Te Waimate Mission (Northland) Waimate North, North Island, New Zealand
By Just Floundering on 22-Apr-10. Waypoint GC2787J

I found this on Dec 29. 2013, and sent the wrong log.

9.10am. Decided to archive and leave the site for someone else to use. Cache has had a five year life and probably run its course.
JF.

Please check cache - flax has been trimmed

Clearly the gardener has changed things a little. Will look and see if there is a better location for the cache or whether it needs archiving.
JF.

Flax recently trimmed. No sign of cache despite much searching.

Staying with family for Xmas and went for a walk in the drizzle to keep excited children in check. Had a very thorough search in bushes but no luck. Flax looks like it has been trimmed recently, so maybe gardener moved it? Better luck next time.

Found with EthBru, a young family from UK, new to geocaching. They had family nearby with a painting of the old store my grandfather had owned in 1914 so was delighted to be invited for a cuppa. I love combining my hobbies of caching and family history. Thanks for the cache and the opportunity to meet new people.

This entry was edited by tparty on Sunday, 24 August 2014 at 06:07:39 UTC.

Second visit to this cache as we didn't find it first time round and still not fully equipped with roaming geocache app. Thanks tparty for sharing your geocaching experience and help! [:o)]

Lawn clippings and dead pheasant were a hazard today but found in the end

Kids were bored so we headed out for a quick geocache. Easy find. Got married in this church so fond memories here. We had been here recently for a school trip. Saw a morepork in one of the trees in the grounds. Unfortunately he wasn't around today.

This is my second day in Northland finding caches that might be suitable for a proposed challenge cache.

Another nice bit of history.

Cheers for the cache.

Nice spot for a cache.

Lovely historic place. Quick find after school. TFTC.

Quick find and a beautiful place. Thanks. Took travel Bug 15PHYA.

Stayed overnight in paihia. Headed out this morning to return to Auckland via Waipoua Forest and decided to follow the brown sign to the mission. Enjoying the peace and beauty once here then thought bet there's a cache nearby. Ha! 60m away. Quickly found and signed all before the mission opened and the chooks appeared. PINO TFTC

Today the council for the New Zealand Church Missionary Society was here in this special place where our history in New Zealand really begins.

Rev. Samuel Marsden came to Oihi bay at the invitation of Ruatara, although originally he had been invited by Te Pahi, unfortunately Te Pahi was killed by musket shot before Marsden arrived here.

Ruatara and Marsden were close friends, they had met some years before on a ship returning to Australia from England. Ruatara was very ill and close to death and Marsden cared for him throughout the voyage and allowed him to convalesce at his home in Paramatta where Marsden was chaplain to New South Wales.

During this time Marsden learned Te Reo from Ruatara and developed a love for the Maori people. He wanted to come to New Zealand to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with Ruatara's help, but unfortunately the Boyd incident meant that Marsden wasn't able to come sooner. In 1814 Marsden finally had the green light and he came to this special place.

After he preached at Oihi Bay he sought the support of the Church Missionary Society based in England (this society was founded by William Wilberforce and other members of the Clapham sect who worked towards the abolition of slavery in England and also established the RSPCA!) and had more CMS missionaries sent to New Zealand.

I was in the area to celebrate the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and participate in a congress for Christian leaders. Today the NZCMS Council trekked around the area visiting places of importance to the Society, and to New Zealand.

The men appointed to establish the Waimate Mission were the Rev. W. Yate and the lay members of the CMS, Messrs. R. Davis, G. Clarke and J. Hamlin. They worked very hard in this area so it was great to be able to see where they lived and ministered among Maori

Signed the log on 08 February 2014 at 15:50:00

Nice visit to the mission from our cruise. The scones were wonderful.

Fabulous place. Very well maintained. Picked up a trackable PCC3FW, I will find the right place for it soon. TFTC

Nice place to visit, the chooks were interested in what we were up too. TFTC

Some water in cache Beautiful evening in lovely spot.

Found on a stunning summers eve with my dad, niece and nephew! Beautiful spot:)

3.00pm. Carried out a maintenance check when passing by. Dried cache container, replaced logbook with a waterproof sheet. Removed damp items. All ship shape and ready to go. Left a TB.
M&P.

Lots of family fun

First use of my new GPS and it works like a charm!

The whole thing is a bit wet and honestly just needs a good clean.

After we read the clue and I took my sunnys off, it was an easy find.
TFTC

Took us a while but with some perseverance we made the find. Dont have to jump the fence just need long arms.

2nd time in a week that we have met geocachers that are on their first day of the game. Despite massive amounts of grass clippings the cache was not covered by them and was eventually found. TFTC

We had given up when some more experienced members turned up and put us out of our misery and shared some of their knowledge - a positive end thanks guys

This entry was edited by FeralFarmNZ on Friday, 03 May 2013 at 01:19:42 UTC.

Didn't find it. We suppose it's covered with recent gras clipping. Marie & Carsten

Took a short while to locate as I wasnt sure which side I had to be on. Figured out that I didn't need to jump the fence after all. Awesome place.

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

We were visiting family in Whangarei, together with HOLE-IN-ONE2 from the UK. Decided to go for a day trip up North. GPS was a bit out here, but found the cache by following the hint. A nice historic spot here, thanks for the cache!

Out and about in the north with phasevisitor going to see some boulders so dong a few drive by cache on the way. Found eventually took more hunting than expected . Nice spot with lots of history TFTC

We were visiting family in Whangarei, together with HOLE-IN-ONE2 from the UK. Decided to go for a day trip up North. GPS was a bit out here, but found the cache by following the hint. A nice historic spot here, thanks for the cache!

