Mangaiti Recreational Reserve (Northland) Whangarei District, North Island, New Zealand
By No Fixed Aboder on 07-Sep-09. Waypoint GC1YARW

Up north for a few days with Vistra. It was a beautiful day between the showers. The area was pretty quiet today with no muggles around to delay our caching efforts. No issues here. Tftc

I was up north for a week, visiting family with TheLandGirl and today we took a day trip out to Whananaki to do some exploring and some caching. Whananaki is an area I spent a bit of time as a child (particularly Otamure Bay), as dad would often come up here fishing and diving. A nice easy park and grab here, TFTC!

Found on a miserable day! Have stayed at our bach near here so many times, first time cashing in the area. Disturbed by a lost meter reader, whom I hopefully correctly directed back up the road! TFtC.

Neat hiding spot! Great day too

Cheeky little find. GPS coordinates seem 3 metres off or so, but easy enough. TTFC

Mein 2. Cache in Nz.

Found again in a tricky new location.

What a place to cycle to. A good hiding spot!

Would be a great place on a nice day, but the weather was against us today.

Easy enough with parking reserve nearby.

TFTC nice view from the beach

Very camouflaged! Look down low. TFTC

Thanks NFA for putting these caches out .
This one will never run out of paper!
All good here...

Aisling, Niamh, Nye, Bevan (Power Team) located today’s

Well, that's one of the great things about Geocaching - it takes you to beautiful places that you may not have been before. Sad to say, I have lived in and around Whangarei for all of my 60+ years and I have never ventured along this road further than Whananaki North.

With such glorious mid winter weather though, today was the day, with 6 caches on offer before the end of the no exit road.

Pulled up into this tiny wee reserve and it looked like it had suffered some damage in the recent storm, so no wonder the cache had to be shifted a bit. Was just about to walk over to the new location, when 3 muggles appeared walking their dogs. Once they had moved on, I headed over and with the good hint, soon made the find.

After signing the brand new log, I was just about to replace the cache, when the retired muggles reappeared and asked me what was I doing? Was I looking for something.? Honesty was the best policy, so I explained our interesting game and then ended up chatting about fishing and weather and storms etc for a good 10 minutes. Seems over the years they had talked to several people looking for this cache. TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 28.577 E 174° 26.982

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 28.565 E 174° 26.966

Distance from original: 107.9 feet or 32.9 meters.

Cache has been replaced and moved to higher ground and higher position

Wont be able to check on this for a couple of months

Had a good look but couldn't find it

This was a real bummer, it wasnt Anywhere to be gound, probably washed away

Out and about with Tikitour. A quick grab. TFTC

We found this cache with Dodge 1923 and the container was broken, so have replaced the container and put the original inside. log all good and dry.

No luck for us

No luck for us today. Spent a good while looking. Thanks for bringing us further on than the doc camp.

I hunted for this one last time I was in the area too but again got a dnf. Disappointing to see lots of kina shells around on the ground despite a bin being provided here especially for kina shells. Another nice surf beach.

While staying at the local Holiday Park took time out to find a couple of caches many thanks

Found on the 1st but we were camping at the Farm campground and had no reception. We weren’t too sure whether we had the right tree at first and were ready to give up as Miss 7’s hay fever started playing up with the freshly mown grass. But yet again Master 9 spotted it!

Found! Lid broken though

After a bit of searching found.
Tftc

Interesting find, thanks.

this one too a little while, but I got it in the end.

Found at 10:58 - #6756

TFTC

A quick stop whilst exploring the local area. I'd been out to the Poor Knights the day prior in fairly ordinary weather, amazing what 24 hours difference can make.
TNLNSL, thanks for the cache No Fixed Aboder.
best wishes,
Wal

Tftc,Lovely spot

Tracking down a few of the elusive caches that we have seen but never had a chance to grab. Still nice and dry despite time between finds. TFTC.

Wandered over the road from where I was staying to show our host what Geocaching was and also for them to show me where we would be diving this afternoon. Had to wait for a car to finish loading up with gear and depart before we could go in for the hunt. Cache found nicely tucked away, thank's for the hide.

Easily found, even with no phone service. Thanks for the cache!

Thanks so much Salty for replacing the cache. I forgot my pen, so the new sheet remains untouched! Clever hide.

Stopped for another quick rest & to admire the view...didn't spy the cache where I remember it being (6 years ago?!)
Luckily had a small vial & logsheet that tucked in nicely; should be sufficient until owner's next visit

Checked high and low, and in between. Several trees where searched, just in case there was a problem with the co-ords, but sadly no cache was found. We did walk down to the beach, quite different with its grainy/pebble texture! Beautiful location, just no cache.

No luck for me either, had a good look. Beautiful beach though all was not lost.

LOOKED HIGH AND LOW, but not for me today. The kina are ay a karo tree, but my gps took me to the pohutukawa tree.Thanks for taking me here.

