The Wide Pacific (Northland) Waihopo, North Island, New Zealand
By Just Floundering on 30-Dec-08. Waypoint GC1K8BN

Great view Tftc

Nice hiding spot, walk leading up to it was chill, although plants do grow into the path

Thanks for the cache.Over time the view has been obscured, but a lovely place to come and check out the Bay.

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I now live full-time in our caravan & travel the country visiting places we want to visit & doing the things that we want to do we were visiting the Far North for a few days & we decided to go for a bit of a drive with the hope that we could get out & grab a couple of caches a picturesque location, even on a wet day cache easily found, logbook signed & replaced, all in the pouring rain pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #4,992 for us!

Very nice beach

A hot stroll along this path today after a day on the beach. N problem finding.TFTC

Good walk but log is full

Good find log is full

12.30pm. Visited. Replaced container - the old one had a small hole - rattus rattus? Replaced log. All good.JF.

Love this beach

Needs a new log book

Amazing views on the way

Beautiful spot, great walk. Thanks!!

I was off for a wee jaunt in my cachemobile going from Tokerau Beach up to Cap Reinga seeking out a few caches.

I had a nice wee walk along the top of the bank to this one. I couldn't count the number of posts as a lot were covered by the foliage but I soon had the cache in hand.

Cheers for the cache, Just Floundering.

Surprisingly busy today - the car park was full, but nobody else came our way! A bit hard to count the posts with all the extra growth this rainy summer has caused. However, not too hard too spot the cache. Log pretty full but we were able to find a spare line. TFTC

Short walk and found at the point.
Box hase a hole and logbook is full.
Thanks.

scary walking to get it on my own but it was a great spot

My friend was heading up this way on a maintenance run having just taken over the nalawood caches. I enthusiasticly joined in as I have been meaning to come back up this way for ages. My last visit was in 2018 and there have been quite a lot of caches placed since then.

This walk was lovely. It did indeed give amazing views of the wide Pacific. I loved the flax on either side of the track too. A quick find at gz. Thanks for the cache

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Nice easy find. Tftc....needs new long and new pencil as no room to write and has been wet inside.

J

Beautiful spot to spend the afternoon, finished off with a treasure hunt. Thanks!

One of several caches we located today between Pukenui and the “very top” of NZ. We started along this gravel road but after 1.5kms or so we decided it was too corrugated for our “not-so-rugged” motorhome. Parked it at the side of the road and I jumped on the ebike for the remaining 4.4kms. The cache was a reasonably quick find. Very picturesque beach but a bit breezy at the time! #4664. TFTC.

Nice easy grab. Needs a new log book

Took a while, TFTC

Nice little track to the cache ..easy find.

Great walk

TFTC

What a long bay with at Sandy Beach which is almost empty on a sunny weekend just before Queen’s birthday. A quick find TFTC

Lovely walk!!!

Tfc !

I've decided to leave Germany for a while and travel by train through Europe and later by plane and car through New Zealand and Australia. Maybe I'm going to visit Scandinavia afterwards... we'll see.
Thank you for showing me you places. It helps my finding nice spots in your city during my trip
Regards
gandalf1306
6. März 2020 11:58; 1407

Cheers. Been to Henderson Bay several times before but never along this track. Log a bit hard to write on.

Thanks Just Floundering for the cache. It’s #1116 for us. We found your cache on 1 October 2019. Quick find after a lovely stroll along the track from the car park. Great views - wish it was a little warmer for a swim!!

I found this cache during my Irish summer holidays. Thanks for the Cache .

Found on my trip around Northland TFTC!

Didn't get the hint but coordinations spot on. TFTC

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches in the area

Am heutigen Tag wollen Heckenstürmer und ich etwas oberhalb von Pukenui die Gegend auskundschaften und Cachen. Dabei viele schöne Strände kennen gelernt und einen schönen windigen Spaziergang beim Cape Reinga gemacht. Auch die grossen Sanddünen waren imposant.

Greets from Switzerland

Day 28 in Newzealand. Today we drove from Pukenui to Cape Reinga and back to Rawene.
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

With Lemmer in New Zealand at amazing caches. Thank you for showing all that beautiful places. flatrate

Great spot. Thx

Cool view!

Walked the beach then hunted this. No need to scale cliffs unless that's your thing. Thanks

Stunning beach NZ IS SO LUCKY!

