Raukokore Church (East Coast BOP) Raukokore, North Island, New Zealand
By Geckoh on 17-Oct-09. Waypoint GC1ZZRE

What a lovely outlook. Cache OK

Thank you for the nice little adventure:)

03 May 2024, found with a bit of hunting, Chieftain

TFTC!

An amazing view, along an amazing coast road.This is a nice break spot to eat a cookie before taking the road againEasy to findThank you !

Beautiful church, a nice rest on the way. TFTC.

Nice spot tftc

Nice find thanks, didnt have a pen but cache is well tucked away and dry

Thank you

Found on the way to East. Nice church.Thank you for the cache.

After traveling around Australia with Oopie for 7 weeks, we have now been traveling with the camper in New Zealand for 4 weeks. Along the way we will of course also visit various types of caches in beautiful places, including this one. Thanks CO for creating and laying this cache.

Together with Travelser I'm going Down Under. We are driving around with a motorhome. After 7 weeks driving around through Australia we arrived the 2th November in New Zealand. For ten days we will cross the Northern Island and than for 2 weeks the Southern Island.During our trip we of course search for several caches. Most of them brought us to very nice spots, like this one.All the CO's, and in this case Geckoh, thanks for bringing us here and give our trip a special accent.

Gehschei visited the church today. TftC.

Tftc a very big Box.

Pomalu mi konc muj cas na Zlandu, a tak jsme to vihli po tto slavn ceste a nali i pr ke. Krsn msto, dky za ke

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Czechia

Day trip from Whakatane to Te Araroa (or further?) What a beautiful spot, and a very well maintained old church, fairly easy find, tftc

My 1st cache on this scenic EastCape route. What a beautiful setting for this church and cemetery but oh what sadness reading 3 of the headstones.

Tucked away behind a boulder

Was working in the area and had to grab at least one cache out here. As I've never been this far east before, this one will look good in my caching stats.
A great place for a cache near this very picturesque and well restored church.
Thanks for placing a cache here.

Found it. Easy find, cool place

It was great to find thank you!

Beautiful little church! Forgot my pen so a photo log for me. TFTC!

It's my Mega weekend road trip! This is day seven and I'm off to Gisborne around the Cape (but not the lighthouse, sadly). Will expand on my logs, post photos, qualifying caches for challenges, etc. When I get home. TFTC

First stop on the trip. Lovely church. It's a bit of a rugged road this one, need to have all my concentration on driving.

26 January 2022 8:43 am Find #4855

Spending a week exploring the East Cape, today from Te Kaha to Lottin Point. Stopped at this lovely church, sadly it was locked so we couldn't see inside. Cache soon found, signed and replaced. Back at the car a friendly horse just walked right up to us, seemed very happy to get a quick rub, but was probably after an apple that we didn't have. TFTC

What a view, it looks like a postcard. The church is really nice, the white paint probably adds to the effect, as the pine next to it. Cache was easily found, we spent quite some time at the beach, playing with rocks. Thanks for taking us here, it was our last cache for 2021.

Beautiful spot and quick find TFTC

we have never been up around the coast so today we took the day to ample around while hunting out caches on our way, thanks for the placement.

Definitely worth a visit. Lovely little church and well taken care of. Interesting looking stone formations in the bay behind the church as well.

TFTC Geckoh

*** Out on our MEGA Roadtrip with Wilbywarrior. Who says this can only happen when the MEGA is actually held?! Greetings from Dunedin, caching friends
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A lovely church to stop for photos. Made our way to GZ and soon had the cache in hand.
Malinkaly and I planned a road trip to go to the MEGA but Covid has postponed the event again. We decided to continue on with our planned journey making adjustments as we go with the ever-changing travel restrictions.
Greetings from Dunedin!
Thanks for the cache, Geckoh
#2436

My first cache

Almost got caught by the horse! Beautiful spot and beautiful church. TFTC.

Truffle found it

Visited this spot during my East Cape Easter 2021 journey.
Very picturesque location!
TFTC

tftc early morning stop. nice place

What a lovely spot for a church. Tftc!

