Leprechaun's Tea (Wairarapa) Rimutaka Forest Park, North Island, New Zealand
By wb1116 on 06-Apr-14. Waypoint GC50B90

Quick and easy find, after battling with the spiders! Had to wait for a couple of muggles who had stumbled across a baby possum meters from the cache to move away! Great place for a cache TFTC!

Luck of the Irish today. Lots of yucky friends about

2 September 2023 11:34. A beautiful day for a bike ride rlde with an e-bike riding group. After heading over the bridge, the others kindly waited for me while I headed 'just a little further' for this one. No problems with the find, and the cache is in great condition despite its age! TFTC wb1116 for placing this cache, number 12927 for me.

I decided to walk up and then collect the caches on the way back. One problem - my phone died just after the turn around point! However I remembered the name of this cache and so knew where it was. I looked in the likely places and pulled up success!
Thank you

Enjoying this bike ride in perfect weather, a group of seven of us, all on e-MTBs. There had to be a cache here! It is well placed and nice and dry, thanks wb1116.

Quick find, didn't need the shelter today as the sun is out,

Some shelter from the rain. Thanks.

Straight forward find. Many thanks for the cache.

Spider standing guard at the tearooms!

Watch for the spiders!

Hidden by spider - sister squealed

Sadly nobody serving today. Good job I brought my own.

Amazing weather for our bike ride there and back today. Even had a tail wind home. Really enjoyed the historical information. Easy find thanks to the good clue. Cache is all good. TFTC

Tough going up!.. nice to stop here!...TFTC

Quick search and find. Found the Cache all in order so signed the log and replaced as found.

Once we arrived at GZ, newbie geocacher Mona Mower made a nice quick find. So the log book has been signed and the cache is nicely back in its spot all ready for the next geo-hunter. Thanks heaps for taking the time to set up this cache. I really appreciate your efforts in doing so. TFTC.

Quick find, disturbed a few mason bees but they will rebuild I'm sure, tftc.

Nice find with woolwood9 on a quick trip away finding some geocaches.
No problem with the find here, we enjoyed the walk to the new swing-bridge.
Good place for a cache, nice relic here.
SL (tm/ww NZ) TFTC

Found on a short trip away with tmann421 hunting caches
Nice quick find here
Now up to the swing bridge
Log stamped tm/ww NZ

Came over from Nelson to visit my daughter for the weekend. Decided to ride 50km Maymorn-Cross Creek and back on the Friday while she was at work.

I flew past the tea rooms on the downhill leg, and was very grateful for an excuse to stop here on the long uphill grind.

With limited time to look, I was part of a group biking the Trail, I was very thankful for the explicit hint which helped me find this cache. TFTC

Had a phone call from 2Bulbars earlier in the week wanting to head back into the remutaka's area and start from the fear
featherston side so here we are and no rain insight yay good ride up had lunch at the summit then headed around the backroad which at the mega we only found this road by mistake so have been keen to come back and of course pick up the few caches around this way.
Quick find here thanks for the placement and the smiley.

this looks like it was shelter for leprechauns as it seemed very low to the ground
we are out trying our mt bikes out and what better place than the Remutaka rail trail.
This area is so full of rail way history an the things people did many years ago just to help the wheels of the industry to keep going around
many thanks

#7620. Decided today I would do the caches on the Wairarapa side of the rail trail. I have been up to Cross Creek previously on a geocaching walk but not gone further. The weather looked like it was going to be fine and sunny today and it was. But the wind was something else. The fact I was nearly blown off my feet at the carpark should have been a warning. It kept blowing hard all day - relentless near gale. Made for a challenging walk carrying the printout of Barnaby's 19 stage multi cache and trying to avoid having the paper blown out of my hand and on its way to South America. The new swing bring at Siberia was a mental challenge as the gusts threatened to suck me off the bridge. Its a long steady climb up to the tea shelter and clearly needed a few new caches. I have put in an extra two today to give an excuse for some more stops. The shelter itself was an interesting piece of history. The cache was quickly located and the logbook signed. I collected the numbers although I had already deduced what they would be and have worked out where the Surprise cache is hidden. Thanks wb1116 for the cache.

Exploring the area again grabbing a cache or two along the way. TFTC

Sveppi and I are back at Cross creek for the 4th time with the rifle. Saw goats again lower down the track but we wanted to explore a bit further so we kept climbing. Explored a valley between the 2 tunnels we were told had lots of animals. Saw some sign, but nothing moving in the open today. Grabbed the cache on the way up, nice and dry and not easy to retrieve! I think it will remain safe where it is.

After very hot days recently today turned out to be a lovely cool overcast morning Ideal for the walk up from Cross Creek in perfectly calm conditions I'm normally on a bike around here so it was a nice change to be walking You see more of the scenery somehow! All safe and dry here Man that's a good magnet Thanks wb1117

Found with frenchm on a lovely's days walk from the Featherston side to the summit and return.

Found with mumandme on a lovely walk on a sunny Sunday. Thanks

I found this cache without any problem as you'd expect but for some reason I didn't really take any notiice of the structure where I was searching. When I got got down to Cross Creek I bumped into somebody who guessed I was a geocacher and he asked if I'd found the cache "under the train". Huh? What train? It was only when I went back up the hill that I realized this was the cache he was talking about and I finally noticed what the structure was. I should really pay more attention to things I see! TFTC.

