309 Pony Express #8 Bridle Stop Coromandel Kaimarama, North Island, New Zealand
By Darby&Joan on 21-Jun-14. Waypoint GC56KGN

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Quick and easy find on our to Coromandel, tftc

Found it during our holiday in Coromandel. Quick stop. Not in good shape. Tftc

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Czechia.

We are on our long-awaited journey around the world in 99 days. Second try after canceling in 2020.
Our third stop after Los Angeles and Hawaii is New Zealand.

This time was of course used to find some geocaches here.
Today we take the „Highway 309“ and while that time we were searching for some of the 309 Pony Express caches!

Thank to the Hints and the good coordinates the little box was found quickly!
After signing the logbook there is a new smile on our geocaching map!

At least we would like to take this opportunity to thank Darby&Joan for creating and maintaining this nice series of caches along our way today!

Greetings from Nuermberg/Germany
**Wild_Bee_**

P.S. To save space in the logbooks, we not only enter in sequence, but also in empty spaces between.
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Thank you for the cache - जियोकैश के लिए धन्यवाद - Vielen Dank für den Cache - Gracias por el caché - Merci pour le cache - Grazie per la cache - Obrigado pelo Cache - Bedankt voor de cache - Tak for cachen - Hvala na predmemoriji - Takk for cachen - Kiitos välimuistista - Tack för cachen - Спасибо за кеш - Díky za mezipaměť - Dzięki za skrytkę - Önbellek için teşekkürler - Dankie vir die kas - Asante kwa kache - ขอบคุณสำหรับแคช - 感謝您的緩存 - キャッシュをありがとう - ޝުކުރިއްޔާ - Terima kasih atas cache

Day 15 on our holiday in New Zealand. Today we are in the area of Whitianga.. On our todays tour, we also visited this Traditional Cache, found it, and signed the logbook.



***T4T$ - Many Thanks to Darby&Joan for hiding and maintaining of this cache *** ️

Dodgy parking but found the cache, so that is all that matters, TFTC

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On a roadie with Kiscardi. A quick find. Thanks

On a road trip today with Hal2929 and muggle Moss to collect the caches on this 309 road. Had numerous DNF's maybe because of no cell coverage but also a grader had been through destroying lots of the corners , and also there has been servere floods since the previous logs.
thanks for the caches Darby and Joan, loved the trip.

Getting the hang of this. No need for the phone now. Once you get close to GZ it’s easily spotted. Cross fingers that continues. Cache is nice and dry. Nice cover. So far I have been appreciative of your locations- thoughtful and giving due consideration to the parking safety of the vehicle. TFTC

Quick find after locating the correct hint item
Signed wex as we were here with emiliyah and xsaveya.

We left today set out to get the caches along this road. Some were a lot trickier than others. The area the whole way was really mucky, lots of mud and very few good areas to pull over.
Was out with emiliyah and watcache.

Thanks for the trail.

We left today set out to get the caches along this road. Some were a lot trickier than others. The area the whole way was really mucky, lots of mud and very few good areas to pull over.
Was out with Xsaveya and watcache.

Thanks for the trail.

Out with buzzybb. Didn't take too long & had cache in hand. Tftc

A nice day out with kimbathelion. Cache in hand after a short search. TFTC

Easy

Quick park n find. Found with Reny90

Found with toby84

Staying in Whitianga for the weekend and decided to take this route to Coromandel purely for the Pony Express Caches!
Quick find here

Quick and easy TFTC

Tftc

We are away for 10 days touring around and collecting caches as we go along
We came over from Coromandle to Fitty as it was raining over the other side and as we were staying at the campervan park by the canels it was time to get out on my bike and do some caching

Stopped at Bridle Stop and leaft our calling card. cheers.

Day 6 - Wednesday 23 December - Coromandel - Whitianga - Coromandel -And back to Whitianga again. 309 Pony express is the aim today. But it was a hot dusty day and many caches below par so dissapointing. Left Zara in Whitianga and headed out around the loop in Toby.

The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby and I are off on another geocaching escape over Xmas, this time to the mighty Coromandel, then over to Opotiki and stop off at Rotorua to return home on 5 January. Had an fabulous time exploring many wonders of our country. Rounding up over 400 caches along the way, with a few LABS, 20 odd TMGTs, virtuals and lots of interesting earth caches to keep the mind busy. Watching the sun come up on New Years Day at Mt Maunganui was spectacular. Lots of walking and even more driving. But had an awesome time. Thanks to all COs who made this adventure so special.

