and weathered. It needs some attention. But then, probing deeper, the original log came to hand and it was in better condition and still had plenty of space so we signed it, immediately after Ctsniper86's March 2015 entry.
A challenging and eventful cache, worth a fave. Thanks knees'n'things.

Solved this tricky puzzle a little while ago and learned a few things along the way. Happy to be able to pick this one up on a road trip from Welly to AKL. Parked at what we thought was the closest point to cache only to find it very overgrown with the long grass, gorse and blackberry making progress difficult. Backtracked and found a better path to GZ and managed to get the cache. Nice touch on the camo, enjoyed the puzzle and the find! TFTC

Solved this in December planning to collect on my way north in January and use it for GESL’s Let’s Play Cricket challenge in Wellington. I decided it would keep for another time and that was today. I enjoyed the walk along the cliff top - being surprised to see sandy surfers out waiting for ‘that’ wave. Found GZ easily and was surprised and the pleased when I found the cache. Favorite given. T a lot FTC.

We are visiting New Plymouth from Auckland, and are hoping to collect a bunch of solved puzzle caches.
Tapuae rock'n'roll was high on the list of the puzzles we hoped to find. We had had a little trouble determining what all the keywords would be, but eventually managed to decode all the ciphers, and then extract the coords. Today the weather forecast was for heavy rain, which gave us a few concerns. However the rain held off, and the ground and vegetation were surprisingly dry given the rain of the last few days. We had worked out the best access point, so parked up and began our trek in. After a false start that ended in a field of blackberry and gorse we retraced our steps and took the faint trail. As it turned out we should have continued to follow it for just a few more metres than we did, and we thereby made the walk in that much harder for ourselves. Eventually we jumped a fence virtually hidden in the long grass, and made our way to GZ only 10 metres away. We quickly spied the dummy cache, and were initially stumped by what to do next. After 5 minutes of fruitless searching we checked something out, and were very relieved to find the hidden logsheet. Whew, didn't want to have made that trek for nothing. The return walk was much easier, and in no time at all we were back at the camper and on our way. Adding a Favourite point for the puzzle, the hide and the little adventure.Thanks

Came along for the ride on this one, trayc.g had the answer already so wasn’t much help. In fact I was so much help I even dropped the tool needed to retrieve the cache in the long grass which took us 1/2hr to find. Loved the cache container!

Wow! What a challenge! I have to admit I needed help on this one...a whole lot of help. Final is in a lovely location which turned out tricky too...finally found the log to scratch our names on. Very clever. TFTC

Mrs nzkites solved this a while ago so it was good to be able to find it today. We arrived at what we thought was GZ it took a while to find and log fortunately the view we enjoyed enhanced the experience. We looked everywhere and were just about to give up and say this b###### puzzle when Mr nzkites said have you looked there and of course it was there, and the brilliant puzzle was logged. Thanks knees'n'things for a challenging puzzle and hide, a fave from us if we have any to give.

TFTC

Thanks to malady solving this we headed off after going rock climbing we were on the right track and thanks to the advice from a fellow cacher we soon had the cache in hand signed log and put back tftc

There is nothing more satisfying than solving a mystery.
Spent a couple of hours last night nutting out this mystery and roamed around this afternoon with Curlz to find GZ! I almost lost my cigar when I thought we found it but with a bit of guidance from another cacher we had the cache in hand.
I am buying gumboots for Curlz for Christmas hahahaha TFTC

Been planning this for a while and with a few hints managed to get a tick on the geochecker, now to find. A very suitable 1900th cache, well according to Project GC that is. Well worth a fav for the puzzle and hardship getting to the cache. Mission accomplished, this one is a wrap. Thanks for the cache from Blenheim Bear!
This cache posted with CacheSense for Android.

rustynz tells me I need to catch up with all my logging!

