Amongst the Yucca's (Bay of Plenty) Papamoa, North Island, New Zealand
By Keltic-Kiwi on 21-Feb-14. Waypoint GC4YY95

In the sand? Photo to come.

Where did you say?

I am sorry we have to archive this cache due to diggers and graders coming in and taking out all the plants which were in and near our cache. Sorry for any inconvenience, but sadly we just didn't realise that this was going to happen.

Thank you for all who got to sign our log, we didn't get there in time to save the actual log book, but have it on record here.

Cheers
Keltic-Kiwi

#11794. The uneven terrain was not kind on my twisted ankle, and the nearby machinery made it hard to focus on searching. I was pleased when Troodles located the cache. TFTC.

After lunch, we loaded up the car with the bikes and drove to Papamoa Beach to find a few caches in the area en bicyclette. A pleasant ride though we had to dismount and walk to the beach caches. We found 13 all together, but have only scratched the surface! Will have to return to look for more, hopefully tomorrow.
There was heavy machinery working very close by, plus a full black rubbish bag near GZ which put us off our game somewhat. Eventually found it just as we were wondering whether to call it quits (the heavy machinery was coming uncomfortably close to where we were searching). TFTC.
Logged with wrong date, now fixed.

We checked this cache out as someone mentioned co-ord's being out, but they are correct and not out as suggested, still in right place, happy caching. Cheers Keltic-Kiwi

Quick little park and grab even though co ords were showing 5mtrs out today. TFTC

Second time looking for this one. Needed light to help find in. Thanks guys. Signed Teq & Barker.

Well camoed and took a while to spot. TFTC and greetings from Scotland.

Nice quick find tftc

Another quick find, TFTC

Quick find thanks

Joined up with yorkshirekiwi83 today and headed down to Papamoa and Mount Maunganui for a long day of caching. We arrived in Papamoa early in the morning and then spent the rest of this hot summers day making our way to The Mount and finding what caches we could along the way. A quick find of the cache here, while on our travels. TFTC!

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Vistra and I had decided to go for a full on day and head down to Papamoa / Mount Maunganui to see if we could get some numbers and quick drive bys.

Nice quick find, TFTC


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Out with the grandkids

Hunting before the rain arrives!

Tricky little find, took us about twenty minutes.
Nice hiding spot.
Tftc

Almost got pounced by a dog walker.!!
Cheers

Have checked this one this morning and is in place, so should be able to find. Cheers Kiwi

Whoo! Got it!

Damm

Beautiful day for a spot of geocaching. Nice easy find:)

Found nice and easy

I had found this with frewilys some time ago got my own name now so signed it myself

Lots of options here so need to pick the right one.

4 year old was thrilled to find this one himself. GPS coordinates were spot on. TFTC

Simmy & codi

Thanks

Fourth successful find of the day with FrankuSaan! (Log book seems to be getting damp)

Tool abit of looking around with TaoMing, but good find

Good hide! Took me a bit to find

End of a successful morning (for once). Tftf

This was one of more than fifty Geocaches I found today in the company of HKB and 11hpg11. We signed the logs HI1, an anachronism of our handles to save on log space. We travelled over to the Mount and Papamoa from Hamilton, leaving at the end of the All Black/ South Africa test at about 5am and didn’t roll back into Hamilton until after 8pm. It was a long day, and the weather wasn’t the best but that didn’t stop us from having a great time exploring the area and enjoying the wide variety of high quality hides.

While I looked in all the wrong places 11hpg11 spotted this cache and we were soon off again. TFTC

Out on a numbers mission with HKCB and Iammrwalker to clear out some of the caches in Tauranga/Papamoa area. We left Hamilton at 5am and had a full day of caches, a few DNFs, a refreshing swim in a pond and a whole lot of laughs. We signed logs as 'HI1' as an acronym for our caching names to save log space. Thanks to all the cache owners for the great variety of caches, puzzles and location

Looked for some yuccas and stumbled upon a cache in the first spot I looked.

Out for a numbers mission in and around The Mount and Papamoa with 11HPG11 and iammrwalker today. With a very early start of 5am agreed on, it was going to be a long day compounded by the All Blacks playing before we left which meant a 3am alarm being set the night before. We all had a great time and a lot of laughs were had in between some frustrating hides, a really enjoyable multi and a couple of great field puzzles. All in all a very successful day with only a handful of DNF's, the weather keeping at bay for most of the day and 86 new smiles added to the map in a little under 13 hours of caching. We signed the cache log "Hi 1" an acronym of our caching names. A big thanks to all the cache owners for placing some great caches.

