Don't turn here! (Upper Hutt, Wellington) Upper Hutt, North Island, New Zealand
By Nic-jay on 05-Oct-14. Waypoint GC5E77P

Couldnt spot this one easily. Road too narrow and dangerous for our liking

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Trouve ! / Found it ! Trouve vite fait au bord de route. La bote n'a plus de couvercle mais reste au sec...4507me cache trouve.Merci Nic-jay pour la cache found quickly on the side of the road. The box no longer has a lid but stays dry...4507th cache found.Thank you Nic-jay for the cache

tftc, good hiding spot, road a little narrow though

We went to the wrong turn but second orientation retrieved it

Not sure this one is very safe here!

A quick find among the spider webs. Lost its lid but all dry. Thanks for the cache.

I stayed in Upper Hutt last night for a wedding. Despite having lived here for six years, I don’t think I ever visited Whiteman’s Valley.

No problems finding a parking spot and walking the short distance to GZ. Unfortunately, the likely hiding spot was guarded by the biggest spider I have ever seen. Interestingly, it seemed like a different type to any I’ve seen before, so I’ll look it up to try and figure out what it was. I did try various other spots just in case, but no luck

Couldn’t get the logbook out, definitely require tweezers!

TwigNZ is desperate to get just a few more caches before the mega, and I am always keen to help, so we headed up Whitemans Valley.

Nice and easy. The cache is getting brittle from UV/heat damage. No lid any more.

Tomorrow after work I will start my journey north to attend the Auckland MEGA, which will be my 5,000th cache if I can engineer my caching before Saturday to make it so. Knowing that the weather forecast for tomorrow is less than favourable, I really wanted to find some caches tonight to release some of the pressure, so the Seagnoid and I headed out to Whitemans Valley to see what we could find.

We didn't turn here, but we may have parked up close by in order to search for this one. A very quick find in the first place I looked due to the accurate co-ords. The container is missing its lid, and therefore the log is damp, but otherwise it's ok.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Straight forward find. The cache needs maintenance. Top crumbled with brittleness.log was wet and hard to remove. Tftc.

I scored some cheap flights to Wellington for the weekend! I had a great time exploring and finding caches!! TFTC!

Great spot!

Out this way today for bit of a tiki tour around a place we use to live. I’ve even run around here but never taken time to stop and do any caches. Had some time off in the evening with Gr33nslime so we decided to pop up here a couple of times and work through some of the local caches. Some of the Trads were easy to get, others like Bunyip’s Bog with a real stick in the mud, as in take a stick and drag it through the leaf little till you hit pay dirt (and not mud). In the end it was always a nice quiet evening to come up and get some caches done while enjoying the serenity of the area.

# 1340 So near by again looking for that extremely challenging bog based cache near by. Thought it was about time to pick up a few of the others along this stretch. JimmyNZ made the find here and pretty easily. The log was just a rolled up chunk of brown goop so I deftly flicked it out and replaced with a sheet of waterproof paper, that should last a few more finds. Spent a bit of time just enjoying the river and the nice evening with the screeds of cicadas around. Cheers nic jay for this one.

Couldn’t write in the log as stuck inside the cache

Found it, but couldn’t retrieve the log book out of cache as it has now turned brown. Needs some maintenance here

Sorry to log a DNF on this one we will be back log by gsak

Parked just past, and walked back. Cache in first place I checked, nice one. Log too wet to sign. Replaced as found.

With my current visit to the area winding down into the last few evenings, and still having a car at my disposal, I decided to take advantage of the (unusually) ambient weather to head out and grab a few caches. I did a loop from the back of Upper Hutt along Whitemans Valley and back into Silverstream via Blue Mountain Road. A dirty dozen finds for the evening but quite a lot of DNFs too which I see is the norm with some of those caches on that route. All in all a good side trip and just the thing to log them over a cold beer.
T F T C to all the COs for their placements.

Found while cycling the circuit from County Lane, Harcourt Park for morning coffee and around the Whitemans Valley and a great whiz down Blue Mountain Road. With it being a rare fine day it was a wonderful ride on River Trail and country roads. TFTC.

Nice quick find here even got asked by a cyclist if we had found what we were looking for.
Thanks for the placement and the smiley

Thanks for placing this cache

I did not find it

Easy find but log is wet

TFTC

I'm calling this a find. I found something matching the hint in the expected location but the log was blank and there was no cache ID that I could see. Clearly I am not the FTF and yet I was filling in the square reserved for the FTF. I don't know if the log was replaced without a maintenance note being posted or whether there is another cache here.

Straight forward find. All quiet here today. TFTC

Quick find between cars! Signed as Dr b and ff

Found with dr_ bogan. Sounds the log f.f

Found it but it was on the road unlike the description

Found by dad

Quick find

The weather is grim today, so a car-based trip around Blue Mountains and Whiteman's Valley until I run out of time. Quick, easy find, but I was glad I had a suitable extraction tool to hand. TFTC

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Nice little hiding spot

Found during a car based cache mission due to the cruddy weather.

Nice little magnetic cache - missed it the first time around.

A quick find during a pleasant drive through Whiteman's Valley. Tftc.

Found with Wafflekitties TFTC

This one took awhile to find and was awkward to search for with all the cars going by. Found in the end though, TFTC

I must admit I was a little nervous on this one. No worries but kept an eye on the traffic. Not had as there was none. Cache was soon in hand. TFTC

Didn't have to turn!

