Wesley Dale (Northland) Kaeo, North Island, New Zealand
By nalawod on 16-Jun-07. Waypoint GC13P3F

I stopped in to check this one on my way through Kaeo, it is indeed missing. Archiving to make room in this area for someone else (or a future idea from me).

I think this one has gone.

The CO needs to check this one out.

We tried but couldn't find it. Will give it another go at a later date.

Very wet & muddy. No sign of any sort of cache. Will try again when in the area again

Looked and looked but nothing

Thank you for the cache - had driven passed the p
Main road a lot but never bothered to stop!

Checked on cache and found it missing - or is that did not find it missing? Anyhoo I have replaced it with a themed container.

Wesley Dale (Northland) was transferred from nalawod to user thedbees

Looked all around but could not find it.

No comment .

I suspect this cache is gone. The area is well groomed and a bottle in this bush there is not.

Found it

Searched in and around location but unable to locate.

This one alluded us - after ages of searching. Found GZ but suspect may be missing.

Finishing the day on 2 DNFs!

Nice view of little township

Away in the camper for a couple of weeks roaming around Northland doing TMGT's and anything else. Second DNF here in Kaeo. No luck here for us today and the cows were grumbling the whole time. The local dog was friendly though.

R

Great! Our first find!

Good find, figured out what oleander is, log and inside bottle is damp, needs evaporating or bandana drying, signed ok. sunny day. Buying a boat tomorrow, booyah. Satisfying finding a cache, sets up my whole day. Off to Dargaville (need a cache at Twin Bridges, yes?).

Wow, some interesting history here and a fabulous monument.
Thanks for bringing me here.
TFTC

On a bit of a road trip this weekend to try and make some good progress on the new Mystery at the Museum souvenir challenge. I have very few unfound caches anywhere near home base, so these challenges are a good excuse to head off on a mission and potentially visit some new places.

This was certainly another place I had never been before. Once near GZ, the cache was soon located in the hint location.. Pleased to also find a "gemstone" here amongst the resting for the challenge. TFTC

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches in the area

Lots of noisy ducks down the hill as we made the find. TFTC

Lovely spot. First time we have seen the cairn TFTC

Interesting history. Overlooked by the Pa. I wonder what the locals thought of the new arrivals? TFTC.

Easy find, beautiful spot. Beautiful place to watch the sun rise

Travelling from Kerikeri to Cape Reinga today. Looking for smileys and places to swim as it’s so hot. Great little detour. Cache all fine.

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 6.179 E 173° 46.498

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 6.182 E 173° 46.501

Distance from original: 23.6 feet or 7.2 meters.

Cache needed to be placed in another hiding spot, the original bush was cleared away, so this is in a new spot, with new container.

A new container has been replaced in a new hide.

Today was another nice day for our holiday trip in new zealand were we of course also found some caches along the way.

Today we took a trip from round kerikeri.

This is one of them. thank you for maintaining this cache.

this was indeed not to be found. shame because it is a nice place to visit.

Will have to have a drive-by to check up on this one.

I think the trees have had a prune since the last find. Lovely historical spot, but alas, no cache.

Tftc

Nice view.
Tftc.

I enjoyed coming out here and learning a bit about the local history. Tftc

#10871. Kaeo seems to be a town of two halves: the SH10 half and the hillside half. Cache was in a nice spot. TFTC.

Came to have a look at this historic site on our tour around Northland, and lo and behold there was a cache there! A quick find - signed log, TFTC!

After spending a couple of nights in Algies Bay, we are now heading for Northland where we will be spending the next phase of our North Island tour. Just our second visit to the area, the first was during the week before the Auckland Mega, when we travelled as far north as Keri Keri, so we are looking forward to exploring more of the region.
We hadn't seen the cairn from the main road, even though it is an impressive size. A very historic site indeed. StreetWalker took photographs while I found the cache - it was an easy find too. I like the white flowers, much nicer than the usual pink. Thanks for bringing me here and TFTC.

TFTC.

Yebo nalawod
Really appreciate your caches as they do bring us to read and stop - big thank you!!!!!
Tftc

This entry was edited by brownie52 on Wednesday, 02 December 2015 at 03:33:00 UTC.

TB in.

Still a nice spot. Dropped TB then visited grandparents.

Easy find but everything very wet, pen didn't work. Lovely spot been past many ted this made us stop
Tftc

Jid

Nice easy cache.

On a mission this weekend with Cats&Dragons, with a the main goals of reaching Cape Reinga to find the Virtual caches up there and the 35 and 36 degree South challenges, plus with anything else in between. We had a great time touring around Northland, and it is a pretty spectacular place. Being from Southern Northland, it has reminded me that I need to visit this place more.

The initial plan was to head up the west coast and on to Ninety Mile Beach (which was a huge highlight of the trip) and then down the east coast, but the plan was flexible depending on progress. We mostly achieved our ambitious plan, but due to time restraints had to cut back a bit from the planned list. If we had another day I think we would of achieved most of what we had planned.

Some of the figures for the trip were, 1600km's travelled in a 48 hour period, 37 hours of caching, 4 hours of sleep, and 7 hours driving up from Hamilton and back, with a total of 176 caches found!!

Thanks to all the CO's for placing these caches and showing us around Northland.

Cache was sticking out of it's hiding location so we spotted it from the car. Signed log and replaced slightly better.

