#247 Rocks again! (BOP) Tauranga, North Island, New Zealand
By TNXPro on 03-Nov-15. Waypoint GC669JX

No luck

Second time around fir thus one

Classic cleaver hide

Very clever. Took us about 15 minutes. Got lots of looks from drivers at the stoplight. I'm glad we persisted though. TFTC!

Wow this certainly is in a public place, which makes this find extra satisfying. Checked out the various possibilities here then knew what to inspect. Thanks TNXPro!

No luck

Cache was removed, log dried and bag replaced. All ready to go again.

Log wet

Found

Hmm

Team effort

Wooow good hiding place!!!

Yeyahh took a while but very cool

More to come

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Just not May day

Tried twice to look for this one, and couldn't find it. Will have to come back

Pretty easy to locate if you know the area. Found quickly. Was on a geocache circuit around the CBD while my friends were at a movie.

A couple times visiting. Second time with some tools in case we needed them but no luck unless it required more disassembling.

We poked at this many times suspecting it was the cache, and it didnt move, but one last grab by Reschedule and it finally was in hand.

As Kre8ive said, we had our suspicions, even attempted to remove the cache a few times with no success and looked elsewhere before returning. . . Finally retrieved it in the end, tftc!

2 of the team refueled at the nearby establishment while geo dog was getting a haircut in the Mount. We have been here several times trying to find this one and always felt really exposed and conscious of the number of muggles nearby both in vehicles and on foot. After a giant hint from a previous finder, we finally located this! It was definitely a cause for celebration! Love the camo. Definitely worth a favorite point. SL. TFTC!

TFTC

We are in town for the weekend for a family holiday and the activity we had planned for today was canceled due to the weather so we had to replan. We completed an escape room nearby, then checked and saw a couple of green boxes on the map. Once near GZ we were worried it would be inaccessible due to maintenance, and it was behind barriers but there were a few on the ground so we snuck in and made a quick find .... not really, we searched a few things and were going with one idea when we came up with the cache which was completely different to what we expected. Clever hide.

Should be ok to find again for now...

This cache site is temporarily unavailable to access with the works going on around the intersection. Hopefully, its location remains once the works are complete.

we tryed to find this one one our way to hostel, but could not, unfortunately, maybe because it was too dark. but we found 1.30$

I got soaked in this morning's rain, so I picked out a few easy ones for this afternoon to recover. For some reason parking was free today, so, ca-ching, I went caching.

As I searched I had the strangest feeling that I had looked for this one before. Sort of a déjà cache. I missed on the previous attempt, but today I was luckier and found it. TFTC.

Log replaced

Oops, forgot to enable this again. Log replaced and ready to go.

We found it very quickly as we are used to this type of cache. Tftc

The ziplock is torn and the logbook is completely wet.

Found it quickly. But logbook is absolutely wet. Tftc

Thanks for letting me know. I have removed cache temporarily for maintenance.

TFTC and greetings from Czechia Europe

Bála jsem se toho,ale naštěstí tento typ moc dobře znám a tak nalezena na první pohled díky

Logbook totally wet

So this one has been on our to do list for quite some time but we have never been there at a time of low volume people and vehicles. Today we figured may be a great day to attempt. Getting to GZ we sat and pondered likely suspects, searched, sat and pondered some more. Deciding it was time to leave upon exiting GZ Mrs spotted a likely suspect which upon closer inspection was it - bingo! tFTc good to have tricky one at a tricky location to get practice in for not ‘looking too odd in a public space’.

A good find at night so we could have a good look around

I thought I had already found this and was “just along for the ride” with Kauriforest. But no, I hadn’t and was investigating a different avenue of thought when KF found it. I’m still claiming it as I’m sure I was still an integral albeit small part of the finding process on some level. We didn’t have a pen but I will pop back to sign shortly.

Glad it was a quiet time of the night. Sorry no pen

Not a fan of this style of caching. Well concealed outside a cafe and the main building tenant is a bank. Seems like a fast way to get to have a conversation with the police. Skip.

Was here 2 years ago so glad I finally find this. Log getting full. Buzzy bb & I came at night so could have a good look. Tftc

Nice spot TFTC

Oh my goodness I’m so pleased we found this one! This was our third visit here and it was doing my nut! We drove past earlier in the evening when something occurred to me that seemed slightly different that I hadn’t noticed on previous visits. This was sneaky and awesome (now we know what it is lol)

Went out with Harpermellow shopping and driving passed asked her is it 3rd time a charm and boom she found it.

Sup sup sup super sneaky cache my fav so far on frustration level.

Thank you.

Ah yes, rocks again. Had driven us MAD the last time around but we knew what to look for this time . Beautifully evil cache. Ziplock bag is torn so might not be completely waterproof.

