TDNHM 8 (Taranaki) Hurworth, North Island, New Zealand
By MIOW4 on 26-Jan-17. Waypoint GC6ZPVZ

Found it, good clue

Easy find thanks

Thanks for easy find

Thanks for the find

Easy find

Quick and easy find

Easy drive today. SL TFTC

Thanks for the easy find

Easy find, TFTC...didn't know that reserve was there

Quick find

A another quick find ,thanks.

Co ords good again I just drove past at first. Photo again. TFTCs too

B & hubby onto getting this one. Safer for me to be in the car and out if the rain and wind!

A quick find. Moogles across the road weren’t interested in us.
Out and about with LNM1961 revisiting Taranaki and collecting caches.

Kia ora rawa atu for the cache MIOW4.

we seemed to spend far to long looking for this cache.
got there in the end.
TFTC

Kings Birthday weekend we are off down Taranaki with Squirrel Nutcase , Fap ( Fap & Gap)
and ABCDF4
Some caches will be signed HRP Team or Individual
I think the team say it all
Thanks to all the COs for there placements

Kings Birthday weekend we are off down Taranaki with Squirrel Nutcase and Fap ( Fap & Gap)
and EyespyBen
Some of will be signed HRP Team or Individual
The weather is great {cold}
Nice wee hide
What a great wee series
Thanks

With ABCDF4, eyespyben, and Gap (of Fap and Gap)... A planned expedition into the Taranaki region. All logs were signed with our individual handles, or Team HRP (Huntly, Rotorua, Papamoa) depending on who accessed the logbook first...

King's Birthday Monday: Participating in the Taranaki Daily News Half-Marathon - The driving (caching) edition… Looked high and low for our host, Doc Sign among the spectators - Cache found in good order. Thanks MIOW4. TFTC.

Bit of a scatter to find it, but eventually we progressed in success of the cache find.
Log all good and signed here. TFTC.

All good to go, forgot this one needed maintenance, replaced with a new cache and log

Needs checking please.

Ez to find

Handy parking, easy find as cache was open on the ground with contents scattered. Log book saturated, but managed to make a mark. Recent bamboo clearing means hint object is very exposed. CO might want to check, have placed it about 1m back from hint object to keep it safe, lots of treasures inside! TFTC

Thanks for the notes from the previous finder have found and put back 1m from behind sign

log is stuck together and covered in rust but lots of cute treasures

Cache in open with the lid off

Poured quantities of water out of the cache and inscribed/ engraved the very soggy log book whic is glued together. TFTC

Very soggy, needs a replacement log book (didn’t sign)

Quick find

Tftc

Another Geocache In The Bag On A Nice Hot Stat Day.

Out in the sun doing a maintenance run, replace log with a new waterproof log

Tftc!

Quick find, thanks

Log book is wet and there was water in the container which I've tipped out. Sorry I didn't have any replacement supplies.

Quick easy find

Finding these the wrong way, out of order and driving TFTC!!

Finally getting around to doing this Trail with the family before heading to a concert at the festival of lights. Our number 2...everyone rushed in and master 14 looked back to grab this one. Tftc

Quick find, thank you!

We are doing this marathon the cheats way with wheels and in reverse. Number 8 was wet wet wet. Dried it out a bit. Cheers

Day 12- Christmas Eve, Tuesday 24 December. Around New Plymouth again today.

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.

Classic cache owner mistake - the camo tape overlapped the lid slightly, that's all it takes to let water in. We drained out the excess water and folded back the tape so that I could close the lid with a good seal.
Nice bit of bush, added it to the maps.
I used to be able to run this kind of distance, but I am old and doddery now. I should get out and go running more often, but actually, it is cycling that is my thing.

