Mawaihakona Stream: Branches Heretaunga, North Island, New Zealand
By trails trails trails on 10-Mar-16. Waypoint GC6D0D7

look like it gone

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.

Hi wb1116

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Guess this one has gone too. Hasn't been found for some time.

Gone.

Searched all the trees in said area but sadly couldn’t find

Think this one has gone

If I'm looking at the correct tree it has had a lot of branches chopped off recently. Tried to find the cache amongst the branches on the ground but no luck

Sadly DNF. Perhaps lost as it seems some branches have been lopped off the surrounding trees. Lovely walk though!

So sad

No joy here, looked for with Rock9

Māwaihākona Stream: Branches was transferred from trails trails trails to user wb1116

Nice easy find on a cold showery Sunday afternoon. Out for a bike ride. Not many people around.
This one easily found. Unusual hide.
TFTC

This one took a little longer than it needed too. TFTH

Should have found this one faster than what I did. TFTC

TFTC First one with a new Geodog. Missed having the excuse!

Another quick find for the geokids, hint had them on it straight away. TFTC

# 1533 Most of my caching is done under the cover of darkness these days while the dangerBOY is in bed. This was a fun mission and for some reason reminded me of patrolling through waiouru training area in the middle of the night using only the full moon as light. Turns out I wasnt on the main track and only realised that when I found the well trodden path. Cache took a bit of finding under the beam of a head torch. All good inside here. Cheers trails trails trails, second of yours I have found this weekend! Saving the rest on this path for later.

Double seal! Nice and dry. TFTC!

I have finished the true-left part of the Māwaihākona Stream loop trail, and have crossed over to the other side. This was my fifth find so far today, and was a reasonably quick find. All good. That's my fifth for the day and fifth by trails trails trails - thanks for another good one!

Well, that was weird. I thought there was something very familiar about this one, and on finding and reading the log, i found my name on it from a little over a year ago. Apparently I forgot to record the log last time, so I signed it again and remembered to enter it this time. All safe and dry here. TFTC.

Thanks

Find #2957. An epic day of cycling and geocaching in the Upper Hutt Region, attempting to capture as many remaining Traditional caches as possible to clear the map. Started at Petone, catching the Wairarapa train with the bike, for a pleasant 25min and inexpensive $6.50 journey, alighting at Maymorn Station. Cycled some 40km in often 26 degree plus heat, returning to Petone via the general route of the Hutt River Trail but with many deviations. Particularly enjoyed the upgraded sections of cycle trail, smooth asphalt where once there was gravel.

One of the main focuses of this entire day was to complete the walk along the Mawaihakona Stream and find all the caches. I was prepared to park the bike and walk the distance but thankfully the trails were very cyclable as walking them would have taken some time with the back tracking I had to do and in this heat. I stopped at this first one to refresh with food and water under the shade of the tree.

If you stand in just the right spot, it is an easy find. No trouble today. SL TFTC

Christmas day and time to walk off a big lunch and grab some fresh air...8 more caches to reach my target of of 365 for the year...this Trail seemed to be a good spot to knock them off. Quickly spotted. TFTC

Tftc

Hello

Found it thanks

26/11/2018

T.f.t.c
Cool

Sweet

Bohemian rhapsody

Hi

TFYC

On seat

Tftc

Great find!

Cool little spot for a cache thanks for bringing me here

Jess.daphne and I took to the streets of Wellington to find some caches after the mega event and this was one of them. Tftc from team Jeje.

Found with Injeanious as we explored the area during the Mega weekend. We really enjoyed the walk around the stream here and the caches along the way! TFTC!

Down in the Capital for an extra long weekend before exams start, with Jag50, Merlot58 & Bertie Blowfish. Followed the obvious geotrail to locate the cache.

With a group of fellow west Aucklanders Merlot58, Aiden29 and Bertie Blowfish To attend the MEGA and for a fun long Labour weekend’s caching. Thanks to all the cache owners for setting up and maintaining the caches. Sorry for cut and paste logs. Quick find here after following the geotrail

I’m in the Windy City to attend the Wellington Mega with a few fellow Westies from Auckland. We’re having a great time as we explore the area collecting smileys as we go. Thanks for bringing us here, sorry for the copy and paste logs but am using a Cachly template to log as I go.A nice quick find here

Quick find here for us today. tftc and bringing us to a new area.

It's finally Mega weekend!
Found while travelling with TeamBOP to the Mega event in Wellington.
Thanks for bringing me here.
TFTC

Team BOP have descended upon the Wellington region for the 2018 WENZ MEGA. We have a lot of caches to get through so there isn’t a lot of down time but it's great to meet the locals, CO’s and fellow cachers. My online logs are largely cut’n’pasted because my memory has started to blur many of my finds together so apologies for that. We’ve signed logs as ‘TeamBOP’ or individually depending on log space and time. Lastly a big Thank You to the Team - TNXPro, Davidsonclan, McJandals, NZFlossy, FapandGap & Squirrel Nutcase and to all the CO’s that made this a memorable trip

Tftc. Enjoyed this wee loop track today while in the area for the mega.

Ahhh, nice to have a rest! Cache number about-32-ish of the day. Now back to the mega event location for a workshop. Tftc

In Wellington for Mega with others from the Bay of Plenty.
Signed log Team BOP to save room. The team consists of my self Tnxpro , Philip.Perry and McJandals.

