Ready For Takeoff Paraparaumu, North Island, New Zealand
By #Road Runner on 26-Sep-16. Waypoint GC6TKXG

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 #Road Runner

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

No luck today

Found nothing but dirt underlying nails unfortunately

Think it may be missing

Another DNF. Past time for some maintenance!!

Unsure if it’s not there anymore or just couldn’t see

No luck here today

Nothing today. Looks like area had been recently mowed?

Too easy

Could not find it today.

No sign of anything here today. Hunted at 3 likely hints but no.

DNF not sure where to look, cant find the hint place so I can't find the package

Found as part of the museum history challenge.
TFTC

A quick find due to the cache being somewhat exposed. With signing duties completed I re-hid a little better than what I found it. I also passed the 'opening the lid' test .

TFTC

Nice one

Easy find, TFTC

the rain looks like it wants to start, we have have had an enjoyable few hours down this way to make some finds, thanks for the placement

The day was a little showery today, so I thought I'd head out fairly early to pick up a few caches before the rain set in. It also meant very few muggles were out and about yet.
The rain was just starting to get heavier by the time I got to here, so I had to try to keep my arm which was in a cast dry while searching. The container was soon spotted and signing duties completed.
Thanks for putting this here for us to find #Road Runner

Nice easy find

Nice quick park and grab

Cold, grey day, but nice to be out and about on a long weekend . TFTC.

A bit of free time with eldest son 0fox0 which we filled by locating some caches around beautiful P’ram beach. He found it in super quick time which made him very happy. Tftc

I guessed that it was there and it was that was the best geocache ever.

I made myself a plan to get all the souvenirs in the Cache Carnival that is going on that the moment. The idea is to celebrate geocaching creativity and diversity around the world!

And at the same time earn up to five souvenirs inspired by historic carnival locations by collecting points. The carnival ends on 14 April 2019 and I am logging this now to confirm how many points I have collected before the time expires.

However, as happens from time to time, other things got in the way. I was horrendously busy at work and all three of my kids had a big week of school and sporting activities in the last week of the school term. I still managed to get out and find a cache each day but I got a bit behind (and I still am) with logging all my finds on the website.

I am sorry to all the cache owners whose caches I visited during this time because it is likely you're getting a generic, cut and paste log without much (if any) detail about the state of your cache.

I didn't like the neighbour's dog plus it wasn't a mint tin. Apart from that, everything was good. The cache is in good condition. All nice and dry.

Thank you

Cherrys Rule

Found that fairly quickly.
Just waiting for bus to pass before rehiding cache , and the dog started up!!
Thanks

Found with granddaughter TFTC

TFTC

Caching nearby we soon arrived at GZ and it was a quick find for Mr CD. TFTC

A quick find, TFTC

I was up the coast this afternoon, so swung by here to grab this one for my cache of the day. Easy find. TFTC

Quite hard to find as we were looking for a mint container but turned out to be in a pill bottle! Thanks

We found it!

With rebel98 who is about to leave on a jet plane

His caching adventure to the Kapiti coast is coming to an end. His last find for the day.

As to the cache, we walked over to it from the terminal, the phone bounced around a bit, we were there, then there, but eventually we found it.

Thanks for the hide #Road Runner

Needed a degree to get into container. Off to catch a plane

Hoot

Thanks nice cache

An easy find on a cold wet day. Thanks CO for the cache.

