Three Way Junction (Wainuiomata) Homedale, North Island, New Zealand
By GSEL on 14-Apr-18. Waypoint GC7N2KW

Great hide- many thanks. Owner maintenance not really required (have seen much worse!) Tipped water out of the outer container and theres moisture inside the inner one and bag but the waterproof sheet here has heaps of room still and dies the job just fine! (Did dry things out as best I could too)Ive been up this track before- prior to being introduced to this crazy sport. Will see how far I get up McKerrow but theres 100k winds expected so will just see! (And I want to do the kitty hawk adventure when I can bring a buddy along) For now- onwards and upwards! Thanks heaps

Kia ora! We loved finding this awesome cache today. Just a quick note to say that the cache is absolutely soaked with water, most of the log sheets were unreadable and mushy, sadly. We wrote on a wee bit of waterproof paper left by a recent finder.

Ww had such fun finding this one! 7 year old and 2 year old enjoyed the spidery scramble. Never been on this track before, thank you so much for inspiring us to try it!

Love the bush after a rain. Or in this case during a light drizzle. No I dont, because it is big fat drops right on my glasses. But in the mist is cool, everything looks fresh and clean.Nice easy find (I always use the hint if caching from cellphone in the trees, the phone on its own is a bit erratic).The map showed a loop further along the track that gets me back to Sunny Grove, so I carried on, climbing over the tree fall (photo), but I discovered that that track no longer exists. So back the way I came, back over the tree fall, and back to Sunny Grove and my bike. I have deleted that track off the maps.I have been trying to get out of the habit I developed when I was working my streak - just get the bare minimum required - no more. Save the rest for later. When I finished the streak (1000 days!) I was working other calendar projects, so my map would only have those showing and again, I would just get the one.So I decide to go caching in Wainuiomata - there is a reasonable chance I could cache the place out. I cycled to Lower Hutt then put the bike on the bus and got a ride over the hill.Incidentally it is raining. Well, maybe just low flying cloud, which is much the same thing. Light drizzle, all day. I spent the day cycling around Wainui. In the rain. Yep, I got wet!After 15 finds and a LOT of cycling I got home with a mud stripe up my bum, mud on my... well, everywhere, really. Shower. Washing. And now logging.

Found this one after my walk to Kittyhawk down, it's a lovely area to walk in. I missed the cache on my first look so searched some other places before returning and spotting what I needed to. Unfortunately, the logsheets are soaking wet despite the double containers, so I added a small strip of waterproof paper and signed that. Interesting to see the big sign telling you you are approaching a kiwi zone. TFTC

This was a nice find while out on the tracks this afternoon with Mrs Muggle and #2 son.
We managed to put our hands on the cache quite quickly and the coordinates were pretty good. Unfortunately there was a fair amount of water in both the inner and outer containers and the log is sopping wet.
Thanks very much indeed for the cache.

Needed the excel use! TFTC

Nice find at the start of our tramp

Found , on our way to Haurangi Hut for the night. TFTC

Our first stop on the way to Haurangi Hut. Found with Frenchm - tftc

I recently started volunteering for the Remutaka Conservation Trust, helping to look after a line of Doc200 traps along these ways. This is my third visit up this track to my assigned trapline, and I thought I'd stop to grab a geocache along the way. Quite a few hint objects around here, I looked around a few near where the GPS pointed GZ but no luck. It was early in the morning and this part of the track was quite dark in the shade. With a long day ahead of me (6-7h, I didn't spend too much time looking. I have another 41 "boxes" to open and check today! I'll be back in about 6 weeks so might give it another go.

The bush here is really beautiful and the canopy protected us from the worst of the rain, so it was a good choice to come here today. A careful read of the cache page set us in the right direction to find the cache. TFTC

This was my first stop on a clockwise hike around the loop. My first choice of major hint object actually turned out to be correct but a few minutes passed before I returned to check the other side of it and quickly spot the other hint objects. The replacement logsheet is doing its job just fine.

On my way around a loop - Whakanui to McKerrow then across to the Crowther access road. Nice find here using the hint - I wasn't sure I was going to be able to pick out the second object mentioned in the hint, but when I saw it I knew immediately that's what I was after! TFTC GSEL.

Found it and put in a new piece of dry paper with ziplock bag so hopefully it will stay dry now. We used handsanitizer.

Found this one 2 days ago on my little walk in the park. Did not take too long to locate. Logbook was to wet to log so I took a picture. TFTC. Sherlock Hood.

TFTC - logs a very wet hard to write on

Thanks found, paper very wet.

**S 41° 17.032 E 174° 58.297**

#11,656. A good little walk up to this part of the Rimutaka Forest Park. GZ was all quiet at the time of the visit. GPS reception was rather challenging here. Waited for it to settle a bit and then made the find after a short search. The GPS was reading 14 metres away. The cache itself was in good condition, but the log was quite wet – although still writeable. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

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

.T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e.
.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.

Found during a trip with agcnz up Skerrets Creek He did a check on his Kittyhawk Down cache We then carried on up the creek to score Aces High #2 and returned via McKerrow Track
This one is very wet inside and the paper log was only just signable It is relatively close to a road end so I decided not to relace it with waterproof log paper
Thanks GSEL

Gotcha! Always nice to turn a DNF into a smiley. In the area again today doing the Crowther caches from Willis Gr. Made it into a loop to have another attempt at this one and got it this time hooray! I'd followed the vague geotrail in and put my bag down about 2m away to start the search and made my way around the likely spots and back following the GPS. New coords had me about 5m away so pretty good from the phone! Happy for a clean sweep today now off home to warm up (and might have a good ol' pie for lunch) thanks for getting me out on the trails today.

