GROET#41 (Craigs Flat) Ebdentown, North Island, New Zealand
By GLAD-NZ on 08-Sep-18. Waypoint GC7XDCF

Another quick one for us! Logbook almost full so could use a replacement.

Logbook almost full and could use a replacement

Found in good condition.

Thanks!

FOUND IT!

Lovely bike ride to this find, thanks!

Good hide

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Found

forgot a pen only white board marker good find, orange smudge is us

Orange smudge

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The two phoenixes found it

Lid is detached from tin. Hard to open. Thanks for the cache.

Thanks for that

Nice hiding spot!

TFTC IS No pen to sign, but rook a photo of the log

Clever spot

TFTC. Forgot a pen so took a photo as proof

Found It on a nice afternoon bike ride. Unable to mark it as no writing tool. Did notice the lid of the capsule has been broken off. Looked at the paper and looked fine in it's waterproof bag. Although there is some holes in the bag that mat cause some issues in the not too distant future.

Some horse owners were out and about in their fields today while I grabbed this one, though I don't think they noticed,or minded. Nice easy find and tftc

Found with the fam. Nice walk!

Tftc! Great trail

Thanks. Good one for the kids

My first find, cheers!

Easy pick up. TFTC

It's been a great walk, catching up with rosiepo11 and sarahjane20 and only 1 more to go.

Another quick find on a sunny afternoon walk TFTC

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Done

Thank you!

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Thank found it first try

Thanks for the find! Didn't have a pen on us so have taken a pic for proof of find.

Found while walking Totara Park - Silverstream. Cache decently simple to find but had to dodge horse riders and fellow hikers the entire way. Cache also quite damp. Tftc!

Found under rock

I wasn't having much luck today so I was pleased with this easy find - thanks

Nice one. TFTC!

Busy wee place this. TFTC

Plenty of horsey people around and I needed to wait for some to move on before swooping in for the find. TFTC

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Got em

WE DID IT!!

#2 for the day! Once we found the right post, we were in!

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Found

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Fast on the heels of #40

Bit rusty on the outside but keeping good company with a family if slaters - who didn’t seem to mind the visit at all!

Good find

Hidden within

Checked today and all ok

Taking advantage of spending another evening in Upper Hutt, I decided to get a bit of fresh air after work by taking a stroll along the Hutt River Trail from Totara Park towards Riverstone Terraces. The weather was actually a lot calmer than I was anticipating after some of the gusty weather we'd had earlier in the day, and I ended up walking about 6km all up.

There was no-one else around whilst at GZ so was able to make a quick search here. It was actually an easy find, but not in line with the Hint, which I suspect might need updating.

I've often wondered if the CO means to get rid of these simply by putting them out as caches and letting oxidisation do the rest, but in this case the container was actually in reasonable nick. Once the log was signed and the whole lot replaced as found, I was soon back on my way.

Thanks for placing this cache.

A nice quick find thanks. I got on my bike and did some caching whilst waiting for the Remutaka road to reopen.

Ms_KR and I are off on a wee tour of the North Island. It was a great weather day and we cruised to Porirua and over the Masterton. The Remutaka hill was closed for over 4 hours as a truck "Fell off" part way up. The truck was a long way down when we passed, and the driver was in a serious condition. Hopefully they will be OK.

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

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Found with Lisa3x3x3 TFTC.

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TFTC my 115th find

Not too hard.

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Was a beautiful hot day today, so decided to go for a ride / walk along this pathway. Ezratar managed to slide on the sand and came off his bike so we dumped it back in the car and walked the rest of the way. Both Mycro Man and Ezratar stopped every few metres to pick black berries and then move on, so the walk out took a lot longer than the walk back. Thanks for the cache. Hint is wrong.. Should be "Base of pole under some rocks"..

A nice and easy find. Thanks for placing the cache

The clue said it all. Also near our friends horses. Tftc

Easy find with @peadub while out walking the Hutt River Trail. We didn't know until later that our friends @gizbinrose and @migsnz were tending their horses behind us! Nice little horse figurine inside cache. Signed log and replaced where found. TFTC.

Found it thanks. All nice and dry

Quick find on way past to next one. TFTC

Had a very peaceful walk along the river trail. On my outward journey I didn't stop to search for this one as a car pulled up nearby (to tend to the horses I think) and I didn't want to look suspicious. On the way back I could still see the car but its position had changed and I thought it would be safe to search. Looked in a couple of wrong places before I found it. TFTC

Our very 1st find

Love the horse. Very fitting

A reasonably quick find thanks to the coords but it didn't really match the hint, however not hard to spot.

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Another dot day to fill and another convenient GROET cache to find in order to fill it. We'd dropped a car for attention in Upper Hutt and parked up the top end of the track afterwards. A lovely sunny early morning, though still rather cold. The mist that had risen off the Hutt River leant an added charm to the view looking back towards Totara Park when we turned back after I'd found the cache and signed the log. There seemed to be more traffic than ever on the River Road, perhaps because today was the first day in Alert Level 1 after almost 3 months in varying degrees of lockdown thanks to COVID-19.
Thanks GLAD-NZ for another cache in this series, which I have been finding so useful on numerous occasions.

Awesome work!

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TFTC enjoying getting this series

Nice one, thanks. Out for family cycle.

Another nice quick find before heading up Valley View Road. Not sure how many of the series I've done now - must be about half way. TFTC.

Found on a cycle trip up from Melling on a lovely fine day along the magic Hutt River Trail. TFTC

#7367. I was working at home today and it was a glorious sunny day outside. By mid-afternoon I decided it was time to nip up to the Hutt valley for a short walk to pick up a few more caches and complete my work tasks when I got home. Really enjoyed the walk along this track in spring like conditions. Lots of birdlife with the skylarks soaring and singing overhead and rock pigeons and sparrows enjoying all the seed and chaff being fed out to the horses. Another nice easy find by the track. Signed the logbook and replaced the cache as found. Thanks GLAD-NZ for another in the GROET series. Cheers GSEL

Found as part of the museum history challenge.
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Only one possibility to match the hint which was just as well as horses were being tended to nearby and I did not want to appear too suspicious.

Nice easy walk and location

One of 18 caches located today on an enjoyable bike ride along the Hutt River trail (mostly) from Upper Hutt to Pomare Station. Quick find. #2488. TFTC.

# 1483 Back again in the area, this time to pick up the repaired flat tyre. Managed to cajole the DangerBOY just a few hundred metres more than yesterday, to pick up this one. No toys in this one so he was slightly less impressed that with yesterdays reindeer. But otherwise the cache was all good inside. Only the occasional dog walker here today. Cheers Glad NZ for this one today.

Found by son

#10,671. Returned to Craigs Flat, Upper Hutt for a contemplative walk. GZ was all quiet when we visited. Quick find. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

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

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Thought I would do a few caches today and saw this trail. Nice Easy finds TFTCS (Thank You For The Caches)

Hot day out here All good TFTC

Found on this hot clear day, a cooker on the track. Horses are quiet, swishing tails and heads down in the dry.
TFTC, loved the walk, cheers