(1014) Easy find once the muggles had moved on. TFTC

Taking a drive around the coast from the camp site to gather these few caches. There were quite a number of kina shells lying about obviously someone has had a good feed. Cache was an easy find, thanks

Have been camping at whananaki for years and never knew this place existed! Neat spot. We returned the next day for a snorkel and a dive.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Yay! Glad to get this, after two DNFs in a row today. Windy, drizzle. But NZ is doing well in the cricket, MaCullum got his second double ton. Thanks for the cache.

Lovely views of the nearby islands. Cool container. TFTC.

The hardest part was un-ravelling the log and putting it back in, haha.

We were able to drive nearly next to GZ. Others were here but out on the water enjoying the lovely afternoon like us. This was a nice quick find TFTC

Just amazing how beautiful these little hidden bays are. There were people nearby, but we managed a quick find after parking close to GZ.

Another lovely bay - will never get bored with them - giving this a Favourite just because it's a neat bay and I'm quite happy with easy finds TFTC NFA

Fantastic bay & a great container-thanks for bringing us here.

replaced cache

Well worth the long drive in to visit these great beaches. Will come back with the van for a few days.
TFTC

Found on our tour of Northland from Te Anau with The Italian Job from Auckland. TFTC

Great hide, something smelly nearby though. Found with 'Kev & Chris' from Te Anau. Te Italian Job was here....!

Great find while on holiday. Tftc.

Red6 and I enjoying a day caching in my little Geonut. Most enjoyable. Nice quick find thanks.Yet another beautiful place in paradise.

A day release pass from family meant a caching trip could be done. Teamed up with good mate Butchie Bum in the Geonut to tackle the east coast caches! Loved the natural camp here. The sharp eyes of BB found this one. TFTC

Indeed an lovely beach and a nice hide,
thanks very much,

chriron

Had christmas day here 3 years ago, lovely beach. Lid was difficult to open due to rust.

nice easy drive by this one
TFTC!

Nice quick find. Lovely area. t4tc

Nicely hidden! Loved this one. Thanks and greetings from Latvia!

So peaceful! I could just stay here!

Found with butters and Mitch.TFTC.

I nice little private beach we didn't know about. Found remarkably easy considering the camo.TFTC.

4770 Quick find at the Mangaiti Recreational Reserve. More nice views, TFTC.

A quick find with silverfern24 and kiwibobby.
Best camo job I've seen for a while, well done
TFTC

Nice spot. Thought the camo was really cool
Found with kiwibobby and yollomdr.
TNLNSL
TFTC

Nice hide, love the cache container
found with Yollomdr & Silverfern24
TFTC

found on our NZ road trip. quick find and beautiful views.
Greetings from Canada & TFTC

Good camo, had the spot to ourselves... bliss.

TFTC

Great camo, great sheltered location. T4TC - M@

It took us 3 visits to find this one. Very good camo job - so cool to see people going the extra mile! There were a few muggles floating around the first times, so were forced to come back later. A nice wee beach that we would never have known about if not for this cache. TNLN. Thanks for the great cache!!!

Love the camo!
Very clever and impressive! Lovely spot.
TFTC

Awesome camo, Little Luna tried to pull it off!

A well-camoed cache. Another interesting little bay, this one with very few holiday homes.

# 879

Ended up at Mimiwhangata and had to back track through some new areas for The Southern Clan and found some lovely back roads from Teal Bay to connect to the correct road for the destination. Found the destination, beautifull location but unfortunately could not locate the cache, hope it's still there. Searched the middle clues as well as the 2 on the right and across the creek. may need to improve our searching skills.

Cunning camo job and who's eating all the mints? In plain sight but the eyes passed over it in favour of holes and such like. TFTC and sorry you weren't home when we called! It would have been nice to meet you.

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 35° 28.580 E 174° 26.938
Distance From Old: 218.5 feet
Please note new co ords ...with a little help from my friends!

Got to the Reserve, Proceeded to head towards the reserve, oh hold on we are getting further away. Followed the gps and ended up someones driveway - this isnt right. Went back to the reserve and looked at all of the named objects ahh here it is. Let NFA know the updated Co-ords

The co-ords for us was out but we still managed to get the cache and so did the mermaid. Used our geocaching instincts to work out where GZ was. TFTC and the hunt to find it.

Oooh 9/9/09 an auspicious day, so even with the sometimes wonky vintage GPS I had no problem finding this one and got another FTF today, woohoo #2!! ...Great camo job on this l'il cache &nice log paper too This wonderful little bay is like the cache; easily missed if you don't already know about it and aren't looking in the right direction. I think many drive right on past without seeing it.... great place for a cache; Thanks!!

Arrived at the carpark and promptly headed away from the beach, hmm this seems odd, looks like somones yard, cant be right. Checked the clue and then proceded to search every one of the named objects.

Published

Had about 3 gos at this one - lots of muggles about in the height of summer! Awesome camo job! TFTC