Picnic Time at Whitireia Park (Porirua) Porirua, North Island, New Zealand
By Mr & Mrs SAROC on 19-Nov-15. Waypoint GC6735T

Had Its time, hope you enjoyed this geocache and the walk around the park.

Will check it out shortly. In the mean time disabled so you know not to go looking for it.

All i found was a trap at gz.

Did not find this one - lots of mahoe trees

Sent the girls in (there was gorse!!). 20 minute search with no luck. A DNF I’m afraid

Good place for a cache but it is not here

Also here after intensive search no cache found.

nevertheless T4TC

Fourth DNF in a row, this cache might need checking

Did not find after an extensive search. Perhaps this one might have gone missing.

No luck today.

I was on a bit of a mission today, desperate for numbers, so couldn't really afford to spend more than 5 minutes hunting at each cache. It was very dark by the time I reached this cache. I spent a few minutes crawling around on my hands and knees, trying to search using the torch function on my phone, but lucked out. I'm sure the cache is fine, but I just didn't find it.
Logging as a reminder to keep an eye on this one and come back and try again sometime.

Great day for a walk over the loop track. Surprisingly found this one out in the open, yet hidden from view of passers by. Tftc

Looked under ever mahoe tree within 20m... no joy

# 281 Mum is catching up on all my logs. So i would have found this cache with Gr33nslime at some point. Im only three but hoping that I have more found more caches than weeks alive! Thanks for the cache. i enjoy swapping all the toys!

Hopefully mum got this one right, she just published 40 logs that werent the right log! Clearly mum does not know how to use GSAK!

# 1654 Out on a mission with the DangerBOY today to pick up a few caches to help me along for the 35 required for the Mystery at the Museum Challenge. We started on the balance bike but after a short while we were in the pram, and boy that was fun to push around this track. A great selection of very cool cache containers - i think i will use up all my favourite points on this trail! Thanks to SAROC and others for a great adventure, that kept the DangerBOY amused for the whole three hours it took!

A decent sized container... i thought these thigns were invincible but this one is pretty much rusting away. Wasnt quite sure how to get to it, so had to back track a little. But another enjoyable set of contents for the boy to paw through.

What a cool container. Cache in good shape. The best one on the track so far. Was exactly where the coordinates sent us. TFTC

Fun!

Found it

A big cache! Don't know how we missed it on first look in that place. Tftc.

Cool!

First geocache for me thanks

Slight detour to get this one, found with dbants and NikiHo1. Left marble, tupperware keyring and a few other trinkets. Took a frog and parchute soldier for the kids. 3/7 found this morning. SL TFTC

Walking around the peninsula, collecting caches.

A quick find.

#6361

Love these ones, haven’t seen one like this for a while too. TFTC

Quick find and the last for the day. Tftc.

After e disappointing DNF I finally found one. All cut up and scraped but alg

A bit of a scrabble to reach but easy enough. TFTC

Woohoo, what a great container! Wasn't quite sure what the hint was referring to but went for a look and stayed to sign the log. Thanks for the cool hide!

Found 19/01/19

Walk too far at first, enjoying the track!

Had a cookie and a drink!

This took a bit of time. Coordinates sent us a bit far, and I've the scrapes to prove it. Geodog feck all help. Love the container

Completely missed by the advance party (coordinate issues apparently) before the reinforcements nabbed it immediately.

An odd spot for a picnic but a great place for a cache! Managed to avoid looking in the nearby trap, necessary but still don't like them. Great to see big caches here, tftc

Didn't seem to be many places where the hint fitted, nothing found.

Quick find thanks to the hint. I'm not sure what sort of picnic it would make, though!

After 2 DNF it was good to see we hadn't come over the hill this way for nothing
Found while either going to the Mega or attending the Mega or coming home from the Mega.
We left home mid day on Wednesday heading for the Mega and arrived at the Cossie club car park late Friday afternoon where we stayed all weekend with kind permission from the club. It was a great weekend meeting others and going out geocaching including a trek up into the hills above Nae Nae. I really enjoyed that trek as the caches were placed usually within 200 m from each other. It was great to get to the top of the ridge and return most of the way down via another track. Unfortunatly we didn't have time to stay and ride the river trails but we will be back
Many thanks to all the C.O.s who place caches around the country for us to find and enjoy this hobby/sport. with out people like You Caching wouldn't exist

Staying in the area for the Mega so decided to do this cache collection walk around the bay. It's a great walk, thanks for all the hides along the way.
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Very cool looking cache container!