Some funny looking Yucca's here! HPG stumbled across the cache in the first place she looked, thanks for the hide.

Awesome hide. Almost gave up but one last scout round and we found it. tftc

Hi raining trool

We are on a roll today

Quick find in the bushes

Neatly tucked away! Thanks for the cache, was fun

Nice

This one took a bit of hunting as GPS was skipping all over the place, glad this is not a very built up area at the moment as we would of looked real out of place. TFTC

As described. Not too hard to find.

Quick find on our Sunday afternoon bike ride. TFTC. #309

Veryyy clever cache!! TFTC

I'm not sure what went wrong last time but found this today in a pretty typical place. I'll put it down to newbieism. (It's a word now...)
Lovely spot.
Tftc.

Yay found quickly just how we like it. Tftc

My golly!! What a mission!! Found and logged

Will have to come back

Nice.

Tftc left an army man in honour of our ANZAC veterans.

Nice and quick ^~^

Never explored this area

Lovely day for a bike ride around the growing Papamoa trails. What a lot of development going on here. Nice cache, all good. Had a few spare pencils today so added one to the cache.
Also practiced our CITO -removing 6 bits of old plastic from around this cache, including 2 with dog shit in them... New area, no rubbish bins yet. TFTC

Some more geocaching on my way up to Auckland. Geocache was quickly found. TFTC

Located fairly quickly. Log nice and dry after heavy downpour last night. TFTC

Our first trip down to Tauranga for a basketball event so we stopped off to grab a few caches.

Took a bit of searching, but the hide was obvious once we found it.

TFTC

Woohoo another find!

A wonderful day exploring the Papamoa area finding a few caches. Thanks for the placement.

Have replaced soaked log book, so good to go again, please replace log book back in plastic bag, thank you.
Happy caching

day #29 for my streak 1 more day off my 30 day badge Took a little bit of searching at GZ but the clue rulled out few spots and made it quicker! getting used to putting GPS away at GZ and relying on instinct.
Thanks for the cache the log book needs drying out or replacing pretty drenched.

The log was wet but the cache was an easy find. Thanks for the hide Keltic-Kiwi

This entry was edited by nzkites on Friday, 13 March 2015 at 08:58:00 UTC.

Found it

No luck here for me. Had a good hunt around. Will return one day.

Thanks

TFTC

Quick find. Thanks.

Found it- first one

Dad found this one

1050 1st of a new year while out on a morning 10km run and cache around papamoa with Jax479. TFTC

Our first Papamoa cache being Wellington natives, and opened the log book to see the last people to sign the log book were friends of ours also from Wellington. Hi CaligulaNZ and family. Also the first cache of the year, feeling a bit dodgy from celebrations the night before but the caching must go on! With metal-art.

Over for a bit of Boxing-Day caching from Otuemotai. Nice wee hide - surprisingly quick find!

TFTC!
with Tan1aNZ, Comandercon2 & FiddlefingersNZ

Nice

A really enjoyable day in Tauranga. An early morning raid on Matua netted a few. A middle of the day stroll (yeah right!) up the Mount added a few more, and a quick jaunt to Papamoa enabled us to find the one we'd heard about at the event last night. So long and thanks for all the caches

Mrs L onto this one, while Mr L was still fluffing about; cache nice and dry, thank you.

Thanks. Found a couple of weeks ago but forgot to log. A cool wee find

Nice quick find. Tftc

A nice quick find here in amongst the yucca's. TFTC!

Went back second time, found it. It took the kids to find it. Sometimes I overthink things and over look for things. Tftc

No trades but a big enough jar. Maybe the next person could leave a gift.

Near home, gave it a go.

Nicely tucked away amongst the yukkas

Took the kids about half an hour to track down. Loved it.

Over here today for meetings with a number of clients so this made my first early in the morning even before the bike riding muggles were passing by. This cache completed an aspect of the final requirement for the final stage of the GCLS
Parked in the right spot, wandered out and soon had the cache in hand, signed and returned.
Nice spot to stop at

Thanks for the placement

Area under water last time we were here, Still wet but able to get in and out with out getting wet sox.

A quick stroll to locate a nicely hidden cache amongst the Yucca’s , TFTC.

Easy find, cheers

Lost pen on way to cache so log not signed, took a little while to spot it.

Tricky!

Great cache thanks

Great find

Great find

Nice location. Thanks.

Last morning at the mount collecting a few missed caches. t4tc

Big developments going on here, nice to see a bit of greenery still around. TFTC

Not a lot of development going on here yet but it probably won't take long. Cache not yukky at all TFTC

A nice find on the way to Rotorua

Tftc

Nice quick stop for the cache. SL TFTC