Logs for the Seagnoid 

I'll be there but I won't be eating. I'm on a zero food diet  

I'll be there an hour early! 

Stream has changed, cache seems gone. 

I have to agree with the CO. I think of it as the aCola series too. It's pronounceable. acoiaf? I walk in at Butterfly Creek to do the Golans Creek, having done the rest 4 years ago. I did it as an overnighter, doing all the caches yesterday, then setting up camp at the last one, then climbing up to Hawtry and out via Days Bay. The Climb up to Hawtry was interesting - I was expecting a bush bash, but I encountered a pest control trail, so I had a reasonable trail to follow. Not that following it was easy, but the fallback was to just head uphill, and I'd soon encounter the trail again.It was a wonderful weekend away from people. Only thing spoiling it was... meeting people! Only on the ride and civilisation side, thankfully. A blissful weekend out in the bush by myself.Anyway. Walking back to civilisation. This is one of only two caches I have left in Eastbourne, so had to exit out this way. Stopped at the seat to admire the fine view (photo) then walked back up hill to get the cache. Then down the hill again for lunch. 

I didn't see the email come out. But I did see the messenger notification saying my friends are heading here. Quick look - hey! Less than a kilometre away! Okay, longer if I cycle via the roads. Anyway, I race out the door and cycle out at high speed. When I get there one friend was already there and we waited for the other before finding the cache.Thanks for the {FTF}. Jointly found with NZ_B and YetiNZ.Alas the container suffers from Narrow Neck Syndrome. This occasionally causes ripped bags, and alas did in this case 

My last cache for the day. I came in from the south end, from Butterfly Creek, and I will be heading out north, to Days Bay. but for now, after finding the cache I set up camp, pulled out a book had a leisurely meal and enjoyed the peace and quiet that comes with a babbling brook and bird song. There were even some ruru nearby.Ah, but the next morning was a challenge. Once I was packed and ready to go - which way? I knew there was a row of caches leading up to the ridge, but when I viewed them at home I was looking at the "live map" and had forgotten to download them, so that are not load offline. Which means I don't have them. No matter, I'll go straight up the side to Hawtry (really? MOUNT Hawtry? It's only about 400m!). There was a bait trail heading that way - yay. But soon it turned north to follow the stream. I kept my line and followed the ridge up. And found another bait line! I thought I was following an animal trail. Maybe. Maybe not. The I kept losing the bait trail and it kept coming back, and it certainly made things a little easier. I popped out onto the ridge track about 150m north of Hawtry peak, and then met the first people since yesterday lunchtime, again, on the ridge. three runners this time, real fit buggers, chatting as they ran. Me, I am sweating bucket loads, and it is a cool day! After that strenuous uphill it was nice to walk the relative flatness of the ridge.Stopped for an early lunch at the Days Bay cafe. Ate too much. Another measure of how unfit I am.Man, I so loved this trip. Got to do more of them. Giving this a favourite for the general awesomeness and that I made camp here.--- I did the majority of the ACoIaF series 4 years ago. I walked the main figure-8 in a day and it was a blast! Then I came back in July this year to do the Golans Creek section. Did most of it but it was winter and so did not have time to finish it (as a day walk).Well, today I am back. And this time I am planning an overnighter. Sure it could be a done as a day walk, but, frankly, I feel a need to run away from people. And concrete and tar seal and the sounds of cars etc. I came out on my own, just me and my EPIRB. On the ridge above Eastbourne I messaged my emergency contacts and told them I am going out of cellphone coverage and from that point didn't see a soul till I was back on the ridge heading back into civilisation. 

I spent a bit of time hunting around what looked like a good option on the bank at the stream's edge. But when I looked up and saw *that* tree I knew that's where it would be. Yep it was.I suppose I should talk about the series. I have not read the books, and after seeing the rather over the top violence of the first episode on TV, I didn't watch it for quite a while Later I caught a few ore episodes which were easier to watch but by then I had missed so much of the story. So I only know... like... three characters?---I did the majority of the ACoIaF series 4 years ago. I walked the main figure-8 in a day and it was a blast! Then I came back in July this year to do the Golans Creek section. Did most of it but it was winter and so did not have time to finish it (as a day walk).Well, today I am back. And this time I am planning an overnighter. Sure it could be a done as a day walk, but, frankly, I feel a need to run away from people. And concrete and tar seal and the sounds of cars etc. I came out on my own, just me and my EPIRB. On the ridge above Eastbourne I messaged my emergency contacts and told them I am going out of cellphone coverage and from that point didn't see a soul till I was back on the ridge heading back into civilisation. 

yet another stream crossing. Alas I could find no Q and no cairn. And no cache. Not for lack of trying, I spent a long time here, and must have crossed the stream six times as I gave up on onside and went have another look on the other side. 

