Motiti View (Bay of Plenty) Papamoa Beach, North Island, New Zealand
By SplattyNZ on 12-Oct-10. Waypoint GC2GKDH

Opening up the area for someone else. Sorry it has taken me so long to action this, and thanks for the prompt, Troodles.

Nearly 18 months since disabled. Time for action.

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I'll need to get here to check this cache, sorry about not attending to it earlier, will be next weekend till I can get there.

Matt

Followed co-ords to chopped down tree - why would someone do that - anyway couldn’t find cache. Could owner please check that it’s still there

Searched around felled tree but did not find anything

GPS points to under felled tree.

Awesome, good camouflage

Geocaching with Roims and this one was found. Be careful for the fallen tree

found with tiare06. left a riddle

Neat things in the container!! it’s such a shame someone has cut the pohutakawa tree down

Had a lovely wander down the beach from the Domain on my last day of the holiday period with the intent of locating this cache. There were lots of people out swimming and on the beach but nobody around the area I was headed to, so it was easy to have a good search about. Heard a bit of a 'thonk' and there it was. A good hide thanks.

Easy find pity some idiot has gone and cut down the trees around it,obviously spoiling their view.

Nice little find as we had some time to kill before the cricket. Tftc

Found Thanks!

Came out with Anne & Lucy for a lovely walk along the beach. Great to feel the sand between my toes. Picked up a few caches on the way back to the car. Anne takes credit for this one.
Thanks for placing.

Found iiiit

first time taking my brother, he LOVED it! tftc

Great find for our class!! Thank you very much

Think we are a little slow. But finally got there. Great hide.

This one took a few minutes at GZ, looked right at it but didn't see it. Came back round and saw it, it has good cover.

Cache is in good condition. On to the next doggie find!

Great find. Really good cover. TFTC

On a trip over the Kaimais to escape the fog/rain & enjoy some lovely mid-winter BOP sunshine instead. Amazing views today - thanks for bringing me here. Nice quick find too. Cache signed & replaced as found, TFTC

Decided to wander around the beach and sand dunes this afternoon to pick up the rest of the caches along Papamoa Beach. I had a muggle sister wander along with me with her hula hoop doing her hooping tricks a few metres away from where ever I stopped to hunt. I must say it was a good cover/distraction for any other muggle passers by. Bit of an adventure to get to this one as it was well off the track! Found with my feet as a previous cacher did. Thanks for the cache, very well hidden

Boy did I take the wrong track (no track)
Black Berry Bushes 1....Tomb Raider 0. Finally arrived at cache with Mr Froggy and dejavu. I've been here before. Tftf again.

Nice cache awesome view of Motiti island. It even had SWAG, we swapped one for us to take. TFTC

Sweet find. Nicely full or roaches! Enjoyed throwing them at the kids

Found this while on holiday in this area .... Thanks SplattyNZ
So many caches to do ......on to next one !

A favorite. Happy to be caching in New Zealand. TFTC

I have learnt that no amount of searching will locate cache if you have multiple structures and you are looking around the wrong structure.
TFTC

This is very well hidden. Disturbed a lot of pheasants! Searching for a while. Getting really frustrated then a sound under foot sounded like something there. Sure enough. Don't worry it's all good. Grab the coin to move on. Tftc

GPS brought us straight here but it still took about 10 minutes to find the very well hidden cache. Dropped a geocoin and a favourite point. TFTC.

A beautiful beach with great views to Mt Manganui!
Thank you

Nice walk to come here.
Started looking at the wrong spot, went over to the right spot but still couldn't find it directly. Good covered, left as found after signing the log

a tricky find, on a lovely day

2534 Enjoying the walk in the dunes. This one took some time to find. Thankful when I did. Good view today.

Found it. ..lovely walk to get here too. Tftc

A nice quick and easy find for this one. TFTC

Nearly dnfed due to not looking hard enough. Widened search area but came back to gz a third time before finally stumbling in the cache. Nice wee stroll here with thescoobydoos and of course geo-dog. Tftc

Tftc. Found but took a while. Hint had us hunting in the wrong spot, unless the cache has crept? Not at base of anything noticeable?

Nice quick easy find TFTC

Enjoying a quick trip down to the beach! Out with Delshell to drops few TBs off that we picked up in Taupo. TFTC

Out on a quick visit to beach with Jackson3118 to find suitable caches to drop TBs picked up in Taupo. Dropped GC

Nice easy find, thanks!

All in good conditipn

Nice find on beach. Love the note from birds of a feather

Another find on a beautiful warm sunny day. Left a couple of rugby cards as trades.Tftc

Found it

I remember camping on Motiti Island for my 4th form school camp. Could have relaxed under the tree in the sun taking in that view forever. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane

No Motiti view today as a heavy sea fog. A very nice walk along the beach to grab this cache. TFTC

Stunning place for a cache! Beautiful. Took some loom bands and left a pen. Thanks sophihha will pass on.TFTC

Also freed the cockroach and got scared to death by 2 cock pheasants.

Great area! Took dinosaur and put a loom band kit

Was walking the dog and thought I'd check if there were any near, awesome find with an awesome view!be back tomorrow with a pen!

Nice easy find tftc

Joined up with yorkshirekiwi83 today and headed down to Papamoa and Mount Maunganui for a long day of caching. We arrived in Papamoa early in the morning and then spent the rest of this hot summers day making our way to The Mount and finding what caches we could along the way. A quick find of the cache here, while on our travels. TFTC!

