Picnic at the Mount Tauranga, North Island, New Zealand
By Bridgeaway on 18-May-13. Waypoint GC4CDDD

It's no longer there, so it's now archived to free up the area for another cache.

Dnf

Four sets of eyes and half hour hunting and no cache to be found

We had 5 sets of eyes on this one with no luck! Happy new year geocachers

Hate entering a did not find, so we will be back another time. Totally stumped all five of us...

Was about to give up! Took a loooong time walking around.. Don't really know how I finally found it, but I did. Nice lid
I found the inner green container with a new logsheet and a separate logsheet.
Love the camo!

I took a stroll along the beach in search of caches this sunny afternoon
Amazing how quick the weather changes here
And at GZ there seemed to be only two places a cache could be hiding

So I methodically searched,
and searched,
and searched

Nothing !!
Nada !!
Nix !!!

So ...
... maybe I'm looking in the wrong places !! [:o]
Cache found a couple of minutes after that thought

Great camo !! [^]

The view out to sea is beautiful
The view behind is not

Spent ages looking for this one in the dark with torches, crawling around in the sand. Unable to find it - will have another search another time

Nice spot! Keep your open

Thanks. Nice easy cache. Needs a bit of repair!

Good camp no lid

Easy find for us today..TFTC

Very pleased to find this cache today, a great hide. Unfortunately the container is now missing its top due to fiddly fingers excitedly dropping it and not being able to relocate it. Oops...will replace asap!

What a great cache! So clever! I was so excited that I fumbled and dropped the lid to the cache, and although KathyKaches and I searched for it for a good half hour, we could not find it - so sorry! Will replace it asap. Tftc =)

Quick find on sunny winter day.

I'll admit this is the third time I've looked for this cache, the first I gave up and the second it started raining so had to run back to the car. Was looking at previous logs before coming so had a better idea of what to look for this time. Was getting pretty dark so I had to use my torch but I was determined to get it! Such an awesome hide. Gets a favourite from me, happy to finally tick this off! TFTC

An early morning jaunt around the Mount and surrounding areas.

this was a nice straightforward find.

TFTC

Nice to see the view after all this rain. Tftc

Nice place for a walk while in town for the day.

Replaced the log and log container. A retrieval tool might be useful.

We had a day over in Tauranga shopping and had a bit of spare time to grab a few caches the weather was not that good. Thanks for this cache I love the camo it is a favorite.

TFTC! It was an amazing cache!

Quick easy find. So awesome !

Great hide! And view.

Up from H.B. visiting family. While they worked I went out finding some caches. Quick easy find. Nice camo but bison tube missing. Cheers.

Nice easy find

Found it and put in plastic as was wet. Started new paper

I'm in the area with friend Tiga on other business so we decided to cache our way back home.
Tiga made the discovery as I was wandering towards GZ. Nifty camo but unfortunately the log wasn't bagged and totally soaked so that it couldn't even be unrolled without tearing.
I will add a picture of the log .

In dire need of attention. Log absolutely saturated and needs a plastic bag.

As M.P mentioned, log was very very wet with no protection from wet weather, couldn't sign it. Great camo container. TFTC.

Bison appears missing although the log and camo are intact

TFTC
#266

Thankfull to find this after a DNF on my previous cache. Tftc.

A nice quick find here. Cheers.

Damn, picked up a cold somewhere. Not as focussed on caching as I could have been. Never mind, around The Mount and to Rotorua today.

Thanks to the CO's for the hides. Cheers.

Very good camo

excellent cache but only log no bison tube so log will not last long.

TFTC! It was brilliant. Had us stumped for a few mins.

A cool piece of camo at a very beautiful beach.

Cool camo but the bison tube is missing. Just the log inside the camo. Don't think it will last long if it rains. Fav point for the camo and the location.

bison tube is missing. Just the log inside the camo

Love the disguse!!!

A stop on our trip on the North Island. And I found this cach where we stopped for a bath.TFTC.

Out for an after work walk and had time to look for a handy cache. Wandered down to GZ then had to wait for some sightseeing muggles to pass.

That done, a short search and the cache was in hand - signed the receipt and left as found. Thanks for the placement - clever camo too.

Good hiding spot, no paper log inside, but found receipt blowing along the ground, so we signed it and stashed away.

Such a nice spot, such a nice idea for a cache! Sadly, the log book is missing.

Found hiding spot but no cache nor the log. .....shame

The cach is gone, hiding log still there.

Cach missing but hiding place there

Found but needs maintanance

Nice camo but log is soaked

After arriving at Mt. M we did some dinner on the bench and got a million dollar view
We grabbed it quick and signed in!
TFTC

Easy find but log is going to get wet very quickly. A new tube is needed.

New bison tube needed.

A nice grab on our way home from the beach. Had a tube on us but it was too big to fit the cache.TFTC

Found in tacked but the cache log won't last long. Cheers

Lovely little hide! Tftc!

