Train Spotting (Wellington, NZ) Waterloo, North Island, New Zealand
By
Micky_7832 on 23-Jan-23. Waypoint GCA467T
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Bot of searching but should have noticed the size of the cache, because after that, it was a straightforward find! TFTC.
A drive to Lower Hutt to find some more caches before the event in Lower Hutt this evening. Thanks Micky_7832 for the cache.
A quick easy find despite the rain today. We tipped quite a lot of water from the container, but the log was dry. TFTC
#15,487. Park, walk and grab in Waterloo, Lower Hutt. The GZ was all quiet at the time of our visit. Relatively quick find. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.*Thanks for the geocache 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.*---### LET US HAVE A BLOCK PARTY!!! ###On **May 3rd, 2025**, we will be celebrating 25 years of geocaching in **Rotorua, New Zealand** with a special **Block Party** event. Join us to celebrate 25 years of this amazing game, and that the very first geocache hidden outside of the United States, 25 years ago, was hidden here in New Zealand.You do not want to miss this event, so check out the ["25 Years of Geocaching NZ! (GCAKR25)" event page]( https://coord.info/GCAKR25) and [event website](http://25years.geocache.nz) for more details, join the [facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/924894455969387) group, and sign up to the [email list](http://25years.geocache.nz?p=4) to get updates...If you intend to come, please make sure you get your ["Will Attend" log]( https://www.geocaching.com/live/geocache/GCAKR25/log) onto the page as soon as you can in order to assist with planning the first ever Block Party in New Zealand.**Happy caching and we will see you in 2025!**---
Nearby road works made this a bit tricky but I managed to get in and out without getting spotted. Thanks.
Trippy cache between the road and rail. 
New to this and enjoying the experience.
New to this and enjoying the experience.Trouve ! / Found it ! La bote est clairement facile trouver, peine arriv sur les lieux... 4445me cache trouve.Merci Micky_7832 pour la cache The box is clearly easy to find, having barely arrived on the scene...4445th cache found.Thank you Micky_7832 for the cache
I stopped by and found this cache last Sunday, but on seeing and verifying on the cache page I decided not to claim it then. Today, however, is a size=regular dot day, so I got off the train here, re-found the cache. Went back to the train station and discovered it would be another hour before a train came by that stopped at Naenae!! Six trains came past with none scheduled to stop at Naenae. I checked the board - there were a whole bunch more! Right in the middle of the home commute time and no stops at Naenae?? What gives?? I ended up walking home.
Anyway, and least the CO looks after my interests. Another Regular dot day done, only... 86 to go. No, I am not really targeting regular dot days, but I may as well work them when I get the chance!
Just had a look at your profile, Micky. Four finds, one hide. Pretty good hide for such an inexperienced person! Well done!
Anyway, and least the CO looks after my interests. Another Regular dot day done, only... 86 to go. No, I am not really targeting regular dot days, but I may as well work them when I get the chance!
Just had a look at your profile, Micky. Four finds, one hide. Pretty good hide for such an inexperienced person! Well done!
A quick duck into the bushes and found the cache out in the open, covered it up abit more, tftc Micky_7832
A nice easy find here, no sign of any trains though. Thanks Micky_7832
#14098
#14098
We missed the turn prior to the previous cache so found ourselves on the wrong side of the tracks to continue with our planned route so we came and found this one instead. No trains were spotted in the process. Great to find a regular size cache too thanks Micky 7832. TFTC # 19,817
I had walked to this site a few months ago to check things out but decided it wasn't a good place for me to go searching in my work attire. I figured a weekend visit was probably going to be easier and I finally got around to it today. The treasure was found after a short search. TFTC, Micky_7832.
After collecting the Trafalgar Park W, it wasn't far to bike here for another quick cache.
TFTC
TFTC
I wonder about the post close by? It will have a story to tell. TFTC A little damp inside but all good.
A quick drive-by to grab this one. Happened to find a parking spot across the road which was lucky as the carpark is usually full at this time. A little looksie under the trees and the cache was soon spotted. All good here, and TFTC.
