River Vista (Northland) Portland, North Island, New Zealand
By Pooke on 22-Dec-07. Waypoint GC1823M

Dont have time to maintain, and area regularly floods.

Will have to check this one out.

Could not stand any longer here cache if it is still there should be removed as the fifth and rubbish here is disgusting

Did not find, may have been muggled as we found lots of trinkets lying in the grass?

Found as part of my Post Mega northen road trip. Really enjoyed a part of the country I hadn't seen before. Thanks to all those who have placed cacahes to encourage us southerners to come your way!

Hunted around a few places at grass level but not ground level and finally found it. Wet and muddy at GZ but there has been a lot of rain up here over the last few days. Surprising amount of traffic for a little side road.

Hope they didn't wonder too much what we were doing.

Thanks Pooke. Nice little detour and a break from Riser5's GB1 series.

Nice drive by find

Nice drive by Cache.

Todays mission is to reach 500 caches with the help of Mini Mob. #488. A lovely spot to stop at off SH1. TFTC. a quick find.

Like finding these we reserve areas. TFTC

TFTC, a lovely spot and one of the caches that's been on our to-do list since we started caching. Took resident TBs to move along and left seahorse TB that wants to get to an underwater cache. Perhaps someone could take it to Under Waro Water?

A new day in New Zealand on the way from Tairua to Paihia. It was a long trip today and a lot of traffic on the road... nevertheless some caches have been found...

TFTC dunestar

This is one of those caches I have been meaning to stop at and find so many times when I'm driving past - well today was the day. What a great little spot - I could imagine stopping here for a picnic. Quick find and dropped in some trackables. TFTC!!!

Awesome spot for a quiet picnic. will need to source a couple of kayaks to use. Found with Wallie93. TFTC

Nice quiet place to park-and-find after a few noisy GB1 highway caches.

Took me a bit of searching to find this one TFTC Pooke

A detour and time to have a drink under the shade of the trees. A pleasant place to stop for a break. Thanks.

We needed a break on our way up north. This was a perfect place.
We challenged ourselved on the riverbed to pick some nice blackberies

Really enjoyed doing this one in between the GB1 Riser 5 power trail. These are the types of caches that i enjoy doing. Quick find here. TFTC!

TFTC

Found with Ryob TFTC

Nice cache, never been here before

Easy find

Nice spot

Was on my way north to Whangarei and thought I would take a short detour as I was looking for a spot where I could take a short break and have something to eat before moving on. Arriving near GZ was able to find a very nice car-park under the shade of some lovely trees near the riverbank. What a great little spot for a cache, just enough shade to give you cover from a nice sunny day in Whangarei and peaceful and quiet just far enough away from the rumbling traffic of the main highway. After taking a small break went to look for the cache and found it quickly without any issues, decided to retrieve Dream, Passion and Journey travel bug and take it on a journey, thanks for placing a cache in such a nice little spot, TFTC LNSL (3654)

Just starting our special day of caching - to celebrate 11-11-11 and what do I find but my own TB!!! It's in a competition with 3 others so I wasn't allowed to pick it up and take it to the 'event' in Auckland - but I sure hope someone picks it up soon and takes it to LOTS of caches if I am to have any chance of catching up in the competition.

Dropped TB. TFTC!

Nice little spot, low tide so no laucnhing going on so nice and deserted for the search. TFTC

found it!

Sorry picked up the coin on the 26th and forgot to log

Sadly today is our last day of caching in New Zealand before we head home to Australia. Due to Marco’s sprained ankle we were limited to only doing caches with very easy terrain and little walking. This one fit our criteria. We pulled off SH1 to find this one, hoping to grab the Earthquake GC. It took a bit of searching to find it but eventually Marco found it using the end of his crutch. We were sad to see the geocoin wasn’t in there – hopefully someone else has picked it up. TNLNSL TFTC

Second attempt at this one, good to see the weather hadn't gotten it this time. TFTC

Quick find after being in Whangarei on business TFTC.
Dropped off Stings'NZ Flag ChCh coin. Only pick this coin up if you are going to drop it off again quickly or you will have the owner on your back!!!!!

Down this way to check some completed work. T4TC

Have been here before but never log, Now done

Stopped to drop TB in but unfortunately it wouldn't fit in the container without the lid trying to pop off. Cache all good though!

Dry and safe but desperately needed some extra treasures...

Nice views.-Bitsprayer

Pleasant spot, tide in, sun shining(considering it was forcast for rain and high winds) TFTC

Nice cache hidy spot. Dropped off 2 TBs, cache is all good and dry, loved the living camo! TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 47.028 E 174° 18.553

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 47.015 E 174° 18.556

Distance from original: 80.5 feet or 24.5 meters.

Moved, hopefully out of flood reach

All good to go

Cache has been replaced in a slightly different spot. Will update as soon as I get my gps back.

Hi, I will work out a replacement for this as soon as possible. Thanks for the shove

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Thought it was too difficult for us to be found. ... didn't know that it was missing ...

Thanks for showing this nice site and for hiding.

