Who Knew? A Falls Lookout! (Auckland) Hunua, North Island, New Zealand
By funkymunkyzone on 23-Feb-09. Waypoint GC1N0NT

Found after a bit of searching at the wrong hint item originally. Log a little damp.

Looked at a few trees & then came back to this one & found it tucked away.

Visiting from Ohio, USA with @ADFollower. TFTC!!

Visiting from Ohio, USA with BKD1389. TFTC!!!

Keep looking - great hide to make a great find!

After five fantastic month and 12000km around New Zealand it is time to say goodbye today. Using the last hours before the flight to made a short trip to this falls. Found it together with Laira007. TFTClogbook is full

Great hike but didnt find

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Found after first searching the wrong place

Found with DVNKSY, tftc:)

Great start to the long hike planned though it took a while to find the right pair.

Quick and easy find, tftc

Found it during our walk. Nice waterfall. Quick and easy find. Tftc

Easy find with CamKerry.T4TC

Found by two close friends. Tftc with LittleClan

Nice view and waterfall near Auckland.

On way to the upper Lookout.Lovely day to be out geocaching.Log is very full.

Found it on our tour of Australia and New Zealand!

Found during our trip to New Zealand. Thanks for the cache

Searched the wrong couple for a while! Cheers

Visiting the area with i_halfpint today and we spent a little time here exploring a couple of options, which we soon narrowed down. Little guy was duly located. Nice hide. TFTC and that lookout was great to. Beautiful falls and bush.

A great place to visit and a quick find here. As it was raining not too many people about. Tftc

All good here thankyou!
Decided to take myself to the Hunuas for an afternoon of geocaching!

Saw the " close friends ".....after checking out the wrong couple first!
Almost thought it had gone...until I had a better search and saw the nicely tucked away pill bottle!.

I don't think I have ever been up to this Lookout ...Many thanks for bringing me here.
Very busy on the track as it is such lovely weather .

On a bit of a drive today and decided to stop off here on our way home. Visited the waterfall. Took some pictures and then took the loop walk. Passing GZ so decided to take a look for this cache. Spent a bit of time to locate but we got there eventually. Glad it is nice and quiet around here this afternoon. A good look out nearby.

Our firs geocache attempt on our NZ trip. Sadly a DNF but a beautiful location

Took a few moments to spy it on the right angle.
Waterfall flowing well after all the rain Auckland has had

Headed out to Hunua Falls on this hot Sunday for a swim and some caching. Arrived to find many others had had the same idea. Once we got on the trails it was less busy. Sadly no success here.

We had a previous DNF on this cache which really puzzles us as this time around we had it within seconds. The coordinates were bang on as well. Who know what our problem was previously and great to turn this into a smiley

As per previous log, we searched by the friends and couldn't see the cache

We have tried finding it but we're unable.
We checked the lookout as well as where the GPS was taking us.

We will try again sometime soon

Miss 7 found it after a bit of hunting. TFTC

Managed to get the wife and a friend to head out to Hunua to grab some caches! I must have done this loop trail a dozen times and always thought I had them all. Guess not!

First on the trail. This was a little tricky but wife found it in the end. Her first fine! Not enough to catch the caching bug, though.
TFTC!

Found it

Not where we expected but found it and left a treat

Thanks great hide

Out on a family walk for my birthday:). There's a few close friends around here, but my brother managed to find the right pair. All in good order, tftc

Nice find on a cool track. TFTC

Took a while and I had overlooked the spot where hubby found it. TFTC

Nice easy cache on an easy loop walk on a stunning day

I have no idea how I missed this hide on my first visit here.
Return visit here to do a loop once again
Not as busy like in summer days but still car park full when arrived.
【T】【F】【T】【C】

Wow... That was a quick find and log...

Thank you for the cache

My 1258. Smiley on the map

Took us a wee bit, a busy track on a winters day - imagine it would be a lot harder in the summer! Off to see the waterfall now

Before heading to Clevedon to attend a tracking course of LandSAR, we went for a hike in the Hunua range. Beautiful waterfall down there! We have been searching multiply friends before finding the right one!

