WL#3: Too Stylish (Taranaki) Stratford, North Island, New Zealand
By knees'n'things on 03-Sep-16. Waypoint GC6RCVV

Mrs Macfam has spent the weekend competing with the geo dog, Southridge Laird of Kinlochaline (Lochie) at the Hawera Dog Obedience competition at the Normanby Domain. Just heading north to my home town to catch up with some old school friends but still have time to find a few local caches on the Western Loop.Was just about to give up and move on when I decided to look in a different location. Bugger me. Should've read the cache title earlier. It's makes sense now. Still loving this view. TFTC

Tftc

Found

Thanks for the find!

Thanks for the find

Need TOTT to extract from camo but all good once done. TFTC.

Also foi d as bkj97 and I completed this enjoyable bush walk. TFTC

Livingk dragged me out for a late afternoon stroll around the loop to stretch the legs. Staying at the campsite meant it was too close to ignore these last few caches for the day. No longer hanging but all good here. Tftcsl

good hint and no problems to locate.
TFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)…

Auckland Anniversary: The Taranaki weather had been particularly good to us this weekend, considering the mayhem it had sparked further up the country. It felt almost anticlimactic to be going home today, but work beckons…

We worked out what item to look for somewhere along the trail. We knew we’d arrived when that object was spotted. The cache was straight forward and well placed. Thanks knees’n’things. TFTC.

**17,270**
Continuing on from the last cache, yet another fence baton to hang the dog leash on but that wasn’t needed for long as the cache was quickly located and I was off to the next one. TFTC

Trouvée

Bit of effort gone into this one, for that I give a ️ point.
Always nice to have a seat in the GZ.

Very stylish. Earns a fave from us & thanks for the trail work. Cache is all good. TFTC

TFTC

Awsome find a favorite from us tftc

Found it. Summer Holiday 2021

Oh dear, the fence is electric. Two shocks, one human and one dog who didnt know what had hit him. A very unhappy pup The cache is clever and well placed. Tftc

What a great hide!! Great to meet you along the way

Having a slow day. Obvious when you know where. Nice one.

A nice quick find thanks. Track was dry as, and the sunset over the mountain was lovely.

Ms_KR and I are on our annual pilgrimage to Auckland for our family Christmas. We were staying in the camping ground in Stratford, and it would be rude not to do some of the nearby caches, so I went for an after dinner walk and collected some of the closest! Please excuse the generic logs, there have been a few finds and they get muddled up sometimes.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Decided to travel to Stratford for the groceries today and as it was such a beautiful day decided some geocaching must be done. With the help of Lilbud we overshot the mark, after a small backtrack a quick find was made and a wee rest to sign the log. TFTC

Fancy hide, quickly spotted thanks to the clue. TFTC

A nicely done hide. With the weather being quite miserable, I hadn't really considered the possibility of encountering others. Luckily, the two ladies who approached while I was here were having a great conversation which meant I didn't get muggled in the way I could have been.

This one is our favourite of the whole WL-round. Therefore it gets a fav-star. It was an easy find and a "special" logging very close to some cows who watched the writing intensively but without any coment.
Thank you for this beautiful cache!
Paddelhannes + Kanuirm from Bavaria, Germany

did not realise the park was this big very nice walk for caches

Found it easily enough. Beautiful spot to just stop and admire the mountain.

Gefunden und gestochen. Tree ist bei uns als Baum zu verstehen. Daher suchten wir ein Weilchen. Dfdc

A good title and a good hide .

Out geocaching in Stratford today. Very cool hide. Our third find of the day. #176. TFTC.

Staying at the Stratford Holiday Park which has a gate entrance to this walkway. Found 2 caches before it got too dark. Cache nicely constructed. TFTC

Wieder zeigte sich dass man durch das Cachen schöne Sachen wie den loop finden kann tftc

Enjoying walking along this trail. Another stop along the way to get this one tagged. Cheers

Day 8 - Saturday 21 December. A long day from New Plymouth to Egmont, then Stratford and back to New Plymouth for a few well earned ZZZZs.

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.

At about this cache I realised the CO is into puns. Some say they are the lowest form of wit, and sure, they take little imagination to rock one out, but a good pun is still excellently funny. Anyway, I am giving this one a fav just for the cache titles on this series.