Gone missing in flood

Took a few minutes but Mrs EU came up trumps. TFTC

Found with Okay Crokay! Great log that nearly had me swimming head first with the fishes!!.. Cache Needs maintenance though ): Wet logbook which was rather unfortunate!!

On our way to to the top with Louise 5... TFTC

wow, this one was much bigger than we expected. Future Finders were at the end of the tree dangling over the river when I found this one safe and sound. Replaced bag and added silicone

High tide water was very close to the cache. The log book is sodden and unusable. We wrote on a sheet of fresh paper which will no doubt also get wet.
TFTC

was an easy find for me there was a hole in the top of the box and the inside was wet, the logbook soaked. i sealed the hole with chewing gum as best i could haha

this was a quick found. Nice hide in a cool place. The logbook is wet and should be replaced.

Greetings from Germany
TFTC
#1688

No problems finding this one. Signing the log proved a little more difficult as it was soaked. Still managed to get some ink on the page. Might need to replace the logbook. TFTC

It was nice to stop for a break in a nice quiet spot. TFTC

Nice easy find, picked up GC

That log does look like a likely hiding spot, but forewarned we didn't venture there.
A quick find of a good sized container.
Thanks, Robmc.

I am glad we read carefully where not to look here as it was way to cold
to go for an unexpected dip. Nice big cache container well hidden.
TNLN
Thanks

Love your caches

Log is wet

This entry was edited by kevsteam on Friday, 30 July 2010 at 23:53:18.

Logged the GC we put in there but forgot to log the cache. TFTC

Dropped THE GC, yes it is real...

Our second ever cache find. Clue a little misleading as it says to look for a black cache, but it was in fact a small bucket with a yellow lid! But we did find it. Took out Godzilla and left a small car. TFTC

Ezi find. Off to the next one.

nice spot
TFTC!

Ezi find after following clues. TFTC

quick find with mbuckland and 2 wee bucks. TFTC

Found without too much hassle. The first in a big weekend.
TFTC

Found with Butters94,peacefull little river.TFTH.

Co-ords led us to a tree deep in the water, but after reading the hint, we realised that it would be easier than that and had the cache in a minute in hand.. Thanks for the cache and bit of shade...

Nice peacefull spot off the main drag.Must have just been behind CrystalFairy.TNLN.TFTC.

Nice easy cache, V e r y b u m p y r o a d. Nice little place, Dipped travel bugs for location. Took travel bug and left bouncy ball.

TFTC
TSLS
Left TB

Found with PrincessLuna and LittleLuna.
Great clue.
TFTC.

Quick find on a day trip in the area T4TC

On a caching weekend to Whangarei. A nice secluded spot away from the main road. Took a while to find, but then there it was. No muddy feet or tightrope walking for us!! In: TFTC Badge Out: Keyring SL TFTC.

Nice spot just off the main road. Took a wee while to locate the cache. and when we did we wondered how we missed it, Glad we did not have to do the tightrope walk! Thanks.

# 829

When the cache did not show up, one of us stood at the starting spot ready for tight-roping ! Then from above, spotted a likely hidey hole and got lower down to investigate and viola! A nice pleasant spot by the river on a secluded bit of road. Thanks Pooke  

Nicely done hide and very pleased to make the find despite the darkness. Cache is fine and all in good order.
TFTC

Another in a bad run lately - looked and looked. Even used the secret weapon - the 6 year old. Nice spot though.

Nice place to pull over on our road trip up North. Nice quick find. TFTC

2571. This was a quick find with some imposing features surrounding it!

Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Found with Imgettingannoyed during our 3 n half week NZ mega cache mission!!

co-ords out. have included the mark i got in the log.


lovley spot though
quick find with the clue

A small detour on our way back to Auckland. Left GC. T4TC

A quick find with Old Boots! & 1 Rainbow after initially missing the turn off and having to back track. Old Boots! loved the crockadile in the cache which was left for another day.

Lovely restful spot on a beautiful morning. TFTC

Last cache on way home from Whangarei.
TFTC

4.15pm. Found at first attempt. Got wet returning it as it started to pour. - Geocoin also swapped a croc for a pig thing. Thank you. David and Noeline

A lovely tranqil spot. We took out TB Mario to travel further.

4.55pm. Quick stop on way south to AK.
+ domino
+ ozzy jandal keyring
- carabina
Left 'Snowstorms Birka Geocoin 'TB.
Took 'Gray Whale Geocoin' TB
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (1206)

This cache needs an update as it is not a black container any more. Would not recomend doing this one in the wet as things could get slippery. Good location though.

would like to see at high tide

TB Drop

Was a little worried it might have been removed due to recent earthworks along the bank. But still in situ. A great spot. TFTC. Placed a crocodile in the cache. I think it will feel at home here!

Had found the original Shag-adelic River Vista so figured it was time to tag this one as well
TNLNSL Thanks

A bit difficult to find without being obvious because muggles on their tractors decided to stop for a natter
just down the road and kept turning around for a look.

Easy drive bye In pig out eyeball TFTC