I spent a good hour looking for it. Unfortunately I could find. Gonna give a try other day

Nice hide. Found after an evening walk around the city. Tftc!

we had dinner and then strolled to find the cache which was well hidden. now we have a long walk back to the car. tftc

Well since I am a now a retired gentleman I thought I would give bus-cacheing a go.
Hopped on a bus and soon in town.. Now onto finding the cache... I had looked for this one before so approached GZ with a little bit of hesitation. scratched around for a while before I tried an object and there it was. Signed log and on to a bus home TFTC

Thanks for not finding me during the lockdown.

Due to Covid19, and to encourage people to "stay at home" to prevent spreading the virus, I am joining others in temporarily disabling my caches. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THIS CACHE.

I have a 3 month sabbatical mostly traveling around the planet. My goal is to find and log 1000 caches. New Zealand is my 4th station traveling from south Christchurch to north Auckland, my first visit here, its far away. This is my sabbatical-cache #913, took a while, but finally found it.

Out with Webmanjohhny this afternoon doing a few caches around town before I head back to The Big Smoke. A bit of a challenge. Thanks to the lovely young lady in the black car driving by that shouted a clue out the window as she and a friend drove past. TFTC

Fun

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Found 06-02-20. Very quite here today. Log plastic holder needs replacing soon.

**12,415**
Finally get this one off our radar, its been teasing us way too long, we remember DNF'ing the previous version many times, this too would have ended in the same fate but if not for a PAF for a hint, not what we were expecting......

Find number 6707. Decide to come over the Kaimais to attend an event. Spent the time before grabbing a few caches along the way. Heading home after the event so decided to stop here knowing it would be all quiet at GZ. That it was and cache was eventually found. Pleased to do so as this was the third visit to GZ. Thank you for the cache and the frustraion.

Love this cache thanks TNXPro.
As I had done the first iteration I needed to return when I saw you had redone things here.
Great to get this one also.!

This took us two attempts but we got there in the end! It was much easier when the cafe was closed and there were fewer muggles in the area, although the busy intersection kept us on our toes! We had a lot of fun smuggling this one away to sign the log. TFTC

Clever one! Thanks!

We'd been here last year and spent ages looking. This time it took merely a few minutes, thank goodness!!! Cheers for the cache

Even though we’ve seen these kind before, we were still stumped for awhile. Not sure how subtle we were, hopefully we faded into the crowds. TFTC

Previously looked for this during the day but with no success, just frustration. This time came out at night and after pondering for a bit longer was pleased to get my hands on it. A favourite from us. TFTC

No luck

Quick nice easy finds
On a cool nite.Thankx to CO'S for there placements
Awesome

Tftc what a sneaky wee hide found with abcdf4

Soon I go home to CH

Yay I finally found this one.
I have been back and forth to this one over the last few weeks but because of eather to many muggles around to have a go or the fact that I really should go to Specsavers lol I couldn't find it.
I even was going have a go on the way home the other night from work but there were 2 fire appliances parked outside with lights flashing so I thought that wouldn't be a good time to look lol.
After contacting the CO (thank you for the hint and you help) all I needed was the time to have a good go.
Yesterday afternoon I said to my kids about doing it and they weren't keen (to be fair it was even to hot for the dog) so I headed out but again it was the wrong time and there were to many muggles again so on the way home from speedway last night I said to the clan "Shall we look for that cache?" To the reply from one "What now?" And the other said one "In the dark? Cool" so we had the whole place to ourselves to look (except for the traffic and the odd security guard floating around).
Not to long a look and bingo we had the extremely well constructed cache in hand.
A definite favorite from me and many thanks to the CO for his placement and help.
SL TFTC Flippaduck

This took a little while to spot, but in the end I decided it didn't quite look right so it must be a cache, and there it was!
Signed log and replaced as found.

TFTC

Having set up the camper for the night we went for a walk and grabbed a few caches too. Took a bit of searching but eventually found this one. We thought we had found the ideal hiding place and after some time of checking several possibilities about to give up when a chance spot in another location and there it was
TFTC
Tim and Viv - ddm

we've seen some interesting characters here in tauranga

last night we dined at the first restaurant we've seen named after geographical coordinates
(and a dapper safari themed toilet)
as we left the car park
there was a man face down in the bushes
wearing a high vis vest and a mock police hat
holding a guitar
i'm sure there's a great story there

driving back from hobbiton today
we passed a man on horseback
just riding down the side of the road in suburban tauranga
dressed as a native american
complete with facepaint and bow and quiver
(we passed a similar looking mural later
related or no?)

as i walked back from this cache
an indian girl in a shop looked at me and said to her friend: "oh, i think he goes to my school"
given it would take twelve hours to get to my school
and i graduated a few years ago now
i'm considering it unlucky

but about this cache
you feel good well you can tell your caching instincts have improved
this could have stumped the living daylights out of me
but the first thing i tried
bingo
a quality piece of treasure
kudos

My last cache. I can’t walk any further even though there’s more caches to be found. Thanks for the cache.

