Tiny Mighty River (Lake Karapiro) Maungatautari, North Island, New Zealand
By BloosBoy & CrusaderWoman on 06-Nov-14. Waypoint GC5G3QQ

Unfortunately we have moved out of the area and are unable to maintain this GC. Who knows; something Tiny might pop up somewhere else in NZ...

Cool cache. Thanks for bring us here

It’s a beauty. Tricky little hide nicely done. Nice to be down by the lake. Thanks.

Absolutely brilliant.....Favourite Point for sure.
Doubt I would have located this on my own....but nette had her geosenses on high alert.
Thanks for the surprise element .
Added tiny piece of paper as a temporary measure...

Needed a keen eye for this one.

PLEASE NOTE - Logbook is missing; I will leave the GC active but may not be able to replace logbook until June. Feel free to take a photo facing something interesting on the lake like a duck or a rower or even just a wave

Decided we would check this one out on our way home. Looks like a pretty nice trail. Didnt take long to work out what we were looking for. Husband comes up with it. As I proceeded to remove the log it was like slow motion as the log sheet drop down through the gap and into the lake. OMG! We looked for a while to see if it floated and see if we could retrieve it but no such luck. My apologies to the CO. Did take a pic of the cache if needed. Tftc

Glad to cross this one off the list. Loved the outlook.

Found on a belated Xmas break with extended family. Waka ama sprint champs on at lake course, so searched with an eye out for spectators and cyclists. Bit of a search, then triumphantly found by a very surprised and delighted Mother. Tftc!

#8953. I had been up in Auckland for the past week visiting family. Now heading back south again to Wellington but will divert via Tauranga and Rotorua to pick up a few geocaches. I haven't been down to Lake Karapiro for some time and decided to find some of the caches in this area. There was a parking option for this one so parked at the track end and walked down to the lake. What a great walkway. I assume it works on a hydro lake as the lake levels can be controlled stopping the walkway getting flooded. Wandered up and down, read the past few logs then noticed something that needed closer inspection. Nicely done cache. My first ever geocache was one of these so that always helps with finding them. Thanks BloosBoy and CrusaderWoman for hiding it here. Favourite for the nice setting and cleverly hidden cache.

A bit of a trip away to get out the Waikato, I decided to target some Eastern GeoTour caches. This trip ended up being 1294kms over the two days, and a good run for the car. Day 2

Nice to finally tick this one off. I'd been here twice before with no joy. I had recently worked on a multi with the same style of waypoint hide, so this was quickly noticed... the last two times I think I was walking around with my eyes closed, as this sort of thing would get my attention. Well played!

TFTC BloosBoy, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 3 find(s) of 3 today, making this find #2232

Day 1 of our Cambridge visit.
Out cycling this trail and finding some caches.
A nice hide here. Worth a fave.
An enjoyable ride. Thanks for bringing us out here.
TFTC

Below the triple trees, nice walk and not too hard if you know what your looking for

Quick park and grab on our way north for the day not to sure where we are going but we will get there sooner or later. Great cache FP from us this morning.
Tftc

Super tricky great hide thanks

Missing bits replaced including logbook.

The end of the container appears to be missing, so the logbook was left behind. We tried to repair and replace logbook, but CO needs to check it. Favorite for nice walk and container craftmanship.

Tuesday 3rd March.

## Problem with container has been reported. 31/03/2020
---Someone has dropped part of this and the logbook in the lake. I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later but it would have been nice to have been told this by whoever did it.Never mind. I will replace the broken/lost bit when I can buy another but with all the Covid19 stuff going on it may be a while. I will re-enable when it's all up and running again. ##

soon found some thing not right , nice walk along the river with the ducks.

Had previously tried to find this cache but there have been too many muggles around watching the rowing. Thankfully today we wandered down when there were only a couple of races left for the day so made a quick find. Gets a fav point from us. TFTC

Woohoo found it. On a nice bike ride today on the cycle way and stopped for a couple of caches. I expected it to take a while as I usually find a D2.5 difficult but I’ve seen this type before and it was very quick! Deserves a favourite point for the location - TFTC

Sneaky little bugger but a great hide! TFTC

Took a couple of passes to spot! Lovely spot and walkway

9.20am. Parked at the end and walked down. Spotted it as soon as I arrived.
Thank you. David.

Great hide. Very cool. Had us stumped in the beginning but we found it eventually.

This morning was a beautiful and peaceful time to go caching at this Lake.

The odd one out was soon spotted as coords got me within 4m.