Travelling around the East Cape. Stopped to take photos at this picturesque church. What a bonus a cache was nearby. TFTC

We are on our summer holiday, we usually take a few weeks and travel around the South Island, but this year we are heading around the North Island. Heading up the West coast and back down the East coast. Finding only a select few caches along the way, we are mostly targeting some challenges we have qualified for, some large size caches, some that fill gaps in our date placed grid, a few D/T combinations, some with lots of favourite points, letterboxes and anything else that grabs our fancy.

I had a fall on day two of our holiday, while out geocaching which has resulted in a fractured bone in my leg and I am in a moon boot and with crutches and I was told to keep weight off my leg. So I am only limited use when it comes to our trip now. I tend to stay in the campervan and just hand out suggestions of when and where GK should search.

What a lovely setting for a church to be, it is a shame that the maintenance is not kept up on the roof, the birds are having a lovely time nesting in the roof. GK made a nice quick find here, he signed the log and returned it as he found it.

Thanks for placing this cache and thank you for the smiley.

A lovely experience visiting a much loved church in such a beautiful location.
We sheltered in the church while a squally rain shower passed through.
Thanks for the cache!

Found it after logging into the church

Day 6 of my week long road trip of geocaching, camping and seeing a few bands. Today I'm cruising around, seeing the sites and doing some geocaches.

Quite busy here on a sunny holiday afternoon, but everyone was too busy doing there own thing to notice me. Found safe and dry. TFTC

Found it. Lovely spot. TFTC

Quick stop at the church, wasn't the first place I assumed it would be but soon found in the next obvious place. Sad to see how many from the one family had died so young. TFTC

TFTC CZ

Thanks a stop on our road trip. Mount monganui to Gisborne today. Sad about the family of boys. I wonder if it was a car accident?
With Kiscardi.

Enjoying a reason to stop here but sad to read of the death of 3 family members.
Heading around East Cape today while on a road trip around the North Island with NZ Bozzy.
We are collecting North Island TMTG caches and also some oldies and some missing DT ones as well And celebrating a special birthday too.
Sometimes we just stop and grab a cache cos we can.
TFTC and bringing us here
sorry for the cut and paste

Quick find thanks to good coords and hint. When we arrived at the church no one else was there but we were soon inundated by other vehicles and visitors. An iconic church which we would have stopped to photograph anyway but the cache was a bonus. We agree with previous comments about so many members of one family in the cemetery here, very sad. TFTC Geckoh.

Travelling to Hicks Bay from Rotorua today with Nosynel and Ethness. Our goal is to find all the TMGT caches in a big figure 8 across the centre of the North Island. Oops I picked up the coin in Whakatane but it will visit the South Island. A lovely church but very sad looking in the attached graveyard. What a tragedy. Thanks for the hide.
#6084

So many Stirlings in the graveyard, especially the 3 brothers who died on the same day. So sad.

Jude_E, NosyNel and I are continuing on our figure of 8 tour of the North Island collecting the ‘Tour’ caches, plus others, plus seeing the scenery, plus having a good old time. TFTC.

I picked up a trackable that marks 500 finds. Sorry for the late log, I needed to research what I had picked up when I had service. It’s a cool find as I’m coming up to 500 finds myself I will place it in a TMGT cache in Whakatane on my way home.

What a beautiful spot! Very windy here today but still lots of people visiting the church. Thanks team Geckoh for the cache. Great placement

Travelling round the East Cape in our motorhome. A must see church, and guess what.... There's a cache here too. Nice quick find and picked up one trackable to move it on. TFTC

On a TMGT expedition, with four wagging tails in tow. {We were a little bit surprised by two stones flicked up on the way here yesterday. New windscreen tomorrow now, so moving a bit in next few hours.}
Great visit, around outside of this church. Bare feet on the smooth edged stones, was surprisingly sharp, down on the beach.
A little search to find and there it was.
Took the musician TB, and dropped a couple of others.
One Tb out; two TB in, including a Christmas themed one (now at base of a pohutukawa?)
Tftc

TB IN SIGNAL

It was a beautiful day to stop at the church but no luck with finding the cache

Lovely church, and well kept cemetary. Beautiful spot.

