Turning Wine into Water (Far North) Kerikeri, North Island, New Zealand
By CHLYBN on 17-Jun-11. Waypoint GC2YAH5

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Area has now changed. Now a nursery. Hasn't been found for a year. Needs maintenance or archiving, me thinks

No Luck for as today

Made another attempt today, also fruitless.

Spent nearly an hour fossicking, reading past logs and getting rather frustrated. Twice we thought we had hit the jackpot, but no success. Not a hint object in sight.

Sadly will have to log this as a DNF. We spent an hour at least here, searching far and wide, and were unable to find this apparently sneaky hide. Had to give up and go away as the locals seemed to be getting suspicious! We were sure that we had the right thing at one stage, but once again we drew a blank. Gloom.

Found in the first place we dismissed! Hunted around and came back to this spot and fossicked further. Clever hide, nice to dust it off for the next finder. TFTC! (log wet)

No luck here for us today couldn’t find hint item just a lot of storm damage

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Log is wet. Found after being stabbed....

We soon had this cache in hand. Log signed and cache replaced as found. TFTC

Nice find with woolwood9 today.
*We enjoyed the drive / walk around the area.*
Stamped logs as tm/ww NZ which may just look like a black smudge on plastic logs!
TFTC

*Haha had us looking for far too long here.*

Nice find while in the area with tmann421 today
Enjoying the trip north and the caches
Signed log as tm/ww NZ

Took a bit of searching this one. When found the log was a bit wet as the lid wasn’t on have secured the lid tightly. TFTC.

Thank you for cache, I’d give a favourite point if I had one.

Found today on our way south! Very clever, I actually walked past it twice before chris found it!

Searched for quite a while but didn't find even using the clues read and left by others.

Today was our first day of exploring the Bay of Islands region after driving up here from Dargaville on tuesday. For our first day we planed to dive the Rainbow warrior and do a reef dive after. We made our way down from Kerikeri to Paihia in the morning and went to Matauri Bay to launch the boat. After finishing the diving and arriving back at the shop we finished all the paperwork and made our way back to the car. On our way back to Kerikeri we stopped here to pick up this Cache. We were searching the area for about 20 minutes and could not find the Cache. Close to giving up I read a few of the previous logs and was able to find it quickly after beeing sent in the correct direction and re-reading the cache page. Tftc.

Really drained my energy looking for that

Clever work! Mummy D is smiling after finding.

On our way to Kerikeri, grabbing a few caches on the way.
Here it was found after a bit of a search and reading older logs
TFTC
Tim and Viv - ddm

Stopped for a few caches whilst travelling from Kawakawa to Kerikeri. Lots of work had been done on the fence line which made us a little dubious about finding the cache, however, on our way back to the car we spotted it. TFTC

Hunted all over, never found it. Thought it was not there. But now I see the number of favourites. Wish I saw that before - that would have considerably changed our focus!

Day twelve of an awesome, tiring, long, three week holiday geocaching with Taybeedragon in the upper north. Boxing Day! Caching Kaikohe to Kerikeri. The whole trip comprised of hours of walking on sand, sliding down sand dunes, hundreds of kilometres of unsealed roads, car breakdowns, paddling out to islands, lighthouses, dolphins, goats, events, FTFs, weird boulders. You name it, we saw it. Lots of bisons, lots of cache maintenance, lots of sunscreen. A month is enough. I am glad to be back home. Except that now I have to write up my trip. We averaged just 20 caches per day, but that is still a lot of logging!

Merry Christmas from the Seagnoid!

Northland Day 4: Travelled down from Kerikeri, through the beautiful coastline of the Bay of Islands, before ending off in Whangarei. Today’s journey was marked with a bounty of seasides and waterfalls, and with the weather being particularly fine today, there was no excuse to stay in today. Another wholly productive day, with nice haul of caches of all shapes and sizes: a wholly great birthday treat with the family today.

The following is the specific log for each cache:
Quite a messy GZ here, but had to persevere somewhat to get the cache. A clever little hide here, and thanks for the little introduction to Kerikeri. TFTC!

I found this Cache together with Volcanodancer.

Hänsel&Gretel.

Today we had a trip from Whangarei to Kaitaia, thereby visiting many locations especially around the Treaty Grounds in Waitangi and near the road and looking for caches, too. On this trip we searched, found and logged a lot of caches. The weather was good all day long with only partly some dark clouds.
Almost no muggels observed us as they had other things to do than observing harmless geocachers.

Thanks to 'CHLYBN' for showing us this location and for the fun we had at 'Turning Wine into Water (Far North)'. The search we had here today didn't take too much time.

Greetings from Germany and hope to see you soon in the forest.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 15. November 2018 @ 16:19 Uhr @ [#12504](https://coord.info/GC2YAH5)

I see what you did there, No wonder I hadn't found it previously. A clever hide. TFTC

A little perseverance needed with this one! Went back and forward between the fence and the car but decided to give one more look and found immediately! TFTC. The log is wet but still pen still managed to sign it

TFTC.. it rocked . Nice park and grab that took me a bit longer due to GPS trying to send me across the road.

