The Pine Man, Tokoroa. (South Waikato) Tokoroa, North Island, New Zealand
By Outtatime on 28-May-14. Waypoint GC55T65

Decided to archive this one.

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Did not find today. Looked in all the places a geocache could be hidden with no luck. A hint could have been helpful especially for due to high muggle area...

This one eluded us. Is it still there? We will come back another time.

No luck, not even in finding a soggy plastic bag. This is either not there, or not a 1.5 difficulty. Either way the CO needs to check this out

Couldn't find anything

It was in a soggy plastic back log unreadable

Did not find spent an hour looking

Found after an extensive search. Tftc

Could some water logged holes and cracks and couldn't find treasure today on way to taupo

Fun one TFTC

Nice one. Found with ianbit

Tricky little number to find and searched in a few wrong places before having a last crack. Pleased to have found this one as it was challenging and also a terrific spot and worth visiting. TFTC.

nice little cache in tokoroa. Thanks!!!!

Found ot on the way down to Taupo. We quickly figured out the likely location and there is was! Tftc!

Had to stop so mum could use the ladies so wandered down to the pine man to have a look. As I knew the cache wouldn't be visible I looked in the most obvious place and there it was. Super quick find and back on the road again. Thanks for this cache

Break time for my driver so what better to do than find a cache. TFTC

Found with the eagle eyes of panda22

First time we've managed to stop for this one and we couldn't find it! Gutted.

No idea where to look.

Had my doubts about the Pine man after recent DNFs.
But the little nano was a quick find.
Cheers

Found a good hiding spot but no cache today

No luck with this one

Early trip to Taupo so was the ideal time to look for this one. He is certainly an impressive sculpture. Thanks for the cache.

Passing through had to have a comfort stop so grabed a cache as well...sneaky hide well camoed magnificant carving well worth the stop tftc ☺☺☺

Took us a while but we persevered until we found it. Thanks for bringing us to The Pine Man. TFTC. Mahalo and Aloha from Hawaii.

Mr CD found the nano replacement which we signed and returned. What a fantastic statue. TFTC

last potential find for the day and couldnt find it.


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No luck here today for goldielover and I. Spent quite a bit of time checking it out. Looks like it may have gone.

Found what looks like parts of the cache... I think this one needs a maintenance, definitely.

Stopped and had a poke round here but couldn't
Find the replacement cache

No sign of the cache, nor the replacement bag, so Corunnaroad replaced with a nano.

No plastic bags there so replaced with nano until cache owner can check. Thanks

Found the poor log book in this state!!! No container, just the log in a plastic bag... Have removed this log and replaced with a waterproof log which is double bagged. I didn't have any small enough containers to fit.

A great town and some history to go with it.

The log here is unfortunately soaked and unusable.

Can happily tell anyone where it is, but here is my picture of the location to show I was here.

TFTC

Thanks for the cache

A stop close to my destination...I remember grabing a cache here in the past...soon found this one and was on my way again. Tftc

Haha very good had fun with this one

Quick easy find as the cache was slightly exposed tftc, the pine man looks great in his All Blacks getup.

This was the fifteenth day of my fifteen day trip to go to the Christchurch Mega. The place was crowded with bus people, but I still managed to find and replace the cache. TFTC.

Founfmd. High smuggle

Got it! Sneaky!

JAC found it tftc

Had to wait for foreign muggles to take their photos. Easy find. Log was wet inside but since it is waterproof paper, it was fine to write on. We held the log and bag up in the wind and managed to dry it out a bit before replacing. TFTC

Couldn't find my pen but took photo of proof of my presence... he's all kittes out for the rugby it seems

Rugby pine guy

Nice place to hide thanks

Caching from Taupo to Hamilton today. Heading north to find the Icon and Kiwi Art series. However I discovered a Challenge cache in the Manawatu so I am also collecting minutes of latitude as I go.
S38 13 - tick.
I like this carving. rather cool. Dressing in All Black clobber at the moment.
TFTC

Log was soaked so unable to find

Oh, what a man. What a man he is. Amazing giant with such a huge chainsaw . Really neat to stop in this great timber town. Had a Trademe pickup close by , so pulled on the hubby's hand brake and made a quick find while admiring the carving detail. Oh what a man, what a man. Tftc fav point from us.

Log still wet so left dry paper in new plastic. A quick find thanks. Great to see these carvings in Tokoroa.

Saturated but found it!

Very wet. But easy find for the kids

On our way home from Taupo, a quick stop, found fairly quickly, but definitely needs a log redesign as this one isn't working. So not able to sign log.

Cool

Bags logs are put in are really trashed and wet and resemble the consistency of wet toilet paper. Could not read any logs let alone sign. Needs Maintenance. Liked reading about the pine man. Took a bit of "trying to look inconspicuous" look to find the stash.

This entry was edited by angandstef on Tuesday, 14 July 2015 at 06:51:46 UTC.

Will replace bag and wet log at first opertunity I have

found

Found it but bag was not sealed properly so unable to sign

Another great find while in the area with Just-Lookin.

Thanks for setting up this cache - having fun touring around.
(LOG WET)

On a short road trip with tmann421. Enjoyed the area collecting caches along the way.

TFTC

Second one.

yippee found:)

Cool hiding spot! Tftc

Nice hide! Thankyou.

We are on a round trip, visiting caches in the area of Tokoroa and Mangakino, then back to Hamilton. We just decided that we will find our 2000th on geocaching's 15th birthday, next Saturday. We still need to find 77 before then!
This is our fifth for the day. We added a waterproof log in a plastic bag, but left the old log in its PB, both in the outer bag.
We are most impressed by Tokoroa's public art.

Impossible to sign . Sodden

Found it but too wet to sign . replaced .

Had an early morning trip over to the Hawkes Bay for a meeting with a new client, so on that note set out exceptionally early to collect a number of caches on the way there and a few more on the way home.
other times that I have stopped by here there have always been a plethora of muggles but today in the rain I had the place all to myself. This was a quick stop on the way north at the end of a very long day.

Thanks for the placement

Pretty tight find

found today while on a bus trip from Auckland to palmy, stopped in tokoroa for lunch

Dad found whilst mum taking photos thanks

Kahu visiting Tokorua...

Cool place took some photos and searched around quick find

Cool place took some photos and searched around quick find

Cool place took some photos and searched around quick find

Found with Ewilbur92

After living here and playing around this statute for years, would not have suspected a cache to be here. TFTC

Yay found it on way to GI wake boarding in Taupo.

Took a while but got there in the end!

Found with Madmass

Found it!! with lukefrog

Quick find on a stop off heading back to auckland from hawkes bay

It took a while, but it was easier than the previous hide in this location TFTC

Found it and stuffed back into place

Found it. On the way to Whitianga. Quick and easy found.
TFTC!

Found

Wow he is mighty impressive up close.
Tftc

Layer upon layer, found it

Woodman

Did not find I wouldn't be surprised if someone took it

Not many places to hide

Thanks to bullbar2 they told me where it was and they have found 1250

Sorry it's 2bullbars big thanks 2bullbars

Tftc

Yaaa 2 in 1 day

Easy find but a good one to start the day

thanks to all the owners of the geocaches that we found today on our way to Tokoroa, Putaruru and Te Puke ... a lot of nice caches, beautiful surroundings and lovely walks!
TFTC and greetings from Belgium.