I am really impressed at how these simple paper logs are holding out in this prime New Zealand temperate rain forest. And its another 1000-day lonely find!! Woohoo!!Okay half of that woohoo is just that I am out here, on my own, enjoying every minute of it.---I did the majority of the ACoIaF series 4 years ago. I walked the main figure-8 in a day and it was a blast! Then I came back in July this year to do the Golans Creek section. Did most of it but it was winter and so did not have time to finish it (as a day walk).Well, today I am back. And this time I am planning an overnighter. Sure it could be a done as a day walk, but, frankly, I feel a need to run away from people. And concrete and tar seal and the sounds of cars etc. I came out on my own, just me and my EPIRB. On the ridge above Eastbourne I messaged my emergency contacts and told them I am going out of cellphone coverage and from that point didn't see a soul till I was back on the ridge heading back into civilisation. 

There is no fern that matches your photo. There is a very tall fern, and it may be your one, but it is now right on the water's edge, on the far side of the stream. The shape of the stream does not match your photo either. The pool is still there, although bigger, with a bigger outflow.Time for the CO to check on this one.---I did the majority of the ACoIaF series 4 years ago. I walked the main figure-8 in a day and it was a blast! Then I came back in July this year to do the Golans Creek section. Did most of it but it was winter and so did not have time to finish it (as a day walk).Well, today I am back. And this time I am planning an overnighter. Sure it could be a done as a day walk, but, frankly, I feel a need to run away from people. And concrete and tar seal and the sounds of cars etc. I came out on my own, just me and my EPIRB. On the ridge above Eastbourne I messaged my emergency contacts and told them I am going out of cellphone coverage and from that point didn't see a soul till I was back on the ridge heading back into civilisation. 

I am really in two minds about this cache. Part of me says this is where the CO put it, this is where he wants it. But another part says he did not get the coordinates updated (a reviewer can do that) and didn't even update the hint, which suggests the cache should be returned. That was how come I DNFed this on my last trip - I did not see the updated coordinates. In the end I left the cache where it was but still I think I should have collected it and moved it back to its coordinates.**Current hint: 1m above ground****Current coords: S 41 18.585' E 174 54.536'**Could the next finders keep repeating the above hint ands coordinates, or move the cache back to match its page details.---I did the majority of the ACoIaF series 4 years ago. I walked the main figure-8 in a day and it was a *blast!* Then I came back in July this year to do the Golans Creek section. Did most of it but it was winter and so did not have time to finish it (as a day walk).Well, today I am back. And this time I am planning an overnighter. Sure it could be a done as a day walk, but, frankly, I feel a need to run away from people. And concrete and tar seal and the sounds of cars etc. I came out on my own, just me and my EPIRB. On the ridge above Eastbourne I messaged my emergency contacts and told them I am going out of cellphone coverage and from that point didn't see a soul till I was back on the ridge heading back into civilisation. 

Despite finding #40 earlier, this is the cache I consider to be the first today and is was the cache just before this (#39) that I reached on my last trip and was my turn around point. Well, I really made a hash of this one. Firstly it took too long to find the cache Even though I had the right place and secondly when I moved on I had got my self turned around and had actually backtracked 200m before I realised I was going the wrong way!Despite that this is typical New Zealand rain forest the paper logs are in surprisingly good shape! Nice.---I did the majority of the ACoIaF series 4 years ago. I walked the main figure-8 in a day and it was a blast! Then I came back in July this year to do the Golans Creek section. Did most of it but it was winter and so did not have time to finish it (as a day walk).Well, today I am back. And this time I am planning an overnighter. Sure it could be a done as a day walk, but, frankly, I feel a need to run away from people. And concrete and tar seal and the sounds of cars etc. I came out on my own, just me and my EPIRB. On the ridge above Eastbourne I messaged my emergency contacts and told them I am going out of cellphone coverage and from that point didn't see a soul till I was back on the ridge heading back into civilisation. 

