Another Fool on the hill finds a view. Waiotaka Valley, North Island, New Zealand
By G-2 on 12-Nov-16. Waypoint GC6WXQK

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More Fool us for climbing the Hill for two caches with previous DNFs - didn't find either of them today.

Need to check

The stump is collapsing so I wonder if the cache has too!

Enjoyed our 17.5 km round trip from our lodging collecting caches on the southern circuit of the river trail yesterday. Today we hope to collect the remaining caches in and around Turangi on a much shorter circuit of about 8km. However, we failed to find this cache after what we thought was a pretty good search. The beautiful Autumn colours were a delight and Turangi will certainly be somewhere we come to again. Thanks G-2 for bringing us here.

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Quick grab in the sunshine. Thanks

A nice easy find with wonderful views. TFTC!

The berry bushes were attacking and I had the wrong protective clothes.

Fabulous panoramas can be seen from this trail making it well worth the hike up to this cache. Thanks for providing an incentive to walk this way today! Cache and contents are in good condition.

All ok

Nice view. FTP. TFTC #583

From memory, this was a dense pine forest.
Evidently, that was all cleared years ago.
Great spot, tftc!

Find number 4643. Another fool on the hill and this one had left his pen at a couple of caches ago. So I have a photo of log as proof. I may be a fool but not an idiot to go down to the car for a replacement and then come back up. Thank you for the placement and hope the log is ok.

Couple of stumps. Got arm caught in briars.... think I'll skip this one.

On our 30th day in New Zealand we stayed around beautiful Lake Taupo. We did again some walks and were looking for some caches. Very interesting for us was also the busy happenings at the boat ramp, how quick it goes to put a boat into the water and take it out again. We sat there for quite a while just watching. We also visited some very interesting hot pools. And we looked of course again for some caches. After returning back to Turangi we went for a short little evening walk along the river. Two days ago we looked for the caches on the left hand side of the river and today we added the right hand side. We could find all the caches well.
TFTC and greetings from Switzerland

Vorgestern spazierten wir auf der linken Flussseite, heute kam die rechte Seite an die Reihe. Von der SH1 Bridge wanderten wir flussaufwärts und freuten uns über jeden Fund. Alle wurden rasch gefunden, zwischendurch, wurde aber auch auf den Hinweis zurückgegriffen. Dann gings zurück über die "The Major Jones Swing Bridge" zu unserer Bleibe. TFTC

Heute nutzten wir das schöne Wetter, um eine kleine Runde mit den Mountainbike zu drehen. Hierbei haben wir uns in dieses Logbuch eingetragen. T4TC from Germany

Heading back to Wellington from the Waikato today with some time for some caching - yay! A pleasant short walk up the hill which was a great antidote to just sitting in the vehicle and the cache was a quick find after having checked the decoys first. I had previously found most of the other caches along this walkway so headed back down and on my way after finding this one. Signed log, TFTC

#10,527. We returned for some more walking in Waiotaka Valley this morning in between the showers. The track was not too busy, coming across a dog walker and two cyclists along the way. GZ was all quiet at the time of our visit. Relatively quick find. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

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

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.M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.

Amazing views. Tftc

20:39 , Kia ora Aotearoa .
Urlaub und cachen unter der langen weißen Wolke .
Das intensive Grün der Farne , Wälder und Wiesen , das klare Blau des Himmels und das freundliche Türkis des Meeres .
Die Delfine , Seehunde und Pinguine die wir in ihrem natürlichen oder geschützten Lebensraum beobachten konnten .
Die unendlichen vielen verschiedenen Strand- und Küstenformationen .
Die kleinen Kunstwerke vor den Privathäusern , in den Gärten , Cafes , Parks oder an den Straßen .
Das Alles macht Neuseeland so einzigartig und hat uns entspannt und freudestrahlend über die Insel getragen .
Gefreut haben wir uns auch über diesen Cache am Wegesrand .
Nebenan hatten wir unsere Unterkunft .
Auf einem Abendspaziergang habe ich dann den Cache gefunden .
Wunderschöne Gegend .
Vielen Dank für das Abenteuer vor Ort .
Gruß sulu .

