Sighing Pines 2 (Bay of Plenty) Oropi, North Island, New Zealand
By Lion Fish on 13-Oct-13. Waypoint GC4Q6NW

This area has been very recently logged and cleared; the cache has gone in the process, but fortunately it did not contain any trackables.

Hi it seems this area has been milled recently. No pines (Sigh) and no cache

Hmmm this area has been heavily forested. Might need a checkup from the owner.

Couldn't find today, looked for about 20min before giving up and moving on to the next one, will look another time

New Zealand entered Level 2 (Covid-19) on Thursday 15 May 2020, and it is now considered safe to resume geocaching in New Zealand. Wishing you all happy & safe geocaching.

Covid-19: have decided to disable our caches until it is safe to resume geocaching.

Nice little hike on our way to Rotorua. Fast found. TFTC

Easy find. Exactly where it was supposed to be. Removed some mouldy lollies from the geocache. They have made the contents a bit sticky. The log was ok. Tftc

This was our first cache of the day as we explored this area, Mrs and Little One were busy hunting on the wrong side of the track as the GPS was bouncing around...Mr was way off hunting 20m further down the track. Little One struck gold...a tricky find due to lots of natural cover.

found this way back in June 2019, just found my logbook that I had them all written down in, was a big trip from Hawera to Tauranga and then down to Hatings and then Home

replaced serveral logbooks on my travels

hope everyone has as much fun as I do caching

cheers
Rick OZR3RZ

Took a while to find as my signal was bouncing around...description helped in the end tftc!

The last quick find here.
There is no logbook in the container.
I had just a sheet of paper good for around 20 logs.
TFTC and greetings from Austria

The last box in this beautiful forest with tree fern. We spent a logsheet because there was no log in.
TFTC and greetings from Austria

Having a great time stopping at places I have never been before ! Will have to return to do the rest, as I have a large hike planned for later today.

The last find of a very fun and memorable 3 day trip. Thanks for placing the caches along this track. It'll be interesting to see what the area looks like in 10 years time. We timed it well as it just started drizzling when we drove off. TFTC

Our first stop at the TECT park and it's a pretty amazing place. Just a quick one today to pick up this cache... will be back daily to collect others TFTC

Looped around again to locate this one as we missed it on our first pass, walking our friends dog for her birthday..... great area with many adventure activities to partake in here.

The cache is all good.

TFTC.

Jono and I have been married 6months today so to celebrate we came here a beautiful day too. A good hiding spot tftc

Nice cover here. SL TFTC

Quick find with new gps

Visiting here from Oregon, USA for work. Thanks for the international find!

Tftc

On a mission to find a cache big enough to take a rather large trackable. Quick find on a nice walk. Will be back again do all the caches and the tunnel. SL TFTC

Checked on cache this afternoon... gave it a tidy up; all good. Took a new photo of GZ - to keep the page up to date. The cache is under/behind the log. Happy caching everyone.

My whanau and I were excited to do this trail and find the caches. Unfortunately, even though I downloaded the caches to make them accessible offline, for some reason my app logged out and I couldn't get back in without internet access - such a rookie lol. So we were unable to find the rest in the series.
Nevermind this was still a great track to walk which we would never have done without your caches. TFTC!!

For some unknown reason I missed logging this when we were here in April . It was our last for the day and glad it was a quick find as we were a pair of very wet drowned rats .....hypothermia was setting in ....as we were in a hurry the approach was a tad unorthodox as it was the shortest path or so we thought ...it never goes right when you are in a rush ...thanks Lionfish for the placement ...this is truly a great area

Nice walk in the rain tftc

Last one for the day after feeling like drowned rats. Phone by this time was useless, but GPS was better. It jumped around a bit with the rain and tree cover, but once it settled brought us right to the spot. Thanks for the cache Lion Fish.

Nice quick one. Very nearly mugged by a silent jogger and her dog coming up behind

TFTC phot obviously a bit dated but it did help.

We stayed overnight at the nice campground nearby. In the morning I went for a short walk to this box, which I could find easily thanks to the hint.

Tftc.