Prickly, huh? Probably totora. Nope... nope... yup!

Taybeedragon and I went on a tour of the Coromandel - one of the few places of New Zealand, especially of Te ika a Maui, that I have yet to explore throughly, and from there along the coast to Opotiki to see one of my many, many sisters. From 18 December to 5 January we found over 400 caches, including 12 adventure labs (60 caches), 20 or so TMGTs and a host of virtuals and earthcaches. And I hosted an event to see the sun come up on New Year's day - surprisingly popular given that it was at 5am. We climbed a lot of hills, saw some amazing beaches that were quite popular despite (or because of) the insane access to them, walk a lot of bush, entered and explored 8 gold mines and generally had an awesome time. However I am glad to be back, but now is the hard part, and I fear it will take just as long - logging!

We got the correct tree this time and guess what we found. Cache all okay. Thanks

Out and about for a few days for a bit of a road trip around the Coromandel area. Day Three of my road trip. I started my travels in Whitianga and ended my day in Coromandel Town. My main objective for today was to find as many of the 309 Pony Express caches as I could manage. Weather had changed from yesterday - it was hot and sunny then - a bit cooler today and I encountered a few showers along the way. Not enough to dampen my enthusiasm though. Apologies for the cut and paste logs. I'll note anything that stood out for me. This one didn't take too long to find. TFTC, Biggles.

Out and about aiming for a couple of caches for the GeoTour and Jasmer challenge...
Thought I'd grab some of the 309 caches on the way down to Thames to grab a couple more TMGTs! Have been meaning to do this series since after publishing, but I never seem to got around to it.

Thanks for bringing me here, Darby&Joan! TFTC, #2064

Found it during Coromandel adventure trip with Aiden29. Perfect day for it. Enjoyed fairly quick finds along Road 309 all together with perfect weather , first day of Spring and Father`s Day. Some of the finds took bit longer to locate some of them were just right there. GPS coordinates usually bang on and traffic was light too. Thanks for placements and recent maintenance on some of them.

Tramyard already had plans to complete this power trail today, but he asked me if I wanted to join him while we were at an event last night. I jumped at the chance to go on a road trip to the Coromandel - my first time this far up the Peninsula. The weather was perfect, just a little cold and quite foggy along State Highway 2 early in the morning, but once the sun rose we quickly stripped down to our t-shirts (contrary to the last month of weather in Auckland!).

The road was relatively quiet and not too dusty. We didn't have too much trouble with the finds although some took a little longer than others. All-in-all we managed to find 54 caches during the day and explored quite a lot of the Peninsula. Thank you for this series.

MPLC !

This ended up being the hardest caching day of my trip so far. The weather wasn't good and some of the caches were hard to find. Still enjoyed it and thanks for the caches.

Nicely protected by a field tile. Tftc

Today we make the Pony Express Route .. not an easy one. Thank you for this Route

On a road trip north, enjoying the day and pic up some caches. TFTC

Greetings from 2 Austrians  
Die_Asseln

Found it after visiting the cove. TYFC

Found this cache on our trip to Whitianga. TFTC

Morgens ging es mit Heckenstürmer zur Cathedral Cove und Hot Water Beach. Schöne Küstengegend. Danach wurde die Seite gewechselt und wir konnten bei einer interessanten Zugsfahrt den Dschungel begutachten und uns erholen, bevor es in die Unterkunft ging....

Greets from Switzerland

Day 24 in Newzealand. Today we drove from Whitianga to Te Puru.
A very beautiful Country with lovely places. We were able to find nice Caches and See Lots of beautiful places.
Thank you for showing us this place.
Tftc

On a whistle stop tour of the Coromandel (today and tomorrow) but always have time to pick up a few caches. We stayed at Cooks Beach last night, and decided to travel up this road to pick up some caches that I've had my eye on for a while. We had very mixed success - great series and fun to travel on this road from old NZ.... TFTC

Found the log out in the open. Luckily we had a mint tin in the car so the log has been placed in this under an obvious place until CO can put back where it is suppose to be.

Seem to be along this road more twist and turns than I need to feel. Just as well there are caches along the route so the driver stops so I can look,for caches TFTC Darby&Joan Found the log but no container

Haven't been geocaching in a long time. I'm glad it worked out this time. Thanks much to the owner for the cache

Checked obvious spots, had to increase the search radius till I found it

Out on a day with Team S.E.A.C. x6. Had lots of fun with these caches.

