TRFU Secret Training Spot (Taranaki) New Plymouth, North Island, New Zealand
By Phronimos on 06-May-18. Waypoint GC7P846

Tftf

Found TFTC, didn't see a rugby player anywhere, but seams to have left his pants behind

Cool find

Thank you

Found

Knowing cococlay123 enjoys rugby I asked if he knew what the title might stand for, he did narrow down where he had seen it and I explained after he had found the cache at the prominent location.T F T C Phronimos.A teachers only day and pretty good, if a little cold, weather saw us head out to find a few caches. The original plan was three and maybe a forth but at the first cache we discovered I had not updated my list in a while so after the first find I updated it and found the third and forth caches we had planned on were now archived - thankfully they were the last and not the first caches to be found! So the plan changed to two for me and three for cococlay123 before a playground and an extra cache.

Thanks to the hiderFound with Tommygun9

Nice easy find TFTC

Thanks for easy find

Quick easy find while out walking with 7 dogs.

Easy find

Easy find

Thanks for the easy find

Geocache is missing so I've replaced it entirely. **You don't need to go anywhere near any 'cliff',** even though there's no cliff as such nearby.Good to go again.

Didn't find it, looked for awhile

Searched for ages but couldn't find cache

Had a good look around for this one, but didn't find it.

It was a great place to find it
DONT FALL OFF OF THE CLIFF!!!!!

Found

Found it its bigger than expected

Found

Nice easy find!

Found it pretty easy one

Don’t know how it didn’t get washed up

Nice and easy, nice and long but simple walk

Easyyyy

Great little treasures - kids like the bunny- was a little wet inside, so tried to seal it up right.

Quick easy find. River high but not flooding. TFTC

Was a really cool spot and great for my first time geocaching.

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Awesome little find beautiful walk

Seems I have reached the end of this neat trail, but not without finding one last cache while I'm here. Thanks for bringing me down this way, cheers

Didn't spot anyone doing any secret training today although there was someone's t-shirt on the ground near GZ so they could have been being ultra secret and hiding
The log as mentioned was a little damp but we had no issue's signing it.
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 by the cache area, nice find log signed and cache placed back where found. TFTC lovely walking area. a hidden spot for many to enjoy and walk their dogs.

Couldn’t write in the book as too wet, but thanks for the cache, lovely spot

Found it.. very wet paper

Quick find but log is wet needs replacement still signed great place many thanks

Found it. TFTC

First geo cache found

Very very easy was not even looking for one today!!!!!
What are the chances!!!

found! container was wet, dried it out )

Beautiful location container had water in it

It's nice and easy the river is right there I recommend trying it.

Nice spot

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

Thanks. Nice one to do with my 4yo. Forgot pen

Walking down the Waiwakaiho walkway searching for geocaches. Cool hide. Second find of the day. #186. TFTC.

Found with the help of the description. Log only has 3 spaces left.

End of the line , nice work

Cool spot. Such a nice walk. TFTC.

Okay, that's just a little odd.... Plotted out the track and have since added it to the map.

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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Enjoying walking along this track beside the river. Another one snagged and 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.

Not quite sure what I was going to find here but it was pretty obvious from a distance, what a neat little spot I would never have known about if it were not for geocaching.

What a neat little outing today was, well worth the pain I am sure I will get later from my ongoing foot issue. Fav point awarded for the neat spot.

great walk

Found

Quick find . TFTC

Out and about on a rainy Saturday, doing the local round to complete the gem series of the Mystery of the Museum Challenge, All good at GZ, cache dry. Not sure I would cross the river today.. Many thanks for the cache. Blenheim Bear

Super Quick and easy. Knew where to look straight away. Nice and dry.
Took the TB cos it was here when Juliusfamily found this one in March. TFTC

Found with some muggle friends goon for a walk. Tftc

Did this one last week but forgot to log.

Out walking Dakota along here, was expecting a work out, phew too hot for that tftc dropped of tb did not see the other tb in there

Arrived in New Plymouth this afternoon and located three caches on our river walk late in the day. This was the last of of them. I got sent down to the river to look for it, only to hear a call from Mrs tbird – at the upper level – that she’d found it. Only at that point did the TRFU aspect make some sort of sense! #2214. TFTC.

Yes, the title did make sense, but the reason for it is still a mystery. Easy find. Cache is all good. TFTC

out getting a dot day, lovely walk and and awesome view at the end, TFTC

The title made sense as I approached. Tftc

Quick trip away with tmann421
Container found after a lovely short walk along this track

Quick trip away with woolwood9.
We soon had the cache found and log signed.
Enjoyed the area and the good caches.
TFTC

Nice and easy, lovely walk! Tyftc

A Sunday walk along the river bank, not a bad way to pick up a few caches and populate another empty calender day in my stats.

Straight forward find.

Cheers

as the weather sunny and warm i decided today was a good day to go for a little walk along this part of the walkway which i had never been.
I am very unsure what they train for her at this spot but the dogs certainly liked it . there is alot of water in the river .
the cache was soon in hand signed and replaced with out the muggles being aware of my actions.
thank you for this cache, another smiley face and another cache for the magical creatures souvenir.

The river was running well after heavy rain. Frost lay on the ground so gloves would have been of use to thaw the fingers out. A straightforward find. tftc

A very pleasant walk along the river on a sunny calm day.
TFTC.

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Quick find with the mini cachers. Swapped a travel bug. Then spent a pleasant hour nearby throwing rocks into the river. Tftc

Training needed so went hard to get this to get my regular trek in thanks TFTC nice easy find and must remember to bring a TB if I'm this way again

Luckily there was still some daylight! Must return in better weather - I would be able to appreciate the trees and birdsong a whole lot more - even today it was a great walk. Thanks, Phronimos, for making me go to another new bit of NP. A fave

{FTF} So we used our common sense and attempted this find on a terrible rainy day A break in the weather and a nice walk past all the horses soon found us at GZ. River was raging but no where near cache site so a quick find by the girls. TFTC

A joint {FTF} with trayc.g. Wasn’t too keen for a hunt today because of the weather but the promise of a frozen slushie from McD’s after won me over. TFTC

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