There were several teams out practicing at 8am but they never came close and no other walkers passed by.
TNLNSL, Thanks BloosBoy & CrusaderWoman

Found by TheShireNZ 16/6/19 awesome hiding place TFTC

Very clever hide.
Didnt have a pen with me as out walking the dog, will remember for next time. Beautiful location

New logbook dropped off today. Everything is clean and dry. Enjoy!

Quick and easy when you have your geocache brain on very clever!!!

Didn’t take too long to find but super neat idea.

#824- On a Mission with Taschynz to get as many caches as we can in the Karapiro Cambridge area. This was stop number 4. This was a great one, very cool boardwalk and cleverly hidden cache. TFTC

Found it on a day hunting with katbowersnz, this one was tricky but awesome views. Very clever and took a while to find. Thanks!

Wow I found this.much faster than I expected to and I swear it was a fluke grab. Nice sneaky hide made all the more difficult by the Secondary School champs going on and lots of people walking past.
Deserves a Fav for the potential frustration factor. Well done.

These are the type of caches we have in our country way more then here....
TFTC

Great hide! Found with CreasyBear TFTC

Thanks of the cache! lovely walk, found with DevonDumpling23

Over in the area for a quick visit so took the opportunity to catch a few smileys as well. It is indeed an interesting placement and we were well pleased to find it. Earns a fav from us. We were entertained by a swan family with 4 cygnets while we looked as well. Beautiful. Cache is all good. TFTC

What started out as an overcast day was now boiling hot and the sun was shining. We appreciated the part shade at GZ to look for this one. A great one for showing my 7yo niece how tricky and camouflaged caches can be. Although i had a fair idea what we were looking for, this one had us going awhile. We missed it on the first few passes but then spotted something worth investigating a little harder and the cache was in hand. A very nice concealment and placement, worthy of another fav point. TFTC!

A favourite point from us! Cool cache, my youngest and I are down from Auckland to watch our eldest row so though we’d do a few caches in between races.
Read people’s comments as we approached and certainly weren’t disappointed, great hide, great camp, great effort! TFTC!

Genius. Had me going for a while knew generally what to look for but that goes the extra TFTC

Spent a long time here trying to find this one. We were just about to give up when I spotted it. It then took us just as long to try and get the log book out! Beautiful spot here

Doing some geocaching on the way back to Tauranga with lucypear, we stopped and did this one. We were very much ready to give up with a last minute boost of determination, lucypear made the find!

Photo proof sent. Finding was the easy part. First I couldn't get it open, then I couldn't get the log out. Very peaceful out here today. Fav for me. TFTC

Had a gut feeling and went straight to it.Nicely done.Visiting from the Far North and staying nearby .Tftc.

This was a very clever cache in a great location! Thank you!

Suns out and its a great relaxing walk along the lakes edge...arrived at GZ all quiet and a peaceful here...uninterrupted time to search ..the well crafted cache was soon in hand and the log signed..thanks for the great placement ...really enjoy this type of cache..well done

Very well crafted cache!. Even though i was expecting something like this it still took me a few minutes to spot. Thanks for the placement crusaderwoman and Bloosboy

Wow nice nice

Forgot our pen. Very sneaky spot! Love it.

Narrowed down the options and examined the final option to locate this cunning cache. Good views of the lake too. Tftc

This was a classic nearly had me beat it just took time to narrow it down fab views of the lake TFTC

Cunning hide. Eventually spotted. TFTC

Ha ha... had us going for a while... and then we started to 'think' about it... reminds me of the Sesame Street song... 'which of these things is not like the other'. Great view and would never have come here if not for this cache for thanks

Great spot and view of the area. Had us going for a while but soon cracked it. A favourite.
Tftc

Found on the first day of the new year. Good work on the GC design and placement. TFTC.

Not a great day, no easy finds

A very clever hide. TFTC.

Wow! This one goes into my most useless hint collection.

No idea where it might be. An actual helpful hint might be appreciated.

The travelling fox is disappointed =u_u=

I have set myself a challenge for this year to have at least the same number of caches on each day of my calender as the number of years I have been caching.

I was staying down this way seeing one of my grandsons competing in the Dragonboat National Champs yesterday.

Cheers for the cache.

Nice hide tftc

Log book replaced - all's well!

2790 Passing so stopped to collect. Nice evening walk along the boardwalk. Find easily made. Log is full so I signed where one has disappeared in 2015.

Great concealment on a lovely stretch of the river trail. Tftc

A beautiful day for a stroll by the water and, even better, a cache too. Was surprised/lucky to make a nice quick find. Cache all good. Thanks for the hide.