Thanks for hiding.

I was heading towards Auckland, saw the brown "touristy" sign and figured I had time. Quite a way and several turns later I was wondering just where these falls were and if I would ever get there? Finally here for a short wander and explore whilst dipping the feet to cool off. Short climb to GZ but a reasonable search yielded nothing more for me.

We had a very nice holiday in New Zealand. Almost every day beautiful weather. We traveled with the camper home from the north to the south island. we have found a lot of very nice caches. Thanks for showing the nice places where we found the caches.
Greetings from the Netherlands

Not the first friends we thought. Well placed

Our GPS just wouldn't settle but we got there in the end with help from the hint and a process of elimination. Nice hiding spot. TFTC.

Nice place to visit ...TFTC

Found the pillbox. This is the only cache currently available to find as the other hiking tracks are undergoing maintenance for a few months.

#201 - 13/08/2019 12:56 - 10anna10 spotted the friends and I picked. Team work
TFTC

Thanks for cache. Very nice spot

That was a sneaky hiding place, but the good hint helped a lot. Would have probably been a DNF otherwise. Tftc

Out and about to find some caches for the Mystery in the Museum challenge. We did a nice hike to the dam and this was our first find. Sneaky-cool. Found together with Piratenschatzsucher and Greenkiwikids and signed as team Piraten. Tftc

Glad we found it, not the easiest. It was fun. Tftc

Today was the secound day on our way to the south island. We spent the night at Kaiaua Boat Club freecamp after we drove down here from Dargaville yesterday and had a nice morning walk along the shore before heading to the Hunua Falls. On our way we stopped at the Shellbeach to collect the Earthcache there. We walked to the Falls and then startet the short loop track to the upper lookout to search for this cache before we continued to walk a bit of the longer walkway. Once at GZ I looked around the twins and eventualy found the correct pair. I quickly signed the log and we continued our walk. Tftc.

Found as a part of a previous group TanjackMüley, aka WanderingSparrow. Now I'm continuing on my own. TFTC

QEF with a nice hint. Real honour to be the 200th finder of this cache. Tftc

Found as part of a training exercise. Took a bit of searching but a new comer to caching made the find

Von Te Puru ging es heute mit Heckenstürmer bis oberhalb von Auckland. Auf dem Weg liegen viele schöne Challenges, welche wir natürlich gerne einsammeln. Auch die kurze Wanderung bei den Hunua Falls war wunderschön. Abends noch etwas Auckland angeschaut und zu Nacht gegessen...

Greets from Switzerland

Day 25 in Newzealand. Today we drove from Te Puru to Auckland, Albany.
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

I was looking in the right place, as indicated by geo-trampling, but it needed someone with sharper eyes to make the find.

This took us a bit of a search and Pazza2 called out 'I got it' just as some muggles walked past. 'Geocachers are you?' one of them asked. Yes, we were muggled but thankfully by some who understood what we were doing

A clever hide that had us looking for quite a while. Cache is in fantastic order thanks. Way too many people at falls site to get me in for a swim.

Sugar .... DNF for me. Had a good look near GZ but left empty handed. Good reason to go back sometime. Now off for a swim ! Thanks anyway.

Nice easy find to start the day. Off to find the others! TFTC

Auckland Day 6: Hunua Falls and Sylvia Park.
Another “rest” day today, but cachers really have to go out at least once a day to somewhere interesting. I chose Hunua Falls, so that we could add to our fledging Auckland golden photo frames collection and because of a very interesting cache. Heading back to Auckland after that, picking up some convenient caches along the way while running an errand at Sylvia Park and on the way back home. Weather worked out to be relatively nice this morning, so it was another splendid day.

The following is the specific log for each cache:
Got this one on the way back from finding the big cache further down the trail. No muggles around today, so no one to bother me while I searched through the companion trees. Found gorby’s parchment instead of the actual cache. Views from here not as spectacular as the ones from the front, but still good fun. TFTC!