We spent 4 incredibly wonderful weeks in New Zealand for vacation and
had a lot of fun to discover all the marvels of this country.
Day 11 - we visited Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, a fascinating place to watch the earth bubble and boil.
Also the colors produced by sulfides in these hot pools are stunning.
Before heading to Mount Maunganui we stopped at the Maori village Whakarewarewa and got a good glimpse into the traditions and current life of a Maori Village.
Besides we still found time for geocaching and picked up quite a few caches on our way.
This was one of them!

TFTC,
Stadibast

From 19th February to 20th March Stadibast and I visited New Zealand. Half of the time we made a trip around the North-Island. After a short stay in Auckland we went to: Bay of Islands, Cape Reinga, Rotorua and the Wai-o-Tapu-Thermal Wonderland, the great Taupo-lake… We made a Rafting Tour in the Waitomo-Glowworm-caves or hiked the Tongariro –Alpine-Crossing and, and…
In the second part of our holidays we visited the south island, hiked in the Abel-Tasman-Reserve , went to the Marlborough-Sounds, the Golden Bay, the Oparara-Arch, the Franz-Josef- and Fox-Glaciers, had a great sight on Mt. Cook and Mt. Tasman, relaxed at the Wanaka- and Hawea-Lakes,….
New Zealand is a very amazing country and with exceptional natural sites. We are very impressed of these great nature monuments and sights and we are happy that we met so much friendly and helpful people.

Our first find in Mt. Maunganui. Beautiful beach.
Greetings from Germany.
TFTC
black_dog2402

We went out after breakfast for a short bike ride to look for a few nearby caches. Already busy with lots of people out enjoying the surf in the Mount, as well as warm and it's barely 9am!
After not finding the first cache looked for (we're pretty sure it's MIA), we were pleased to make a quick find here. Nice outer camo, and the temporary log book is still in good nick but with the predicted rain that may not be the case soon. TFTC.

#11826. After a DNF at the first cache we looked for, it was good to get in the board. TFTC.

Today we visited Mount Manganui and to find more caches we even surrounded it twice. Afterwards we went for some cahes in the town. Thanks

Very effective camo. Thanks for bringing us here

Found it clever camo and happy to find and sign .....I feel the main log is missing as there is only a small piece of paper for the log tftc

On a walk around Tauranga from my cruise ship. Logging this a little late, so my memory is hazy, but by the looks of my photo, I found the 'cache container thingy' with a paper log, but no actual container (as mentioned in clue) which would keep the log dry. Signed the paper log. TFTC.

TFTC. found wooden container, but no log. Jaybeem! took a photo as proof of find.

The log is missing but the wooden cache holder is there. Maintenance required

Container and log missing

Found the "container" but tube and log missing. Temp paper in place.

TFTC. Found while cruising around NZ. Beautiful country!!

Found cache with Jaybeem! whilst visiting on Diamond Princess but log is missing.

Tftc log is missing

Judging off everyone's comments here I found where it should be, but no cache. Hopefully I'm wrong!

We found the obvious hiding spot but no bison or log enclosed. We fear it has walked. We had quite a DNF streak in this part of town. Is there a cache thief ?

Found while on our cruise.What a beautiful place.

We hunted for this one a couple of days ago but couldn't figure it out. Done some homework and read through the logs before a second attempt today. Got it straight away! Nice one worthy of a fave point. Log needs replacing. Tftc

Couldn't find it 2 days ago in the dark. Found it yesterday in daylight but didn't have a pen on me. At last I visited with a pen Thanks for a neat cache which gets a favourite point from me.

Under torch light took a couple of mins then ohh wait ahaa nice came job tftc 9.50pm

didn't take long to find it. nice camo..

Looked for half an hour almost everywhere but I didn't find it

We had no luck last time we were here so were happy to come away with a find this time. Tftc nice camo

Our first find ... Thanks Geo Cache ... Very clever!!!

No longer geocaching virgins. This was our first. So exciting to find this finally!!

What a neat cache cool find with my 3 little kids

On our way back to the car we stopped for this little picnic. At first we had to search a while but then i found the nicely hidden container, very cool!
TFTC!

No picnic here today...just started raining. Thanks for the placement

Love this cache! Very clever

Wow what cool camo. Was a lovely day today and a spot I dive near regularly prob walked past this cache 50 times and never even knew it was here. T4tc log book is full

Here for day but without pen!
See photo
TFTC

Tayne and Raemoz found it. A really clever one.

Raemoz and Tayne found this really tiny one in a sneaky spot.

Thanks fpr showing this nice place

Nice camo. Logsheets full. Tftc

Awesome camo!!!

Had us looking for about 5 mins and then saw something shining in the dark, great camo, well done

Nice camo deserves a fave from me. Log def full. Love the hide, thanks

About half an hour to kill before the opening of the bar for the early morning All Blacks-France quarter final. Came for a stroll on the beach with sveppi and found this cache. Easy, obvious hide, thanks, good little camo.

Filling in a little bit of time before going to watch the All Blacks-France quarter final in the pub. Decided to do a spot of caching along the beach. Found easily - nice camo. TFTC

Log is full but love it!!

Very clever cache container tftc

Awesome took use a bit to find

Nice one. Took us a while to find because we thought it was on something which it wasn't.