Found on a trip with friends to Waihau Bay. Stopped at the church so friends could measure the roof as part of its restoration project. Tftc

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What a beautiful spot. We took some pictures and found the cache.
TFTC. Comateam.

Thanks for this placement, when we are travelling we use cache finds to remember our journey. We left a blue dolphin.

Easy found. No pengis. Tftc

We are away for a few days on a TMGT tour journey through to Gisborne and back again. After a smash and grab on our last Whakatane Cache, we have had to be happy with a temporary perspex passenger window for the rest of our trip, so not too keen on leaving the car for any length or out of sight caches. We braved it for a few moments to locate this cache. Very pretty spot. We took some great pictures from here, which we will add later. SL. TFTC.

Found this cache behind the church at such a beautiful location while on my holiday in NZ. TFTC

Beautiful situation and today’s brilliant sunshine and blue skies make it even more picturesque. The graveyard tells a story of family tragedy too. TFTC and Blue Bailey TB dropped

A beautiful church in a fabulous location, but with some tragic stories told in the headstones in the graveyard. A local woman told me of the three brothers in their 20s killed in a motor-vehicle collision nearby on the way back from college. Thanks for bringing me here. Have a favourite point.

Suddenly got busy when I stopped. Nice church. Not often you see penguins inside. Pengi was very impressed.

What an awesome spot for a church, spent a while in the graveyard having a looksie around. Cheers

Absolutely stunning spot! First cache for the day on our journey around east cape!

Container , logbook ... Going next...

TFTC
# 1693 January 14, 2020 19:49

Lovely sunny day, and a beautiful location. Grass had grown long so took a bit to find, but got there eventually. Tftc.

Really nice spot!

1894 historic Anglican church

Nice church

Leider keine Pinguine Dose schnell gefunden Gruß aus Oberösterreich tftc

Schöne Kirche. Dachte vorher da stinkt es aber. Doch dann habe ich gelesen, dass unter der Kirche leben. Sind auf den Felsen spaziert und haben viele Muscheln gesehen. Greetings from Austria

Quick and easy find! Beautiful church! Thanks! Greetings from Austria

We leave Whakatane in the morning towards the East Coast (Lottin Point) and we will take the time to make a few stops.
Quiet place.
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Thanks Geckoh for the geocache [^]
Greetings from Belgium,
Frank et Muriel

Happy geocaching

#16046

What a great spot. Stopped here on our way round the cape and while the weather was good(briefly!). Cache all good. Dropped of a TB.TFTC

Windy, bleak and blustery day driving from Whakatane to Waihau Bay, taking it slowly, stopping regularly, taking in the sights. Awesome little spot, but a sad cemetery with 3 young men from the same family all taken to God on the same day. Ventured behind the church for a play about on the jagged rocks, and to watch the waves crashing. TFTC Geckoh

Nice church our last geocache today

We started out today early. Last night was spent in Tologa Bay. Tonight's destination was Whakatane. This was our last stop. The church looked beautiful, with the coast behind it.

We crossed Cook Strait using the Inter Islander on Saturday. Today is day five. We spent the full day in Gisborne yesterday day.

This Easter JDScout and I are off on an East Cape adventure. We are driving in our campervan from Christchurch. This has been something we always wanted to do. I am combining this trip with geocaching.

Sadly there is no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. I plan on going to the OzGeomuster in July. To find out more visit this site: https://www.ozgeomuster.com.au

If you can't make Aussie. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. I will keep you posted in my logs.
Thanks for hiding this geocache.

Lots of wasps but lovely hidey hole. Beautiful church.

Another early AM find. Nice spot in the day time probably. A relatively easy grab considering it was dark out!

Another glorious find on the way west. Tftc.

A beautiful old church.
Day 11 in NZ
TFTC

Thanks for placing the cache, The road out is a challenge, wonderful views.