Des isch Easy xi drum bin i do xi. Bin auf Tour mit meiner Liebesmuggelin zum 60ger in NZ um nebenbei diese tollen Dosen zu erhaschen. Geocaching isch so Gsund do wirsch nümma rund! TFTC ! Danke fürs legen und pflegen dieser genialen Dosen..

On a geocaching trip with livee_nz. Had originally planned to go to Karangahake Gorge, but decided on a shorter drive, so did a walk in the TECT Park instead. This was our first find of the walk. Relying on livees' gps because of no phone reception. Found fairly quickly using the hint. Cache in good condition. TFTC

Georunnermatt and I were on our way to K gorge but a sick cat at home had us rethinking our plans along the way. After a couple of closer to home areas spotted and discarded, we wound up at TECT, a new place for birth of us. With no mobile signal we were pleased to find our GPS had a selection of local caches on it, and Matt was able to see caches on the official app. Sighing Pines was our first attempt and find, not too tricky but not in the first place we looked, just how I like it tftc!

Quick find as the kids ran on ahead with the GPS - decided to head out to the TECT park as I have never been and walked around. Great little circular walk. TNLNSL

TFTC

SIgned with Poppymjr and Gracermr

A quick find in a peaceful (apart from the traffic noise) forest. TFTC.

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TECT Park campsite was our favorite one on the two week camping road trip! It's free, has a really good spot, is calm, quiet and not crowded, superb facilities and has this beautiful and interesting walk, awesome!

Thanks for the cache!
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Found pretty easy. A hot day but a short walk around the loop. TFTC

Visiting the area with sveppi today. I had found the odd cache around here about 5 years ago when the park was still brand new. All that time later and the park doesn't look much different, and not very busy at all even on the first satruday of the school holidays. We took the wrong entrance to the track but the bush is quite open here so we found our way pretty easily. At GZ we had to stop to let a muggle walk past, then it was an easy find without the hint. Cache a bit damp inside. TFTC.

A nice one. The hint/picture are good help.
Thanks from a Dutch.

After a DNF of a cache nearby, we were (extra) glad to find this one.
TFTC.

I am visiting from Australia and after spending a week with my sister in New Plymouth then attending the mega event at Turangi I have time to play tourist for a week before my flight back to Sydney next Saturday. So I thought I would head towards the Bay of Plenty as I have never been to this part of New Zealand before. Today was a run from a bit south of Rotorua to Tauranga, so not a job of getting every cache on the way but a line on the map.

Pulled up on the loop below (not realising it had a perfectly good parking area near) and went for a walk. This reminded me of my childhood in Canberra when we almost used to live in the pine forests near home on weekends at ages under 10, building cubby houses and so on. Our parents didn't care if we were away from home for hours with no contact. Times have changed since the 70s I guess. A nice stroll in a light drizzle and the cache was soon in hand. Thanks Lion Fish.

This is another cache that I have put off trying to get to as I always seem to be too busy while I am up here.
Today, I had time, so found the trail up to this one.
When I got close, I didnt need the GPS to zero-in on the cache as I used my geocaching instinct to find the cache (although it totally had nothing to do with the fact that there was a pen lying on the ground, actually pointing to the cache.)
Oh well, easy or difficult, I'll take it.
Cache was in good order and well stocked still.
Thanks for bringing me here too.

As a local I do this walk quite often with the dog - when I'm not up here on the horse There were lots of spooky noises in the tree tops today which were freaking me out, and not impressing the dog either! As I continued round the loop I actually used the flashlight on my phone to go thru the tunnel, cos the noises had unnerved me so much! Cache warm and dry and very well stocked.

Great find for the morning. Most well stocked one I've seen so far. Left a small ball. And grabbed the TB.

23/04/16 13:00 Off to do the dot day caches I'd planned, after an accidental FTF nearby! An easy locate despite phone saying I was 18m away (GPS was off & in my pocket) due to carefully placed cacher 'sign'. Many thanks for the well stocked (good to see these days) cache and an excuse to wander down the track. Cheers, GC.

Dropped off Moove Me TB.