I quickly spotted the cute hide. One for the latest challenge, thanks Micky_7832
Out and about with Flowerydaze doing the A-Z of Lower Hutt series and some others which happened to be close by. The inside was a bit damp but otherwise all good. Thanks for the caches Micky 7832
Talla64 and I are out and about today doing a bit of caching. I'm trying for the Wheel of Challenges Souvenir, although I vaguely remember saying, some time ago, that I wasn't going for anymore souvenirs. Well, I did mean it at the time! Thank you very much for the cache Micky_7832 - all good here.
So many cars in this car park, some very neatly packed in their rectangle. A train past while I was searching for the cache. I wonder if anyone saw me and wondered what I was doing..
Kia ora rawa atu for the cache Micky_7832.
Kia ora rawa atu for the cache Micky_7832.
A nice quick find. Thanks for placing your cache.
Ms_KR and I cruised around today, picking up the odd cache on our journey to Palmerston North. The weather was good most of the day, and the traffic was OK too.
Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. .
Ms_KR and I cruised around today, picking up the odd cache on our journey to Palmerston North. The weather was good most of the day, and the traffic was OK too.
Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. .
Very busy here so no parks to be had. On the other hand, everyone was at work, so we were the only people around. Thanks Micky_7832
In the area and had some time to fill. Needing numbers for the "Wheel of Challenges" a no brainer to pop by here. Coords spot on, an easy find with no muggles around. TFTC
NB: The cache finder before me wrote their log date as 14th April - strange as I was here today 13th April.
NB: The cache finder before me wrote their log date as 14th April - strange as I was here today 13th April.
A rare quiet Friday evening for me so I chose to get out and grab a few caches around and about that I'd been meaning to get to for a while. This was one of them.
Easy parking and all quiet in the area when I was here which made for an easy and discreet duck into the bushes where the cache was soon spotted. All in good condition here, but no trains were spotted.
Thanks to Micky_7832 for placing and maintaining this cache.
I enjoy each and every cache I find, and it is only with CO's like this placing them out in the world that this wonderful game continues
Easy parking and all quiet in the area when I was here which made for an easy and discreet duck into the bushes where the cache was soon spotted. All in good condition here, but no trains were spotted.
Thanks to Micky_7832 for placing and maintaining this cache.
I enjoy each and every cache I find, and it is only with CO's like this placing them out in the world that this wonderful game continues
Stopped here this morning. The cache was a few metres away from where the GPSr was pointing me, but nevertheless a straightforward find. All in good condition. No trains while I was here today. Signed log, TFTC.
(# 7531) Out and about early Sunday morning to retrieve a few caches. A quick find. Thanks for bringing me here.
Congratulations on your first hide.
I came out here appropriately by train but did the cache on the other side of the tracks first.
To my dismay I found that the man on the motorised mower was having a break right next to GZ. I said hi to him and started to head back towards the station thinking I might have to come back another time, but as I got close to the station I realised he had gone back to work and was a bit further down so I returned to GZ. He did get a bit close to GZ but fortunately I had some cover from the trees by then. Took a few minutes to spot the cache, and once I grabbed it he was getting close again so I decided I would head out of the bushes and sign the log further away from him. I then realised this might not be such a good idea to be acting suspiciously with a box in view of the security cameras in a railway station car park!
By that time the mower man had gone further south again so to my relief I could sign the log, return the cache quickly and get outta there!
TFTC.
I came out here appropriately by train but did the cache on the other side of the tracks first.
To my dismay I found that the man on the motorised mower was having a break right next to GZ. I said hi to him and started to head back towards the station thinking I might have to come back another time, but as I got close to the station I realised he had gone back to work and was a bit further down so I returned to GZ. He did get a bit close to GZ but fortunately I had some cover from the trees by then. Took a few minutes to spot the cache, and once I grabbed it he was getting close again so I decided I would head out of the bushes and sign the log further away from him. I then realised this might not be such a good idea to be acting suspiciously with a box in view of the security cameras in a railway station car park!
By that time the mower man had gone further south again so to my relief I could sign the log, return the cache quickly and get outta there!
TFTC.
#12,487. I was doing some write-ups on the computer at home on Waitangi Day and the fine weather was beckoning me outside,. My legs are still recovering from a big day walking around Mt Holdsworth tracks on Saturday. So today just had to be park and grabs. It was very quiet here on a public holiday. Wandered over to GZ and saw the cache immediately. That is not my normal style. Normally I check out a lot of places before finding caches. Signed the logbook and replaced where found. Thanks Micky 7832 for hiding it here. Nicely done camo and interesting use of that container type. Hope it copes OK with the rain.
