Kuirau Lake (Bay of Plenty) Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
By Eruptn on 05-Jan-06. Waypoint GCRWHZ

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

Hi Eruptn

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

DNF

Hunted for quite some time for this cache with the help of family members. Unfortunately we could not find this one.

Had a really good search for this but suspect it may have gone.

Couldn’t find with the assistance of two others, lots of muggles around when we went

Been here before. Cache was well hidden. It is not here at all now.

Couldn’t find even with gps. Gave up and took photos instead.

Spent ages looking with Djangomalango but no luck. GPS was on target and searched around area but going to be a sad face today. Suggest owner checks to see if it is still there.

Couldnt find it. Unsure about having to go on other side of barrier.

Had a quick look while walking past here with fam.

Had a 5 minute look eith 5 of us and couldn’t find it

Had three people looking but no luck. Very well hidden! Still enjoyed the park. (The hint isn't terribly helpful when looking for for a ground level cache in a grove of trees known for tangling visible roots, with a couple hundred matching options within a few meters of the coordinates.)

DNF

Either I’m hopeless, or I’m picking caches in Rotorua that aren’t being maintained. Not willing to hop the fence so if it’s over there, which it shouldn’t be, I wasn’t going to find it. Couldn’t find anything on the correct side of the fence anywhere near GZ.

In Rotorua for Easter with Jag50 with the aim to put a smiley face on as many caches as we can. Think I found the container but had to climb the fence which we shouldn’t have to do as it’s dangerous

On a road trip north, enjoying the day and pic up some caches. TFTC

Greetings from 2 Austrians  
Die_Asseln

I looked for a good 45mins with 4 helpers and no luck finding this one, even after reading past votes.

Feel like I need to jump over the fence

Odloveno s Lucka Black, TFTC )

I am traveling with my daughter Lucinka mundlinka and son Negrritos across the New Zealand. We are from Prague, Czech Republic. We love "geocaching", the main target is caches )
Many beautiful caches, amazing and unforgettable experiences, thank all owners, TFTC )

Po příletu do Aucklandu zastávka v Ambury regional parku a první keše na Novém Zélandu, pak směr Hobbiton a dále Rotorua )

Found but no pen to sign log

Auf unserer Reise quer durch Neuseeland auch diese Dose gefunden.

TFTC
Grüße Orientexpress

My second attempt at this one, first time the place was heaving with muggles but today only a few visitors to this awesome region, able to retrieve cache in a break in the steam and also return under full steam cover, sneaky little hide, thanks Eruptn for maintaining this one

What an interesting park! Had to get hints from previous logs to find this one. It was a tough one to find when wearing glasses (fogging). TFTF

Found after a long search on our second attempt with a lot of help from previous logs. Was closer to the concrete cylinder than the coordinates suggested.

After checking likely hides then old logs Tui’s supreme logic triumphed over my ordinary logic. Smilies all around and without climbing into danger! TFTC

There were a lot of roots and I wasn't going to put my hand in too many of the holes!

Überall gesucht und fast jede Wurzel umgedreht. Drogenspritze gefunden aber nicht den logstreifen.
Danke sagt der Snejg

Played along with a young person I work with had some fun leading them astray for a little while! Had lots of fun

A lovely walk in the park culminating in a warm foot soak. Took a while to nut this one out as the GPS swung about. Very pleased to find the cache.
Thanks for bringing us here.

Dnf...

After long time with a friend... Dnf

Nice quick find at a really cool location. TFTC!

Only with the help of a previous log I could find it. Thank you for the cache.

Found it on a nice day after visiting Wai-O-Tapu. TYFC

An interesting spot in this park. TFTC

Took a little while to find this one - very sneaky, but fun! TFTC

Good find. Carapaige spotted it after checking logs for idea on which side of pathway. The lake is nice this time of year. Tftc

Found after some searching.
Very different city park.
Thanks
Family D
Denmark

Sneaky find amidst a haze of steam. Lakeside of the barrier. TFTC!

Needed the help of the logs but found it in good time. Beautiful and interesting place

Nach 3 Nächten in Turangi geht es heute mit Heckenstürmer weiter nach Rotorua. Dabei besuchten wir Wai-o-Tapu. Sehr interessant dieser Rundgang. Auch die Mud Pools bestaunten wir. Danach noch etwas Dosensuche rund um Rotorua, bevor der Tag zu Ende ist.

Greets from Switzerland

Great little walk, had to wait a couple of minutes after seeing it to grab because of muggles. Log has been replaced but no pen. Found with activity clues.

Day 21 in Newzealand. Today we drove from Kuratau to Rotorua.
A very beautiful Country with lovely places. We were able to find nice Caches and See Lots of beautiful places.
Thank you for showing us this place.
Tftc

What an amazing place for a geocache. TFTC

After cycling up Mt Nongataha this afternoon we headed into town to make a few more finds before finding a restaurant to eat dinner at.
This was a mission. We left empty handed to go off to the nearby earth cache and then back to the car to read some previous logs.
Now knowing which side of the path to look on narrowed this down and we eventually disturbed the well covered container about 6 or 7 metres from GZ.
A neat pool to bring us to.
TFTC

Great pkce. Found by my muggle wife. TFTC

A fascinating hot spot in a public park!

While enjoying the lovely Kuirau park with it's hot pools, we found this cache.
Thanks for hiding!
Greetings from Holland!