A 3 day weekend of fun with a group of Westies (rustynz, gorby, jag58 & merlot58)

Sorry for the generic logs. Thanks to all the CO for the hides, and the adventure

A few Westies (Gorby, Jag50, RustyNZ, Rebel98 and myself headed to New Plymouth for the weekend and after arriving 5 hours late because fog caused our flight to be cancelled we set about collecting some of the caches on our list. This one was one of our priorities. I thoroughly enjoyed the puzzle so was looking forward to making the find. As we'd sat on the bus for so long we appreciated stretching our legs walking here and once at GZ we set about searching. Mmmmm, ok, close but not quite, let's keep searching. After thoroughly inspecting everything I put out an SOS to the CO for some help. While waiting for a reply we went off to collect some other caches. We had just got back to the car park after climbing nearby Paritutu when I saw the CO had replied so we headed back for another search. Despite the nudge from the CO we still took awhile to make the find of this cleverly hidden cache. That's so evil! I'd love to be able to give a favourite point for both the puzzle and the hide!

A few Westies (Gorby, Merlot58, RustyNZ, Rebel98 and ourselves had booked some time ago to come to New Plymouth for the weekend. Despite being fogged in at Auckland and our flight being cancelled we leapt on the bus made available for us and arrived some 4.5 hours later. After dropping our gear and snatching some lunch we set off to locate some of our must do locations and caches. Got to GZ and searched High and Low. Could not find it. After getting a hint from the CO we returned later and had another go. It was only after one of our team inspected an object more closely did we discover the hidden cache. Pure genius or evil - not sure which .

I had picked this one out to solve many weeks ago, and it did not take me too long to work may way through the different layers, with the help of the hint and I guess having a love for solving puzzle caches. The pictures by previous finders also was an incentive to make the solve.

Our first visit was unsuccessful, and I think the nearby tree was where I got the scratch on my forehead! so now have a geo scar for the weekend. I knew this was going to be tricky, from reading previous logs. But was hopeful we would find the cache. Sadly not meant to be. After messenging the CO our group returned for another go, and yeah I found the log in its devilish hide

Very please to have solved and found this one, logged as Team Westies today (Merlot58, RustyNZ, Rebel98, Jag50 and Gorby)

In New Plymouth today with rustynz, Rebel98, Jag50 and merlot58. We're down from Auckland for a 3 day break. I understood what was needed to do for this puzzle but not all of it, so a plea for help went out for help... loved the final for this cache, it took 2 visits and a plea to the C.O. before we finally nailed it, very clever. A FP from me.

Last night in the camper van, I was planning out the next day's caching. This was high on the agenda - as I love interesting puzzles, even more so if they have a terrain element. Read some logs and realised this might take a while - which might cause some issues, so I asked the CO for some preemptive help

In the morning no advice had come, so parked the camper at a logical spot, and headed off with the GeoSon. My theory was that the fours words were 'Eat my shorts, man' but I was sadly mistaken. However, I did work out what to do next- w00t!

PS Later the CO did reply.

Well I am super pleased to be able to finally turn this into a smiley face and a bonus mark off another cache in the difficulty/terrain matrix. Solved quite some time ago with some assistance as the path I was going down to solve was very very wrong. 2nd attempt to locate the log book, had some ideas I was going to try and bingo one was it. Very clever from start to finish, a fav point awarded

nice hide FP from me, loved the puzzle and the extras at GZ TFTC

I searched at gz for about 20 minutes before a nasty cold shower set in. Having been off sick recentlyi decided to head back to the car and try another day. Like others before I found the dreaded 4 words, I knew that would be too easy. I shall return

Today was the day to sign off as many solved puzzles as possible. First cache of the day and had a great wander along to GZ. Got fooled to start with but as we knew we wouldn't be back for a second look we persevered and surprised ourselves by finding the log book extremely quickly. Many thanks for the puzzle and the cache.

