Crown Battery (Coromandel) Karangahake, North Island, New Zealand
By nodo (adopted by yodabeach ) on 03-Jun-07. Waypoint GC13C1X

I'm no longer maintaining this cache

Disabling during lockdown

Really sad about this one cos it's such a cool spot

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This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Found a film canister lid but no cache.

DNF but with the previous logs half expecting this.

Had a look in correct place but 2 X DNF’s told us not to look for too long.

Couldn’t find it. Maybe it was super camo... but I did find the lid of a clear coloured film canister on the ground.

It's obviously there beacuse everyone else keeps finding it... Not to be for me though. Cheers, interesting spot and I wish the board was still here. Cheers

Tftc

Great hint and hiding spot

Our first of the day on a joint trip , the little ones quickly figured out where we needed to be and in short time the cache was in hand, signed and returned. TFTC

Beaut day for a wander around the gorge with some friends. First find of the day- some inside knowledge made this an easy find

what a nice walk here today, among a lot of trail runners
TFTC, team bycycle

Found with a sister during our expedition to NZ, 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 ...

What a cool cache and spot , gps made sense once found. A favourite point if I had one and I’m only one there apart from a local dog walker compared to main car park down rd

Yep

Found lying on the ground. We put it back where we think its meant to be

Still there but someone’s taken the log

Found but has been mucked with and is damaged

Ein bisschen mussten wir hier schon Suchen, dann wurden wir aber doch noch fūndig. Danach haben wir gleich den Railway Trail gemacht.

Wir sind zusammen mit TochtisKrasserHerde durch den Alte Eisenbahn Tunnel gelaufen und danach den kleinen Historischen Rundweg. Wir haben den Schönen Rundgang sehr genossen und zum Abschluss noch den Cache gefunden. Logbuch ist nur leider sehr nass

nice hiding spot.

TFTC

TFTC

Thank you !

We had to come twice to find this one it said it was easy. This is one of my favourites

That certainly was an interesting hide. And thanks for making the cache look so disgusting! Quick find but we couldn’t sign the log as it was too wet. Took a picture instead. Now to explore the tunnel. TFTC

This took 2 tries but mighty M&M prevailed in the end!

Staying in Waihi for the weekend with Merlot58 and Supernanny, collecting caches for the Mystery at the Museum souvenir. It just started to rain heavily as we approached GZ, so we were grateful for the shelter. Thanks for bringing us to a place that we would possibly have never found without geocaching.

In Waihi for the weekend with Supernanny and Jag50. We were grateful for the shelter here as it started raining. The cache was a quick easy find

Nice quirks find TFTC no pen taken photo

Took a couple minutes adjusting our heights.tftc.

After going to get the multi in the tunnel, Bennett24 kindly headed off to do some cache maintenance while I had the chance to come here and look for this cache which Bennett24 had already found but had recommended I come to look for.

Got to GZ (well not GZ) had a look around and then adjusted the angle (height? altitude?) appropriately and was in a much better place. Still poked about a bit and then saw the nice camo and retrieved the log - kicked myself I hadn't brought a spare as this is full, full, full. Found a spot to log in and headed on my way.

Nice cache, thanks for the cache. New logbook required.

It's our first cache

Amazing walk and the experience, favourite

Amazing hide. Soon we located the hiding place and it was quite easy to find the cache itself. Great camo.

TFTC, very cool cache. Appeared to be in the wrong place but we popped it back where it should be. Also needs a new log, slightly wet.

Odloveno s Lucka Black, TFTC )

I am traveling with my daughter Lucinka mundlinka and son Negrritos across the New Zealand. We are from Prague, Czech Republic. We love "geocaching", the main target is caches )
Many beautiful caches, amazing and unforgettable experiences, thank all owners, TFTC )

Bei einem schönen Spaziergang die Dose gefunden.
Tolle Location.