Sorry for the late log entry, but the memory is still there .

Rain stopped at last and sun shining now. Beautiful clear river as we set off to the viewpoint. Good hairpin path so far, impressive views over valley. Moose TB dipped, photo attached. TFTC. TM from N Wales

Today was part one of my road trip home to Nelson from Auckland, after picking up my son's "new" car from Napier... with time to find a few caches along the way, of course. All good here. Cache is safe and sound. TFTC, Biggles.

After a long drive from Gisborne to Turangi we needed to stretch our legs. The beautiful river walk was just perfect to do so. Thanks for all the caches along our path!

Found the right one

Beautiful day for a walk and some geocaching. TFTC

It was time to go to the next shade of green on my GC.COM calender for today so a trip to Turangi was needed to get the numbers.

Replaced the logsheet here as the old one was nearly full. The cache was pretty obvious so I put it back where the hint says it to be.

Cheers for the cache.

New log sheet
Thanks Lou!

Wow, that was worth the walk. Fabulous day and a perfect location. Tftc

we have wanted to get these for a while now, and today we had the time and the bikes, all up it took roughly 1.5 hour start to finish thanks for the placement we only missed 2 but we can grab them next time .

Tricky...TFTC

Easy find.

Grabbing a cache here and there while on holiday from Australia...this was the 27th...A great view and a surprisingly tricky find...TFTC!

Found it. de biesjes

Very warm morning but rain on the mountains so decided to walk the riverside. Nice quick find between walkers. Tftc

Easy stop and sign. Some muggles today, so care was exercised. Cache in great shape. Superb view spot.

TFTC

Tftc
On a holiday trip in New Zealand was looking for a few geocaches places were beautiful and great thanks

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Found this cache together with my family (Sibuk and Finn). For details see the log of Sibuk.

Thanks for the cache, Lupid

During our wonderful vacation in New Zealand Lupid, me, and our little geocaching apprentice managed to find some caches.

Today we did a quite long walk along the Tongariro river: starting from our home south of the highway we went the eastern shore upstram up to the swing bridge. There we changed the side and went further upstream up to the red hut bridge (apart from a longer part really near to the highway a really nice walk). Then we went back creating a figure-8-like track.
On our way we searched for most of the caches along the way. On our way we skipped some as it got a little bit later than expected - seems we were a little bit slow today

Thanks for all the caches and greetings from Germany, Sibuk

12/01/2018 6:32:00 AM
I wandered up here after breakfast and found it to be a little easier than Ruapehu which I tackled yesterday but the views were definitely worth the effort.
This is a spectacular vantage point.
Thanks for bringing me here

Great views on a family walk, which encouraged us to keep going on the trail! TFTC.

We’re in Turangi on a family holiday so geocaching is not the priority. However, it’s good to fit an occasional cache in. After the last two days’ atrocious weather we were itching to get out so walked some of the River Walkway. Fortunately the loop we did included this cache not here last time we were. It was a straightforward find, using the helpful hint, and made by a muggle family member - who was pleased with herself.
There’s a good view from up here showing the river still somewhat swollen from all the rain. Thanks for bringing us back here. TFTC

Easy find tftc

Quick easy find after looking at the hint. TFTC

I was staying in Turangi and have never had chance to do some of these river walk caches, only chance at the small loop today, Nice quick find. TFTC

Did a big walk with the rest of the Swissfamily1. Mum knew where this one was.

Had found this cache on a previous occasion but lacked a pen...this time it was a quick easy find with Mini Swiss and Miss Swiss. Beaut view today

Found on a Christmas Day stroll from the Turangi Kiwi Campsite with family. Georgia was lifted up to look for this one and spotted the well camouflaged container. Good views nearby. Merry Christmas. SL. TFTC.

Quick walk up the hill before sunset, great view from here.TFTC. benitorios

Tough spot as the tree was rotten but eventually found it

Thanks for a nice hike up the hill. You get a nice lay of the land looking from here. Only two more days left in New Zealand before we head back to the USA. Had a great time.

thanks! Beautiful spot

TFTC

Found earlier today but for some reason my log got deleted.