Included as part of [Ramblers Challenge](http://coord.info/GC2XBA7)

TFTC

An impromptu visit to Tect Park meant that I had done no research at all. Luckily the caches were in my GPS as no cell phone service here at all. Took longer than it should have to find this because of the number of places it could have been but got there in the end. Most the caches I found today were found with the clasps not closed and lid just placed back on.
The last log on the logsheet was Joe sombody on the 23rd. The cache was still in good condition.
A great walk when under the trees but once out in the open, it got very hot, very quickly.
Thanks for the cache Lion Fish.

Nice easy find tftc

Thanks for this series, we had fun with the kids walking round here, the caches were a great incentive for them to keep going, but so much to look at along the way as well. Thanks for the photo hint, we'd gone to far, but when I looked at the photo I realised we'd passed the spot

Straightforward cache, much to the delight of our 4 year old. Picture helped big time.

After searching and searching at the GZ which was around a big tree that had fallen on the track, we decided to give up. Then we went on another walk and we came back past the cache so decided to try again and have another look but at a different spot which matched the hint. And Low and behold it was there. Thanks for the cache.

Nice walk, thought we had gone too far to start with, but all good, we got there in the end. TFTC

Girls day out with Mcjandals.
Photo was a godsend.
Took an Angry bird left a NW Collectable.
Cheers

Quick stop off to pick up a cache missed last time . Nice area for a walk

Easy find missed these last time in the area tramping.
Stayed overnight in the park

Thanks for the reason to explore this amazing place - the terrain and views were surprising and we had a great morning walking the loop

The GPS took us straight to each cache

TFTC

My grandad and I found this cache while on our third day of our New Zealand trip. We were travelling to Turangi for the next part of our trip.

We enjoyed the pleasant walk along the Te Rerenga Tunnel Track after finding a previous cache near the tunnel. We wondered why most of the area was cleared on the way towards this cache. We arrived at GZ and made the find fairly quickly. This cache was the last one we found on the walking track - thanks for taking us here with your great caches!

Just a quick run down from the car - I left my phone in there too so I was hopeful my memory of the photo was accurate I ended up passing many logs on my travels until I spotted one that wasn't quite right... one that appeared to have debris used in cache concealment....

As I left I realised the next cacher looking for this wouldn't be so lucky - I took a little pride in my replacement this time. Time will tell.

Cheers Lion Fish - I've enjoyed my wander around here today.

There are a few logs to choose but found in the end. A nice walk in the forest while staying nearby in the caching caravan.tftc.

Stopped off to grab this on our return home after an early morning trip to Rotorua targeting some specific caches towards a challenge.
It was only 3.5 deg when we found the last one and it was only a few degrees warmer when we stopped here. Enjoyable bush walk to GZ, good place for a hide TFTC.

Really enjoyed our time here exploring. We met some people with dogs just like ours so had to stop and play. TFTC in a wonderful location.

I had decided a few days ago that I would try and spend a few days in a town that I had spent a couple of years many decades ago. Nothing much has changed, there's still a big pond with a big hill next to it and a few mud pools letting off a bit of steam.

It is time to put the pond behind me and head towards the beach. Didn't quite get there as there was this All Terrain TECTpark that wasn't here when I was here. Wherever there is downhill there is always an uphill. The lungs and heart got a good workout getting to this cache.

Cheers for the cache.

Checked on cache - all good.

Dropped off trackable... 'Austrian Red Cross'

The only one we found on the track. Have to get Gps sorted for when there is no mobile phone reception.

First cache in years, beautiful evening for a walk and find. TFTC

Decided earlier in the week that a mission to clean up some caches between Rotorua and Tauranga. Also took a new Geocacher with me Sakura7, to show her the ropes and show her what geocaching is all about. A great day was had and with some fantastic locations visited, even if the weather was average to poor at best, still at least it wasn't cold. And as a bonus no DNF's thou it was close on a few.
Thanks to everyone for the placements.

First cache of the loop, we actually walked right past it as we were talking and not paying attention to the GPS. Realised when we backtracked to the cache that I had a 15mm splinter in my finger that I didn't even notice, to busy caching to worry about injuries. Extracted the splinter before locating the cache and doing the formalities.

