Rutherford (Bay of Plenty) Pillans Point, North Island, New Zealand
By Rosielu on 02-Oct-18. Waypoint GC7YH3C

I currently don't have time to maintain this cache so am archiving so someone else can put one here if they wish

Disabled until I can get there to check

Got some intel of exactly where this should be and it’s definitely gone.

Looked for ages and wasn’t able to find it.

We spent ages looking and couldn't find. Maybe a muggle has taken it ️

Had a good look at the nearby object mentioned in the hint - but could not locate.

TFTC- kids enjoyed the playground

Super quick find! Thank you for leading us to this very awesome park

Fantastic park who'd have known it wash here, thanks for the fun cache

Relying on gps didnt work, so we looked on satellite view and headed to the right spot. Also once viewing the hint it made more sense. Thanks for bringing us to this funky park!

Quick cache before coffee. Chain fence clue had me tricked for a while. Then I spotted it. Tftc

Hi my names Thomas pretty easy
Tftc

Foil us once, shame on you. Foil us twice, shame on us! We tried this one twice before we found it. The first time, there were some muggles nearby, so we sat on the swings to bide our time...only to discover that one of the muggles knew us! Before we knew it, we were having a conversation and couldn't find a reason to go snooping around without being noticed all too easily! So...we discretely excused ourselves and went off in search of other caches. By the time we returned, light had begun to fade, our friend had taken her kids home, and we had the whole place to ourselves. The hint was helpful, too, so we soon had the cache in hand. TFTC

Good place to find very nice area

Never knew this park was here. Out on bikes today since the sun was finally out. Clue helped with this one. Spotted by the little people but needed a leg up to reach the log. Thanks for the hide.

Lovely sunny winters day for waffling around here and there to pick up a few caches. Good time of year for this area, not too busy. Scratched our heads and thought hard before we spotted GZ - must be out of practise after all this Covid19 lockdown! Cache is all good. TFTC

Good hint here ( when we found the correct GZ) and a quick find. TFTC

Found it

Coolspot

Found it but I lost my pen!
TFTC

Often visit this park and had no idea this was here! Property behind fence is being developed but the cache is safe for now. Thanks!

Good find haven't geocached in a couple of years so was good to start with an easy find

this is the third cache I have found in the park.. Glad no kids around.

Nice and quick when we found the correct hint item.!

Found about 10 mtrs from where co-ords took me. Please I have saved a few local caches and this will help with the 7 Day Streak Challenge this week. Many thanks for the placement, Cheers.

**11,595**
We have been roaming around collecting up a few caches whilst over visiting family in the area. Almost ready to call it a night but there is always one or two more caches to entice us to keep going. Thankfully this was a quick find as we were getting a bit cold and hungry. Thank you for the cache placement. this is a nice wee park area. TFTC

A new area to explore ad a lovely little park, a quick find on this blustery cold day.

Out for the afternoon with two of the kids caching while there's no rain.
Tftc

found just on dark. struggled to see the chain link fence. about to give up then spotted the remains of the old fence and was rewarded. log sheet too wet to write on after all my efforts to get the log out of the container. tftc

I used to have a cache hidden here but it got trashed. Hopefully yours lasts longer.
A quick find but the log sheet needs to be replaced.

Thanks

#3302

NO CLUES OR HINTS IN THE FOLLOWING TEXT

Since moving from New Zealand in 2016 I have been enjoying the area, exploring and finding caches.
So far I’ve knocked off 4 of the states. VIC, SA, NSW and A.C.T all multiple times.
No two areas are the same here and almost every place I go to is stunning. The beauty of caching is that it takes you to so many places you would never usually find.
Thank you to all the cachers out there for hiding and maintaining their caches. Especially to those who put so much effort into creating unique and fun hides.
I enjoy finding well maintained caches in fun and unique cache containers. No one likes finding a mint tin – but a find is a find after all.
I’m currently working on a Project-GC challenge to get the average word count on my logs over 200 words.
So please ignore the rest of this log as it is just nonsense and song lyrics.
Well she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin' that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die
Tryin' she, had one little promise
She was gonna keep
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well, It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could hear the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' on the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful, when
Something that's so close
And still so far out of reach
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well I'm a-runnin' down the road try'n to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me
One says she's a friend of mine
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy
Well, I'm a standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
Such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat-bed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
We may lose and we may win, though we will never be here again
So open up I'm climbin' in, so take it easy
Well, I'm a runnin' down the road tryin' to loosen my load
Got a world of trouble on my mind
Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover, she's so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy
Come on baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
Oh, we got it easy
We oughta take it easy

Navigator lead us wrong !!!

Was far away from where it told us it was but found it after we looked around a bit

Out and about enjoying the warm autumn weather. No problem with locating this one TFTC.

Headed out last night in the company of HKCB to see what we could score across the Eastern side of town to make the next trip over here that much easier. Headed off at 6.30pm and were home by 2am managing somehow to avoid a shower (mostly) or two along the way.

The sixteenth of nineteen for the evening. I can't say how many times I've been to this park over the years and unitl tonight I think, if memory serve correctly, that 90% of the times it had always been a DNF. Am glad to say that this is not one of those times. All in all it was a great night and got to see a few sights along the way

A big thanks for the CO's for maintaining their caches and giving us so much enjoyment.
Thanks for the placement, thanks for the cache

Yet another small mission to Tauranga to keep the growing number of unfound caches at bay. An 6.30pm start from Hamilton with Cats&Dragons we managed 14 finds before we headed home to bed, however as numbers are getting fewer over here now a big numbers were never going to be on the cards. So not a bad effort indeed. As always a big thanks to the CO's for the hides we found tonight.

