International Air Travel Challenge (Waikato) Raglan, North Island, New Zealand
By Zorgon adopted by HKCB on 15-Sep-13. Waypoint GC4NEB7

I wasn't sure at first if GZ was accessable but read that others had straddled the fence line so off I went. Once at GZ the cache still took a bit of searching for as I'd missed it on my first sweep. The cache was found in great condition. Holland, Belgium & France 31/08/2013 T4tC Zorgon adopted by HKCB,Civvnr&MissTreadlightly....(UK) & Geocaching.com finds so far 12283

Staying in Raglan for a couple of nights.A stunning morning. Perfect for a bike ride to grab some caches.One of my favourite stats was finding hides in three countries on the same day.It happened on 9th July 2010.I found a Trad near Brisbane airport at dawn, followed by a Trad near Auckland airport later that morning. Then about 15 hours later I found a Trad in the desert in the outskirts of Las Vegas before heading off to a casino to grab a half price steak meal as happy hour commenced at midnight.I jumped the fence and searched the subject from several directions before eventually spotting the cache.TFTC

Within challenge conditions, my best day was on2020-02-12, when I found at least one cache in3different countries:CountryGC CodeCache NameLuxembourgGC3XK3B100 Joer Gare LtzebuergGermanyGC3E2N0Barbarathermen - Die Herren von der BrckeFranceGC87XWY#01 Street Art : Les FlamboyantsAs It's such a lovely day it seemed a great time for a Sunday drive with matagouri. I needed a mystery cache today to fill a dot day on my grid. This one did the job nicely, as I'd made a point of getting 3 different countries in one day on my trip to Europe a few years ago.We ended up on the wrong side of the fence, but soon sorted that out.I needed matagouri's longer arms to reach the cache as it was a little awkwardly placed.Thanks for looking after this cache.

Got out this way today to pick up the final7/2/24 AustraliaVirtual GC 88Z30Acknowledgement of Country7/2/24 New ZealandTrad GC7Z295Bend Down or Look Up [Ak}Still nice and dry thanks for the Challenge

Got out this way today to pick up the final 7/2/24 AustraliaVirtual GC 88Z30Acknowledgement of Country7/2/24 New ZealandTrad GC7Z295Bend Down or Look Up [Ak}Still nice and dry thanks for the Challenge

[maplerosenz](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=maplerosenz) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4NEB7/32688 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.Within challenge conditions, my best day was on **2022-12-07**, when I found at least one cache in **2** different countries:Australia : [GC5MCCG](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5MCCG) Deep Extra CoverNew Zealand : [GC6C0WW](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6C0WW) Kio Bay (Wellington)Not sure when I'll next be in the area, but WN as qualified, thanks HKCB.

We now qualify pick up next time in areathanks

Making our way from Hamilton to New Plymouth today - grabbed a few caches on the way. We drove here on a slight divert to pick up the challenge cache and the virtual lovely locationCache took a while to find - we were on the wrong side of the fence too.Cache eventually found and log signedChecker wil show we have found caches in 3 countries in one day, Spain, Andorra and France - that was in a car.We have also found caches in the UK and Tromso, Norway on the same day where we did fly and that is over 1000 miles between the twoWill confirm details once we get back home TFTCTim and Viv - ddm

Found on Raglan sightseeing. 9.11.2023 GC9P5Y2 Melbourne Aiport9.11.2023 GC88YZZ Welcome to New ZealandThank you for the cache.

We came over to Raglan today and this cache was one of my reasons for coming over - to collect it now that I've qualified!The NZ cache that I found on 2/11/23 was GC9XJ3A Red River Crocodile, and the cache on Rarotonga on 2/11/23 was GC1NEQ4 Rarotonga Cook Islands - Canuck Cache. I was rather relieved to find this as it took a bit of searching, although it should have been obvious. Definitely isn't a regular size, but is well camouflaged too. A fun challenge that I'm pleased to have fulfilled, TFTC a favourite from me!

The criteria for this challenge were met today as I found a cache in New Zealand yesterday (2/11) and one today in Rarotonga (2/11) as Rarotonga is 23 hours behind NZ at present. More details later when I find this cache....

️ Trouvée ! / Found it ! ️

[Rubidium68](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Rubidium68) a utilisé [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4NEB7/32688 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") pour voir s'il/elle était qualifié(e) pour ce challenge et il/elle l'est.

Within challenge conditions, my best day was on **2020-09-09**, when I found at least one cache in **4** different countries:

France : [GC8HDWX](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8HDWX) Euroairport TB Hôtel-Re-Reloaded
Switzerland : [GC2044W](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC2044W) Border CH / F #0.999
Germany : [GC5JK6Q](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5JK6Q) Sechs Wochen und drei Tage
Greece : [GC4Y1V4](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4Y1V4) TB HOTEL Athens Int. Airport El. Venizelos

Merci pour cette cache
Thanks for this cache

La boîte est trouvée mais avec difficulté. Le logbook est humide. Je dois vérifier si je me qualifie pour ce défi mais je pense que oui

The box is found but with difficulty. The logbook is damp. I have to check if I qualify for this challenge but I think so

This is the main that reason I’m here today! I have had this challenge cache on my list completed for almost 5 years! Today was the day to come explore Raglan with the family and to finally sign it off. A quick find by me and my littlest cacher. Signed by GigiEV too for when she can qualify.
Here are my qualifying caches…..

