Visit in fall (Taranaki) New Plymouth District, North Island, New Zealand
By extn8891, graydonguy2013 on 09-Mar-14. Waypoint GC4ZZP7

Found it! Now time for the big walk back up to the track tftc

Coordinates changed from:
S 39° 13.502 E 174° 4.414

Coordinates changed to:
S 39° 13.491 E 174° 4.405

Distance from original: 79.2 feet or 24.1 meters.

The Cache has been moved to make it more user friendly for families with kids. The cache is now on track side behind the camera Please refer to photos.

Visit in fall (Taranaki) was transferred from extn8891 to user Hurtle69

Risked my life for this. Called a friend had who found it and got some info. (cell coverage very unreliable). Scrambled down across and up much to the amusement (or something) of my muggle companion. Investigated all pungas. It could be there but it eluded me this time. Bugger. Nice walk through.

Woohoo! Last tried this cache around 3 years ago with the minicachers in tow. Conditions and the ages of the kids made it impossible to get. This time, we are back without the kids. Its challenging to retrieve (made Mr Maxner clamber to it), but great to finally cross this one off the list. TFTC

What a hunt, so many rocks and Punga trees, not a lot of water flowing at the moment

Have been meaning to do this hike for awhile now and today turned out to be the day! A nice climb up through the bush and wow what a reward when we arrived. Beautiful! GZ was too treacherous for GiGiEV so I retrieved and she signed it off while she waited where the track ends. Very scary! Thanks for bringing us here. FP awarded

Nice walk today with my Mum. My legs got a bit tired on the way but loved coming back down. Pretty waterfall. TFTC

Had a good look around but couldn't find it.

Brought my 2 girls aged 9 and 6 to the falls for a day tramp. We had lunch at the falls and wondered if there was a geocache here. Sure enough we found it. The logbook is quite wet. We managed to sign it though. Thanks.

The falls were just a trickle compared to when we went in winter!! In winter we came round the other side of the falls, this time followed the much easier Maude track. Easy find with helpful hint. TFTC

Attempted this one today with the mini geocachers (aged 4, 6, and a 1 year old in the backpack. All went well except for soaking wet shoes (me). But literally 30 metres away from the falls (and cache), a huge tree had fallen and blocked the path. We tried to get around it, but couldn't really find a way that would be safe with little ones in tow, so had to turn around and head back. All disappointed, but will try next time without the kids

TFTC SL Nice walk

After the last visit I was pretty sure I knew where the cache could be. I replayed the walk along the negligible path in my head (I might have a photographic memory, but it takes a week for the film to be developed) and came up with a likely location.

I'm planning on doing a Taranaki summit climb before the end of summer, and have recently equipped myself with a nice new hiking pack which I have been wanting to take for a test run. I filled the drinking bladder, made myself a couple of fruit smoothies, loaded various other items and headed out.

I was met at the entrance stile by a herd of inquisitive bovines, and they followed me the length of the first paddock to the second stile, then voiced their displeasure at my leaving. Ten minutes across the scorching fields and I'm into the nice cool bush for a nice quick walk to the falls. Once at ground zero I drank my lunch then scouted out a suitable access and egress to and from the riverbed. The last time I was here I fell a couple of times, and I was wary of repeating the process, this being a solo mission.

A slow and cautious descent, followed by a slow and cautious crossing, and I had it. Filled with a warm fuzzy glow of satisfaction, relief and no small amount of happiness I signed the log and dropped off a personal token then back across and up the bank.

The cows spotted me on the top of the hill as I made my way back to the Spyder, and came to meet me, then got all but headbutted me the length of the paddock. I had to keep pushing one's head away; I'm sure it wanted something out of my pack.

All up I was out for a little over 2 1/2 hours, something I doubt I would have managed before taking up this hobby. I credit Geocaching for raising my fitness level and decreasing my weight.

Thanks for the cache, I think it deserves a favourite point.

It was a beautiful day, and the falls were a sight to behold, but we couldn't find a way down to cross to the far bank. It was disappointing and frustrating as our GPSr had us within 20 metres, but try as we might we just couldn't find a pile of rocks fitting the description. We are going to need a bit of extra guidance on this one.

Thanks for the placement anyway, we'll try again sometime.

Lovely day for a walk to the falls. Enjoyed the bush and the birds. Thanks for bringing us here.

Found by mistake while trying to get to waterfall for a photo

Stumbled upon this while trying to get a photo op.
Lucky find with AgentSpy. Nice walk, waterfall and day

A good bush walk to the falls. Slippery at the site after recent rain. FTF with JutyBug

After three days of womad this was testing the legs a first to find with Tara Ted He and I got black legs from the hook grass but all in a good cause TFTC

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