Orcas at Ohinewai (Coromandel) Port Jackson, North Island, New Zealand
By No Fixed Aboder on 26-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2V2RY

Thanks for the cache with a beautiful view. Visited while on a family holiday from Australia

After a challenging drive to Port Jackson we stopped a few times on our way back to look for geocaches.Nice container and nice spot to hide a cache.TFTC Greetings from Belgium

Lovely spot. Cool cache!! It always makes me smile to find such thought about caches. This log book is very damp though, might need replacing , or airing out if someone was so inclined to hang out for a while. I left a little treasure.

Quick find at 1355. Cool cache and neat area. Logbook pretty wet. TNLNSL TFTC

IT is really cool, really well hidden underneath the tree stump.

Having completed the 2 day Pahi Coastal Walk trail, I then had the pleasure of riding an E-Bike from Port Jackson back to Colville, which was a lovely ride on a beautiful day. A nice quick find of this cute hide. TFTC!

Found on our way heading up to Fantail Bay. Cute cache.

Very cute cache but no orcas to be seen out on the water today

As it's raining today, we're picking the occasional cache to stop for. It had lightened a little, so we stop to see if we could spot any orca's.
A nice cache in a nice spot.
Thanks for putting this here

Unfortunately didn't spot any Orca's today, until... ... ... ... loved the hide. Found with Reny90

Found with toby84

On our way up the Coromandel with evilC, taking the long route... No actual orcas in view today, but a great spot. TFTC!!

Staying nearby at Otauto Farm camp we set out to explore the west side of the peninsula. On arrival we could not proceed as there was some freedom camper almost camped on the cache so we left and collected it on the way home

Sadly no Orcas out on the bay today. But did managed to meet this one and leave our calling card. Cheers.

Day 4 -Paritu Bay to Port Charles and back to Paritu Bay. So lets get rolling.

The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby and I are off on another geocaching escape over Xmas, this time to the mighty Coromandel, then over to Opotiki and stop off at Rotorua to return home on 5 January. Had an fabulous time exploring many wonders of our country. Rounding up over 400 caches along the way, with a few LABS, 20 odd TMGTs, virtuals and lots of interesting earth caches to keep the mind busy. Watching the sun come up on New Years Day at Mt Maunganui was spectacular. Lots of walking and even more driving. But had an awesome time. Thanks to all COs who made this adventure so special.

Saw no orca today. Well, that's not true - we saw one . The sun is now just above the horizon. Dawn has come.

Taybeedragon and I went on a tour of the Coromandel - one of the few places of New Zealand, especially of Te ika a Maui, that I have yet to explore throughly, and from there along the coast to Opotiki to see one of my many, many sisters. From 18 December to 5 January we found over 400 caches, including 12 adventure labs, 20 or so TMGTs and a host of virtuals and earthcaches. And I hosted an event to see the sun come up on New Year's day - surprisingly popular given that it was at 5am. We climbed a lot of hills, saw some amazing beaches that were quite popular despite (or because of) the insane access to them, walk and lot of bush, entered and explored 8 gold mines and generally had an awesome time. However I am glad to be back, but now is the hard part, and I fear it will take just as long - logging!

No orca today unfortunately but what a beautiful spot

Lovely cache. Book very damp could do with new one. Found while waiting for slip to be cleared south of here.

Lovely spot, TTTC

Trouvée facilement ! Superbe cache au bord de l’océan ! Magnifique ! On prend le TB, on l’apportera au Japon en mai !

Found this cache neatly tucked away. What a beautiful area. Thanks for the placement. Clever and cool cache container

Amazing bit of coastline. Very windy here today. Been camping at Otautu Bay. Out TB. In TB. TFTC.

Amazing cache, amazing coastal drive and amazing country! Ending this first of many visits to this beautiful country, by placing a trackable here in the mouth of the killer whale!

Yay found it

Awesome cache...tftc

Thank you for cache, pity no whales today but it’s a big ocean

Thanks!

Coromandel weekend Day 1. Found it on the way to Fletcher Bay. Another great container in right spot. Many thanks for your efforts.

Find number 5918. I had always wanted to venture to the top of Coromandel on a caching trip. So when Boges offered to be my driver a plan was hatched. We spent the night along the coast and then cached our way up the west side to Fletcher Bay. I then walked the track thru to Stoney Bay while he drove around to meet me. A few more caches as we made our way back to our accommodation. I was able to clear most of the caches and ended the day with 38 finds out of 40 (2 DNF). I signed it the 7th but was actually found on the 8th. (Too early out of bed this morning).
There was only 1 Orca seen today and it was holding a cache. Thank you for the placement.
A few years ago I was paddling a sit on kayak in Bowentown harbour when a pod of Orcas went by.

