Tangitarori Tall tree Pauanui, North Island, New Zealand
By MillsandLills on 10-Jan-17. Waypoint GC6Z613

Enjoyed a bike ride of a few kilometres along this trail this morning, picking up a total of 12 caches. Had 2 DNFs, although I suspect one of those was actually missing. This one was a reasonably quick find. #8120. TFTC.

simple, easy, all that we like. No probleme here Thanks-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --French version below-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --Short late log but more complete now that we are back home.Our vacation will take us to the other side of the world to the land of the Maoris. After many, many hours of flying, a passage through China on the way there and through the United States of America on the way back, we will finally arrive in Christchurch which will be the starting point of our journey.We will enjoy the beaches of the Pacific Ocean and we will go back towards the North Island via State Highway 1. To combine business with pleasure, we will take regular breaks and small detours according to the caches that seem the most accessible to us.With a little more than 3500 km in 20 days, we will have discovered many facets of this island which is soothing. We will have to come back because there are so many places that we have not done . In broad strokes, the path will go from Christchurch to the Kaikoura Peninsula then towards Picton for the crossing to Wellington.New island, new road, and by State Highway 2 we go towards Hastings and Napier. We will leave the seaside for several days to go to Tongariro and Taupo. We will continue north towards Rotorua and Hamilton (without forgetting a detour via Hobbiton ) A detour to the Coromandel Peninsula and finally the almost north of the island with Whangarei and Waitangi to learn the history of this country.There will only be a few days left to spend towards Auckland and its suburbs before taking the plane back to the grayness of our European autumn.The majority of the boxes will be found, we have abandoned those where our English was lacking and where we could not understand the clue. Thanks to all the owners who brightened up our path, who took us to incredible places (that's also geocaching)In short, we had a great vacation, saw beautiful places that simply ask us to come back. We learned a lot about the history of this country and its traditions, it's a great motivation for our destinations.-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --Petit log en retard mais un peu plus complet maintenant que nous sommes rentrs la maison. Nos vacances vont nous emmener lautre bout du monde au pays des Maoris. Aprs beaucoup, beaucoup dheures davion, un passage par la Chine laller et par les Etats-Unis dAmrique au retour, nous arriverons enfin Christchurch qui sera le point de dpart de notre priple.Nous profiterons des plages du de locan Pacifique et nous remonterons en direction de lile du nord via la State highway 1. Pour joindre lutile et lagrable, nous ferons des pauses rgulires et de petits dtours au gr des caches qui nous semble les plus accessibles. Avec un peu plus de 3500 km en 20 jours, nous aurons dcouverts pleins de facettes de cette ile qui est apaisante. Il nous faudra revenir car il y a tellement dendroit que nous navons pas fait . Dans les grand traits, le chemin ira de Christchurch la pninsule Kaikoura puis direction Picton pour la traverse vers Wellington.Nouvelle ile, nouvelle route, et par la State Highway 2 nous remontrons en direction de Hastings et Napier. Nous laisserons le bord de mer plusieurs jours pour aller au Tongariro et Taupo. Nous continuerons vers le nord en direction de Rotorua et Hamilton (sans oublier un dtour par Hobbiton ). Un crochet pour la pninsule de Coromandel et pour finir le presque nord de lile avec Whangarei et Waitangi pour apprendre lhistoire de ce pays. Il ne restera que quelques jours passer vers Auckland et sa banlieue avant de ne reprendre lavion pour retourner dans la grisaille de notre automne europen.La majorit des boites seront trouves, nous avons dlaisser celles o notre anglais faisait dfaut et ou que nous narrivions pas comprendre lindice. Merci tous les poseurs qui ont gay notre chemin, qui nous ont emmen dans des endroits incroyables (cest aussi cela le geocaching)Bref, nous avons pass de superbes vacances, vu des endroits magnifiques qui demandent simplement que lon revienne. Nous avons appris beaucoup de chose sur lhistoire de ce pays et de ces traditions, cest une grande motivation pour nos destinations.

Tftc

Found it

found anzac day 24

First one today.

JD found it. He likes to say, " see dear you have to stick with the experienced" , Today is day nine of our Coromandel trip. We will stay another night in Tairua before moving on to Paeroa.So far we have stayed in Wellington, Taupo, Cambridge, Whitianga and Tairua.

Found by George and margot

Thanks for the find! The boys have popped a few ocean themed treasures inside.

Easy find with Cympill. Tfc

Thanks for your amazing cache MillsandLills. I really appreciate the time you took to set up and maintain your caches. Found with Fisha1288 Inserted a waterproof logCheers, Cympull.

