Cache for the bus (Bay of Plenty) Bethlehem, North Island, New Zealand
By harrybee on 25-Sep-09. Waypoint GC1ZWD9

September 2016. A long time ago

As this cache has been out of action for too long, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Regards,
TheCur8or
Geocaching.com Volunteer Reviewer.

Maintenance to be carried out and new co-ordinates determined due to move.

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Looked around 4 a wile wea the coordinates took us and nothing.is this still there?

...? Needs an update we think

Not found

Did not find :/

Found spot but cud not find tin

Before we leave Tauranga, StreetWalker was keen to try out a pie shop in Bethlehem which won lots of medals in Bakels New Zealand, Pie Awards. During our trip we have already sampled other award winning pies from Dairy Flat, Botany Downs and Katikati. Verdict: very good but Dairy Flat pies have so far been our pick.
We wondered why the co-ords were so out with this cache, but looks like the bus stop has been moved. We were sitting in the bus stop, while doing the paperwork, when an elderly chap sat down beside us. SW had to replace the cache with him there, so told him about geocaching. TFTC.

#11922. The published coords took us close to a school, but we couldn't see any suitable hiding places there. So, I figured we should just rely on the cache name to tell us where to search, and the cache was located after a short search. TFTC.

Coordinates need to be updated. Construction has moved location. Still there

Glad to see they moved the old bus stop to a new location and left everything as was.

Allowing for the building and construction going on, the name and clues were more important than the location. Good hide. Thanks

Was glad to find this 1 after the original place was disturbed.

Had a good look but too many muggles & not enough time. Determined to find it another day!

Easy if you think about it. It's there and in good order

DNF area under construction

Due to new construction, the area where the co-ordinates sent us was in a new driveway. The bus shelter has been moved up the road about 25mts, I'm not sure if that has any reference. Damp day caching with 'My Precious'.

Couldn't find

Looked and no joy

Looked and looked but no joy today.

Yay! Was nice and easy, hardest part getting the log book out lol

Tftc

I had very nearly given up... After looking In The same spot a few times... Persistence pays off!

Cool hide. Tftc

Quick look at obvious places with no result. A bus catcher came which ended the attempt. Leave for another day.

Last place to check and eventually found it!

Stopped up the road and walked to GZ. Took a seat while I scoped out the shelter for likely hiding spots. Found in second place a looked. Very convenient for these spots to be engineered into the structure. Thanks for the placement harrybee and children.

I found it! I'm like a ninja.

Got It!

this was my first ever cache thanks great work

Clever hide, good quick find by granddaughter
Tftc

First one ever found but we needed a bit of help from a friend! Thanks Brooklyn

Out and about trying to clear off another chunk of Tauranga geocaches. Again accompanied by HKCB and Iammrwalker, this seems to becoming a habit. Early start, head to Tauranga, cache the whole day, say we will be home early, end up being home later and then grovelling out of the dog box. This time we set off from Hamilton at 4.30am to try and get more caching done before we had to turn around. We seem to be enjoying this so much we are planning a return visit again soon. Signed our logs as "HI1" as an acronym of our respective caching names. A great, laugh filled day that was thoroughly enjoyed.

A sole muggle who was soon on his way and we were in there and found it quickly. Thanks

This was one of nearly eighty Geocaches I found in the company of HKCB and 11hpg11, we signed the log HI1, an anachronism made up of the first initials of our Geocaching handles to save on log space. This was our second trip to the Bay of Plenty. A few weeks ago we conquered The Mount and Papamoa and were back today on another infamous mad mission. We left Hamilton at 4:30 am and I was back at home in time to read my two boys a story and tuck them into bed at 7:30pm. We had a fun day exploring the area and got to see lots of parts of the area we hadn’t experienced before. A big thanks to all the cache owners who took the time and effort to place so many high quality and well maintained hides. Thanks also to HKCB for organising the day and driving. I think it was fitting to undertake these trips during the ‘Geocaching Road trip’ Groundspeak promotion, as it typified all those things that make a good road trip, most importantly good company. There were plenty of laughs and some memorable shenanigans.

No problems locating this one today. We just had to wait for an elderly gentleman to move along and then we were onto it in a flash.

Another all day mission with 11HPG11 and iammrwalk, this time focusing on the other side of Tauranga. I had just finished logging the all the caches we had found in Papamoa when I looked at the map and thought why not have a crack at the other side as well!

A early start as we were on the road at 4.30am as we needed to be back not to late otherwise we'd be in the dog box when we got back home. Another fantastic day out with lots of the usual laughter and this time the weather was much better behaved. In total over 80 finds, with only a couple of DNF's and we got back in time to stay out of the dog boxes, just!

We signed the log books with Hi1, an acronym of our caching handles. A big thanks to all the CO's for all the placements, and for taking us to places we hadn't been before.

Had to wait a few seconds for a elderly muggle to shuffle on past, but once all clear three sets of eyes soon had the cache in hand. Thanks for the hide.

Was tricking

Simmy & Naysh

Finally able to tick this one off the list, Have been here a few times before and troubles with muggles then also it being quite a good hide had troubles in past finding it, With it getting a lot harder getting the streak done with not many local ones left I gave in after a 10min search and resulted to the PAF method, Luckily Kman gave a quick reply and had cache in hand very soon after cheers mate!!