Travelling North to Cape Reinga. Collecting as many smileys and swims as we can. Nearly to hot too go walking but fortunately it wasn’t far. Thanks for bringing us here.

Ninety Mile Beach is finally tagged on my 'bucket list' for this trip. Now back to the main road to explore some more before returning north to Zara.
We walked the beach to this one totally missing the track. Had to get The Seagnoids assistance to navigate the really big step. Ditched old manky log for a temp waterproof one to keep it going. Cheers. Return trip via the track makes things soooo easy.

Its Wednesday - day Five -Kaitaia and Ninety Mile Beach with The Seagnoid and Toby.

Its another epic 4 week geocaching adventure with The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby and Willam to the Far North. What an amazing place to explore. Lots of walks, gravel roads and sand. Lots of amazing trees, beaches and interesting POIs. Lots of kilometers traveled by vehicle and foot. Vehicle breakdowns, making new friends and catching up with old friends and family. Snagged a couple of FTF's, lots of lonely caches and the odd event along the way. Lots of cache maintenance and replaced caches on this trip. But what an incredible adventure!!. Thanks to all the CO's who have made this trip so memorable..

When I do big caching trips I write notes in a notebook and do the logging after - as you can see from this, I write stories, and typing them into a phone is so not going to happen! Usually my notes are fine, they remind me of the area and I flesh them out. This time - no idea. Here's what I wrote: *Walked beach then zoomed and saw path. Back tracked and took differrent path coming back up from the one going down. It had a VERY big step!. Rock climbing.*
What did I mean by *zoomed?*

Day five of an awesome, tiring, long, three week holiday geocaching with Taybeedragon in the upper north. A third day of mucking about the Aupouri Peninsula. The whole trip comprised of hours of walking on sand, sliding down sand dunes, hundreds of kilometres of unsealed roads, car breakdowns, paddling out to islands, dolphins, goats, events, FTFs, weird boulders. You name it, we saw it. Lots of bisons, lots of cache maintenance, lots of sunscreen. A month is enough. I am glad to be back home. Except that now I have to write up my trip. We averaged just 20 caches per day, but that is still a lot of logging!

Merry Christmas from the Seagnoid!

TFTC

On our way north we couldn’t miss Henderson Bay. This was located quite easy thanks to the hint. TFTC

Found it with our 5yo and 2yo. T4TC. What an amazing place this is
Thank you for bringing us here.

Cache had rolled out of place which held us up - but not for long! TFTC

All well here. Beautiful even in a wet day.

Watch out for the dog deposit!

This was a weekend that had been in the planning for a little while and in the company of HKCB we headed up after work. the object for the weekend was to locate as many of the west coast caches as possible along with a couple of other mini missions including the northern most caches, and earth caches. All was going well until we hit a rock and punctured/ripped a tyre which in turn resulted in the weeknd being brough to a premature end and heading home effectively 24 hours early. We did however manage to collect approx 50 caches and a number of these had not been located for some considerable time.

I would like to thank all the cache owners for their work to keep many of these remote caches still in place.

This was the tenth cache of the trip and a nice quick find before continuing north. Nice little detour from the main road to be what appeared in the dark a spot I want to visit now in daylight
Thanks for the cache, Thanks for the placement

2.35pm - DAY 2 of 3. Today was our second real day of caching on our north trip, starting in Kaitaia and heading to the Cape.
With lots of stops, detours and back on only 1 road that we had missed caches from the previous night.
This part of the North Island is amazing with great views, history and lots of hidden bays and Campers parked in all sorts of places.
The roads were good but couldn't get over the number of one lane bridges, twists and turns. Told the guys that it would be great to bring Mrs Fap up this way but she hates driving on these road types.
Amazed at the number of tourist at the Cape, cameras posed waiting for the sunset.
Returned to Kaitaia for night stopover. SLTFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap) and Mr Davidson (of Davidson clan). Signed most finds as BGH.

Visiting Northland for Easter... The plan for today was to cache our way to Cape Reinga. If conditions were favourable, then we wanted to return along Ninety Mile Beach... We really hope to make a big dent into several challenges we are working on...

A quick walk and find along the stunning beachfront... No problems with this one, as this seems to be an isolated section, away from prying eyes. Hopefully, the area will be remain an undeveloped piece of paradise. TFTC.

