Opononi Cache (Northland) Opononi, North Island, New Zealand
By butchie bum on 08-May-10. Waypoint GC28707

TFTC! Corker of a day today, and found it easily. No one else in the area. TNLN. Container is in good, dry condition and the ziplock is intact and sealable.

Thank u for the Lego

Thanks

Found with Kaz53 and a little help

Found with Judith.

TFTC

We Found it in what couldnt be any more obvious, yet took us a while bahahaha beautiful view even left a trinkett alongside a few others!

Found it. Little scramble over the rocks first for fun

On a trip up north.Jag made the scramble downAnd soon had cache in hand.

On a caching journey up to the north with Supernannny and Net61 to find some caches. Many kilometres were driven over a few days and many caches were found. Thanks to all the cache owners for the placements. We approached this one from the top and after a short scramble spotted the exposed cache. We covered it up with some shells. TFTC

Thank you guys for the fun find

Dieser Cache konnte heute erfolgreich geloggt werden.Danke an den owner fr's legen und pflegen TFTC Schmerzbefreit

Cute

Fun to find !!

Awesome find. Perfect clue. And found travel bug gst0tc. With Arizona Shepard’s

Spending the long weekend for the Kings First birthday right opposite at the fantastic Opononi Lighthouse Motel. What a beautiful spot by the water! While hubby was fishing we took the opportunity to go go caching. Master 14 found this one quite easily with his agility climbing on the rocks! Thank you for the cache!

Nice shady spot under the Pohutukawa

Dropped off a trackable

Nice and easy as the tide was out as suggested. Tftc

Took a bit of searching but got our first find!

Waited until the tide was out and went for an evening stroll, quick find. TFTC

Fun find. Unfortunately my pen didn’t work but I have photos. Was still okay to find at high tide from road side

Nice hiding place.
Thanks for the cache
Quiri

Today we were hoping to do some sandsurfing. But it was closed
So we took a walk along the beach and found some caches instead.
Greetings from Denmark
Jonathan, Christian og Else

#1737

tftc

#11,577. I am making my way back south to Whangarei. I am going via Hokianga and Dargaville. Good to see a series of roadside caches along the way. I will stop to fit in what I can before 2pm when I need to make tracks south. Parked down the road and walked back to GZ. Climbed the fence and descended a level. Saw some rocks and thought they must be there for a reason. They were. Opononi geocache in hand. Signed the logbook and replaced everything as found. Thanks butchie bum for hiding it here.

FireStriker
SnowDog
Doggie
Happy kids found it.

307. Took a while to find. Cache and log in good condition. Picked up TB. TFTC

Had to come check out Opononi cache. Left my calling card here after a short walk. Cheers

Day 8, Thursday 27 January - from Tokerau Beach dropping down leaving Zara in KeriKeri. Then exploring Kaikohe, Opononi and Omapere with Toby and Lenny, before returning to Zara in KeriKeri. The fishy series this morning before leaving Tokerau B. Lots to do so lets get moving!

Zara, Toby, Lenny and I are on our North Island expidition for a couple of weeks. Got The Seagnoid along for the first 4 days, heading to the Auckland Mega. PWGTs and TMGTs are on the radar for this trip. Lots of driving on gravel roads and visited lots of amazing places on our 6000km road trip snagging 200+ caches along the way. Visiting Cape Reinga, Bay of Islands, Gisborne and White Rock along our journey. Another awesome trip. Thanks to all CO's.

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After a look for a couple of others by this CO I wasn't holding out too much hope. However, this was the easiest of the morning run after the rain had passed.

On our way back to Auckland from our trip up in Northland - decided to head back this way for a change to the way we came up. Pleased to come to Rawene as we holidayed here a couple of times as a child and my sister's brother-in-law used to be a captain of the Rawene - Kohukohu ferry and now we are heading through Opononi - I told Mrs Tuolei about the story of "Opo" the dolphin back in the 1950s - I guess there aren't too many people around still alive that would have been here at the time.

Approached this one from the beach side and that made it easier as it turned out - headed for the most likely spot and the cache was found. Signed and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache here, all good.

A nice leisurely day around Opononi with evilC, geocaching and enjoying the area. Nice stroll along the beach, a bit of head scratching, and then a find. TFTC!!

Easier find coming from the beach

I write "WRITE NOTE" because it's a time when we can't go on a long adventure, so I travel in the memories of my visits. That's why I'm only stretching the Travel Bug from the adventures in New Zealand. Writing "Found it" is no longer correct, but it wasn't today.

I am sending a beautiful greeting from the Czech Republic.

Out and about up north trying to gather the Geo tour caches and a few of these others keep getting in my way. Lol. Nice to finally get one along here.


