Ngaturi / Omata Stockade (Taranaki) New Plymouth, North Island, New Zealand
By captainultra on 27-Sep-20. Waypoint GC90YM3

Cool find it

TFTC pretty neat spot and awesome views

Not too hard thank u!

Ggoottermm

Staying down the road a bit farmsitting for my sister while visiting from Sydney. Not a particularly nice day for caching with a bit cold and windy so just grabbed on the way back from a quick trip to Countdown. Not sure what the Please Shut the Gate sign is referring to! Thanks captainultra.

Easy find. TFTC

Found

Did not like the fence

Thanks for easy find but bit awkward !

Thanks for the find, wasn't sure about jumping that fence

Busy road. Thanks for the easy find

Found it, great historical site, tftc

Fount it

Find it

Found it had to jump fence

Good find

cool fond shot guys

Day 16: Around TaranakiTodays journey took us around the Taranaki Region, where we headed as far south as Cape Egmont before heading up to Pukeiti, and back to New Plymouth for two more parks: Tpare and Pukekura Parks. After that, we searched for the best views of the Maunga from Te Wera Wera Bridge and walked the Coastal Walkway back to the Port. Another truly productive day, and thanks for all the caches around the Taranaki Region. (End of the cut and paste bit)Heres the specific log for this cache: A nice quick find here once I found my way over the fences. A herd of sheep was watching me as I did this I wonder why there is so little information around about the place - seems to have become private land now. TFTC!

Found whilst dodging the showers in the company of BFG. TFTC!

A quick jump & find. Team Cool is following Team Nerds

Dropped sprog #2 off at a sleepover party over this side of town so sprog #1 and I drove the extra 2.5kms to this cache! I’ll warn you now..the farmer has closed access off to the cache by taking the gate out and wiring a fence in. Didn’t stop us though and we climbed that sucker and quickly made our way to the cache before we were seen. I had brought a new waterproof log and bag to replace the ‘soggy lump’ that’s been reported here but only to find another group has already been through and replaced it. Quickly signed log and got the heck outta there TFTC

Did some acrobatics over the fence and quickly found the cache in the first spot we looked. Thanks!

planned group attack on new Plymouth for this long weekend.
with squirrel nutcase eyespyben and ABCDF4
kiwiana trail was our main goal but anything else will be great.
this was back to the car to get another log sheet
cache mush. you think we would remember to take a spare with us .
TFTC

With ABCDF4, eyespyben, and Gap (of Fap and Gap)... A planned expedition into the Taranaki region. All logs were signed with our individual handles, or Team HRP (Huntly, Rotorua, Papamoa) depending on who accessed the logbook first...

King's Birthday Monday: We were unsure how to approach this hide as the landowner appears to have removed external access. Nevertheless, we jumped the fence and hurriedly made our way to ground zone. The cache took a few sweeps to uncover, and we were dismayed to find pulp for a logbook. This just won’t do! We had to return to the vehicle to get a replacement, and then it was another swift trek to replace the cache… Job done! Thanks captainultra. TFTC.

Kings Birthday weekend we are off down Taranaki with Squirrel Nutcase and Fap ( Fap & Gap)
and EyespyBen
Some of will be signed HRP Team or Individual
The weather is great {cold}
Thanks for the placement

Kings Birthday weekend we are off down Taranaki with Squirrel Nutcase , Fap ( Fap & Gap)
and ABCDF4
Some caches will be signed HRP Team or Individual
I think the team say it all
Thanks to all the COs for there placements

First of 10 caches located today on our drive on the “Surf Highway” SH45 between New Plymouth and Hawera. This was a quick find. Photographed saturated log, as attached. #5752. TFTC.

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

I was on my regular fortnightly visit to Wanganui (from Wellington) this weekend, and despite the steady rain over this side of the country I found myself visiting New Plymouth for the afternoon today. After taking care of some errands we had some time to get out for a few geocaches before the wet got too much. This was one that we found.