Day eight of Taybeedragon's and my big 3 week circumnavicaching trip around Mt Taranaki, starting from Palmerston North. Today is up the mountain and Inglewood and Stratford.
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
* Lots of cache maintenance!

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While my wife pricked hereself like cinderela i read out the hint. Tftc

Clever hide. Soso found it. Muggles out walking dogs do had to pretend to retie shoelaces. TFTC

Locals on a local walk TFTC

Enjoyed the walk and the caches.

Rick-a-mortis was here OZR3RZ

Clever hide thank you

After attending the CITO we had a nice meal at Malones then it was time to do the western loop.
Things got a little confusing to start with as we were on the north side of the river but once we returned and got onto the right trail or that should be the left trail we started doing the loop going anti clockwise but after seeing the closest cache get further away we changed tact and went clockwise (silly us ) as it was a loop either way would of been ok but still we completed it and enjoyed the walk around tracks we never knew were there
many thanks

Logtime: 20:00 #6612
Heute: 9. Cache von total 11 Caches.

Nach dem Nachtessen auf dem Campingplatz haben wir noch einen Bushwalk gemacht und dabei diesen Cache gefunden.

Danke und Gruss
simeat und Frau
Switzerland.

Heading out in the company of HKCB for a quick 24 hours down to Taranaki collecting caches around the mountain to try to tidy up the area.
We departed Hamilton at 7pm Friday and made it back home 7pm on Saturday with a haul of 70 caches and 820kms traveled. A great drive through the night, clear sky's and a fantastic day on Saturday to view the mountain in all its glory, a calm sea along the coast. Together these factors made the trip memorable as we could not have asked for better conditions to cache in.
A big thank you to all the CO's whom have placed these caches for us and continued their maintenance.
Second pleasent walk of the morning and continuing in an anti-clockwise direction from the previous cache

Thank you for the placement, thank you for the cache.

In the company of Cats&Dragons for a quick 24 hour blast around Mt Taranaki, with the aim to tidy up as much of the area as possible. Leaving 7pm Friday night and returning 7pm Saturday we managed the loop and found about 70 caches along the way, with a couple of hours sleep thrown in as well. The weather also played its part with fantastic vistas throughout the day of the mountain.

With some well hidden and maintain caches found throughout the day a big thanks must go to all the CO's for the placements. Time for the second walk in Strafford, with a nice blue sky and great views of the mountain. Took a minute or two to locate this one, but I was a little distracted by the fantastic view of the mountain here.

As the weather looked quite unstable, we decided to go geocaching instead of hiking the Mount Taranaki. This brougt us to this two beautifull loops.
I guessed the location correctly, but it took a bit till the penny droped. Verry stylish indeed.
Thanks for hiding and maintaining this series.

We picked Stratford as our base to go hiking around Mount Taranaki. When we looked what Caches were in town we were surprised to find two small trails. Since the weather wasn't so good we decided to do our hiking and Caching along those trails. We started with the Western Loop, which we enjoyed very much, so many beautiful trees! Since the weather was holding up we continued with the Eastern Loop, which was more interesting in the second part, than in the first.

Feeeeeee had the right idea where to look, but it still took a while until we spotted this cleverly camouflaged container.

Thanks for this Cache!

# 2072

A very stylish cache
A FP from us
TFTC knees ‘n’ things

After spending the night at a friends farm nearby and doing some walks on Mount Taranaki this morning/afternoon we decided that we hadn't done enough walking so went out to find some caches. Tftc

Tftc. Doing this loop to grab a few caches as we failed to find any in Taranaki

Quick find. Liked the play on words.

Another nice day for a caching walk on this excellent pathway. A very stylish hide indeed. Thanks.

On our way up to new plymouth to cap off the Easter weekend and trying for some of the mysteries along the way to boost up our planetary mission points.

D6 had a bit of a shock looking for this one

Cheers.

Me and scoria were out caching today working on collecting points towards the planetary explorer mission souvenirs.

I am heading to New Plymouth to today to spend Tuesday hunting for caches in the Bell Block area.

