Paper Beats It (Hawkes Bay) Lochain, North Island, New Zealand
By Libranj on 27-Jul-19. Waypoint GC8B9JE

Heading back up to Gisborne for another week of caching-I-mean-teaching. Trying to add a few more quick caches to ensure my planned Mangaone Cave System (GC3691Q, Nhaka) is reached with enough daylight to claim my 400th up there and fulfil my side quest of finding lonely caches (1268days)Enticed back to claim this by daylight, much easier find (especially realising it had a hint with it lol) and the cache is in good nick. Beautiful orange Californian Poppies are out in force too Mihi ki a koe, mo te keteroki #395

Not this time. Found bailing twine and wire reminisce of a cache anchor but seeing this was only found recently Id say its more me searching in the dark rather than a lost cache. Will try again sometime in daylight

Great lunchtime find. And read up on nearby history

A nice PnG here. TFTC

Thank you for the lovely wee cache

Thanks

Very easy find. Thank you

60pa

Thanks for the cache, but why does paper beat it?

Thank you for posting this along the cycle trail. Its got the whole back of the log to go. You rock!!!

Woohoo .. second find must remember to take a pen with us !

I found it! Knew I would if I bought right eyes with me. Signed log, put small tradable in and replaced where found. Thanks for another find

tftc

I am at the right place but wrong eyes today. Will be back another day

Found it 1/4/2024 Cameron and Andrew

Thanks Libranj for this cache and chance for some fresh air enroute to Palmy TNLNSL TFTC

Good place to stop while cycling between wineries. Easy grab. TFTC

Biking the wine triangle. And picked this one up. Thx

Today we drove from Hastings to Gisborne where we are staying for a couple of days. We grabbed some caches on the way.Here we parked nearby and a quick find at GZTFTCTim and Viv - ddm

Nice bike trail here as well. TFTC

Found it

Found

Quick find

TFTC

Nice hide, thanks for the cache.

Nice hide, found quickly. Cheers

Yellow and orange flowers blooming nearby. The cache and log are good. TFTC Libranj.

Trouve ! / Found it ! Facile et rapide 4134me cache trouve.Merci Libranj pour la cache Easy and quick 4134th cache found.Thank you Libranj for the cache

Of course it does. Any school child knows the order of the game. Tftc.

Actually found this once before long time ago but it was still green on my map so now I turn it into a smiley face. TFTC

Out on our bikes today. Only by chance we checked if any caches here. Tftc

Stood here studying the map & we were about to head off when I thought I better check if there was a cache. Quickly located & then off to Oak Estate for a wine before completing the loop. Fav point for a fun bike ride. Witnessed some flood damage. Tftc

Cheryl found it before me. Taking Iton Man for a rad trip.

TFTC

Cool little stop tftf

Visiting from Tauranga to bike some of the wonderful trails - and find some of the wonderful caches! Read previous logs and found the broken shell with a magnifier toy in it. No way to make that waterproof so we replaced it with a camouflaged pill bottle and a new log. Hope that will tide it over meanwhile. Note sent to cache owner. Cache is all good to go. TFTC

i’m not sure it’s there

Read previous logs, and found container with mag.glass. no log to sign... took photo.

Diesen konnten wir gut finden. Danke fürs Herführen

On my way to Tongariro in the rain, the whole day, I found some caches.
Thanks.
No logbok.

#11,926. After driving up from Wellington and being distracted by quite a few cache finds on the way north, the day was now running out and I needed some dinner and to pick up some groceries. But there is always time (especially in summer) to round out the day with one or two last finds, This was one of them and it was lucky last. Parked nearby and searched around the wall. The hint helped and soon I spied something promising. But inside was a tiny magnifying glass and no container or paper. Paper does beat it as its needed to sign off a find. Luckily I had some spare waterproof paper in my pocket. Signed the new logsheet and left the cache as found. Thanks Libranj for hiding it here. I did search in the long grass in case someone previously had stopped and dropped the inner contents. But whatever it was that held the log it eluded me today.

Easy ish find log found and replaced TYFTC

Great hint

Cant find it.

Log running out of room.

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

From Auckland.
Dankie/TFTC.
Found with VinnigeVoete.
Logbook full. Taken photo.

Already found caches in the following countries:
1 South Africa, 2 New Zealand, 3 Australia, 4 USA, 5 Spain, 6 Portugal,
7 Latvia, 8 Estonia,
9 Finland, 10 Andorra,
11 Antigua and Barbuda,
12 Saint Lucia, 13 St Kitts, 14 Netherlands Antilles,
15 Qatar, 16 Mozambique, 17 Swaziland, 18 France,
19 Belgium, 20 Italy,
21 Croatia, 22 Montenegro,
23 Greece, 24 Slovenia,
25 Netherlands
26 Botswana, 27 Namibia, 28 Russia, 29 Turkey,
30 Zambia, 31 Tanzania,
32 Kenya,, 33 Rwanda,
34 Uganda, 35 Malawi,
36 Zimbabwe,
37 Singapore , 38 UK England, 39 Ireland

Found with BoertjieRSA. Logbook full.
Thanks for the cache.

