The Omaha Beaches (Auckland) Omaha, North Island, New Zealand
By KiwiGary and KiwiMum on 09-Jan-09. Waypoint GC1G5QP

This cache is had its day, will archive to free up the location for new cachers...Cache has been removed. Thanks to everyone that visited it while it was here.

A nice walk to GZ and a quick find. Took TB.

TFTC

First find of the day on a trip to Omaha, a place I hadn't visited in probably 20 years. Gosh, how it has changed, what a shame it now resembles an Auckland beachside suburb.

Nice easy find, in fact Bev stood on it, could do with some more camo on it as well.

Cache had "drifted" as I found camo where the clue said. Widened search located cache. Replaced in what I hope was the original position. Interesting bird sanctuary.

Tried to find cache but was unable to locate it to maintain it, thanks NZTIKES the cache is still there. I did a large grid search and still couldn't locate. Thanks NZTIKES for moving back to the correct spot.

Tidied up a bit. Moisture & cockroach! wiled it dry. Seattle's Best is good to bring tissues! Took out moisture eater as it was saturated & broken. Nice spot to bring us to. Thnx Kuwi Gary. 11:40AM

Out with Indiana Jill and Seattle's Best. Fantastic views and brilliant walk! Had to leave Kiwi Tb. Wanted to see other birds!! Thanks Gary!

Had a nice walk around the area. TFTC

I found the cache exposed, open and thrown about. So put it back together and placed where I thought it was suppose to be. t4tc

Took us a little while to hunt down but a great opportunity to educate the children on the importance of conservation. TFTC

Almost stood on this cache. Was standing at the co-ordinates commenting this is where the GPS tells me where it is and looked down and there it was a few cms away.
Amazing number of scallop shells on the beach on our route to the cache, having had to waqlk around the fenced of bird Sanctuary areas.
TFTC

Took a bit longer to find than I expected. Nice one

Quick find. Nice spot to sit and watch the birds etc. Thanks.

found with cookie-monstar
cache is very wet emptied the water out and did our best to dry but it will need fixing , some of the camo has come off and the bush it was under isn't as thick as it probaly once was
but what a brilliant spot ! took the tadpoles out for a picnic and splash in the sea
cheers for the cache
left sid and took coin

Found. Cache very .wet

Dropped jeep for some off roading

Kids loved doing it. 1st time seaking.

Very quick and easy find at GZ as someone had stuck a stick with some material tied to it in the bush were the cache was hidden. I removed the "white cane" as with the clue it is obvious were you should be. TFTC

Eventually found this after cursing my poor knowledge of NZ bushes

TFTC, now onto the next.

The Scott Family (uk)

Nice beach. Spent the whole day at the regional park further down the road.
Looked here lats year but couldn't find it.
Still took a while to find it.
Dropped DNF coin.
TFTC

Came back and revisited this one after not being able to find it nearly a year ago. I'm not sure how we missed it last time as it was a fairly quick find this time. Beautiful spot. GC out.

Took a bit of searching for 3 of us. Should have looked under the first 'bush' we came across; almost stood on it. Happy New Year.
+GC

Quick find while rest of crew were test driving xmas boogy board

Nice to see the birdlife so busy

Also picked up couple of trackables that seem to have been sitting here for a while to move on

Now I know what a Wire Vine bush looks like. We tripped over it so it was well hidden.

Wow this place has changed in the past few years! TFTC

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Many thanks Gary and Mum. We checked out the wildlife sanctuary first, spotted lots of nesting Dotterels and Oyster Catchers, before making a quick find, found it after circum-navigating the hint tree.
IN: Eastward from Seattle, WA USA to New Zealand
OUT: Jeep 4x4 #4161
SL, TFTC

Labour Weekend - Originally, we wanted to try our new tent on the camping ground in Pararaha Valley, but that was booked out to the last place. So we switched to the alternative program: Matakana and surroundings.
Before we went to the Matakana cinema ("(500) Days of Summer" - great movie!), we had "dinner" at Omaha Beach. How convenient to have a cache on the way. Though, it took some time to find it. We were about to give up defeated by all the stuff mentioned in the hint, when Rumo kicked one larger bunch of the "stuff" and heard a pleasing hollow "plonk". Oh. There it is. Not that difficult after all. Oops. But wet. Camo is coming off at parts of the lid.
Took: Wet mirror
Left: Silica satchel
TFTC

Concentric ever decreasing circles, the sure but tiring way of closing in on a cache. Initially concerned about the scope of search area but a relatively quick find, phew. I spent my summers up here 20 years ago when it wasn't quite so flash; had my first night camping near this cache and it was miles from any houses...

