V4LIFE Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
By Davidson clan on 30-Jul-15. Waypoint GC60HVJ

Time to archive

Yep hired bikes and were on an adventure

rustynz says its time I logged my Rotorua finds

Just a little behind. Sorry for the generic log. Thanks to all the CO for their hides and maintaining them.

With rebel98, the GPS bounced around under the tree cover, I was heading up the bank to a large specimen, when rebel calls out he had found it

Sadly the lid was missing (luckily rebel was able to find it!), the container full or water, and the log saturated. No way I could sign, so have taken a picture.

Needs maintenance

Will check soon

Nice wee reserve to visit. cache in hand quickly. log a tad wet and needs replacing. no tb as it says.

Nice spot to let dogs explore

GPS was all over the place. I was about to give up when I spotted the cache. Logbook wet to the point of disintegrating. TFTC.

Today, It being a non-shopping day, along with the fact that we were meant to be 200kms away out East Cape (but weren't due to the weather at the end of last week), we spent the day collecting a few caches around Rotorua to see a bit of different countryside and make the most of the fine weather that had come out to play.
Setting off from home at 6.30am (nice early start with the good wife) and a quiet drive over here. So it was a concentration on caches we could get to, that weren't roped off as the lake level was too high, and only involved a short walk, as didn't want to leave "wifey" with the car too long as she might leave without me and say "Bugger You" and the caches.

Managed to grab 27 of 27 today which was more than happy as it has left enough to come back to in the future. This was the eleventh of the day and a nice quick find following some breakfast at the "Fat Dog". Nice cache to grab before heading back to the car and carrying on our way.
Although did get myself in the poo by offering to stop for antiques at Tirau on the way back [^], but then informed that as its Easter Sunday all shops are closed and that is the only reason I would offer to stop for a shop, as if

Thanks for the placement and bringing me to this location

Good hide. Tftc

Easy find once I was in the correct area.

Found it after a little scrabbling. Tftc. Logbook a bit damp.

This one was not too difficult to find once heading in the right direction. Did manage to do a massive loop around the streets as weren't paying attention to distance lol. Tftc

Livee_nz found it again! Really in the bush. TFTC

**#10,901**
In Rotorua for a FTF attempt but failed at that so thought we'd carry on and rack up some numbers to get the year rolling.
TNLN TFTC

#8791. Went for a short walk in Tihi Road Reserve in Springfield this afternoon. GZ was all quiet when we visited. Quick find once at the right spot. The log book was a bit damp, but just writeable. Unfortunately, neither Taranaki Hardcore nor Ten years Geocaching in the Netherlands was in the cache.

Dropped off Ignite.NZ 2016 Seattle Ferry Travel Tag
Took nothing, signed log.

Thanks for bringing us to the site, and …

.T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e.
.M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.

Found this with Kanaberry. The mosquitos had quite the snack on our ankles, the cache was soon in hand. Quickly signed and replaced before hightailing it out of there. Tftc

Yeaaaahh found it with Adaz1

With compliments

3 out of 3 this evening for the Tihi Rd reserve Eventually found the little trail to get to this one. TFTC

As per others I went too high. After searching there read logs and came down a bit and there it was. Thanks for the placement

Found it well exposed...signed and rehide with natural camo tftc DClan

I think somebody may have taken it. Or they just really hid it well.

Got the wrong tree at first XD but managed to find it

Arrived in Rotorua and quickly grabed the one or other Geocache.

So far seen on this trip: Thailand and New Zealand.

TFTC from a geocacher on his journey thorugh the world.

Danke!

After a semester abroad in New Zealand, I travel around the country with MMXX now. There are plenty of amazing spots to discover.
Thanks for placing a geocache here and sorry that I keep my logs short.

Easy find on a rainy day. Log wet sorry had no supplies with us today. TFTC

Out and about with Team Welsh collecting caches before leaving for our return to Auckland. T4tc

TB dropped off.