5/09/18 GC250Q5 International Departure Lounge Mark 111 Auckland
5/09/18 GC2JBAX BTS (Surasak) Bangkok

#12,655. I signed the logbook for this one back on 1 Aug 2022. I was intending to check up on my overseas trips when I returned to Wellington a few weeks later but it seems I forgot to log this and the virtual cache. Anyway I noticed my bad today and have run the challenge checker. The checker however only shows a trip between France and Germany which was done by train so does not qualify. So I extracted information from a trip to Australia in 2019. On 1 April I flew back to Wellington in the morning. I managed to stop and find a cache close to where I was staying in Melbourne before getting to the airport and then I found one in Wellington later in the afternoon once back in NZ

GC7G5MH Parkville Challenge 21 - 5 x Around the World 1/4/19 [Australia]
GC80HGF Highland Park Wellington 1 April 2019 [New Zealand]

Thanks Zorgon for the cache and HKCB for adopting it.

New Zealand North Island - Day 7
Found with Joolay on a trip to NZ to find the GeoTour. .We wandered up and had to get through the fence to reach the tree. It took quite a bit of scrabbling to make the fund - I had been looking for a bigger container.

Qualification: I have checked Project-GC and qualify for this challenge.
25 September 2018
GC576T9 Navajo Code Talking Australia
GC34W7D Animal Style USA

Thanks for hiding this cool Challenge HKCB

Will check if qualified and claim then.

Thanks for getting me out and about HKCB

Once fence negotiated as didn’t find another way to get to cache it was an easy find. Just glad to do this before the event was in full swing.

According to Project GC I fulfill this challenge but now I’m doubtful according to cache page info.

Up from Southland with Cantabrian Kiwicampnut to get the final piece of the PWGT puzzle.
Day 2 - Hamilton to Te Awamutu... via the scenic route!

A bit of a detour as Kiwicampnut qualifies.
Not me - I think the last time I went international was in the 1980s - well before caching
19 January 2023 10:00 am

I'm on a road trip to the far north, attempting to complete the PWGT Tahi Geotour.

This is day five, a soggy day driving from Whangarei to Te Kuiti and hopefully completing PWGT1.

Will expand on my logs, post photos, qualifying caches for challenges, etc. When I get home. TFTC

I won't say it was a pleasant stroll to the cache, what with all the dog dirt to dodge.

30 October 2022 12:30 pm Find #5241

[bruzie](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=bruzie) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4NEB7/32688 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

Within challenge conditions, my best day was on **2018-08-19**, when I found at least one cache in **2** different countries:

Australia : [GC5M2QB](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5M2QB) Gateway to the Gold Coast
New Zealand : [GC7HC5R](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7HC5R) SugarLoaf Views (Hutt Valley)

We did the challenge for another cache a couple of years ago. See image - we did NZ and Japan in an eventful 24 hours

#13,097. We took a walk off Marine Parade in Raglan, Waikato a little while ago. GZ was all quiet at the time of our visit. Quick find. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

It was only today that we confirmed that we had in fact qualified for the challenge. Given that we had not undertaken international air travel for the last little while, we knew that any such qualification would have to found in records of some years back. This task was made easier by the Project-GC Challenge Checker, thankfully.

[huhugrub](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=huhugrub) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4NEB7/32688 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

Within challenge conditions, our best day was on **2016-03-24**, when we found at least one physical cache in **3** different countries:

New Zealand : [GC64AKE](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC64AKE) The Piping Gateway – Wellington (Traditional Geocache)
Australia : [GC3C8XA](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3C8XA) 22243 (Mystery Cache)
United States : [GC63XBM](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC63XBM) Queens College Cache (Traditional Geocache)

Thanks for the challenge and 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.

Was in Raglan today so stopped to find and sign the logbook. No problems finding it. I will need to check back through my records when I get back to Wellington as this cache has some particular requirements and I need to see if I have met those. Trips between Australia and NZ seem the most likely. I have cached in 16 countries so will need to look at the stats.

I have qualified for this one on at least 3 other occasions but the most recent on the 17th July on this trip across the Tasman
In Australia GC8WKH8 - Ross wayside stop. A roadside trad cache in Victoria.
In New Zealand GC16VKY - Petrol, Burgers & Souvenirs. A motorway trad south of Auckland.
Signed in here at Raglan with the help of my grandchildren.
Cheers

4 June 2022 09:38. Qualified for this on 2 occations, UK & France , and NZ-Aussie. Last time I was in Raglan I didn't qualify, so ignored this one, so it was top priority after the GeoTour for the "Unfinished business" road trip today.

No problems getting to GZ today, but I forgot my pen! (Rookie error I know). Soil too sandy to leave a muddy fingerprint, so please accept a photo of the log as evidence of finding. TFTC.

We are close by this getting the PWGT so called in to snag and tag it while in the vicinity. Replaced cache including Temp RITR log. Cheers

Went to Cook Islands
!8/8/18 GC71QDV International Geocaching Day 2018 - Auckland
18/8/18 GC7TQAH Internation Geocaching 2018 - Cook Islands

Day 2 - Friday 21 January - Taupo to Hamilton. With lots of side trips to gather PWGTs in the Waikato including Raglan at sunset. Meant to be in Auckland tonight but run out of time. So lets get exploring!

