Cut Down Forest Paraparaumu, North Island, New Zealand
By #Road Runner on 26-Sep-16. Waypoint GC6TKXV

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

Boy does this need to be cut down. Blackberries abound.

Too much blackberry to have a decent look.

Not my day for this one today.

Place is well overgrown with thornes and bushes, could not find unfortunately

lame

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Out for a walk, and trying to beat the rain, so luckily this cache was found fairly quickly - though not in the place we first looked. Although the log was safe in its plastic bag, the cache itself is rusting badly, and will need attention before it is no longer weatherproof. Thanks for bringing us along this pathway. It is obviously quite a popular walking and cycling route.

While lunching at Ambience Cafe we discovered the Strawberry Festival was happening at the other side of Paraparaumu. So here we are on our bikes on the way to get strawberry dessert.

Inposabsl to find

Out on a windy Thursday bike ride along this enjoyable track. The cache is sound but the log is dampish and disintegrating unfortunately.

Nice find. Thanks

Ty, epic first find

Found as part of the museum history challenge.
TFTC

After completing the nearby 'Don't Forget to Duck' cache I headed to this cache for a quick find. Again, no muggle worries despite passing a few muggles to get to the cache.

TFTC

Couldn’t find it. Looked all around the brambles but no luck

Looked again and found it!

Cache was right out in the open on the grass. Have signed it and put it back to where I believe it was meant to be. TFTC

Great fun find

Quick find by Tom... thanks

No problems finding this one, Mr CD went straight to it, stamped the log and returned as we had found i. TFTC

This afternoon I found myself having to dash down to Harvey Normans in Pram to grab my lad's xmas present (the last one in the shop) and having got there 5 minutes before the doors closed for the day (and therefore making said lad very happy) I decided that we may as well grab a few caches before we head back to my place for some dinner.

Having parked at the end of Milne Drive, and walked to this point via one of the two available footbridges, all we had to do was keep an eye out for the various joggers, dog walkers and cyclist which seemed to be out tonight enjoying the lovely evening before making the quick find thanks to the Hint.

Once the proper cache administration was completed then everything was replaced exactly as found, before deciding to leap across the ditch back to the car rather than walk the log way around again. There's life in this old dog yet lol!

Thanks for placing this cache.

Easy to find

Woohoo

I had already found this cache and di not re visit this but i realised i had not logged the other one here either. On checking caches in the area where i was going i saw these three caches so i thought i would visit these but when i got there i remembered parking in the exact same cul de sac and walking the exact same tracks of the older two of them so on my way to the new one i past the first one and re signed that and then walked on to the new track. I was amazed at the new bridge across for the cycle way etc and the new cycle way path that i followed to GZ This was a quick find thanks to clear hint and it was soon signed and replaced. thank you for this cache and another smiley face.

wet grass

Day Ten of a 12 day, 3000 km road trip around the North Island with the primary objectives being the Taupo Ultra Marathon on the 13th and my first ever caching Mega event in Wellington on the weekend of 20th & 21st. With thousands of possibilities for caches to look for on the way, I had to be very selective and decided to concentrate on special types, solved puzzles, ones that would fill missing spots in my statistics grids and those with good numbers of favourite points, plus maybe a few extras that were close by those.

Today was the second Mega event day and after attending the Kevin Anderson pilgrimage event and finding the oldest NZ cache, plus the remaining lab caches, we headed north to Kapiti to catch up with our daughter. Another nice day today and still no sign of any rain to interfere with caching activities. An amazing streak of weather.

I needed eighteen more caches further than 500 kms from home for the so far away challenge, so set out on a local mission to try and get them in the two hours before our dinner appointment. Next up was this one, and after parking at a reasonably nearby access, jogged along the trail and across the bridge and promptly had to duck for a very low incoming Cessna. I was surprised at how low it seemed...!! This cache was a bit further along and was quickly found in hint location, log signed and returned safe and secure, ready for the next finder

A quick find with Nanzie. Thanks #Road Runner

#8108

What an awesome walkway a lovely place to hide caches another quick easy find. Tftc # Road Runner

Off for a bike ride with a local and signed the replacement log. TFTC

Got another one!

Quick find here thanks to helpful clue. Tftc.

Some passing showers in the area this morning, not the best weather I have cached in, but also not the worst. A nice quick find upon arrival at GZ, logbook signed and cache replaced as found.

TFTC Road Runner

Whoever placed that cache is very sharp...., on seruis note watch it around the BlackBerrys

Like many others, I had to beat around the bush a bit to get this... TFTC!

Visited here with team cacher zboy wonder. A quick find in a prickly situation.
Cache in order; log signed.
TFTC
The Turtle strikes again!

Had to deftly negotiate some blackberry, but found it ok, TFTC

Dad & I went for a walk around here this morning before it got too busy with muggles...

Quick find - all nice and dry... but sad to report the BlackBerry is starting to encroach on GZ.

Thanks for the cache #RoadRunner!

nice easy find, lots of muggles out walking dogs/cycling/jogging, saw a couple of rabbits nearby, log was pretty full so added a new scrap of paper

Quick find nice sunny day

Out for a stroll to stretch the legs and pick up some of the caches along this part of the walkway. Nice and easy find. Found that the existing log was full so pulled out a new one from the quick maintenance kit and added it into the bag. With the new log signed and cache returned it was back along the walkway to the next one. TFTC

Easily found thanks
Log needs replacing

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.