TFTC

# 2051 25.02.2019

What a nice church at a beautiful place.
Took the hint to find the well placed box.
Thanks to Geckoh for placing!
ViT4 Steffi & Peter

Nachdem wir heute morgen von Schafgeblöke aufgeweckt wurden, verabschiedeten wir uns von unseren europäischen Freunden. Danach ging es endlos lang an der Ostküste durch den Raukumara Forest Park. Unterwegs gab es einen Fotostopp an der sehr schönen Kirche in Raukokore - inklusive Cache. Der nächste Halt war an einem kleinen Park mit Neuseelands höchstem Kahikatea-Baum. Eigentlich hielten wir hier eher zufällig, da uns zunächst nur die Gummistiefelsammlung aufgefallen war - BHs und Toilettenschüsseln hatten wir ja schon. Einer der seltenen Caches unterwegs brachte uns noch zur Schweizer Hütte mit viel frischem Obst und "real fruit ice-cream" - wieder einmal sehr lecker! Auf den letzten Kilometern konnten wir schon riechen, dass wir uns dem Ziel näherten. Dafür genossen wir am Campingplatz die Hot-Water-Pools und die über unseren Köpfen landenten Flugzeuge - fast wie daheim.

After the sheep kissed us awake this morning we said goodbye to our european neighbours and went on along the east coast across the Raukumara Forest Park. We visited the tallest Kahikatea tree of NZL (really no cache there?), the very beautiful church of Raukokore (with cache) and the swiss hut also with cache, fresh fruit and real fruit ice-cream - again very delicious. Before we reached Rotorua we could smell it. We passed Hells Gate and this was the start of our tasty stay in this area. Not a lot of caches but an unforgettable experience of sense.

3 February 2019 15:26 Beautiful stop on a fantastic Summer day, road tripping .with Tatie3. TFTC Geckoh

A quick find once at the right spot. Man those Penguins are smelly blighters. TFTC

Cache was easy to find; had to walk past two big horses standing next to the church. Thanks for showing this cute church! Greetings from Germany

Beautiful location. TFTC

Quick find:) love the view:) TFTC

Nice spot

Awesome night find on my way home to Ruatoria TFTC

NIce little place.. good hiding spot with a nice view

Found at 13:53 - #8564 - on a 5 week trip in New Zealand

TFTC

Today we made a trip from Rotorua to Hicks Bay, thereby visiting many new sightseeing locations and looking for caches, too. On this trip we searched, found and logged a lot of caches. The weather was between bad in the morning and very good in the afternoon, colder in the morning but it got warmer in the afternoon. Funny clouds were our compagnions the whole trip.
Almost no muggels observed us as they had other things to do than observing harmless geocachers.

Thanks to Geckoh for showing us this location and for the fun we had at Raukokore Church (East Coast BOP). The search we had here today didn't take too much time.

Greetings from Germany and hope to see you soon in the forest.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 4. November 2018 @ 14:23 Uhr @ [#12326](https://coord.info/GC1ZZRE)

Great little church. Found on way from Hicks Bay to Whakatane. Rain held off when searching. TFTC

Day 6 - Wednesday - Te Araroa to Tauraunga. Another day in the sun - so lets go!

This Church is on a lovely peninsula. Walked around to snag and tag this one. Luckily no one else was about. I then had a look inside. Love the info above the door explaining all the different designs. Fav from me. Cheers
The Seagnoid, Zara and I are on another epic caching adventure for the next two weeks, starting with the Wellington Mega, then East Cape, Taraunga, Waihi, Rotorua and back to Wellington. Its been an awesome journey, over 2500 klms later, visiting many amazing places. Thanks to all COs

I love these little back country churches. Some are in awesome condition, showing that the local parish likes them too. Had a bit of a look around, then moved on. Nice place.

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Day 6 of my Mega trip: East Cape to Tauranga. Two weeks of travel with Taybeedragon, from Blenheim to the 2018 mega event, then on to my mum's eightieth birthday in Rotorua via the East Cape and Tauranga and the hole in the ground that is Waihi. Dropped the dragon off in Wellington while I continued on to Motueka for more family time before at last arriving home. We may have only found 230 caches over that 3000 km, but I qualified for 4 badge upgrades, hit the 10,000 cache mark, and even have a missing month ticked off! Throughout most of the trip we targeted special caches - earth caches, virtuals, wherigos, etc, although there were a lot of traditionals too. On the cache maintenance side about eight caches were replaced, and many more logs were added to or replaced. Many thanks to everyone who made this an awesome trip.