Nano with no Name (Taranaki) Merrilands, North Island, New Zealand
By MIOW4 on 30-Oct-17. Waypoint GC7E830

Cool hiding place my 7 year old found it.

Thank

Found. Thanks. ZES

it was really fun to find and omg be wary of the ants

Great find

Bloody ants everywhere???

Thanks for the great find

Thanks for the find, that was cool, I found it immediately

Tricky but good hide

Clever

Tricky one....great hiding place. TFTC

We're heading to New Plymouth for an event we had on. Although there's a severe weather warning, that won't stop us from geocaching!

Quick find. Roma but to get log out but after a bit of tapping the log was soon signed and replaced.

I wrote in the log and placed the cache back as found. TFTCSL, Thanks MIOW4 for this Traditional cache.

Quick easy find, thank goodness as right next to a wasp nest!

Cool spot to find...it almost screwed me...

Tricky!

Said I found it now

Think bolt

It said that I have a DNF when I don't

After a few try’s I finally found it super sneaky TFTF

I'm gonna look for this a lot

Thanks for the hint

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Were is it?¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

How big is it

Sneaky hide

I looked for ages and finally found it so creatively hid!

Favourite spot to find

Very niiiiice took a long time hahaha

Didn’t have a pen as was walking the dog with kids, but this ‘screwed’ with us for a bit

Quick find. Seen these before. TFTC

A very frustrating DNF can someone please give us a hit

I was scratching my head trying a number of places, when along came a couple of locals walking the track. I figured they were locals when one calls out are you caching, and then gives me a big nudge as to where I should actually be looking. A very cool hide here which I may not have found without help, TFTC

Took our first walk along this section of the walkway today and found this cleverly placed gem! Love that we can feel like we are miles away from anywhere while being so close to the city. Tftc

This was our last cache in NP today as we needed to start making tracks for home.
We initially checked out the wrong side of the track and then the hiding place was spotted and the cache was quickly in hand after that.
Many thanks for putting this here for us to find.

On a road trip today with Mrs Rattll started off in the dark so would reach our first cache of the day as daylight hit. No muggles here today nice find log signed and cache placed back where found. TFTC lovely walk here today just got back to the car before it started to rain.

Another found.. my mum found this one

T4tc was a smart hide and a lovely walk

I was in the area today and wanted to find a cache while out so when I spotted a park I decided to find this cache.
At GZ I was searching for a normal nano and was worried I wouldn't find this when I tried another approach with luck - also I had started at the wrong end.
FP from me as this cache looks right at home and is very well done.
T F T C MIOW4.

Found after 20 minutes. Was hard

Nice afternoon for a walk along here, cache all good and waiting to be found

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.

*Nice short walk to cache, looked in quite a few places before spotting it!*

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

Completely come across this one by accident!!!
Very excited

sadly could not find

I didn't fine it.

Found but didn’t have a pen to write names on unfortunately

Nice hiding spot easy to get

with some spare time in the Area there was nothing else to do but go geocaching
many thanks

Found by Blenheim Bear Thanks for the cache all good today. Blenheim Bear

Woah! Such a good hiding spot. Looked for it about a while ago but found it now . #163. TFTC.

I had come into town to do some jobs and I ended up waiting nearby to see if the person who had brought some stuff off me was home. While I was waiting, I whipped out my phone and saw this was nearby, so I made my way to the entrance to the walk and quickly made my way here.

Having found this before, I figured it would be easy. I knew where I needed to look but I couldn't remember what I was looking for but then after a few minutes I found it. Again. All good here, just a bit covered in ants and the log itself was a out sticky so it wasn't easy to unroll.

Looked for about 20min...disappointed!! Had fun though. Couple of trees have fallen down in this area with council cleaning up.. hope that hasn’t affected cache. Will be back

Definitely need extraction tool. TFTC.

Great spot to walk the dogs

Love the self referential oxymoronic cache title! Odd that the cache is sized as an other when the cache title clearly states the cache is a micro (these kinds of detail slips irk me. I just have to live with it, I guess). Was having trouble finding the blighter and had a look at the logs to see if the cache was still there. after that it was an easy find.

Day fourteen of Taybeedragon's and my big 3 week circumnavicaching trip around Mt Taranaki, starting from Palmerston North. Today is wandering about New Plymouth. It's Boxing Day! Merry Christmas everyone!!

