The Start of Monty's Revenge (Whakatane) Traditional Cache

Every one has the "before Geocaching" question, well before Geocaching Mr Geckoh was a well trained athlete, and his last hoorah before starting Geocaching was the 2008 edition of Monty's Revenge, in which he was successful in taking line honours. Since Geocaching the training has fallen by the wayside and most weekends are now spent grovelling in various bushes looking for lunchboxes and the like, not wanting to let go of competing in this classic race Mr Geckoh has this year enlisted 2 other Geocachers to put together a "Team Geocaching" team for the 2010 edition of Monty's Revenge, and the only prerequisite was that each member of the team had to place a cache somewhere on the course!!

This is our listing.



Monty's Revenge the race comprises of a 12km , followed by a 23km , and finishes off with a 20km . Luckily for this cache you wont need to do any of these, just find the cache!!

11 years of Monty’s reports

• 2000: “Ben Fouhy recorded the second fastest paddle of the day and won by a three-minute margin. First of the females was Kate Callaghan, while the NZ Vet Champ Evan McRae provided his usual great performance.”
• 2001: “Evan McRae proved age is no barrier, by taking out the overall win.”
• 2002: “A deluge of over 250mm of rain had flooded the Whakatane river and sunk the local rescue craft the day prior.”
• 2003: “Havelock North policeman, George Christison, took the race by the scruff of the neck from the start.”
• 2004: “The open women’s section was won by Sophie Hart for the second year in a row.”
• 2005: “One month after the second 100-year flood to hit the Eastern Bay of Plenty in 10 months … a huge section of last year’s MTB course no longer exists.”
• 2006: “Sophie Hart had a buffer of seven minutes for the 20km of paddling … [she] finished the full Monty’s in 2hrs 46min ahead of Rachel Cashin.”
• 2007: “The breeze was almost as cool and sharp as Auckland's Stuart Lynch and Taumarunui's Rachel Cashin.”
• 2008: Teunis Schoneveld and Neil Gellatly needed 3 hours and 30 minutes to sort out who was going to take line honours … Schoneveld sprinted to the line first..”

>2009: Brent Edwards takes the win from Dwarne Farley on altered course.

Mr Geckoh paddling his way to the 2008 Monty's Revenge win, just 2 weeks before starting the hobby of Geocaching!!