WAIROA AT YOUR FEET (Wairoa) Wairoa, North Island, New Zealand
By nzkeko on 21-Nov-09. Waypoint GC26FTH

As this cache has been out of action for too long, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Regards,
Growly Bear
Geocaching.com Volunteer Reviewer.

Stopped at GZ. Disappointed to see it was still disabled. We understand the CO has left the country and it has been 8 months since it was disabled. Time to archive it or fix it!

Have a container, now need to drive down to Wairoa
Thanks for patience
cheers
nzkeko

GZ just swamped with rubbish.
Will have to rethink an appropriate container and relocate it.
Original container taken back with me.
Sorry for inconvenience
nzkeko

Cache in lots of rubbish and a health hazzard??????

a lot of rubbish but a nice view. Thanks and greetings from Germany

The lookout made us breathless. But we don't want to seek between lots of rubbish.

A trip to Eastland and a couple of caches along the way
Great views but sooooooo much rubbish there
TFTC

Caching with capperz
TFTC

#3570 @0745
I missed this one yesterday so popped back to grab it and check out the view before heading south from Wairoa to Wellington via Cape Palliser. A quick find here (but disappointing to see all the rubbish nearby). Took TB. TFTC.

I don't know how many times I've driven past on my way to Whakakī to visit the rellies... totally agree... absolute shame about all the rubbish. Fast easy find when I realised I was miles away in prickle central... enjoy the views everyone. I dropped off a travel bug that has come from Lower Hutt... may her adventures carry on...

Great views from GZ a quick find then back on the road TFTC.

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

Most Christmas holidays involve a road trip of some description and this year is no exception. Today we were travelling from Gisborne to Napier, picking up a few caches along the way. Had to wait for some muggles to move on, but the cache was a quick find after that. Nice view, TFTC!

TB out.

Most Christmas holidays involve a road trip of some description and this year is no exception. Today we were travelling from Gisborne to Napier, picking up a few caches along the way. Had to wait for some muggles to move on, but the cache was a quick find after that. Nice view, TFTC!

TB out.

interesting views of city thanks

Quick find. I am always pleased, when faced with long grass, that NZ has no snakes. TFTC.

Fast found at this "landfill". What are the signs for? TFTC

Another quick drive by cache with a good large place to get the camper off the road. TFTC nzkeko.

#4869. We were travelling from Gisborne to Wairoa, passed the GZ area on the right and had to turn back. Good views. Quick find. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Caching with the Seagnoid on our way to Gisborne for the NI National Daffodil Show.Thanks for the cache.

Here with popmac on a geocaching / daffodil trip. Popmac grows daffodils and is taking a bunch to a daffodil tournament thingy in Gisborne with plans to cache along the way, and I came along for the ride.
Two cars here. One full of kids. "No good, " I say, "Buts lets stop for 5 minutes. Maybe they'll leave.". They did. But another car pulled up. However the driver in that one was two busy on his cellphone, so we had no trouble retrieving and replacing the cache. Nice view!

Great views. I have stopped a view times here before.

Real shame about the rubbish.

Almost gave up because of all the rubbish. Found it in the end. The cockroach got back in somehow because it was there when we found it too.

Day two of the July school holidays, what better way to spend the Winter Holiday then driving up the East Coast, looking for interesting caches and climbing up muddy/slippery hills.
Too cold and windy to spend long looking at the view. SL TFTC.

A live cockroach crawled out of the container- not too sure how it got in! We let it out, and then I had to replace the cache- quite hard, as there was a gale blowing! TFTC

Heading still further north on the Geo Licence Road trip and stopped for this one. Nice views over the township
TFTC

Got wet feet in the long grass but a nice view early morning.
Took TB toward liberty from the Mongrel Mob country!
TFTC

Waited ages for picnic muffles to shove off! Then quick find. Tftc

Just filled out the log book

09:38h 20130325 TFTC

Easy find real pity about the de facto rubbish dump. Too much to trash out i am afraid. A great view though.

Lots and lots of rubbish behind the fence, it is a shame for whoever did that [:(!]
Nevertheless, the cache could be easily spotted after finding the geodetic mark.

