Orowhana (Northland) Manukau, North Island, New Zealand
By Conton on 15-May-07. Waypoint GC12Z29

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Due to the track closure, because of kauri dieback disease, this cache has been archived.

Track closed due to kauri dieback disease. Nice drive though.

thanks for this stop on a loooong way back from the northland

Fishing holiday over Waitangi Day and a lovely drive back through the gorge. A bit of a hike in jandels though!! Fun! I earned my coffee! TFTC!!

Swung by here after an afternoons surfing at Shipwreck Bay. We were enjoying the walk uphill so much we carried on until the top. There are a couple of spots along the way were you can see the view back over to 90 mile beach as well as to the south. Kiwiscot pointed out a Miromiro (North Island Tom Tit) perched on a branch. It did not hang around long though. Managed to get 1 photo before the camera batteries died, good thing we had the cell phone handy as backup. Picked up the cache on the way back down. Took us a few minutes to locate as we were initially looking around the boulders. Eventually found the hidey spot a few metres back down the path. Contents damp. Added a new log but the cache could do with some TLC. Cheers, we enjoyed the walk / workout

Only 75m from the road yeah right! Straight up nasty lol, tftc

Quick easy find. Quite a grunt up to it.

I had already given up n this one, but then, on my last attempt, I found it.

It was a bit further down the hill than the coordinates led me to believe.

The travelling fox is relieved =>,>=

This was a weekend that had been in the planning for a little while and in the company of HKCB we headed up after work. the object for the weekend was to locate as many of the west coast caches as possible along with a couple of other mini missions including the northern most caches, and earth caches. All was going well until we hit a rock and punctured/ripped a tyre which in turn resulted in the weeknd being brough to a premature end and heading home effectively 24 hours early. We did however manage to collect approx 50 caches and a number of these had not been located for some considerable time.

I would like to thank all the cache owners for their work to keep many of these remote caches still in place.

This was the twenty eighth cache of the trip and a nice quick find for the fifteenth of the day. A slog up the hill but a cache located so not all lost
Thanks for the cache, Thanks for the placement

On a bit of a weekend mission with Cats&Dragons, with the goal to find the 2 most Northerly caches in NZ and while we were up there to find as many as we can along the West side of Northland. Unfortunately a bit of car trouble cut the weekend mission short and we had to pull the pin and head home about 10pm Saturday night. Still we had a lot of fun and saw some pretty awesome parts of our country, so a big thanks must be given to all the CO's who's caches we found. All up we located just shy of 50 caches and signed the logs either HKCB/C&D or HKCD.

Didn't expect the slog up the hill to this cache, but we had already stopped and it was good to stretch the legs. A quick find once and GZ, thanks for the hide.

Hard climb

(2543) A little hunting required for this one. Eventually found it. TFTC

My GPS led me to a couple of boulders, but there was nothing to be found there.

Looked under everything that could be looked under. No luck.

Tftc

A bit muddy after a nights heavy rain so didn't smell any of the herbs etc. Found as described log book a bit wet
Tftc second find in NI

Great spot for it and lovely walk. Didn't take too long to find.

My first geocaching experience, great fun.

Found this cache with Foreshore Ferret. Nice bush. Log was a bit damp but a nice cache. Cheers!

This nice hike broke up the roadside park and grabs. Once up the hill, my GPSr had me a bit higher than the actual cache location. I followed a PF's advice and then I found it easily. TFTC.

We appear to be the first finders in 2015! Some 10 months since the last visitor. We are on our way south along this nice "backroad," but had time for a short hike. Trail was a bit wet, but cache is in good shape with the log only a little damp. Area was pretty clean, but we did do a little CITO at the trail head. Thanks for the chance to visit an apparently seldom visited cache.

I use my phone's gps and that's pretty inaccurate in forests so it took me a while to find it. Cache is pretty wet. So was the trail but I managed to go up and down safely in slippers. It was slippery though. Tftc.

Just back home in UK from trip to NZ so now able to log our finds. Stayed in Ahipara for a couple of nights in order to visit Cape Reinga. Now setting off soutwards towards Aukland ready for our journey home. Stopped here and started along the track but soon returned to the campervan to change into our hiking boots as it was so muddy and slippery. Hung on to each other at GZ to stop ourselves from falling over!
TFTC

We found this cache on a 2 week trip around Northland, visiting such locations as Opononi, Kaitaia, Cape Reinga, Russel, among many other places.
We had to wait for two trampers to move on before we embarked up the very muddy track, so we admired the tree stumps carved in the traditional Māori style. Nice walk, apart from the fact that it was incredibly muddy. TFTC.