Sincere apologies for the very late logging and the cut and paste logs ... long story.
Had a awesome day out with CatsandDragons exploring areas between Rotorua and Tauranga on the back roads. Came across some very clever originial hides that we hadn't seen before.
Many thanks

Today was the first planned trip for the new year in the company of Zorgon to collect as many caches as we could between the north end of Lake Rotorua, to Pukehina and back to Te Puke.
We set off early from home and this was a great area to pull into. Have driven past often but never had the time to collect the caches. this was a very nice walk among the pines
What a great facility for the area and so much to do, well separated facilities and maintained
thanks for the placement

A quick trek into the forest and the cache was soon in hand. TFTC

This is a great time of year to go caching - nobody about, lovely weather and such an interesting track as well. Thanks for this series of caches Lion Fish; really enjoyed it. GPS skipped around a bit, but the clue put us in the right place. TFTC

Thank you for hiding this geocache! We had fun searching it!

Great weather today, much more better than the forecast told us.

This walkway is beautiful und the tunnel a wonderful highlight!

Thanks to the owner for showing us this walkway, which we had't visit without the geocaches!

Nice little walking track, thanks, TB Zaney out.

Quick easy find on way back from Rotorua. Never knew this walk was here. Picked up Minnie TB and dropped off Zaney TB.

First cache on a walk on the loop track. Left minnie mouse trackable.

Sighing Pines don't tell the grass cos the grass don't need to know. TFTC

Quick bit of caching with my geomate Nzkeko before he leaves our shores Quick find, lovely walk. TFTC

Some geocaching with my friend before my departure \.
Sorry for logging so late, was busy preparing my departure
Cheers
nzkeko

Easy Find. TFTC

Easy find, thank you

Quick find, still raining, tftc

Today I had no so much time. So I drove to nearest forest to make some Caches there.
nice round.
tftc

I looked for this in Novemer when i was passing and searched for ages with no luck. Today though i walked straight to the cache and it was in the first place i looked. Really enjoyed the little bush walk out here to get it. Thanks for bring me to this area.

Many thanks for taking me out on this lovely walkway.
Dropped of a TB but there was no coin in the cache as stated in the inventory.

TFTC!

The sighing pines looked more like sad pines today. They look like they need a good rainy day.

havnt been out this way before. beautiful place. tftc

This is a great area for all sorts of activities _ I love the walking and biking trails. This cache is just the starts of the track - make sue you visit the other caches nearby. TFTC

Walked the short distance from the car park for a quick find

T4tC

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Stopped for lunch at the car park, then off to do the trail. One down.

Found during a great walk around the loop track. Thanks for bringing us here and TFTC. #189

I should really take a better look at the photos before I go caching, as the GPS gave me not so good readings, so used gut instick, and with my Mum's help soon had it in hand. Will be back up this way to collect pinecones for her fire in winter

Nice quick stroll out to GZ, unfortunately battery went flat on gps, so had to go by the hint, and there were lots of them in site, after 15minutes of poking and prodding we decided to give up and head back to car....then noticed something just beside the track, had a sneaky peak and there it was tftc

A hot day with little wind so decided a cool walk in the bush would be a good idea,plus this cache has been teasing me for a while but just haven't been up that way.Printed off the picture to have in my back pocket in case the GPS played silly buggers but no it was almost spot on.Thanks guys,a fav & Tect Park now all smiley faces again.

Nice walk up the track. TFTC

We are en route to the Curry Planet for the Out of this World event, so thought it was a good idea to clear some of these new caches which keep messing up our map. Found the Squirrel with Seagnoid on the side of the road, looking for another cache, so joined forces and went a'huntin' in the pines.

Thanks Lion Fish and it was good to meet you at the Curry Planet.

[green] still on my way back from the Auckland Mega, stopping off in Rotorua for my mum's 75 birthday. Met up with Squirrel Nutcase and we are off to the Space event in Tauranga!
Caught up with Mr and Mrs Spiderhouse here and the four of us went to fossick around in the bush. Found by the one person who didn't have a GPS and wasn't being led astray by it!

Quick find on way to tauranga kids found without the hint. Pines were sighing today a bit of wind around. TFTC.

It was good to be back in the bush after walking through the felled area. Why did we pick such a hot day for a walk? TFTC