Te Ara Ahi Cycle Trail: On The Bend (Rotorua) Waimangu, North Island, New Zealand
By squirrel nutcase on 19-Oct-16. Waypoint GC6VTHH

Armed with jandals and a chilly bin, a couple of Aussies headed across the ditch for a 3-week tiki tour, exploring the beauty of New Zealand.DAY 4: Rotorua to Whanganui via Taupo & Turangi.Signed while admiring the stunning scenery.Thanks for showing us this special place by placing this cache, squirrel nutcase tn koe~~

Oh wow, that's going to be harder to spot during summer.

Thanks for your amazing cache squirrel nutcase. I really appreciate the time you took to set up your caches. I inserted a waterproof log. Found with Fisha1288 Cheers, Cympull.

Quick find with Cympull. Nice country roadie trip. TFC

Woops logged as found

Got the bugger - a previous DNF. Easy once you spot it! Log is sodden and needs replacing. TFTC.

Tftc and greetings from Germany

Velk cesta do Ocenie - den 72 - Taupo, Central Plateau - Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, North Island, Nov Zland (autem asi 90 km) Jet rno bylo trochu zataeno, ale postupem dne se jen oteplovalo a svtilo slunce. Naveer bylo i u jezera Rotorua 25C a tady bv chladnji ne jinde. Vyklidila jsem pokoj a na rozlouen s jezerem i mstem Taupo jsem zajela znovu k ece Waikato pro earth ke v mst, kde se do n vlv hork potok Otumuheke. Na koupn bylo pro m moc brzy, ale dost lid se zde rchalo. Tady se neplat vstupn, tak toho lid vyuvaj. Jinak se plat vude a za ve. Vyrazila jsem po thermal scenic route smr Rotorua a zastavovala u rznch zajmavost a nkde la i na krtkou prochzku, nap. v mokadech. Geotermlnch jev je tu vude hodn a j jsem kolem koucch kopc projdla. Bl jsem zajela k fakt pardnmu bahennmu jezrku Wai-O-Tapu a k blzkmu horkmu potku s tn. I tady se lid rchali, ale nkte i se psy, tak to j nemusm. Navc tu byly vstran cedule, a nestrk hlavu pod vodu, e jsou zde jaksi nebezpen bakterie. No, tak to m do vody nikdo nedostane. Hned vedle byla opt asi pkn geotermln vychzka, ale za vstup na trasu chtli za osobu 45 dolar, co je asi 800 K, a to mi tedy pijde fakt hodn. Za vstup do cel oblasti bych to jet brala, ale platit toto v kadm dol a u kadho potoka mi pipad pedraen. Porovnm-li to s USA, kde jsem za vstup do celho Nrodnho parku Yellowstone dala na 5 dn 35 dolar pro celou osdku auta a 6 osob a park je o velikosti 100 x 100 km a je tam geotermln prvek na kadm kroku, tak nevm, kde berou Novozlanan tu drzost chtt takov penze. Bude to zejm tm, e jsou tyto atrakce asi soukrom a nikoliv sttn. Sttu jsem navc zaplatila na ochranu prody poplatek u pi placen vza. Nicmn bahenn jezrko bylo mimo trasu a zdarma a bylo fakt pkn a znan inn. Bahno stkalo a do pl metru. Pak jsem to vzala siln vedlej silnic kolem trailu s kekami a njak si odlovila. Kolem opt zvlnn kopekov zelen krajina, ovce a krvy. Po napojen na hlavn tah jsem se dostala k mstu, kde byla v 12. kvtna 2000 zaloena prvn novozlandsk keka GC45, kter u bohuel neexistuje, ale m zde pamtn desku. Byla to prvn keka zaloen mimo zem Spojench stt. Tak to byla kaersk povinnost. A u jsem byla u jezera Rotorua a ve stejnojmennm msteku, kter opravdu cel smrd sirovodkem. Udlala jsem tu potebnou fotku pro virtulku 5/5 a nakoupila vci na sndani a jela se ubytovat k jezeru. Budu tu dv noci, tak u jsem se dnes nikam nehnala a ve nechala na ztra. In the morning I went to the river for an earth cache and then set off in the direction of Rotorua. Along the way, I made stops at attractions and also at caches. It was beautiful, up to 25C in the afternoon. The path is scenic and leads past lakes and various geothermal features. I visited hot streams and a mud lake and in the evening I arrived at Lake Rotorua, where I will stay for 2 nights. Thanks to everyone for their caches and greetings from the Czech Republic.

On our trip through New Zealand today a route from Toupo to Rotorura. Visited Waiopatu along the way and then had time for a few geocaches. Glad we found this one on our path. Thank you very much to CO for making this cache available. With warm geocache greetings from the Netherlands

Yay god cash

Found with Reschedule

Found it! Plenty of muggles driving past so had to be a little sneaky. Tftc!