Thanks for the Cache.

I was with seac
thanks for the cache

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We placed a discontinued NZ10c piece. Happy caching. TFTC

NQF here TFTC

Found this cache. Quite a few prickles around so be careful and wear long trousers!! Thanks for the cache. Devvin

Quick find.

Team BOP spent the weekend in Coromandel Pony express was the start of a weekend of hard out caching found most of the pony express caches even ones that were disabled we managed to find. What a great series of caches set out well and obviously maintained thanks Darby and Jones
Tftc

Team BOP have reunited for a two day journey up to the top of the Coromandel. We were pleased to be tackling these not long after a maintenance run as it's nice to know the caches are all in good order. They all seemed well placed with adequate parking and in spite of the repetitive nature of power trails - it was quite and enjoyable run.

This cache was found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords and a straight forward hint. Cheers Darby&Joan, TFTC.

Team BOP were heading to the Coromandel west coast and we had to knock off the 309 Road first.
Wasnt sure why it was called bridal stop, but it became obvious when a family of horsey people were offloading a horse from it float and delivering? to the nearby house. We we parked outside the house and felt a little out of place while the locals were wondering what we were up to.
TFTC

On a weekend road trip with Team BOP - Heading to the top of Coromandel but completing this series first. With so many caches in the series it is hard to remember each one. It was great to see maintenance being done on the caches and thought done when placing them for parking. It did start to rain as we began our journey but by the time we finished the sun was shining TFTC

3057 It has been a long time since I have driven the 309 but these caches were a good incentive. Managed to find 32 with 8 DNF. Some were quickly found while others I spent some time looking. All part of the pleasure.
This took me some time. I checked the obvious but had to widen my search before I made the find. Thanks for the placement.

Please see main log at: 309 Pony Express #1 – Whitianga PO Stop Coromandel. another one that RR soon had in hand. TFTC

Found quicker than last one! Please see main log at #1. Many thanks

Travelling around the world with Dartmoor Deliverer celebrating her taking early retirement!

NB Dont forget our Devon UK Mega 2017 GC6JZNY this August in the beautiful East Devon area of our county. UK Megas are over one week full of events and geocaching - a wonderful way to enjoy our county!

Road trip around the Coromandel with lots of caches to find. Checking out the back roads. This one reminds me of driving though the forests of home in the Far North. Quick easy find. TFTC.

During our vacation in New Zealand we also did some geocaching. We already found geocaches placed on the year 2000. Now we are heading to Coromendal and there we also did some caches. We found some and also didn't found some. But we had a lot of fun, and that is what geocaching ment to be. We loved the route 309. We had the speed of a pony, so after a long day we finally found the last one. We had no idea what to do with the letterboxes, so we didn't found them. Randsom we ad some FP's.



Darby&Joan hartelijk dank voor het leggen en onderhouden van deze cache.

Groetjes,
Team Geo Meijer
(We loggen vaak met TGM)

Dit was onze: 6569 gevonden cache

After our journey in east Coromandel we drive back to Te Kouma. First we found some caches, but than we came in heavy rain, so we stops at #15.
Thanks for showing this places and hidding the caches.
Greetings from Germany!!!

10.35am. First one after a smoko stop near the last DNF. Good to be under way again.
Thank you. David and Noeline.

**10983**
#8 of pony express series, took a moment to work out which one TFTC

**4.25pm**

Certainly learning about different trees TFTC

Another Manuka one! We had it quickly signed and returned.

Hang on - didn't I just do this one? some of these spots are looking similar... All logs today signed BR.

While spending some quality-time together with my Manaia588 in Whitianga I thought that we could collect some nice caches. Thx for the nice trail.

With MUEZ (aka "the driver") on Road 309 from Whitianga to Coromandel: Thanks for showing us this entertaining and historic "shortcut" from the East to the West Coast.

TFTC

Called by to check. Definitely gone. So replaced it. All good to go.

CZECH
prohledali jsme co se dalo a nenašli
dneska jsme si užili tuto cestu, jen 2 kešky jsme nenašli, některé ležely jinde než měly a některé nám daly trochu zabrat... ¨počasí bylo střídavě deštivo a slunečno, ale stálo to za to
už jsme podobných cest projeli dost, takže pro nás nic nového, ale přece jen byla nejdelší

Maybe another time.