Cheers for the cache Harrybee was quite a challenge in the end

Great hide had to put on great stealth haha

This entry was edited by C&Atripperz on Sunday, 09 August 2015 at 20:28:33 UTC.

Trackable dropped off!!! Help it on its way

Thanks harrybee ! Was a cool hide .....was a bit awkward as a lady was on the seat waiting for a bus ! But we managed ....

Had to be a bit sneaky but managed OK. Tftc.

Yes!

Nicely hidden ,done a few of these before so know where the hidey holes usually are .tftc

Thanks guys. Nice finish.

2nd time and found it good hide tftc

We are a group of students from Te Wharekura o Mauao. This was our very first cache ever. It was a cool experience finding this cache! Ngā mihi

Is this cache still there?

Since there hadn't been any finds in awhile I went and checked it. All is in order. You must not be looking in the right place! Keep searching!

Looked everywhere I could think of but sadly had no luck

Great day 10 geocaches but not this one

Looked everywhere I could think of. Nothing

Always the way a old lady was sitting waiting for the bus when we wanted to search! Found it while she was still sitting on the seat. Clever spot tftc

Cool hiding spot t4tc

Thanks, I wouldn't have found it without my friend (who had already found it) giving me clues

Couldn't scan has don't have a scanner

Great hiding spot guys. Took us a while!

Great hiding place! Confused some old people waiting for the bus!

Thanks for the cach - out for a walk on a bueatiful morning in your lovely city

Hitched a ride with Mr Kiwi from Hamilton this morning since he had a work appointment over this way. We've got lots of lovely painted bus stops in Hamilton now - most have a cache hidden in them - but not hidden in the same way as this one. Soon had cache in hand, signed dry log book and replaced while holding umbrella. TFTC.

Nice hide!! Took me longer than I thought. Well done. TFTC.

Great hide quick find. TFTC

It was good

Good find - had to hunt a little and even had a bus pull over for us while searching. tftc

Quick find

Busy place and we look abit suspicious hanging around there but the youngest fella found it.

Found despite my gps being a bit off

Together with Silli1310 we headed for Rotorua today. Since we didn't only want to drive, we made a short stop every now and then to stretch our legs a little bit and search for one or two caches. Here we searched a little bit longer, the coordinates didn't seem to have the usual accuracy, but finally we could find the little one and sign the logbook. Many thanks for the cache.

On our [trip around the world](http://www.hoppundweg.piekar.de/) we came to New Zealand as well. We first visited the south Island, then we came to the north island. We searched many caches and found almost every cache we searched for . Thanks to all the owners of these caches. Now, 2 years later, we recognized, we will never be able to log every cache seperately... So: Sorry for this standard logtext and thanks for one of the caches, which accompanied us on our journey.

Found quickly and in good condition. This tins were made for cachers! TFTC Harrybee.

nice quick find TFTC

After DNF-ing this one on a trip to Tauranga back in October 2013 it was nice to make a quick & easy find on this one, while returning from a day-trip out to Waihi.

TFTC!
with Tan1aNZ, Comandercon2 & FiddlefingersNZ

Second visit to this one... Easy find this time round

Introduced my brother to cashing TFTC

Took the oportunity to pick up some caches on a trip to Tauranga. TFTC.

Very good and nice and quick - had to be as someone was watching!

Clever

Cleverly hidden cache. A very public spot so thankfully didn't take too long.

Cleverly hidden tftf

TFTC
quick find though nicely hidden.
Came on a Saturday in the rain so not disturbed.

Junior found this! Second one of the day after visiting garden centre. Tftc

A quick find, with yodabeach today. Glad to have the 'juniors' with us on this one...it doesnt look nearly so dodgy, having the kids hunting around

Our first find today Not sure if any if the children at school did see us! I doubt it, all quiet over there. TFTC

Found it!

Going a bit stir crazy doing stuff at home so decided a trip to Tauranga to catch up with a friend was in order. Unfortunately but he was out when we arrived so what did we do? Go Geocaching of course. This one was just along the road so was the first target.

Very busy road and we felt a bit conspicuous, so Mrs S sat on the seat acting like waiting for a bus, or doing the old shoelace trick while Mr S had a hunt around. Cache was proving a bit elusive so Mrs S abandoned bus waiting and shoe tying and joined the hunt and the hidey hole was soon discovered.

Managed to replace cache under the noses of some passing teenage muggles and took the TB home to go swimming in the lake for a bit.

Thanks harrybee. First smilie in Bethlehem.

I could not find this one last time with frewilys but this time not a problem. Tftc

We decided to check this one out again and found it.TFTC

Quick look here but didn't spot anything. Wasn't a particularly thorough search though.

Been here a couple of times but this was the first time we have been able to have a good look. A well thought out hide we enjoyed finding at last. Took turtle TB, left Nemo for someone else to pick up. TFTC!

This entry was edited by nzkites on Saturday, 07 June 2014 at 14:14:04 UTC.

Our first cache, took effort to find :p

Might need checking .... Couldn't find this cache yesterday

Very tricky for us to get this one, was just after school got out. Sat down and thought we better move on and do another while waiting for all the kids to go. Yay came back and found this pretty quickly signed, returned and gone. TFTC

Placed new cache. Enjoy finding it. Two TBs added also.

Maintenance completed. New cache container placed.

Will check it out and replace if necessary......

Believe muggled ... needs CO maintenance.