Dancing Stream (Wellington) Raroa, North Island, New Zealand
By
Sallies & Gladys on 08-Jul-03. Waypoint GCGE12
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Logs
Found it after climbing the hill and being unsuccessful at one up there. Had been holding on to one as a default in case I had a DNF. Lovely area. I love how the forest biomes change so rapidly in this area and the large trees are so charming even on a less than ideal day like today. Thank you.
I made a whirlwind trip to Wellington with karen rinora, on the hunt for some awesome smilies. I enjoyed hearing all the bird calls as we hiked to the cache. The detailed hint made for a quick find. TFTC!
After looking in the wrong place, I read the cache description and then found it.Always nice to find a twenty year old cache.
Embarrassed to say how long this took us!Our tip - ignore the coordinates and follow the hint. Easy hide at GL once you find the correct tree! TFTC.
Parked at the carparks and walked the 200+m to GZ.Emantis and I had already found this together in November. We'll he found it to be clear while I was about 10 m elsewhere looking for it.But we didn't need one that day and decided to keep it drafted.I came back today to log it as I have solved some puzzles closer to home that I will keep up my sleeve instead.Just one muggle walked past before it was clear for me to sign the well conditioned logbook.Cheers.Sleepy was here!
Trouve ! / Found it ! Les instructions bien dtailles permettent de trouver rapidement la cache.4236me cache trouve.Merci Sallies & Gladys pour la cache The well-detailed instructions make it quick to find the cache.4236th cache found.Thank you Sallies & Gladys for the cache
My first aim of the day was this cache. I am trying to find missing months of oldies and enjoying finding them. Lovely to get a cache that has been going since 2003. Thank you for maintaining for me to enjoy the gorgeous walk this morning. TFTC.
This took a bit longer than the others on my mission today but while geohound cooled off in the stream, something caught my eye and soon had cache in hand. Cheers!
Had to follow the hint and ignore the gps for this one, found exactly as described and nicely tucked away. Cheers.
We came down this way from Mt KauKau. Boy that is a lot of steps. That will cure me of wanting to dance for quite some time.
You are the dancing stream...
Had a nice walk up to gz today. Lots of people out and about! Was largely not bothered by them though as I crossed the stream and fished out the cache carefully. Made it back just as a family rounded the corner. Tftc!
Had a nice walk up to gz today. Lots of people out and about! Was largely not bothered by them though as I crossed the stream and fished out the cache carefully. Made it back just as a family rounded the corner. Tftc!
Love stories like this. My 82 yr old mum is an avid geocacher and heads out with my sister most weekends.
As Jodanz found, my GPS was sending me the other way. However the directions were very clear and easy to follow.
I had 2 trackables to pass on and left one here before heading up to do the bush bash. Over an hour later, I returned with legs and arms torn and feeling a bit sorry for myself after a silly, failed venture I'll chalk up to lack of experience and that trackable joined the first!
Time for a soak in some detol!
As Jodanz found, my GPS was sending me the other way. However the directions were very clear and easy to follow.
I had 2 trackables to pass on and left one here before heading up to do the bush bash. Over an hour later, I returned with legs and arms torn and feeling a bit sorry for myself after a silly, failed venture I'll chalk up to lack of experience and that trackable joined the first!
Time for a soak in some detol!
A very pretty place for a walk. Don't think I'd been on this section of track before so the extra coordinates for entering the bush were helpful. Nice to find an older cache - in good condition. TFTC
Up from Dunedin on a roadie from Auckland to Christchurch to get a good number of North Island PWGT caches and some others.
Not being familiar with the area I was lucky a muggle appeared from the trail as I was trying to determine which way to go. A short stroll along a nice track and made an easy find with the handy hint. Stopped here for another one towards my Jasmer. Tftc
Not being familiar with the area I was lucky a muggle appeared from the trail as I was trying to determine which way to go. A short stroll along a nice track and made an easy find with the handy hint. Stopped here for another one towards my Jasmer. Tftc
Quick find as per detailed hint. This is a neck of the woods I don't get to often; I can't recall when I was last up this track, although I know I have been at some point. Signed and replaced as found. Tftc!
Up in Wellington for a few days so went for a walk to try out my new knee and to check this one out. A bit wet but logbook okay. Drained and dried before returning to its hide hole. Rodney.