Only one place for it to be and indeed there it was in nice dry condition. Gets a FP for a bit of cool history and a nice area for a rest - shame so few people venture this side of the summit compared to the Upper Hutt side.

Quick easy find, thanks to the excellent hint. TFTC!

Back on the trail again, this time on a bike from the friendly Cycle Rimutaka group. Funny seeing this old cab here, but good home for it. TFTC wb1116

Found 12:23. TFTC

Thanks for the cache. We cycled to the summit and picked up some caches on the way back

Nice spot to stop, the spiders creeped my out a little though.

We’ve walked most of the way. We’ll blame the howling head wind but down will be fun. NINO TFTC

Quick find, great place for a cache. TFTC.

Riding the Rimutaka track, going in from cross creek to the summit and back down today....stopped here for a bit of a break. really enjoying the history panels and the scenery.

Collecting as many caches as possible on our three days on the Rimutaka Cycle Trail, made it to the top and now enjoying the downhill. Found with Lilywyte. TFTC

Cycling the Rimutaka railtrail and caching with Trampingkiwi.
Day 1 Maymorn to Cross creek. TFTC!

This was a nice quick cache to find as I made my way back down from the summit.

The gradient is good for walking and we made good time. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

What a cute wee shelter but you wouldn't need to be very tall. Found with debsnz

Had a great ride with all the boys on this beautiful day TFTC

Log to come

Nice ride pleased to be heading down. Wouldn't like to be coming up here. Tftc

An easy grab in the wind and drizzle, but still great to be out the bike today TFTC

#6546. Good walk to GZ in the Rimutaka Forest Park for a tea break. Interesting kiosk. No trains and no passengers nowadays. Saw just one cyclist all day on the trail. The place was all quiet during the visit. Quick find. The cache was in excellent condition. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log. Thanks for the cache.

This proved to be an expensive cache. I lost my Garmin 62S soon after at cross creek. tftc

Found on scout bike ride

Found on day 1 of a 2 day Scout/Venturers bike ride over the Incline and around the Wairarapa Coast. TFTC

Rail trailing again. Love it up here. Cycled in from Kaitoke end and made a return trip.
A quirky kind of conversion to make a tea shelter. Nice. Feeling very historical.
Cache in order, log signed; safely re-hidden, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

Out on bike ride over some remote trails, finding some caches along the way. TFTC.

Wicm Jnr enjoying the big downhill. Hard riding downhill with a GPSr in one hand though! Looking forward to the long uninterrupted ride to the bottom at Cross Creek now.

An easy find as I made my way down the Trail. A quick stop to enjoy the view too. - Geocoin. Got the code so now forthe rest ...

Found with Juice_Box while riding the trail.
tftc.

Came at this one from the Kaitoke side of the Incline, on a MTB ride with the geosons. Wethaer in the Hutt was oky, but all morning Climie and the Rimutakas had been enshrouded in low rain-cloud. After lunch decided to give it a crack anyway ... and we had a blast. Got wet from the get-go, but had some great adventures, and met some other bike-riders along the way. Also a family of ducks(!!) in the middle of the main tunnel. As always Siberia was great fun, and the cache was a quick find. Both the boys made the comment that for all the times we've ridden by neither of them had noticed this spot.
Cache all in good order, and necessary information gleaned.

TFTC!
+Lieblingsspiel GC

Twentieth find on a road trip from Auckland to Christchurch. Taking a slight detour today walking the Rimutaka incline. TFTC.

We had planned to walk from the Cross Creek car park to Siberia and back today, before driving on for an overnight stay at Gladstone. I had run a pocket query to give me some caches to look for, but on arriving at the car park discovered the radius I had put in was only just big enough to include the cache at the car park, but none along the track . Never mind, we set off on the walk anyway. After reading about the tea shelter on the way up it dawned on me that the name of one of the caches I had particularly wanted to find that day was 'Leprechaun's Tea'. Aha, it must be there. So on the way back down we had a look. While I was rummaging about in the undergrowth Mrs B spotted the cache and I soon had the log signed and the 2 Su Doku co-ordinates for 'Leprechaun's Surprise' noted down.

Thanks for providing such informative cache names, it always makes them easier to find, even without a GPSr .

Just 3 more to find before the Surprise can be attempted.

Out for a cycle ride with a group of friends to Cross Creek and back via Back Road. A cold blustery day. TFTC

Went for a bike ride on a pleasant cool morning from the Cross Creek carpark to hunt out this one. A bit of a grunt getting there but a real blast getting back! The cache was a quick find, noted codes and signed logbook. Thanks for the cache, it's the sort I really enjoy and it's worth a favourite point

Quick and easy find.

Was biking the Rimutaka Incline and we made a stop here thinking there was probably a cache, after checking my phone and discovering there was no reception I started looking and had cache in hand soon after we then signed log and carried on. When I got home to log it I discovered it was a premium cache and so I couldn't log it. After talking to marisa&kaleb on June 14th I discovered I could log it, I had a look the next day was excited to find what they were talking about. TFTC

Went for a ride with Wbond1116 over the incline to Featherston today and got some caches but saved some for another trip.

I was FTF for this one, but Dad didn't help me - he made me earn it. Then at the bottom we saw Yetrees who was coming up to find it.

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