Sad to say we had a DNF on this one. Being unfamiliar with tree types in NZ doesn't help. But, it's very possibly there and we just missed it. Sorry Darby&Joan!

We were fortunate enough to have the use of a batch in Matarangi, and the weather today was not looking like beach weather, so what were we to do but go caching and hunt down a trail...this being the eighth of the series...Arrived at GZ and began the search....

Nice quick find here and on to the next one.
Cache is all good.

Thanks Darby&Joan for the work put in on this trail.

TFTC.

Decided this was a must do while in Whitianga. Drove the 309 and braved the rain. Lunch at Coromandel and back over the Kopu- Coroglen Rd. Very muddy. Found with bkj97. Excuse the repetitive logs.

One of many caches found while on a mission to grab some caches on the 309 and the tapu-Coroglen rds. Found with little blue hen Enjoyed the challenge despite rain and mud. TFTCSL

All good here, TFTC

The long and winding 309.
We were in thrall of the variety of cache containers and the extent of the ingenious recycling and re-use deployed. Also, clearly a large amount of the country's quota of waterproof paper was put to use.
We dodged mud, puddles, muggles, gorse, and assorted trees and their branches to access these caches. But it was a great road trip experience, all of it, east to west. Thanks for laying this trail.
All in order here; log signed, then cache safely re-hidden just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

We're visiting from Florida, USA. That was great fun. Thanks for placing the cache.

All good
Thanks!

along with fiona84 month on a 2 journey through new zealand and australia. on the journey we passed through the cache to beautiful places and were also some very old caches log. many thanks for cherish and maintain the caches.

Together with schrek77 I traveled two months through New Zealand and Australia . First we traveled with a camper for 6 weeks the North and South Island of New Zealand . Then we went to Melbourne where we visited the city and the surrounding area . then we went to closing in the north of Australia . During this time we visited several geocaches and were brought to very nice places through this partially . We also had the opportunity to visit some very old caches , which extremely pleased us . We wish to thank Owner for nurture and cherish the caches .

As we would like to have a little adventure, the_ kc and me drive the 309 to our next accomodation. And luckily there are a lot of stops to do! Thanks for hiding and maintaining this caches! !!!

Today we are on tour to coromandel town! Found it together with MFFK50
Thanks for the fun and greetings from Austria

Did the nice drive on the 309 with The-Shredder. Had a lot of fun. TFTC Skyryser

Did the nice drive on the 309 with Skyryser. Had a lot of fun searching for the caches. TFTC The-Shredder

This was one of the series of caches we had really been looking forward to doing, as we travelled along this road 4 years ago in pre caching days and thoroughly enjoyed it so we were very disappointed that today was so wet and windy. However we decided to set off and see how far we got. We got to number 9 before we had to give up as we were getting soaked. Another quick find. TFTC

TFTC

Updating my new geo account with my old finds. Geokid has grown out of the geo adventures, but I'm still keen! Found as thebrownehornet and re-logging 31 03 2024 as NurseDr.

Joined Keylev and two others for a 50 in one day at least a km apart streak around the Coromandel as Team SEAC. And we did it, although it seemed to take forever! Amazing day in godzone, and it was great to remember how beautiful the Coromandel is. Definitely be back to stay a while. TFTC

We formed a team of four, keylev, thebrownehornet, He of HeMaLuDy and me to try for 50 caches that are separated by 1km or more all in one day. This is to meet the requirement of one of the GIO challenges. This was another cache added to our list to make sure we got 50 total. We signed the log as SEAC. TFTC.

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.

Thanks for the cache.

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.

A nice easy find here.

#11384. After a couple of false starts, we finally got to drive the 309 road. We enjoyed our drive, even though the DNF rate was quite high. TFTC.

Today is our last day in Whitianga, and so is the last chance to catch the Pony Express. Weather forecast not too bad, a chance of showers (though all we experienced was a few spots of rain early in the day) so we were away before 8.30am. Found 30 out of the 39 in the series, DNFed 8 (a couple may still there but we were unwilling to tackle the gorse) and drove past #38 where the container had been reported as gone. Not one of the best outcomes, but I am pleased we made this scenic journey. Thanks for all the hard work gone into laying this trail.
Once we checked out the obvious hint object, the cache was an easy find. TFTC.

TFTC

Well protected

After a stop for lunch.TFTC

Tftc

I am getting into the swing of it now. I found this cache more easily than an earlier one that was hidden by a similar object.

Another I can't quite remember! Sorry about that.

Tftc