TB out.

Nice spot! In our “Backyard” where we are staying here in Rotorua. Had to use clues from others. I’m dropping a small Tb in the small box. Hope someone moves it on to cooler temps! Thanks for Fun in NZ w my son. Blessings from The States.

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

I was about to give up when I spotted the cache. Tired of searching? Find something to lean on and look again.
Tftc

What an interesting place to see and to be! Thanks for placing this cache here and bringing us here! Great surrounding well worth a Fav!

Tftc

Geloggt mit [Cachebot](https://cachebot.app), einer Geocaching-App fürs iPhone.

Back home in Denmark again from my 4th visit to New Zealand.
Luckily I had some time for geocaching when there, so now it is time to log my findes.
Took up this trail again from last year.
This cache was found, and the logbook was signed.
TFTC

We are on vacation in New Zealand and of course we seek some caches.
Thanks for this one!
Greetings from the Dutch.

The hint seems a bit misleading... but be creative and you’ll find it!

Tftc

Our visit to New Zealand was a good excuse to dust off this long neglected hobby. We found a lot of caches and saw even more amazing scenery.

With prior knowledge from past logs this one was easily spotted, but it took some time to grab it as the place was quite busy. Thanks for the cache!

Had some time before dinner tonight to go out and search. Log needs replacing. TFTC!

This geothermal spot is a great one for a geocache. I am glad we visited this amazing lake on our little trip to Rotorua. We spent a fair bit of time looking in the wrong spot for this one, searching in places we thought it was likely to be. Once we stopped our search while we waited for muggles to pass, we spotted it. We had to be sly and choose our moment carefully to get the log, which was full and needs to be replaced. Thanks for the cache.

Cool

Wonder if this has been moved?

Just walking along and noticed something odd

Yay at long last with many visits I finally hit jackpot.
I had been following the hint instead of using my eyes. Today I spotted the container and made the quick grab before anyone came past. Log is chockablock and needs replacement asap. Thanks for bringing me here many many times and at last for a smile.

Great hide if not a little smelly

Cool (!) lake!
TFTC

TFTC found while on a family holiday with nzref and nzzach great wee spot on Christmas day

On holiday with Claireyc and NZzach Christmas Day find tftc

Food with Claireyc and NZref

TFTC.

Like the others we were looking on the wrong side of the path. The ground was wet so it made it harder to see too. TFTC

Great lake in an awesome park but this cache could not be found. Coords showed to be some meters behind the fence into the dangerous hot lake and the roots revealed ni cache. Clearly not a D1-T1.

So many roots and jumpy GPS. But enjoyed the lake and park.

Looked really hard but gps was pointing us 4m to the other side of the fence :/

Too many muggles to really look. Will try again later.

We are in Rotorua for a couple of days on our tour of New Zealand so we decided take a good walk and grab a few caches. Thanks to the CO's for the caches.

Watching all this water bubbling out of the ground, oh wait! Look at that. TFTC

First day in Rotorua. We are visiting from Toronto ON Canada to spend 25 days with our daughter who lives in Wellington NZ.

Four of searched at GZ without success. DNF at 1:29 PM.

Auf Sonntagsspaziergang trotz Dampf des kleinen See‘s gefunden.

Awesome place! Tftc

What an amazing park. Really enjoyed wandering around the geothermal pools. Loved the variety of colours, steam and bubbles. Took quite a bit of hunting, Moose TB dipped, photo and favourite attached. TFTC. TM from N Wales

13.50: How often we have been to Rotorua before, but this is our first visit to the Kuirau Park. A lot of birds, hot water, cool water, steam, sulphur, Manuka and Kanuka. And all of them for free. Relaxed and tranquil atmosphere on this sunday afternoon throughout the whole area. Good coordinates made this cache a surprisingly quick find in the end. You do not need to climb a fence, but leaning over may help a lot...

Weather: cloudy, some sunny spots, 19°C;
Wheelchair: no problem at all, maybe quite helpful;
State: all good.

Thank you!
Oliver+Gabi

Tftc

tftc

This took a while to find and after about 10 minutes, I was joined by N72. We then had a good look around and after another 20 minutes, we were about to give up so I went back to the car and was then called back as it had been found. This is certainly not a difficulty 1 cache. TFTC.

Tftc

Did took some time, but after a while with the help of a guy from the UK we found it. Thanks for hiding.

easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Found at 15:04.

Our second trip to New Zealand. This time we explore the North Island for 3 weeks. This was one cache we found.



Thank you for placing and maintaining this cache Eruptn

TFTC

Awesome park area here! Easy find one my new zesland holiday trip. Tftc

Awesome place. Many thanks.

Traveling to Rotorua, stopped along the lagoons to see the beautiful views, touch the water and smell this air... Well not touch in all of them. We love to see this "fumarolas" and mud pools. This is a great Park. Thanks a lot.

Took awhile to find as plenty of muggles around to hinder search
Tftc

Found at ground level-no need to close me the fence.Nice and simple

Like other people I spent too long looking on the incorrect side of the path. After checking logs I looked over at the Lake and soon had the cache in hand. TFTC

Like many others I was searching on the incorrect side of the path. Once I looked at logs I turned towards the Lake and soon had the cache in hand. TFTC

Thanks rotorua central scout group

No joy today. Nigel Navigator putting me all over the place and lots of hidey holes to consider.