Thank you for the views!

Interesting the number of things at our feet. Quite a few survey marks and then the cache found easily. Thanks for the cache and stop. Did with Mycro Man

Did with CrystalFairy

Easy find on our way to the beach for a few days. TFTC.

Found the hole and found the cache. TFTC.

TFTC

Great view from up here of Mr Kiwi's home town.

Quick find in the rain

Initially I thoought this was going to be up high on a bank and require a bit of a scramble - so the find was much quicker than I'd expected. Great view. TFTC.

After a quiet night in Wairoa, a quick find on our way to Gisborne...
Greetings from Switzerland!

Was there together with "Schlattergeiss"...
Thank you very much for showing us this great place!
Greetings from Switzerland!
Brown Eyed Goat

Easy find on our way to Lake Waikaremoana

A quick find. The rubbish dump over the fence is pretty gross, but the view is good. Lifted TB. TFTC

Great view and my first time ever to Wairoa. Interesting placement so close to a Geodetic Mark.
Many tftc

Quick find, sad the place is used as a rubbish dump.

THTC

auf unserem weg nach taupo haben wir hier noch schnell halt gemacht und die aussicht genossen. schönes städtchen vielen dank für den cache und alles andere.
we put in a trackable from the northland

19/12/2012 12:33:00 PM
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This cache was found as part of my epic as move down south to Christchurch from Auckland - A drive that involved around 3,000km, 350 caches, 14 days, and a bit of a detour through East Cape, Gisbourne, Napier/Hastings, some back roads in the Wairarapa, Cape Pallisier and Nelson/Tasman as well as every CANZ cache along the way that I was still missing. (Hence my excuse for the not as interesting log as I usually try to make mine.) But thanks to every awesome amazing as cacher that placed caches along these roads, you made my trip awesome, and very cache happy!

I was told not to stop at Wairoa... as apparently it was dodgy, and since I had all my worldly possessions there, it may not be a good idea. So I didn't stop there, but I stopped outside! And had to wait out heaps of sets of muggles anyways to be able to go for the cache. Seems to be a popular place to stop and take picts. But that was ok anyways, as I realised that I needed to do a switchy of pocket query's on my GPS. It can only fit so many, so time to delete all the upper north island ones, and switch out with the lower north island queries.

Once place was empty, cache was easy gotten.

TFTC!!

Easy find while buying Christmas Mince Pies from Oslers and White Flesh Nectaurines from Otoki Orchard. TFTC.

TFTC
Team Urbanisator
Arnhem, the Netherlands

Found at 12:04 PM GAFF1 in the company of Phetlern. So that is Wairoa down there is it? A lovely green little place it is indeed. We watched and were careful as we came up from Wairoa - not sure what we had to watch out for though. We heard that the locals can get mean
Thanks nzkeko

15:01
Driving north in company with Pprass, we passed through vast grazing and agricultural areas, never ceasing to be in awe of the rugged beauty of the coastal scenery. While we looked at the wrong feet, C Prass jumped in and found the cache. Yes, it is a shame about the rubbish!

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt nzkeko.
4519

Nice hide - shame about this spot being used as a rubbish dump! TFTC

Quick drive by... Thanks

Nice quick find heading to Gisbourne. Had to wait 10 minutes to replace as a muggle turned up when i was signing log in my car. TFTC

Great view overlooking Wairoa on a stunning spring day.
Many thanks

What a lovely view, but there so many picture opportunities here in NZ. TFTC also we picked up a parthtag, cheers

Greetings from Australia. Found on a great holiday/cache hunt with J+J.au. This trip we intend to only travel about the North island but we will revisit NZ and travel in the South island aswell. We really enjoy the sights in NZ and caching shows us things out of the norm aswell. SL..TFTC

Gorgeous view at night! And we found it when we actually started using the GPS. lol. TFTC

Cache trouvee sans chute`!

Quick find after overstepping the 'hole' - TFTC

Driven past here dozens of times and didn't know that it was here.

