Pukekaroro (Northland) Pukekaroro, North Island, New Zealand
By KiwiLeon on 11-Dec-08. Waypoint GC1JTPV

Stopped by today - cache muggled.
Thanks for visiting.

The calculations seemed straightforward and the result wasn’t far away, but we didn’t succeed in finding the cache – the hint wasn’t much help.

Found with Rozanz whilr doing the A-Z cache run.

TNLNSL

T4TC

I was really surprised to see, how very easy this multicache was. Very easy to solve and find. You should come to Latvia to find real multi-caches! But thanks and greetings from Latvia!

Finally got to complete this one. Must have been blind first time there.

No idea what this plaque is about, but the final coordinates where found quick.
Searching took a little bit longer because it was really well hidden.

Greetings from Germany
TFTC
#1677

[ At 1100NZDT, Thought road works close by would be a problem but no !! Another interesting historical spot!! Many thanks TFTC, nice easy find. ]

Wouldn't you know it, the day neither of us are carrying a phone, we require it for a cache!
Gathered the information and tried to visualize the keypad.
The cache was in hand soon after.
Thanks, Robmc.

A pretty easy and quick offset multi. We tend to do these ones on our
travels when we can to break up the usual trads.
Thanks for this one

When I stopped here I had a feeling of Deja Vu. Though I'm not certain if there was another cache placed here previously.

Cheers for the cache.

Found on the way home from a great weekend at the Bay of Islands. Quick find when you know where to look. TFTC.

Found this one on my trip through the north island. Visited some great places and saw heaps of cool stuff. Thanks for showing me around and thanks for the cache.

Nirusu.

Interesting spot. Dropped off the Flubear but forgot to log my visit until now. Oops! Took Romney on to another green pasture! TFTC

Solved the puzzle and found the cache without much hassle. Walking back from the car to put the cache back I twisted my ankle in the grass. Who says geocaching isn't dangerous. TFTC

[16:50] (-12h) #1055

CacheTour: New Zealand with foobert
Day: 13 of 23
Previously found geocaches of the day: 3

easily found

TFTC


[This entry was edited by signux on Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 2:31:03 AM.]

TYFTC

Wow, great, our first multicache in NZ We solved all the problems and found it quick. Thanks for this one!

An interesting place and some good information about the area.

In: TB Out:-

TftC

Did the donkey work on way up North last week but didn't stop to put co-ords in gPS. Should've done. Would've saved a tricky turn on way back down. Still TFTC

interesting local history (wonder who the original designer of those Historic Places plinths was?)
maths lesson for wave and then a quick find
TFTC

good quick multi to do while waiting for the convoy to catch up. T4TC - M@

Easy find once we'd done our maths properly. Nice little spot to stop on the way north.

TFTC. TNLN

#52 A easy find, just follow the geotrail. That just meant that I looked in the same places as other searchers until I got to the correct one. TFTC

Found on our way up to Whangerei to buy a red convertible.

Followed the geotrail to GZ

Took some photos, will upload.

TFTC

On a caching weekend to Whangarei. Nice easy Multi. Thanks for the local history. Was really surprised to see TWS had just been there. That new convertible must be really speedy. Took some pics of the view. Will upload later. SL. In: Maori Motif Peg. Out: Nil. TFTC.

Last one for the day and the drizzly rain was getting heavier. Did the calculations and commenced our search, that can't be right! - gotta remember to deduct the 5! Easy find when the numbers are right T4TC.

Driven past heaps of times but never stopped. Thanks. NINO

I had to chuckle at the hint. Would that be the bush, tree, bridge, rock or flax? Thanks.

Interesting bit of local history - never noticed this plaque before. Got the required info, and the cache was soon in hand. Thanks.

# 824

Quick find once the final co-ords figured out. Caleb chose a dinosaur and put in a pocket knife. TFTC #198

Finally made it back to find this one. Easy this time around!!! TFTC

Thought we should re-try this cache with the revised info. That was better.. no need to try to cross the road and Team Leader had the cache before I'd got my boots on.

Quick stop and enjoyed the multi thanks. Cache all nice and dry, no issues there.
TFTFC

Replaced container. Hope this one will keep the water out.

Thanks, might do that this Friday.

An interesting reason to stop on our way north. Unfortunately cache full of water however log still dry. Would be good to replace container we think. TFTC

Caches on this stretch seemed few and far between, so of course we had to stop and do the odd multi or two in the dark as well Cheers Gav [3645]

Got this one slightly wrong to start with, but a recalculate put us right.

#2808
Found after grabbing some breakfast in Wellsford. Tipped out some water, fortunately the logbook was dry in its baggie.
TNLNSL, TFTC

So that is what this stone is all about, quick gather of the info required, followed by a quick find. Cache quite wet inside, gave it a drying.

TFTC

4.05pm. Found on way north. Maths easy to do and success almost immediate. Cache was full of water - even though found earlier today!! Dried it as much as possible and added a few silica gel saches. Took a photo further down the side road which I will upload in due course.
+ Statue of Liberty & coffee drinkers badge;
- Baby book for Samantha (still dry inside its plastic bag) & domino (we know who needs these!!)
TFTC - a welcome break in the journey.
[8d] M&P.

TFTC, no worries with this one.

2582. Interesting historical information on the side of a very busy road.

Thanks
Iris & Rodney

A very enjoyable hunt around. T4TC

Found it with Rumo & Rala. WP1 was very brightly marked with green rubbish bags...someone's dump perhaps? Otherwise a good stop off. TFTC!

Quick drive-by and information retrieval. Interesting about how many things you can find plaques in New Zealand. And interesting, how much rubbish some people dump at those places.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Quick find at 10:30pm on the way back to Whangarei.

on way to orewa this is the first of 7 to do today.
-- padlock
+ teddy book
+ empty bullet shell
+ antique glass bottle
+ ceo coin
TFTC

Stopped by on the way south for this simple offset. No trouble finding the cache. SL. TFTC.

Stopped and did this one on way back home from our holiday down south. Easy find.
TFTC

On the way back to whangarei. Had planned a multi using this plaque last time was through here, now have seen this one have made a slight alteration and mine will be all go soon.

TFTC

2.00pm. Quick find on way north. Never seen this plaque before, thanks for making us stop.
Yes also puzzled by the FirstToFind comment, as nodo was the first to sign the log
+ domino
- nil
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (1177)

Left home before instructions amended so couldn't imagine there was a cache hidden across the constant stream of Boxing Day traffic and in the middle of a farmer's field ! Tried just using the S co-ord on the plaque side but no luck today. Enjoyed the Mountain Road 'shortcut' to cut through from the Dargaville Road...another road never travelled before.

10.10am. We came yesterday without success. Had missed the minus 5 in the description. No trouble today with the corrected coords. Bit confused about the FTF reference.We are the first to sign the log. And the first to log on here. Picked up the two T.B. and left a padlock. Thank you for the cache. David with three grand kids.

OOOOOOPPPPPPSSSSS

Made a small mistake.

Credits for the FTF should go toNoFixedAboders although she didn't found it (yet).

Changed the description slightly.

Sorry about that.

Published

TB and GC drop