Day twelve of Taybeedragon's and my big 3 week circumnavicaching trip around Mt Taranaki, starting from Palmerston North. Today is wandering about New Plymouth

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.
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We decided to have a day in the Naki, starting with the event and tiki touring around picking up some caches.
Having had a very enjoyable day visiting NP it was now time to start meandering our way home (via more caches of course).
Walked right past it and only spotted it as we returned towards the car - doh!
We left a pet rock -a raccoon.
Thanks MIOW4

Quick find in the rain to wet to sign

I was a little confused at first but once I turned my car around it made sense.

The gps had me looking just past GZ so after a fruitless search I headed back towards the sign and spotted the cache.

TFTC

Onto the marathon loop, a nice circuit for the evening and hence a cookie cutter log.
Up here for an awesome weekend jaunt with Karma Reprint, Team Gators and TheWanglers and to do a loop of the mountain in 48 hours grabbing as many caches as we could while having a good laugh. Logs signed as some derivative of (KT)^2

Cheers MIOW4 for the cache

A planned geocaching trip to the USA was shelved (but is all go for this time next year!) so we came up with a weekends Plan B. Taranaki with TheWanglers, KarmaReprint and KiwiMoose - logs signed (TK)^2 or a variation of. A really fun trip with the forecast rain and thunder seemingly always in the distance but never hindering us. A really fun weekend.
Day 2 dawned with a bit of drizzle but that soon cleared (whilst eating breakfast) and we had a lovely trip missing all the bad weather again. Harwea to New Plymouth the long way. Heaps of history; cool scenery and lots of laughs. Cheers all!
Nice wee series around the block - a nice way to end the day. Cheers.

Day two Hawera to New Plymouth via Opunake

Great to be out and about, find quickly made. A nice wee trail to round off the evening. Cheers

A long weekend cache raid to Taranaki. The weather didn't stop us doing anything, and we had fun times. Logs were signed with a combination of KT and 2 depending one which of did the signing. Thanks Kiwi Moose, Team_Gaters and TheWanglers for a choice time.

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

A plan was hatched for a few of us to head to America for a Mad Mission. With life getting a bit crazy a downsized trip was organised as I had sorted childcare for the cachelets. The big America trip is now set for next year. We asked a member of our crew if we could go to Nelson, Dunedin, Auckland, Wellington, Hastings the answer all came back "I don't have many to find there". We left it to that member to suggest an area. He came up with New Plymouth and a loop around the mountain. That's a go from the rest of us. We sorted puzzles, gpxs, motels and a car and hit the ground running. The forecast was doom, gloom, rain, hail and lightning. Oh well, sounds exciting. We had very little of any of the weather that affected our caching and found we had all overpacked (thank God!).
Day 2: Today was a long day in the car 14 hours or so to our home for the night and then an hour or two after dinner before having a beer at the campground. We started in Hawera and went the long way around the coast with many detours. The history was amazing and the the lack of irrigation was very noticable to us Cantabrians. We once again missed the horrible weather!
Lovely wee trail. Good work, parking was good.

Thanks for the cache MIOW4.
#6204
Find 70 of 80 for today.
Find 150 of 224 for the trip.

No bush bashing required today. There's been a tidy up, there's no bush. Thanks again for this series.
[#866]

Easy find! Heading up to the gardens so doing the TDNHM series on the way!

Had to park a ways up for it but the sprogs were up for a walk. Clues were very helpful. Tftc!

Still there abit of bush bashing required

Couldn't find it

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

I arrived at GZ, and the area was very overgrown especially since the last log was some time ago. I tried searching the best I could but there is absolutely nothing by the sign, or anywhere near. Due to previous easy find logs, I'm pretty sure this has been muggled.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

We made plans to come this way for a while now to attend the event in Hawera on Sunday. We set of on Friday night parked up at a nice accommodation in Hawera with a lovely view. Then today set off at 9am with a friend 2 Bullbars to get some caches in the area around the big beautiful mountain. What a great day today turned out to be. we are now on cache number 20 for the day, we are trying to do the Hidden creatures adventure we have a long way to go but we have made a start. thank you for placing a cache here.