Good place to stop off on my way north. I'll be there! 

Size corrected 

Funny how things work out. TwigNZ and I were in the vicinity when the cache notification came out so we high tailed it here and met YetiNZ along the way. Which naturally followed a bit of reminiscing about the two series that used to be along this road. I mentioned one had codes that you needed a UV light for - I never collected them, mainly because I didn't know about them to I was 3/4 through. Yeti said the codes were for a final cache that was never released.So anyway, this cache suggests another series might be brewing...I am completing this challenge with Terrain. No, wait... with Difficulty. Terrain. No, definately completed with Difficulty!Thanks for the joint {FTF}.[the Seagnoid](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=the%20Seagnoid) has used [Project-GC](https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCB0HV6/94174 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if they qualified for this challenge and they did.Complete:7 type with difficulty=1.5GC9RW7C found on 2022-08-12 - GPS Adventures Maze Canada - Abbotsford, BC GPS Adventures ExhibitGC2608 found on 2011-12-23 - Clean Green Wonderland (Bay of Plenty) Virtual CacheGC2P4Y2 found on 2012-02-25 - Where have all the golf balls gone? (Foxton) Unknown CacheGC2BBVX found on 2011-07-02 - Stately Homes #2 (Manawatu) Multi-cacheGC1K9AC found on 2012-12-15 - The Jolly Postman (Wellington) Letterbox HybridGC3B5ZA found on 2012-10-18 - Solar System Tour Guide (Otago) Wherigo CacheGC1FGTJ found on 2011-09-24 - Manawatu Water Gap Earthcache7 type with terrain=1.5GC1FGTJ found on 2011-09-24 - Manawatu Water Gap EarthcacheGC1A4ZP found on 2011-12-10 - Esplanade Exploration (Manawatu) Wherigo CacheGC24H8Z found on 2011-12-10 - Navigation 1 (Manawatu) Unknown CacheGC10VWV found on 2011-07-08 - The Palmy Gateway Trackables Rest (Manawatu) Traditional CacheGC1K9AC found on 2012-12-15 - The Jolly Postman (Wellington) Letterbox HybridGC2608 found on 2011-12-23 - Clean Green Wonderland (Bay of Plenty) Virtual CacheGC27M1T found on 2011-09-22 - Pioneers Remembered (Manawatu) Multi-cache 

Ah, remniscent of another good series. Nice to se it come back. YetiNZ, TwigNZ and I were in the vicinity chasing down a new cache. Once we found that we stopped by here as it turned out Twig had parked his car nearby. Many thanks for the find on this rather cool, southerly wind, night. 

Lately I seem to head out on a Sunday to do a little nit of caching. Seems I am over my streak mentality, at long last. Today I decided to cycle to Days Bay, collect the adlab there, then two caches that have been looking at me for a while. It was a bit of a head wind cycling around the bays, but I don't mind, it should be a blast on the way back.Adlab done, I cycled up this road, locked the bike at the road end and set off on foot. I get here and there is the hint item... but no cache. Hmmm. Check the logs...@Itchyfeet2020 knows better?? I look around a bit - Ahh! Bingo!Great views up here!And yes, the trip home was a blast! 

I seem to head out on Sundays lately, just to get a few caches. I seem to have broken my streak mentality. Yay! (A streak mentality is the one that says do not go caching in the local area, I might need those caches later). So today I headed out to Days Bay for an adlab and a couple of caches. Bit of a head wind on the way out. Hopefully it sticks around, it should be a blast on the cycle home!Adlab complete, I cycled up this hill to the road end (not as tough as I thought it might be), locked the bike up and set off on foot. Could not find an easy route to the cache, so I gave up and carried on up the hill to find another.Okay, that other cache was found and that meant coming back here. Found the route in... and found gorse. No worries! My vorpel blade when snicker-snack! No it didn't. I didn't realise I needed my vorpel blade, so didn't have it with me. Instead it was the gorse that ran me through and through. Maybe this is a cache for winter, when wearing heavy jeans. If I was wearing them now I would melt. So just shorts and tee shirt (cycling, remember). Many times I considered turning back, but after a while (just 20m from the cache), I realised that he difficulty rating is not correct for the puzzle. But add in the gorse - yeah, maybe. And it is a nice difficulty rating too. Worth getting. So I persevered. At about 10m from the cache I started checking all the hint objects I came across. I needn't have bothered - the coordinates are spot on!Cache found it's time to head back. Great. Is the way I came in better than any other? No matter, after this first bit I have no idea how I got here, so I generally trudge through. Many a gorse was stomped on.Got back to the path. Bleeding from more orifices than I knew I had.And yes, the cycle home was a blast. But coming down that hill I realised I need new brake shoes!Went and had a show to wash off the sweat. Found bits of gorse in my socks, down my shirt...Can't really say this was a fun cache, but it certainly was a challenge! 