TFTC
Greetings from Germany
Orientexpress

Found while out walking the trails at Karangahake Gorge this morning. I really liked the camo on this one, as well as it's secret hiding spot. The log sheet is extremely full. TFTC

Nice easy find

Wow! What a cool hide!! Didn’t bring a pen.... TFTC

With my brother and my friend Lea, I set out to discover New Zealand in a Camper Van for three weeks. It was a wonderful time. We were hiking a lot and enjoyed the diverse nature of New Zealand. It is exciting to drive on the curvy roads. We discovered great waterfalls and beautiful beaches. Bathed in thermal springs and climbed high mountains. It was a very special time. Of course, one or the other box was collected. All the caches I made were in exciting places. My travel companions always came with me and often found the caches rather than me. Thank you for laying and caring.

Today we wanted to explore this historic site. My brother had the idea. Unfortunately, it rained heavily the whole time. In the tunnels this was not bad, but on the way we were already very wet. The caching was not so easy with a wet cell phone. We were able to find almost all caches on the way. The logbooks are all wet.
The trails themselves are very interesting and exciting. It's a bit scary to walk around in an old mine. But I had my companions for safety. Thanks for putting these caches in such an interesting place.

Brilliant hide and container. It was great to find such a cache and no one to desturb. FP from me

Good job thanks

Took a while to figure out what was required of this one but we soon figured it out.
Day 14 in NZ
TFTC

Took us a minute to figure this one out. Literally staring at it in confusion before we poked at it. Tftc!

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Cool little adventure. TFTC

Heute mussten Heckenstürmer und ich sehr früh los, da wir am Abend spontan entschlossen hatten, Hobbiton zu besuchen und noch kurzfristig Tickets ergattern konnten. Danach besuchten wir die Karangahake Gorge und machten mit dem Kayak noch den T5 Virtual "Donut Island". Da wir bis zum Ende trotz Wellengang fast noch trocken waren, liessen wir uns nahe des Strandes nock kentern

Greets from Switzerland

Day 23 in Newzealand. Today we drove from Omokoroa to Whitianga. We visited Hobbiton, the Tunnel in Karangahake, the Mine in Waihi and made a kayak Tour to Donut Island.
A very beautiful Country with lovely places. We were able to find nice Caches and See Lots of beautiful places.
Thank you for showing us this place.
Tftc

Auf unserer Reise 20 tägigen Reise durch Neuseeland konnten wir den einen oder anderen Cache finden. Wir hatten eine tolle Zeit und haben viel schöne Caches besucht. Wir wollten eigentlich noch viel mehr unserem Hobby Geocaching nachgehen, hatten aber einfach keine Zeit und mussten andere Prioritäten setzen.

TFTC sagenKresie99

Easy and enjoyable find thank you! Need a new log, no space to sign

Cool cache! Little miss liked this one! Tftc

Heading home to Gisborne on back country roads collecting some smileys. Great place to hide a cache. Favourite from us. TFTC

Found it! Went for the railway track and found out about this cache. Very well instructions! Thanx Greetings from The Netherlands

With rebel98, just got out from the tunnel and took a detour. Hmm was under the walkway, wrong! Read the description, hmm has to be another way and there was

Rebel missed on the first pass, with so many favorite points its going to be special and it was. A great way to finish. Thanks for the hide

quick grab after a walk through the tunnel. SL TFTC

Walked to the end and missed the treasure. But rusynz found gold, and left some parchment for the next finder as log is getting full. A favourite for this well camoed hide

Wow. What a place! Thanks for bringing me here. FP

Today we drove by car to Waihi. We visited the railroad path and found some caches. So we had a beautiful day again.
This one we loved because of the good hiding place. So we give a favourite point to it.

Greetings from Germany and
TFTC El_Mue

Nice camp, good find by the kids. TFTC

luckily we had a torch. Good host container. TFTC

Out walking in the area today and collecting as many of the caches as we can.Our first cache of this kind and we really enjoyed it.Cache number 868.Good fun.