Love caches like this where there's a little more to it. Last find for the day. Need to save some in my local towns!

TFTC nicely hidden

Previous logs helped me by widening my search area. Replaced the sodden logsheet. I’m curious to know what the original cache was! Tftc

Easily found by my brother tftc

Found just rubbish at this place

Found with Riser5 while up on Kerikeri visiting a friend for the day. Found the cache in need of maintenance so replaced with new jar and logbook. Cache now contains two trade items and a travel slug coin. Old log and container disposed of as unsalvageable. Tftc

I rolled the stones away and found the cache. But it was of full of water. The box is damaged. I wasn't to repair it.

Vielen Dank fürs Herrichten und -führen.

ibdh - ich bin der helmut

There was some road work there and a lot of branches had been cut and lying on the ground . maybe worth a look by co

Up in the North for 5 days of R&R and looking around. We were heading for home and decided that this should be a quick drive by. Pulled around the corner and stopped. Started looking and not too soon after another vehicle pulled up. We quickly identified each other as cachers so introduced ourselves to Ogleaway. Joined up search. Mr Jag50 and Mr Ogleaway were the ones who uncovered the cache.

TFTC

Nice and easy.good parking spot too.thanks

Took a bit of looking but found in the end. Weather not so nice today.
Tftc

Took a wee bit of time as GPS out however easy find in the end as cover rock broken.

Found on a familiar walk!

Gps was out a bit
Container is a good hide but in urgent need of attention
Heading back to Australia soon but had a lot of fun
Thanks to all who put em out
Signed and replaced
TFTC

Yebo CHLYBN

Driving from Kerikeri back to Matauri Bay there seems to be a loop-of-caches..... we'll face the a try and had some more smiles on the map


Not too bad to for ne, the Rick covers hardly the hide. Logbook is a bit wet

Tftc

Found it TFTC

Aaarrgghhh...!!!

On an unexpected evening trip to Kerikeri, so couldn't possibly leave without looking for at least a couple of caches. With so many favs, thought this would be a good one to try. GPS only shows the last 10 logs, so although I knew that the cache may be a few metres away from indicated GZ, I didn't have some of the other vital info from earlier logs.

Spent a good 15 minutes in the dark looking up and down rows of trees on both sides of the road. Did spot a couple of suspicious rocks, that weren't hiding the cache, and also a wooden snail house covering the title item, but no cache there either.

Was almost ready to DNF this one and was walking back to the car, when, just like other cacher before me, I spotted the real suspicious rock and rolled it away to reveal the cache. So close ( and yet so far )....!! A fav from me too. TFTC

Thanks CHLYBN. Reading a few past logs really helped with this one. Cunning hide

found it. I'm always impressed how clever the 'hiders' are. Well done. Do note that with the amount of rain we've had lately, the contents were a bit soggy and may need attention but we were able to sign the log book. thanks

5.20pm - DAY 1 of 3. This is our first full day of caching in the Northland Region on this trip. Plan was to travel up from Dargaville through the forest to Kaikohe and stop when we needed sleep.
Sorry to say a lot of caches on our first leg were missing and a lot needed repairs done to them.
Would advise future cachers to check the DNF's before wasting lots of time trying to find these ones.
Trip took us to lakes, boulders, churches, cemetries and a great array of other locations.
The kilometres just seemed to flash by with food and drink stops sometimes missed.
Don't know how we ended up in Kaitaia for our night stop but woke up the motelier at some unusual hour for a bed. SLTFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap) and Mr Davidson (of Davidson clan). Signed most finds as BGH.

Visiting Northland for Easter... The plan for today was to head up the Kauri Coast to Hokianga Harbour , then skip across to the Pacific Coast until we were somewhere near Kaitaia. We really hope to make a big dent into several challenges we are working on...

Right about now, we could do with turning some of our water into wine. The initial search was not going well. Both phone gps were struggling to zero in, and we paced up and down the shelter belt. Eventually, a widened search zone picked up this cunning hide. TFTC.

Up North for the easter long weekend with Squirrel nutcase and Gap from FapandGap making our way up to Cape Reinga. This well hidden cache took us quite a while to find we were walking up and down the shelter belt read a few logs started to widen our search area when Gap made the find.

Signed log BGH.

Tftc

Nice greets from Dresden in Germany . Tftc

On our way to Kerikeri from Bland Bay and picking up a few caches on the way. My gps didn't like the trees so was looking elsewhere to start with then expanded search area and spotted cunning hide. Thanks for the placement Chlybn.

Searched around for some time without success and was walking sadly back towards the car when a likely location matching the title theme was spotted. The coordinates were about 13m out today. Had to prepare myself for reaching in to "snail hotel" but the mission was accomplished. Thanks CHLYBYN for the history and this challenging hide.

sorry, but i think this one is gone.

On the way to Waitangi we could take some caches along the way. The hints and the coords were good and so we were quickly found.

