In Memory of Our Mates (Taranaki) New Plymouth, North Island, New Zealand
By Phronimos on 28-Nov-15. Waypoint GC67HB0

Can't find this one at all

Couldn't find this one. Went around in circles wasn't sure if it had blown away or not

Couldn't find it

My son thought the hint said stick not steak at first which put us off for a while

This was super easy . I'm suorised it hasn't been blown away

Tftc bit foggy today lots of rain forecast for later

Took a few tries

Whooo epic

Found this one tricky but made sense once found

Lots of fun bit tricky but it made sense when we found it

TFTC cute little hide. What a view today and the surf was up. A nice place for the four legged friends x

Pretty easy, hint maked sence when found

Hint was weird till we found it n it made sense. Good find

Nice easy 1

I had no luck with the original incarnation during my last visit to New Plymouth almost 8 years ago. Today I thought I would duck out between the showers and grab the Blue Switch day souvenir while on the way into town for a little shopping. Round in circles a touch until I found the right track but then with the hint it was a relatively quick find and sign. Thanks Phronimos for the cache.

Thanks for the find

Found, nice view

Found, what an amazing view

TFTC

Thanks for easy find, spotted straight away!

Beautiful spot on a windy day. Hopefully the sandblasting has left me looking younger! TFTC, I loved seeing your photos and remembering furry friends past and present

easy find cool spot

Easy find now that it's been cleaned

Easy find

That was a good one thanks, easy find if you get the clue

Once you get the clue its super easy. Awesome cache!

Clue didnt make much sense. Did not find

Dont understand the clue

Great hide, we re-read the clue and my partner spotted it straight away! Signed and returned. TFTC

Had us thinking for a sec

Great spot

After another find in the cool, but nice morning air I attempted this one.
It's a cool area with great views however after searching a few good spots, and rubbish, I had no luck.

Weekend getaway in New Plymouth. Sunday drive checking out the coastline. Some nice surf today and the locals are out making the most of it. Kiwi regretting not tying his board to the top of the car. TFTC

TFTC great view

A gorgeous day up here @ Back Beach.
Pulled over near the cache as we saw a shortcut and made our way to gz. I stood in one spot and scanned the overgrown area and in the sweep my eyes landed on a steak well past its best before date! Luckily it wasn’t too stinky and I managed to extract the log without too much ick! TFTC

Found with the whole family today. Great views up here!

Cloudy afternoon. Did not find.

Geeeee no clue where it was /s

Got it only thanks to a spot on cords. I've found this cache during my third day of the Queen memorial weekend in Taranaki.
TFTC

Found it after second attempt! TFTC

Brought my mate along for the walk and he loved it. We couldn't walk along the beach because it was high tide, but thoroughly enjoyed the walkway. Fabulous views up here! Suprisingly small cache for such a location, but the hint was very clever and useful. Tftc

#13,247. A good walk off Rangitake Drive in Spotswood, New Plymouth. GZ was all quiet at the time of our visit. Found after a bit of a search. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Thanks for the placement, and for bringing us to this 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. No pen so couldn’t write but still found

Tftc found it dry

Awesome little find

SECond visit here after it had been checked out by Jutybug and this time it was a find and i took some photos .
thanks for this cache , and i did see several dogs being taken for a run etc while i was there .

Found it with our dog

Great hiding spot!

Found by nicola erin and our dog george. Thanks

Enjoyed our walk today without a dog! Very stormy conditions. Thanks for placing the cache

Found it noice stake smelly and sticky

Chur nice

Geocache replaced by Juty Bug on my behalf. Thank you Jeremy.
All good to go again.

We spent a bit of time here but with so many hiding places couldn't spot it today. Spotted something that potentially could have related to the hint but nothing else

Found it

Stunning view! No steak anymore but spotted it and returned to same hidey hole.

Very interesting steak

found it

In the Bush. It cut my kegs

tftc, great spot was blowing a gale

What neat seats! Great view! Tftc!

Found it

Very fun to.find saw stake thought that's where it will be

Rest in peace doggo x

Found the stake

Another fantastic views. Love these caches along the coast. TFTC!