Finally went back to this one, after several disgruntled efforts. Must have beeen simmerinng away in my brain, because I struck lucky with the code, but left it for a nicer day. Fancied a walk earlier in the week, so scrambled my way through wet grass and over fences to the GZ. Certainly a sneaky cache! A short pause to check out the site, then bingo! TFTC

This cache was brought to my attention by Infoferret at a puzzle solving event in the Hutt Valley late last year. She was working on it at the time.

I was pleased to successfully figure out the various components of the puzzle without using up an awful lot of time. I had hoped to find the cache at Christmas time but was foiled by other commitments. I was back in Taranaki for the Easter Weekend so I made this the priority. I was firstly confronted with another puzzle in finding my way to Ground Zero and was relieved to find my chosen track finally head in the right direction. Then, I found what I was after only to discover four words I was not expecting and was certainly not wanting to read. Rather than get in a flap as I usually would, I retained my composure, thought about things and was soon signing the logsheet Infoferret had provided.

Thanks, knees'n'things for one of my most enjoyable geocaching experiences.

If you're only going to get one cache in a day, make it a good one!

The route to claiming this prize had more twists and turns than a Giant Slalom course.... After several fruitless attempts to crack the code, a tiny chink appeared in the armour...and after a number of refinements, the information was revealed. However, I entered the result into Geochecker with some trepidation, and almost disbelieved the resulting tick.

Tried for the final yesterday, and got soaked from the wet grass and the persistent drizzle. I was soooooooo close to the prize that I was in danger from 'passive smoking'. Eventually, I gave up and slouched off home dejected.

After a fellow cacher had enjoyed a good laugh at my expense (not the first time, and I expect it won't be the last), I persuaded the others to have a short diversion so I could tidy this one up. After a 'how on earth did I miss that?' moment, I discovered there was no log in the receptacle. I have added a slip of paper from my notebook, and have a photo (NOT ATTACHED) as proof of finding.

Many, many thanks for the challenging and enjoyable puzzle, and one which completes the list of Hard Puzzles solved for the DGSC challenge. Have a FP (frustration point) for any of the reasons listed above. TFTC!

Found after an evening of caching with my daughter, working up from 94 to 99 finds and finally finishing off with this. Lets just say that by the time we got out of the car to go to GZ my phone was on about 15-20% battery, the sun had gone done not long before and we trekked what seemed to be cross country following what appeared to be a sort of "path" and I use that very loosely. We finally reached GZ and discovered the puzzle within a puzzle, but thanks to a hint from the CO and some quick thinking we found and signed the log as the phone was hitting the 5% battery point. I preceded to head in as direct a route as we could to the car, with the cell phone light to guide us through the brambles. As we got the stile to the roadside the phone died. So this is definitely one to remember. TFTC.

Well done all round, mission from start to finish now complete, thanks!

Day 2 of the Vamber/KiwiFruitsNZ caching adventure to secure lonely caches, D/T combinations and collect puzzle solves.

A tricky cipher that took some solving but nothing compared to how close we were to missing the actual cache! A cunning hide!!

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Our second day of our long weekend in the Taranaki, for our little geo-cation with KiwifruitsNZ, which saw us securing some geo-licence requirements, puzzle solves and some few extras.

This puzzle had us definitely scratching our head, but great to get there in the end! Almost missed the cache, but luckily, one of us looked twice!! Thanks for the fun puzzle hide!

After determining how to break the cipher, and getting underway with the first (after two failed key attempts) I realised what a big job that'd be long hand, so employed the recommended on-line help.
No problem with the other three Keys, nor the co-ordinates determinant. So shot out this morning before orienteering event to claim the prize. You can not imagine how devastated I was to get "no cigar" . After searching around fruitlessly for AGES I went orienteering totally gutted [:(!]. Thanks to a small hint from JB regarding puzzles within puzzles, I went back this afternoon with renewed vigor. It took nearly as long to claim the logbook as I spent searching this morning. Dayem that was difficult to extract. But in the end SUCCESS . Definitely worth a fav for all the hard work done by both the setter and the cacher . TVMFTC

A nicely set up puzzle and a thoroughly enjoyable solve, a bit of a windy rock ‘n’ roll to get to GZ, but love the great views on offer. Many thanks for setting this one up and for the cache.

