Potaema Swamp with a view Egmont National Park, North Island, New Zealand
By DOCTaranaki on 01-Oct-15. Waypoint GC64DCK

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Nice walk

Down in the area for a few days visiting family and enjoying the coastal cycleway. Bike ride was completed by 10am this morning, so gave us the day to do a circuit around and up the mountain. Clever wee hide here. SL. TFTC.

This was a gorgeous walk, like Goblin Forest. After doing the summit hike cooled off here. Very nice hide - but log was so wet I couldn’t sign. But indeed the Flying Ox and Daniel-son were there. Hint was just right. Kudos from CA.

Lovely little hiding spot.

Nicely hidden but log book soggy

Heute stand auf unserer Neuseeland Tour die Mount Taranaki / Mt. Egmont auf dem Programm. Manche Caches wählten wir gezielt als Ziel, andere wiederum lagen einfach an unserer Route.
Es war dritte am heutigen Tag. Ein kurzer sehr schöner Spaziergang führte uns zum GZ.
Rascher Fund - TFTC

In our 25th day in New Zealand we stayed in New Plymouth. The weather was still good in the morning and so we went straight to the Taranaki region. There were again two old caches still missing for our Jasmer statistic and also otherwise there are some great caches here. And of course Taranaki is such a special and fascinating mountain. It was a very nice walk to this box. We wouldn’t have expected such a forrest at this place. For that we also leave an FP here. The box was found after a short search. Log is wet.
TFTC and greetings from Switzerland

The mountain looked fantastic this morning so I decided to head up for cache. But at lunchtime when I went it was hidden in cloud. But I enjoyed the walk and soon found the cache. Thanks for putting it there.

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Great wee spot

Great hide!

The mountain looked beautiful today, with an amazing amount of snow on it for this time of year.
This was a nice little walk, although it was a fairly cold day today among the trees.
The GPS didn't settle very quickly on the way to the viewing platform and didn't get any closer than 20 mts, but a careful look for the hint item soon had us with the cache in hand. Then the GPS settled and was smack on.
We left a pet rock- a bear cub and dropped off a TB.
Thanks for setting this cache up DOCTaranaki

Nice find the more I geocache the more I get over my fear of bugs haha

Cool view worth the little stroll

Nice wee walk for mini cachers, enjoyed the view, thanks

Lovely sunny day and a chance to go exploring...and geocacing locally. Great little walk...Love this Mountain. Soon found the tree we were after. Tftc

Gorgeous walk.... too visible so covered it with a bit of foliage. TFTC.

Found it without searching! ) , because we watched the amazing trees all around there at that wonderful walk. Unfortunately Taranaki was just visible half its size, but this forest was worth to come from maximum far away - from Germany! Thanx a lot for the cash, we'll be back one day! )

Easy to find during this walk

This cache was an easy find during this short walk in Egmont National Park. At the beginning of the track we were surprised to see that the terrain was considered wheelchair accessible according to DOC signs. Once ReCached and I got close to GZ, we had a good idea where to look for the container. TFTC DOCTaranaki!

February 7, 2018 @ 13:39
Cache #2467

Nice hide!
I was there 4 times, each time trying to take a nice Picture.
On the Day i did the Taranaki Summit Track it was finally great!

Once upon a time there was finally a sale between CHC and NPL, and I managed to grab a seat! The anticipation of the holiday was killing me, as this was to be the first time I set foot in Taranaki, the last unchartered territory in NZ for me. Since the wait for the dates was unusually long, I even got a chance to do some planning and pick a few nice caches to look for. I was hoping to go for a few walks also.
This was a quickie - the container not very water resistant though. TFTC!!

Hi there DOCTaranaki - today was a touristy day around Taranaki looking more for interesting places than for caches (yes - I know... Shame on me). We travelled to New Plymouth then to Mt Taranaki and ending up back in Stratford. SL. The container and log are in good condition. Thanks to DOCTaranaki for this cache - our find #5282

Another spot we probably would never have noticed without a cache to draw our attention. Lovely spot, bit misty and damp today, which meant no views.
Cache is clean and dry.
Thanks for the cache DOC Taranaki.

Found it on purpose. It looks familiair, so after a better look, i logt it. Thanks from the Netherlands

Good little walk

Keep going to the end for the veiw

Easy find

Cache # 3,860 - A lovely walk with some snow on the ground. Astro Hunter and Violet Butterfly were very excited on their whole "snow" experience, and were equally excited to find this cache. All good here, despite the large tree blocking the path early on. TNLNSL. TFTC!

Did today with The Wandering Dragons and Violet Butterfly. Thank you!

Cache # 775

Did today with The Wandering Dragons and Astro Hunter. Thank you!

Cache # 1,313

30/05/17 16:25 After being involved with the original DOC caches in Rotorua and arranging a family to appear in the TV1 news item about them, it's always pleasing to find more DOC caches around our awesome country. Great hide in a natural location. Thanks for this, Cheers, GC.