2nd time here - quickly located in nearly first place I looked - glad to get this off the watchlist. Quite a bit of traffic (car and bike) today. TFTC

07 February 2016 10:57

While you can reach the container without standing on the road it is a tiny little thing and so much easier to find if you do stand on the road. I missed it on the first pass as I was expecting something larger. TFTC.

Find # 2529. A third day of cycle caching from Petone to Maymorn and back using the Masterton train to get to Maymorn. Cycled back via Whiteman's Valley and the Hutt River Trail - 50km of cycling. Only a 100m rise in elevation from Maymorn to the top of Blue Mountains Road but a 200m descent to Silverstream - the train did all the work! Very quick find in nearly the first place I looked. SL TFTC

#1560. This one took me quite a while to find as I completely missed it in the first place I checked. So headed along checking all the areas that the hint object could be hidden. Must have spent a good 10-15 minutes searching everywhere on that bridge. Was about to give up when I tried the obvious places once again and couldn't believe it. There was the cache. Exactly the type of container I expected as well. Nevermind. Logbook was dry. Signed and returned as found. Another nice slice of rural living in Whiteman's Valley. Thanks for the cache.

Maybe a step onto the bridge.. #126

Found with GBNZ and GLAD-NZ on a morning drive. TFTC.

Found with NZ1 and GBNZ. Good hint and quick n easy. TFTC

I was fortunate to make a nice quick find of this sneaky little hide today between muggle drive-byes and rain showers. SL TFTC

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A very cool cache and a change from the normal containers usually found on park and grabs. TFTC!

A quick find on a cold Sunday afternoon with TregearP.

All in good order, TFTC.

Nice hide, TFTC

Found the other day with da well and mealmate. Forgot to log

Nice find it's not an extremely obvious cache as it's quite small. TFTC

Good find for mealmate and I, tftc

Logged as 2 x Wbond (Wbond-Jnr was with me). Found whilst standing on the end of the bridge.

Found with Wbond1116. Signed as 2xwbond so we didn't take up too much space.

#1832 Enjoying the afternoon sunshine with a wee trip to collect some caches. Spotted three goats scrambling up the bank as we approached GZ- a couple of very cute kids! Quick find here as I managed to look in the right spot first- wahoo! TFTC!

I have replaced the missing cache. Please take care to hide it exactly as you find it.

No luck today - is it still there?

Unfortunately did not find, is it still there?

Didn't find. Can the person who put it there confirm that it's still there?

Was with mealmate aswell and didn't find it bit disappointed but oh well! Please confirm if still there or not!

Nicely hidden but quicker with hint

managed to catch a break in the cloudbursts to snaffle this one. tftc

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A quick easy find at this bridge. TFTC

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Easy find thanks

This entry was edited by peniknz on Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 07:14:30 UTC.

Fairly quick park and grab while out on a drive through Whitemans Valley taking geo-grandma out for a coffee at the short straw. TFTC.

Easy peasy.Tftc

Found on a grey afternoon. TFTC

Cache # 2,270 - Another nice quick find with Astro Hunter and Violet Butterfly, and a relief after the very long DNF just prior to this. TNLNSL. TFTC!

Did with Violet Butterfly and The Wandering Dragons today. Thanks!

Cache # 358

Found this morning with The Wandering Dragons and Astro Hunter. Very easy. Thank you.

Cache # 883

Yet another cache located in an afternoon foray into Whitemans Valley with Chrisval7. TFTC

Found while out and about with our grandchildren, on a visit to NZ from South Australia.

Easy find along a most interesting road and trip Thanks

I searched for a wee while in the wrong place but I spotted the cache as soon as I decided I would need to expand the search area. TFTC.

Came over this way to do a job for work on a Saturday morning and grabbed a few caches before heading home. TFTC

Found . Picked my moment between cyclists passing as a race was on

Not quite where I expected it to be but still a fairly quick find in the rain this afternoon. Signed log, TFTC

#5896. Passed GZ ... so walked back. Spotted it on approach. Replaced as found. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Find number 10 of a personal daily best of 30.

Attempting to clear out the caches in Whiteman's Valley. I had to run back to the bridge to grab the cache as I discovered the place I had pulled over was a driveway so I didn't want to be hanging around too long. TFTC

Another quick easy find

Stunning day, early summer? A foray into the upper reaches of the Hutt.
No turning back now.
Cache find was straightforward after a bit of peering and poking; log signed, cache safely re-hidden, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

A nice afternoon for a country drive. I enjoyed my hour in the country. Thankfully the cache was very visible and a quick find, not sure I'd place a cache in this situation. TFTC

Out and about on a wee caching mission with Yeetrees. Just tidying up a few caches around Whitemans Valley and enviroins.

TFTC Nic-jay

A lovely area, enjoyed a leisurely tour here this afternoon.

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Quick park and grab, had to patk where the bus turns and walk back to locate tge cache. Found with jax479 TFTC.

Good advice. Found with Ulmus Lynx TFTC

nice horse nearby. Found today with Selesi on a days caching thru Moonshine Rd and Whitemans Valley. TFTC

A sideways look from a passing cyclist while we put our best nonchalant looks on (why would two adults lurk in such a spot?), cache retrieved and then we DID turn here and wander back to the vehicle. With metal-art enjoying the lovely Whiteman's Valley/Mangaroa drive.

Beautiful sunny day today to collect a few of the Hutt Valley caches with tmann421. Nice quick find by tmann. Enjoying this series of caches and great containers. TFTC Nic-jay

Another good quick find - thanks Nic-jay