Another One For The Road (Hawkes Bay) Te Haroto, North Island, New Zealand
By nzkites on 29-Jul-16. Waypoint GC6Q6G4

A quick little overnight trip to Hawkes Bay and then up to Taup and back home to find some Adventure Labs and to hopefully qualify for the S39 Challenge.It wasn't too strainous to get this, a bit if frost on the ground, but the container's original contents would warm me up.All good here, and thank you to nzkites for the placement of your Traditional Cache.Find #6691 at 27 April 2024 7:39am

TFTC. Nice quick find on the way to Taup

Heading north towards Taupo, rattll and I pulled over here to make this find. I'd barely got out of the car before rattll had the cache in hand. Found a TB inside, although not one that was actually supposed to be there! Signed, and returned as found. Tftc!

Nope, no strain getting this at all.A quick grab as matagouri and I head towards home.Thanks for putting this here

Found yesterday 17/3 (sorry forgot to log) on my way home from Taupo . Tftc (: Left a trackable

Checked while passing, all ok here

Another place to strech my legs....Many thanks nzkites My first time driving this route on my own .

Quick to find on way to hamilton

Stopped here on our return journey towards home after our annual Xmas caching roadtrip.Heavy showers had just stopped when we arrived, nice quick find, dropped off a TB TFTC.

A quick stop on our way past heading to Napier and a nice quick find.Very quiet while we found, signed and returned the cache with no traffic passing at all. But there were a few cows mooing nearby.TFTC

Stopped for a bit to see if we could find, no luck. Not sure if its worth checking as roadworks and new sign has been put up recently in this corner.

Good day of finds

Quick find thanks to the hint.

Didnt take long to find thanks to the good hint. Tftc

When we headed over to Hastings for the blossom festival we saw this one was on the other side of the road so made a point of getting it on the way back especially with the good parking. Cache is all good. Thanks for the placement.

Checked while passing today, all ok here.

Tftc

Good chance to stretch the legs

Number 700 for me. TFTC

Heading back to Taupo and a quick park and find. Bugger 2 big trucks just passed us while stopped though.

Short stop on our way to Rotorua - nomen est omen.
Thank you for the cache
NathanS05

Hier haben wir kurz gestoppt um die Dose zu heben. Danke fürs Herführen

My Solo Escape from Napier to Taupo for the night meant I could hunt for caches to my heart’s content A quick find here. Thanks!

Found it during our way from Taupo to Hastings. Nice view. Tftc

The cache ist in good condition. Thanks for the cache.

Quick find. Good hint. TFTC

Nice to break up the drive along this road. tftc

tftf was nice quick find and stretch the legs.

More time for another roady .

A quick find, which was good as I can take about 5 minutes of this heat. TFTC.

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Heading home after a weekend in the Bay for the National Concert Band comp. we decided to break up the journey with a few caches....

TFTC.

Quick drive by even though we were pointing the wrong way. Kids did a swap. TFTC!

Nice place to stop, TFTC

Nice

Quick find in yet another spot with a lovely view, TFTC

More later

You're right it wasn't a strain to find.
TFTC

Found on a Birthday Weekend Trip to Napier

Quick find here. Unfortunately those trucks we just passed are getting in front of us again. No issues. Took a travel bug. TFTC nzkites.

Eighth day of a 10 day trip round the bottom half of the North Island for RG1972 and I, and today is travelling Taupo to Napier. Some retail therapy in Taupo to start the day (we found some very good stores), then the drive to the bay with a few cache stops to break the travel. No real goals here - just some caches for the numbers, and all will nudge me toward some longitude/latitude challenge goals. We do get to finally get some caches in Hawkes Bay, so that is the penultimate region ticked off. Just East Cape to go. Relaxed for the rest of the day, then plotted our activities for Saturday. Thanks all COs.

Located with Ricardinho
TFTC

Quick stop on our travels. Nice easy find with kiwibuilder

Easy find. Tftc.

Quick Found 9n our way to Auckland, thanks for the cache

Found easily...just how I like it... This guys heading to Tauranga.... tftc

Another quick find on my roadie. Dropped a couple of tbs. TFTC

Pleased there was plenty of room for the bus to park so I was able to quickly grab the cache. TFTC

The coin is missing. A quiet spot, except for the passing vehicles!!

Jude_E, NosyNel and I are continuing on our figure of 8 tour of the North Island collecting the ‘Tour’ caches, plus others, plus seeing the scenery, plus having a good old time. TFTC.

Another good place to stop on the way west. I am on a North Island Figure of Eight tour. For the first 4 days I spend time in the Bay of Plenty with my husband JDScout in Rotorua. Now I am on part two of the eight loop going over to New Plymouth. This part is being done with my good friends Ethness and Jude_E.
Thanks nzkites for creating this hide. It was find 9014 for me.

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Travelling from Napier to Taupo today with Nosynel and Ethness. Our goal is to find all the TMGT caches in a big figure 8 across the centre of the North Island. We plan on stopping from time to time to find the odd cache. Quick find. TB is gone. Tftc.
#6143

Muggles having bike rack problem made this one a bit hard. But we got their in the end. TFTH

A happy find as Mr P and got used to the lovely Hawkes Bay

A quick find. It seemed like a good safe place and a good sized (not a micro as stated in the description) cache to leave the markta’s Down Under geocoin that began its journey in Australia and which I found in Wellington a few weeks ago.