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Thanks. #Road Runner for putting in the effort to hide this geocache. This was find 5467 for me.

One of five found along this track this afternoon on a walk with the geohound. Reasonably straightforward find. #1639. TFTC.

A really enjoyable cycle ride with the EU Crew and drawp allowed us to collect a few caches en route. TFTC

TFTC!

Got it

Walking home on a pleasant evening. Thanks for the cache.

A quick find while I had a spare few minutes in the area. Nice spot.

Cache and log in good order. TFTC

Enjoying an evening bike ride and exploring these tracks

Staying in Raumati for a couple of days. Parked up on Matai road and went for a walk along the new cycle way and looped back down Kiwi Road. This was furtherest from where I parked so claiming 979m towards the DGSc distance challenge. Thanks for the cache.

Look for the bigger tree

This was the second time UlmusLynx, Selesi and I had been here but this time it was found by - UlmusLynx. TFTC.

Dont sit on the tree stump nearby - get resin on your trou. Took a couple of mins to find with selesi and Gilgul. TFTC

Found on a day out with Gilgul and UlmusLynx TFTC

Found TFTC

A nice walk and a quick find.tftc

Saved this one until my granddaughter came to visit from Turangi, had a walk to Coastlands collecting caches on the way. Easily found but a little difficult to get the log and bag out of the cache. TFTC

Needed to up the step count so talked bkj97 into a stroll along the wharemauku stream so we could grab a couple of caches as well. Easily convinced he tagged along quite willingly. T4TCSL

Very familiar spot this as I used to have a cache in the now defunct "forest" Nice quick find as little blue hen and yours truly had a stroll to work up an appetite. TFTCSL

Another easy one

Did with Crystal Fairy.

Headed out to pick up some stuff in Paraparam and decided to grab a few caches on the way home. Parked on the other side of the river and took a lovely (yet chilly) stroll with Mycro Man to the cache and then back over the other bridge. Thanks for the cache.

Nice easy find here !
Good fun doing Coastlands Walk from Shops to Airport today !
Caught up with my Raumati sister and other relations while here ! Thanks for this newish cache !

Found it

Found on a delightful cycle ride from Poplar Avenue to Pekapeka and return. An interesting ride and which will become quite plesant as the planting grow. TFTC

Thanks for bringing me here Road Runner. Nice quick find

Quick find thanks.

Found with angelblossum 2/4/17

Nice easy one in rain, thanks

Some nice looking blackberries over the fence.

Out for a walk to work off a huge dinner! Had to wait around for a bit while lots of muggles passed but eventually got the all clear and grabbed the cache

Managed to time this so no muggles around TFTC

A quick find, interesting walk - so many trails. TFTC

For some reason I was expecting to find evidence of the original forest cover having been removed. Of course what I DID find was even better . Thanks !

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 realised later that I could have parked a lot closer to this cache than I did. However, this turned out to be a good thing as I enjoyed the 25 minute walk on a beautiful day. The plastic bag is way larger than it needs to be.

Quick find, but then I put my hand on a slug! Loss of stealth due to a shriek! TFTC.

Easy find.
Thanks

Found

Find #2698. 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

TFTC

A quick find with Bevinet, JoBevNZ and our boys on bikes. All happy to have the traditional gummy bear treat per cache whenever we go caching together! ALl good at GZ, co-ords all fine and easy muggle free find.

Unexpectedly small container for the location and unnecessarily large bag holding a small log. Nice walk behind the airport. TFTC.

After all the rain this morning the sun finally came out this afternoon. A good time to go for a walk. Nice and easy find! TFTC

Up the coast to get some caches. A quick find. All in order. TFTC

Great weather this afternoon so I went for a drive to find some of the new caches around Paraparaumu. This one was a quick find in the first place checked, with good accurate coordinates. Signed log, TFTC

Nice to have a few new finds in this area. Great bike ride along this route on a sunny day. TFTC

Thanks for the cache. Found it at 4:10:26 PM NZDT on 29 November 2016 while walking Neo.

Cache # 3,440 - Took a little digging through the undergrowth to extract this, all the while worried I might be seen by any of the many muggles out on a gorgeous afternoon. All good, although the walk to the cache was significantly farther than it looked on the map! TNLNSL. TFTC!

Consecutive caching day # 1,297

Morning caching in Kapiti area. Nice walk in the sunshine after a shower of rain. Thanks #Road Runner for the cache.

Another easy find. The cache seemed to be making its way into the bush so I corralled it back towards its hint object. TFTC

Followed the geo trail to the cache

TFTC #476 6 November 2016

Tftc

A quick easy find alongside the walkway. TFTC

MacPacDad let MacPacMum get bitten by thorns while he casually walked up and retrieved the cache! Tftc #Road Runner

Checked the wrong area to start with but then struck Gold, Tftc!

A pleasant morning for a walk. A QEF here. TFTC

A quick find but I think this is the one from which I removed a confectionery item (if it wasn't this one it was the nearby Expressway cache.)
Please no food in caches- the item in here was not in fit condition to eat anyway.