Found some days ago with Grinsebacke

Easy to find
TFTC

#532. A day trip to Hunua Falls (no not Hummus Falls thank you very much phone autocorrect) meant I had to at least try and grab one geocache while I was here. There were too many screaming kids down at the actual falls so my friend and I took the time to walk up to the lookout.

Like usual silly me forgot to take a pen so I had to resort to taking a photo with the logbook to prove I was here.

Thanks very much for the cache!

Took some fiddling but got it. Byop

Did not find original geocache as many said, created a whole new cache as per comment suggestions! Still in the same place so all clues and comments still relevant. Happy caching!

Searched many close friends but no luck

I left work a little earlier than usual which I had enough off at the moment. Needed some R+R to get my thrill for life going again!! So I had decided to come here to do a small bush walk and collect a few caches around this area. I had the Hike Challenge in mind which I got then down back this way to see the falls from a different angle. I was quite impressed.

Got to GZ and off course there is no paper or cache container, as all the DNF's show. I found a piece of 'parchment' and wrote my name on that, and left it in a discrete place as per the hint. Maybe the next kind soul could bring along a decent pill container and some water proof paper to keep this cache alive!!

Log later

Hunted but to no avail

Found a big stick insect crawling up the tree but no cache

Dear Cache Owners,
I am a German guy who stays in New Zealand for eight months.
My English is not perfect, so please don't wonder or be angry if my log entries sound a bit strange. Thanks!

Today I made a huge hike together with my host Family to Hanua Falls. While we were hiking we could find a few Caches.
That was the only one we could not find. After checking the last log entries we gave up.

Had a look for this cache at the start of our walk but it was not co-operating with us today. Spent 5-10 mins looking but decided to move on as we were already starting out a bit later than we had planned.

No luck for us today after a good 15 min search. Still a lovely place to go though. View of the falls was great

Found this one initially and the log was soaking wet; so could not be signed. Mrs B wasn't with me at the time so we came back later with the supply bag and left new log paper in a plastic bag. TFTC.

Found with Bennett24 while out on a walk. TFTC.

Kia Ora Bub

On our way back to the car park

Needs maintenance
Logbook totally wet
Needs a new container

Log book was soaking wet so we added a new one. Thanks heaps.

Am always worried when a cache hasn't been found in a few months that will have no luck in finding it, that was not to be the case today. Headed to Hunua to fill a dot day in my calander and to get the kids out of home. The co-ordinates were spot on and found not the pill bottle as in the description but found the sistema that was apparently missing. The log book was wet through, attempted to sign in a blank section without much luck......TFTC

Found it, logbook wet. Tftc

Nice quick find in amongst all of muggles out here today

Found it with Seekoei and little A!

Spending some time in New Zealand visiting family. Drove around a bit today and visited the falls. It's really pretty here.

Fp would have been awarded if I was still premium. Perhaps one day I will join again

Second find for the day on a trip to Hunua Falls to take a look and find the big back here. Good view of the falls from the summit makes the walk worthwhile. We noted that the camoed sistema has been replaced by a pill container - didn't find the pill container, but did find the camoed sistema so signed that. Log is wet but just signable. Placed back where we found it and on our way. TFTC.

Great view nice find tftc

Found some weeks ago, just catching up with logs. Ta.

This was my final find on my walk. It took about 4 hours and i found 11 caches. It was getting busy when I got back to this point - i imagine it's pretty busy in the weekend. Impressive flow after all the rain. Tftc

Quick find thanks to the good clue. Log very wet though - needs replacing. TFTC.

TFTC

Nice quick find. TFTC

First day on North Island, first cache on North Island!! TFTC!

After an epic but very long penalty shootout between Germany and Italy in the Euro 2016 a decision was taken to use the rest of the sunny day for a quick hike. The Hunua walk was just perfect, taking us ~2-3h. Easy find at GZ. TFTC

We didn't take a pen but will send a photo and claim the find. Thanks

We've walked up here so many times and never realised this cache was here. Glad to get a new name in the log TFTC