Was 9n the ground so put it bak where clue said

Might require a torch

Stopped by on our way through and glad we did! Were greeted by two Kereru and were excited when we spotted where we thought the cache would be. A bit chilly in the gorge but powered through to get our hands on it

Find #2858. Biked the HRT from Waihi to Paeroa return while on a winter holiday. I don’t usually venture into dark confined spaces looking like water comes rushing out at any time, but in this case I did, and collected the well-disguised cache. Couldn’t sign it though - no room left and too wet! TFTC

Really cool find, nice end to tunnel bike ride

After a nice walk! Tftc

A surprisingly quick find. Straight forward and my #800. Great idea and TFTC

My family and I are holidaying in NZ from Oz and came past here to explore the gorge. I went in search of a cache as having smileys from places we have been is a nice way to map out where I have been in NZ. Awesome hide! Houndpup signed too and may or may not log his find (kids!) TFTC

Took us a little while but the view is neat from here. Tftc

First find of the original NODO cache. Yipee.

I know where it is but looks a bit dodgy

Very clever. Tftc

Found on 25/1/2018
Very cool

Found with the help of yoda beach

We have had a wee break his weekend at a friends bach at Waihi beach - lots of collecting of shells and swim time for the kids . . . . bacon and egg pie and Phase 10 & a wee nap . . . . . great weather Waihi Beach . . . . . stopped in here to take the kids into the tunnel . . . . but had to find just one more cache on the way home . . . . . goodness me . . . . . eventually I located what I needed . . . . after re-reading the instructions . . . . . and WOOHOO . . . . a find!!! . . . . . . neat little hide . . . . .TFTC . . . gets a fav point from me!!!

TFTC

Quickly found with fuschnu and theSamandtheStacey on a very beautiful day. TFTC!

Great day with CHGY and fuschnu. Took us a bit but once we read the instructions again it became clear. TYFC!

Enjoyed cycling up this trail from Paeroa. Never even knew this train tunnel was here so enjoyed going through there before I turned around to head back. Stopped by here to explore some more on my return. Had me scratching my head a bit until I expanded my search. Very clever, laughed when I found the cache, gets a FP, cheers

Super easy
AWESOME description

Crown Battery (Coromandel) was transferred from willbuild to user yodabeach

Mehrmals dran vorbeigeschaut, bis Mrs. Pickwick die Augen richtig aufgetan hat.
TFTH
Die Pickwicks

What a beautiful day for some walks and geocaches, in an amazing area

We were truly looking forward to walk the old railway tunnel. But just before that, we had to stop here for a minute to enjoy this cache. By the description it sounded pretty clear where to look for it. Now ReCached and I just needed a way to get down there. After we managed that, we took a closer look at the scene. ReCached overlooked the clever camo, but I had a feeling we hit the right spot... and there was the cache. Very nice camo which deserves an FP. TFTC nodo (now owned by Willbuild )!

December 2, 2017 @ 12:22
Cache #1907

Found it by using the hint. Of course after I signed the log I left my sunglasses there and had to go back to get them. TFTC

We came here to walk through the old railroad tunnel. After this we added a short walk and picked up this box.

TFTC

Your visitor from Germany

We came here for the old railway tunnel. This cache was a very nice introduction.

TFTC!

Today's program is the Karangahake gorge including all the mining history along the way. It is interesting to see how fast nature takes over when the influence of men is gone. So many buildings are gone and overgrown and all that in a relatively short time.
The trail presents a lot of different types of trail and we started the easy way along the river Whaitawheta with a good path, tunnels and of course geocaches.
The Dubbo track appeared to be much more of a challenge, especially because climbing is not my strongest point. But the totally different track provided us with a new experience and the track is beautifull (and very slippery).
The path for the last part back was less interesting but gave us some extra caches to find.
Close to the way to the carpark we were triggered through the reamins of the Crown Battery, so we explored the site and found the cache.
Team Mavos - Albert and Maria

Got there in the end!!

Great spot for a cache, had to keep reading notes, eventually clicked. TFTC

Interesting spot for a cache, well camouflaged. TFTC.

Been here a couple times and come up empty handed. Today I'm knocking off the ones I couldn't find. Got to gz. Thought about the hint then the light came on. Ohhh all makes sense now. Lol. I was in the wrong spot. pretty cool. And another smiley. TFTC.

Tftc.

Great catch after a very nice walk through the tunnel!

TFTC