Make a Wish (New Plymouth) New Plymouth, North Island, New Zealand
By Malady on 14-Feb-15. Waypoint GC5MQV9

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

Have had to remove this cache as we have moved house - I will be applying to move it to a new location - Thanks

Visiting New Plymouth for the weekend. Nice sunny day to be out caching. Initially confused by the hint and several rocks but as it’s a regular I did work out where it was. Thanks for the smiley.

Think I was looking in the right area but did not find unfortunately.

Yay finally found.. my daughter found this one

After a 12 hour day tramping the Pouakai Crossing, the group disbanded and went their own ways home, and we decided to stay local for just one more......cache......but the CO's were making some awesome hides here, we just had to keep on going.... unfortunately this one had been wisked away for repairs, but can imagine what this one must be like.....

TFTC.

ANZAC weekend in Taranaki. Focused on Adventure Labs and also whatever will be handy. This hide was one of them.

Found the well and the container too
TFTC

TFTC! Cache is not on the wishing well but the lovely owner told me where it is. Good day to start geocaching. ️

Found, but the owner had to send us a letter by mail with special instructions to give us some help.

DNF, was looking in the garden of house number 40,hope this was the right place.

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What cool geo cache

Awesome! Love this lady,

FTC

Assuming it was the wishing well we found, it was empty today.

Tftc

The wishing well was empty

Shame somebody has come by and damaged the well, I would love to visit again if it gets repaired TFTC

Nice quick park n grab found with Juliusfamily. TFTC

Easy found by Go_Zz
but hoped to see wishing well

Wishing well has been damaged by some random muggle!!! Very upsetting but the well is being repaired - possibly being replaced. Cache is still there

I wished that there was a TB to grab in this nice big container and..hey, presto!..my wish came true. TFTC.

.Found this one wet and log manky so left a temp RITR log to help keep this one rolling along. Cheers

Day 7 - Friday 20 December. New Plymouth area today.

The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby and I are spending Christmas exploring Taranaki via geocaching. Its been an amazing 3 week adventure. Rattls BBQ was a great event, meeting many other cachers. But also managed to fit in a few more events, especially New Years Day celebrating the start of 2020. Lots of caches - over 500. Lots of cache maintenance. Lots and lots of kilometers. And lots of amazing places visited along our journey. Mt Taranaki remained elusive for much of our travels and the caches on it at the top. Loved Pukekura Park Night Lights Show and the the Wooden Mechanical toy exhibition at NP Info centre.

Ugh. Replaced the manky log with a nice new waterproof Florist's paper log. I wish... I wish more people would double container there caches!

Day seven of Taybeedragon's and my big 3 week circumnavicaching trip around Mt Taranaki, starting from Palmerston North. Today is New Plymouth - we got here at long last! Yes, it's been a slow trip!!
Highlights:
* 3 weeks, 536 caches
* Mt Taranaki had been removed for washing, which was a bit of a shame. Even after it had been returned we were only allowed to see it for it was less than half an hour a day.
* High percentage of caches with crappy coordinates
* Amazing Pukekura Park
* AMAZING Pukekura Park light show!
* Pukeiti Gardens
* 3 notebooks full of cache notes for later logging
* Lots of cache maintenance!

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Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:

* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!

Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](https://coord.info/GC87777) - you won't want to miss it!

Still quite a few snails, especially under the other rock. TFTC

A wrong turning... since we stopped by this cache, hopped out to find it. Very cute! But like just about every cache we have seen during this visit, covered with snails! That also explains the chewed logbook...

What's Upjohn? Oh, Hi John. Righto, as I was...

Up here for an awesome weekend jaunt with Karma Reprint, Team Gators and TheWanglers and to do a loop of the mountain in 48 hours grabbing as many caches as we could while having a good laugh. Logs signed as some derivative of (KT)^2

Cheers Malady for the cache

A planned geocaching trip to the USA was shelved (but is all go for this time next year!) so we came up with a weekends Plan B. Taranaki with TheWanglers, KarmaReprint and KiwiMoose - logs signed (TK)^2 or a variation of. A really fun trip with the forecast rain and thunder seemingly always in the distance but never hindering us. A really fun weekend.
Day 2 dawned with a bit of drizzle but that soon cleared (whilst eating breakfast) and we had a lovely trip missing all the bad weather again. Harwea to New Plymouth the long way. Heaps of history; cool scenery and lots of laughs. Cheers all!
Hah ha. Sneaky sneaky at night....nice one. Cheers.

Day two Hawera to New Plymouth via Opunake

Great to be out and about, find quickly made. A nice concept and a smile on the dial so FP time. Cheers

A long weekend cache raid to Taranaki. The weather didn't stop us doing anything, and we had fun times. Logs were signed with a combination of KT and 2 depending one which of did the signing. Thanks Kiwi Moose, Team_Gaters and TheWanglers for a choice time.