Glad the rain was only a small shower passing by, which meant we could get a few more caches before getting washed out. An easy find here using the hint.

Thanks

A couple of quick caches that have been on my radar for a while on my way home from work
I had a look for this one a couple of weeks ago but haven't had a chance to come back and have a good look until today.
As per some of the previous logs the coordinates are a little out but nice quick find with a good hint and a bit of good old fashioned looking.
The cache is in good condition.
SL TFTC

Will have to come back another day.

First geocache discovery for us!!!
Lovin it so far

Nice and quick. GPS was way off so the tip was very helpful

Checked on this cache yesterday and all good.

TFTC a lovely park and rest area

Stayed the night in Otumoetai and now heading home to Gisborne. Collecting a few local caches. Nice little park that was being well used. TFTC

Cool canister. Forgot to bring a pen.

Our first cache of the day of New Year's Eve... a good position away from view; thanks for the placement.

Good hide tftc

On this side of town so figured I'd pick up a couple of caches while I'm here. A neat little park that I remember coming to the last time a cache was placed here in March 2015 - [Meadow.](https://coord.info/GC5NYHP) In fact this new hide was pretty close to the old one as well. I'm pleased you've kept a cache in this area as it's a great spot. Cheers Rosielu, TFTC

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Looked in the wrong spot initially until I read the hint & then all fell into place.Thanks Rosielu,not a soul in sight this morning.

This one had me searching for a little bit, but looking at previous logs and description again soon had me searching the most logical place and there it was. TFTC.

Nice little hide. Find 3/10 today, thank you!

Found it with the help of my caching buddy. Nice and easy and ready to be logged. Not too many people around and clue is perfect.

#764 - Impromptu Caching mission today with Taschynz. Was easier than anticipated, thanks to the good hint. TFTC

Quick find, thanks for the hint. Will have to come back for some macadamia nuts

I have been here before, was wondering if it was DNF last time or not, this is a new cache though

Good hide

TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 40.445 E 176° 9.254

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 40.443 E 176° 9.261

Distance from original: 35.9 feet or 10.9 meters.

Updating coordinates as a few have said original are wrong

A very good hint aquick find.TFTC

Have just done this cache.new Coords S38 04.100 E176 35.475 Frewilys

Mum and dad came over for the day and with this cache being not far from where we live we went for a walk. A quick find by mum with a good hint tftc

Hmmmm the suggested updated coordinates place this cache in Kawarau! Cache is in Tauranga and coords are close. I will head up there some point today and double check the coords with another GPS. Cheers

Nice hide - tftc Rosielu

A couple of you have mentioned co ords not quite right. Will grab the other GPS and check them when I'm next able. Thanks for letting me know!

Had a little look for this when it came out but I felt far too conspicuous at night and, as it turned out, the co-ordinates put me in the wrong place (only out by a bit but important in tight circumstances like this). Couldn't even spot the hint item. Today, I donned the hi-vis camo and had another look. Again, nothing to see at the co-ordinates, even in daylight but, as I turned to go, there's a likely candidate. After that, it was plain sailing. TFTC.

Found 3.45pm
Bit of a search as Co Ords seemed to place us on the other side of wall. Found in the end and now home to get out of the rain. SLTFTC

The second week of the school holidays...

I have a holiday hit list of caches to find before returning to work... On this list are caches that require a bit more effort and energy... This recent hide hadn't been published at the time I was compiling my list. However, it needed to be found, so we stopped by today. The coordinates were a bit out for us and seemed to place us on the other side of the block wall. We really had to interpret the hint to spot where we needed to look. Rain kept most sane people indoors. We had the area to ourselves and found the area at ground zone quite sheltered. A quick find thereafter... TFTC.

MmmMmm, been here before we have. Another find for Mr S. Didn't see any muggles but you never know who is watching from behind lace curtains. The park has had a bit of an upgrade, with a new boardwalk and fence since we were here last time.

Thanks Rosielu for bringing us back.

This is a nice park and there has been several caches here. They don’t seem to last long so stealth is required You will be noticed. Took me a moment to actually spot the hint item as gps wasn’t playing the game and even it GZ it was showing about 13 m out. No plants were harmed and no gates opened in the finding of this cache TFTC

{FTF} joint. Watching the All-Blacks getting thrashed, sleep or cache? Well sleep of course! But that wasn't an option so as soon as the All Blacks woke up to the fact that they needed a miracle and finally delivered at the last moment, there was only one option left - go get that cache! Chucked the GPS in pocket and used geosense to find this cache. Thanks for the placement Rosielu.

{FTF} The All Blacks had just had a dramatic win over S.A after watching the game live I was about to get some sleep...but on checking my phone ...ah a new cache and not too far away ...grabbed a light and beanie and went in search ...arriving at GZ there a lot of cars around but deadly quiet...the GPS was not being friendly ,but I spied a likely spot and a quick search and soon had the well placed cache in hand ....even more exciting the log was clean wow a {FTF}....I signed the log and replaced as found ...thanks Rosielu for the tidy we cache ..well done ....I remember finding a cache near by here a long time ago ..,so it great to have another cache up and running in this area

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