Zara, Toby and I are on our North Island expidition for a couple of weeks. Got The Seagnoid along for the first 4 days, heading to the Auckland Mega. PWGTs and TMGTs are on the radar for this trip. Lots of driving on gravel roads and visited lots of amazing places on our 6000km road trip snagging 200+ caches along the way. Visiting Cape Reinga, Bay of Islands, Gisborne and White Rock along our journey. Another awesome trip. Thanks to all CO's.

Day 2 of the Mega trip. Taupo to Hamilton. Tried to get to Auckland but with so many diversions to the west to pick up GT caches, which are the main focus of the trip up, it just wasn't doable. As it was we got to bed in Hamilton at 11pm!

Yay! Reached Hamilton! Left Zara the camper van behind and Taybeedragon and I headed off to the coast in Toby to get some more remote GT caches.

Okay, this is not a GT cache, but we stopped here anyway.
For this cache I can present two events celebrating International Geocache Day, one in New Zealand, held on 18 August 2018 in Auckland, and another the very next day, also 18 August 2018, in Rorotonga (see attached). Taybeedragon was with me on that trip too. Alas I have the Raro event logged as on the 17th (I may not have corrected the date on my tablet to local time when I logged it, and I can't correct it now ). Image shows a number of other caches found that day in both countries.

Normally I take my bicycle and spend at least a couple of weeks on my Mega trips, but this time I went to Auckland with Taybeedragon and a campervan. And normally in that two weeks I would find a few hundred caches at about 40 per day (yes, by bike), but this time I only had 4 days and we only found 70 caches and a few labs (which are also caches). Only a few days as I am trying to save my annual leave for a trip to Seattle. Assuming that even ever happens! We mostly targeted GT caches and the occasional special. Which meant a lot of very inefficient driving (eg 20 km across Auckland for just one cache!). It also meant for some very long days

Found it

25/8/18 Auckland New Zealand and Saskatchewan, Canada.
Very long day that one.

Since we both qualified for this one and it wasn't too far away we made the effort to come and sign this off before heading back to Auckland and try and avoid the holiday weekend traffic that we had been warned about. I have qualified for this a few times now and hopefully will do so again once travelling overseas has normalised a bit more. TFTC # 17,085

1/11/17 GC7BTCB Not a big bad wolf Nelson, NZ UTC + 12
1/11/17 GC45WNF KWINANA MARKET PLACE WA UTC + 8
Distance 5136.8 km

Isis58 and I are on a mission over the long weekend to find as many TMGT and PWGT caches as possible with the occasional normal cache thrown in as time allows. Being a challenge that I qualified for this cache made it to the list of only a few caches on the must do list. That is a pretty cool slide on the other side of the river. I bet the local kids love having some air travel with that one. My qualifying finds are

GC66FAW No Parking (Mairehau) Christchurch 5/11/2016
GC367HB Royal Flush Melbourne 5/11/2016

Thanks for the cache HKCB

#11241

After a wonderful portion of fresh fish and chips down at the front we headed off to our destinations with caching in mind. First stop on the town trip was here which I qualified for after a trip to Europe via Broome/Perth and Dubai in 2016. Nice area here and soon had the cache in hand and signed.

16 Sep 16 https://coord.info/GC6709W CHC - Christchurch International Airport
16 Sep 16 https://coord.info/GC6709W Bruski's cache in Perth

A first visit to Raglan for us today, we've passed the turn off a few times and been saying for a while we should go. The recent Geotour caches were probably the final nudge we needed and we headed there today after the weather forecast improved from its previous of a rainy weekend. We headed off at the leisurely time of 0830 and back for a reasonable tome of 1830. Grabbed the Geotour cache in Ngaruawahia on 'the way past', and a nice trip to see the Bridal Veil falls too. Nice day in Waikato and bumped into supernannny, Merlot and Nette on at least 4 occasions as we moved around the region. Thanks to all COs.

found it ty

I decided to leave my snail shell behind and drive to Raglan in my cachemobile to locate and sign a couple of the PWGT's and any other cache that gets in my way.

This was one of the others.

My two qualifying caches are on Friday 29 June 2018:-
Niue - GC57QZX - Anaana Lookout
New Zealand - GC673H9 - It's Moments like these, You Need a Cache.

Cheers for the cache.

Has been a long time since I qualified for this challenge, finally in the area today. Nice quick find and close to my accommodation. Thrilled to finally get the smiley.
I remember Freddie, Auckland. GC7R969 , Amanau Sea Track. Niue. GC57JT0. 29 June 2018.

I came down to do some caching with nufrat today. I found the cache, but a quick check of my over 12,000 finds shows that while I have multi-country days, none have air travel. I need to work on this. TFTC.

Found this one with the qualifying finds listed as follows:
GCHEQS - Dun Eochla View (Ireland)
GC3XRJP - Park in the Park (East Auckland)

Have camped nearby here a few times now, but never whilst geocaching......

TFTC.

With rebel98, parked nearby and made our way to GZ. Got spiked by a branch as I went to grab the cache. Luckily only grazed my cheek!

Happy to at last come and sign the log on this one. Thanks Zorgon for creating this challenge all those years ago, and HKCB for maintaining the hide

18-8-18 GC6XG27 GROTTY 94 (Auckland, New Zealand)
18-8-18 GC31XXH The Arc of the Trees (Gold Coast, Australia)

Have been told i qualify, nz to aussie. Will update details when home. With rustynz

Finally, finally got here to claim this cache!!! It's been a month away from 2 years since I first qualified, and in that time have done so 5 times over. It was a cracker of a day, warm as, and I decided last night last minute to come down to Raglan and claim this. It was the main cache of the day to get.

