Tutukaka Breakwater (Northland) Tutukaka, North Island, New Zealand
By butters* on 07-Apr-10. Waypoint GC26C99

Don't think this one was there sadly

Too far to maintain, muggled a few times so sadly archiving.

Looked all around the hunted place but could not find

Had several peps looking, bur alas

Mrs B and Tinytree were off to the Poor Knights for a snorkeling trip and I offered to act as chauffeur for the day with a little bit of geocaching in-between to fill in the time. After an early morning drive from Auckland and dropping them off nearby, I decided to stretch my legs a little and had a little bit of a walk round the marina.

We had been to the cache before but only had a few minutes in fading light before heading to dinner so we decided to flag it. This time I arrived just as another couple was also walking to the same point. No problems as I had plenty of time to stick around and watch the boat go out with the others on it to wave goodbye. After about 10 minutes they walked back so I began searching. Took a few minutes to find the right spot but eventually found it. All good here, TFTC.

TFTC did find but log was wet and open have moved it back to greeny has wondered down hill a bit

Had a long look in the flax bush but no sign of it sorry .

Had a look but could spot it

So happy to have found this previous DNF. Ended up being our fastest find ever thanks to Miss 8.

No log paper. Add a note paper I happened to have in my pocket..

I don't think I've been here before, so lovely and peaceful. I bet it gets real busy in summer though.

Found whilst out with travelbugtribe

It's been a while since we've come this far into the marina, we usually head for a nearby beach. TFTC

Queen's birthday weekend in Northland. Escaped from civilisation a little bit earlier....
Enjoyed my evening stroll from a campsite to cache location. I had to wait for dog walkers to leave area.... Handy one!
TFTC

I have moved my snail shell a bit further south and after parking it up at a friends house I decided to have a look at some nearby beautiful beaches.

This trad got in the way and so I just had to sign it off.

Cheers for the cache.

It's been a while since I have been out so I took the opportunity for a quick road trip. I took a lot longer than I care to admit to find this. That's always the case for me and these plants. Almost gave up and then eureka, cache in hand. TFTC.

KirkYoungerFamBam

Waiting for the Ngunguru boys uncle to bring his new boat in for the first time. Very exciting. Tftc, it helped to pass the time!

1128. 4:31 pm. The only cache of the day that I found solo as I knew more of us would have drawn too much attention. Signed KB. TFT(harbour view)C.

Upon arrival at the GZ I was greeted by my least favorite plant for searching for caches, but actually I found the cache relatively quickly and set it back.

Thanks for the cache!

Good description found safe

We cycled down to the breakwater after dinner. Of like to say it was a quick find but it wasn’t. Some witty comment about the container being camoed put us off the scent. Got there in the end. A bit breezie this evening. Saw some waka-ama’s paddling in the distance. They were keen.
TFTC

Gg to however finds this a tough find but I got it eventually great place beautiful and good clues

Great place for a cache ..enjoyed the out look...very busy with boat coming and going thanks Butters

Very hot hard work looking for this today. Many muggles but they had stunning views or fishing or boating to distract them. Took quite a while but finally unearthed it. Thanks for the placement *butters

No luck - story of our day

Took a while but got there in the end. Very quiet and peaceful tonight. Beautiful spot.

Tried. Looked all around. Couldn’t find it. Lovely spot though.

Very quick find as we ventured out between the showers. Signed the 2nd temporary logbook. Thanks

Only had a few minutes to look for this cache before we lost daylight. We will be back to locate again soon.

Cool find

Ein kleiner Spaziergang führte uns hierher. Netter Blick auf den Hafen. Eine clevere Dose. Dfdc

Found it

Nice find while in the area with tmann421 today
Enjoying the trip north and the caches
Signed log as tm/ww NZ

Nice find with woolwood9 today.
*We enjoyed the drive / walk around the area.*
Stamped logs as tm/ww NZ which may just look like a black smudge on plastic logs!
TFTC

*We made this one much harder than it should have been, took us ages to finally find, many muggles hindered our searching. Had a good meal at the boating club nearby.*

At least I would have done one here. Thanks

Great clues, fun find for even the smallest geocashers. Mr 2.5 &4 loved finding the "treasure" cache.