Last morning in Rotorua so Pagenz and I made an early morning trip out before having to head home. This little series of 3 was our last in town before back to the motel. Managed to find the cache eventually and Pagenz did the honours here. TFTC

had a peaceful walk around here this morning... shame I didnt have the searchDog with me as he would have loved it too!! TFTC log a bit damp but signable

21/09/16 18:25 Dot Day. Had these caches saved for days like today. Didn't like the weather though - glad I saved this 'til the last item on today's to-do list as I'm now soaked... cache all good, used the hint as in the rain, if not permanently, GZ was an indicated 9m uphill. Thanks for this, Cheers, GC.

Found after a couple of prickles. Tftc

Had some business in Rotorua this afternoon and once that was finished decided I'd grab a few caches in and around town, with a bit of a focus on a few particular caches a bit further out from central, before heading back to Hamilton via Tokoroa. Managed to find all bar one that I attempted, getting home about 10pm and finding about a dozen caches.

The rain had just started so I threw on the raincoat and headed off to GZ. Managed to park a lot closer to GZ than first thought with this series which was nice with the rain starting. Took a few moments to locate but I GPS was bouncing around alot so only put me in the rough area. The cache was a little out in the open so covered a bit better. Thanks for the hide.

Find #1 for the evening.

This was just around the corner from our accom and we knew the area from buying our fish 'n' chips nearby last night.
The weather was shocking this morning, but we wanted at least a few finds, so thought these ones looked doable.
We made this one far harder than it needed to be when we realised where it was once we finally found it. Yes, we bush bashed all over the place, but no foliage was harmed if you don't count wandering willie.
We left a nodding head dog, I'm not sure if he would be obedient enough to be off his lead in this park.

On our school holiday adventure checking out more of the good things around Rotorua. Before heading further south thought we would stretch our legs a bit after a morning at the luge. Bit of a scramble through the trees for this one.

#2473. We are staying up in Rotorua for a couple of days with family. I had some free time this afternoon so headed off to pick up a few of the local caches. This one took about 5 minutes to find as I went too high initially and searched around quite a few trees. Dropped back lower down and spied the cache immediately. The log was dry. Signed and returned cache as found. Thanks for the cache.

have logged this cache as part of 12-12-12: A Challenge? http://coord.info/GC42CNY

A nice quick find

My coords were a bit out. More down hill than where I first looked. Then I saw the obvious telltale, and the smiley was mine. Thanks.

Off to Hamilton today. Ice on the car in Rotorua, Brrr.

Thanks to the CO's for the hides. Cheers.

Took a wee while was going round and round in circles for a while but got there in the end. Tftc

That was harder than it needed to be.
GPS all over the show
No trackable in cache
Cheers

Me ship mate fired the Canon across the way from our land luber batch. Who would have thought we would find treasure while retrieving the Canon ball. HAH! TFTC

Bit of a damp mission in rain through the wet Wandering Jew --- and the cache was all exposed, so covered it a bit up after signing the log --- Log book is very damp too.
TFTC

(1825) Holidaying in the area and had time to collect a few caches in Rotorua. Went for a walk with a few friends to collect these ones, TFTC

Loggt as cg3, 3 cachinggirls on NZ-Tour, greetings from Austria tftc

On tour in NZ! To safe time and space we signed with CG3 ( caching girls 3)!
Tftc and greetings from Austria

logged as CG3, thanks for the Cache!

Victory!

TFTC

After ages of not caching, nice to find this one. Log book quite damp, but signed ok, dropped off Tb. Thanks.

Took us a short search to locate the cache. Thanks Davidson Clan. Nice hide Log is a little wet

On a bit of a geocaching trip away with Just-Lookin & Princess Emily.
We soon found the cache.

*Cache was found open and contents wet.
Dried log a bit and signed

Thanks for the fun find!

Heading North with tmann421 and Princess-Emily.

Another quick find here.

TFTC and adding to the fun of our trip

On a road trip with Just-Lookin and tmann421.

TFTC and the fun.

quick easy find in a nice area aroha and happy caching

Yuss.

Tftc!! Wish I'd bought the dogs

Just checked cache is all good.

Bit of wandering around as my gps suggested cache was 10m from where it was but soon found what I was looking for. Tftc

CO were playing up a little but soon found it. Picked up TB

Tftc, bit of bushwacking but found it in the end. Lovely day for it.