Thanks for the nice wee hide

Nice quick find new time please

Needs maintenance

Just a quick log to keep finds, TB visits and / or drop offs in order from the Mega road trip. Full log to follow

This mint tin was very rusty and so i have replaced it with a black camo'd middle sized pill bottle.and put in a new log along with the old one.
What an elongated weekend with firstly an over night at waikanae and gatherin g in a few caches around there, and then onto the Hutt valley, travelling through to the Wellington Airport to pick up geo son and head to Karori where we stayed for the weekend and I stayed on for a further day or two before heading back up north again. At least the SH 1 was open going home and I I didn’t have to travel over Paekakariki hill which I did on Friday.
I managed several caches around Hayward/ manor park area, Avalon, Lower hutt and then around the coast to Breakers bay etc etc before going to rongotai and then south to Moa point etc. before heading to the Airport.
Saturday we picked up a couple of challenge caches and others on the way up to the Event, getting there in time to register and head to the CITO event. Then a few more challenge caches and trads before heading to the Flash mob. Back to the venue where we had tea and got ready for the quiz night. Which unfortunately went on a little long.
Sun day saw us pick up a long over due mystery cache on tinakori road before heading to Petone and then up to Upper Hutt where we completed the Lab caches some puzzle caches and thee wherigo before heading back yo Karori to have tea with grand chn and family etc.
Monday we went to Zealandia where we completed two more caches before taking geo son back to the airport. I then drove home the next day after the bulk of the traffic had gone.
It was a great weekend and a great Mega event . thanks to the organisers and ALSO thanks to the REVIEWER who alerted CO about the status of the their caches etc so most caches were actually there and not missing. This was a truly amazing effort on the REVIEWERs part. Thank you.

First we tough was just rubbish. But then we figured out. Cashe I'm bed conditions

13th of the morning and the last one before picking up the family to go back home. After the last cache the skies opened up and I had to search in heavy rain. Searched the wrong side first and with no obviously hiding spots there I saw one n the other side. I even rescued a soft toy that had been trapped in the electrical box near the cache. TFTC.

Catching up with a few back logs. No take off here today with air New Zealand Grrrrrr T4tcsl

All good here. Found with little blue hen while out and about. Tftcsl

Found today with TwigNZ, TFTC

Many thanks to all the COs who helped make our geocaching holiday a great success
We left home early April and returned 21 May 2018. We toured from our home base up to a wedding in North Taranaki then carried on heading south right down through wellington and on down the west coast and back up via the eastern side of the alps some times going around in circles. Our aim was to get as many smiley faces on the puzzle caches that we had solved but of course stopping for many traditionals, multies and others as we went. some time we biked the bike trails or walked but mostly by campervan. we enjoyed the quite back country roads, many of them were metal but we just travelled along slowly going from cache to cache. Most caches were in good condition and I will remark if we thought it needs maintence etc.

Found with team cacher zboy wonder.
All good - cache container rusting, makes access a little bit challenging.
TFTC
The Turtle strikes again!

Quick find, on a blustery day on the coast. Container was a little sticky to get open, but otherwise all good, TFTC

Another easy one on a sunny, slow Sunday.

Happy to out on the lovely autumnal day with bordjayne

Found but could not open because of rust.

Quick and easy spot, however it is a muggles haven, so beware! TFTC!

11 year old found this one on the first day of the school holidays, good to get out of the house after rain all morning

nice easy fine

Quick grab

Quick easy find, park and grab, had a rusty tin, and the lid is no longer connected. First cache for our weekend away hoping to get many many more. Thanks for the cache, signed log and placed back exactly as found.

Last for the day. Thanks for bringing me to the area, it's been years since I've been on this track, really enjoyed the caches

Tftc

Quick park and grab. Tftc!

I took my youngest son up to Wellington in the camper van. I dropped him off at his friend's house where he will stay. Meanwhile I get to geocache and be on standby.
After staying at Greytown and spending another day in the Wairarapa, it was time to head to The Hutt area.
Son number two got dropped off at the airport. Hubby got picked up.
I needed to get the Camper's clutch checked out at Miro Auto Repairs. Once we got the all clear it was time to continue our adventure. We stayed in Paraparaumu last night.
Hubby stayed at the campground and chilled out, while I went biking and geocaching. Win, win.
My first find of the morning.

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Thanks. #Road Runner for putting in the effort to hide this geocache. This was find 5462 for me.

This is the grand dad. Found with the grand children.