Was expecting to have some problems finding this one. Process of eliminating possible hides and bingo there it was. Lol. It was good day out. Haven't been able to do as much as I want to. But in a couple weeks I'll be back. Looking forward to it. Tftc

Finally found this one. Thanks for the hint we received when catching up with Cachers to do a Mt catchup and cache.

A quick find after booring finance meeting

Decided to try and find another cache towards the mystical animals challenge. Took a while to find this one because it was dark and was trying not to look too shifty. I think the security guards were looking twice at me, but finally clicked as to what I was looking for. Thanks for the cache

Because I sat a long time in a bus I enjoyed to have a little walk in the evening.
Nice camo, liked it. Deserves a FP!
Thanks for hiding this one!

Headed to Tauranga for a long weekend of caching with Merlot58 and Jag50. It was quite hard to search for this with many vehicles around. But with the three of us it wasn't as obvious for us to search. We were a bit distracted by the obvious, but once we apporached from a different direction we spotted the obvious.

Teamed up with Merlot58 and Aiden29 to form team JAM. We had just had a fabulous lunch at Grindz. MrJag50 drove the car ahead and the ladies headed to find this one on the rather busy roadway. Eventually had it.

JAM came down to Tauranga for a weekend of caching and to meet a few local cachers. After having lunch at the nearby Grindz cafe which had been recommended to us (and I have to say sure did live up to the recommendation, it was fabulous!) we walked down to this very busy corner to look for this cache. It was difficult to search easily with so many people in the nearby cafe that we nearly gave up but just as we were about to walk away I spied something and sure enough it was the cache

VERY clever hide! Used the GPS and went straight to GZ... but surely that can't be it?? Used my 'logic' skills to find a 'better' hiding place. Went back to the GPS and it still says it's right THERE!.. But where??? Oh I get it! Took longer than it should have considering we've found this style of cache before... and luckily the cafe was closed for the day TFTC

Boom! This took about 2 min! Super proud of us! For some reason I was looking for exactly what I needed too ... tftc

This is such an evil cache, but from what I am told, not as evil as the last one here. A much needed hint was required to finally find this sneeky little thing, but a late night mission for a few FTF had me bump into Philip.Perry who was quite willing to bring me back here and provide needed hint. TFTC

Feel so suspicious searching around such a public place, even on a quiet Xmas day

Sigh... Third time not lucky. Perhaps owner can check and make sure its still there. Then we'll be sure we not going crazy and blind.

3rd time isnt a charm! still unable to find..

I can confirm it is still there.

Spotted this cache from the road. Only had to wait for a break in the traffic. Have found a few of these. SL TFTC

Finally, brilliant cache. Spent quite some time looking for this one. Thanks to 2N's for the hint, think you were here just before us. Well worth the time spent here.

ooooo so satisfying!! we returned after our pizza to give it another crack. This time, we went thinking with a full tummy. and success!! Disturbed a couple of cachers on arrival! but i can now sleep soundly! TFTC!

26 November 2017 18:44

DNF . Second time we been here to find this one. Perhaps third time lucky.

second visit to find this one. still havent found it. will not give up! i will find it and it will be glorious!

Another trip planned for Tauranga so a bit of research on what caches should be on the list to achieve this visit. This cache definitely fitted the bill so after checking out the previous logs, visiting the location virtually care of Google Earth I was prepared ..... or I thought I was!
Tonight after having dinner out with family and asking them to drive around the block abit arrived at GZ to make the find. Humph, well the initial theory of the hide had to be discarded after spending some time examining the possibilities. Had to ask the family to drive around the block again while a new hypothesis was developed.
Taking advantage of previous contact with the CO, I made a "PAF" call to see if he would be so kind as to reveal a hint. He was kind enough to provide a cryptic clue. It was quite a cryptic clue 'cause as try as I could I still couldn't see the hide. The family had now returned from their drive and were waiting for me, so deciding I would have to save this for another visit started to depart GZ when a thought sprung to mind. I wonder....? A turn about, a reach, ....... oh that's a damn fine hide. So clever!!! [^] Log signed the cache was returned as found and then it was over to the family to apologise for the delay.
I should have known, TNXPro caches are always very clever, subtle and just that little bit different.[^] FP easily awarded. Thanks to the CO for the assistance (and cache), it was very much appreciated.

A quiter say when passing so had to stop for this one. Found a few like this but didn't even think about it until after I'd been searching for a while. Tftc

OMG. We have looked for this one so many times. Boom found it today. A great hide. Well done!!! Thanks

Out caching with rosmar. Took a few minutes as we were focussed on rocks but got there in the end. TFTC