Noisy Oyster Whangaroa, North Island, New Zealand
By
nalawod on 19-Sep-09. Waypoint GC1YWE1
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Logs
As we have not had time to get a new cache designed here we had better release the area in case someone else has ideas for the site. We may yet get another one done (we'll see).
Quick drive-by to check, and find that recent ground maintenance has seen the cache lost. As the grass is now very short we will have to put our thinking caps on to sort out a better, and longer lasting, cache hide.
Three separate geocachers over three separate visits over three days (we were all on holiday together!) and no one found this. Suspect it is goneburger!
The area looks like it has had recant earth works done to it and A new post & rail fence, maybe the cache has been lost?
Absolutely glorious winters day - harbour looking just glorious as well - tide on way out and oyster beds more exposed on our way back from this great little detour - we love how caching brings us to these spots! And thanks to you 'what noise annoys a noisy oyster' could well become a frequent part of our vocabulary!! Will indeed listen to the song - thanks
On a road trip around the far north with flowernz, a beautiful Northland day today. Have never ventured up this road before despite driving past many times. The farms looked interesting, and the water was flat calm, absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for bringing us here. TFTC
Grabbing a few caches in the area while passing through on our 'how ever long it takes' NZ tour.
Thanks for setting this up.
TFTC
Mud & Kim
There were two cars right by GZ as we drove onto some other caches in the area, they had gone by the time we had come back so cache was able to be found without an audience. TFTC
6622
The oysters were incredibly quiet today, not a peep out of them whilst we found the cache. TFTC
The oysters were incredibly quiet today, not a peep out of them whilst we found the cache. TFTC
Beautiful area. Liked Whangaroa, too. Nice spot to sit and watch the water. TFTC!
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Quick check before Summer gets here to ensure it is all well. Had to replace the wet and ragged log (thanks to the cacher who contributed a piece of their envelope!!) but it is all go now. A few workers at the oysters, but no-one was near.
Thought we would do one last cache on our way back to Auckland. Lovely view across to our wonderful host's house.
TFTC SL
TFTC SL
Found with geo boyfriend and his brother - reckon I've got them hooked now too!! Persuaded geo bf to download the iphone app to help find the caches but unfortunately battery died so I couldn't log it!
Fantastic view of the Oyster fields and over to geo bf's parents place across the bay.
Cache 96 - Aiming for 100 this weekend!!
TFTC SL
Fantastic view of the Oyster fields and over to geo bf's parents place across the bay.
Cache 96 - Aiming for 100 this weekend!!
TFTC SL
On our way out of this bay we stopped here to admire this large oyster (ups spoiler ) farm and decided to have some tonight. After a couple of nalawods boxes spotted this one quickly by its specific design. TFTaatoC!
Has been some weed spraying at GZ making for an easy find. Not too exposed though. T4TC
5.37pm. Interesting spot with lots of oyster stuff in the water.
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (1741)
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (1741)
Liked the area. Cache site is now all dead grass, so might pay to move it across the parking area. TFTC
Whangaroa Harbour was incased in a thick fog this morning so couldn't see anything to do with oysters...but I'm sure they were there! TFTC
Oophs. Someone has been tidying up around all the structures - weeding and slashing etc so we didn't find anything and query whether there is anything to find.
Had a good look until the rain started but no success this time.
Thank you. David and Noeline.
Thank you. David and Noeline.
This was our first cache of the day. It was raining but we could see an oyster catcher going around with the boat and the tractor.
TftC
TftC
The oystermen didn't seem to happy about us being around their vehicles, even though it was a very discrete find, got a shout from out on the oyster farm.
TFTC
TFTC
bean holidaying here for the last 33+ years and have whatched this farming grow nice to be back again. note to owner the long grass has bean sprayed and cache is becoming exposed covered with dying grass but will not last if windy
SL TFTC
SL TFTC
Well, lemonCurd can´t remember this cache - but I do!
Coming from Rawhiti (where we spent the night before) and having visited Russell, Paihia and Cape Brett with its Hole in the Rock, we headed north and came to Whangaroa.
When we stopped to find this cache, we saw a bautiful sundset. After that, we drove the road further untill its end - the Whangaroa Harbour. There we still got a glimpse of the stunning sunset and we decided to spend the night here.
TFTC #558 (my 16th cache with lemonCurd in New Zealand ).
Many greetings from Hamburg, Germany.
Coming from Rawhiti (where we spent the night before) and having visited Russell, Paihia and Cape Brett with its Hole in the Rock, we headed north and came to Whangaroa.
When we stopped to find this cache, we saw a bautiful sundset. After that, we drove the road further untill its end - the Whangaroa Harbour. There we still got a glimpse of the stunning sunset and we decided to spend the night here.
TFTC #558 (my 16th cache with lemonCurd in New Zealand ).
Many greetings from Hamburg, Germany.
We were in New Zealand for a month, to get to know this wonderful country and its nice people, and of course to do some caching. Since we couldn't connect to the internet very often or very long, we didn't log our finds. Being back in Germany, I have to admit that I can't remember all the caches we found. So some of them will just get a "we found it" log entry - this is one of them. But I will at least write a few general words about our caching experience in NZ.
As we searched only for traditionals (and sometimes earth caches) with a reasonable terrain rating, we found most of them quite easily. Especially because a lot of larger containers were used. 'Larger' in this context means small or regular - as we are usually more the urban kind of cacher, we're more used to micros. What we're not so much used to is caches being hidden in or under bushes or trees. Being a little bit what I would call 'botanically challenged' we would find this quite difficult even back here, were we could know the plants. In NZ with its plants we've never heard about, we were really lost in the beginning. But after some time we were able to distinguish between flax and cabbage tree, and we even finally managed to find out what a punga is (seriously).
As always, caching brought us to a lot of interesting and beautiful caches we wouldn't have found otherwise. So many thanks to all you cache-hiding kiwis!
lemonCurd
As we searched only for traditionals (and sometimes earth caches) with a reasonable terrain rating, we found most of them quite easily. Especially because a lot of larger containers were used. 'Larger' in this context means small or regular - as we are usually more the urban kind of cacher, we're more used to micros. What we're not so much used to is caches being hidden in or under bushes or trees. Being a little bit what I would call 'botanically challenged' we would find this quite difficult even back here, were we could know the plants. In NZ with its plants we've never heard about, we were really lost in the beginning. But after some time we were able to distinguish between flax and cabbage tree, and we even finally managed to find out what a punga is (seriously).
As always, caching brought us to a lot of interesting and beautiful caches we wouldn't have found otherwise. So many thanks to all you cache-hiding kiwis!
lemonCurd
Out and about up North with Rosmar. This was the second find of the day, and we just about parked on top of this one! Very quiet spot -- no noise to annoy the oysters today. Thanks.
# 831
# 831
Found during our Labour Weekend out and about up north raid with kiwicouple but all was quiet when we crept up on this one T4TC.
4.25pm. Noticed this new cache come up not far off our route north so stopped off to test our luck with the search. Took a little while before mrs jf announced success during which time we reminisced over whether it might in fact have been before our youth that a noisy noise first annoyed a noisy oyster! Many thanks for the cache. Tnlnsl. [8d] m & p.