EL #2 - Left Behind (South Taranaki) Stratford, North Island, New Zealand
By knees'n'things on 01-Jan-17. Waypoint GC6YR3E

Tftc

Found

Nice, tftf

TFTC, so peaceful

Found and gave it spring clean, as contents were guite dirty, with what I had at hand. Log wet but still able to write on it.

A very pleasant walk on a hot day. TFTC

walked right past this one at first.
back tracked and found after a boy look at first.
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…

Once again, the iPhone gps struggled to keep up. We walked several meters beyond before the gps swung back. We found this cache in the second place we looked at. Thanks knees’n’things. TFTC.

**17,278**
Traveling on from the last cache, continued along the trail and looked at a few obvious spots and discovered it soon enough. TFTC

GPS wasn't very reliable... Found it across the path from some mossy rocks... Cache wet.

Thanks for getting me to visit new places

Found in good condition

Nice quick find lovely area to explore

Good find with a nice new log.

Replaced old and tired log sheet with 2 pieces of waterproof paper.

Had a small amount of time left before having to head to Inglewood so Moo Moo and I headed down to get as many of these as we could, this log was wet and unsignable so we took a photo.
will be back another day to claim the rest
TFTC

J

Easy find thanks the log was wet

Thanks for putting out this cache for woolwood9 and I to find!
SL **tm/ww NZ** (may just be a black smudge on the many wet or plastic logs)
We soon had another good cache located.

*No problem, quick stop!*

Heading north with tmann421 to find some caches,
Signed log tm/ww NZ
TFTC

We decided to head away for a few days in the camper and do some geocaching. One of our aims was to travel the Forgotten World Highway. After a fabulous drive through the Forgotten World Highway we finally made it to Stratford. After an overnight stop we spent the day cacheing round Stratford. Another find for Mrs S while Mr S was doing the other part of the the track. Mrs S's bung knee would not have made the distance around the whole track. Lots of muggles with children and dogs on the track today, not surprising it's a beautiful sunny Sunday.

Thanks knee'n'things.

quick easy find for this one

Lovely path. The app was getting a bit confused so I sort of rustled around the area until I spotted it. Needs new log paper to replace the damp manky one. I didn't have any on me.

OK now on the other side of Stratford walking along this trail. Spent ages at the start with no success. Had to move on. Enjoying this walk. This one is 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.

Really enjoying these very punny titles that the CO pus on his caches. I have already awarded a fav for them, and this series on this side of the river just confirms it.

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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* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!

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Find number 6461. Doing a trip to grab some TMGT caches and others as well. This cache was left behind but only after I had signed it. The weather was deteriorating so it was good to get back to the car. Thank you for the placement.

Tftc

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches in the area

out caching with some muggles, a another easy find and good size cahe TFTC

Out with Tnxpro McJandals and Philip.Perry for a weekend road trip towards New Plymouth.
Signed log Team BOP.

Found using Cachly app and logged using the text template, so please excuse generic logging in advance. On a spur of the moment roadie with Phillip.Perry, TNXPRO and Davidson Clan from the Bay of Plenty, a plan was hatched and here we are. Great to have these places to visit and many thanks to all you COs for the placements. Cheers

TeamBOP have come together again for a trip to the Naki. Team BOP consists of myself (obviously), McJandals, Philip.Perry and DavidsonClan.
We decided to take the long way there, via the Forgotten Highway, experiencing the world famous in New Zealand Republic of Whangamomona Day.
This was a nice little walkway, that deserves to have caches along it and to bring visitors like us to explore.
Thanks to all the CO's for attracting us to the Taranaki.
TFTC

It was time to assemble Team BOP as I hadn't seen these crazy people since the Mega. The plan was Taranaki via the Forgotten World Highway and we were all pretty excited about it. It was a big couple of days so forgive the cut'n'paste logs as I'm logging retrospectively and a few of the hides are blurring together. TNXPro, McJandals, Davidson Clan & myself signed our logs individually or as TEAM BOP depending on time, log space or mood.

This cache was found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords and a straight forward placement. Cheers and TFTC

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.
Following 2 & 1/2 hours sleep it was time to keep on going. We were greated by a brilliently clear day and magnificent views of the mountain. Starting the day with a walk along these couple of trails to get the blood moving.