Down from Hamilton to collect some TMGT and Jasmer caches.
I was able to quickly find this after a short walk to GZ, and was left alone to make the find. Thanks for the placement, I was able to find this quickly, which ticks off another Jasmer month
TFTC Sallies, the cache was found in good order
Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 6 find(s) of 15 today, making this find #2275
I was able to quickly find this after a short walk to GZ, and was left alone to make the find. Thanks for the placement, I was able to find this quickly, which ticks off another Jasmer month
TFTC Sallies, the cache was found in good order
Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 6 find(s) of 15 today, making this find #2275On a tour around the North Island with NZ Bozzy picking up TMTG caches and also some older ones . Having a great adventure and visiting lots of previously unvisited places.
Thanks for maintaining these older caches. Very special to be able to find and sign the logs.
Thanks for maintaining these older caches. Very special to be able to find and sign the logs.
Thanks a missing month cache found while in Wellington. Slowing filling my grid up. Someone out training her dog. Wonder if she knew what we were doing.
GPS pointed up the bank but the hint said otherwise so we followed the hint and quickly found it in the most obvious hint object.
Heading into the hills on a beautiful Wellington Sunday and collecting a few caches as I went. No trouble here thanks to the hint, Found all safe and dry, TFTC
This was a gap in my month year chart. I am very happy to find it. The bird song was beautiful. geocaching binge with Jude-E started yesterday. We stayed the night with a friend. This was one of them.
Thanks Sallies & Gladys for placing this geocache it is find 8395 for me.
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Thanks Sallies & Gladys for placing this geocache it is find 8395 for me.
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Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020
Wellington trip! Caching with Nosynel. Nellie says I need this date so here we are! Thanks, Sallies!
#5436
#5436
Took longer than it should. Looked around the wrong tree at first. Relocated and then found quickly. TFTC
A pleasant walk after a crazily windy down pour. All the native birds had come out to sing. The hint made for an easy find. TFTC.
Found as a part of a previous group TanjackMüley, now WanderingSparrow. Now I'm continuing on my own. TFTC
Lovely little hidden bush. We needed this cache as part of our date matrix and grabbed as we head to welly. Thanks for placing and maintaining the cache!
In the area today and needed to locate a cache to deal to a dot day. As this was the closest unfound one I thought I’d give it a go although I wasn’t entirely confident I’d find it! Initially wandered further off the track than I needed to. When I wandered back to the tree which best fitted that described in the hint, it didn’t take long to spot the appropriate ‘cover’ and behind that the cache. #2525. TFTC.
Bevor es auf die Fähre ging, wollte ich noch was für die Jesmer Challenge tun. Und so kam ich hier vorbei und entdeckte einen älteren Cache
Danke fürs herführen.
Danke fürs herführen.
Up in Wellington for my mother-in-law's 93 birthday so walked up and checked this out after the previous log. The cache was exactly where it was meant to be, where the hint said. Everything was dry and clean. Don't just glance in, look and feel! Rodney.
No success for us today, found the tree, even found a stone covering a spot, no cache.
Thanks for the detailed directions and the nice hide. This is our first geocache find!
Up in Wellington for the week so popped in today to check the cache after recent logs. Found the container in the recent photo, right where it belongs. Then searched further until I found the other container, which I recognised from a previous rendition. This one was in the original position, jammed in tightly. I removed this so there is only one container to find now, in the easier position. Great that it is still being sought and found. I changed the hiding spot ages ago because people couldn't find it and logged it as missing too often. Living in Christchurch made it difficult to check out all the time, and my mother-in- law is now 92 and doesn't get up the track easily any more! Rodney.
Now that would be a bit tricky without the hint. Had to use it all good here. Nice find for the evening. TFTC
Searched for a while, read hint more carefully, went straight to cache. Not sure what connollywhanau found but photo is different container, and lance_bu was last to sign actual cache. Nice stream! Cheers Sallies.
Found it.
A nice morning caching, hopefully before the weather changes.
Nice quick find once my phone gps settled.
SLTNLN, TFTC
A nice morning caching, hopefully before the weather changes.
Nice quick find once my phone gps settled.
SLTNLN, TFTC
Found it lying opened not far from the tree. Fixed it all up put it back together for others to find and enjoy.