Awesome found. Needs a new log book though

A nice quick find here although we had to sit in the car for a couple of mins as a couple of cyclists were studying the nearby sign.
Log book is full
Thanks for placing the cache Libranj.
Find number 4566.
Log signed b&p.

Nice cache, we were lucky enough to see a nest full of baby birds waiting for their mum

Yep container easily found but cap missing TFTC

couldn’t find after a bit of searching around

tftc

We had been up in Hawkes Bay for the weekend to celebrate some family birthdays and were now on our way home.
There was time to stop here and check this cache out.
Two cyclists were reading the info board as we pulled up but fortunately they headed off and we had the place to ourselves to find the cache - which was quick and straightforward with good coordinates and hints. We wondered if the outer container was supposed to have some sort of stopper. It doesn't now and does leave the contents a bit exposed.
TFTC

Nice easy find. TFTC

On a road trip to who knows where today. Nice hide. Love the container. Gimblett is a famous name around these parts. TFTC

Took a wee bit but kids were happy to find it

Easy to find.

TFTC awesome spot

Hehe, spotted this one in the second place we looked. Nice hide! TFTC!

Amazing find, very clever. Hard to find at first but in the end it was a job well done. Added a swap.
TFTC

Clever hide!!

Sibling find

I had parked my snail shell up in Napier and today decided to go a-huting for some caches.

But scissors doesn't . Nice camo.

Cheers for the cache.

As a kiwi petrol head I still find it disappointing that the Thunderpark drag strip had to go to make way for all these grapes here. I spent many years making the three hour drive up here for race meetings in my younger years. A quick P&G here which was nice with all the bird scarers going off every couple of seconds! TFTC

Wow tricky!! Loved it

Stayed an a night in Hasting, an early morning start out this way. Quick find. Thanks Libranj for the cache.

Our first find! Awesome thank you!

Found it, it was a tricky one!

Clever hide with some distraction in place. TFTC!

soon spotted the odd one out
tftc

Easy find after actually thinking about it..

Checked in on the cache today as I pass this structure daily.. Cache is still in place.

Looked everywhere. Not our day as this is the thrust cache we couldn't find...aghhh

Passed more lovely wineries on the way to collect this cache. Easy find. TFTC

My first find for the year tftc

O have gone past this cache several times and never managed to actually stop and check it out
but finally i have! There was a hen at GZ watching me very intently as i searched and then i realised why she was observing me There i found a nest with her three eggs in ti so i carefully did not disturb the nest- or her - and soon had the cache in hand . signed and returned and i said farewell to the hen and left her in peace.
thank you for this cache. i took nothing- certainly not the eggs - and left nothing .

Nice easy find. Well camoe'd outer container. Pleased to have had gloves on as outer container was home to several small species of insects making it their home. Internal container and log all good. Found while on a trip to Wellington to visit the in-laws. Thanks for making the cache available.

Soon found, liked the hint, thanks Libranj.

Cool hide thank you

Heading through for a few days in Napier after visiting family in the Manawatu. Time for a break in the driving to stretch our legs. Happy to make a quick find here and get back on the road. Love the title of this cache!!!

Missed this one also as on the map it was covered with the Mystery cache Bother!

TFTC!
- Whitetail

Expected this to be a tough one but found in no time. TFTC

TFTC

this was spotted almost straight away, thanks for the placement and the only cache I had left on 50

We drove past here yesterday while on a wine tour. We visited the Ashridge winery amongst others. Today we left Napier and headed for the Kapiti Coast – the next stop on our New Zealand Odyssey. It was good to read the nearby interesting information. Signed log TFTC

On a weekend road trip to Napier to see sir Elton, and finding a few caches on the way. This was one of them. Cute hide, log paper a bit damp, TFTC

Off to a wine tasting at Ash Ridge (very good). We were glad this is not as hard as a similar cache two days ago.

Found with watcache. Quick easy find tftc

Tftf nice to have some more local caches

Look for outlier ^_^

Very quick find here thank you lig wet but xache all good tftc out cachingc with xsaveya today. Raining off and on but that not stopping us today.

Nice cache. TFTC

Just finished a week of work in Whanganui and heading home to the East coast. Long drive so stopping occasionally for a smiley. Nice container. Thanks

Qwezy. Tftc

Out clean up the area of caches . Quick find.

Awesome find!! 1 thing is not like the other ones thanks! Log is a bit wet, but good fun! Thanks

Haha a cool cache name that fits perfectly into the theme of this cache. A neat container that I haven't seen before and a nice change from the standard containers of this type I have found in the past - well done!

TFTC