Today is a size Other dot-day, so after attending Puzzled Pint I hired a by-the-minute car and headed out here. It was daylight when I left Puzzled Pint at Shed 22 but full night when I arrived here. No find. I am blaming the dark and my little cellphone torch. And some incompetance as well. I will be back over the weekend when there is more light. Like, maybe, daytime! Not that I will claim a find, It will just be a prefind for the next Other dot-day.So instead I headed out for another cache and found that, so this dot-day is ticked off 

After work I headed into town to attend Puzzled Pint, then after that headed out to get a by-the-minute care hire to get a size Other cache for today's dot-day. When I left puzzled pint it was late evening but still daylight. By the time I had walked a few blocks to get the car it was full on night.I headed out to the Miramar peninsula for a size other there, but in the dark I was not able to find it, so came here instead. This took a while to find, but I got it, and returned to the car to sign the log.But then a muggle drives up and parks right opposite the hide. And just sits in her car, waiting. Darn it. I lurk around for an HOUR and she is still there!! I can't return the cache! And I better drop the car off as it is now 10:30 and I need to get the train. Then I remember that the car is a max 2 hour hire overnight, so I just drove home.Early this morning I am back. Her car is still there, but she is now longer inside. So I return the cache, drop the car near the railway station and take the train to work.And yep, hire cost was just 2 hours. At $20-$50 each these last few dot days are going to be expensive!But it does show that I need to get out and do some more pre-finds.Thanks for the cache, the solve wasn't too hard, and nice to see a cache fitting the theme. 

And now a new inner installed. Maintenance complete. Over to you! 

On Yesterday I had some cache maintenance to do and I figured while I am in town i would collect a few caches, this and a bunch near Central Park. And then I forgot to get this one. Got five around Central Park though. Alas the maintenance required more bits, so I came back in to town after work today to fix that and this time remembered to come here for this one. Find was easy enough. Retrieval and replacement was a pain, waiting for suitable gaps in the traffic.The puzzle was a fast solve as Skyuni appears to have resurrected and older puzzle series. Nice. 

I love these kinds of logic puzzles. I solved them all about the same time years ago, but never got around to collecting this one. Now's my chance. A nice easy find, once I went below deck. A lot of water in the cache but otherwise all good here. Many thanks for the cache.Love being in the native bush!!---I have to do some cache maintenance, and I thought today would be better than Monday after work as a) the trains are a lot cheaper, b) I get time to find a few caches and c) the rain seems to be not happening now so might as well take advantage of it.Well the maintenance didn't go as planned and I have to come in Monday to finish it anyway, so so much for the cheap fares. But I did get to find five more caches, in the Central Park vacinity, so that's a win! 

New log installed. Alas it needs a new inner container - someone nicked the one that was there. Seriously - why would anyone do that? I'll be back tomorrow with a new one. 

Walked over from the other side of Central Park. There is a cricket game in progress, a fun friendly game. I watched for a bit while I was checking the wrong place (I went to the right place but my phone insisted the cache was back there. It wasn't. ---I have to do some cache maintenance, and I thought today would be better than Monday after work as a) the trains are a lot cheaper, b) I get time to find a few caches and c) the rain seems to be not happening now so might as well take advantage of it.Well the maintenance didn't go as planned and I have to come in Monday to finish it anyway, so so much for the cheap fares. But I did get to find five more caches, in the Central Park vacinity, so that's a win! 

