CAW: iSite Whangarei Otaika, North Island, New Zealand
By Riser5 on 31-Mar-22. Waypoint GC7QG1G

Thank you for bringing us to the I-site. Sorry the cafe is closed.

" Another great find! Love discovering these hidden treasures while out and about. Always impressed by the creativity and thought that goes into each cache. Thanks for the fun adventure and keeping the geocaching spirit alive! Ninjas "

Very very cool thankx

Good hiding place not where you would expect it

What a great cache. Happened to stop for a pee stop on the way north and checked on the cache map, as I haven't cached in this town before. Seeing this was so close, just had to call in and grab this. Loved how simple it is and that the staff were aware of it and let me borrow a pen. Thanks for bringing me in. Adding to my favs.

Really cool to have one in here...The lady on security said she knew what we were up to!Turns out she is connected to the Nicholson_family.!

So cool to have a cache here. Great that there was a security guard who knew what we were doing.

Love this cache. Lived in whangarei for ages and finally stopped in.

Walked up from the camp ground. Good find thanks for placing

What a awesome find! Largest one Ive ever seen.thanks to the bodyguard who gave us more than a hint told that her family did geocaching as well and that they had 3 or 4000 finds.Right here at the info centre.

Tftc

Trackable drop on my way into town.

Thanks for the super fast find!

Fun find

Easy find, be sure to go inside.

Up North for the weekendTime this one right isite open todayThanks Riser5

Up this way with ABCDF4 for the Easter weekendNice and quite up here so far as it Good FridayGreat wee hide not been in this place before great idealThanks

Easy find easy drop

I had signed up for The Wild Kiwi 15km trail run around Mt Lion at Whangarei Heads. Didn't really want to drive up from Auckland on the morning of the race so I took Friday off work to spend some time caching in Whangarei. Was more grateful for this decision when the Brynderwyn Hills closure was announced, which would add on an extra half hour to the trip.I left Auckland around 5am and I arrived at the iSite shortly after opening. Saw the security guard and really hoped that he wasn't going to hinder my search. Took a look around and figured out what the hint meant and then quickly spotted the cache. Had to wait out a muggle and one of the staff who were talking right by the cache. Once they finished I was able to swoop in and sign the cache.

Another lovely stroll to the gz. Nothing large here.

Someone took the box left the tracker

Checked on cache. Still safe in place.

Nice easy one. Tftc

Great Cache (: Thank you!!

Found it while on a school road trip! Tftc!

Found it

Love these ones. 4Clubs and I are travelling around Northland and this is day two. Dropped off a couple of TBs to continue their journey. TFTC

Funny inside and such a big one. I love it. Tftc

Easy find. Impossible to be subtle. Staff were nice. Tftc

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Easy find

Found it

Found cache tftc

Found it!

Found it!

Thank you really sneaky inside and in the corner

With a morning spare to do some caching I set about trying to knock off some previously solved puzzles and others along the way. Well the GZ was a busy wee spot today, so Im pleased the occupants were well aware of this box. Theres always an extra frisson of excitement with indoor caches. Thanks Riser5 for organising this one. #4861Logged using Cachly.

Very cool hide! I did ask as I was the only visitor with three staff and they were all keen to help me! TFTC!!South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - MEGA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Hope to see you at The Great Leap Forward!

Very fun and easy its inside

Ammo box

Tftc

I was bit unexpected but coolOk

Great TB motel! Left one on its journey, bringing one along!

We got it yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Nickel

TFTC! I need to return with a trackable!

Very nice people at the office. Picked up a tb here. Thank you!

Found during our roadtrip around Nz. This is our second day in a 24 day trip. Also our first cache this time in Nz. Thanks for this one!

Called in today to exchange TB. A safe location I decided.

Greetings from the USA stopped on the tourist bus bathroom break. Left TB

Little shark travels on.

nice fun find had chat to the kind workers

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Visiting from Colorado USA. Thank you for placing this cache and helping to keep our recreation going.

Called in at the iSite on our way back to Auckland this afternoon and we quickly spotted this large cache in the corner. One of the staff came over and was interested to hear more about Geocaching, so we gave her a quick overview with the app. Great to hear the CO talk this afternoon about his plans for this series. TFTC!

With Vistra visiting family in Whangarei for the night. Managed to attend Riser5's Maker event this afternoon and then stopped off at the i-Site to find this cache. The lovely lady working inside came over and chatted to us as we were signing the logbook and was very interested to learn more about geocaching and what it involved. We retrieved a TB and will take it with us on our travels to the UK when we go next weekend. A cool hide. TFTC

Tftc! We will take the Stone onto our journey

Nice chat with staff. A very accurate hint!

Needed a cache today to fill in a loop 2 dot day, so being as I was passing by on a rare, "not working from home day", decided to call in and sign off.

Really nice sized cache with lots of goodies. The two I-site employees were intrigued, as I was the first geocacher they had encountered actually signing the log, whilst they were working. Explained some of the intricacies of our great game to them both. Left the two trackables there for someone else to move on. TFTC

Very helpful smiley staff. Thanks

What a fabulous cache! We retrieved one trackable and dropped off two.