Parking was much easier for this cache than previous ones along this route. Nice hide, took a little looking. TFTC #cachelife

In New Plymouth for a ten pin bowling tournament, had time to fine some caches down this road. Picked up a TB and dropped a TB. Thanks MIOW4 for the cache.

Quick easy find. TFTC

All good here, dropped of a TB

I went biking and caching down Carrington Road today - enjoyed picking up some of this series. This one was a little sneakier, and the mozzies are pretty active here, TFTC

On our way up to new plymouth to cap off the Easter weekend and boost planetary Explorer points.

After collecting a few on the way we now find ourselves doing this little run as we lose the day light.

Unfortunately it was just to dark for this one.

Cheers.

A quick stop in today ended up being a bit of a search! Not great when something is stinking and dead nearby! Finally found, good camo! TFTC

Found it and some mozzies found me! TFTC

#9otd, found after a bit of a rummage and then finally stopped to really think about it.

Having a competition with my sister who finds them first, while MIOW4 watches on, I found this one first

Out and about with Aunty Nana MIOW4 geocaching, was meant to rain today, but it didn't so what better to do than a maintenance run, it is still there, just have to look

Found the sign. Not the cache

Found the sign, however no sign of the cache.

Found the sign but not the cache

We ebiked the area today & collected caches along the way TFTC

Beautiful reserve

Wondered where I was expected to look for a minute, thanks for the find

Picked up the boys from the mountain bike park and hubby drove while I made the finds, we found some spots really hard to pull over and in most cases parked in drive ways and walked back, the road was pretty quite which was a big help. Thanks for the placement. - took a little longer to spot

I have set myself a challenge for this year to have at least the same number of caches on each day of my calender as the number of years I have been caching.

Today the target is eleven but seeing that it is a nice I decided to get a few more.

Cheers for the cache.

Nice quick find after skipping a few. Tftc

Easy find

I have been meaning to do this trail by Jenny for a while, so a sunny Sunday afternoon without the geo hound looked like a good idea. Only managed one leg of the trail but a good shake out after the man flu. Mission accomplished, this one is a wrap. Thanks for the cache from Blenheim Bear!
This cache posted with CacheSense for Android.

Found it

Another good find with jackeesback on a road trip today.
*Nice quick stop, easy find.*
SL TFTC

I was driving home from new Plymouth after visiting Mum in Law and checking on organization for 90th birthday and i thought i would leave early and do a detour around these caches before heading south. all was well here, so i hoped the rest of this series would follow the same pattern which they did all except one which was a did not find unfortunately. after doing this circuit and heading back towards town before turning back on to highway south i had a pleasant trip back to palm. North. Thank you for these caches and smiley faces.

Thank you loving the drive

No luck here

Out with Poppa today getting caches as we go around the mountain

Out with Poppa today getting caches as we go around the mountain

While in the area today we and extended geocaching family started on this series. I was was a participant in the first half marathon and did them every year for about 15 years so I remember grunting up all the hills and the first time every time I saw a hill I thought oh no not another hill so I wes pleased to get to the top and have a down hill run most of the way home.
Many thanks for placing these

Tricky tree! Tftc

Hid under the trees until the rain stopped. TFTC

Easy find on this damp day and fills in a blank day SL TFTC

KiwiVVivian is on a roll today

Found it, thank you, cook hiding place

On the way to blackberrying... thanks for this series of caches! Nice quick and easy!

tftc, did it before heading off to blackberry

Finally found the time to complete this series. Ashamed to say I didn't know this reserve was here, so thanks for bringing me here & TFTC

Big container! Lachlan da man finding them all and quickly!

Interesting to see how this road is becoming suburbanised. Just nearby this cache, there was a lovely rhodo and azalea nursery not so long ago. Clever little hide! Thanks, Miow4.

Still walking as the day had fined up and it was now quite pleasant this was a good sized container and I wish I had brought some TBs along TFTC

Never would have known this reserve was here when you drive past