Whenever I have a puzzle cache that is actually a multi, like this one, I mark it as solved (ie set the corrected coordinates to be the same as the published coordinates (or the coordinates of the cottage in this case) to show that any homework is done and that all that is left is fieldwork. The problem is that it looks like an ordinary solved puzzle unless I look at my cache notes. The last time I was here I didn't look at the cache notes, and spent ages looking around the area of the front gate getting nowhere.This time I am back for another go - and got it right this time. The cache was a little hard to find only because of the dark... and hard to open because its the second worst cache container - a rusty eclipse tin.LOve the cottage grounds. Alas I did not get to see inside the building.---I have to do some cache maintenance, and I thought today would be better than Monday after work as a) the trains are a lot cheaper, b) I get time to find a few caches and c) the rain seems to be not happening now so might as well take advantage of it.Well the maintenance didn't go as planned and I have to come in Monday to finish it anyway, so so much for the cheap fares. But I did get to find five more caches, in the Central Park vacinity, so that's a win! 

The title of this cache sent me down completely the wrong path initially which, of course, got nowhere. I put it in the too-hard basket and ignored it. But then a chance encounter with one of the two words elsewhere made me hunt out this cache again, and I soon had the answer. And then the solve sat for many months being ignored. But today I am nearby so walked over.I hunted high and low (literally) and then I read some old logs. Yeti's seemed interesting. Where. There? Maybe, but oesn't feel right. I filed it for checking later. AH! THERE!! I knew as soon as I saw it and when I had a closer look, yep, seems right. I reached for the cache and... Is this favourite worthy? Not really, by my old criteria, but I am trying to be more generous, so YES! this is favourite worthy!!Interesting cache container. Never seen one of these before.---I have to do some cache maintenance, and I thought today would be better than Monday after work as a) the trains are a lot cheaper, b) I get time to find a few caches and c) the rain seems to be not happening now so might as well take advantage of it.Well the maintenance didn't go as planned and I have to come in Monday to finish it anyway, so so much for the cheap fares. But I did get to find five more caches, in the Central Park vacinity, so that's a win! And four hours of walking made a great little exercise! 

I walked here from the other side of Central Park, collecting some caches along the way. Nice fast find here, and ... hello... It's that cache container again! I have only ever seen this cache container once before, earlier today. Is it the same CO? (hunts back on the phone) why, yes it is!Started on to my next cache, which is back in the park, when I struck up a conversation with an old biddy. She must be about 80 years old. She ask me what I was doing here (I mentioned that I don't live locally, that I live in Lower Hutt), so I told her about geocaching, and then we walked back 70m or so and I showed her this cache. Then we walked down the road to check out someone's laundry chute, and walked into the neighbour's property to check out the chute from a better angle. Her next stop was to check progress on a new house, and we both made comments about how big yet boring blocky it was (compared to the laundry chute neighbour, which had interesting shapes to their house). At the park we parted ways. She was a great lady to chat with, if I was local I would catch up with her again!This puzzle? I recognised it instantly. We all did these when I was a kid at school!---I have to do some cache maintenance, and I thought today would be better than Monday after work as a) the trains are a lot cheaper, b) I get time to find a few caches and c) the rain seems to be not happening now so might as well take advantage of it.Well the maintenance didn't go as planned and I have to come in Monday to finish it anyway, so so much for the cheap fares. But I did get to find five more caches, in the Central Park vacinity, so that's a win! 

I have been down this track before, last time I was again with my sister. But last time I didn't even think about geocaching until after we got back to the car. Doh! This time I was ready and we found 5 caches between us. Not bad for her as she is a muggle and is not really interested in geocaching.So this is the first stop, not far from the car park. A nice easy find.---I rang my sister a couple of days ago and we decided it is time for another walk. I suggested finding the tin hut, something she had tried to do once before. This time it is easy - we have coordinates! We parked at the Maungariki Road car park, walked down to the dam, passing this cache along the way. Took the track along the stream then up the ridge to the hut. A bit dodgy, that ridge! Then continued up the ridge to the track above, then down the track to Baked bean corner. Except we followed an old track short cutty thing but got it very wrong and ended up on the main track at the stream near the hut turnoff. Undeterred we carried on along the main track and carried on to baked bean corner and then on to the next track junction. Then we headed back via the main paths. All-in-all, just over 9km. 

