Barrett Domain (Taranaki) Hurdon, North Island, New Zealand
By Smoking Gun on 22-May-03. Waypoint GCG624

Cool cache, took abit of searching but found it!

Got confused until we realised what a kwhai tree was! Well hidden. Thankyou!

Good spot

Easy one

Found TFTC, clever hide

Brilliant hide

Doing a bit of a whirlwind trip around the North Island - Lower Hutt-Palmerston North-Hawera - to see friends and family. Have my eye on a few caches to fill in my "months hidden" grid, this being one.A beautiful day, but the wind is a tad chilly. Didn't take long to work out where I needed to be. One side was a lake, the other side wasn't. A quick find exactly where the hint suggested.Thank you for this old cache. Stoked to have it as a smiley.

Found while out looking for a rubber chicken (Mad butcher comp) so didnt have a pen with me. Will be back tomorrow to sign the log. What a great little find

Nice placement with a great hint!

Got there with Tokerau

Found my way in from the new subdivision entrance off Timaru road. Cache still tucked away as suggested by the hint.Amazing and great that these old caches are not archived, thanks in now small part to the CO.

Too hard I got stuck

Took a few minutes, picked it up and didn't realize it was it until I looked again 5 minutes later. TFTC

Found it in easy under a rock good spot fortgot to bring a pen but we took the cat sticker inside

TFTC

Thanks for good find

Easy find thanks

Waterproof paper added. Thanks JB.

We overthought this for a bit before finding the cache. Log is really wet. TFTC

Well hidden

Lots of treasures. Great cache.Thanks.

Clever wee cache, good hints, took nothing, but added some gold to the treasure!

Found it! Gotta get into the bushes

Great spot, quick find

A bit of a geotrail leading in

Small treasure left for the next finder

Found it. Genius little sneaky spot. Thank for the hunt

Nice short walk, and fun having to go off track

Found!

Tftc - great spot

Found it! Needs maintenance though as water has gotten in.

2nd time a win

What a place! That was a tricky one. I passed it many times and ended up my hubby found in by moving stuff on the ground..

Good find many thanks

Found, allgood here. Cool hide and beautiful spot! Left an art sticker 5 year indoor/outdoor vinyll

We walked past it a few times… Don’t leave any stone unturned!!

Thanks

Barrett Domain (Taranaki) was transferred from smoking gun to user TaraTed

Very beautiful lake and tree and a sneaky hide

Yep

Good night me but needs new paper

Wouldn't say it's the biggest tree, not that size matters

Great hiding spot. Passed this many times before. Nicola erin and george

It was at the tree

I havent done the walk, or collected caches, around Barrett Domain before, so with a couple of new caches in the area I decided to go for a walk and collect all the caches.
There were muggles lurking as I got to GZ but I ducked off the track as the hint instructed and soon had it done and was on my way. Thanks for the cache.


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Logs of small k trees. Just look for a good opening

Out for a cache hunt with Go_Zz, GigiEV and Soso. This one took a little longer to find as we started at the wrong K, plus some muggles came past while we were hunting so we ducked and froze while they went by. Go_Zz found this one. Several varieties of ducks and some black swan at the lake today.
Tftc

Love your creativity TFTC!

Took a wee bit of fossicking around, but got there in the end. Also got mixed up with the wrong kowhai. Great walk with Granddaughter Georgia & canine Maisie

Found on a walk after dinner with TeamAlmaWoody and my fav doggy Maisie. A few hint items to choose from but we soon found it. TFTC

Cool little find!

Found it if follow the instructions it's easy enough

Awsome find!

Found it.

Found it first this time. Its been my husband every other time

Added a little butterfly to the minion

Spending the weekend in New Plymouth. Lots of caching to be done in this fine weather. Enjoyed the stroll around the domain. Took a while to identify the right Kowhai tree but once I did it was fine. Thanks for the smiley.

such a fun one! and cute disguising! my pen failed on me so I could not log! though fun none the less!!

Great hint. Thanks!!!

Found it, log too wet to write in. Many thanks for the $20! Never come across that before! And well received, thank you

Great hint instructions!!

Hard to find! $20 placed in the cache for the next finder. Enter the bush through the flax bushes.

Really challenging

Great camouflage!