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. After a couple of hours sleep we started this walk just after first light, and great way to wake ourselves up. No troubles with this one.

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.
Took us a little while, but in the end we were lucky.
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.

After a DNF at #1 and an equally vague hint here, we were not optimistic, especially since the GPS wouldn't settle on one spot, but then it finally did show up.

Thanks for this Cache!

# 2077

Quick find
TFTC Knees’n’things

9 year old wanted to run the track today practicing for cross country. We picked this one up along the way along with the rain and mud.

I have set myself a goal to get the requirements for the mystery cache The well-rounded cacher challenge (Manawatu) This requires me to get 25 badges 5 of which need to be gemstone badges. So each time I go out caching weather it is by myself or with fellow cacher I will try to get a least one cache that will get me closer to my goal

Out today grabbing some caches with the aim of getting enough caches to get the World Turtle souvenir and also getting some caches that will help with my main goal

I always enjoy doing walking tracks like this one getting the cache along the way

Thanks for the cache

It was very quiet on this track today. We didn't see anyone else at all.
The hint item was spotted as we approached and the cache was quickly found.
We left a pet rock - a frog and dropped off a TB.
Thanks for the cache knees'n'things

Quick find. Well named. TFTC

Another nice little walk to fill a dot day. TFTC.

Cool track

Up in the Taranaki area for work. Much like home really, but the weather rather on the hot side today. TFTC

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

A quick find on this hot & humid day!! TFTC

As it appeared a nice day here we headed off to do some geocaching around stratford especiall the ones on the walkway on the eastern side fo swansea rd
It was a pleasent walk and started to drizzle just as we arrrived
We enjoyed the walk and of course finding the geocaches along the way
what a great start to 2018 many thanks

A couple of behinds but there it was. TFTC

Fantastic afternoon cycling the loop to get all the geos! Thanks so much

2nd easy one today on our walk TFTC

Quick easy find. Lovely late afternoon walk in this great area. TFTC

Found it with 1 percent battery left ! Tftc

Out for the day geocaching with Lilfishy so decided to find some of the many newish caches that have popped up in Stratford. A nice walk made for a quick and easy find. TFTC

Nice quick find after a miss at the first spot

Continuing on this other nice walk.

Cheers for the cache.

Travelling through to New Plymouth to do final details organization for Mum in laws 90th birthday in August and had to locate a t least few caches en route. After locating two other caches here i decided i would just do a short walk to the first two of the caches alon g this walk way.. all that time permitted on this trip.
Thank you for this new cache and another smiley face.

#1 eluded us but we got back on track here with a quick find.

After a day crafting in New Plymouth I stopped off on the way home with Biggelaar Family to grab a few caches - I have been meaning to grab the caches on this loop for a while, finally got there. Another easy find. TFTC

A quick easy find on a pleasant walk, as the rain held off. TFTC

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 learning we were walking alongside the Patea River as we found this series of caches - was not aware it came from up these parts. Coords seemed a bit out but cache soon found.

Thanks for the placement knees'n'things.

TFTC.

Found it

Out visiting a friend in Stratford this afternoon, had to do come caching before I head home, tftc knees 'n' things

Heading home from new Plymouth with a spare hour so I headed for this walk. Unfortunately my phone was getting flatter by the minute but it lasted long enough to find most of the caches along here.
Cheers.

Found by the other half. Gps had me searching in the wrong spot. Tftc

Nice easy find

Out for an afternoon's walk with the dog. Quick find. TFTC

Another good find - still enjoying the walk. TFTC

This one was easy after a pleasant walk TFTC

Still looking for a cache to drop this guy off. Another quick find. Great walk after half marathon this morning.

Digressed a little before finding another geotrail. No difficulty with this one. tftc

En garde had me fooled so set of for this one which nearly had me fooled too until I spotted the geo trail - already?! Quick grab here to keep my caching streak going, today makes 19 days in a row - 11 more to go

Nice hide . Tricky one to find. SL TFTC

{FTF} was about to give up but knew I had to be on the right track. Yup I was! Again, great clues

Published

Another did not find. There goes the roll.