I had just finished a long multi here and so after that came here. I walked along the grassy side of the fence and jumped the fence near GZ, cache all good here today and a FP for the challenge and the coolness of it. Each of these adventures were awesome, I think the favourite for me was the Chicago trip, more so now that we can't return there because of the corona virus drama. That particular trip was with rustynz, FMZ and harisree and it was sooo memorable.

Qualifying caches:
18-8-18 GC6XG27 GROTTY 94 (Auckland, New Zealand)
18-8-18 GC31XXH The Arc of the Trees (Gold Coast, Australia)

18-11-18 GC6GNB7 Should I Be Here (Auckland, New Zealand)
18-11-18 GC677VD Sand Dunes (Fiji)

26-12-18 GC801YR Piggy , a Snake and a missing Bison (Auckland, New Zealand)
26-12-18 GC4W3E3 Jardin de Vaipahi (Tahiti, French Polynesia)

4-7-19 GC8A55G Fishing at Millstream ...Henderson (Auckland, New Zealand)
4-7-19 GC5GVJG Contain Your Excitement (Sydney, Australia)

16-8-19 GC8A40P Random Task (Auckland, New Zealand)
16-8-19 GC4B8KM The Tower of Nothing (Chicago, Illinois)

Managed to get a cache in NZ & Australia on the same day July 2019. I was in Australia for a wedding. Caches GC4GXXP & GC12CQT. I was in Raglan for a girls weekend so signed the log. Some of the girls went swimming. Tftc

I've been waiting a long time to come and sign the log book for this one. Today was the day and sent Mr TW over the fence to sign it. Have qualified a few times over for this one. NZ/AUS NZ/FIJI/USA USA/CANADA NZ/NIUE. Thanks for adopting this cache and looking after it. Fav for us

Finding two cache at the same day in different countries isn‘t really a problem if you are in Europe, such finds we have quite a lot. By car, by bike, by boat or ferry, even per pedes. By plane it‘s more difficult, but still available in our pocket.

2012-01-11
Germany: TB-Hotel -=First Class=- Munich Airport https://coord.info/GC1PQE6
Sweden: Hotell / Pensionat I Mullsjö #7 https://coord.info/GC2PWGJ

2013-11-12:
NZ: Spot the Spotters (Auckland) https://coord.info/GC11WWY
Cook Island: Fruits of Rarotonga https://coord.info/GC276DM

The container itself was found quickly after a great stay in Raglan before heading to Auckland. TFTC

In the morning when leaving the campsite... a small cache. This one will be found without any problems.

During the return trip from Sri Lanka, we stopped over in Dubai for 6 hours. We took the opportunity to leave the airport and search (and find) two caches on February 13th at around 3am (local time). We arrived the same day in Belgium and searched and found a cache. This gives us a distance of 5079.9 km between two caches found on the same day and by plane.

[GC3ACAK](https://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=ca20988a-3464-4fbd-abb8-3273df925144) Dubai Airport TB/GC Hotel 13/02/2015 United Arab Emirates
[GC5ERJG](https://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=d39aecae-fba4-4214-bab2-d9c6eef841b3) [TdW] L.34 Grâce-Hollogne 13/02/2015 Belgium

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Thanks HKCB for the geocache [^]
Greetings from Belgium,
Frank et Muriel travelling in New Zealand

Happy geocaching

[tuolei](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=tuolei) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4NEB7/32688 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

Within challenge conditions, my best day was on **2016-07-27**, when I found at least one cache in **2** different countries:

Australia : [GC5QGRQ](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5QGRQ) Chinatown
New Zealand : [GC1Z9YE](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1Z9YE) The Tree People (Canterbury)

The object of my trip to Raglan and the reason I asked Merlot58 and Jag50 to come to Raglan to go caching. The cache is in a very suitable spot and we had no problem getting to it. Nice size too.

Thanks for the cache, all good here.

Tuolei put out a call to see if anyone wanted to come to Raglan with him as he wanted to collect this challenge cache and as I qualified I jumped at the chance. (Qualifying caches in my note below). Despite a few dog walking muggles around we had no trouble locating this decent sized cache

We qualify for this cache finding GC7B9JA The Fraser River in Canada and GC86KE8 Jesus I was Evil in Auckland.
Out on a road trip with Tuolei and Merlot58 this was one of our targeted caches. A few muggles with their dogs off lead near gz, but they took no notice of us as we climbed over the fence to find this cache.

Staying in Raglan for the weekend with Gernita so decided to pick up a few caches. This one we qualify for with:

Country GC Code Cache Name
Italy GC4T5FG Piazza Gae Aulenti Milano
France GC48GTB Le Mucem

Checked with Project GC

Thankfully we qualified for this one so we could collect it on our weekend away in raglan with beconaze.