So beautiful here. Only saw one orca... was lovely having an explore under the trees. The whole family enjoyed this one

We are here in our caravan, there is nowhere to park beside the cache, but about 50m before the spot, there is a small pull in. A large van can easily back in and be safely off the road.

There was a huge amount of trash lying around could use someone with a trailer to go and pick it all up

Another find as we work our way back down the coast road from Fletcher Bay. TFTC

Found on our way up the peninsula for a camping holiday. Unfortunately we didn't see any orcas at GZ today, but we did find the cache. FP for the cute cache container.

Tftc

Tftc !! Lovely container

Had a chuckle when I saw this cache. Not sure what I was expecting but probably not this. All good fun Thanks NoFixedAbode

TFTC- coastel road trip from Coromandel town to Tauranga- amazing views on this road

great area

Beautiful place. Photos taken. On to Fletcher Bay. TFTC

Another nice location we've found by geocaching during our parental vacation in New Zealand.

Thank you and greeting,
magnema

My mom and I are on our way back to Auckland from a great/fun but wet weekend at Port Jackson. Sun is now shining and we stopped to enjoy the view along the way back. Quick stop at GZ to make the find. TFTC

Joined in on the fun with 11HPG11 and Cats&Dragons on a overnighter at Port Jackson. Kiwis69 also joined the crew on the Saturday to find a few caches. The whole weekend was a blast, and a lot of fun was had. The logs were all signed as "HOAC" to save space on the logbook.

Over the two days we ended up have a whirlwind tour of the upper half of the Coromandel, and thoroughly enjoyed the whole trip. A big thanks to all the CO's for being our tour guide/s over the weekend. A truly unforgettable trip.

On the way home now, but not before we find the last few caches up this way.

A nicely themed cache, but only the one Orca here today.

Homeward bound now from Port Jackson after some storms cut our camping short. Home via a few caches of course. Our group today consisted of HKCB, Cats&Dragons, and myself

All up we had a whirlwind tour of the Coromandel and saw some amazing sights. Plus a few boxes here and there of course. It was interesting to see how the storm and king tides had changed certain spots and we were treated to some spectacular thunder storms rolling in from Great Barrier. The camping was an experience, wet, full of laughs, and a great time. Thanks to the cache owners for showing us round the Coromandel and giving us a reason to get out and about.

Another fab container on the Coro Coast. Thanks for the great hide.

Found together with KiwiLeon on the way back from camping at Port Jackson. Nice spot to stop. T4TC

Found with GreenBlAt after our Waitangi weekend camp out at Port Jackson.
Run into Kyb3r on the way out who tagged along with us.
Great container.
TFTC

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Quick find. Neat cache.

After some rainy days this was a wonderful und sunny day! I enjoyed some short hikes and the landscape in the northern part of Coromandel peninsula Of course a few caches were a must do here!

TFTC and greetings from Germany!

#1388

We had planned a big weekend with 6 of us travelling the Coromandel area and logging caches as team BOP. Found many great spots, several caches we replaced wet log sheets and others missing for some time. Lots of km's travelled on tarseal, gravel and some not so good roads. Lots of rained showers seemed to plague us on the first day. SLTFTC

Found as part of Team BOP what an action packed weekend we had on the Coromandel. Starting at 5am in Rotorua and finishing well into the night on Saturday staying the night at the Holiday park then we were up early and away again finishing back in Rotorua at about 1030pm.
Thanks for all the caches.

With Gap (of Fap and Gap), (Mr) Davidson clan, NZFlossy, TNXPro, and Philip.Perry… This is the first time we have cached overnight together. What an adventure… We group signed as Team BOP for efficiency and expediency.

We visited so many beautiful and remote locations on the Coromandel Peninsula. Many of these areas deserved to be hosts to caches. However, we encountered several that needed owner maintenance. Wet logbooks seemed to be far too common (We’ve had a lot of rain). Oftentimes, a sodden logbook was stuffed back into the container with a new, bagged logbook alongside (What's up with that?). And then there were some caches that were quite obviously missing (and have been for a while)… Nevertheless, a huge thank you to all of the COs for bringing us to these amazing places… We are determined to return and explore some more.

After some sweeps through ground zone, the cache was soon in hand. And a nicely themed container to boot. TFTC.

Team BOP have reunited for a two day adventure in the Coromandel.

We promptly swarmed the area checking every hinted tree until the cache was located which didn't take long. Neat and fitting container given the theme.

Cheers No Fixed Aboder, everything's in good order here. TFTC.