Thanks to all CO's for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers

A plan was hatched for a few of us to head to America for a Mad Mission. With life getting a bit crazy a downsized trip was organised as I had sorted childcare for the cachelets. The big America trip is now set for next year. We asked a member of our crew if we could go to Nelson, Dunedin, Auckland, Wellington, Hastings the answer all came back "I don't have many to find there". We left it to that member to suggest an area. He came up with New Plymouth and a loop around the mountain. That's a go from the rest of us. We sorted puzzles, gpxs, motels and a car and hit the ground running. The forecast was doom, gloom, rain, hail and lightning. Oh well, sounds exciting. We had very little of any of the weather that affected our caching and found we had all overpacked (thank God!).
Day 2: Today was a long day in the car 14 hours or so to our home for the night and then an hour or two after dinner before having a beer at the campground. We started in Hawera and went the long way around the coast with many detours. The history was amazing and the the lack of irrigation was very noticable to us Cantabrians. We once again missed the horrible weather!
Lovely cache, I wish there were more like this. Fav.

Thanks for the cache Malady.
#6197
Find 63 of 80 for today.
Find 143 of 224 for the trip.

What a cool idea - thanks for the originality. TFTC

Wishing everyone the best of luck! Easy find

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches in the area

Today we planned to go up Mt. Taranaki, but as the weather turned out to be very bad up there we only made it to the I-site and then returned to New Plymouth and fill in the day there.

Really liked this one. Saw it on our way over to the I-site, and when we got back to New Plymouth we decided to make a detour to get this one….

Meanwhile this is my third geocaching-trip to Middle-Earth .
I love it! [:X]
And still there are routes and places in this beautiful country that are on the 'discover-me' list and want to be visited and explored.
Day #8:
Staying at beautiful New Plymouth for the first time , the day called for a long, relaxing bike-ride and walk along the coastline, into the city and around the local parks ...
After around 20 km’s of biking and walking the day was my friend! (And I was done [xx(])
Enjoyed the great scenery and appreciated a number of cute geo-treasures in the area, just like this one:
So nicely hidden! Just wondering, what kind of animal was starving and had fun eating parts of the logbook...
Thanks to the owner [:X] for placing this cache and cheers from Germany!

Lovely little cache, thank you!

#6488. I have been up in New Plymouth on a work trip and decided to stay an extra day to do some caching. After a trip around the east side of the mountain it was time to head back to the airport and drop off the rental. But a quick diversion down here to cast a wish. Nice cute wishing wheel. Found the cache and signed the log. Great to see a bit of a creative cache on private property. Thanks for placing it here Malady. Had a sense of deja vu about this location. Did you have another cache placed here previously? Or maybe it was missing at the time. Cheers GSEL

TeamBOP have come together again for a trip to the Naki. Team BOP consists of myself (obviously), McJandals, Philip.Perry and DavidsonClan.
We decided to take the long way there, via the Forgotten Highway, experiencing the world famous in New Zealand Republic of Whangamomona Day.
After enjoying the light festival and finding a few caches in the gardens, we continued into the night. Luckily there was no-one about now, so we were able to make the find without feeling too sus.
Thanks to all the CO's for attracting us to the Taranaki and finally visiting these spectacular gardens.
TFTC

It was time to assemble Team BOP as I hadn't seen these crazy people since the Mega. The plan was Taranaki via the Forgotten World Highway and we were all pretty excited about it. It was a big couple of days so forgive the cut'n'paste logs as I'm logging retrospectively and a few of the hides are blurring together. TNXPro, McJandals, Davidson Clan & myself signed our logs individually or as TEAM BOP depending on time, log space or mood.

A nice touch but I'm a little surprised it's not muggled more often. Cache was found quickly and in good condition thanks to good coords and a straight forward placement - Cheers and TFTC

Found using Cachly app and logged using the text template, so please excuse generic logging in advance. On a spur of the moment roadie with Phillip.Perry, TNXPRO and Davidson Clan from the Bay of Plenty, a plan was hatched and here we are. Great to have these places to visit and many thanks to all you COs for the placements. Cheers

In New Plymouth for the weekend with Philip.Perry McJandals and Tnxpro. Signed log Team BOP to save space on log sheets.
Tftc

Quick nice cache that happens to be across the street from where we’re staying! TFTC

Cute cache! We are visiting from California.

Very cute! Definitely brought a smile to my face TFTC.

Wishing for a great new year is the theme... Quick find, TFTC

Quick walk-by find! TFTC.

Logbook's a bit damp.