I am logging using the Cachly app template so please excuse generic logging along the way. It’s just my way of keeping track, but I do genuinely thank each and every one of you cache owners for taking the time and energy to place these cache. Many Thanks for bringing me here. Cheers.

I like where its hidden

Having read the previous logs and scrambled down realised I dropped my pencil. Hence a photo!

Easy find

Was this easy, for us it was not. Why not? Because we followed the description and walked along the beach at low tide, then used the hint to look in the rocks up, our interpretation of, one level i.e above the first level of rocks. And then above the second row of rocks.
Having almost had our hands stuck in the gabion wall further down the beach trying to retrieve a cache, slid down the hillside on the way back from the blow hole, and skinned our knees at the virtual cache trying to find the answer to one of the questions, we were wary of shoving our hands in any of the gaps in the rocks.

What we should have done was ignored everything and gone for the place we would have hidden a cache, safe from the tide, almost a quick park and grab. What a merry christmas.

While this one was easy to spot when at the right location it was not easy to get to. The hint didn't give us much help and had us looking in the wrong places for a long time. Glad to finally get this one done though. Wouldn't call this a 1.5 difficulty either

Awesome quick find thanks

thank you!

Found it and left a little surprise for the next person. Tftc

Found while taking a beach stroll. Tftc

Great view

Got it with a couple thousend of vitamin C. TFTC

Last one we could get before we headed to Auckland. Would love to visit this beautiful area again on a future visit from Alaska. Found with Nanook. TFTC.

Found with Buffalo, TFTC!!

Maybe 1 level down and 2 levels up. Tftc

Beautiful tree

Yay

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Yay

Oh ein Gast aus den Niederlanden. Den nehmen wir doch gleich ein Stück mit.
TFTC
Scheffi12 & LaWutz
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I came up here to have Christmas with my family and decided to sneak away this morning on a run to find a few geocaches before everybody woke up.

This was the first geocache that I attempted on my run and with the clue in hand, I jumped the fence and looked around. The tide was high but fortunately, I didn't fall in while searching. With the clue in hand, it took only a few seconds to find the geocache and sign it. TFTC!

Great hide, much easier to find at low tide

Ook een vlotte oppikker.NL TB GEZIEN maar laten liggen.TFTC

Found it and left TB. Thanks CO

Another brilliant spot - many people have visited this one the log book was full

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Was almost standing on it heap of mussel shells

Found as a part of a previous group TanjackMüley, aka WanderingSparrow. Now I'm continuing on my own. TFTC

Not a 1.5 t,we jumped down from above as it was high tide. Tftc

On our way to Kerikeri we decided to take the slightly longer route which took us throught the Waipoua Forest, Omapere, Kaikohe and Ohaeawai to try for my first First To Find close to the Waipoua forest. This is the sixth cache we were able to find on our journey today. After finding the two Caches at the lookouts in Omapere we pulled over on the side of the road and I made my way to GZ walking along the beach at low tide. Arriving at GZ I made a quick find once at the correct level. Signed the log and took the frog TB to travel on with us for a bit. After signing the log and replacing the cache as found we continued our journey towards Kerikeri. TFTC.

lovely beach stroll earlier today. dropped off tb froggy. Notcied the other 3 travel bugs listed in here are gone. so hope whom ever does log them. only mr Froggy here as of today check. all good to go. happy caching

Found

Nachdem wir gestern nicht alle Caches in der Nähe unseres Campingplatzes in Orewa geschafft hatten, ging es heute früh noch auf eine kleine Morgenrunde. Es war schon sehr warm und relativ viele Menschen unterwegs. Als Herr fleuchi nach dem Frühstück Frau fleuchi den schönen Muschelstrand zeigen wollte,  war er plötzlich weg. Wo kam denn auf einmal das viele Wasser her? Bei schwülwarmen Temperaturen ging es weiter nordwärts. Alle Caches auf der Strecke konnten wir auf keinen Fall machen, deshalb pickten wir uns immer mal wieder einen raus. Viele hatten mit dem Thema Kauri zu tun, da hier die Heimat der gigantischen Bäume ist. Es gab einen Kauripark, ein Kaurimuseum und natürlich die berühmtesten der Kauri, der Tane Mahuta und der Te Matua Ngahere. Unsere Etappe endete in Rawene auf dem Campingplatz Top of die Hill. Der Name ist Programm und man das Gefühl, dass man von Wasser umgeben sei. Unsere holländischen Nachbarn erzählten, dass ein Zyklon gemeldet sei und sie deswegen vom Zelt auf Holzhütte umgestiegen sind. Na hoffentlich zieht er vorbei. Es ist übrigens der erste Tag mit Regen, wobei sich dieser bisher auf 5 Minuten beschränkt hat. Mal schauen, was noch kommt.