We located the cache but didnt check it. Thanks to the last finder for replacing the wet logbook. We will monitor this hide and revisit on our next maintenance drive.

Gosh, I almost missed it. Replaced sodden log.

Found it, I just came from canada to find this cacha.

A rainy day in the BOP. Found the ones I could find quickly before heading back to Taupo. TFTC

TftC leider kann ich mich nicht eintragen. Das Logbuch ist nicht beschreibbar.

Dieser Geocacher hat gemeldet, dass der Behälter beschädigt ist.

Found , but log is wet...

TFTC

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Found it. Logbook is ruined.

quick finding, greetings from Austria, TFTC

Log damp, but assignable. Greetings from the Oregon Coast, USA. Cheers, and.cache on….

Found easy paper bit wet

Yippie. Another one here in this beautiful country. Thanks for the cache.

We're down in Rotorua for a few day with family and doing a spot of geocaching. Today we went down to Waikite Valley and picked up some caches on the way there and on the way back - great day! TFTC

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Cache easily located here. Log a little wet. TFTC

Reasonably quick find. TFTC

#10,996. I am staying with my sister and her family in Rotorua for a couple of nights and today my mission was to drive down to Whirinaki to do the PWGT2 cache. I initially had to drive pass this one as the farmer was parked at the gate. But then he came up behind me further along the road so I pulled over and after he disappeared down the road I turned around and went back to locate the cache. Well I searched around the wrong pole at first but read a past log and saw it was hidden closer to the road. Oophs how did I miss that one. At GZ after a short search I suddenly saw the cache staring me in the face. Signed the logsheet and replaced the cache where found. Thanks squirrel nutcase for hiding it here.

Found it

No luck today.



Next time.......

I had called it a dnf, then that one last look and voila. NOTE the grey pillar at the pole is part of the Chorus network so should be left alone.

On my bike now and didn't know that I was on the Te Ara Ahi trail, except the caches were called that! I was to biking back to be picked up near the GC45 memorial cache. I didn't realise the caches were all P&G through here. I had a good ride anyway.

Ms_KR and I are off on a wee tour of the North Island. It was a great weather today, We walked and drove and I biked to a bunch of caches in around Rotorua.

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

Wrong phone first. Quick find at the right place. Tftc

Good clue, who you gonna call

After visiting Waimangu valley, we thought we'd stop for caches on a less busy road

Easy find. Be careful by roadside.
Tftc

Another easy one

Found it ty squirrel nutcase

Stayed the night in Rotorua on our way up to Auckland to see the kids. Had lots of spare time to cache. Parked up near the main road and got the bike out. Good to stretch the legs and collect some smileys at the same time. No problems finding this one and log all fine. Thanks

#1022 - Tripping around the Rotorua area today. Tricky one here! Two likely spots it could be, we spent way to much time at the wrong spot. Once in the correct place found quite easily. TFTC

Great adventure today out and about. Was looking at the wrong place at first, trust the GPS. Hanging. Tight for parking through.

Very cleverly hide

Another quick find while caching with our friends. Handy hint from previous comments

Spent some time looking at ground level which was a waste of time because the cache is hanging. GPS very accurate, cache signed and replaced, ty squirrel.

Nothing I could see...

We spent a delightful day exploring around this lovely rural area, before heading home to Tauranga in the late afternoon. Labour week end holiday, but there were not too many people around. No need to PAF today! This was quite a quick find and the cache is all good. TFTC

Out with my nan again today. Nice day to get out and about. Thanks

Over from Tauranga for a couple of nights with grand daughter as it’s the school holidays. Cheers. All good here.

I am logging using the Cachly app template so please excuse generic logging along the way. It’s just my way of keeping track, but I do genuinely thank each and every one of you cache owners for taking the time and energy to place these cache. Many Thanks for bringing me here. Cheers.

Nice log

Found it cool

A bit prickly around ground zone nowadays. Found enough wiring on the ground to tie this one into the tree. Should be a lot easier to retrieve.

Located this one on weekend visit to the area, quick park and grab, no problem with the find TFTC.

Finding parking nearby, I approached the obvious, and soon spotted the cache. Very happy to find this one, thanks squirrel nutcase for the hide

DNF

Got a bit sidetracked by another site. Once I spotted this one it was easy to find and a lot less blackberry!

Awesome spot, tftc

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Carefully parked and claimed. another dry one tftc

Team munchkins

very wet day. Tftc

Heading toward Rotorua for an afternoon event ...baging a few caches as we go ...thanks Squirrel

Same park different cache! Hiw convenient. Thanks for the cache Squirrel Nutcase

TFTC

In Rotorua for a ten pin bowling tournament, time to find some caches down this road. Thanks squirrel nutcase for the cache.