After walking to the lookout to view the cloud covering Mt Egmont, we realised we weren't going to get to the coordinates, so returned along the track to the closest point. We then looked at a few potential hint items and soon found the cache, which for us was several metres north of the coordinates. We were surprised to find a dry cache here. TFTC

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Found it. TFTC

A nicely maintained walk that is pram friendly. Tftc.

Lovely spot to watch the mountain.

Lovely spot to watch the mountain.

Wow, yes, this is a late log. This was part of a fabulous trip to NZ that got me way behind my logging. I've always liked to tell stories about caching adventures, and so even though life was getting busy, I told myself each of these caches deserves a story and so I'll log them as soon as I have time. In hindsight, I probably should have just logged them, because now many years later I have a huge pile of draft logs and unfortunately am destined to write a generic log just so that I can get back into caching. Having so many to log I think ultimately contributed to the several year slump I'm realizing I need to get out of. So anyways, since it's time to get back into the hobby, this log will have to suffice. Here's to many great adventures ahead, and the ability to tell future stories. This was part of a fabulous trip which I really enjoyed! TFTC!

A very special trail, a favo.
Thanks from a Dutch.

On our way to Mt. Taranaki we passed this cache. And of course: we stopped. A beautiful walk, at the end unfortunately cloudy, so no mountain to see.
Thanks for the walk & cache with a favo.

I really enjoyed this walk. Not much of a view of the Mt today, but I can imagine the view on a fine day is stunning! Pick up TB. Tftc

Great cache - thanks! Awesome day for a view too.

We've walked this often, but have only just started caching. Who would have thought we've walked past it all those times!

Left: a stone hand painted like a bee (taken from GC1YVEG) Took: An NZ rugby ball keychain.

Stunning little bush walk. Heavy clouds so no mountain views today. Snow and windfalls instead. Picked up AirNZ torch n dropped off a trackable. Tftc

GPS coordinates send me into the bush, don't try to follow, as the clue says you stay on the track.

Lovely walk and wonderful bird song too. Ttfc. Baron01

Love walking in the bush in the rain but we didn't see the mountain. Great track. TFTC

Unfortunately it's raining and the volcano is hiding. But the short walk and cache was nice anyway. Found it quickly with Skyryser. TFTC The-Shredder

Unfortunately it's raining and the volcano is hiding. But the short walk and cache was nice anyway. Found it quickly with The-Shredder. TFTC Skyryser

190 trip to the Naki

(1795) Out with my mates to collect some caches around the mountain. Thanks for taking me to some beautiful spots.

Excellent

First (very undemanding!) mountain bush walk for many weeks, so worth celebrating. Thanks, DOC, for taking me to this lovely quiet spot. TFTC

Visited with 2 Bulbars before heading into Curtis Falls. Thanks DOC for giving a reason to visit again.

The day was really stunning and the view from the end of the track was great
Many thanks for placing this here

We had a good idea of what to look for, although we were expecting a longer walk in. The cache hiding place was soon found and the log signed, then we carried on to the end of the walkway to find the mountain just slightly tufted with cloud; a glorious view. Thanks for the cache.

First find was fun off to next

This was a lovely easy walk for the first one of the day. Meet with a family and explained about geo caching. The view was spectacular. SL TFTC . DOC.

Unfortunately the mountain was hiding today, great little walk though.

Really nice walk, tftc

Nice little track, easiest of the DOC caches I reckon, stopped in Midhirst on the way home for an ice cream

Found today with Gnome62 and Kaisha. Part of Dept of Conservation challenge. Left a diamond. Great hide, great place. Easy walk for a couple bad knees.

another doc cache down enjoyed this walk and awesome views today with lady esmaralda

Finally called in today while undertaking a geocaching mission around the mountain. Lovely spot I've visited a couple of times previously. Thank you DOC for the cache

Second cache of the day and second to find the day was perfect and the trip in easy the views well worth the visit the doc path was a breeze had been here in the days of wet feet this was so much better great view TFTC

A well formed easy short track walk to the lookout with a spectacular view of the mountain. Cache located easily from the track. Well worth a visit especially on a fine day. tftc DOCTaranaki.

Published

{Ftf} at 10.35pm yay yay yay! Am I that crazy cacher that races out at any time of the night for a possible first to find?? Apparently I am... .. funnily enough I had actually placed a cache about 20 metres away from the location some time ago and the reviewer didnt publish it as there was a question which I never got round to answering, luckily for DOC and me I guess!! Had a fairly good idea where it would be which was good because the closest my phone got was 80m... a quick search of the area and then something shiny was caught in my headlight beam and there it was. With shaky hands (from excitement not cold) I unwrapped the treasure and found no other names on the log!! Took a selfie with cache and then hightailed it out of there due to an overwhelming fear that the road gates would be shut. In my haste I may have forgotten to add something to the cache....