This weekends little adventure was in the company of HKCB (as we'd both been given leave passes by our respective partners) so off we set.
The primary goals this weekend were to collect as many of the earthcaches as time would allow, the two virtuals, and complete both the requirements for the S35 & S36 challenges. Mind you this did not stop us working to collect anything else that we could find as time allowed.
It was a great trip with the weather playing its part so that we saw a great variety of countryside between caches and far too little sleep.

The result was 1600kms (over 48 hours), 189 caches (35 hours caching) & 4 hours sleep, not bad for a couple of beginners. Thanks to all the CO's and those that maintain the caches for us to collect on our too brief tour of the north.

Now its fully dark time so will be interesting to see how long we last as the previous night we only got 1.5hours sleep

Thanks for the placement

Oh, so that's what an Oleander is

Amazing cairn, TFTC

Out for another caching adventure with GraciesGPSfun. Lovely day for it. My Grandparents owned the Kaeo store for years but I had never been here. Easy find, TFTC

So that is what a cairn is. Nice resting place. Contents all wet. Added a separate log as log book soden. TFTC

A quiet spot for sure

Another part of Kaeo I had never been too - easy find surrounded by beautiful autumn trees!

Thank you for bring gaggetgirl and I to this interesting place. TFTC!!!

Here visiting from the USA and just loved this place! The cairn was just wonderful! TFTC!!!!

Another great fine while on holiday in the area.

Soon had the container found.
SL TFTC nalawod

Nice view from here. Love the memorial nearby.
TFTC

Traveling through, stopped to find the caches in this little town.
Tftc

A great spot with an interesting view of the grassy floodplain below.

A quick find out with hello Mrs, Moneydork and rediguana , TFTC

Nice quick dash and grab. Interesting memorial cairn nearby.
Cheers Gav

TFTC, needs a new log

Still very damp

Revisiting with Plusnarf.

I have lived in the area for 10 years and it was my first visit. Very interesting as I wondered what the monument stood for all of these years.

TFTC. Nearly muggled but all ok.

An interesting type of memorial to the Methodist Mission, and appears to be well used by the seagulls.

Many thanks to nalawood for having brought us to some interesting spots in Northland while on our holiday here in the region, it's added to a wondeful time we've hade here.

TFTC also.

Tftc!;)

Fist cache for today. Cache log book is quite wet! Probably should be replaced. Nice spot TFTC

Found by our Cookie Youngster who spends a year in The Far North, near here.

TFTC says the Cookiemonsterfamily

IN: Coin

Heading north with tikitour to do some caches in the far north - this was our first stop on a glorious day. What a cairn!! Thanks for getting us to detour to see this

On a road trip around the far north with flowernz and hubbies. Beautiful Northland day , never been out this road, the cairn is amazing. Thanks for bringing us here. TFTC

TFTC.Great find.Would have not gone there if we weren't caching.Cheers

Got talking to the gardener near site so told him about caching so I could get cache, He is Happy with it.

Easy find en-route for a day of fishing. Log is wet though so you may want to replace it. TFTC!!

A quick cache and dash on St. Patrick's Day!
Lovely area.
TFTC SL
Greetings from Wales

Loved the history of the place. T4tc

Interesting stop. Found with 'Kev & Chris'. The Italian Job was here....!

Found while touring Northland from Te Anau with The Italian Job from Auckland. The log book needs replaced as it is wet. TFTC

interesting place for a cache

10.13 Uhr
This little cache was on our way to go Dolphin-Swimming in Paihia. Thanks for leading us here. The book is really wet, needs some change.

Picked up TB. TFTC!

Found this cache on a long awaited sunny day! Left skateboard tb, please move on. TFTC SL log is soaked thru and needs replacing.

A large cairn close to gz is impressive. Cache quickly found. Log a little damp. Thanks for the stop

Quick check before Summer gets here to ensure it is all well, but a party at a local house was just getting underway so we decided to leave it till another day.

Kayleys quick find. The cairn is much bigger than it seems from the town.

Nice cache, found with geo boyfriend and his bro. Fab views of cairn, lovely spot! Log is a bit damp but still writeable. TFTC SL

This entry was edited by geosian on Saturday, 28 May 2011 at 03:44:59 UTC.

NZ11. After a long wet night under a tin roof it was off for another day on the road caching. It was still raining here and it was hard to see much but it was quick find. Thanks.

4916.114 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2009 IYA - AU Anglo Telescope A#175

Albida

Nice easy find, but a little hard to turn the car around at that point

On our way home one more stop (yes, just this one last box, it´s worth it for historical reasons...I was hardly convincing my wife..) at this site we would have missed if not marked by this box. Best regards and many thanks to the owner who made us this tour!

Fitzy and I are visiting New Zealand for a week to do some caching and have a look around.
This was our fourth cache on day four of our adventure.
We had to make a detour to get this one, but once we were there it was a quick find.
TFTC.

This entry was edited by ACBC 66 on Saturday, 08 January 2011 at 03:48:17.

3291 - Found with ACBC66 during our NZ Caching tour... Driving from Bay of Islands up to the Cape...

A small detour for a quick drive-by find. Thanks nalawod !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

We have visited here a few years ago and weren't aware of this cache as we were muggles back then. T4tc

A quick easy find in this cemetery in the rain today. TFTC

Interesting historical spot. TFTC!!!

Nice spot, Thanks

Interesting place and peaceful resting here. Thanks for this little stop for the cache.

I doubt that anyone other than the locals would come here if it wasn't for this cache. Thanks