Park n grab on my way home. good parking spot right on the cache travelling north. Dont recommend stopping if going south. TFTC

On our way down from Rotorua to Taupo we decided to take a short detour via Waimangu Road. This road is more suitable for pulling over the car when geocaching. Found all the caches including the ones arround the lake, expect for one DNF (or did not attempt actually). Thanks to all owners for hiding and maintaining them. However, some do have a "need maintainance" log.

Out to cache the Te Ara Ahi trail today on our e-bikes.
Ms M was tugging at the "fake" mushroom - lol.
Then I was allowed a turn and made the find.
TFTC

Dried log. Put in zip lock bag. Returned to cache. Re placed in possie.
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Travelling with My.Precious. Log a bit damp so placed it in a ziplock bag.
TFTC.

#10,546. A good drive to Okaro Road in Waimangu. Fortunately GZ was all quiet at the time of our visit. Quick find. The cache was in good condition. Although the log sheet was rather damp, the waterproof paper was doing its job well. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Thanks for the placement and for bringing us to this site, and …

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22361 Traveling through New Zealand to see nice people and places. Also to find some geocaches.

Today we moved from Taupo to Rotura, seeing nice places and visiting caches along the road. Stopping at a Volcano park Waimangu. We stopped at some caches of the Te Ara Ahi trails, where we could stop the car, because our bikes are 18.000 km away. It would be nice to ride this trails by bike.

Most caches were found quite quickly. A few took more time. Some were wet with waterproof paper, but our stamp and pen do not work that good on such paper when it is wet. Muggles did not watch what we were doing and had more interest in the surrounding views.

squirrel nutcase TFTC and the fun it brought us. Theo

Today we had our third day in Rotorua and made a trip in the wonderful Waimangu volcanic valley. Special emphasis had we on this trip because this is a vital example of the Geothermal Explorer Highway. On this trip we searched, found and logged many caches, too. The weather was good in the morning, sunny, and it got wormer all day long, including some good clouds in the afternoon. Only sun was to be seen.
Almost no muggels observed us as they had better things to do than observing two geocachers.

Thanks to squirrel nutcase for showing us this location and for the fun we had at Te Ara Ahi Cycle Trail: On The Bend (Rotorua). The search we had here today didn't take too much time.

Greetings from Germany and hope to see you soon in the forest.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 2. November 2018 @ 13:22 Uhr @ [#12293](https://coord.info/GC6VTHH)

Another find while out there, was lost a bit so placed in a more obvious place.

Found it on the way to volcanic valley. TFTC. Logbook was pretty wet

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We were definitely heading the right way in the car as all the caches were on the good side of the road and really appreciate the safe parking places for cars although it is a cycle trail. Another great cache placement, thanks

Wrong direction for a good park here so had to wander back along the road a bit. TFTC.

Another day... another cache Had to wait until after staff meeting to go looking tonight but this one was next on the trail and the excellent hint meant there was only one place for it to be. TFTC

This time we exchanged a visit to the geothermal valley for searching for close caches.
Thanks for the cache!

A enjoyable find on our Easter vacation.
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Quick and Dirty - Roadcache und alles mit dem Campervan.

Nice easy find . Even though we find know what a Punga is. TFTC.

Quick easy find while in the area, TFTC

I'm home for Christmas, just a few days days left. Before I left home I had set up a couple of new cache notifiers, one for Rotorua, and another for Ohope, were we had spent the last week at the beach. Wasn't really expecting any that I could do, but one popped up on my email last night, so I am came down to Lake Okaro, early in the morning.
So I walked around the lake, claiming the empty log book along the way. And it is still early, so now I am caching the the road back.
Merry Christmas and a cachey New Year from the Seagnoid!

The title,hint & spot on co ord made this one nice & easy.Will have to go back to Papamoa shortly,the day has been too easy,thanks Hemi.

Little bit tricky for parking, so we walked back down the hill. Found the cache, thank you very much!

Great hide. Log dry. Friendly baby sheeep

I was out again with Butchie Bum today to round up a few more caches on the Te Ara Ahi Trail. BB located this one quickly but we didn't phone our respective homes.

Cheers for the cache.

Out and about with Tufty enjoying a few interesting finds. no phones required.

Quick find. Not much traffic on this road luckily. Log signed b&p. Find number 4235.
Thanks for the cache squirrel nutcase.

What will we do without old style film canisters?

Out doing the caches in the area with Shoebs. Another nice quick find.

Hahahah who do you call. Um the ghost busters

Pinch me I'm in NZ! Hello from AZ, USA. Signed log Team VPMH. TFTC

Not a problem for Team VPMH. TFTC!!

On our way to Lake Taupo. Good hide. Inked log Team VPMH. TFTC

After we've seen Wai-O-Tapu our journey goes back to Rotorura. But we ever have enough time to find somes caches[:p]...
Thanks for showing this place and hidding the box.
Greetings from Germany!!!