Very clever camo. Thankfully nr agogo spotted this quickly as the next rain shower was on the way . Nice Cycle from Cambridge on The te awa cycleway. Tftc.

Well hidden - fantastic hide! Somehow Amy had this one within the minute! Tftc!!

Finally got around searching for these caching without being up for a rowing regatta. Great to have a few smileys in this area. TFTC

Nicely done. Hidden in plain sight. Log roll almost full. Tftc

Finished our walk near by and decided to pick up a few caches on the way home.
A few rowers out training today.
Didn't take long to find this one, although it is a nicely constructed cache.
Thanks for setting it up

Nice work. TFTC

Great spot for a cache.can enjoy the rowing while listening to the birds in the nearby trees. Glad a noticed something a little different as GPS wouldn't let me within 10m so was a little worried. Thanks for the awesome hide. Fav point from us

This was a cool cache! parked at the top of the hill, and wandered down the walkway to this cache. So cool how the walkway is built over the lake here! I'm always amazed at the effort that goes into making a cache like this one! It's my third find like this one. I found it, had a bit of a giggle, and then said to my companion who was looking further along to come back, as I could see it. HE came stood beside me & had no idea what I was looking at (admittedly it was his first day caching). So I said those words of wisdom "Whats out of place?". "Oh!", was the reply after a few more moments thought. Logged signed, and we were onto our last cache for the day!
And that's enough exclamation marks from me!

We spotted this so quickly today that we are a bit embarrassed about our previous dnf.

To tell the truth I did not find it, but the peoples I was with did. It did take them 5 goes to find it, plus reading all the clues that were available. Perhaps the next one I attempt will be a bit easier so that I don't get put off. Also might wait for cooler weather.

The fifth time lucky. New to this game so was looking for holes in trees. Way off course.

Found this after a couple attempts. This one really had us confused, wasn't where we initially thought. A good think about what looked out of place and bingo I had it. Glad to be able to tick this one off.

quickly spotted, well constructed, hardest part was putting the log back in

Decided to take my oldest on an over night caching trip to Raglan. A great couple of days and a whole bunch of new smileys. This was a goody, spotted it fairly quickly but probably our second favourite find of the day. Good Work Bloosboy TFTC

Walked straight up to this one and guessed correctly. Quickiest find of the day. Very cool cache thanks for the effort gone into it. Awesome walkway here with great view tftc

Nice find TFTC ☺

Quick find with the whittinghams ...thanks nice hide

Cache Nr. 3812
Cool cache. It didn't take us too long to spot the hiding spot.
Gets a fave from me.
Thanks for the tricky cache Quiri

This one deserves a lot more favourite points than it has received.
Quite chuffed to say I found it quite quickly on my first attempt. Wasn't sure what I was looking for and then thought, where would I put it?, and that's when I found it.
Great cache, gets a fave from me.
Thanks BloosBoy

Out for a wander along the side of the lake and checked GC - all present and correct, warm & dry and eagerly awaiting the next geocacher...

No luck here. Lots of rowing skiffs on the water. We did not realize so many rowing eights existed in NZ.

Enjoyed the cycle track and stopped to find this on the way back but no luck today. There has recently been a fallen tree cleared from the boardwalk so the cache may have been disturbed!!! Great views of the water skiing today.

Been here before, not sure how I missed it!!...TFTC

Wife did count correctly to find this well camouflaged log sheet

Spectacular cycle way many thanks for placing this here

That's a great hide. Stunning spot and nicely hidden. Gets a favourite. Well done for the effort of the hide. Tftc

No find for us here!

Well, we looked and looked without results until warfi finally spotted the oddity we were hunting for. Great spot, and clever hide, well done BloosBoy

This entry was edited by moggy val on Thursday, 25 June 2015 at 10:03:13 UTC.

A lovely (if cold) day in Cambridge- ideal for an afternoon's caching while on a short visit from the South Island.
Well this took longer than we thought it should. GPS was a little iffy- so we wandered up and down for a bit. Then I was just standing , staring, thinking- I suddenly spotted the 'something' I was looking for. Thanks- good one.

What a nice hide

Awsome hide,quickly found, signed and replaced to keep the ants company.TFTC

Out and about enjoying the sunshine, great hide here located after a sweep of GZ TFTC.

I went down to drop some TBs and replace the logbook. No room for TBs so replaced logbook anyway. All good for the next batch of lucky geocachers

This is a very good hide. I have seen a couple of hides like it but few as well constructed and well executed as this one. It took a minute or two to spot and needed some coaxing before I could access the log-which is full and could do with replacing.