Up North for the Easter long weekend with Squirrel nutcase and Gap from FapandGap.
Today's mission was Cape Reinga and as many caches we could get on way up and back.
This cache was in hand quickly log signed BGH .
Tftc

Easy find. Thanks

While travelling through New Zealand we found this nice place and the cache. TFTC Die Waldelfen

TFTC, a nice place

TFTC

Found after swimming & boarding below. Fantastic day and heaps of fun had by the Kiwiscot clan. TFTC

Magic place & nice wee walk

Also a nice place.
Tftc.

Aroha and happy caching

nice easy find and walk aroha and happy caching

Easy stroll through the scrub. I was surprised to not see any gorse growing. I wonder how they got away with that. TFTC.

Thanks for that nice walk

A great, sunny Day on the Henderson beach.
Tftc

Found it! Sealed it a bit tighter, was wet. Beautiful view as always

Tftc,do not miss the sharp corner

Heading back home from a family event only just up the road from here, but didn't have time over the last few days to head down to these couple of caches. On the way home now, but couldn't leave without attempting these two hides. A few cars in the carpark, but GZ was clear. A quick hunt and the cache was found, thanks for the placment.

That is a really Nice place to hide a cache.
zimGPS (France)

Found it. Very basic. No pen to write on the log.

Found it again. Added pencil to cache.

Easy find, container is leaking a bit. Bring own pen.

After having no luck with a nearby cache we went for this one (which we were going to anyway). The cache was soon in hand once we arrived at ground zero and the cache is dry and in good condition. The beach was lovely and there were some rare New Zealand Dotterels with active nests there as well, which was cool to see. Thanks for the cache!

Found it but forgot to bring a pencil to sign the log.

Took us a little while but managed in the end with a little deep digging POTATO

Not to hard to find this one

Enjoying our trip around the North. TFTC

Admired the stunning views of the beach and Henderson Bay, cache found with Yeetrees, many thanks for bringing us here.

Decided to take a bit of time off from the hum and drum of work and go for a trip up the winter-less north and see if I could get a bit of a tan before the winter blues set in when I go back South to the winter-less Wellington[}:)[xx(]

After doing a few caches this morning and making our way back from Cape Reinga this was the next cache that was on my list of unfound caches, arriving near GZ we managed to find a carpark not too far from GZ and it was a short and vigorous walk to the GZ.

Arriving at GZ it only took a few seconds and soon the cache was found at the first spot that I checked, was a bit surprised as to the cache container, and after signing I replaced it back in the spot that I think that it was hidden and camoed it up a bit again. While walking back to the car I managed to got a few photos of the interesting beach scenes, quite nice indeed, really can imagine that this coastline can really get quite rugged at times.

After replacing the cache is was time to head to the next cache that was on our list that we needed to find today.[:o)]

Thanks for placing this multi cache here and for bringing me to this lovely spot. TFTC TNLNSL (7650).

Another good cache found after a trip to Cape Reinga. SL TFTC

Wonderful beach, and a spot we haven't visited before, but will again.

TFTC

Stunning beach!

6.00pm. Called by with Nalawod and undertook a maintenance visit. Changed container and replaced saturated logbook with a new log sheet. Took the TB and other wet items. All good again and ready to be found.
M&P.

Found after went swimming in the morning! [^]
TFTC

#1119

Logbook is wet!

The best beach so far. Thanks for forcing us to go there. Fast found. TFTC

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!

Logbook was a bit damp, this was a colab between two search teams

During our visit in beautiful New Zealand, we have naturally sought some caches. There were many memorable impressions on our trip and showed us some caches the New Zealand off the beaten path. You have a wonderful country! We thank all Ownern for the cache and send best regards from Germany, Saxony, Leipzig 2 Supermuggels

Easy find, nice easy walk along the ridge.

Glad we decided to head down the road to this one as it was a place I had never heard of. A magnificent beach with not a soul around. went down to the beach beofre realising I couldnt get to GZ from there. Quick find once I was at the right level. TFTC

#1001, weather was so good that we had our first swim of the summer, even washed my hair thanks to the shampoo in the cache. TFTC

After sleeping in the Backpackers near, we visited this cache.

Thanks

Lovely spot. Record book a little damp.

Beautiful place and enjoyed our morning stroll thanks.