Great spot for a cache, found after a day of fishing (not much catching).
Cheers

Nice camo! Easy find, nice place, found with our muggle friend river
TFTC

All was good with the log and cache here today! Thanks for the hide. Interesting cammo.......

Great camo. Very quiet today so a quick find and sign. TFTC

TFTC and greetings from Germany

Called in for this one on the way back to Ngunguru. Parke din the car park and saw end was fenced off, but access to breakwater along the side. Soon spotted the container as per the hint and replaced as found. T F T C butters*/the observer.

Day 2 was the first day with Kaela going to work so to help out I offered to drive her in and bring her back. It gave Ed a chance to get the kids ready for the day and me to maybe grab a couple of caches and do a little grocery shopping, good deal all round.

Me and mrs capperz are up in Northland visiting our son, his partner and their four kiddies under 3 years old! Should be fun catching up and seeing how they've come on sice we last saw them 5 months ago in Australia. We headed up via re-locatable car from Wellington to Auckland Airport, via Whanganui overnight at daughter's, then swapped into our own hire car from Saturday until we head back to Marlbro next Wednesday evening. Not too many caching targets, but a few possibilities and hope to get the Virtuals as we pass them.

Nice quick easy find! Took a newbie out and was a quick find!! TFTC

our first cache on our road trip up to Cape Reinga the long way TFTC

Easy find after a day of diving. Tftc

Great spot. Thanks

Nice camo, had to be careful as a few muggles around. Lovely views, TFTC

Quick find on a nice walk after lunch. D/T seems a bit high.


TFTC!!!

Great camo. Great place with nice views.
TFTC

Great camo. Found quickly. TFTC

Beautiful calm day and cool camo. TFTC

After heading to Tutukaka in the early morning and spending a beautiful day diving at the Poor Knights Islands we arrived back at the marina as the rain started. After finishing loging the dives at the dive shop the rain stopped for a moment and we made our way to the end of the marina to look for this Cache. I had to wait a few moments for a pair of muggle to load their boats and head home befor I was able to take a closer look at GZ. After a quick look around the nicely camoed container was found and the log signed. The cache is in good condition and replaced as found. I had to run back to the car to not get soaked by the rain. Now heading back home for a relaxing evening. TFTC

Short break and a walk along the breakwater to this cache.

TFTC

I headed out to Nganguru today for Whangarei's monthly clean up. I had lots of caches in this area that I hadn't got last time I was down. I had a great day with lovely bush walks, beautiful sea views, and fun scrambling around the rocks. I was pleased to finally be in the area to find my knitting puzzle that I'd solved years ago too. I pulled up neT gz and saw a few muggles nearby. Thought I'd pour myself a cuppa as that's almost as good a geocaching disguise as reflective jackets. I wandered out and sat down on the rocks admiring the beautiful view. Grabbed the cool camoed cache unnoticed. I was pretty tired at the end of the day with 17 caches found. Thanks for the cache to show us this area

Clever hide lovely place

Tried the wrong side first but soon had in hand. Lynn tftc

Calm, summer evening. TFTC

Spending the day exploring the Tutukaka Coast. Beautiful scenery and some great caches. Watched a couple of boats come in as we signed the log. TFTC

Found it by night; clever design
TFTC!
Jolo.

Found with Jolo. on our anniversary day.
4 years now, thanks for everything second my sweetheart :*
TFTC

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Tomorrow we are going to make a nice trip with Yukon Dive to the Poor Knights Islands. We wanted to find out where the boat is docked exactly. We found it and then we made the walk a little bit longer, because I saw this cache was nearby. Found it, without any problems, in a nice spot. Thanks for placing it!

