Te Okuroa Drive (BOP) Papamoa, North Island, New Zealand
By Noodlekidz on 24-May-14. Waypoint GC55JB3

Area cleanup

Archived

Will collect the remains before archiving.

Out on a Mothers Day mission. This was #3 of 5 we found this afternoon. Can't believe how much all of this area has grown and expanded. Found cache on the ground. SL. Returned back to where it should have been. All parts are there, but some glue required. TFTC!

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Nice quick easy find hoping nobody is watching from business close by
TFTC

Found the cache on the ground for all to see. CO may need to come and check it urgently.
Have replaced cache where we think it possibly went. TFTC

We were in the area admiring all the new development and decided to swing by and grab this cache. Noted that there was some maintenance required here so found the cache and added a plastic bag and log sheet, but, as previously mentioned, the magnets have come off so some TLC is required. TFTC!

As with previous cachers. Found cache. No magnets or log. Needs maintenance. TFTC.

Plate fallen off at base of pole. No log or magnets. Have left plate at pole.

Out for a New Years Eve caching adventure by bike.
Found holder on ground next to post. No log or magnets. Will leave plate at base of post.

TFTC

Quick easy find TFTC

2525 After parking I walked towards GZ and assessed 2 likely hiding spots. Not the first but the second. Wandered off for signing before coming back to replace.

So simple and so nice! Was a quick find, but liked it nevertheless.
Looks good were it is, nice Geocache.
Thanks for this one!

On my way home and couldn't resist a quick cache...tftc

A nice quick find while in the area. It helped to have a bit of experience to know what to expect here. Tftc

Easy find. Tftc.

A quick find while out and about with Sarahbee20. Tftc

Quick detour to grab this one after solving safe storage around the corner. Love these ones. Thanks for the cache!

Easy as. No you don't need a hint. Man it's busy here even for a Sunday. Tftc

Clever hiding spot on a cold day. Didn't need a hint. Helpful co-ordinates. Tftc

Brrrrr it's cold. Yay I found it this time. Hadn't found one like this when I came searching last time and had a DNF. Hit jackpot today. These are very clever! TFTC

TFTC. love hidden ones like this

The coolest only tricked me for a minute. Very clever

On our way to Blow Carts.
Cheers

I've been waiting and wanting to find a cache concealed like this since I saw a photo online. I love things hidden in plain view. Thank you

Seen this one before, just blends in tftc

Quick park as grab a few days back with Steiney4. TFTC!

Yes got it nice quick find and sign thanks for your cache

Quick park and grab on a nighttime mission with SamTaylor02. TFTC.

Good little drive by. Thanks for the cache

Couldn't get to this one. Lol it seemed like worker muggles were right on top of it? Working with steel. Might try to come back this evening when they have gone home.

Nice and clever. Thank you.

Very cool however the log was drenched and was unable to sign it.

We had a bike ride around Papamoa yesterday afternoon, but realised we needed to spend more time here so this morning, StreetWalker loaded the bikes onto the car and we headed back. We had mixed results in the morning - 10 finds and 4 DNFs, but the afternoon's tally was much better and we found all caches searched for.
A quick find but the log book was soaking wet so we were unable to sign. TFTC.

#11813. We had to bike through some road works to get to GZ, and once at GZ we noticed some workers on the section next to GZ. Luckily Troodles made a quick find, and we were on our way before we started looking too suspicious. TFTC.

Very clever tftc

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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An afternoon caching around Papamoa on a fine hot day. A quick find. TFTC

Found quickly
Lots of muggles working today here
Tflc

Lovely Sunday to be out and about picking up some of our local caches. Haven't been down here before... Nice hide. All good. TFTC

a great Saturday of caching in Papamoa

a nice easy find - always love it when the GPS takes us straight there

Nice quick park and grab. Have one of these to hide in future. Cheers.

Raemoz Anja Tayne found it. Just like one in Melbourne Aust.

That was clever! TFFC

Out for a walk with daughter and dog. Nice hide

Real quick find. Pretty smart hiding place. TFTC

Quick find and super quick sign log and return. tftc.

Nice one

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.

No trouble here.