Super cool! Old school official box. Calm peaceful spot

Awesome container

Out on the loop for some fresh air and to find my 1000th cache.... counting down #998 love these containers. TFTC

Sveppi and I have recently moved down this way from Rotorua. We are slowly exploring our new surroundings, today we came to do this gentle loop walk, and the odd geocache. It's overcast and a bit breezy, but quite warm for this time of year. This is the first cache we look for on this walk. Not our idea of a good picnic spot, but a good hide, we don't see many like this anymore. TFTC

First time exploring out this way! Thoroughly enjoyed all the caches along the way Only had 2 out of 20 i couldnt find. Good hint and co-ordinates. TFTC!

Quick find SL TFTC

Last quick scurry in the rain on the retreat back to the car. The weather beat us this time but we will be back!! First container like it i've seen. Love it. TFTC

A cool cloudy day with rain in Wellington and showers expected here so not too many people around in the park this Saturday morning.
Easy find.
TFTC

lots of stuff inside nice

Out enjoying a night walk around the loop track tonight to get my hidden creatures numbers up. Not to difficult to find. TFTC.

TFTC. Will do fuller log when get home.

Great cache! Made some swaps while out hunting caches to get some more hidden treasures souvenirs. TFTC

I really love tea parties (I'm 3) so swapped a number of things for the tea set. I hope that's ok! I brought them home and made Mrs JY (mummy) and DYTTSU (Daddy) coffees. TFTC

We'd started to come across more and more muggles by this stage so had to time our search between them passing. Fortunately it was a pretty straight forward find.
We left a pet rock - a lion.
Thanks for all of the caches you've put on this track for our enjoyment.

It's the middle weekend of the school holidays and my kids are really starting to get a bad case of cabin fever. I decided to drop them at the movies in Porirua and come out here for some fresh air, geocaching, peace and quiet. My wife had the right idea and stayed home to do whatever she likes for a few hours.

The movie was scheduled for 116 minutes, and was to start at 1pm. I figured that so long as I was back by 3pm I wouldn't hear too much complaining.

My idea was to find as many caches as I could along this trail in the available time. It will help with my Heavenly Creatures count and might just get me a souvenir or two.

Being a very pleasant Sunday afternoon the track was busy with people and dogs. I had to be very patient with my searching. In fact I had to skip one early on because it was too close to the track and there was a constant stream of muggles traffic that made searching impossible. In the end I figured it was a good thing and, anyway, I might be able to come back tomorrow to find it.

This cache is in good condition. All nice and dry. I really like finding big containers like this one. It makes me happy to have a look through all the stuff that is in there and I really like a good size log book to write in. Mainly because I hardly ever take my reading glasses with me when I go out caching and some of those little ones are too small for me to really see what I'm writing. Old man's disease!

Thank you

Cherrys Rule

Found with the kids in the school holidays, got a surprise finding this one, and timed perfectly between muggles, loved the cache, made a couple of swaps, thanks

Found! Had a great walk around today, first series I have done in NZ since being away for four years

Tftc

TFTC

Quick check of the cache this morning while passing by. Outer container starting to look a little tired but the inner container still in excellent condition. All good here.

TFTC. A pleasant afternoon stroll around this lovely area. Eveb spotted 3 golfers at the next door course.
Thanks Mr & Mrs SAROC for placing the cache.

Yes found this one...well really could not miss it ha ha ha...what a neat cache..all good and clean thank for the placement Mr and Mrs SAROC great series expect for 2 DNFs

Whew found! After two previous dnfs it was very reassuring to find this nice large container. Now for the last bit of downhill and back to motor home. Thanks for the series Mr and Mrs SAROC- a great excuse to get out there and a beautiful area.

In Wellington for a few days catching up with friends and family. With a few hours up my sleeve today, I have Whitireia Park on my radar - so lets go for a walk.
I leave the coast line to head inland for a picnic. Snagged and tagged. Cheers

Another find with 4 year old in tow. TFTC

Biggest find so far!!

Auf dieser schönen Runde konnte der Cache gut gefunden werden.
TFTC!

Found it during our holiday in NZ

Nice big cache in excellent condition. TFTC.

Day 2 in Wellington on the bike hut road trail this morning now for a trip around the coast track some more great weather nice to see the old school cache boxes

My friend BBear44 invited me along for a weekend to Wellington. It's a beautiful day for walking and geocaching.
Last one on this walk. What an enjoyable way to spend the day.

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Thanks. Mr & Mrs SAROC for putting in the effort to hide this geocache. This was find 5012 for me.

In Wellington for the weekend with the girls, one of them happened to be my caching buddy Nosynel , so what better way to spend a lovely sunny winters day than out caching in this stunning area. Had a really great day walking around here. Thanks so much for the smiles.