The rain was really coming down by the time we got here, however my caching companion had an interest in local history so was very keen to visit this interesting spot. No problem finding the cache as described, however as the container is far from waterproof the log paper was a soggy lump and not able to be signed. Photo attached instead.

Found while driving the Surf Highway. Paper inside absolutely saturated

#13,124. Park, walk and grab on South Road in Omata. GZ was all quiet at the time of our visit. Quick find. The cache was wet inside. Tried to dry the log a bit. 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.

Out with D6NZ in New Plymouth today to collect a few Geocaches. Selected the Lagoon as a nice cluster and set out.

Having finished at the Lagoon and still an hour to spare we targeted a couple of nearby caches to round the day off.

Read the details of the cache while parked on the side of the road and simply walked straight to it without the need for a GPS device.

Log sheet was very very wet so D6 left another slip of paper with our names on it.

Thanks.

Yup but it's wet

Hi

Tftc. Cache log too wet to write on

Out and about on a last minute caching expedition.
Mrs rattll wandered over for this one while Mr rattll waited in the car.
A straight forward find, but as reported before the log is soaked. I scratched in something, but could see the ink running already. I do have a photo if needed.
Thanks for setting this up

Nice spotted on the way back to New Plymouth. Unfortunately log soaked, so photo taken.

Log sheet soaked. Didn't try to open the pages as it felt like it would tear.

I enjoyed the prompt to search more, not many photos at archives but got some good history from Google search. Unfortunately the log is very wet. Managed to make a mark but it's probably illegible. Really must get some waterproof logs that we can add to caches that need them. Tftc

Quick find log is wet needs attention many thanks

Interesting the number of sites like this in the area. Quick find. TFTC

Good find but needs waterproofing

I remember visiting this site years ago (and the previous cache), and I think there was an information board, telling the story - pity it's gone now, as it's quite an unusual one. I checked it out online when we got home. Good views from the top, too. Glad we stopped on such a lovely afternoon. TFTC

Lovely day to visit the stockade quick find and sign then went up to check the view TFTC

tftc found it, caching around on Public Holiday

Found. Tftc!

First cache in awhile taking a friend to show her how it's done log is very damp but all in all a good find tftc

A new cache in new Plymouth and so while we were over in that side of town , after going on Caddy's - we went to visit this cache I have seen the sign many times and often thought amazing that there is no cache here1 but now there is
i took nothing and left nothing but thanks for this new cache . all was in good order here .

Quick find on our way back to our tent in Oakura Beach. TFTC.

Quick find. Good to have a cache where you can hunt out of view of public. TFTC

Great view of mountain. Thanks

My start to the year of doing more caches, found quickly, cache all good tftc

First cache for 2021. Had a good look while at the top of the Pa for the view, accompanied briefly by some sheep. Missed seeing the cat (Miow4).

Nice spot, great place. TFTC

A great spot and some history many thanks

Out with the big fulla today

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.

*No problem, quick stop!*

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

Cache was quickly located after visiting my grandparents nearby. This used to be a waypoint for a multi cache which I found will have to have a look and see if that's still active

Today was a dot day so I looked for a cache near by to find this afternoon. I picked this one because it was recently hidden in a month I hadn't found - also happened to be on my birthday.
At GZ it was an easy find before I headed up to have a quick look around.
T F T C captainultra.

i love these historic place caches most times you just drive past them and see the sign and go i didnot know that was there ,well with a cache there you have to stop and look.

stoped of to grab this one with grandad

Quick find on a very damp day. Home to dry the shoes! TFTC

Driving past, as I frequently do so had to stop for this. Thanks.

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{FTF} found with dad also it's my first FTF great find
And thanks for the geocache

Great way to kick off our comeback to geocaching found with my son dizzle14 {FTF} TFTC

Ah just beaten by Ben n Jen, thanks for the new cache