5-ish pm. Another beautiful spot for our last cache of the day. So nice that it's left undeveloped...so far anyway! Saw about 8 little bunnies nibbling away at the grass on our way out to GZ. Went straight to the cache (noticed lid wasn't so securely on?!?! but all ok inside).
+ domino
- nil
Left 'Magic Turtle' TB as I think he'll enjoy it out there with all the wildlife at the beach.
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (1436)

4.30pm. Had wondered whether a cache at Omaha would be swarming with muggles on a fine Sunday afternoon but not so at this end. Location turned out to be a nice isolated spot with a healthy population of rabbits. Found easily by The Pud with the help of a very accurate GPS reading. As the cache lid was partly off a soft toy inside was wet so we rescued it for a little TLC before it sets out again. Left a Yellow Jeep TB.
TFTC.
[8d] M&P.

found it
after a long time. had a downpour of rain got
really wet but that didnt stop us !!!
really nice place will come back soon

Parked at the surf club and had a very memorable barefoot walk along the beach to find the cache. Took a while to find but it's there alright. Great to see the dotterels thriving in the area. TFTC

Blustry day at Omaha today so a brisk walk to GZ. A quick search of the area revealed the treasure and we were soon on our way. T4TC.

We haven't been to Omaha for many years - it is really built-up now, almost to the tip of the peninsula. We enjoyed the walk to GZ. Surprised how many rabbits there are - guess all their predators are killed to protect the birds. No trouble locating the cache, despite initial fears. Thanks for a reason to come back here, and the trip down memory lane.
Dropped kangaroo TB and picked up 100 Finds Geocoin

# 713

The beach certainly looks like it is ready for D-Day invasion with all that netting out. Great walk and loved the pheasants we saw.

A beautiful day so the beach was busy but not by the cache. Celebrated Spring and a successful find by walking the length of the beach and back.. Its further than it looks.Needed a reviving icecream on the return leg.Put in a geocoin and took out a TB

Lucky find, lucky cache! - as I accidentally stood on it. That camo works well.
T4TC - M@

Quick and easy find. Not the nicest of days but still a good day out. TFC

Nice easy find, man those are some flash houses.
TFTC

Nice location, Even Mrs TWS managed this Terrain 2.5.

Looked at the bird colony.

TFTC

Easy find on a cold windy day, wasnt the weather to stick round.

Had to resort to the stomp method as it was getting cold and late, lucky the vegetation didn't flinch! Great area and some nice houses. Theres money round here. Dropped off 4 corners TB who wants to go NORTH. TFTC

TB drop.

Sorry Mum, I had a good search but no luck for me.
Maybe I need to bring my pooking stick with me next time.

Nice spot, even when its raining.

2657. A nice walk around the spit and another lovely area. The cache was well hidden.

Thanks
Iris & Rodney

4.05pm. Nice walk on the beach. Didn't see any rare birds today.
No landing craft either! Thank you. David and Noeline.

great little cache, well camoflaged

quick find this one

good outing

+moonstone/ring
- marble

Thanks, Kiwigary, for a nice hide. Reminded us how nice it is along there. Walked back through the Bird area and along the beach.

This was the 'Fools' first real find, all on his own. Usually it's been the fools wife or someone else we are taking with us.

in- mirror
out- rubber stamp

This took us ages, were extremely close to giving up when I finally got that magic "clunk". Lovely spot, very hot today.

TFTC

Excellent stuff Thanks.

Would have been 1st to cache on 10th morning but couldn't find it at GZ with the wire vine all over. Was the camouflage the bag of trash left there? It was too much for us to carry out!

Nice find, though it did need to be concealed a little bit more, it was pretty obvious when we found it. Found with lauralouwho.
TFTC

Found with a good bit of searching. Well camoflaged. Took four kids with us, some first timers. Quite a lot of things traded. First to the cache!!

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