My sister and I walked down from the Maungariki Road car park to the track turn off way point (many thanks, Mamahoof) then started up the ridge. That ridge gets quite dodgy in places, very narrow and steep sided, although it is not the worst ridge I have been on. Would be even more dodgy going down. The contour lines show that the ridge flattens out near the hut, but they lie. I think this is the first time I have seen contour lines lie! My sister and I are both wondering why anyone would put a hut here, and when we arrived - I still think the same thing. The garden shed method is not a bad idea though. After exploring the hut (photos!) we carried on up the ridge to pick up the track at the top. And yes, the contour lines still lie. The coordinates for where the ridge track intersects the top track are **S41 11.754 E174 52.115**. Mamahoof - you might like to put these in as a waypoint, should some one want to approach the hut from the top. Just tell them to stay on the ridge and they will be fine. From the top track we turned left, to pick up the Puke Ariki Track, and so get down to Baked Bean Corner. Got that very wrong and came down an old track that dumped us onto the main Korokoro Valley track, not far from where we turned off to climb to the hut.It made for an interesting diversion and sis and I were both keen to get off the main tracks. We had an awesome walk, A very easy favourite--- I rang my sister a couple of days ago and we decided it is time for another walk. I suggested finding this hut, something she had tried to do once before. This time it is easy - we have coordinates!We parked at the Maungariki Road car park, walked down to the dam, passing this cache along the way. Took the track along the stream then up the ridge to the hut. A bit dodgy, that ridge! Then continued up the ridge to the track above, then down the track to Baked bean corner. Except we tried to follow an old track short-cutty thing but got it very wrong and ended up on the main track at the stream near the hut turnoff. Undeterred we carried on along the main track and carried on to baked bean corner and then on to the next track junction. Then we headed back via the main paths. All-in-all, just over 9km. 

After coming down from the Puke Ariki track the wrong way and totally not ending up a Baked Bean Bend My sister and I decided we had not had enough walking and headed off to Baked Bean anyway. This is the first cache along the way, but I walked 50m past it before I realised so left it for the return trip.I remembered to check this on the return trip, but it was my muggle sister (who is not into geocaching at all) that found the cache. Go sis!---I rang my sister a couple of days ago and we decided it is time for another walk. I suggested finding this hut, something she had tried to do once before. This time it is easy - we have coordinates!We parked at the Maungariki Road car park, walked down to the dam, passing this cache along the way. Took the track along the stream then up the ridge to the hut. A bit dodgy, that ridge! Then continued up the ridge to the track above, then down the track to Baked Bean Bend. Except we tried to follow an old track short-cutty thing but got it very wrong and ended up on the main track at the stream near the hut turnoff. Undeterred we carried on along the main track to Baked Bean Bend and then on a bit further on 

After coming down from Tin Hut the wrong way and totally failing to get to Baked Bean Bend, my sister and I decided to go to Baked Bean Bend anyway. I walked on down to the stream and yelled out to sis - WHAT AN AWESOME PLACE! Would make for great camping.After a few minutes of checking out the beauty of this place we decided it is still to early to turn around and carried on up the stream track to the next junction. That was far enough. Got home in time for lunch.Why baked beans? No idea.---I rang my sister a couple of days ago and we decided it is time for another walk. I suggested finding Tin Hut, something she had tried to do once before. This time it is easy - we have coordinates!We parked at the Maungariki Road car park, walked down to the dam, passing this cache along the way. Took the track along the stream then up the ridge to the hut. A bit dodgy, that ridge! Then continued up the ridge to the track above, then down the track to Baked Bean Bend. Except we tried to follow an old track short-cutty thing but got it very wrong and ended up on the main track at the stream near the hut turnoff. Undeterred we carried on along the main track to Baked Bean Bend and then on a bit further on to the next track junction. Then we headed back via the main paths. All-in-all, just over 9km. With a big uppy bit. 

Looks like the CO allows just seeing the cache here. Makes this T4.5 just a T1. Nice. 

I'll be there! 

Don't get me wrong, the last event was great, but it was LOUD. Nice to be at an event where we can hear each other talk without having to sit beside them first. Is this the first time we have done a restaurant style Wellywood? A little catch-up a little pre-planning for the Crayola and Rotorua trips.I do have a couple of sweaters, but they are boring grey and this is the wrong weather for them and, more importantly, I forgot to bring them. Either of them. And then after the event the CO produces a new cache. I didn't realise it at the time but it was in keeping with the event - [knitting](https://coord.info/GCAZYND). I worked out very quickly what was required but forgot a basic fundamental of knitting so made a hash of my solution. Others got it right immediately, and after dinner we all headed out to try to find the cache.Thanks for the event, enjoyed as always. 