While this wasn't an immediate find I wasn't here very long before spotting something unusual. I wasn't sure what I was looking for and the description was worded in way which itself seemed unusual but actually turned out to be very helpful. It will be interesting to see if this holds up to the elements as I hadn't seen one used as a cache before. TFTC.
Day 2 of soggy impromptu cache hunting with LL113, slightly less soggy, rather more humid
Took me a while to find the nicely camouflaged container. My phone decided it was going to start ringing incessantly which was an unnecessary distraction. 4 calls later I finally spied what I was looking for. Signed log and returned safely to where I found it. TFTC
25 January 2023 20:04 TFTC Micky_7832 for placing this cache, number 12288 for me. First to log online... I saw this pop up in my e-mail and was out of the door in under 2 minutes! I knew there are a number of keen FTF hunters in the Hutt, but I still needed a cache for the day and I still had a skerrick of a chance... Got to the parking, nobody I recognised around. Refreshed C:Geo, still nothing other than the publication note appeared. I started searching, but my skills were off this evening, and it took me a couple of minutes to spot the nicely camo'd box. Then there was nothing left to do, but add my name to the logbook, noting that a couple of others had been there before me. Oh well, them's the breaks. It's a lovely evening, I have my cache for the day, and all is good with the world, so I drove off to get the much needed shopping.
Mum is helping me log all my caches that I haven't logged yet.Joint {FTF} with Mum (LL113) and TwigNZ.
Joint {FTF} @ 7:40pm with TwigNZ and UnicornLex
*BING*
The sound my phone makes when a new cache is published! And wow, this one happens to be less than half a kilometre away from home. Miss 10 is always up for a FTF, so we jump in the car super fast!
After a VERY short car ride we arrive at GZ and quickly spot something of interest. After a good exploration this does not appear to be a useful object, however with a D3 rating maybe there is a trick to it...? Miss 10 ends up broadening her search area when TwigNZ arrives. He is there less than a minute when he spots something in the opposite area to Miss 10!
Success! Miss 10 was stoked to bring home the FTF award!
Thanks for this new cache.
*BING*
The sound my phone makes when a new cache is published! And wow, this one happens to be less than half a kilometre away from home. Miss 10 is always up for a FTF, so we jump in the car super fast!
After a VERY short car ride we arrive at GZ and quickly spot something of interest. After a good exploration this does not appear to be a useful object, however with a D3 rating maybe there is a trick to it...? Miss 10 ends up broadening her search area when TwigNZ arrives. He is there less than a minute when he spots something in the opposite area to Miss 10!
Success! Miss 10 was stoked to bring home the FTF award!
Thanks for this new cache.
Joint {FTF} @ 7:40pm with LL113 and UnicornLex, and a First Day Find
I've not been long back in NZ after an extended break in the UK and Spain, and was keen to see if I could grab a FTF as I hadn't had one this month, so when I got the notification of this cache being published I was out of the front door with my car keys in hand faster than you could say "Waterloo Station"!
I wasn't the first to get to GZ, but I was the one to find the cache and open it up. The nice little FTF prize I gave to UnicornLex, as what young cacher wouldn't like something like that? I was just happy with a blank log book
An interesting first cache. The co-ords are good, and I can see the effort that has gone into the container. I think you might find that the box struggles a bit with exposure to the elements, but time will tell. All in all it was a nice cache to find so congrats on your first placement, and thanks for the cache.
I've not been long back in NZ after an extended break in the UK and Spain, and was keen to see if I could grab a FTF as I hadn't had one this month, so when I got the notification of this cache being published I was out of the front door with my car keys in hand faster than you could say "Waterloo Station"!
I wasn't the first to get to GZ, but I was the one to find the cache and open it up. The nice little FTF prize I gave to UnicornLex, as what young cacher wouldn't like something like that? I was just happy with a blank log book
An interesting first cache. The co-ords are good, and I can see the effort that has gone into the container. I think you might find that the box struggles a bit with exposure to the elements, but time will tell. All in all it was a nice cache to find so congrats on your first placement, and thanks for the cache.