Country GC Code Cache Name
Australia GC564J6 Dog-gone Top Hats
New Zealand GC44A6Y SMS#2 - Jet Airliner (Auckland)

TFTC

Yay, I qualify with GC7X4DF in NZ and GC7TYWB in Niue

Yay. I now qualify for this one and will be over there one day

I have cached across the international borders a few times in the same day. Unfortunately the Project GC checker doesn't know about the flight rule it seems as I travelled by train between those countries below. So my official listing is as follows:

[GSEL](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=GSEL) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4NEB7/32688 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

Within challenge conditions, my best day was on **2017-07-06**, when I found at least one cache in **2** different countries:

Germany : [GC3NDDN](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3NDDN) SideTracked - Hauptbahnhof Ffm - reloaded
France : [GC113WW](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC113WW) Musée d'Art Contemporain de Strasbourg

However for the flight rule to apply and for the caches also to be physical caches, that excluded some flights between Germany and Norway, and New Zealand and Europe. So opted for a nice easy one, flights between New Zealand and Australia. On 1 April 2019 I got up very early to pick up **GC7G5MH Parkville Challenge 21 - 5 x Around the World** on the way to Melbourne airport. Flew back to Wellington at 10.30am and headed out before dinner on the same day to pick up **GC80HGF Highland Park (Wellington).**

Frustratingly I was up in Raglan in late February and even parked next to the airstrip to grab a traditional cache. I hadn't corrected the coordinates for this challenge so it was not showing up on my GPS. Will need to visit this lovely area again.

See screen capture

With Lemmer in New Zealand at amazing caches. Thank you for showing all that beautiful places. flatrate

Challenges are gteat fun with gsak. On ou last trip to newzealand we could make one in malasyia. So it was probably the same hour 10000km away. It was Lemmer and flatrate at 16.02.14 at gc12fdc and gc316qz. Great fun. Thanks

Here’s your fav point I promised you a loooooong time ago!

Find number 4549. I finally had the opportunity to qualify for this one. I had a 6 am flight from Auckland to Melbourne for the Mega over there. So on my way out of Hamilton at some stupid hour (1 am) I popped in to collect the NZ cache. I arrived at Melbourne and 8 am and collected a few on my way to my brothers house. I had a late flight home and wanted to repeat but the flight was delayed in Melbourne so it was midnight before I cleared customs.
Decided to collect the cache today. Airport was a bit quieter than Auckland International. Good for caching though. Thank you for the cache.
My qualifying caches are:
GC7Z4W6 Remember When...found on 14/11/18 (Hamilton NZ)
GC3WKVZ The Annexation found on 14/11/18 (Melbourne Australia)

All fine with the find this evening! Nice to finally be able to tick this one off, after going over to Melbourne in April this year

[Z-masterNZ](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Z-masterNZ) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4NEB7/32688 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

Within challenge conditions, my best day was on **2018-04-14**, when I found at least one cache in **2** different countries:

Australia : [GC21Y1Y](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC21Y1Y) Bring Ya Rod # 6 - Melbourne Aquarium
New Zealand : [GC6AFCC](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6AFCC) GROTTY 34

A week in Niue in late June gave us the chance to pick up this challenge cache. And, thanks to the oddities of the date line, we actually qualified for this challenge two days running. We found "Wipe Any Westies Out! NSA Rules!" (GC7BMY9) in Auckland on 28/6/18, and then "Leftover Limpet Mine from Te Atatu Peninsula Wars" (GC7PQBR) at 6.30am on 29/6/18 on the way to the airport.
We left Auckland on Saturday 29th June, and arrived in Niue on Friday 28th June. Our first find in Niue was "Amanu Sea Track" (GC575TQ) on 28/6/18, and the next day found several caches including "Protean Habitat" (GC6K2PQ) on 29/6/18.
We also attended an event cache in Niue called "Time Travelling Tourists - Niue" which took place in Niue on Friday 28th June, although our plane did not leave New Zealand until Saturday 29th June!
Today we finally made the drive to Raglan to claim this find. After a wander along the beach we parked near the airstrip and made our way along to GZ where the cache was quickly found and signed. Very happy to have ticked this one off. Thanks

Qualified for this last month on the Gold Coast (nothing to do with the Auckland cachers - just coincidence). I wangled it so I managed to do three states in one day, too!

Adding this one to the challenge list. Not sure when I will get down there to find the actual cache though.

[0B80B8](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=0B80B8) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4NEB7/32688 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.

Within challenge conditions, my best day was on **2017-08-13**, when I found at least one cache in **2** different countries:

Australia : [GC5F5C7](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5F5C7) Bilinga Beach
New Zealand : [GC62B7E](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC62B7E) I Couldn't Resist (Hikurangi, Northland)

Hope to collect when next in area. The qualifying caches are:

18/8/18 Grotty 94 (GC6XG27) NZ
18/8/18 The Arc of the Trees (GC31XXH) Australia

Same as rustynz below. Off to Gold Coast for 4 nights with her and Rebel98. Same caches qualify me too.

Qualified 02/02/2016 - Looking forward to picking this one up when we're in the area next.