GPS has me 10 m away before I thought hmmm if it was me I would have put it over there.

brilliant veiw

What a beautiful day to do a geocache, plenty of people out on Back Beach, all the car parks were full, found the cache fairly quickly, tftc Phronimos

This was significantly easier than the first one I tried. Possibly because GPS was a bit more accurate. Nice beginner cache.

If you're just starting out and reading this, do this one first.

Despite a lengthy search, we were unable to find this cache today. We were amused by the emphatic instruction to do this cache at low to mid tide. It would be somewhat worrying if the tide came this high.

Thanks

Found it and were greeted with stunning views of back beach !

Catching up on logging my finds for February, Awesome spot, i love it here,

Thanks for sharing your story. No flies around the steak. Impressive coastline. Son taking photos tftc

Finnaly found after 30 minutes

Only in Taranaki can you be so breathless walking such a short distance from competing with the wind as it threatens to drop you. Finally found my reward now I just need some tomatoes and chips with a yummy mushroom sauce to go with it.

.A bit windy so the sand is flying. A bit of a hunt here but finally found this little bugger. Now tagged while trying to hide away from the wind. 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.

Bit of a high wind at the moment. Sand is blowing around, stinging on our faces. Found the cache then hunkered down with the wind to our backs to sign the log.

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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Walking along the path hubbie dashed through the sticky brambles and made a quick find. Tftc!

Thanks for showing us this place! And also thanks for the cache and greetings from Hamburg Germany

TFTC

TFTC

Good find nice spot

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 starting to blur together. This cache was found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords and a straight forward placement. TNXPro, McJandals, Davidson Clan & myself signed our logs individually or as TEAM BOP depending on time, log space or mood. Cheers & TFTC

TeamBOP have come together again for a trip to the Naki. Team BOP consists of myself (obviously), McJandals, Philip.Perry and DavidsonClan.
A shame I wasnt travelling with my furry friend today. The closest I had to my furry friend today was Philip, or Bruce, but most certainly not Jan!
Thanks Phrominos for the tour of the Naki and all the other CO's for attracting us to the Taranaki.
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 caching with Team Bop . Philip.Perry Mcjandals and Tnxpro.

No luck here. Time for a wine!

I am down in New Plymouth for the weekend and while I am here I thought it would be good to collect as many geocaches as possible to try and clear some of the map before I leave. I am staying at a relative's place while I am visiting here and once I had unpacked and settled in, I grabbed my geocaching bag and went for a run.

I had a little trouble sussing out where the GZ was, but eventually I got to it. After that I instantly saw it hiding away in the grass. Once I found it the clue finally made sense unlike before where it didn't really. TFTC, it is great to find another geocache, I hope to find a lot of them this weekend!!

Coming from Holland and travelling with Mr M and our daughters, finding this cache.
TFTC

A very nice evening to stand on top of the cliff and watch the surfers. Thanks for putting a cache here.
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Smashed it

Thought this would be a quick grab but I didn't read it properly. We looked at the photos, parked up and headed down to the beach and got to within 29m of GZ. Hmm the elevation has been changed, may as well continue walking along the beach and head up the stairs at the rock end of the beach we thought.
Well we got to the other end only to find the access has been closed and rather than turn back we scaled the sand slope next to it.
Once up the top we circled back along the upper walking track and soon made our way to ground zero. One of us discovered a steaming pile when taking a direct route, fortunately it was not me as I followed a path and looked in the usual type places before reading the hint.
Excellent hint, not what I was thinking of but very apt.

This quick grab ended up taking us one and a half hours, but it was a nice day and a pleasant walk (except the scaling but even that was okay really). Plenty of people down at the beach, very few up on the tops.

Cheers.

Quick find. Good hint.

Very enjoyable walk and scenery is awesome. Easy enough to find. Not a lot inside but enjoyed the experience.

Beautiful spot for a cache

Good fun!! Beautiful walk!!

Logging catch up from the last couple of months. Had the most hilarious cache trip with evisser8. Haven’t laughed so much and still laughing as we remember it now. Thanks for the placement. Interesting that muggles are most likely to be found above your head here