Really needed advice with this one, so thanks to those who gave their help. Enjoyed the whole process, even if it did take time, right down to some ripe blackberries en route to the cache(s). Good coastal view in this lovely Summer weather. tftc

Well what a journey so many things to look up and puzzles to solve had help with some of the tec stuff to get the computer to work thanks to neighbours finally got the cigar.

I solved this when it first came out before the hints were added and have looked forward to finding the cache ever since. Found the decoy and then quickly snared the real cache. Log was missing but I had a spare so replaced it. Also took photo of actual cache which was nicely done. TFTC

Amazing cache, spent a long time trying to crack the code (and learned a lot about them). Great location and very mean hide, would not have found without helpful advice by the CO, Thank you very much.

Managed to solve this in only a few hours as it really spoke to me, plus some internet flukery.
Full of cockyness I visited the site at Labour Weekend only to stumble at the last hurdle. After some guidance from the CO I went today with much success.
TFTC!!!

A visit to make sure everything is in order, which it is.

Found after scrambling around a very clever cache and an annoying one too

Luckily we have had a couple of wet miserable days so we had plenty of time to work out the puzzle which we couldn't have done without CO's help.Thanks. We never would have got 3 of the 4 keywords. Then to complete the cipher only to be confronted with another puzzle. We then waited for some sunshine to try for the cache...and yet another puzzle. Forgot to take pen with us so back to the car retrace steps and back to car before yet another shower. It was lovely walking along the track with the sun shining felt like we had been released from prison after all these wet days. Thanks. A fav from us.

What an exercise this was . First the puzzle, what can I say, words fail me. My mind is still jumbled from when I first saw this come up But with help from Taranakiguy( more computer savy than me) the puzzle was solved a few days ago. Then the cache, how hard could this be? So with nothing better to do today we set out for GZ. After getting wet ,scratched, and mislead. We found it. I WILL NEVER FORGET this one. SL. TFTC.

What an awesome experience... I got the SOS call from Priceless Time to help with the puzzle... Managed to work through that thanks to the Black Chamber... And with a few spare hours today set off with Priceless Time to find the bounty... Well we were puzzled after being so close... But persevered until logic kicked in and the hide was revealed... My favourite so far... TFTC

What an awesome experience... I got the SOS call from Priceless Time to help with the puzzle... Managed to work through that thanks to the Black Chamber... And with a few spare hours today set off with Priceless Time to find the bounty... Well we were puzzled after being so close... But persevered until logic kicked in and the hide was revealed... My favourite so far... TFTC

After a long period of time muddling our way through the puzzle we finally we had some success. Learned some things along the way and enjoyed the cache location and find. Found with banjoboy2012. TFTC.

What an excellent cache to celebrate my 100th find. Solved the puzzle with moodlemum yesterday. Found with moodlemum today. Initially we couldn't find the cache but we went back and found it relatively quickly. A favourite point from me for the puzzle and the cache. TFTC

FTF WITH GNOME62 OUT ON A WET WINDY ARVO. WHAT A TREK BUT WORTH THE EFFORT. CLEVER HIDE.
TFTC

Yay man found it with justmeg2 and many thanks to my christchurch based puzzle solving advisory board of one JUSTMEG thanks for the help thanks for the cache had a fun day out with justmeg2
Pleased to see a liitle more help with the clues here which should allow a few more to solve Cheers

Have increased the difficulty rating because of the poly-alphabetic cipher and the multiple puzzles, and have added a geochecker.

Claiming first to solve I would definitely rate this as at least a 4D if not a 4.5. cheers JMG

Same i have been pondering over it for hours with no luck

Methinks this is harder than a 3...

Lol same ive been at it for 2 hours at least and still have no clue

I just spent far to much and am as close as nowhere at least I have a boat so my feet wont get wet lol

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