Attending the Wellington MEGA, great to visit here from the sunny Bay of Plenty, these finds have been found with my team members, which include myself, NZ Flossy, Davidson Clan, Squirrel Nutcase, FapandGap, TNXPRO and Philip.Perry and signed Team BOP. (To save room on logs) We are having a blast and gathering lots of smileys along the way. Please excuse generic logs in advance. (as I have saved the template using Cachly) Many Thanks to all you cache owners for the placements. Cheers

#16185. We had to leave the first cache in the series for the way back (muggles nearly on top of it). All quiet here and a quick find. TFTC.

Found with StreetWakerNZ as we drove from Naenae to Upper Hutt to attend the Fish and Chip event. We still had an hour to kill before the event, and the day was lovely, so decided to do this loop walk and find a few caches .
A nice quick find for StreetWalker. TFTC.

Out for a walk exploring the nature reserve. Nice grab and go find. Cache is in good order. TFTC.

Thank you

Reread and try again

Took a bit of hunting but awesome cache TFTC

Great hint

Easy find great hint

Nice walk with Zozo - easy find

Found with NZARIB and NZRef

Quick easy find on a Saturday morning with NZARI and NZZach tftc

We found it it was good easy and fun did it with my nana

Found it..hint helped

Tftc

Tftc

Daddy finally found it

I found hint a bit too cryptic, but B located the cache fairly quickly. TFTC T3!

Still not entirely sure about hint, but followed last part + experience. TFTC trails trails trails

Good find. TFTC.

Out with igriffin today. Who knew this was here//

I am planning a short daily streak in this area to clear up all the caches that I didn't find last time I was visiting this area. I will be up here first thing in the morning for the next few days!

I don't know why but I spent ages looking for this one last time I was up here and eventually gave up. Maybe its in a different position now because it didn't take any time to find today.

The cache is in good condition. All nice and dry.

Thank you

Cherrys Rule

Did with Crystal Fairy.

Did a walk with Mycro Man, the Fairy Half, Ezratar and the Grandmother.. This whole loop was a great walk. Nice finds. Thanks for the caches...

Made short work of this one after reading the hint. TFTC this one sure looks waterproof

Cache # 4,153 - a quick stroll this morning to a now familiar locaation. Cache nicely situated and quickly found. All good there. Memorable part about today was seeing someone go into the stream back in the park with gumboots and start picking plants. I though he might be a DOC worker measuirng water quality, but tuerned out to be someone collecting watercress for salads. TNLNSL. TFTC. I am a bit sad that I won't be coming back to this lovely place for more caches, as I have now cleared it. But perhaps there may be more in the future?

Consecutive caching day # 1,733

I was struggling a bit with making the find, but with the very detailed instructions in the hint, the cache was soon in hand. Reading the past logs it sounds like the previous hide was a unique contraption and I'm sorry I missed it. TFTC

Took us a moment to look in the correct greenery but had it in hand pretty quickly . Nice to discover a new walking trail! Tftc

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 8.541 E 175° 0.717

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 8.541 E 175° 0.714

Distance from original: 13.7 feet or 4.2 meters.

New cache placement

As the physical puzzle has disappeared twice I'm replacing with a cammoed screw-top, cheers.

Yes, the cache has disappeared again. I'll replace one more time but it's not a simple setup so if it happens again, I'll Archive. Cheers

Saw this one as disabled, but not for any fault of the cache but rather the new placement. So off I set this morning for what I hoped to be a fun time with the field puzzle. Located the noted tool fairly quickly, enabled it for use, but no matter how much I searched I could not find the container anywhere. Had a very good sense of what I was looking for, and the hint makes perfect sense. Wonder if CO has removed it for placement elsewhere, or if it has simply gone walkabout again? Will watch and see when re-enabled. At least it was a lovely walk this morning.

Māwaihākona Stream: Afloat too close to cache Māwaihākona Stream: Get me out! GC6D0YK - 151.4 m E

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 8.543 E 175° 0.714

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 8.541 E 175° 0.717

Distance from original: 18.3 feet or 5.6 meters.

Moved cache slightly as the dead tree to which it was attached was trampled by a be-sprigged rugby team on their way to practice on the nearby sports-field. Cheers.

All good to go

Sunk - The cache and contraption have disappeared. I'll reconstruct and replace slightly off the track. Cheers

Hint item was hidden in the long grass and took a while to find. Have seen this technique used before so it was straightforward. tftc

Thanks so much for this cache as it provided some fun on a wet, grey day. I have seen caches like this online, but this is the first I have actually had to do. It was also a great place to be playing in the mud on my mountain bike.

Nice one

Took a while to find tool, but got there.
Log a bit wet, but waterproof paper is good.
Thanks

Tftc

The tree this cache is next to is down but the cache is OK now.

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 8.543 E 175° 0.710

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 8.543 E 175° 0.714

Distance from original: 18.4 feet or 5.6 meters.

New GPSr - better reading

Out tidying up a few caches around Upper Hutt this evening. My word, this area has changed since I spent my teen years living very nearby. Great to see the plantings in place now. I didn't know the stream's proper name, we all just called it the Silverstream.
TFTC

TFTC 277

A most enjoyable visit to the Māwaihākona Stream mini trail this evening, and I found all six without any difficulty. This small area will certainly be a wee gem in years to come as the plantings start to mature. The map was much appreciated and was a great help in choosing the correct path to each cache, thank you.

TFTC

Found and extracted. Fun cache. TFTC

Took a long time to find the cache container - someone had kicked it over and it was lying in the long grass.
I returned it to where I could see it had come from but could do with securing more.
Inner container and cache in good condition. SL TFTC

Great cache! Seen one like this in New Plymouth before such a great idea. TFTC!

Really great! Well done

Excellent excellent excellent. My favourite cache.

Found with Darfield 5