Team BOP made it to the northern coast and now we can concentrate on the ones we missed on the way back south.
We had to don the headlamps for the search now, so no chance of spotting Orcas, but earlier in the day, we did get a show from a family of dolphins.
I can only imagine the beautiful view during daylight hours.
I loved the container hiding the cache.
Thanks for bringing us here.
TFTC

Great find while passing by to next adventure race transition. TFTC

Today we went for a long drive and picked underway some geocaches. Greetings from two girls from Holland. TFTC

Today we went for a long drive and picked underway some geocaches. Greetings from two girls from Holland. TFTC

Loved the container, it fit the cache theme well. Beautiful spot. First cache for the summer. Tftc.

We're visiting from Florida, USA. That was great fun. Thanks for placing the cache.

Only the one beached whale was seen here today incredible coastline. Thanks!

Found while cruising slowly down to Coromandel township for the day. TFTC

Just the one orca to be seen today along this beautiful stretch of coastline, found on a leisurely morning jaunt in this fantastic location. TFTC No Fixed Aboder, #8378

Oh yeah, it was worth the drive to come, that's a cool cache with a view. First to find in 2016, happy new year! TFTC

We are traveling around New Zealand. We are so glad that we can discover this beautiful country. We enjoy it so much. This cache was found during our travel. Nice box.

Thank you. Greetings from Czech Republic

On our travel through New-Zealand we visited some really nice places.

Thanks to all Owner to show us all this places.


Greetings from Cologne /Germany

Gitschel

Found while staying at nearby DOC camp. No orcas today for us sadly. TFTC

Love the themed cache containers
Fav too
Tflc

Cool spot

Off for a couple of nights stay at Port Jackson - Enjoying the drive and the scenery This is a beautiful spot - we didn't see any Orcas but we did see a pod of dolphins very close to the shore - neat to watch TFTC

Detailed log follows. Rirajoto

Very cleaver . These trees must b a great age

easy find here GPS was spot on
Sign log and cache in good order TFTC log by Gsak

Spent the night near here. Quick find before my morning swim. Tftc

Nice views but unfortunately, we didn’t spot any Orcas at Ohinewai, just a few divers and a nicely themed cache of course, many thanks.

Great!! We saw an Orca here! It's really, really beautiful out here!

Took TB with me

T4t$

Nice cache little time to found it

Nice cache little time to found it

A quick easy find of a cute cache - no other orcas today. TFTC

This one took a little bit of searching after shifting the car from 70m before the cache to 70m after it. Loved the cache container. Did a travelbug swap before continuing up the coast.

We had lunch there hidden behind the grass and trees. It was a nice day and the water so blue and clear. Just perfect. Well... nearly, Orcas weren't there. Maybe next time... At least we found one little orca. We left two friends for company!

We found this cache during our wonderful journey through New Zealand. Thank you for the cache and the great time in your country! Greetings from Germany.

Very much liked the cache container, very fun. by the way, 'orcas' shouldn't have an apostrophe. TFTC

Awesome Orca! TFTC

Mrs found a little blue penguin in a tree near here

Cute cache, another nicely themed one

Tftc

Another great spot to stop on our tiki tour to Port Jackson. Loved the container. SL. TFTC.

Cute! Tftc

TFTC, loved the container..

Gorgeous spot. Tftc

What a funny container. Theme fitting. Fast found. TFTC

Awesome find. Thought it was neat. TFTC

Cool spot tftc.

Wow, what a sight there were orcas everywhere with some almost right out of the water. Thanks for sharing this magic spot and the cache container was great too TFTC.

Nice spot and hide! Beautiful costal road to Port Jackson! Best greetings from Germany 2 Supermuggels
TB in/out

A quick find while heading towards Port Jackson this morning. Nicely done container! Signed log, TFTC.

A quick find tonight, no Orca sightings though. TFTC

Dropped off T.B.

Lovely hide. One of our favourites to meet while out in the kayak. TXXX

This cache is def easier to find from the parking area. TFTC.

Nicely themed cache!
Found quickly on a good drive to Fletcher Bay

Left a geocoin
SL TFTC

Orca's??? I see no Orca's. But we have in the past. Fabulous coast, awesome scenery. Just love the Coromandel. Hey, then we spotted an Orca and we took the TB.

12.05pm. Another easy find. We didn't see any Orcas here but we did see them a bit further up the coast. Past Fantail Bay there were four or five playing in the sea just below our vantage point. We watched them for a while. Great
Thank you. David and Noeline.

Driving up to Port Jackson for a couple of nights. Keeping watch for Orca's. No luck so far but beautiful day. TFTC

like the large old trees here. Nice place for a stop. TFTC