Dobbies Park (Whangarei) Mairtown, North Island, New Zealand
By Grobyc on 25-Oct-09. Waypoint GC2090W

Clearing the area for another hide.

Definitely gone

Spent a while looking and came up empty handed. Seems a few before us were in the same boat

We searched high and low but could not find

Couldn't find on way there and still couldn't find on way back although we pretty sure we found the spot it shld be by reading comments so not sure if it's still there

Didn’t find this time. Out gps kept jumping all over the place and baby was grumpy. Will try again another time.

Try again next time

Thanks.

It was such a lovely evening to be enjoying a stroll in the area, with many caches to find along the way.
No muggles in sight, so it was a quick search and find.
Thanks for putting this here for us to find

First find! Thanks for putting it there

Thanks Grobyc......Enjoyed the level walk along the river....and loved this hide .

Quick stop all is good

Cool

Cool

Found this one on our walk along the river. Such a lovely bush walk. Thanks for the hide.

This find was a bit too easy as it had not been placed properly last time. TFTC

Got a bit excited and went up way further than I needed to, I walked passed it and didn’t even notice it! TFTC

Spotted by my husband on this lovely track. Sent the minion up to grab it for us. Dropped TB TFTC

I was given the job of retrieving this one. I balanced there while the log was signed then put it back. TFTC

I had an extra day in town, so I decided to do a few caches along this trial.

I looked carefully in one place that I was sure the cache would be hidden, but found it in another. TFTC.

Out for a morning stroll knocking off a few caches in the area.

Spent ages looking in the wrong spot.

Found in the end.

TFTC

Greetings from the UK

Mud and Kim

Whangarei rocks around

Beware the spider!

iPhone gps not so helpful but eventually we found it ️

Took kids for a bit of an arvo geocache adventure. After the rain stopped we headed out in the sunshine. Nice easy find. TFTC.

#837. Was here to get the next cache along the trail and thought I'd get this one on the way back out. It was getting dark, but there were a lot of muggles, so I still had to time it.

One muggle walking her dog got the dog's paw stuck between the planks on the boardwalk! It was in a lot of pain for about 90 seconds and it was very sad. But we did manage to get the paw free in the end... but it was quite scary!

Thank you very much for the cache! Left a trackable.

Was a nice little spot

The GPS didn't help us. But we found it.

Found on a walk from Whangarei Falls today. The Falls itself was very busy but the AH Reed park and the Hatea River Track were much more peaceful. I found this cache and a few others on the walk. Thanks for the cache.

Found

TFTC... out for a quick walk with our tangata whaiora after a day in town and the amazing About Time at the Whangarei basin.
The hint made perfect sense as we approached. Great hide. Cache a little damp inside but snap lock kept the log dry. A couple of neat goodies in there, so added a little something from us too.
A great easy track... now to find the next one not too far from here

I decided to make a long weekend trip to Auckland region to see my favorite band Halestorm at the Power station Wednesday evening plus visit friends who are moving back to the UK in the next few months. Plus those who attended one of my three events had a bit of a fun surprise. I had tagged a few caches in Auckland and lower Northland which would help with my D/T grid and Jasmer challenge. Its very hard to pass so many good caches as I travelled around but I will do a proper trip before/during the 2020 Auckland Mega, although a week is unlikely to be enough time to make a dent.... oh well need some for training/work trips to the area too. Apologies for the generic log - that's the problem when lone caching - you don't always have time to write a good unique log at the time.

With Lemmer in New Zealand at amazing caches. Thank you for showing all that beautiful places. flatrate

Great walk. Thx

Neat spot

Found it together with Team Vendetta on our Mountainbike trip
TFTC!
Jolo.

Nice track, we enjoy every second here.
TFTC

Shazmo and Minidry. So many muggles

Enjoying my walk along here. First time to this park. Very nice. Got this cache super quick. Tftc

Quite easy when we saw something very out of place

TFTC. Getting used to it. =)

Good find

Quick grab for me... Mr hdwgb doesn't know how far 2m is tfrc

third time lucky nice hiding spot found after a bit of searching. TFTC

Found after some hunting lots of muggles along track. Used rock hunting as reason for hunting.

Walking along the track with tikitour. My first visit to this park, really enjoying the bush here. Nice to read the history in the description. Thanks for the quick find.

Found TFTC

#2187, Quick Find. TFTC

Easy find on dusk as we neared the end of our walk along the river. TFTC

Quick find on an evening adventure

Read hint out looked up and spotted the problem! Thanks for the placement Grobyc.

