TGC - Kappa. (Whakatane, BOP) Maraetotara, North Island, New Zealand
By Geckoh on 28-Feb-11. Waypoint GC2PFZH

A little day to ourselves in Whakatane found us the perfect opportunity to explore this neck of the woods! A great day trekking along the Nga Tapuwae o Toi track with some spectacular views, whilst picking up these caches at the same time. A fun Greek lesson at the same time!

This half of the track was considerably less busy than the first half, so we were able to grab the finds quickly. Thanks for the hide!

New Year's clean up time.

[green] Home for Christmas. Well, sort of. Home is actually Palmerston North, the rest of the family are in Rotorua, and now I am off to Opotiki with mum to catch up with the rest of the family who left for the beach a few days ago, staying at the Tirohanga Campground. I haven't swum in the ocean for years!! Got here yesterday after caching most of the way up from Rotorua, with the exception of Kawerau to Whakatane. The wind slammed the car door shut on mum's hand, and so we had to get it checked out. No bones broken, luckily, but plenty of other crush injuries. Time will fix them easily enough.
Day after the day after Christmas. I borrow my sister's car to spend a day on the hikoi o Nga Tapuwae o Toi.

I got so annoyed with missing out on Secret waterfall (the COs terrible coordinates, misread the description and was looking for a large) that I also missed stairway to Heaven, which was on my hit list as it is a missing month, and walked past nu, mu, and lambda. I walked back for lambda and mu, the rest hopefully I will be back for. Mu and lambda are done now, things are back in order.
Turning out to be a hot sunny day - nice!

Thanks for the cache, and Merry Christmas from the Seagnoid!

A trip from Rotorua to Whakatane (for a Greek Lesson) and then on to Tauranga. Another lovely day on the road and a few caches to boot. Thanks for placing them.

...and it keeps climbing! Definitely need to keep working on fitness. Apart from that, easy find.

Still heading for the mental half way mark (and thinking about Mu).. TFTC

Found it

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Quick find for us. Cache all good.

Nice easy find, thanks

Easy find great hints...

Another easy find with the hint...

Nearly at otarawairere bay.great finding all the caches tftc

Cache all good loved the walk

Note to self, we are doing this backwards so left is right. Found it. TFTC

Fantastic views up here today but a very chilly wind when exposed to it.
Many thanks

Nice easy find on a little run TFTC!

Was in Whakatane for the long weekend with the family and mother in law. Decided to get up early and do the TGC walk while the rest of the house was still fast asleep. Did the required reading the night before and headed out as the sun started rising to commence the walk. Did not have too many troubles finding the caches I looked for. Only problem was I misjudged the length of the walk and the caches I was going to do on the way back I had to skip as need to be home by 10am. TFTC and for getting me out into the bush again! Really enjoyed the walk even though it did make me realise I am not as fit as I thought I was

Another nice quick find. We didn't need the hint for this one. We already knew where it was, the Rewarewa tree. TFTC

Found it

Honey is a favourite food for Pooh and friends so we are enjoying all these Rewarewas !!
TFTC

Good descriptions and hints, easy to find, excellent weather, caching is fun. Thanks CO

Found today as we walked this end of the Toi track to finish it off after walking the Whakatane end in Dec 2013. TFTC

Nice views, easy find. TFTC

We do a part of the Kohi Point Walkway today. It's very windy, sunny and warm. Easy found.
We do enjoy the walk and the views very much. Our last one from the Grece Series.
Thanks CO

We had only time today to do a part of this track. But we enjoyed it very much. What a views!
And a lot of caches!
We liked the serie very much. Good descriptions and hints!
CO thanks. A favo for the serie!
Greetings from The Netherlands.

En met Kappa zijn we met deze serie gekapt! (Only understandable for the Dutch cachers).

This series is proving to be delightful. t4tc

Good tree

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Finally i bot one under a Rewarewa tree tftc

0345 This is the type of cache series that I LOVE! Great track, basically can't get lost, good satellite coverage, great views even at night, and logical spots where the caches are hidden, with well thought out clues. Good coordinates again, sorry the correct site marker won't fit.
TNLNSL, another for the Night Caching elective book mark; don't know, but I have 350 by time I head back to Oz! (just from this year)
Brought through for mileage: "Mineral Mountain (CO)" Green Jeep Travel Bug, 12-12-12 Event, 3 Bros, Aust Light Houses, BEAGLE BIXBY, B 2 B ingot, BROWN BEAR 15, Coin of Danmark, CRDAVIS-Scottish Thistle Geocoin, Fishing Bell TB, GoLeo Travel Bug Dog Tag, Iconic Bridges, land rover TB, Lil' Miss TB, cache critters Baa, Neigh Neddy, and Oink, NZ Mega 2013 GCookie Coin, PAP, Raban, Red Jandal, Rienan TB, Spooky, steben6's DNF Duo - Super Cacher Geocoin, Trakabulldog geocoins, VIRGINia TAG, and trackable shirts.
TFTC series Geckoh - Favourited

Another great day in this corner of paradise. With just one more day before heading on I thought I would grab a couple more while out there. Nifty hide. TNLN
TFTC Geckoh

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Family walk to Ohope looking for caches

Great day, number 9!