Found with Redants while on our Far North Road Trip to the Winterless North. We found ourselves in some interesting places that we would not have visited had we not been searching for caches. Thanks to all the cache owners.
We didn't have gumboots so it was a careful walk up to GZ and back. TFTC.

We thought hard and long ( well, at least gave it a passing thought) before deciding to walk up this track today, because of the distressing amount of mud on the track. Luckily we came prepared with gumboots and were able to make a slow and steady walk to and from GZ. Thanks.

This is a great bush walk. Next time I'm in the area I will explore this track a bit further.

Cheers for the cache.

A short walk but legs complained a bit. Wet if I remember right. TFTC

tftc
a wet logbook.

Found it thanks! On a big trip North with lots of geocaching with MrRush742.

After reading past logs we returned down the trail about 15 metres and easily found. Log sheet is soaked. Ta

#508 found on day 6 of the te araroa trail. Would love to have left my trackable but it wouldn't fit. Bit wet inside.

Found it on our tour through New Zealand. Nice Track and TFTC!

Fast found with the help of the hint. TFTC

Travelled throughout the North with crispyhaugio and we managed to geocache around. TFTC.

Trip through the beautiful Northland and geocaching wherever possible. Thanks to all the cacheowners for shwoing us (Pandabär13 and me) these great places.

Bush walk. Found cache with Moneydork, Reiguana and Bladesedge. TFTC

A nice spot - TFTC

Short bush walk, fairly easy find one expanding the search a little
Cheers Gav

Yup, up the track! 70m doesn't seem that far until you start climbing! Would say the cache is about 15m and had a bit ilof water in it. Tftc

The GPS coordinates don't seem to be right around here. The accuracy was 5m but the cache wasn't there. I think I ran 30minutes up and down that hill afterwards trying to find it.

Wow....ok so GPS took US well past it...to an area with loads of great hiding spaces....after 20 min of looking started back and spotted it. TFTC.

tftc

Day seven of my Te Araroa Trail journey. Slippery up but it got even worse beyond the cache. A quick rest stop for me to find the cache.

#1012, trail was very wet and slippery today. Wind was blowing a gale as we got back to the car. Found after a small search. TFTC

Mini Mob didn't like the wet & mud at the start of the track and after falling over was ready to go back to the car but with the bribery of a lolly he made it to the top. GPS wanted to go up to the top a bit and only found it on the way back. Interesting location and a big well done for Mini Mob for not giving up!!

"slipery - when wet" but Fridschi and I found it finaly. TFTC

Wet, muddy, slippery and steep. But we found the cache very quick. TFTC

Didn't say it was almost straight up. No probs for us 65yr olds. Found with 'Kev & Chris'. The Italian Job (TIJ)was here.....!

Took a bit of hunting but got there in the end. Quite slippery after all of the rain. Thanks for the stop

Had almost given up! But found it at last.

very muddy and steep little walk into this cache today. TFTC #2705

We found this one on our way to the ferry after we'd been horseriding at Ahipara. Took a little while to locate the cache, nice short walk.

TFTC!

After horseriding at Ahipara we continued on our way to the ferry. On our way we stopped for this cache. A nice short walk. It took awhile to find this one, but eventually it revealed itself.

TFTC!!

Lady Pinguin

TFTC Greetings from Germany! Two men told us that it is very dangerous to park the car there! Be careful guys in case of the thefts!

Great stop on our road trip although there was some whining from the gallery about the stairs! Found by Ronnie. TFTC.

Quick find on the way home from up north.
TNLNSL TFTC.

Good little climb on my road trip today. Sneaky hide.

Arrived at GZ and found the cache after a bit of a search. Must have had rocks in my head! but in the end being stumped was a good thing! T4TC

As it was too rainy here in NZ, we decided against any long hikes. But this was an opportunity to see at least the beginning of a track....we did search for a while but were happy to find the box within these amazing plants. Tftc.

Quick drive by except for the climb. TFTC HOTHABENERO & DNCBURRHEAD

Pity I had no time for this track through Herekino, maybe later. Thanks for a cache. IN-TB.

Quite a steep climb, nearly gave up but persevered and found it in the end. TFTC

Took a bit of searching

After a bit of tooing and froing, we found it and ticked of the list!