Qualifying caches:
I remember Freddie, Auckland, NZ GC7R969
Amanau Sea Track, Niue GC57JT0
Found 29 June 2018
Will collect when next in the area

In my statistics I have 3 countries found in one day ( Poland , Czechia and Slovakia ) on 2016-07-10
All by Project-GC but this is not by plane ... I will come back later with two countries by aircraft

Ich reise mit elchis1 und dem Team. TFTC

Ich reise mit dem Elchteam und cache gerne. TFTC

Ich reise mit den elchis1 und gehöre zum Team. TFTC

Lucky us! Our trip was from New Zealand to the Cook Islands - wich means the dateline between backwards. So it was not too stressy for us to find two caches indifferent countrys at one day .
24.2.18 Newton Volunteer Fire Station in Auckland GC6TWDN
24.2.18 Lagoon of Love in Arorangi GC71A7C

Wir cachen mit dem Elchteam. ( känguru05, Mou12 und MrJona). Im Team macht cachen mehr Spass und einer hat meistens den richtigen Blickwinkel ( von unten oder von oben ). Grüsse aus der Schweiz und TFTC

This is a great idea for a Challenge.
Thanks HKCB for adopting this one and carrying it on.
Have been wanting to get to Raglan and sign this jolly one since last October when I had a lovely holiday in Norfolk Island!
The two caches on one day :
GC5MWTJ Norfolk Island de Sun
GC7CZK8 Blast From The Past
Found both on 7/10/ 17
Thanks!
Easy find in lovely Raglan..heaps of room for swaps or trackables.
Soon found where the geocachers went through the fence...

Had to go through my history to find an example - but I knew there was one there:
On 2/3/16 firstly found GC2J4HA (BTS (Ratchadamri)) in Thailand, then found GC42H72 (Patuxai) in Laos. Found this container on a nice sunny day on the way for a swim at the beach. TFTC.

I found 75 caches in 5 countries in March/April 2017 while in Europe. When I had a look at my logs, I only managed two caches in two counties on the same day on two occasions.

The first was Rome and Vatican City on 28th March (Rici xxx - Fontana dell'acqu Angelica (Roma) and Railway to Vatican (Vatican City). Who knew Vatican City had a train line?!

The second qualifying day was more of an effort - two 'real' countries! On 15th April I found Le Marche Couvert & La Cathedrale (Metz, France) and 100 Joe Gare Letzeburg (Luxemburg City).

We were out at Raglan dropping son off this morning, so grabbed a few caches while we were there. Cheers!

We were staying at Raglan for the weekend and this challenge was high on the agenda of finalising. We walked over from the campground and made the find. Great to finally sign this one off. TFTC!

Qualified for this challenge a couple of times and the most recent being last year when we went to Tonga with Gorbygorbachov, funkymunkyzone, lokky1, BATGIRL5, harisree (Mrs). Qualifying caches are:
New Zealand : [GC6PQE0](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6PQE0_grotty-70) GROTTY 70
Tonga : [GC5C0P7](http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5C0P7) Tongatapu Travel Bug Hotel

More a note to myself, than anything, I plan on qualifying in April when we go on a family trip to Melbourne

Don’t know what to cover it with... there aren't many leaves or branches around!
I've been staring at the caches out in Ragland all year, and every so often the boys remind me that I haven't collected them... so today decided to make a morning of it, and go pick some up. Good thing about it being overcast, not too many people around! yay!
Parking up next to the people going out for paddle boarding lessons I walked along the airfield as far as possible before jumping the fence and doing the short trek to GZ.

I've managed to do this one 3 times now. once between NZ and Australia (which I'm sure is the most common), once between Argentina and Brasil, where I took a bus across the boarder to see the waterfall from both sides, and the last time last year going from Frankfurt to San Francisco.

After packing up at our Airbnb we drove round to grab this cache having worked out we qualified prior to coming away. As with the rest of the weekend, we had to wait until the rain passed before setting off, so we had a cupcake and a drink in the car. No problem with finding the cache, thanks

Everything beautiful comes to an end. Our holidays in New Zealand too . We spent two amazing months in different parts of the country and did quite a lot of geocaching.

We are happy that this cache, our last one in New Zealand, is a mystery and a challenge cache too.

We found two caches in different countries on 02.08.2015 when we flew from Copenhagen (Denmark) to Zurich (Switzerland) with our national airline "Swiss".

We found the following two caches on 2.8.15:
GC3VH3G - Side Tracked - Copenhagen Central Station
GC120HB - TB Hotel Flughafen Zürich Kloten Hlw06

Thanks for hiding the mystery in Raglan.

Best regards Sprunghörnchen

Having just flown from MelbourneAustralia to Christchurch NZ during 26 March 2017.. with a day for recovery ! I hope the CO funds these acceptable

Consequently I hope i have qualified for this challenge cache by finding-
GC14YM3 Batmans Hill in Melbourne, prior to our flight to
GC67H48 Iron Maiden 41: The Prisioner (having just registered at the JailhouseHostel!

Just need to visit and find the cache now!

I now qualify for this cache, a cache I should have done ages ago when I went to Aussie. However, I now qualify after going to Tonga with mike-miss (Mr and Mrs), funkymunkyzone, lokky1, BATGIRL5, harisree (Mrs). So, qualifying caches are: GC6ZYA0 Kiwi's Can Fly - to Tonga (event) and GC5C0P7 Tongatapu Travel Bug Hotel. Will come along with a few of the crew soonish to finalise matters!

We have found this cache twice nearly a year apart to the day. However I somehow managed to forget to log it, which still has me shaking my head since I went to a great amount of effort to meet the stipulations of this challenge cache. We went to Raglan for a swim and decided to call in here again and sign it again since so much time has passed since last time. We met the requirements of the challenge when we had a family holiday to the Gold Coast. I left work early and on my way home to pick up the family to go to the airport found GC635FE. I was worried it would be a tough find as the current CO had DNF'd it just prior to me finding it and I know how tenacious he is. I then grabbed the nearest cache to our accommodation in Oz at about 11:30pm GCK6HG 'Crikey' which was at a memorial for Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter. Nice to tick this one off. Again. Properly this time.