Off to Napier for a couple of days, so we picked up most of the caches on this road on the way down there, including this one. Looked in the wrong area originally but then quickly moved on and spotted it. There were Angus beefies in the nearby paddock with two farm dogs rounding them on which created a bit of distraction for us. TFTC

Heading home after a few days in Napier and noticed this hadn't been found for a while. Made a nice quick find here. It took longer to remove all the biddy bids from Mrs HeMaLuDy's woollen jumper than it did to find the cache.

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Been in Taupō for the weekend doing some biking. Heading home and collecting some caches in the Taupo-Napier road. Breaks up the journey nicely. No problems finding this one. Thanks

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 #879.

Nice hint really helped make it a quick find.

Awesome views around here. I feel like I’m being watched. TFTC

Trouvée rapidement ! On se sent un peu observé par les moutons !

Kids found this fine!

Good place to pull over for a cache. TFTC.

Nice to break up the drive. Cheers

Thanks for the stop

**11,789**
Loving these quick park and grab caches along our route home. Certainly helping to keep us awake after a couple of days of little sleep. TFTC

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3.30pm. Quick park and grab.
Thank you. David

Found with a sister during our expedition to NZ (from CZ), where we explored part of the North Island and could visit our classmates and friends that we have not seen for several years, as it is here, in Auckland and Napier live ... Thank you for cache ...

Checked while passing and all okay here.

Found as a part of a previous group TanjackMley, aka WanderingSparrow. Now I'm continuing on my own. TFTC

Another quick find, its starting to get late and the light is failing me. TFTC

Quick park and grab the previous cacher must have put 2018. Tftc

Little late in loging TFTC

What a beautiful day. Tftc.

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

Easy grab SL TFTC

On the way home to Hamilton after a weekend in Napier, grabbing a few caches to break the trip.
Cache in good condition
TFTC

We had been talking about cache bash in Napier for a while, and when Cats&Dragons mentioned a trip down here this weekend I couldn't say no. The plan was to head down Friday night (leaving Hamilton about 7pm) and then cache til we can then grab a few hours sleep and then cache through til late afternoon and then head home. The plan worked well, with about 110 caches found over the 24 hour caching period.

It was the first time we had visited Napier to do a caching mission, and we were both impressed with the genius hides (some we hadn't seen before, I'll give a special mention to those ones). A big thanks to all the CO's whose caches we found, for placing and maintaining them. A great trip and looking forward to a revisit.

Still cruising to Wairoa on a very hot day.The hint made this one too easy.Have now done all the roadside caches on this road until next time i'm over.Thanks guys,all good.

On a trip to Napier, enjoying the regular breaks for caches TFTC

A nice quick find tftc

Good one for the road

TFTC NZKites, the answer is in the name. Travelling with My.Precious and signed with our joint pen name TT2M.P

Following the highways with Tigatat2.
Not a big strain to find but watch for broken Glass.
Signed log with joint name of TT2M.P
Tftc

Log nice and dry.

Have a favourite point for making us stop here and admire the lovely views. Cache found easily and in good condition.
Tftc
Tim and Viv - ddm

Travelling from Napier to Matamata via Taupo today so only stopped for caches that were safe to do so depending on the traffic. Lots of room to pull off the road here, thanks

Some nice views from GZ. Thanks for the cache.

Always great to add another smiley on the road trip home. ThanksFTC

22334 Traveling through New Zealand to see nice people and places. Also to find some geocaches.

Today we moved from Napier to Taupo, seeing nice places and visiting caches along the road. Stopping at nice villages. Looking for caches on either side of the troad. Finaly we went down town in Taupo to see the city centre

Most caches were found quite quickly. A few took more time. Muggles did not watch what we were doing and had more interest in the surrounding views.

nzkites TFTC and the fun it brought us. Theo

Wasn't too sure about the clue but glad to make a quick find in a likely spot. TFTC.

Today was a day for a one way road trip from Napier to Auckland. I flew across from Auckland to pick up our son's 'new' car after winning a Trademe auction on Monday. (Sunday I'll be starting another leg of the Auckland - Wellington - Picton - Nelson journey) Time to find a few caches along the way of course. The cache container was bigger than expected so I popped in a trackable. TFTC, Biggles.

Found on the way to Napier. Very low Cloud so not much view

This was the third day of my twelve day trip to go to the Wellington Mega. Today I left Rotorua and am driving down to Napier. I buzzed through here three years ago on my way to a previous Mega and while doing the CANZ series.
I pulled over in the exact right spot and found the cache in the exact right spot. TFTC.

One week off during school holiday time, combined with some cheap flights made a great adventure in the HB and Gisborne area, popping into BoP a couple of times also. I had great fun and I am grateful to all CO's who placed the caches for others' entertainment!!
TFTC!!

A beautiful day for caching! This was a quick P&G as we continue our way to Taupo. Not too sure what the hint was on about, but we found the cache regardless. Took a domino piece and left a jetplane. Thank you nzkites for the cache.

Found in a spot with a lovely view thank you

Checked cache while passing and all okay. Dropped TB.