The team arrived for the event a little early , collecting a few caches along the way. We all arrived here and there was a small crowd who had not yet found the cache. I said it will be there, and pointed. But between here and there was a small lake - we have had a lot of rain lately. But then our hero decides to just walk in and get the cache (It was where I said), wet socks be damned. Suddenly our hero is the most popular person on the planet, as they mobbed him to get their names in the log. And to return it? Hero 2 turns up, with armour proof against the elements - gumboots!!Love the idea of a 300m long yet only 4m wide! Wish I could have seen inside!Log signed as MINTYS, for Mr Mcgoo, Intchyfeet2020, NZ_B, TwigNZ, YetiNZ and the Seagnoid.---### 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)](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAKR25_25-years-of-geocaching-nz) event page and [event website](http://25years.geocache.nz/) for more details, join the [facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/924894455969387), 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!** 

Well, I'll be there! Santa hat? Or Seagnoid hat? Hmm.... 

Alas I can't make this one. Probably. 

I have another spare day. What gives? So many of them lately. So I headed into town for some geocaching and a LOT of walking. I attempted five caches. Two alas, are confirmed missing. Another is a size regular, and as I am working on my regular dot-days, I left it there for later. So only two loggable finds. This is the second one.I have just returned from the Geocaching GeoToroa mega event in Dunedin. Dunedin is famous for its Baldwin Street, recognised as the steepest in the world. I think that is only telling part of the story. I think it is better to say that Dunedin is getting behind the Baldwin brand. They have a LOT of steep streets! Another thing I often say is that Wellington and Dunedin were both laid out in London where they were not told enough about the hills. So in Wellington the builders siad "You want us to put a road up there?!? Bugger that! We'll wind it around this way." But in Dunedin they said "You want us to put a road up there?!? Well, okaaayy...!"So. Back to this one. Okay it is steeper (I think) than the Dunedin streets, steeper even than Baldwin Street, but it does not qualify as a steeper street as it is not a true street. Still I do wonder what it would be like if the trees had been replaced with pavement. Which automatically makes me think I do NOT want to wonder this! Take out the trees?! Really??Okay, enough of that. I walked down to the cache. Being under trees and knowing my phone I went for the hint immediately. I would not have done that here if the cache was larger though. This tree. Nope. That tree. Nope. Check the hint. I am under trees and my phone can be unreliable. Hint. Huh. Huh? Tree. Hint. I examine some of the leave. None of them match. Other tree. HINT!!! Leaps out at me! But man, it still took quite a while to find the cache. Which is all good. Once I found it. ---### 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)](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAKR25_25-years-of-geocaching-nz) event page and [event website](http://25years.geocache.nz/) for more details, join the [facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/924894455969387), 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!** 

Welcome to New Zealand! I'll be there! 

I have another spare day. What gives? So many of them lately. So I headed into town for some geocaching and a LOT of walking. I attempted five caches. Two alas, are confirmed missing. Another is a size regular, and as I am working on my regular dot-days, I left it there for later. So only two loggable finds.I was walking down the road towards this cache, and was effectively looking right at it. It wasn't till I was right there that I went "How did I miss that from only just 5m away?!?"The ring is rusty and will not last much longer, but the container and log are just fine. ---### 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)](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAKR25_25-years-of-geocaching-nz) event page and [event website](http://25years.geocache.nz/) for more details, join the [facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/924894455969387), 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!** 

This one is missing. Confirmed with a previous finder. Suspect a victim of the recent heavy rains. 

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing. 

At the end birthday bash at a Mexican cantina this puzzle got released. A d2 does not stand up long against 12-odd geocachers working as a team, and it was not long before we were out the door. Nice thing is I think across the 12 of us we only hit each of the two checker once. Once we found a potential answer for each it was correct (of we did have a fail on the second checker, but that was due to a math error, not wrong info).Which then resulted in a timely exit from the restaurante we all gathered at GZ. Nice easy find from coordinates that appeared to be sloppy yet were spot on!Many thanks for the joint {FTF} 