After two amazing dives at the Poor Knights I came here for the cache and found it quickly! Thanks a lot!

A classic Geocache! Found it at last, beautiful view; and a lovely way to introduce a friend to the wonderful world of Geocaching. 10/10 would catch again!

Our third visit to this beautiful country and this time for a family wedding in Tutukaka. After that we will travel south exploring and finding some caches along the way.
Signed and replaced all of them as we found them.
Thanks to the CO's for placing these caches and keeping the game alive.

Nice container. Found on a walk from Oceans hotel.

Found whilst on a family weekend away - TFTC

A walk around the harbour before heading off on our last days ride. Quick find. Cache OK

Before heading home after a great weekend at Tutukaka with Gernita. Nice spot

Somehow we made this harder work than it needed to be! Lovely sunny Sunday morning with the place to ourselves. TFTC:-)

Scuba diving the Poor Knights Islands brought us to Tutukaka. And since we were in the area we looked for some Caches.

This one was close to our chosen dinner spot, so we gave it a try.

Fortunately, there weren't too many Muggles around and we discovered the cutely camouflaged box very quickly.

Thanks for this Cache!

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Pratchettfans second hobby (scuba diving) brought us to tutukaka. So we spend the evening with finding some caches. Thanks for this cute one!

I picked the craziest, wettest day to visit Tutukaka Coast but only have a few days left in Northland so need to make the most of it! This pic does not do justice how including stormy today is. I nearly got blown down onto the rocks!!

Quiet today

Good cache. Easy find!

Beautiful spot. A few muggles around so had to be sneaky. TFTC

Had a bit of time before our snorkeling trip to the Poor Knights. Had a bit of trouble then i spotted it. Tftc

Whilst out here on a day trip,what a neat location,tftc.

Whilst on a day trip to tute found this one safe and well.

After getting off the boat, and of course a hot chocolate from the cafe, it was time to leave. But rebel98 drove to the end of the carpark to see what was there, and I called out there is a cache to find

With the help of the detailed hint, I was soon at GZ and spotted this cleverly camoed cache. Sitting down taking in the views, I was soon signing the log.

Thanks butters* for the hide in this beautiful spot which is just stunning this afternoon with people swimming and fishing.

Dropped off the Mexico TB for other adventures.

With rustynz on a weekend caching adventure - thanks for the hide

It was raining today and the rocks were slippery but we gave it a try. Swapped tbs TFTC

Awesome best find yet! Even got a Trackable.

My first in New Zealand, TFTC!

Amazingly cute little cache, I love the camo, it really works great. TFTC

Stopped off here on our way to the bay of islands. Found it while waiting for the marina office to open in the morning so we could get on our way. Managed to spot before a bunch of muggles wandered by. Tftc

Like the lid

Our first trip to New Zealand. Had a wonderful time. TFTC

Really nice camo. Great views. Stopped here on our way to Matapouri. TFTC

Sharon, Sophie, Daniel, Connor and Rochelle, we are " The Team" XD JOLLY MERRY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY FELLOW GEOCACHERS XD TFTC - 2018 GF

Fooled me but not my hubby! Leafy indeed.

Drove over from Tutukaka to cache around Onerahi while my muggle mates are on their dive trip. Came back to get them many hours later, & thought I’d look for this one too while waiting - makes a nice 25th find for the day, Tftc

Quick easy find .Beautiful day.

Easy finds tftc

trouvé!merci

Loved it. It took longer than it should have as we searched all the other sides, but suddenly I spotted something a bit off. I thought twice about delving in to get it, but was pretty sure... Thank goodness I was right!
I left a Kinder Surprise Egyptian cat cooking a pizza in a pyramid oven - yes, really! It seemed fitting with the nearby business.
This one gets a fav from us. Thanks.

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Was an easy find hidden well