Nice day out cacheing along the river...found this tidy we cache quite quickly...in a great little neiche..thanks Grobyc for the cache

This is my regular jogging track, but I never knew that these caches existed. Now I do, and after avoiding all the other track users, this was a relatively easy find. TFTC

Quick find on a lovely walk on a beautiful day. TFTC

Up here this weekend and visited the Ruapekapeka Pa site - very interesting as it relates to my ancestry. Cannot possibly go home without grabbing a couple more whilst here. Fabulous walking this track this morning in the drizzle . . . . . so many people use this track . . . . . . . a quick find with this one today. TFTC

This was our last find today. Time to get something to eat and return to the motel.
TFTC, greetings from Finland!

Easy find once we were in the right spot

Found it !

Back to the river
We went today and found it
Second time lucky!

Interesting to do some night caching after an event in town. After caching all day around Kamo and traveling we clocked up a 17 hour day. Would love to do more. Quick find . TFTC

A group of us came up to the track to do the night cache nearby after the catch up event and found this one on our way in...not quite dark yet so found easily....good hide...cache log very wet and unusable...so have put new log in bag in cache and signed that. Left old one in the cache. tftc

My buddy and I went caching in Kamo and Tikipunga today. We went to the catch up event and still had the energy to come with the group on this late night adventure. Fun to do this trail with a bunch of us. I don't know who spotted the cache but I quickly scrambled up the bank to retrieve it. Neat clue, TFTC

Little grandie very excited to find this all by herself! TFTC

Found it! Great walk and a great hide spot. Log was rather wet and full but found a place to sign

Just as the hint said Nice quick and easy find. TFTC. Log is full and wet.

Holidays in New Zealand! We have been looking forward to them for years. We had lots of time to prepare ourselves for a great trip. As geocachers, we also picked out a number of great caches. Armed with a "to-do list" and accidental encounters we were lucky to log many caches. Thank you for placing them and keeping the game go on!

This was found number 6739

Nice hiding spot. But log is full and wet. Really needs a New logbook.
TFTC

Nice hiding spot. But log is full and wet. Really needs a New logbook.
TFTC

66 Found on walk

Log book soaking wet so it can not be signed to evidence the visit to the cache

HotRodPete and Liz decided to walk the Hatea Track from the Heated Pool complex to Whareora Road on a cool but fine Sunday afternoon as there were a few caches that we hadn't found on this track.

The log is so wet we could sign for our visit, I will log a "needs maintenance" as several other cache hunters have also noted the wet and unusable log. Took the TB to move it along as it had been sitting here in the cold and wet for 3 months.

Quick find once I found the right spot.gps bouncing heaps awesome spot. Log soaked!!

Our GPS was jumping around a bit here.
But once the geocache nose sprang into action it was a quick find.
Placed a trackable item in the cache. That I have had far too long.
TFTC

That was an easy found. Unfortunately the logbook is very wet and full.
TFNC!
C&M

?? found it!

Wet. The log is full. Thanks

Thanks from Gravelking
Found it together with juriga on our NZ journey.
Nice place.

TFTC. Found together with Gravelking on our great NZ journey.

needs new pas as is wet

The log is full. TFTC

I'm back up in Whangarei for Xmas and I went for a bit of a drive around today picking up a few caches. After a short stroll along the river bank, this cache was a nice quick find. TFTC!

Good spot, it's a tad wet

Needs a new log book

Found! Love the clue. Plenty of muggles! Be careful lol

Great spot. Needs a more waterproof container. Cheers!

This entry was edited by 8ryn_17 on Monday, 27 October 2014 at 01:41:32 UTC.

Found it with the kids on a nice Sunday stroll TFTC

Yay! Contents are soaked. Nice hiding place. Left all contents

On our way back to pick up our girls from their uncle's place after visiting our objective of Riser5's 300th Hide for our 300th find and 'gar' directed me here as we were going passed anyway. Another opportunity to take the dog out for a short walk while it was still dry. GPS jumped around a bit but we looked out for something that fit the hint and eventually made the find! The log book was really wet, though we did manage to sign it. Unfortunately, today wasn't the sort of day it could be dried out in. Thanks for the cache Grobyc.

Thought it was gonna be a tricky one but hint was very helpful.

GPS was a bit off to start with but got there in the end with the clue. Log book is soaked and full

Found this one while on holiday from home at Whangamata TFTC

TFTWetC

Short of log spaces
Nice new dry logbook needed.

Quick find on a great walk

Was out walking and grabbed a quick cache while dodging juggles on the track. The log book was soaked.

Was hoping to place the travelling trackable here as we have lots of micro / nano visits today. Log remains wet. We'll return as it's a pretty location and looks to be a great walk further on - unfortunately, no time today. TFTC.

Found it! Nice quick find with family. Log wet and maybe almost full. TFTC .

Quite wet, nearly full log.

The sixth day on a geocaching holiday away to the north.
More good finds today around Whangarei.

Soon had this cache located.
LOG STILL PRETTY WET TFTC

Log is full and also quite wet. Log needs replacing.