#74 Great little walk. Lots of steps but when the gps zeroed out there was only a few places it could be and we found it in the second.

Nice spot, track not so easy in jandals after rain.
TFTC

Cycling in the area a good place at the top of the hill for taking a break of cylcing and trying this cache...TFC

Quick FInd. Nice spot with a bit of rubbish though!!!
TFTC
Sorry for the late logs, finally i've started catching up on that.
TFTC. ClownyCacher

unfortunately rubbish back at head of trail. lovely spot but must be dumping ground for someone! clownycacher helped us with finding the cache as he often does! lovely wee walk. TFTC. cheers, kiwicacher

Hi! the trail was cleaned up (at least the part we walked to the cache). It was very wet and slippery so we didn't do the whole trail. plus we had other caches to find on our way back to auckland. Thanks!

A short stop on our way up North. Despite lousy GPS reception we fond the cache quickly by using the hint. TFTC.
In: -
Out: Travel Bug "The littlest Hobo Helga"

The start of the track was rubbish-free today, you'll be pleased to hear! We had the forest all to ourselves, which was just as well as the signal was bad on the steep hill, so we had to keep walking up and down until it settled. The hint helped enormously. Dropped off The Littlest Hobo "Helga" TB. SL. TFTC.

Found during our holiday in New Zealand, thanks!

Rumo and Rala went on a road trip up north and did some geocaching in between.
Another secret spot we loved to explore thanks to the cache. Some confusion near GZ due to lost reception, but all turned out OK when we used the hint. We'd loved to climb up higher, but time was against us. Maybe next time.

TNLNSL, TFTC

PS: There was still quite a lot of rubbish (bottles, beer cans and packages) lying around at the trail head. Too much for a CITO, though...

Found it after a short walk through the bush. It was very wet, but the cache was dry.
TFTC and Greetings from Germany
Basti + Jule

(1348)
Quick find after a short sprint (err huff and puff) up the hill. Liked the carving at the track entrance.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Nice Place!
TFTC
Tom

Well the rubbish seems to be gone . It only seems to be raining here in the hills. T4TC - M@

Still rubbish about, but loved the carving at the track entrance.

Wasn't to keen to leave the car unatended though so Mrs Sp8 stayed behind while I hunted. I am sure she knew about all the steps!

TFTC

Not alot of rubbish today, nice spot, thanks, found after looking in the wrong spot, native birds about.

Thanks Conton

2.20pm. Out caching for the day with The Pud. Lunch stop down at Ahipara. Short steep walk here after studying an interesting old carving. Mrs.F. lagged behind a little but the tortoise gets the results from careful looking.
+ nail clippers with NZ flag
geotag
- Variety Club golden heart
TFTC.
[8d] M&P.

2.20pm. Yep the rubbish is still there A nice piece of bush. Missed the cache on the first pass but Mrs JF got it.
The listed TB 'Hermitage' is not in the cache but the log says cacher 'wisco' took it on the 21/08/07 and hasn't logged it yet.
+ Domino
- Nil
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (527)

Its a shame the rubbish is still there. Started to rain just before arrival so the track was quite muddy in places. After many walks up & down the track finally managed to get a signal & locate the cache. Lovely bush & will return sometime when its fine to explore the area more.
TFTC

Visited site with No Fixed Aboders (thank goodness) as walked up and down and missed it initially. Unfortunate about the rubbish, the walk would be lovely on a nice day. TNLN

Yes, also have seen this as unfound before we left for the weekend, an as we noticed from other cache logs we knew that BFLDY was doing the far north. So it was not a surprise to find their log on our way back home to the big smoke!! Stunning place, just a shame about the rubbish that is still there and the graffiti on the sign. A good lesson for the kids at what not to do!!!
Cache was quite open, and could see it from a distance, so pushed it in a bit - not sure if the forraging birds are kicking it out?
left tb, as we had it before
+ smily ball key ring
TFTC

It's been here two weeks, so we were surprised to be able to get FTF. But we did!!!!
So glad this was early on our list for today... a good short workout cache... Did I mention the butterfly hates steps... This cache was all steps... but with wonderful rewards of lovely native bush, including some very small ferns.
GPSr signal was a bit off... but it settled down and we found a lovely cache. Our find #850.
This place is a gem.

Left Hermitage TB here when we visited. Dropping off now.

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