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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This nano took some time to locate. Thankfully other logs helped us locate this elusive one so we could get it tagged. Cheers

Day 14 - Boxing Day, Thursday 26 December. Around New Plymouth again today then started moving north. .

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.

Easy to extract with my pen,must be a new logsheet as I'm only second person on it.

took a while couldnt extract log awesome hide

Found. Couldn’t get log out without tools

Had a look here for about 20mins, couldn't find anything that looked out of place. Didn't know this walkway was here so thanks for bringing us here. Will try again another day.

Looked for this one today with Juliusfamily, we couldn't find it. Lovely walk though.

Great camo, earns a fav from us. Had quite a bit of a fight to get through the exuberant greenery here, luckily the path is sealed otherwise we'd have needed gumboots. Cache is all good. TFTC

This one stumped me a few years ago...a bit more experienced this time. The container was grabbed easily but the plastic bag with the log proved a little harder to extract. Got there in the end. Tftc

Another beautiful day for a walk along here, replaced log

Found but no log! Beautiful spot!

found cache hiding spot but did not find cache log. it is missing, please remove this log if wrong, lovely walk and a cool cache hide, TFTC

Found this before I think

Out for the afternoon with my muggle sister.
Upped put step count with thus walk that, despite living here for 45+ years, she didn't know existed.
She spotted the likely candidate and sure enough the find was made.
Not sure if there should have been an inner container, but there wasn't.
Thanks for the smilie MIOW4.
2128 15 April 2018 15:33

I enjoyed this little walk and the hunt. Too bad there aren't a few more caches along here.A nice hide. Thanks.

It's a great walkway almost a roadway!! TFTC

Not sure where it’s at. Was pretty overgrown.

Found it

Found my third cache ever, pretty neat hidey hole. Coords lead me straight there but had to hunt for a while and then think less complex and more about camouflage, got it eventually. Didn't have a pen unfortunately so I couldn't sign the log. TFTC.

Out to fill in a dot day. Not a fan of nanos but with a second cache further along the walkway this was worth the gamble.
As it turned out I spotted this one quite quickly.

Cheers

Cool wee hide. Pretty sure I had already done it and when I went to look sure enough was where I remembered. Not sure why it came up again as a new cache but still enjoyed the walk as did the dog!

Tftc.

Time for a quick run out to find and log a cache for this final day of the year. The river is looking pretty low, so the heavy grey clouds overhead are very welcome...thanks, Miow4, for replacing this cache. TFTC

We came out for a bike ride this morning (New Years Eve), along this great track - very few people around early in the day. A clever and appropriate hide, it blends in ever so well, thanks very much.

Got whats a name on the last day of the year and now can't wait to start all over again. Thanks meow4 for the re-established cache TFTC

up in Taranaki for family birthday and nipped out to locate this cache fairly near by. I remember a cache being here a few years ago. this is nicely placed and camo'd . well done and i have given it a fav point .Thank you for the cache and another smiley face.

By far the best so far well done the the person who thought of this

Nice easy find very creative tftc

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

Thank you MIOW4 for another opportunity to log another dot day. It’s still very pretty through here, and as I previously noted on the original cache log the path is called the Waiwhakaiho Walkway now. Great that you were able to reuse the clever original cache.
TFTC

Second time I’ve done this cache within a couple of months, so I knew what to look for, a quick find during my walk this morning. Thanks for resurrecting this Cache!

Number four for the day. We sort of thought we knew what we were looking for and where it might be before we set out and were mostly correct, except there was a bit more vegetation than we recalled.

An easy find and retrieval until my wife dropped the log sheet and had to grub around looking for it. Signed and replaced in between dog walking muggles passing by.

Found it on lovely walk tftc

No cell to come back here tftc

A fairly quick find, unfortunately the wind caught the little bag the log was in and although we had a good look around we couldn’t find it - sorry. The log was signed and put back.

Saw only one person on a bike - too hot today! This cache is certainly in your face! A good shake solved any extraction problems.Thanks MIOW4 for the replacement.

FTF! Found it! Had found it previously when under other cache owners, so was able to find without a problem. Walkway a little busier than it used to be with vehicles, so take care with little one. Love this one, TFTC

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