Ni e quick find on this trail.Wee doggies making noises bigger than themselves

Easy

Found it

Found it

Found it.

Accio 10:22:45Staying in Pauanui for the middle week of our New Zealand holiday - with T4mmmy - today it was time to walk this trail. An easy 5kms (each way) amble which took just on 3 hours car back to car. Nice area, calm, quiet beautiful.Thanks MillsandLills for entertaining me at this location. *{Overall find #11708}*

Found with Pprime` ... what a great walking trail

A nice quick find here today. What a lovely area. Luckily not too many people in their houses today. Tftc

nice easy one

Nice easy find on today’s walk. In summer this area would certainly be a great place to picnic.
Tftc

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Number 4 for the day

#3 for the day, straight forward find.
Thank you

Found ravel bug delivering to ect cache this one was Rey hodden

In the cradle of the tree

Found with goldielover
All good here with your cache
TFTC

Found flying solo today. This is pretty little spot. Would love to buy the house that’s for sale. The container is nice and dry.TFTC

Easy find. Enjoyed the trees in the WW1 Memorial Forest - they have grown greatly over the years.

Thanks for the cache

Easy one, nice spot

Found it was pretty easy

Holiday find

Found it in 30 seconds

TaurusSix and I are in New Zealand for a three weeks holiday. We love New Zealand and have had lots of wonderful experiences here previously. This time we have decided to focus our attention on three destinations for one week each, all in the North Island. The Coromandel Peninsula, Waiheke Island and The Bay of Isles. We are very mindful of not focusing all our attention of the holiday on geocaching, however it will still play an important part. We are deliberately focusing on caches that involve some walking, great views, interesting attractions , history and general points of interest. And this will all happen in between exploring, swimming , walking, doing touristy things and relaxing .
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Day 2 - We are now based for the next little while at Pauanui on the Coromandel Peninsula and we woke up to a glorious sun rise. We are ready for the day ahead and exploring this lovely little town. After a very leisurely breakfast we headed to the beach and river mouth area where we undertook a local Adventure Lab, followed by an interesting multi before taking a beautiful scenic river walk with a trail of caches along the way . Part of the walk was a boardwalk through the mangroves which was quite impressive. We are actually very relieved that there are no snakes in New Zealand , we would not be attempting some of these spots at this time of year in Australia

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This is our fifth cache find of the day along with a nearby Adventure Lab . This was the only little stretch of the track that felt a little uncomfortable as we felt we were walking in people’s backyard . Lots of muggles at home too. Luckily nice quick find and we could move on where muggles eyes were not watching. Thanks for the cache MillsandLills

Wahooo

Slept at the Freedom Camp nearby and did the LAB and some of the nice Bordwalk.
Thanks.

We're staying in Tairua for a few days break and today we traveled over to Pauanui to ride the cycleway and pick up caches. Felt a bit exposed here with lots of houses around, but managed to find the cache without being snapped! TFTC

A nice straight forward find. Wonder if the neighbour's notice the activity here. Lol. Tftc.

Figured it would be a bit quieter today to check out the bike trail. Awesome views along here, TFTC

TFTC. Quick ride by find.

The signs just before here indicated cyclists head along the road and walkers could go along here, but I knew the cache wasn't far away so I comprised and walked my bike on this section.
The was a muggle in the house opposite, but was just out of sight of gz. Fortunately it was a quick find, so I didn't need to linger long.
Thanks for setting this up

Easy find - great clue, thanks for the fresh log (pencil is blunt but could still write) recommend bringing your own

Full log replaced with a brand new one ready for some logs.

I easy to find. Tftc

Tftc

Thanks for the quick easy find log sheet is full, didn’t have any spare paper to chuck in sorry

Thankksss

Found

**#15,286**
A quick find was made at GZ and now only a short jog to the end of the trail where I can have a big drink!
Thanks for your caches on the trail, much appreciated.

Ā nice quick and easy find. TFTC

Out this morning for a ride on our bikes.
Enjoying the ride. TFTC

Pretty easy for those who are just starting like me

Found

Now we know what ‘GL’ means

TFTC Found with team seac

We planned a Team SEAC outing to the Tangitarori Wetlands Walk and the surrounding area to cache and spend a day enjoying the Pauanui area. We joined Uncle Sam, Keylev, Hemaludy, Stick-a-crane, NurseDr and B4Dawn for the day and completed the bike ride in about 3 hours. After a lunch break we then completed a few more caches around the Pauanui and Tairua. A great day with great friends. Signed the logs as SEAC to save time and log space. TFTC!