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Vistra and I had decided to go for a full on day and head down to Papamoa / Mount Maunganui to see if we could get some numbers and quick drive bys.

Nice quick find, TFTC


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I cannot believe how many pheasants hang out in the dunes
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Cheers

Raemoz Anja Tayne found while staying with our son and family in Papamoa NZ.

wasn't sure which access to go down, but GPS soon had me on track. Thanks.

After spending the weekend at the mount, spent a couple of hours on the beach at Papamoa, braving the high winds and looking for a few caches. Started from the Domain and walked East, this was our second to last find, easy one. Walking on the beach barefeet in the sand is OK, but around in the dunes there is a bit of debris and prickles and I'm starting to feel it!

In the mount for the weekend we decided to explore Papamoa beach. Lovely tidy area and we have a great day for it (though the wind nearly knocked us off our feet!). Spotted easy. Thanks

I can see why the dog likes this area ...heaps of pheasants to sniff out and chase, nice easy find here and Cache in good condition stirred up quite a few pheasants on the way in great little cache thanks

Out keeping my streak going and have no decided that I will hit paps just before midnight and get one cache then get the other just after midnight and tick off 2 days

Looks like those 4 legged friends have come back :0 cheers splatty think the view would be nicer during the day. Left a TB for the next finder

Quick find, cache was home to some multi legged friends... I nudged them out of the way so I could sign. TFTC

7041. Out for a day's geocaching in the Tauranga area with Nodo (David and Noelene) from Waihi. This was our eleventh cache find of the day. We had it in hand very quickly and signed it off. Now off to find a some others in the area. Thanks. Rodney and Iris.

2.05pm. We are spending the day in Tauranga with "Sallies" from Christchurch. A bit of a walk through the dunes from the dune drifter for a quick find here. Container was home to a heap of cockroaches but we tipped them out.
Thank You David and Noeline.

Great hiding spot! The kids loved finding this one

Muggle sightings aplenty - had to be stealth. Setting of the flare seemed to do the trick.. thanks

Took a short cut but i would recommend taking the actual path to the cache

Nice quick find all in good order. Beautiful spring like day. Tfth

Nicely placed cache! Thankfully no bugs inside as I'd been told.

Great location

Out for a numbers mission in and around The Mount and Papamoa with 11HPG11 and iammrwalker today. With a very early start of 5am agreed on, it was going to be a long day compounded by the All Blacks playing before we left which meant a 3am alarm being set the night before. We all had a great time and a lot of laughs were had in between some frustrating hides, a really enjoyable multi and a couple of great field puzzles. All in all a very successful day with only a handful of DNF's, the weather keeping at bay for most of the day and 86 new smiles added to the map in a little under 13 hours of caching. We signed the cache log "Hi 1" an acronym of our caching names. A big thanks to all the cache owners for placing some great caches.

Out on a numbers mission with HKCB and Iammrwalker to clear out some of the caches in Tauranga/Papamoa area. We left Hamilton at 5am and had a full day of caches, a few DNFs, a refreshing swim in a pond and a whole lot of laughs. We signed logs as 'HI1' as an acronym for our caching names to save log space. Thanks to all the cache owners for the great variety of caches, puzzles and locations

Great views of Motiti thanks. Another great spot to visit. Thanks for the hide

I'm in the Tauranga/Mt Maunganui area to get a few of additions to my new caravan and so while they are working on that I am going to work on getting my numbers a bit bigger.

Motiti Island is very flat.

Cheers for the cache.

Cockroach swarm when we found it lol

Hi there

Tftc

Have replaced cache container and log book. The old container was also found and I put some of the salvageable toys in the new container.

Please rehide well.

Took awhile to find this one as GPS pointing in wrong direction at first. Then spotted something of interest ...... a half eaten full of bugs log book!! Have signed and left hanging on a tree next to a pair of knickers that were hanging in the tree lol. Maintenance required!! Tftc

Nice quick find as per description. Not many people out on an overcast Easter Monday. That's good for me. TFTC.

Wonderful panoramic views on a warm sunny day. TFTC

Found cache out in the open. Rehid well. Cheers.

TFTC

Neat walk along the beach. Lovely spot. Easy find. Thanks.

Beautiful day for a walk In the dunes with the family. Tftc

Nice find whilst waiting for the Santa parade to start. Tftc

TFTC. Greetings from Germany

Out and about exploring the area on a lovely sunny day. This one was well hidden, took us quite a while to uncover its hidey spot. Great views from here. SL. TFTC.

Quick find for us this morning. Cache all good.

Easy found it during afternoon walk on the beach.
TFTC

We were out for a bike ride and decided to do some caching while we were out, we found this one pretty easily but it is a nice place for a hide, TFTC

Lovely evening for a stroll and fun find .

Thought we would get the bikes out and go for a ride today, so we rode down Papamoa Beach Road ducking in to the beach for the odd cache or two... or ten. It's not a bad road to cycle on. Found this one pretty quickly but when I picked it up there was a cockroach sitting on top, gave me a bit of a fright. Shook it off though and got on with the job. Thanks for the cache.

Get your base correct!

Cute thing in this one, but no pen.

Cool Sam and anje

Good work by two kids and a dog ☺