Welcome to Paeroa (Bay of Plenty) Paeroa, North Island, New Zealand
By cashkids on 27-Dec-10. Waypoint GC2KPC4

I am archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in a prior reviewer note.

Hi cashkidsThis geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no cache maintenance logged. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.RegardsTheCoddiwompler

Day #2 of our two day adventure doing the Rail Trail with BearCache #39Total found so far: 35As others have said, looks like the are has been cleaned up so no more cache

no luck today

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Looks like area has been tidied up. Cache likely gone.

No flax or bush. Maybe the cache has been destroyed.

Little hard but not to

Was passing through late last night just after 12pm so thought why not get a night cache and keep this streak going TFTC

It may have been a small flax bush when placed but they are big now, some with ivy growing through some of them. Wasn't a nice place to search and busy road, so gave up

Found after walking down the road from the bottle

A bit of a look but soon in hand - contents wet but singable - TFTC

Nice cool find with cool things inside

No luck for me, only a quick look. Very exposed to traffic

nice quick find

Will try again

A nice quick find on our way home from Scouts camp. Sorry we had no pen to sign the log. Found along with PsychoMonkey25 and MasterFinder. TFTC

Yay! A nice quick find. TFTC

Quick find

TaurusSix and I are in New Zealand for a three weeks holiday. We love New Zealand and have had lots of wonderful experiences here previously. This time we have decided to focus our attention on three destinations for one week each, all in the North Island. The Coromandel Peninsula, Waiheke Island and The Bay of Isles. We are very mindful of not focusing all our attention of the holiday on geocaching, however it will still play an important part. We are deliberately focusing on caches that involve some walking, great views, interesting attractions , history and general points of interest. And this will all happen in between exploring, swimming , walking, doing touristy things and relaxing .
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Day 6 - We are now based for the next little while at Pauanui on the Coromandel Peninsula. Today was a big day we set off quite early and explored Paeroa before heading to Karangahake Gorge and undertaking the full return walk to Waikino- Victoria Battery. It took about one hour to get to Paeroa and it was a nice drive at that time of day as the sun was rising , it was definitely a good example of the “land of the long white cloud” as we made our way through the mountains. Once at Paeroa we explored the town in the best possible way by undertaking the three Adventure Labs that are there. The third one being the legendary L and P one which finished at the L and P cafe where we had a lovely brunch . Next we parked up at the beginning of Karangahake Gorge ready for our big adventure. Along the way we also walked back and forward through the tunnel, checked out one of the waterfalls, explored the old gold town and industrial operations at waikino, really enjoyed the walk and collected all up 14 geocaches and 2 Adventure Labs. Total caches for day 17 traditional, multi, virtual and questions and 25 Adventure Lab elements. Great day all round.

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This is our third cache find of the day along with three local Adventure Labs. We picked it up on our way out of town heading to the Karangahake Gorge. Road was just starting to get busy. Thanks for the cache cashkids

Homeward bound Northland.

Found on our way to waihi for a work thing, took longer than it should have but got it in the end, thanks for the placement.

Good find

Fairly quick find on the way to Tauranga

Whoever left the weird baby thing as swag you have scarred me

Easy find on a beautiful Paeroa day. TFTC.

Our last one in Paeroa today.
Looking forward to coming back one day and cycling the track.
Nice quick find

A nice find here today on our way to Paeroa doing ad labs and caches. Tftc

Nice easy park and fined. Insides all wet.
TFTC

Having finished a section of the HRT today we were now ready to tidy up a few of the others in the area before heading home.

Lucky last cache of the day and lucky B4Dawn was with us as we needed his help.

Thanks for the cache.

Out for a fab day with b4dawn and keylev. TFTC

Nicely hidden
Thanks!

On my way back from the supermarket, stopped off to look for this one. Found it once I used the hint. TFTC

Took a anniversary weekend with the missus to a stay over without the kids. There wasn't much to do around the area so she allowed me to grab a few caches.

Reasonably quick find. A lot of rubbish on the side of the road here and the cache was amongst that.
TFTC

Nice easy find here today!

Miserable wet day but off on an adventure anyway. TFTC

On our way back to Auckland, and picking up a few park and grabs.

Nice find by my daughter

Found it

Didn’t look too hard. Lots of traffic and so felt a bit conspicuous. Will come back.

A quick park and grab as I headed back up north after a week down Whangamata and Pauanui

Got on way home from bullswool

Thanks for your amazing cache.

Lovely park and grab on my way back to Auckland from Wentworth Valley near Whangamatā.
I like camo too! Well done.
(っ◔◡◔)っ TFTC

One of five caches located on the way back to our base in Morrinsville after an extended family picnic in the Waikino area. I’m not a great fan of flax bush hides, but fortunately found this one without much difficulty. #3544. TFTC.