I had just returned to Truscott Ave after getting another cache on another path so headed up this path to find this cache. When the GPS said I was close it pointed me an unexpected direction. As I had trouble with accuracy under tree cover for a previous cache I decided I'd better use the hint. That almost made it too easy and the cache was in hand about 30 seconds later. The GPS never settled on a location close to where I was always insisting I was some 18 metres away. Thanks to the hint that didn't matter so TFTC.
On my last visit I spent 10 to 15 minutes here before being interrupted by an email and leaving without a find. Today I went straight to the cache. Luck? Possibly, or just more experience.
It's still a beautiful stroll up through the trees to GZ. TFTC
It's still a beautiful stroll up through the trees to GZ. TFTC
Fitted in some geocaching today with granddaughter Stella (Starza). This was find number eight of eight for the day for Stella. This one took her just a few seconds. A good excuse for a maintenance check from me. Rodney.
Did some geocaching today with my Poppa (Sallies). I found this one very quickly once we arrived at GZ. A nice bit of exercise and a chance for Poppa to check out his cache. Thanks for the cache. Stella.
In Wellington for a conference so called in here today and checked out the cache. Couldn't find it where it was meant to be so put in a new container. If anyone finds the old one around GZ feel free to remove it and leave just the new one. Rodney and Iris.
We will fix this up next time we are in Wellington - unless some other kind geocacher would like to help!
Outer container was very wet and needs to be dried out However although quite damp the log can still be filled in
The GPS got me pretty close actually despite the thick canopy and deep valley But the good hint really helped Tftc
First find of the day. Working off the sugar rush of Easter with the family. Tftc
I quickly made my way to the foot of the steps and crossed the stream. A few minutes of searching yielded nothing and then an email dinged on my phone and I had to leave. It's a lovely spot so I look forward to a return visit ☺
1535 After having a summers picnic thought I would do do some dancing in a stream. Two older caches in 1 evening. Nice little walk. Was going to do the circular track but realized it went round in a loop so took the easy option.
I was grateful for the explicit directions in the cache description as the android phone was struggling big time under the trees. As it was it was a quick find, tucked away nicely. Thanks for the cache.
I went to get this after a frustration of finding the Bush Bash Bosh cache.
Thanks for the cache. All in good order.
Thanks for the cache. All in good order.
Went back today to make sure everything okay still. Decided to take out the geocoin and move it on. Rodney.
Walked up to check this one out this evening. It was either missing or well displaced! Put out a new container in the original position and changed the cache description slightly. Should be fine for a while. 
Also dropped off the Aries trackable. Rodney.
Also dropped off the Aries trackable. Rodney.Took the geogirl out with the initial intention of completing the Circle Track, but ended up going all the way up to the transmitter. Geogirl attempted the stream crossing by walking along a log handily placed but ended up with a foot in the water, whereupon it was daddy ferry service to the rescue!
This was the first of the several caches we found today, and good to pick up such an old cache. TFTC
This was the first of the several caches we found today, and good to pick up such an old cache. TFTC
We should have relied on Sallies' unambiguous instructions as to where the track starts but didn't because the topo map looked definitive enough (but wasn't, really because it indicated a fork rather than 2 separate tracks). However, at the end of the road, a few moments of applied common sense logic and we chose the correct track - the left one as you approach the end of the road. 
GPS reception is certainly not great under this dense bush (as advised!) but we had the right place on the track sorted soon enough where, after the 3 stream crossings, the double set of stairs is the first of the many wooden stairs up this track.
We managed to take the instructions from there a bit too literally/precisely instead of applying a bit of geosense on the ground. As a result we searched for ages too far up the slope, and too far from the stream. Also, we couldn't find any sign of the 2 branches that jut out across the track. Further up on the open tops, it was obvious that there had been a lot of recent track maintenance and the overhanging branches may have been removed then.
... Anyway, the search was then on in earnest for the actual cache, a search I was reluctant to abandon without success since this is such a significant cache, historically. As others before us have noted, things change with the passage of time in the bush and the search took us an eternity with so many decoy hint trees to eliminate, on top of which, we were looking in the roots of much larger trees than the one in which we eventually stumbled on the cache.
VERY pleased to get our first 2003-placed cache - Thanks Rodney & Iris, and I hope Gladys still gets a kick out of the fact that her cache still keeps on keeping on.
TFTC.Made for a nice little outing with the 3 year old who enjoyed crossing the stream and going up all the steps after!