Cache was moved to letter box as container as cracked. It is now in its original spot with a new case. Sorry for confusion

Thoroughly enjoying our week's holiday in New Plymouth and especially when we find interesting caches like this. Cache is all good. Wish we could think of a wish to wish. TFTC

Here

For today I have chosen, as a restday activity, walking and geocaching on Huatoki walkway and also looking for a caches on the way from my accomodation in YHA to this walkway. Found with other six traditional caches in one day after my returning from four day trip in Egmont national park, including my successful climbing of Taranaki in winter conditions. Nice idea for a cache box. Hint was useful. Found without any problems. But not on the original place. The chache is temporary in letterbox just next to the place where use to be. New Zealands caches are my furtherst caches ever. They are around 18000 km far from Slovakia. Thanks for the cache.

Not under the rocks

The cache isn't quite hidden as per the clue, but looking at the previous log, I knew where to look and saw the cache before opening the outer container. The box is a bit cracked but everything is kept dry. TFTC.

TFTC Its in the letter box

No log book there

Yah!!

Nothing in the well.

No cache in the well.

Found well but no log book

Nothing there sad

Maybe missing? Great place though

Thanks for the cache and for coming out to give us a hand nice to meet you swapped TB

Well hidden notebook needs replacing as it was ripped

Made my wish. Tftc

Dropped in a couple of Trackables.

blackdogsMT's Generation Nature Trackable
AirborneSurveyor's Joecacher's Many Moods Geocoin

I wish I wish upon a star

Finding this cache was too easy, someone had left it un-hidden. Signed the log at 1340Hr on 09 November 2017 and hid the cache properly.

Wish you well

Found easy as thank you

We ebiked the area today & collected caches along the way TFTC

Very excited children!

Great cache & enjoyed signing the log. Read a few of the wishes & then thought of our own one. Nice quick find on a busy road. TFTC

Seeing that I was out this signing off a couple of caches I might as well as sign this one as well. I didn't see anyone to get a wave today but I did discover a TB.

Cheers for the cache.

Missing? sweet spot for a cache!

Not where it should be but we put it back

Found- what lovely messages

Lovey lovey

Mmm seems to be missing

rustynz tells me I need to catch up with all my logging!

A 3 day weekend of fun with a group of Westies (rustynz, gorby, jag58 & merlot58)

Sorry for the generic logs. Thanks to all the CO for the hides, and the adventure

A 3 day weekend had been planned a few months ago by Rebel98, we had cheap airfares organised for New Plymouth but due to fog, we actually came down from Auckland on a lovely coach.
Whew! Last cache for the day, and I for one am happy about that. I'm tired of all the walking we've done today and Team Westies (myself, Jag50, merlot58, rustynz and Rebel98 too) are ready for some dinner very soon back at our motel. Thanks for the cache here.

Found with Team Westies (Merlot58, RustyNZ, Rebel98 and Gorby) after attending an event in the park. Nice quick find on our walk back to the car. Cache container has a cracked lid and the log is soaking wet. Cute idea for a cache!

I was visiting New Plymouth with a few other Westies from Auckland. Having found a nearby cache we were returning to the car and passed by this cache. A cute setting but unfortunately the container lid is cracked and so the cache was full of water and the log book soaking wet

Last find for the day. Loved GZ, so thanks for the placement.

Caching with a group of Westies, the log signed Team Westies (merlot58, rustynz, rebel98, Jag50 and Gorby)

Sadly the container was full of water, and the log book soaked. Jag50 signed the log book, but it probably needs some TLC (see previous logs).

Let my 6 year old take charge on this one - she thinks it's a great one!

Nice easy find, thanks

Yesterday

Found it. A nice easy one to get you started.

Found it tftc

Found at jens tftc

Easy find thanks

Cute

Oldie but goodie

Find it was a cool cache cool little wishing well

As driving past I had feeling I would see it. And sure enough there it was. cool idea. Nice easy grab. Tftc. Ps this street name always gives me a giggle. Lol!!

We were just visiting for a few days, we had family getting ready to head over to the united kingdom, but couldn't visit and not get some caches in the lovely area of New Plymouth. We had just left a cache and I said stop there is another one just here I looked across the road and yes we quickly worked out where we had to park the car. The title was a great clue to the cache find. we quickly found it signed the log and placed it back where we found it, but not before making a wish, I hope luck is in my favor. Thank you for this cute location and placing a cache here for all to enjoy. TFTC

Made my wish. TFTC

Found it! Cache was on full display, so covered it up a little. Thanks for the smile and the cache

Found it. Cool idea

What a nice little cache! First find on day out caching with ozlad. Tftc!

Quick find this afternoon with eltee291! Very cute setup! Saw a trackable on the vehicle in the drive but didn't think I should walk in there. Visiting from Victoria, BC, Canada. Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache!