Rotoroa Ramble (Waikato) Melville, North Island, New Zealand
By Squeekybobo on 27-Nov-04. Waypoint GCM5D5

Shame as I work up at the hospital I would have adopted it.
I wasnt aware it was up for adoption

Well, actually, I know there is a great Wherigo cache round this lake.... check it out.

Now live to far away to maintain this cache, so called in today and retrieved it. Thanks to those who offered to adopt this cache, but it's basically a box shoved under the path - with this domain, so much more could be done with a new cache (multi, geometry, cryptic, etc). Thanks to all those who visited over the years - hopefully a new one will appear shortly.

Oh man, these muggles are coming from everywhere. Quick find in between them.
TFTC

sharpened the pencil but not the pen.

Met some old friends on the walk not seen for 15 years.
In - shell Out- nil . TFTC

Muggles galore, made locating the cache a bit of a challenge. But managed to do so undetected. Cheers.

First Hamilton find, never been to the city before!
A nice walkway, GPS was a bit sketchy, but we got there in the end. The clue helped too.
Cache was a bit wet.
TNLNSL

Cheers,
Blarghster.

I decided I should head out on a cache run,,,, I was Driving, My Ultra Ego riding shotgun....

On arriving it dawned on me that we had already been here.... see pic...

Cheers

Nice Walk!

Found a while ago with Bobo. TFTC.

Lovely walk on a lovely morning. Easy find.
- Jeep travel bug
TFTC

We have been to the lake a couple of time but never taken this walk. Thanks for leading us to it. Took Rugrats figure and put in a pair of dice. TFTC

Just dropping off "Morlee" Jeep TB
Went for a run around the lake this evening, so a good time to take it with me for a drop-off.

#11/11 A nice and easy find for the last hunt of the day. As we were checking it out (after taking it to the nearby woods away from muggle eyes) a cute little kitty came to say "hello" and tried to use the cache container to scratch itself before placing its head in it, thinking there was food in it! Signed log and replaced cache with no one the wiser, except for the furry 4 legged muggle who got lots of cuddles and pats TFTC

Our 5th of 10 finds today. Easy find, only one muggle alert! TFTC

Third time lucky, nobody about this morning. TFTC.

Nice and Easy Just the way I like it.
Very lucky no muggles for 5 minutes
T4TC

Son nearly fell into the drink had a big laugh. Love going to the lake

great find went out on a miserable day which could have made this easier cos on a good day ther are heaps of people round. thanks left globetrotter tb that i brought with me from oz

A nice quick find thank you.

Little lostpukeko found this one. Muggles passed by and he just held the ice cream container as though it contained a snack instead. Thanks

On a geocaching weekend with my sisters TEALNZ and PICKLENZ. We chose the wrong day to look for this one... the boardwalk was like a superhighway We tried the tactic of pretending to look for our "cat" but those Hamiltonians are just too friendly and helpful. Decided we'd better leave it for another day.

Same as Roxbury... too nice a day to stay at home...

Nice hide, nice place. not too many muggles today.. maybe the rain is the reason.
TFTC

Found it with my Dad. Signed log as GuanoGerbil. Thanks for the fun!

Found it with my Dad and brother. Signed log as GuanoGerbil. Thanks for the fun!

An easy but satisfying find. A nice place to be, even in the dark of night. Took the corkscrew and left a fossil.

Found it finally. Had a couple of attempts, but have been hampered by the summer muggle rush. Decided to grab it by the light of a full moon while everyone was revelling after the V8's. TNLN TFTC

Found with return2nai. TNLN TFTC

Fantastic location.
TFTC.

lovely evening walk while boys at hockey.

On our way from the crocodile hunt event to the glowworm cache, we had some time left and thus stopped by. Muggles, muggles everywhere. Luckily, the furry guardian told us where to look for. Gave her a long pet afterwards.
This nice area of Hamilton made us think again whether we will stay in Auckland when Rumo is finished studying, or move down here.

Took: TB, Kiwi statue
Left: Teddybear

TFTC

great cache, got some weird looks!! lol

Too many muggles around for my liking, climbed under one side and someone rode over me lying underneath then as I was logging it a big group of people came along. It was a tense moment for a minute but I showed them the stash note and told them it was like a world wide treasure hunt and the seemed happy

Took oregon coin
Left baseball

Quick easy find on our walk around the lake. Took a while to put the cache back due to high muggle activity, a very popular spot indeed.

TNLNSL
TFTC

#14. A wander around the lake and another find.
+ US 1/4 Oregon
- pen
TFTH

My first Cache. A quick find during a visit to the Yacht Club. Took Pangula's Telephone Box TB. Left Brown Kiwi

Found this one while on a mission to do 'a couple of caches' during the a lunchbreak.
Had to be super stealthy as plenty of people out for a lunchtime walk, so made good use of Freezer Mouse # 2 as a lookout whilst searching.
Unbelievably the second time today that we have been beaten to pick up a TB (Pangulas TB in this case), it must have gone this morning according to the logbook.
TFTC, TNLNSL.

Wow, beautiful lake. Enjoyed the stopover very much and #3 got the opportunity to have a good swim. Definitely recommend this one!

Lots of people around, took a while to find exact place

[Always a pleasant walk around Hamilton lake - thanks for making it interesting.]

A lovely walk around the lake (well part of it) whilst visiting Hamilton. Saw a cat near the cache (must be the guardian?). TN Left Pangula's Telephone Box TB. TFTC

Took this one on in the rain so did not have to worry too much about muggles. We walk around this lake often!
T-TB 'Deepdiggingmole'
l-TB 'Sam'

Nice wooden walkway around the lake very relaxing place.

+ TB Mole ( Wants to go to Hastings )

The second of our ten attempts that day. Another good place to visit. A little patience required with so many muggles around, but well-hidden.

Two down, eight to go.

TNLN TFTC

Wish that track had been there years ago, would have made for much more enjoyable running. Great find, sure are plenty of muggles about for that cache.

Quick find along a great walk beside the lake. Great to see all the ducks and wildlife full of the joys of spring. TFTC

Found at 09:00 but luckily most people were watching the rugby so there were minimal muggles passing.
TFTC

1686. We are impressed by the great boardwalks that have been constructed since we were last in this area. They have certainly helped us on our caching expedition today. There are certainly some mansions on this side of the lake! Thanks for giving us the incentive to walk a little further on this overcast and rainy day.

+ old NZ coins
- Travel Bug

Thanks
Iris & Rodney and Dorothy

Nice walk around the lake on a medium pleasant day. Easy find thanks to the not so discreet mark. Took foam balls, left a fireman. Dropped in Geo Caching Zone Pacific to continue its journey. TFTC

10.50am. Rain deterred us from a walk around the lake so we took a shorter route. Rain also did not deter muggles so our search, location and exchange and the return were punctuated by diversions as joggers, walkers, rowers etc came and went. No other difficulties and we were very impressed with the part of the walkway we did explore. Will come again to do the entire circuit. Enjoyed watching a family of ducks including three little chicks and then a similar family of Pukeko's. It was just the right kind of day for them.
+ Magnetic pen and toy.
- CD on Line Dancing
TFTC.
[8d] M&P.

Not so many muggles here today
TFTC

kotare and Signal-Lily had to spend quite a while waiting for muggles to pass by before being able to retrieve the cache. Enjoyed watching the pukeko bullying the ducks! Left squeaky frog. Took TB. Thanks.

[#438]
Quick walk along the boardwalk to GZ, lots of muggles out for an early evening ramble. Found and signed log in between the passing hordes, whilst admiring the brilliant sunset.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Great walkway but went for the lazy option of driving to the nearest point. Noticed a discreet little marker near GZ so tried there first and there it was.
TFTC.

#2 today. Quick find with low muggle count until we came to put it back. Had to put it back twice as we found our 2 yr old daughter had taken something we hadn't seen.
Nice spot.
Out bracelet and in Ambulance stamp TFTC.

Thoroughly enjoyed our walk around this park hoping to see the hot air balloons, which were suppose to be in the nearby park but unfortunatly weather not appropiate. TFTC

Pleasant walk at the end of an actioned packed weekend. TFTC

A icecream makes the walk better. second find of the day,muddles very active. Nice tree to sit under while filing in log.

A lovely evening for the full lake walk. Stopped by here and left BJ Travel Bug.
Actually managed a very quiet spot in the foot traffic while at cache site! So unusual

nice easy find, despite the amount of people out and about we had a great window to have a look and record in the log book
Nil in
Nil out
TFTC

Easy find with a bit of muggle dodging.

Out dice
In Nil

6.10pm. Found on my second attempt. Fewer muggles about this time but still got caught out with only my feet sticking out when one walked over the top!! Don't know if I was seen, they didn't stop to see if I was dead or alive.
Left a TB MJBVBJJB's homing device.
Thank you David & Noeline

found a heap of caches today with dad, helirc, tgawookie and my mum. great day

10.45am. Got it in the first place we looked. A lot more sheltered on this side of the lake today. The outrigger canoes were having a practice on the lake.
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (386)

Found it; enjoyed the young pukekos all around the lake. TNLN

I arrived at GZ just after a family who decided to stop 10m from the cache. Rather than draw attention to myself, I went back the way I had come and waited them out. Once they had gone I had the walkway to myself and could find the cache and log it undisturbed.

Oh no, someone was sitting right there, right where we wanted to look. Had to stop and get out the camera, an obliging pukeko was hanging around. The others left and it was an easy find.
Out TB
In Dice.
Thanks for a lovely walk.

First time we have circumnavigated the lake. Thanks for getting us going. Left Zurich TB , Took Labrador TB

Tried for quite a while but had no success. David.

Special cache for us NO. 100 . GPS right on the button just as well as time gap between puplic passing very slight. Many thanks of the cache.

A lovely evening for the walk around the lake. Dropped in Ozzy Otter TB for some puddling.

Stopped in to grab TB

Back when I used to feed the ducks here all the land on this side was farmland. It sure has changed. Visited with family and new granddaughter. TFTC

Dropped off Cedric as this cache was a comfortable size for him and he liked the look of the ducks.

Lots of muggles exercising on a fine Saturday morning, but only a tabby cat observing us as we found the cache and filled in the log book.
+ a marble, - nothing.

another nice day for a stroll. lots of muggles around. collected TB only. took him for a drive around lake.

4:25pm
Fantastic area.
Really good to see so many boardwalks.
In: Fridge Magnet
Out:NT
TFTC

TB Swap

TB Swap

Whoops I have entered a TB in here that is somewhere else-I have asked the owner of the TB to send me the number and ill fix it
I love new Mexico is actually in Rotorua Ramble

Not to many people out walking today as its about to rain again. Only one boat out. 6th of 20 for the day
In TB PhileasDOGG

Quick find today. Wasn't in the same position last year! TNLNSL

All I can say is if you see white on the ground RUN. Those darn birds have really good aim (they managed to get BOTH of us). Cache was a nice easy find. Thanks heaps

- Frog TB
+ holland Clog

TB swap

A quick visit in the early evening as showers threatened. Lots of walkers and joggers despite the inclement weather. In - Jeep TB. Out - Geocoin. Thanks again.

Had a lovely walk around the lake. It was nice and quiet with not too many muggles about as middle of the day during the week. Left Geocoin. TFTC

thought this would be difficult with all the muggles around but you can hear them comming around the bend in plenty of time to look innocent

stole the TB and left a pen
thanks

Weekend activity full on. Managed to find a gap to enter log nice spot

Dropped in again, and left a pencil sharpener. Sharpened the pencil with the log, and made a log entry that can be read this time. Had to carefully avoid muggles again, on a cooler but pleasant evening for a walk around the lake.

Been here before with Butterfly_Lady, so went for an evenings walk around the lake, with the express purpose of dropping off a TB. Looks like half of Hamilton likes to walk around the lake on a late summer’s evening too! Muggles everywhere! Managed to jump in and out in rare gaps though. Pen not working well , and the only pencil is brand new, never sharpened! I managed to scratch a few words with the pen, I think I will go for another walk around the lake in a week or so, and drop in a pencil sharpener.
A great place for a cache!

Dropped in TB Crocodile Flocke – he looked like he wanted to hang around the muddy shores of this lake for a little while.

Lovely Lake. My grandparents used to take me here to play as a kid. Nice walk and easy find by the boys. Thanks TNLN SL

Beautiful quiet birds. Nice area for a stroll

Fisrt find, nice and easy way to get started with my new toy. Unfortunatly the pen wasn't working. Suggest next person take a replacement . Also check out the awesome dragon around the path.

[This entry was edited by willkamp on Sunday, December 25, 2005 at 12:20:01 AM.]

Got a bit wet looking for it, but found it in the end. Nice area for a walk.
+ Shell
- Golfstays TB

Found it, after much scrambling in the swampy mud. Eventually found it on opposite side of boardwalk than indicated by GPS. Encrypted clue also led us astray! Spent a good 10 minutes searching the area.... including inside of hollowed tree stump / felled tree. But persistence pays off.....

In - shell
In - TB Golf stays...

Out - nil
Thanks for the hunt! Returned cache to where found.

[This entry was edited by Butterfly_lady on Friday, December 23, 2005 at 10:50:48 AM.]

Caching our way through NZ and stopped off to grab this one. Visiting from Utah, USA. Lots of muggels walking and running. Neat lake. Thanks for the fun! Bean Stompers

Visiting from Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories in Canada. Great cache!! Thanks. Easy find by my wife's sister. Not too many people around. Took cow, left coin.