Didn't take too long to find this cache. Could hear the birds chirping away and a neighbour mowing their lawns. Dropped a tb tftc

First one we've found without the hint! Cute toy

Found it after going round in the forest a bit thanks

I parked on the road nearby, then climbed the hill. I grabbed a small tree for support and the whole tree fell over. I swear I am not overweight. Then I came upon a geotrail and followed that to GZ. TFTC Davidson clan.

Out picking up a few before dinner

Tftc

Decided that these caches would be a good way to finish my first sweep of Rotorua to clear the new caches. I have made a good dent in them and have done about 20 odd today. A lot for me and I don't know how a few other cachers do heaps more in a day. This is my limit Nice cache but I think I took the long way - maybe my GPS was also telling me it had done enough TFTC

Lady across the road keeping a eye on me while here. Got the job done OK.

Wandered around here with jesserfly and we stumbled across some suss camouflage, and indeed was the container we desired.
Nifty hide here added a (8)
Cheers
~G

I have logged this cache as part of 12-12-12: A Challenge? http://coord.info/GC42CNY
Got a bit worried that we weren't going to find this one but Ladda spotted something and in no time we were signing the log and putting it back TFTC

This one took me a moment or two. Tftc

In town today to test out some new bikes for work so once that was finished I had time to find some caches.
I made this much harder than it should have been, but the gps was bouncing around and as I was about to give up I spotted something and viola, another smilie.
TFTC

4pm - 7th day of our 50 day challenge. We arrived at GZ only to find contents of cache spread down the track, log sheet all okay so were able to sign it. Gathered up contents and returned to cache owner for him to place back correctly. Will be back over the next few days to collect balance in area. SLTFTC

Day 7: The continuing adventure to log 50 caches on consecutive days (A 50-Day caching streak)... On this mission with Gap (of Fap and Gap).

Gap had a small job in the area. So it made sense to look for one of the caches in Tihi Reserve. We chose this one for today's target. This baby was a quick find... Unfortunately, the cache and contents were strewn across the ground. Gap gathered up all the bits, we signed the logbook and carried the cache out as we departed. It's best for the CO to come in and resite this... TFTC.

A quick dash of geocaching with sveppi before leaving town on a mild Sunday afternoon. Approaching from below would be a better option, and watch out for the dog poo at GZ! Good sized container, thanks.

With fanfan-77 on a short Sunday afternoon geocaching walk in the reserve. Got our feet wet in the weeds growing in the area but found the cache easy once the title hint hit me. TFTC

After a DNF, I couldn't leave this behind. Spotted quickly as I had a good idea from the title what I was looking for... Great cache to finish up the birthday round! Thanks very much again DC for the top caches!

It is time to tidy up all the caches which have mushroomed up during out absence.

V4LIFE! Yay DC's breakfast.

Easy find. Tftc

Tftc
Also got bug out and will pass on

We cringed at the sight of all the wandering jew covering the ground, were we supposed to find a cache in that with no hint? We followed crushed tracks leading through the weed trying to home in on GZ but it was hopeless, decided to give up and were on our way back down to the car when Punga spotted it, couldn't believe our eyes. That was a stroke of luck as our GPS was pointing over 6m away. TFTC.

Quick find back here for third cache. Used to run here often but not been here in ages and niw 3 times in three weeks! Still a great little park

Easy find, thank you

Nice easy find tftc

A quick find by mr frewilys. Never expected such a big container.thanks Davidson clan

Its been on a nice little adventure. Allowed it to stay in rotorua till someone else finds it.

Should have looked harder before viewing photo!

Nice find, love the size cache too! Tftc.

100th find. Yeay. Out with kids and grandma.

This entry was edited by angandstef on Sunday, 02 August 2015 at 07:16:41 UTC.

Argh! I have such bad luck with hides that are under coverage. I try avoid them at all costs. I spent forever trying to get a GPS lock on this one, but no luck whatsoever. After finally getting a lock after what felt like an eternity it lead me to the right spot. I spent another 30mins just searching for a "V Can" assuming that's what the cache was. I completely struck this one by accident with my foot and then the a-ha moment when the title all made sense. Thanks DavidsonClan for another challenging find!

Yusssss! My first FTF I love this place, close to home and so serene. Thanks for the cache Davidson Clan!!!!

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