Passing through on the way to Opotiki. TFTC.

A great day to turn anothet DNF into a smiley. TFTC

Heading north for the school holidays. Had time to stop in Paeroa for a few caches. I remember struggling to find this cache a few years ago but today it was straight forward. Thanks for the smiley.

Decided to come over the hill to clear some spots today and make the most of the lovely weather. Found first place I looked. Log wet so replaced log and restocked. Cheers

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.

Looks to have been possibly muggled. Saw a little bag that could of contained the log however just mcdonalds rubbish nearby. No cache i could spot.

good find!!!

tftc!

Walking around Paeroa today nice little town TFTC

TFTC last ere moving onto Rua

Yep

As I say goodbye to Paeroa I stopped to find this one. It's been an enjoyable few hours caching here with the rain fortunately holding off.

TFTC

Nice camo and perfect coordinates. Glad to find it after failing to find another close cache in town.

A hard find if you didn’t have the right flax bush!it was really well hidden!

Miss Six and I are heading south for an overnight tramp. Stopped here to get some clues for the Museum Mystery on our way down. Thanks!

Found great find make sure to search the right flax Bush!!

Looked for ages In lots of hint items but unable to find. .

A quick find as we drove past. Thanks cashkids for the cache and for the interesting history.

It was nearly goodbye to Gorby, love from Paeroa! I shot past the car parking area as I headed towards the gorge, realised my mistake and pulled over to the left. Thought I'd be clever and do a u-turn on the main HW, that didn't work did it! I had to reverse back into the lane I came from, but traffic was right up my a---, couldn't go anywhere! A huge truck and trailer came to a halt realising my predicament and I was able to reverse in front of him so I could head back the way I came. A stupid mistake and got lots of horn honking thrown my way I can tell ya!

Then I was able to pull off the road... made a quick discovery of the cache and all was well again!

Log later

Yay how exciting. Our first find!!!!! Thank you. We are hooked

Yay found it needs new log book

Another great find

Good camo. Tftc

Couldn't see it.

Didnt find this one this time. Might try again when travelling through in the future.

Great day out. Tftc

Bobby

Thought this was going to be an easy drive-by for us, as we make our way back to Auckland, but it was not to be. Hopefully the next people to stop will have more time (and patience) to look.

Nice quick find, tftc

Plans to cache on our way north in Waihi and the Gorge were altered by the Beach Hop being on. We did other things in Waihi and the Gorge stop had no parking so the cache here was very welcome. We then headed into the town to get some lunch.
Thanks.

Found it

Quick find with moggyval. Thanks

It is hard because of the rubbish

It is so hard Because of the rubbish

Nice place to stop on the way through

Had previously tried this in the rain and dark. Was much easier today in the sunshine.

Flax is massive now, made looking harder so we had to spend a while. We were here a couple of weeks ago at night but was too dark and it started raining. Tftc

A lovely day to be out and about. TFTC

Nice quick park and find. First of the day. TFTC

Quick easy find. TFTC.

Found, nice and simple. Tftc

Easy spot

lovely wee find here today thx.

On a road trip around the Coromandel. Quick easy find. TFTC.

After planning a trip to the bay of plenty for easter to gather a cache or two, it changed dramatically (we thought) when we heard that cyclone cook was about to bear down on this area our hopes had dropped .
But no almost the complete opposite, so after getting bike and body sorted it was to the start we went and ride the HRT trail, we started in thames and the plan was to ride to te aroha if the body allowed.

Nice quick find here exactly where and how it should be.

Thanks for the smiley and the placement.

Quick easy find but full of yuk TFTC

First 4 Paeroa Can confirm flax has grown now TFTC

Nice quick find while out today, TFTC

This was our very last day in New Zealand. A few more kilometres and a few more caches, then we had to give back the campervan that we had come to think of as ours. A few more hours at the airport and we will board our flight to Paris via Singapore.
New Zealand is such a great country, in almost five weeks we saw so many things and met so many friendly people. We felt good here and it is hard to say goodbye.
Thanks for all the caches and thanks for everything!

Nevertheless, there was one thing we didn't like: the sandflies!

The flax is a grown up by now

Could not find parking not safe and road way to dangerous to find cache

Nice camouflage but I still don't like flax hides. Found by Elfrieda as I was checking the GPS. TFTC.

Our first find! Love the camo and cool stuff inside. Thanks cashkids

No 3

I missed logging this one late last year ...Kahluis and I found this on round trip from Tauranga to Te Aroha and back through Paeroa thanks cashkids for a great placement

We took great grandma home to Te Aroha and decided to go back home via Paeroa. Parked van on other side of road and nipped across to find and sign. Van looked like a "safety camera" van so everyone carefully drove past lol. Thanks for the placement