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 17.037 E 174° 58.310

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 17.038 E 174° 58.303

Distance from original: 32.4 feet or 9.9 meters.

Seems I captured some poor numbers when I first here. Have adjusted this to agcnz's coordinates as others are finding these more helpful.

# 1505 Out here today to find a newly placed cache near the site of a historical plane crash, just off McCerrow track. Jimmynz beat me to this one on the way down and spent 10 minutes looking for it. Apparently the coords are bad and lead him 30 m away into some bad vegetation. (reading the logs this is apparently old news) Any way his cacher intuition kicked in and he was able to find the very well hidden cache.

NOT my cleverest caching day - I went out here to pick up a 'welly climbs' cache this afternoon, and although I calculated the final location no problem, I somehow forgot to change the minutes and still managed to end up somewhere that looked sensible! I only realised my mistake when I was only about 100m from this one - 'Doh!

Anyway, I decided I might as well continue up to this one and then retrace my steps. Got to more or less GZ fine, then I was tasked with finding the best route off the path. Did this, then was looking around to try and spot something vaguely resembling the hint item, when I heard voices - a couple of muggles walking along the track, who paused for a long discussion about route choice at the junction. So I froze, in place until they had left. This gave the phone time to settle down, although neither sets of coordinates appeared especially helpful, so I resorted to examining likely trees, until I found a root matching the hint, and the cache shortly afterwards. TFTC - you don't make them easy do you GSEL?

Now back to the other unfinished business for today...

A near perfect day for a hike up to Mt McKerrow and my first stop of the day was to retry this. This time I bowled right up with agcnz's coords and found it within 30 seconds. I did not check this place last time as I definitely would have seen the item mentioned in the hint - which was conspicuous and super-helpful. TFTC. Now on with the climb. BTW I seemed to have signed everything with tomorrows date for some reason.

No luck for us tonight after doing the Kitty Hawk caches. Fairly sure we were looking in the right spot, hint matched and two potential cache niches both empty. One had a couple of 'cache-hiding' looking rocks at the entrance. No sign of any green string either. Will keep an eye on the logs if anyone else has any luck after us...

I spent a fair amount of time here since I was just on a short bush walk rather than doing a trail (I plan to do that later in the summer). I was hindered considerably by a malfunctioning GPS and relying on my smartphone for guidance. However I was trying not to put too much faith in that by using cache sense - however that failed me too.

After having spectacularly DNF'd this a few months ago I was in the area this morning so, knowing that the CO had kindly replaced the cache, I paid a second visit. Fortunately it's only a reasonably short walk from the top of Sunny Grove so it didn't take long to get there. Success this time but the listed coordinates are definitely not good - when I arrived the GPSr was trying to take me to a spot about 40 metres away in a bit of a gully. This had also happened on the previous visit and on both occasions the GPSr settled slowly although never much closer than about 15 metres. Consequently I needed to use the hint and a fair amount of "cacher's instinct". I rapidly found the red plastic lid and ziplock bag that I had discovered on the last visit - these were exactly where I had left them and I have now removed them and disposed of them. The spot where I left them was actually only a bit over 2 metres from the actual cache which I found shortly afterwards while investigating likely hint objects. Very well hidden too, the hint helped a lot! I have taken an averaged set of coordinates at GZ, hopefully these will help future searchers. Signed log, thanks for the cache and it's good to get a smiley for it at last!

Cache replaced. All set for more people to find.

Just back from a field trip and had time this afternoon to come over to Wainuiomata for some cache maintenance. I parked down at the end of Hine Road and walked the track to the junction. Checked the original hiding spot. It had truly gone AWOL. Suspect its been dislodged by a feral animal. No sign of the container nearby. Have put out a replacement. Its more securely in place. Still at same hiding tree as last time but lower down and tucked into an alcove. Tied to some green string as well. Hopefully it lasts longer than the original.

Looks like this one might have gone AWOL. I will check it out some stage in next month and maybe find a more secure hiding spot.

It may well still be there but it certainly eluded me this afternoon, both heading up the hill and again on the way back. I did find a red plastic screw-top lid lying on the ground not far from where I think the cache should have been, and close by a ziplock plastic bag (clean but ripped and empty). Nothing else. At least if I have to come back it’s the one closest to the start of the track...

Grabbed on our wee exploration expedition with the 4 kids!- stopped here for a pit stop.

A bit dark on the way up to Mt McKerrow so tried on the way down. Got it thanks to the hint as GPS was 8m off on both my phone and Garmin.

The container was tiny, a lot smaller than expected but nice and dry inside.

I saw this series of caches published yesterday morning and even had a thought about having a crack. However, knowing that my current priority is finding a new job I decided to flag the idea. never thought about it again.

Today I had to go to the city for a couple of meetings and threw some walking gear in the car so I could find a cache after 'work'. As i was parked at Woburn station, I started looking for a likely cache nearby once I got off the train. I saw that these new GSEL caches were still available as potential First's so decided to have a go for the set of three.

This was the first, and a very quick find - the container was below the hint object looking like an opossum may have kicked it out. Open the container and saw it was the correct one with a blank logsheet to greet me. Thanks GSEL for an {FTF}.

Now to head to the second on my way up the hill.


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