We started the day with two more caches in the near of our campground. Even the one we couldn't find yesterday evening was done. Both are tricky hides but we found them thanks to the hints and a bit of imagination. On our way further to the north were a lot of caches - we couldn't  do them all. So we picked some of them and could find all of them. The B-Cache was an exciting one, because of the nest next to the box; we had to be very careful (see picture). Later on we came into the Kauri area and some caches had also to do with Kauri (Kauri stump, Kauri museum, Kauri Forrest,...). The one in Dargaville was a nice one and we found it without help from the info staff. Just before we arrived at the campground Top of the hill, we had one last cache at the roast of Rawene. An easy one if you are tall enough - Mrs fleuchi was not.

Walking back to our bach after an evening swim and Miss 10 was eager to snatch this cache up as we strolled on by...she spyed it before we even got to the location...my clever little cookie. tftc

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During a morning stroll from our campsite I logged two caches. For this one I went down to the beach, luckily the tide was low enough. Very nice place for a cache! I found it very quickly.
Thanks for placing it!

Happy to get that one fairly quick. TFTC

Logtime: 11:25 #6566
Heute: 3. Cache von total 5 Caches.

Die gegenüberliegenden Dünen sehen super aus. Da konnten wir auch noch diesen Cache loggen.

Google translate:
The opposite dunes look great. We were also able to log this cache.

Danke und Gruss
simeat und Frau
Switzerland.

Found quite quickly. Log wet. Managed to sign. Tftc.

Found it. No contents. TFTC

TFTG

837 A nice walk on the beach

While travelling through this beautiful country we like to Go out and walk and look for Caches.
Thank you for the nice walk down here.
We logged as Team EIN.

Yours Slashgirl

During our trip through NZ we had time to look for a few caches. This one was one of them. We logged as Team EIN. TftC! Greetings from Germany! - Willow

Out on a mission today, to collect as many caches as possible toward the Hidden Creatures souvenirs. With very few unfound local caches, a decent journey was required. Left at dawn and covered over 300km through the winding gravel back roads of Northland, passing through Twin Bridges, Donnelley's Crossing, Waipoua forest, Omapere, Opononi and Taheke, before the heavy rain finally set in. This heavy rain, combined with the sunset, put a halt to further searching, so had to settle in the end for 29 finds and 7 DNFs for the day.

In Omapere now, so time to look for as many here as possible. The grotty showers have departed for a while, so nice and sunny whilst looking for this cache. Not much parking near GZ so had to take a bit of a walk back to this one. With the good hint, the cache was soon located, log signed and all replaced safe and secure. TFTC

Thanks for a wonderful hide in a beautiful location. TFTC OZGrumpy

Climbed down from the road as the tide was in. Quickly found. Thank-you butchie bum for placing this cache for our enjoyment. Out caching with Will of the Wisp on our “Round the World in 80 Days” trip to celebrate retirement. Signing logs with our names or initials depending on space. Greetings from England, TFTC.

called in today after an awesome beach walk. tb drop

tb drop

Look for it

Easy find. Tftc

I found the cache after a long search. It was almost sunset. The spoiler picture helped me.

tftc
Trassolix

Fund Nr. 3751

Nice spot, not too hard if you know where to look.

Luckily quite a quick find. Lots of places it could have been but GPS accurate.

Found during our holiday to New Zealand together with GeoFinn. Touring in a campervan through this amazing country; second time here, now with our son. 5 weeks was over in a blink; already plans for a third time.

Travelling, geocaching, hiking, kayakking, swimming, mountains, lakes, geyers, beaches; it was amazing. CO's thanks for your cache, it made our trips even more fun.

mmmmike wanted to stop to take some pictures. Best opportunity for me to get a box - hopefully. The hint was helpful for a systematic search. And then - there it was.
Took the coin with me. Thanks for hiding the cache.

Took longer to find than it should have. TFTC.

out enjoying a wonderful beach stroll with my fur balls for the afternoon. stopped in to check and TB drop while here . happy caching everyone.

Tftc. Well hidden. Good hint. GPS was pretty much spot on

Kids went for a swim her while we found the cache tftc

Yebo butchiebum

A circle at the western coast with 2 handfuls of caches sounds very tempting- we're giving it a try


Well found combo from upper level
Tftc

all up and waiting to be found again

finally back. NICE NEW container andd log in place today. out enjoying a lovely sunday beach walk. great to have this up and running again.

Will be back up and running when I get up there.

Will be isn't he area shortly soooooo will sort this as now have a good new GZ to sort out. Won't be long guys.