A plan was hatched amongst a few of the Team SEAC crew from south and east Auckland to spend the day in Pauanui and surrounding areas to find some caches. This trail was the first target. Mr and Mrs HeMaLuDy decided to walk the trail while the others biked, so they dropped us off at one end for us to get started and then they went to the other end to get started with their bikes.
On the way to this cache from the previous one, we saw a couple of quails running across the trail and heading in to the bushes. Then folowing them, was the cutest tidy baby quail racing after them as fast as it's litle legs would carry it. We stopped to watch, then headed on to make the find here.

As luck would have it NZTravellers, B4Dawn and I realised that all our other work and social commitments aligned to give us some free time this week so what better way to put this to use then some afternoon / evening / night caching the WHOLE week!!! After 4 weekdays of very long days (work in the morning, then caching all evening) we took a break on friday to get ready for a bigger Saturday to finish the week off. We had many more Team SEAC keen to join this one which we haven't done in a little while with all the lockdowns etc so it was a great day!

Nice quick find here...loving the views we are getting.

Thanks for the cache.

B4Dawn posted in our group chat of a trip down this way, a beautiful part of the country, to locate some of the local caches....some of us had found some but the majority were unfound by the group....

Thanks to the CO's for placing and maintaining the caches, with the majority in good condition and dry...

On out bikes for this stretch of caches, with 2 of the group walking...

Signed in as "SEAC" to save logbook space.

TFTC.

I had made a call out to team SEAC to see if anyone wanted to wonder to Pauanui for day outing to grab some caches. Ended up with a swamp of us wanted to go! So on the day itself, we packed up the bikes, picnic food and embarked on this great journey! All logs were signed as "SEAC" to save space.

I pretended I was a bird searching for a moment of respite. My curiosity was rewarded with a nice little cache

Easy find, nice walk ?????????

Nice find really fun looking for it

Not so obvious when we left #1 for the trail Ben this way many years ago Thanks.

Awesome hide. Thank you.

We found this one as we cycled from Pauanui towards the end of the trail and back again. Not too many muggles on the trail today. A quick find here and we continued on along the trail to the next one. We found this cache rather exposed, so added some natural camo to hide it. TFTC

Nice easy find on a quiet day, with the fantails helping us. Thanks and onwards, the rain is coming...

You may have to look up

The cache was a little exposed so I rehid it with some natural cover so it wasn't so obvious

Anniversary weekend for Vamber and we decided to stay in a Yurt in Pauanui with the geopup. Lovely early morning walk. TFTC.

Some lovely houses along here! QEF at GZ. SL TFTC

Super quick find nearing the end of the trail with PhilBirdBoys. Thanks for bringing us here! Tftc.

Tftc found with Lex007

#18 on the roadtrip with Sportynz

Nice

Yay found

Another one snagged and tagged. Cheers.

Day 10 - Sunday 27 December - Tairua - up to Whenuakite and back and Pauanui power trail today. What will we find today?.

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.

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!

TFTC! Beaitiful View!

First time hunter! Good one for the kids and beautiful spot

TFTC

Easy

Nice spot

What a great walk with EyespyBen
Nice easy Find

What a great day for a walk with Abcdf4
Nice easy find no muggles around

Log later

A nice spot here but didn't bring our picnic.

Good Morning good cycling around.
TFTC

The map made it look like I could drive to a bunch of caches, but I had to park near here and hike instead. TFTC.

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Out and about for a few days for a bit of a road trip around the Coromandel area. Day Four of my road trip. I started my travels in Coromandel Town and ended my day in Tairua. One of the objectives of my trip today was to try to find as many caches along this trail as I could. It would have been nice to have my bike with me but I had to make do with walking the trail on foot which was just fine by me. Apologies for the cut and paste logs. I'll note anything that stood out for me. This was as far as I was going to walk in this direction. Now it's time to turn around and head back to where I left my car near the other end of the trail. TFTC, Biggles.

Great day for a bike ride. Thanks for getting me out and about. That's what I love about caching. Taking me to places I have never been.

Bicycling along the track looking for caches. Found this one quite easily. Not so the first two.

Cache found exactly as described. SL. TFTC.

Didn't have time for this one the other day, but back today and had time to mop up a few.

TFTC

Thanks for this straight forward find while riding this enjoyable bike trail.

28/1/20

Nice walk. Nice quick find. TFTC.

In the Coromandel for a couple of days with Team BOP. The top of our list - Whenuakura (Donut) Island is now done and dusted so it's time to see whats left on the map. This cache was found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords, a good hint and a straight forward placement. Cheers MillandLills, TFTC