This cache was a bit of a shocker when I used the fence to get myself up

Nice one. Thanks for this lovely walk

Found it on a nice Walk while staying at the Campsite.
Really nice walking track!

Nice hide TFT

Found during our holiday to New Zealand together with GeoFinn. Touring in a campervan through this amazing country; second time here, now with our son. 5 weeks was over in a blink; already plans for a third time.

Travelling, geocaching, hiking, kayakking, swimming, mountains, lakes, geyers, beaches; it was amazing. CO's thanks for your cache, it made our trips even more fun.

Replaced with something a little less shiny.

All up and going.

Found while out and about with tmann421, just getting around to logging this now

This one has been muggled so I am temporarily disabling it while I make a replacement.

It's not there
Found the hook but nothing hanging nor hiding close by in the long grass.

Another good find on the walkway - thanks knees'n'things

Found it. Beautiful walk. Tftc

Last cache on this trail, and it was nice to be able to sit down and rest the weary legs while completing the signing duties.
I didn't notice the name of the cache until we'd finished - nice!
Thanks knees'n'things.

Cool little hide

I met a couple of muggles just before this cache. Another successful one.

Cheers for the cache.

thanks for this cache...

Another day crafting, and another stop off on the way home to grab caches with Biggelaar Family...Enjoyed the walk with the bonus of a few more caches. We found what we wanted after a short search. TFTC

A quick easy find, although interestingly we found a silver container at this cache, and red one at WL#4. TFTC

Beautiful spot

Heading up to the 'Naki with MacGyverson for a few days to catch up with friends and geocache as we go. Really enjoyed seeing some new ground and this loop track was again new ground for us. Saw likly hide area as we approached and found the cache soon after. Again signed the log and left as found.

Thanks for the placement and this series knees'n'things.

Found it. Think 3& 4s containers have been switched around

Took a while but found it

well was in town so off on the geotrail i go, very clever set of caches and very well done, why put a cache this size out here, well its not all about the cache, its about the find and the location.. awesome find and location TFTC , i am running out of FPs, the best cache on this loop, well picked

A very stylish hide indeed. Hung around to take photos of a clear Mt Egmont/Taranaki before the rain due later. tftc

Found with Trayc.g & TeamAlmawoody, logging now as I have my own account. TFTC

Another short walk and another successful find! TFTC

Clever little find. Loved it. Many thanks

Another summer visit to locate the unfound caches and turn them into smilies. Really enjoyed our stroll around the park. Nice and sunny at GZ TFTC

Spotted after a short search SL TFTC

As we were staying in the campground alongside this location as we head to new Plymouth for Christmas with the in-laws we walked around this location finding the odd cache .this was not to stillish for us signed log and replaced as found,we talked to the four legged muggle here . tftc.
Merry Christmas to you

Just a few spits while here and the wind was up and at us but a great hide. Fav for us TFTC

Time to go to Stratford and clean up the caches on this walk. TFTC

Bright and early this drizzly morning,
I went for a wander along the Western Loop
Not muddy at all,
on a wet morning

Caching stop number two !!
This very stilish cache.
And after brushing aside the wet grass,
a cache was found

TFTC.

Easy find

Hanging with 4 legged muggles

Very stylish. Great cache. Pleased the track took this route as the nearby ford was well underwater. TFTC

Keeping up with the style of things knocked it off in a short time enjoying the walk TFTC just one more to go

Ho, ho - on a roll here! Found this one really fast, despite mud and wet grass. Neat cache name too! TFTC

Pen wasn't so keen this time, so signed KTNZ. Thanks for the cache.

This one took some thinking. Tftc

And that would be 3rd {FTF} for the day!!! A quick walk here as on time pressured to get back to work and have lunch (eatings cheating when caching!!). Quite slippery and boggy underfoot at the moment made for a bit of a challenge (yeah really want to explain to work why I'm filthy) but managed to avoid a fall. So relieved that the first place I put my hand I found what I was looking for as it was 12.38 and I wanted to be heading back to car by 12.40!! And off I went, back to the car by 12.54 then off to the service station for lunch, back at work right on time @1pm. What a mission, I'm wet, a bit tired, excited and now sitting at my desk writing up my ligs and scoffing my lunch. Tftc

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