Ninth cache of many that I found today on the Nga Tapuwae o Toi (in the footsteps of Toi) track. The excellent hints ensured that no time was wasted. At this point I was aware of the tide status, so it was important to keeep a move on to ensure that I didn't flood my new tramping boots.TFTC.

The nineth of the caches we found on the walkway. This was a great series. Good clues, easy finds (as they should be) and the incentive to do the walk.

Ahhh, a rewarewa - Now we know what this is! I guess we should have thought a little more about why the Geckoh series was starting at the other end but we found out soon enough when we got to the top of the stairs !

Found with Pyreneus during our NZ trip!

easy find!
0ut: compass!

found it
together with jv24
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Teamed up with Spiderhouse to try and knock off a few more Eastern Bay caches. The weather held long enough for us to launch our assault...

On a mission to find the TGC caches. If there's one thing we've learnt from this series of caches, it's how to identify Rewarewa. Took a moment to find this specimen and then we were away. TFTC.

Out for the day with Squirrel Nutcase for an assault on Geckoh territory. Why can't I grow Rewarewa like this at home?

Thanks Geckoh.

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I'm liking this one. A quick turnaround. Great to see the steps I turned my ankle on last time I ran through here! Made for a very enjoyable last half of the race. Today is a little more leisurely. In fact, I now have to slow down and let the little old ladies get well ahead or we will be doing some more tag team caching. TFTC

This entry was edited by tparty on Sunday, 10 February 2013 at 07:48:41 UTC.

Having noe got our lefts and rights sorted this was clear cut.

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Taken Compass Rose,
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Kiwi69 and I decieded that this was our challenge, so made an early start for Whakatane from home. It's The day is a warm one. Each time we round a corner we are grated by even more amazing views
Well worth the early start to the day

TFTC

Out & about caching in Whakatane with C&D, with Toi's circuit as our main objective for the day. Beautiful walk with the most amazing views. Beginning to wonder if every Rewarewa has a cache behind it .... TFTC.

Another quick easy find, with karma reprint. TFTC

Day 3 of the trip home to Christchurch, Whakatane to Te Araroa. A quick find with WEKA team. GPS was a bit out. Thanks for the hide

couldnt find this one

Thankyou Geckoh for all those Caches we picked up of yours today, very good walk from "Westend to Hillcrest.TFTC

Another in the series. TFTC

Found quickly by one of the kids. It was so great to have another geocache to look for every 300m or so, the kids really got into it. TFTC

What a beautiful spring day for a walk along the Toi track! Spring is definitely here.
A weekend in Whakatane was the perfect time to tackle this series.
Thanks for placing the caches along this trail, with (in our opinion) very accurate coordinates and difficulty/terrain ratings.

Thanks for the wonderful series.

...another Greek we found on our tour, tftc

Quick find once I found the right tree. TFTC

quick find on way past TFTC

My GPS was a bit confused but my friend found it quickly anyway.

And this marks our turning around point... the rest we will get from the Ohope End another day.

Quick find while doing your Munzee trail. TFTC & TFTM

Easy find as I ran past.

Another find - fairly easy. Left a pet rock - a frog. TFTC

another one TFTC

Tftc hot day

Found the right tree.

Thanks for the cache. Great walk

Nice track.
TFTC, TNLN SL
Cheers
nzkeko

Great walk, nice cache location. TFTC!

Quick find on the Caching run. TFTC.

Fab series for a brill day of caching and coastal walking. Thanks

Great Series TFTC Felix!

Have decided I must get a small book on trees - am getting better at them, but room for improvement

Look for the obvious tree - nice quick find TFTC

Quick find while enjoying the walk along the coast.

Finished off the series today. Really good fun finding them. Soon had this one located. SL TFTC

Completed the whole series. Enjoyed the walk and views of all the bays. The weather held up well too thankfully. No caches posed any real difficulty's. Thanks for bringing me here.

Another quick find during this very nice walk. Nice spot!

TFTC!

We're getting spoiled with all the nice caches on the way! Easy find.

TFTC!!

Lady Pinguin

We were in Whakatane on a lovely sunny day & ideal weather for such a challenge. The hint was most helpful which made for a quick find. Now onto the next cache in this challenge.

Out for Saturday jog – haha, walk,jog, walk, slip, climb, jog, walk etc…
Why did I start at West End ? I know it’s harder this way – definitely more ups.
Yip there it was thanks- actually enjoying my jog about now - thinking about all the down to come

FTF. There are lots of places to stop and enjoy the view with better still to come. Easy find. TFTC

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