Thanks

Our 1st find

After two dnfs with wasps and mosquitoes, it was a pleasant surprise to walk straight up to this one in comfort. Tftc

Found it! Follow OJ_discovery on Instagram

Great idea on a rainy day! Thanks for the cache and greetings from Australia.

TFTC! Had a lovely chat to the staff in there. Dropped off a TB to carry on its travels

Packed full of stuff - a neat one for kids. Tftc

Very quick find! TFTC

Heading north on a road trip with 8 others from the Auckland Uni tramping club! We stopped for lunch here and wandered over to find this one and check out the i-site. Nice easy find Dropped a TB

Thanks! (#1785)

Full log to come

First cache that I've logged but not the first I've ever found. Nice and easy.

This one has been on my "to do" list for awhile but getting to the iSite during business hours is the problem. Today I was showing I was showing a newby to geocaching who works with me how the game works.

We decided that a lunchtime cache hunt for their first cache would be a good idea and this cache is close by (and a good size). A quick find as soon as we walked into the iSite, it was just unfortunate that the two geocoins that were listed as at the cache were gone as it would have been good to show these to a geocaching convert.

Nice and easy to find. My first cache.

This school holidays we are finishing the PWGT in Northland. As we left Christchurch early, both drivers were tired, one took a nap while the other watch little cacher in the playground, and then took him for this indoor cache. We were greeted by a "Hi, are you looking for something?" "Found it" said little cacher as he saw the cache from a distance. Really nice container, of course in good condition. We came in Northland 2 years ago and know where we want to go and what to see, but definitely a great idea to place a cache here!

Tb drop.

First time doing this this one was pretty easy though thanks geocaching

Easy find, hidden in plain sight, lots to trade! The description and hint were very helpful!!
- Timoko-Pikaahu Whanau

Nice stop into the I site. Good one

Master 3yr old wanted to go for a bike ride and since this cache was on our route we decided to grab it! A quick find while the toddler looked at brochures

easy peasy

That's a biggie! Tftc

Tftf!

On my way back home to Auckland and work this afternoon, so a bit of a drive ahead of me

Well I initially was on the outside of the building, then read the cache page, and knew I had to go inside

Spotted the cache straight away, and was soon signing the log.

Did not see any TB inside sadly?

Cache all good, grabbed a couple of brochures too, as I have some more caching adventures planned in and around Whangarei.

Thanks Riser5 for this cool hide

Nice place for a stop, and so much more to discover a cache nearby.

Awesome find with the kiddies

1766. 11:39 am. A purposeful trip and find to drop-off a trackable that we picked up in the South Island. eKitten had insisted that we take the trackable with us and she was going to "retrieve" it from me and place it. A great geocache, especially for trackables that want to travel. TFT(iSite)C.

Staff inside were lovely, even if they didn't know I was caching. TFTC

I had arranged to meet Mr and Mrs KC in Whangarei to pick up some recently published puzzles and this was a great place to meet and find a cache at the same time. Got here just after opening and the lady behind the counter was lovely and we soon had the log book signed and then off for our days adventure.
TFTC

found it and there was a cat

A quick find and had a lovely chat with the lady behind the counter who is now a cacher too since this cache was placed. TFTC

Yay we found it

Cleaning up park. What a find

Found it nice and easy a lot of cool stuff

It took me a while to realise that it was inside But I found it in the end and it is fun!

Travel to Whangarei and Ngunguru today, and a couple for finds whilst transiting up from Auckland. This Large and Riser5 cache was appealing and soon parked in the car park and headed into the GZ after a visit to the IP address. The ladies were interactive but I'd already sighted the prize and dived in for the signing and enjoyment. I grabbed the 2 resident TBs and will take them South with me over the next short while. Nice idea for a series and . . . . 'it wouldn't be a trip to Northland without a Riser5 cache' Part 127,586.

A road trip over the next few days, we have a few days off work booked and are heading up country to Northland, via my Aunt's in Auckland then a couple of days in Mount Maunganui before heading home. Despite it being a target rich environment there are not too many targets, just a few odds and sods when passing will do, thanks to all COs for their cache hides.

Great initiative to create a cache in the I-Site!

It’s awesome to chat with the staff there as the CO has clearly turned her into a full on cacher now! She’s clearly loving it!

This will be a perfect place for traveling trackables!

Thanks for the excellent cache!

What a fabulous idea this one is, an opportunity for us to have a look at what is on offer to do in this part of the country. Unfortunately time does not allow us to do too much looking around, we just visited a couple of spots that were on our really want to do list.

The lady was on the phone while we found and signed the log, we took a trackable and left one. By the time we had finished with the cache she had finished with the phone call so we had a wee chat - a really lovely person who is a great ambassador for your area.

Then it was time to get on the road again and head for the next destination.

We are in the North Island to try to complete the PWGT Tahi section so we are having to head to the far north. Along the way we will pick up a few other caches that take our interest such as those with lots of favourites or size large or letterbox caches or some that will just help us to fulfil some of the various challenges we are working on.

With the new souvenir challenge we need to use the app to log the finds, but as I like to waffle on and write my stories on my laptop I am writing these while back at the campervan.

Thank you for placing this cache and thank you for the smiley

Easy find and a TB as well.