Qualified for this cache last July while on our big OE in Europe it was also sadly while qualifying for this that we heard of Zorgons tragic news so he was in our thoughts as we signed the log today while in Raglan for the weekend.
Qualifying caches were GC1ZDRG in Lyon France and later that day GC6K75B in Geneva Switzerland
TFTC

I saw this cache when I was staying nearby exactly two years ago. Soon after I had started caching I would have been able to get three countries in one day, NZ-Singapore-UK, but didn't know of such stats or challenges and only found the Singapore airport cache on my trip back home to England. So two years ago all I could do was kick myself. Later that year though, I returned to England and stopped for a few nights in Vancouver. Here was my chance. I grabbed GC5P2Z1 after aborting one Auckland option and DNFing another and then soon after arriving in Vancouver and hugging the Canuck rellies, I took my Canadian nephew along to GC447D7, a great birdhouse gadget cache near his house, both on 3/5/15. Sadly both caches are now archived; they were good quality hides.

So then today, I'm back in Raglan with the English rellies and I took my Dad along here to complete the formalities. An instant find once I trusted the coords and hopped the fence. Saw a plane take off before the find and another after. Very cool.

Thanks for this great challenge, both Zorgon and HKCB. It's been on my mind for two years and I'll give it a fav point once I earn another. Wish I'd found another couple before this to make it #800 as it would have been a suitable milestone cache but as it is it's #798. Happy traveling!

12:22
> A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
> ...JUNE 2010...
> ivss_xx took his first ever airplane flight.
> Subsequently, he also needed to get back home
after the trip around Germany and Austria had ended.
> Before boarding a plane, in ungodly hour of the morning,
he took a revenge on a previously DNFd geocache in Mainz and found it.
> After landing, the desire to cache was still burning high,
so he found a couple more caches in Riga,
> and so, the requirement for this challenge was fulfilled.

**[Crazy View](https://coord.info/GC1J2BH), In Germany, [found 04:35 on June 28th 2010](https://coord.info/GL40VAR9)**
*1292.6 km later*
**[Aviation museum](https://coord.info/GC1MMWR), In Latvia, [found 10:30 on June 28th 2010](https://coord.info/GL40VBPH)**

IN - [Travel Flag Michigan](https://coord.info/TB58VBJ)

Thanks for the cache!
#4575

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Out caching for the day with nufrat and diesel894. Early rain seems to have vanished, so caching is a bit easier. Picked up the first necessary cache on my way to Melb airport, travelling southp5w. GC5b9qj. My next cache was International Departure lounge Mark III. GC 250q5. Thanks for the cache.

We qualified for this the easy way by flying east and crossing the International Dateline. This meant that we could do our first cache while driving to Auckland, and the second one on our arrival in Niue the following day (but the same date). Thanks to funkymunkyzone for placing some caches on Niue for us to find.

Qualifying caches:
Macks GC2MPJZ Huntly, New Zealand
What a Bore GC64AP Tusekolo, Niue

+ a large marble, - nothing.

We drove out this afternoon to sign this one off as a sort of tribute to Zorgon whose funeral we attended just two days ago. There was a cold wind blowing, but Karioi, Zorgon's last mountain ascent, on the day he died,was standing proudly against a clear sky.
We recently travelled to the Philippines for my son's wedding. We started in Auckland, intending to visit the International Departure Lounge Mark III, but we couldn't find it! We walked on a bit and found SMS #2 Jet Airliner, not the most exciting cache, but we were pleased to see it.
We arrived in Hong Kong with no useable phone data and no caches on the GPS, but a need to find. If we found a cache it would fill a dot day, qualify us for this challenge, give us a new country and a Get Outdoors Day 2016 souvenir, so lots riding on a find.
We had an 11.5 hr overnight layover, so plenty of time, our only other plan was to 'sleep' at the airport.
We caught the train into the city and made our way out into the financial district, not the liveliest place in the late evening. We found a McD, stood near the door and picked up the wifi on my trusty iPad, but couldn't find the button to connect. We walked on and found a small, crowded McD in a basement. Had the same problem, but were desperate, so I asked for help from a couple of young guys. They had the same issue, but realised the button was there, but the iPad wouldn't scroll down far enough and stay, so we all stood around with one scrolling while others poked fingers where the button sometimes briefly appeared and we got connection!
We joined others clustered at the top of the stairs with their phones and soon found a nearby cache. We had to read all about it as we were going to lose our connection once we stepped away. Anyway, we made our way to GZ, an enclosed companionway which had small businesses on it, but they were disused, the area was due to be renovated. The roller doors were covered in graffiti and there was a temporary community art project in the area.
Luckily the hint mentioned words in the graffiti and once we found that, I was very relieved to spot a familiar object that we often see on lamposts, tucked down low near a roller door.
The irony was that this was our first ever indoor cache and we got a Get Outdoors souvenir!
We made our way back to the airport and spent a quiet but sleepless night there, mostly wandering around the vast, nearly empty terminal. It closes overnight. The next morning we flew to the Phillippines to continue our adventure. Very few caches there, we managed only one find and one DNF, but plenty of other things to see and do.
The cache was very dry and tidy, but empty. I left a small (ugly) butterfly keyring from the Philippines. Thanks for adopting this one to keep it going, none of us could see what was to come, but I'm pleased that Zorgon's quality caches live on. A fav from us.