> Thanks for the care of the cans and greetings from Germany say the Moorhelmis

Found it CZ

HUnted fro a wee while then found the snail encrusted cache. Placed a replacement log and plastic bag in the cache as the old one was in a bit of a state. Cheers.

Next part of the holiday, driving, biking and walking from Paihia to Dargaville. Time to find a few little boxes.....

Thanks to the CO's for the hides. Cheers.

Nothing related to the hint here we could see, literal or lateral. We thought it might be in a drink can called Rock but didn't see that. Plenty of garbage and dead macrocarpa though- defeated this time.

(edited to change to DNF)

Thanks!!! The cache is a bit wet though, and I'm afraid we had to disturb the snails!

cache is very wet. thanks

My first cache! Found with HeavenScentClan. Loads of fun. Thanks for the cache

Introduced Staxcache and she found her first cache! Was very exciting and lots of fun. Property owner near by busted us so we had to explain what we were up to. We told him he could not spoil the game. He is a nice man and was intrigued and insisted on a photo. TFTC

Was about to give up, then heading back to the car a rock that looked out of place. Cache then easily found ... with many curious snails wondering what i was doing! Out with PirateLinda. TFTC

This one took clanbeckett and I ages. We looked high. We looked low. We found ants. We found rubbish. We found someone's jumper. Clanbeckett finally spotted something matching the clue just as we were heading back to the car and bingo! Cache was in hand along with a worm, several snails, other assorted bugs and mud. I knew I brought him along for a good reason. Thankfully I had some wipes in the car! GPS had us about 10m away. Thanks for the cache.

No luck here... searched from fence to fence.. and apart from neatly moweded wet grass, and water coming from the sky, and off the trees.. we found none that tasted like water that used to be wine...
nor did we find any of the clue items any where near the fence or over it .. althoght there was one twist.... eventually the chilly rain got to our resolve and it was retreat back to the warm.. wondering to our selves if northland cachers speak a whole different lingo.. as we have failed to understand any of the witty clues today... on our travel south, this one included??

we do wonder if it would be useful however to note that the bit of irrigation equippment on the left bank is not part of the cache.. not sure the owner will be to keen to have cachers turnig it over , and twisting the parts all the time?

Tftc,log very wet added new page to write log

TFTC. Creative hide, but full of water! Log too soggy to fill in.

More interesting find.... The title is the give away . Cool thanks

Very water logged maintenance check need urgently! Tyftc

Found this a couple days ago en route to keri keri. Quick and easy, but a little gross after some heavy rain.

While Roaming NZ and encountering lovely landscapes,i found this cache.TFTC

Not what I was expecting. As noted by others, wouldn't do this cache in Australia. Or in the rain for that matter. Enjoyed the search. TFTC

It was a holy miracle leading us to find this cache. We had a close encounter to it as we walked from the car. A hobbit may have been proud of us. TFTC

What a sneaky little hide. Not where or what I expected and right beside where I parked. Grabbed a TB. Tftc.

After an unsuccessful look for a cache in central Kerikiri ( which appears to have been archived ), we were still in need of a cache to keep our streak going. Thankfully came upon the cache quickly. TB dropped. TFTC.

Greetings from Canada. Took a couple of minutes and reading past logs to zero in on what we needed to do. We were almost parked on top of it!

(1649) Out on a road trip with Lazac to collect some caches in the mid North and Kerikeri area. TFTC

T4tc

Looks damaged

Had to come back because we had "company" our first visit. TFTC from CA!!

I only found this when I had given up and was returning to my car. My Garmin had had me searching eight metres away. TFTC CHLYBN.

TFTC Danoxy

Very clever! It pays to read the name of the cache. Snails make very good guardians. Kiwiterm could barely fit his hand in... TFTC

Oh, that's a good one! I'm glad I wasn't on Australia retrieving that one couldn't fit our TB in, so will try another one. Found with deadrockflower. Tnlnsl. Tftc!

#7079. Parked on Cottle Hill Drive for a look around this afternoon. GZ was all quiet when we visited. Found after widening the search area. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Went across Bulls Road to buy some oranges from the roadside stall afterwards.

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[green]Leaving Kerikeri, I just had to go for this one. Found it after searching a while in the dark. Nice one!

TFTC![/green]

Death to the snails.

Easy find, not a dirty dig, nice snails.

Well hidden cache.

Loved this cache. So clever packed right next to the spot so a very quick park and grab

Easy find TFTC

Tftc! Took us a while... its not under the blue box!

Tftc! I don't know why it took us so much time...

Got ya

Wine[?], check. Water[?], yep, it's raining. Rock[?], check. Guardians[?] check, yuk. Cache[?] check In good order[?] check SL; TFTC

MY WIFE FOUND THIS ONE EASILY WHILE I TURNED THE CAMPERVAN ROUND READY TO FIND THE NEXT ONE. TFTC

My Wife found this Container immediately. TB out. Very sneaky.

Quick grab - looked like it hadn't been touched for awhile. Dropped Travel Octant TB. TFTC.