I'm in the Tauranga/Mt Maunganui area to get a few of additions to my new caravan and so while they are working on that I am going to work on getting my numbers a bit bigger.

This area is growing.

Cheers for the cache.

Tftc yet again noodle kids!! Thoroughly enjoy your caches

Like the previous comment, there's not too many places to hide it so relatively easy find. Thanks for the cache.

Cool hide quick find as not many places it couldn't have been. Tftc

Very very clever. Thanks.

Another cool one! Thank you!

Couldn't resist a quick visit after shopping at the local landscape supplier. Good hide TFTC.

Very clever indeed. Seen one of these before so spotted it straightaway. Love these ones. Great day for caching on a quiet overcast Easter Monday. TFTC.

Thank you for this placement...a quick find

Didn't fool us for a second, which was great, as we are on a mission today, over from Hamilton. TFTC.

I liked the log paper, so made a note of where it came from.

love these types of ones TFTC

In for a quick park and grab. Cheers.

Quick park n grab. Thanks.

nice quick find, love these "ipod" ones, tftc noodlekidz

Great hide...grand daughter couldn't see it at all, but we have seen this before. We will always remember the return visits we made hunting around at the end of the Strand in Tauranga looking for a cache and finally Murray got it after being given a good clue....and it was one just like this. Thanks very much for this cache. It was great to come and look around this lovely new industrial area that is developing.

Found while on a weeks camping at Papamoa, have seen this type before makes a neat cache TFTC

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

All quiet in the industrial park today - no-one around at all. TFTC.

Nothing else around so quick find. TFTC. #287

Quick find thanks for the hide.

Out and about exploring the area. Fortunately we were experienced with these types of caches, so quick find here. SL. TFTC.

Knew what to look for here. Thanks for the cache.

We have found a few caches like this one before so it was a quick find for us today. Thanks for placing it.

A nice quick park n grab here to finish off our unfound caches down this end of Papamoa since our last visit, TFTC!

I will always love these ones. Always. TFTC

Quick find - tftc

Coordinates are fixed - now ready to find

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 42.891 E 176° 18.741

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 42.949 E 176° 18.963

Distance from original: 1124.5 feet or 342.8 meters.
At CO request.

Down to replace the cache today.

Cache is back in place ready to find. Same cache, new log

Having a few problems with updating the coordinates, will be ready soon.

Back in place

See log

Found on our drive around the Papamoa area. Unfortunately the log is wet and has turned to pulp so needs for TLC.
Many thanks

Out and about for a days caching over in the Bay with Zorgon, to see what we can find, before Mrs Dragon and I head out of town for a short time.
This was our twenty eighth cache of the day and we arrived nice. The Easterly breeze seems to be keeping the muggles away

Thanks for the placement

Found this one on the ground, log is very wet and damaged so put in a piece of paper with my name on it and returned cache to its rightful spot.

Know this kind of cache well.

We went for a drive along Te Okuroa Dr, many thanks for another great cache hide.

Cool hide, tftc

4.55pm - Last cache for the day, and was exactly what we expected. Now it's time for Mr Gap to shout me tea. SLTFTC

Very clever cache hide

Turned up at GZ and thought we knew what we were looking for... no luck so searched elsewhere and still no luck... so back to where we were initially looking and must have had a mans look first time around, oops! TFTC

Finding couple caches on way to Te Puke. - amazing all the new roads and areas down here . Love these hides . TFTC

Nice straight forward find while in the area. TFTC

Night cache. Tean Welsh and I did some of these at night to qualify for our caching license. t4tc

Nice find to complete a sunny day out and about in the Bay!
And good to complete all these caches that appeared while we were off on holiday.
Thank you Noodlekidz

#275 - out for another cycle today, stopped in to get this one & got to watch a model helicopter flying around. Tftc

Had my Blokart in the car, but no wind for sailing at the track next door, so what else was I to do? Seeing I had may new GPS with me, it would be silly to not use it. This was a nice quick find in a fairly deserted area apart from the odd boy-racer drag racing a bit further down the road. Thanks for bringing me here.(Rated 4 stars with [url=http://www.gcvote.com]GCVote[/url])