Found it, the youngest found it

This was the first day of my driving trip down to Oamaru for Geofest 2017. I stopped every five to ten kms or so along the way to grab a cache. This expanded my driving time to a total of two weeks to get there and home again. I ended up going a total of 3,500 kms.
I thought this might be too much of a climb, but when I got up to the cache, it certainly was. TFTC.

Maintenance check - all good here.

The youngest didn't quite have the reach for this.....fortunately I did. Nice view TFTC!

Another fool found a cache on a hill. This fool is on her way to Wellington but keeps stopping because it's so beautiful here. Let's hope I get there while it's still today!

What a beautiful view

Nice quick find during a pit stop on way back to Rotorua and chance to meet with Ramjet57. Tftc!

Beautiful place for a cache! Breathtaking views! Sleep. Tftc

Kadybug and I came out after dark and I lost my pen while hunting for a previous cache. Last one for the night as it's really dark now and raining. We couldn't sign the log but as you can see from the photo we genuinely found your cache
TFTC

Great view. TFTC.

Found with Julesyb (mum) but we both lost the pen so mum will post photo evidence when she logs it.

First find on our river walk today.

Almost got confused about which stump to look at but found it in the end. TFTC.

Decided to take the geohounds for a walk after the long drive north from Wellington. We all made our way up the hill and found this cache along with the beautiful view. Did with the geohounds and Mycro Man. Thanks for the cache.

Did with Crystal Fairy.

My second cache from TRT trail walk for today. After the zigzag trail finally have a good spot for break & enjoy the view of Tongariro River. Greetings from Indonesia. TFTC

nice hide. tftc

Beautiful day to take in a ride to the top with Miss 7 well admittedly we pushed the bikes up. We have been coming annually to Turangi for the last 3 years and not ventured up here before so thanks for making us do it

We’d planned to do the Tongariro River cache today but the rafts don’t leave till 12 and the mountain bikes were free to borrow. So our adventure began following the track back into Turangi, over the bridge and up the hill to this cache. Found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords and a straight forward placement. Looking forward to the downhill ride to RedHut and back to the Tongariro River Rafting HQ.

Cheers G-2 TFTC

Don't normally come this way on the bikes as there is either a steep climb or a tricky descent so decided to make a special trip and grab this one. Ended up overshooting GZ initially but soon located the cache and spent a moment enjoying the view. TFTC G--2 and great to meet you at the Mega here several months back.

Another find post cyclone Cook. Thanks

In Turangi visiting my daughter and going white water rafting. Left geo hubby in bed snoring while I went for an early morning walk on a sunny day. Love this walk and it's views. TFTC

From over here we had a really really nice view above the tongariro river.. Thanks for showing..

TFTC cats out walking

Another nice find on the way past.
Enjoying the drive around, heading slowly towards home today.
Nice walk up the hill.
SL TFTC

Lots of stumps. Great place

Tftc

Not an easy find for us shorter folks, tree is completely rotten bit dangerous to try get the cache tbh

Wow one view after another GREAT

Wow one view after another GREAT

Wow one view after another GREAT

Great little hide and on the downward climb. Great. Thank you

Good find this evening.
Met a few cyclists on the way, great views.
TFTF

A quick find and nice view. TFTC

A fine and hot day here,walked the track,what a view!Found the cache,wrote the log and re-concealed carefully.TFTC!

Tough bike to the top of the hill but very rewarding.

Nice walk,Thank you for this cache.

this was the last one for me before heading to auckland.

Thanks for this cache and this nice walk

Short bike trip in Turangi.

Another good walk but had to do it as had all smiling faces along here after the megs thanks

Down from Whangarei to do the Crossing, but the mountain was closed for 3 days, so took the opportunity to do the river trail and grab a few caches. A bit of a steep hill, but worth it for a quick find. TFTC

The bush is regenerating well after the initial planting of natives up here. Looked behind the wrong stump in haste but it wasn't far away!