Slight diversion on the way to Hokianga to see and show the family this significant historical piece on New Zealand history. Truly an amazing and beautiful spot to come to, tah nks for placing this cache here.

Tftc

Changed coordinates confused me a little bit, but finally mission accomplished.. I like that church.

08:43
A couple of Aussies based in Paihia to spend a few days around the Bay of Islands area. Everything was a bit wet this morning, which actually made the area look even more attractive. The camo on the cache is great - sure we saw a number of 'fakes' before the real thing.

TNLN . . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt Just Floundering.
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Found with Tayrunty and Tasking, Tasking's first cache! Very exciting!

Our first cache! So exiting, easy find and only took a few minutes

TFTC! Found with Dive Monkeys and Tasking (their 1st Cache!)

This entry was edited by TAYRUNTY on Friday, 15 June 2012 at 17:51:54 UTC.

Out and about around the Bay of Islands area. This was a must stop on the itinerary. Took a bit of tooing and froing to locate cache, but we found it in the end. Lovely spot, had a wander and look around while we were here. SL. TFTC.

My partner used to work and live here a gone time ago. Quick find.

Our 1st cache in NZ! Pretty EZ - great location.

found with superblues just up the road from our house

There was a wedding going on when we arrived. You needed to pay topdollar to take a look inside. hmm not for us. So we just picked up the cache and TB and moved on.

someone is throwing grass clipping where the cache is hidden. great spot for a cache though

No flax near the coords.... no 500 ml container that we could see either. Check?

Such a beautiful peaceful spot. TFTC!

Just recording the geocoin placed on the maintenance visit.
M&P.

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 18.949 E 173° 52.515

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 18.949 E 173° 52.510

Distance from original: 24.7 feet or 7.5 meters.

Due to recent gardening cache needed replacing. Moved slightly west. New co-ordinates S35 18.949 E173 52.510. Now a 500ml camo coloured plastic container. Added a geocoin.
Good luck
M&P.

We had been meaning to visit this building for a while and finally took the time and the Historic Trusts membership to drop by. Very interesting and charming. The cache may have gone as it certainly wasn't obvious or easy, or we could just be having another day of DNFs.

My worst caching day in terms of DNFs - this was the second of seven! Enjoyed the historic location. There has been a lot of painting and clearing around where my GPS zeroed out at a point which could match the hint. This may need checking.

A quick easy find on my way to Okaihau on a beautiful winter's day....
TFTC

Nice easy find in the dark. Another day of the year cached Thx!

On the hunt with RussellSchool and LewisBC, lewis was onto this one in a flash.

TFTC

Out with tikitour on our way from mid-winter cache-up so had to do a few more caches... also teamed up with REDNUAM at this one - TFTC and a great day out

last cache of the day, what a lovely place!

On way home after mid winter far north event with Flowernz, finding some caches on the way. nice place to stop. found with the rednaum fmaily. TFTC

Found with Flowernz and Tikitour after the mid winter cache up. TFTC

kick

Just on dusk made it a not so easy find!! But got it in the end.

good find

Good to see Butterfly Lady's name in the log a few days ahead of mine. Got some great photos of this old mission church and grounds. And had a good chat to the rostered 'caretaker' for the day.

Good to see another cache here in this historic site. Always enjoy detouring to visit here. Left GC

Found easily on a visit to this beautiful church.

thanks to the hint this was a quick find. interesting place.
TFTC, greetings from Austria
wazzi & family
NZ#029

4.05pm. Nice mission house.
No problem with the hide and it was quickly found.
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (1722)

GPS was wandering but choose the likely spot and there she was. t4tc

Interesting piece of N.Z. history with all the historic buildings & cemetery. The Mission House is having a 'face lift' so will return sometime to see it in its glory. TFTC

Nice find, thanks

Never visited this historic site before - thanks for the reason to do so now. Very well-kept grounds, with the many large trees providing welcome shade on a hot day.

# 2311

At first tried 'flax bashing...'

Dropped of Joseph's TB Racer. Ready, Set, GO!!!!

Lovely drive to the Mission Station. Had a walk in the grounds around the beautiful Church. A really lovely spot. TFTC

Will move TB on to a favourite view.

Dropped off TB

Out doing some cache maintenance nearby, Lovely day. Dropped off TB Coin. Cache all good.

This was our 1st experience Geocaching. Great Fun. Took kids and made afternoon of it. Right proud when we found it!!

4794 Mrs YuGeo remembered visiting the Mission House on a school trip a very long time ago. It’s always nice to return to these historic spots, TFTC.

Very strraight forward find on a cold Sunday morning. A few at church, but no-one close enough to disturb us. Left a small frog, and took TB to move along. TFTC

Enjoyed the drive from Kerikeri via back roads and gobstopped to find two other motorhomes plus cars parked up and the occupants enjoying some NZ history. It's winter after all. All, including us, were fleeing from the chilly South!! No problem finding the cache but we had to be sneaky with so many muggles afoot. TFTC

Quick find on our way to Paihia,never new this piece of New Zealand history was here and thanks to Geocaching and "Just Floundering"now I do .Out Geocoin "pig "geocaching makes you happy".TFTC.

10.20am. On our way south after being to the top. many years since we have been here. We spent time amongst the headstones reliving some of the history. Left two TBS.
Thank you. David and Noeline.

As I live near Waimate (south) I just had to do this cache!

tftfsl and off to kerikeri

Found on my way north on a buisness trip.

Nice spot!!!

TFTC

Good history lesson. tftc

TB Visit

12.30pm Our first 'First to find'!!

Nice to see another new local cache. I have a few more ideas up my sleeve too. Watch this space!

T4TC

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