Grabbing a few caches in the area while passing through on our 'how ever long it takes' NZ tour.

Thanks for setting this up.

TFTC

Mud & Kim

Not only the dreaded hole,but those dam black berry bushes lol…ouch :p

A geocoin visit.

Great spot. Nice easy find but beware "the hole", yes found that too. TFTC SiLiRy

Revisited this cache with 3 friendly young muggles that was introducing to geocaching - they successfully found it on their own as their second cache find, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience Cache in good order and still well concealed. Visited some trackables while there.
Cheers
Shellnz

Amazing view. Greetings from Finland.TFTC

A really nice view of the town, it looks lovely.

TFTC

BEWARE! HUGE HOLE NEAR CACHE. Yes I found it...and the cache...and the beautiful view. Thanks

Hier können wir auch auf Deutsch loggen. Nach den Tagen in Gisborne waren wir wieder auf dem Weg. Es war eine kurze Suche bis zum loggen.

Nochmals vielen Dank für die Gastfreundschaft und natürlich den Cache. Viele Grüsse aus der Schweiz.

Struggled a bit to find this and had my fingers stabbed by some nasty weeds but finally got it after falling into a hidden hole!!!! But in true geocaching form, we plod on!!! TFTC

Well gaurded but spiky ones and disguised by masses of rubbish. Carla6

TFTC From N. Ireland Found after some wrong turns through the undergrowth. Lovely view.

A nice view over the valley, and grass to gz was very wet! Thanks for the stop

A quick found and a great view.

Thank you and greetings from Germany

wobees

found it, there were hundreds of ants! thanks for the good view!

That's a quite a view. I don't know how often I have just driven past. Thanks for making me stop TFTC

In: Gc very nice view. tftc

Quick grab.-Bitsprayer

Another nice cache find

TFTC

Came up here this morning in a suit and tie and tried not to get my shoes or trousers too wet and muddy, or snagged on blackberry. Thankfully the petrol tanker parked up here from last night has vamoosed. Found a depression where the cache may have been but not the cache itself. Next time!

Stopped by on our way back to Napier. Great views of Wairoa. Unfortunately we didn't find the cache.

Found this one on the way to Mahia Peninsula. Nice view on Wairoa and the sea! Quick find with no one around.

TFTC!

On our way from Lake Waikaremoana to Mahia Peninsula we found this cache. Nice place with great views of Wairoa and the sea.

TFTC!!

Lady Pinguin

Great view. Didn'e take too long to find in the long grass

Lovely views of Wairoa right out to the sea. TFTC #2084

This entry was edited by isis58 on Thursday, 21 April 2011 at 22:11:53 UTC.

Quick find. Nice view. TFTC

Was a nice easy find and a great view but wow so many people stop up here.

A quick find while on move to next stopover while on holiday with Mrs Jumboz. - cheerz

Quick find with Carol. No muggles today, there was a light rain.
Thanks for the hide,
Art

Yes well we stopped and found this one and son stood at spot while we went to car to write notes and swaps etc. With all the traffic he decided to pretend to pee and got some great waves and toots from passers by!! Replaced cache safely and carried on our Waitangi trip to Mahia. Nice view from up here and gives a good perspective of Wairoa.TFTC

Found 11.1.11

Like others before me ..the challenge is waiting for the parked muggles to leave!

The last one was in no obvious hurry to leave...so in the end I did it right under his nose!

Thanks nzkeko ..it's a great stopping-spot...makes one get out of the car!

nzyetje

2ndis and I had a great trip around the East Cape with Nigel and two visitors from Holland. We really enjoyed this cache and the views. Thanks a lot.

Last cache of the year, found with The Huhu Grub as the sun set on the day and the year Enjoyed the view and all the lights, though needed some extra light for this one TNLN TFTC
Mother Goose35

I found this with my great-granny Mother Goose when the sun was going down and we couldn't see very well.. but I used my hands! It was great fun to find the cache. TFTC
The Huhu Grub

nice easy find on the way to dropping kids off a nana and poppas for a few days

TFTC

A quick easy find with a nice view of Wairoa. TFTC

TFTC