Just landed. Picked up granddad from airport and found this cache on the way out. Beautiful sunset out there TFTC

TFTC, quick find and dogs had a blast! Not sure why, maybe there are rabbits around

Took me longer than it should have! Enjoying an evening bike ride and exploring these tracks

# 1019 staying in Waikanae for some well deserved rest and relaxation with the little dangerSAM. Thought we would take a trip out here to show him some planes. Guess I under estimated the remoteness of this landing strip and after about 15 minutes and no planes we were starting to over heat in the car so we set off on our secondary mission to secure a local cache. This one was the closest and it was a very quick find using the hint. Had to pretend I was a botanist and inspecting nearby plants as some people arrived and took their sweet time moving on. Thanks for the easy cache.

Still haven't seen inside the terminal but it wasn't necessary for UlmusLynx to get this cache. Out with Selesi and I. TFTC

Found while out for a day's caching with UlmusLynx and Gilgul

Got sidetracked at first then found while out with Selesi and Gilgul. TFTC

Too ea$y rudeboy

Very wet. Good find. Rosa's first geocache

Just waiting to catch my flight up to Auckland, and had a few spare minutes so thought I'd have a quick look. Found it readily enough, although I couldn't sign the log as the plastic bag has a split in it so the log is soaked through. Took a photo of it instead. TFTC

Not too hard to find

Nice quick find. Tftc.

Dusk was approaching but it was an easy find. TFTC

Caching with RosalieNZ completing the 100, 10, 7 Challenge. Cache log signed as ‘RE’.

A nice quick find. Thank you.
Signed as RE as I'm caching with Ethnz this weekend.

After dropping searchPartner at the Airport it was time to find a couple of nearby caches...
Found and retrieved stealthily but felt exposed when a car backed out of a driveway, just as I returned the cache. ... Thanks for the cache roadrunner!

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There was a gardener chappie planting flax bushes alongside the road less than 10m away but I still managed to make the find, and replace the cache, during times he had his back to me. I was rather chuffed at my stealthy ways here today

TFTC

Did with Crystal Fairy.

Headed out to pick up some stuff in Paraparam and decided to grab a few caches on the way home. Quick and easy cache if you get the correct fence post Thanks for the cache. Did with Mycro Man

Thanks for the last cache on this pleasant walk today ! Enjoying my afternoon in Paraparaumu and Raumati on my mini break in Wellington !
Off for family roast dinner now !

Great find

No worries here at all. A QEF. TNLN SL TFTC

Last one for the day TFTC

I'm not quite ready for takeoff, that will be a little later in the day and from a different part of the airport. A cracker day for flying though - - - especially in the early evening. TFTC .

On my way to work. Had a few spare minutes to look for the cache. Very easy find

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.
Arrived early at the hotel we walk this beautiful bike a nice walk is what it takes
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.
Arrivati in anticipo in hotel percorriamo questa bella ciclabile una bella camminata è quel che ci vuole
Saluti dall'Italia
TFTC

I could have driven closer to this cache but I chose to walk around from the Met Service one. Nice day - nice walk. TFTC.

TFTC. Found on a flying visit to the Area. Now onwards!

#3387. We came up to Paraparaumu to stay with some friends on Sunday night. The weather on the long weekend was horrible with very strong winds and steady rain all day Sunday and Monday morning. Finally a chance to grab a few caches before we head home. This one was very close to where we were staying. Nice quick find in the first place checked. Signed the logbook and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for hiding it here.

Quick drive by thanks.

Lucky last for today. TFTC

What's with all the excessively oversized bags along here? Makes returning the log harder than finding it! TFTC.

Nice quick find with Babezs Tftc

Find #2701. Started at Paekakariki with the bike, off the train, cycling through to Paraparaumu and back with some deviations for cache hunting. A pleasant day with a strengthening Nor'west breeze and a strong Southerly to finish the day.
Quick and easy find. SL TFTC

Quick find on Christmas, Tftc!

A very short search to locate this, hindered only by a local cat that insisted on helping.

TFTC