I was busy, as I have been these last few days, logging finds from the Dunnedain mega, when the alert from this cache came out. TwigNZ was staying over so I woke him up and said there is a new cache in Greytown if he was interested. Oh - its a puzzle. He groggily asked what the difficulty was - D4. okay, I said, never mind. It's not going to be an easy solve.But something about it suggested a line of attack. My first idea was to search for "bar code". Boy, was that ever a nave idea! But I struck it real lucky and soon had what appeared to be the correct reference. Degrees and minutes look good, so I told Twig that it looked like I had the solution (he was now up and dressed). But I could not get the decimal minutes to work. I have the wrong reference don't I. I looked for others but didn't like them. Well, maybe I have enough information - I put all the figures into a spreadsheet, marked which might be dodgy and was about to fiddle with them... when I suddenly realised where I had been going wrong. The checker agreed! Infoferret is know to be tricky. I should have allowed for that. It was obvious too. More fool me. I told Twig the good news. He found an audio version of the puzzle. Man, it is hilarious!!Shall we go? No.First an event to go to. No time to get to Greytown and back. The event was hosted by some tourists, and I thought we could give the tourists a chance at a FTF in another country. But then we heard a major crash had blocked the Remutaka Hill and it was going to stay that way for hours. Bugger.After the event, Twig took everyone around to one of his caches, just a couple of hundred metres away, and after they did that we all split up and went our separate ways. And then we heard that the road was open! Darn. Too late to call them back.So TwigNZ and I went over to find the cache. Had trouble here. Alas the puzzle solution is actually the parking coordinates, and the final is really 20m south. Twig took some coordinates, so the CO will probably have this fixed soon.The cache is awesome. The puzzle is awesome. The cache writeup is awesome. All three relate to each other, which is awesome. It gets a favourite, that is awesome too. Seriously, Infoferret, you have outdone yourself here. How the heck are you going to top this?Easy fave. Heck it was a fave before we found the cache. The cache deserves a fave just for itself!Many thanks for the {FTF}. Signed with TwigNZ. Back to Wellington - got another event to go to!And then I have some baking to do... 

Another special day in the Geocaching calendar. After an event this morning, a dash over to the Wairararapa for a new cache than back here for this event. Loved the venue, loved the food, but frankly it was too loud. There was some local talent singing Mexican songs which was a) awesome and b) why it was too loud. If it was not for the awesome company I would have made my excuses a long time ago.A new cache came out while we were there - so we had a great team effort to solve it - when we have 12 people at the table D2s fall pretty quickly. Nothing like a new cache to prompt people to leave! Yep, we all headed out the door.Happy birthday NZ_B! 

Early in the morning today a new cache got released. It was a puzzle cache, located at Greytown, 77km away. Over an hour away. I lucked onto the right reference first time, and had it solved fairly quickly. But there was not enough time to go there, sign the cache and return before the start of this event. No worries, after is fine. In fact, maybe our visitors would like a FTF in a different country? (as well as visiting GC46 and a few other special caches around here). So we didn't go and came to the event.Love tourist geocaching events. Love discussing differences in caching where the tourists come from - UK in this case. Actually I never got to discuss any of that. But of course we did talk about their aims here, and gave them a few suggestions.I got one cool tip from the CO - photographs in the log book! Brilliant!!While at the event we heard that there was a major crash on the hill road to Greytown. It would take many hours to clear and the route around the hills is 3 hours, so we canned the idea of taking our tourists for a FTF.At the end of the event, TwigNZ took us all to his rather excellent cache just a hundred metres away or so, and then we split up and went our separate ways.And just after we split up we heard that the crash had been cleared and the road was open. Darn, too late to invite our guests. So TwigNZ and I went out on my own. And the cache was seriously cool!So sorry I could not invite the hosts and the other tourists that came along on what would have been an awesome FTF in another country, but many thanks for the photographs in event logbook idea. Happy travels around New Zealand guys, hope you find many cool caches! 

I had hunted for this cache almost exactly two years ago, and at the time it was missing. It has been replaced a long time ago but I had not had a chance to come back here. However a new cache was released in Greytown that prompted a trip over the hill. TwigNZ was with me for the weekend and so he came with me. Well, more I went with him, as he had the transport. We picked up that cache and headed back and stopped here along the way. I still have a few caches to find in Featherson, but the blue frownies really bug me!Quick easy find, and we moved on... 

Forgot to add the favourite. Done now. 

Dropped in a fave