Great spot!

Cool camo

Awesome hide. Lovely location. TFTC.

Well concealed! A lot of effort put into the hiding.

Awesome hunt!

First one we ever found. One excited Sophia Grace (14)

Tried to find this a couple of years ago with no luck. This time I was in the area and managed to get it. TFTC

We found it, an easy find if you follow the hint!

I had never been in this area before and so I thought I'd get a double whammy by trying to find this cache at the same time. The funny thing was I looked right at the cache a couple of times before having an 'aha!' moment. So the log book has been signed and the cache is nicely back in its spot all ready for the next geo-hunter. Thanks heaps for taking the time to set up and maintain this cache. I really appreciate your efforts in doing so. TFTC and Happy New Years!

Found, fell at my feet

Yes the cache is there. But follow the hint. It is well disguised, so that it doesn't get nicked.

Could not find cache

North Island Campervan trip Day 2

After the fantastic holiday I had a few months ago traveling around the South Island, making the most of one of those incredibly cheap campervan deals available at the time, I figured it was worth taking a week off work before the stresses of the usual holiday period to enjoy some of the delights to be found around the top of the North Island.

So seeing as I have to get to Auckland to pick the camper up it seemed like a great opportunity to break my drive up there up by going via the Taranaki, to seek out some targeted caches there such as the TMGT ones as well as some that would help me with my Jasmer grid, missing minutes (for a couple of challenge caches I'm working on) and any other caches that caught my eye.

Today was simply the drive up to Auckland from New Plymouth. This was an opportunity to go caching in an area I don't often get to and in fact haven't been to at all since I started caching. But before I set off on the trip up north, I had a few caches around here that I wanted to look for including this one which I really wanted to fill a hole in my Jasmer grid.

I arrived at GZ without too much issue, only to be completely flummoxed once there. My GPS was suggesting I had to go off the path into the lake itself by about 6-7 metres. I spent about half an hour systematically searching every tree within about a 20m radius but had to admit defeat and walk back to the car. It was a nice walk, but a frustrating result for me.

Thankfully we trusted the co-ords, and found the cache right where it should be A good spot and lovely views across the lagoon. TFTC

Pre Labour weekend trip away, seen as I'm working through Labour Weekend, I decided that from Wellington I would head towards Whanganui for the night, then home via New Plymouth to collect some TMGT and Jasmer caches.

A nice walk here to sign off this Jasmer cache. The water is really clear here, just a shame people have thrown some rubbish in real mature guys..

TFTC smoking gun, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 9 find(s) of 15 today, making this find #2293

An enjoyable we walk to find this cache.

Jude_E, NosyNel and I are continuing on our figure of 8 tour of the North Island collecting the ‘Tour’ caches, plus others, plus seeing the scenery, plus having a good old time. TFTC.

The tree began to talk. It was Jude_E who had found the geocache. It was a pleasant walk. I am on a North Island Figure of Eight tour. For the first 4 days I spend time in the Bay of Plenty with my husband JDScout in Rotorua. Now I am on part two of the eight loop near the end of our loop, driving from New Plymouth to Whanganui. This part is being done with my good friends Ethness and Jude_E.
Thanks Smoking Gun for creating this hide. It was find 9094 for me.

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Ethness, Nosynel and I are on a caching adventure. Second last day and we are heading south. A nice walk now the sun is out. Nicely camo'ed. Thanks for tje hide.
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First time we’ve been out caching for ages. Great easy find to get back into it. Good hint! Thanks for the cache!

Found it, nice little spot

Cool first find for a while. May need new paper.

A lovely afternoon for a new place to walk the dog and do the caching thing! Great little find.

Lovely walk. Didnt take too long locate. Good hide thanks!

Tftc great camo

A rocky start but we found it in the end. Wet paper meant we couldn’t sign it off at site.

great

Once the code was figured out, easy find. Thanks!

Nice camo!

Yay another find

Some of the rhyme seemed to work for us, but the precise hint made for a quick easy find. TFTC

Tftc nice easy find

Tftc

Yay second time round, definitely having more luck this time. TFTC

Thanks love it. I tried finding this one a few years ago. Had no luck. Today was our lucky day.

Took a bit of scouting around but eventually found it. Our first geocaching adventure