Sea Side Picnic (Coromandel) Matarangi, North Island, New Zealand
By
surf5a on 14-Feb-12. Waypoint GC3CK14
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Logs
Working on the Geo-Licence series and needed to find 50 caches in a day a minimum of 1km apart so a plan was put together to take a trip to collect them along with Agazo, Mrs HeMaLuDy and thebrownehornet. I left home at 8am and returned just after 10.30pm clocking a total of 476km on the car. The scenery was awesome and reminds me of all that is great in New Zealand.
Unfortunately no luck for us here today as it seems to have gone.
Unfortunately no luck for us here today as it seems to have gone.
Keylev and Agazo hatched a plan to collect 50 geocaches 1 km apart for their GIO licence, and thebrownehornet was also going along for the ride. At the last minute Mr HeMaLuDy said he could manage the kids and school pick-up, sports etc so Mrs HeMaLuDy decided to tag along too - I'm not sure he was expecting us to be home quite so late as he tried to keep the kids up until I got home but finally put them to bed around 9 (we were home around 10 pm).
We drove pretty much around the Coromandel Peninsula to achieve the goal, and collect a few extras as well. A great day, amazing weather, incredible scenery and very few DNF's. Logs signed as Team SEAC or just SEAC (South East Auckland Crew) as we often cache together as a group, and it saves room on the logs.
No luck here today
We drove pretty much around the Coromandel Peninsula to achieve the goal, and collect a few extras as well. A great day, amazing weather, incredible scenery and very few DNF's. Logs signed as Team SEAC or just SEAC (South East Auckland Crew) as we often cache together as a group, and it saves room on the logs.
No luck here today
Found this cache on the ground as we walked past. We will attempt to repair and return in the next couple of days.
Container will need replacing.
Container will need replacing.
There were some muggles about while I was here but I managed to complete my mission without difficulty. This looks like the sort of place that I need to re-visit on a finer day.
Nice easy one to find. Good day to do this one as its drizzling so no muggles around. Great day out with Pinocchio59.
A fun afternoon out with imcuzz and these would be lots of fun in good weather!! However then we may have a muggle problem, so a good day for it really. TFTC 
Fouind it. Needs maintenance logbook and container.
Signed as geocaching team CNSZ
Cheers from Polynesia
nzkeko
Signed as geocaching team CNSZ
Cheers from Polynesia
nzkeko
Forgot to log at the time. On a geocaching weekend with my favourite geo buddies, we hope to get loads of caches this weekend. We've decided to sign the log sheet as - day trippers CNSZ in order to save space on the log sheets. Thanks to the cachers who hid these caches for us to find and make our weekend such fun. Needs maintenance.
What a beautiful surprise to turn the corner and see this awesome beachfront picnic area and beachfront. Two Travelling Aussies. TFTC
thank you for the cache....just updating my previous finds...foung this with Judgey214
Thank you very much for hiding the cache at this lovely beach.
Greetz,
Team KRHake from Karlsruhe/Germany
Greetz,
Team KRHake from Karlsruhe/Germany
Cycled here intending to take the scenic Bluff road rather than the boring main road but it is closed and might stay closed for a while. Cache was easy to find. TFTC
Our first Geocache. Awesome location, had us scratching our heads for a while.
We had an another spare day so it was time to head up the coast to find some more caches that were new for us and weather was good TFTC
Enjoying a day with my parents frewilys.love the beach here very quiet in matarangi this time of year so no one to watch out for
Easy find but we later realised someone had been watching us from a house the whole time. I hope they don't mess with it. Sorry folks...
Wow we love this spot. Nice quick find and amazingly on such a lovely sunny day no one at GZ!! TFTC
Driving from Coromandel to Whitianga.
A quick stop this sunny day.
No problems.
Good picnic site indeed! Stayed for a lunch sandwich before driving on the narrow road along the water. Had the whole beach to myself.
Sorry for the late log. This is one of many founds during my four week visit to NZ.
The date here may differ from the one in the log book, both could be a day off from actual log date.
A quick stop this sunny day.
No problems.
Good picnic site indeed! Stayed for a lunch sandwich before driving on the narrow road along the water. Had the whole beach to myself.
Sorry for the late log. This is one of many founds during my four week visit to NZ.
The date here may differ from the one in the log book, both could be a day off from actual log date.
Spent a few days in Matarangi in a bach. Beautiful beach! Found this one whilst walking on the beach. TFTC. Together with Pandabaer13.
Nice and quiet here this afternoon. End of a beautiful day exploring the area. Youngest son found it easily enough. TFTC.
My wife changed our sons nappy under the shade of a nearby Pahutakawa tree while I found this cache. Nice view.
The road around the coast to this one was really interesting got to the gz and found quickly tftc
New Zealand 2103 trip for the Auckland Mega at Albany. Day 5, Miranda to Whitianga. With the poor weather today there was no one down here, despite it clearing up. The cache was found in the expected location. Thanks.
12149.104 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Time and Space Blue Silver A#197
Albida
12149.104 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Time and Space Blue Silver A#197
Albida
Yeah 3 for the day all on foot off to the pirates treasure now. Beware the muggles!
Tides are not conducive for fishing, so came over from Coromandel for a few caches.
Thanks surf5
Thanks surf5
A lovely view and a great spot to enjoy it. Bit rough for swimming unfortunately.. Will just have to keep walking and hunting for geocaches. Darn!
Nice quick stop for the cache.
Good find then on to the next cache while heading to Coromandel.
SL TFTC
Good find then on to the next cache while heading to Coromandel.
SL TFTC
2.15pm. No picnic here for us today (that was over the hill) but a quick find.
Thank you. David and Noeline.
Thank you. David and Noeline.