International Air Travel Challenge (Waikato) was transferred from Zorgon to user HKCB

Is anyone interested in adopting this cache? Please message me if you do.
I have been doing very little geocaching over the last couple of years and it is now time to either adopt out or archive all of my remaining live caches. I will be progressively archiving and collecting the caches over the next six weeks or so if nobody wants to adopt.
Thanks

I've been trying to work out how I was going to qualify for this challenge for a long time. I thought I'd already qualified as I had traveled about 6 months prior to this challenge being published but I was about 6 hours outside the right day and since then I have been suggesting to CB we needed to do some more traveling outside of NZ and that's about as far as it every got.

Recently CB was sent to Singapore for work, and I quickly put my hand up to tag along, and once all was confirmed I set about planning the two caches I needed for this challenge. So with a early start to get to the airport on time I headed out just on first light in Hamilton to locate my first find of the day, which took a bit longer than I would of liked but got there in the end. Once we'd landed in Singapore and sorted ourselves out in our accommodation I headed out to get my second cache. I had a trad all lined up, but as I was walking to GZ I realised that the cache had been possibly muggled so had to head to another cache. The next nearest was a multi, which I was trying to avoid as I didn't know how long that one would take, but it turned out it was nice and straight forward, and the cache was found after a short search which meant I now qualified for this challenge.

I had been trying to planned a trip out here with CB to grab the final as I didn't want to drive out here just to find the cache, and with a event near Raglan we were heading to today I added a quick detour to the trip. I had looked on the satellite maps where this one was hidden, so managed to find nice and quickly without the use of the GPS. Thanks for great challenge!!

My qualifying caches are:

GC5Z5CN "A Short Stroll" (New Zealand 3/11/2015)
GC2KT8G "December Wind" (Singapore 3/11/2015)

Having had to travel quite a lot with my job, I've (unfortunately) qualified for this cache a number of times. However one of my favourites was from Vietnam (GC3JN3T) and Singapore (GC1HA96) that I collected back on 18/05/2014.

The next issue was going to Raglan to collect this cache. So today on the spare of the moment decision, the family and myself decided to do a day trip from Auckland. Fortunately I remembered that I could collect this cache, so I decided to do just that. This was a quick and easy find with the only complication being a muggle working his dogs who insisted on remaining in the area. Undeterred I decided to jump the fence and collect the cache without him being any the wiser. So TFTC and glad to finally collect this one.

#11148. Usually Troodles and I have the same qualifying caches (which is good as she normally logs first and I can copy and paste). That's not the case here. My qualifying caches are from 2015-07-31: GC2TF4E Slotter (Tasman, NZ) and GC5JDTW "Can you spell JANUARY in January?" (Brisbane, Australia).

You know it is a small airfield where people are allowed to walk across it, and there is just a warning sign saying watch for planes. I also liked the big slide into the estuary from one of the houses nearby. TFTC.

With a good weather forecast for the area and a long weekend starting tonight, we thought we'd better have a trip to Raglan today rather than face the probable hordes during the next few days.
I qualified for this cache in 5/12/2012 when I found GC3M5T8 Sports in Wellington then GCT67P Brisbane Odditties - Showdown in Brisbane.
StreetWalker retrieved this after we discovered we had a fence between us and GZ - and he jumps fences much better than I can. TFTC.

I qualified for this one a year ago today, when I found caches in Canada (GC5F9Z8) and the US (GC4JADE in Los Angeles and GCPB8P in Honolulu). I hope to find this challenge cache when I visit New Zealand next month, and on my flight back get three countries (Sydney, Australia, Auckland, NZ and Edmonton, Canada) on the same day (Jan 16, 2016) after we do an immense amount of flying!

Spending the night watching tv and seeing how many challenge caches I qualify for.

GC4V68T---Vuosaaren Puistometsä---3/07/2015---Finland
GC3QB33---SideTracked - Slough---3/07/2015----United Kingdom

Only sorry to say I don't know when I will be past to sign the logbook.

Only noticed this challenge recently. We qualified on 28/6/2015 when we flew to Queensland Australia.

1. Macro Camo GC57019
2. Mattocks 3-Frascott GC4Y752

Not sure when we will ever get up that way to log but enjoyed doing it anyway.

Signed in with Alpenmilch80 this evening but I don't meet the requirements yet - will update when that changes (hopefully).

I love those Fridays when you leave the city early to avoid the traffic and have plenty of time to get some geocaches on the way . Evilno9 and my destination for this weekend was Raglan to do some great night kayaking.
Dark and low tide. Great time to get this one .

Found a geocache in NZ and OZ on 2015-06-15.

Waahooo....

This is a challenge that I have been really wanting to complete for so long. Finally I was able to fill the requirements with

Sydney - Social Climber - http://coord.info/GC19GJJ
New Zealand - Jeremy goes to the dogs - http://coord.info/GC5HN3Z

Now to head out to Raglan to sign the log

YAY

I was in the region with some spare time today so decided to go and find a few caches in the countryside. I have managed to complete this feat a couple of times in my travels. The first time I did it was on 24/2/09. On that day I found a cache in Nelson, New Zealand - GC15D12 - Scarecrow and Mr/s. King and two caches in Melbourne, Australia - GCY1Y6 - AAPT - Tell it like it is and GCPN06 - A History Aparatus.
Nice to get this challenge cache found and logged. I see that there is now a similar challenge in Christchurch which I hope to get to in the next week or so. TFTC, Biggles.