Nice and easy find and good to see recent maintenance on the cache contents. Thanks CO for the cache.

Tftc.pink teapot swapped for green lizard.

Quick find

Found on our way around the loop track. Cool cache and contents. tftc and a quick find.

Another great find on the Onepoto loop walk. TFTC

Thanks for placing this cache. After four days of persistent rain, we awakened to a bright sunny Friday and
decided to go walking and pick up some caches.

Beautiful day for caching

Started my Saturday with a lovely walk around this loop finding lots of caches and enjoying watching the action on and in the water. Nice breeze and sun, so made for an excellent walk. Thanks for the caches.

Last on the loop. Thanks

At the suggestion of the CO, I went for a walk around the Onepoto Loop Track late this afternoon. Easy find, and also my last find for this walk. *TFTC SAROC #117*

Begins our holiday in NZ in Christchurch, we came from Italy to find our son who lives there for two years.
After ten days spent in the 'island of the south stopping at lakes in Dunedin in Oumaru and be returned to Chch, we decided to go north to the island with a flight to Wellington, the idea is to relax a few days between the sea and the beach course cache, unfortunately we will take four days of rain and wind, impossible to take to the beach.
But we'll make with the cache.
They expect historical cache but especially the GC46 one of the few positioned in May 2000 still alive, among other things, the oldest of NZ.
Today we decide for this trail, day with the wind and rain but not enough to stop us, nice walk in a very nice environment
Greetings from Italy
Dopo una decina di giorni passati nell' isola del sud facendo tappa ai laghi a Dunedin a Oumaru ed essere ritornati a Chch, decidiamo di salire all'isola nord con un volo a Wellington, l'idea è di rilassarci qualche giorno fra mare spiaggia e naturalmente cache, purtroppo prenderemo quattro giorni di pioggia e vento, impossibile scendere in spiaggia.
Ma ci rifaremo con le cache.
Ci aspettano cache storiche ma sopratutto la GC46 una delle poche posizionate a maggio 2000 ancora in vita, tra l'altro la più vecchia di NZ.
Oggi decidiamo per questo trail, giornata con vento e pioggia ma non abbastanza per fermarci, bella passeggiata in un ambiente molto bello
Saluti dall'Italia
TFTC

Great little find! Loved doing this walk with some of the family and finally having a nice day to be able to do it! TFTC

Great walk out on the loop track with a group tftc

Found quick n easy. Cache in good order. TNLNSL, TFTC

Group find today while in the area. Enjoyed the loop and area. TFTC

Late afternoon walk to enjoy the sun
This was the third one and was found quickly - thanks

An absolute delight for my toddler!

Tftc

#2525 More to follow. Minus a TB, plus a TB.

Quite a few caches seem to have appeared around Whitirea Park since I last cleaned the area out, so the time seemed right for an expedition. It turned out to be a very pleasant wander around the loop track. Last time I came through here the track didn't exist, you just pushed your own path up and over the hill through the long grass, so the civilised track today was quite a treat.

Thanks for the excuse to visit this trail. A great day out with Yeetrees.

TFTC SAROC

Last find of a most enjoyable morning walk around this loop track. Another generous sized container with a fun theme. Thanks for this series SAROC.

Nice walk between the "northerly" and the" southerly". Dropped off trackable. TFTC

Walking dogs, nice cache

#2563. Well today is the day Team GSEL acquired our diamond badge for filling in the 366 day grid (which has taken just under two years). Its also my daughters birthday today and as we are going out for a meal tonight, I thought I had better make sure I have the daily caches sorted out in advance. So decided on doing only a half day at work and having the other half off to get a few caches done in Whitireia Park. Nice quick find here. Nicely presented cache in theme. Well done. Signed the log and replaced as found but with a bit more natural camo on top. Thanks for hiding it here.

**taybee** is caching again with and **tayybee nz**
Quick and easy find here today No time for a picnic to day
All in good order, sign log book as ***TAYBEE*** or ***TB*** TFTC Log by Gsak
Cache was find at **2016-07-21 13:24:00**

TFTC
Quick and easy find thanks for the cache
[?] Found with ***taybee*** [?] Sign log book

Nice easy find but still out of view.

Another great cache, toddler is loving this series! Easily visible from the track so tried to cover it a bit more in same spot, Tftc

Easy find on a MTB trip around the coast. Love the outer container and the inner contents even more ! Wasn't quite picnic weather today which was a shame but hopefully in summer the cache can live up to its name. Gets a favourite from us for truly refecting the cache title.