GB1: #4, S, Riser5 (Whangarei) Hikurangi, North Island, New Zealand
By Riser5 + MiniMaxy on 21-Nov-11. Waypoint GC38372

hmm

Dumb

Appears it is in need of replacing

No luck today luooks like new barrier again and decided not to carry on as road to dangerous

Find number 3949. I had come up to the Country Music Festival in Paihia and managed to find some of the north bound series on the way up. On my way home so collecting some more of the series. After parking up I walked over to GZ a little concerned as it appeared that a recent crash had wiped out the end wooden pole. But cache was all good. In a slightly different hide though. Thank you for the placement.

Found on way to Bay of Islands, on returned home we realised we had missed logging. Hence late log

Was going to get this one on the way out to Whananaki North for the day. Unfortunately this had to wait as there was a nasty car accident a few meters from this cache. Fortunately no one lost their lives but it was a very serious one. Came back later in the day and collected the cache. May want a maintenance check a bit down the track as the end barrier pole has been hit and damaged - cache still there but it will more than like be replaced soon.

Tftc,still clinging on

Tftc,all good

Tftc,yes I did find it not sure what's going on with the logging

Could you please delete the 2 dnf,as I definitely did find it and logged it not sure what happened

Foundy foundy

Couldn't find anything

On our way back to Auckland after visiting the Hundertwasser toilets in Kawakawa. Picked this up as there was a break in the rain. The sun is still shining. Thanks Riser5 and MiniMaxy.

Signed and returned and then the rain appeared lid becoming detached from geocontainer. TFTC

596 TFTC

Heading back home to Auckland after visiting North for the long weekend and thought we would grab a few of these quick finds on the trip back down. Another quick find here, thanks for the hide.

Having to cross the road for some of the series as we are coming back a different way.Quick find,thankyou.

Another of the GB trail done Sneaked across the white line for this one, great parking.. Cheers.

Next part of the holiday, driving and walking between Whangarei and Paihia.Time to find a few little boxes.....

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

Off up north to a sporting event, so decided to try for some caches on the way back.

With the good clues, cache was soon in hand.

TFTC

Whangarei to Kaikohe
We spent a delightful day driving through the rolling country side.
A great variety of locations & hides were found.
Thanks for placing this cache Riser5

Took my best friend for a drive out to Helena Bay as she's been in the UK for the last 3 years and is now moving to Wellington next weekend- did some quick park and grabs on the way as we didn't have a lot of extra time on our hands. TFTC

Taking the opportunity to grab some caches during my week long visit up to gather some caches. Heading back south now. Quick stop here and cache in the likely spot. TFTC

After spending the weekend in Paihia we had to drive back to Auckland. Decided to stop at a few "roadside" caches on the way home to break up the trip. Cache was well hidden and quickly spotted. Signed the log book and continued on our way home. TFTC.

The Squirrel and my plans for the weekend was to log as many old caches as possible to go towards completing another challenge. This meant a lot of kilometres driving and a bit of forward planning and plus collect as many other caches as we could. The plan was to travel to KawaKawa Bay and stay at Hemi's uncles home.
Early start Saturday morning with our goal to get to KawaKawa. Google tells me its 266 Kilometres one way, but with caching who knows how many km's it will be.
Left Rotorua after work on Friday with a stop for dinner (Cambridge Roast House). Next stop Huntly for a coffee and a chat with fellow cachers, then on to KawaKawa Bay. No caches done on this leg.
Early start Saturday morning to achieve our goal.

10.35am - This will be the last of this series we will be doing today. SLTFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)... Day 2 of our flying visit to Northland. Today, we are hunting for two old caches; one each in Russell and Whangarei. We are also looking at anything else between these points, within short walking distance of the vehicle. it seems a lot brighter today, but rain is on the forecast, and the ground is waterlogged...

A quick find in between a few passing motorists. TFTC.

While Mr Aantiquated him self with the camper van "facilities" Mrs A went out in the persistent rain to nail this...what should have been a quick fine...became an epic long enough for mr to complete the formalities and take a nap...!!.. must have been the freezing rain? the roaring traffic? or perhaps i need a nap too?

Out and about with my friend Lis's crew on our way to the CITO. Stopped here on the way for me to pick up some P&G's. TFTC.

Nice quick one tftc Lokky 1 5 April 2016 12:31

during a visit in paihia we looked for some caches and found this one, tftc and greetings from germany.

Found it with wurftaube. TFTC!

Tftc easy find and great spot again

A quick find. Log is dry. TFTC Riser5 + MiniMaxy.

(1573) Found while out caching north of Whangarei. TFTC

Our cache #15 in New Zealand

TftC and greetings from Germany "Die Frolics"

Another quick find while heading back to Auckland thanks .

Todays plan was for a further attempt to increase my unique Minutes for the 400 Minute Challenge in Manawatu. I only needed an extra dozen or so to tip me o=ver the magic mark and, with a plan to head further North than before (whilst a cacher), there was a good chance of success. Built the plan aroubnd the barrier caches spread evenly along the upper S H 1 and also another couple of Letterbox hybrids and an Earth cache at Hikurangi. The hope to also fit in Waipu Cove and Mangawhai Head was a step to far. Settled for 53 caches all up, 23 new minutes so mission accomplished and I can now claim another D/T for my grid. Many thanks to all the C Os whose caches I found today. Got to see some cool sights of lower Northland and help my little missions along. Got all the North ones on the way up and the South ones on the way back down. Yay
T F T C

Last one of the series of barrier caches, now onto something else a little more different... back to Whangarei, starting to look forward to my wine and cheeses back at my motel.

After spending yesterday caching around the Far North, today yorkshirekiwi83 and I made our way from Kaitaia back to Auckland via Doubtless Bay and Paihia, stopping for many caches along the way. Decided to pick up a few of the GB1 series on our way back, where traffic permitted safe parking! TFTC!

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I am unashamadley after numbers at the moment so a trip to Northland with Vistra was planned, Saturday up to the Cape staying in Kaitaia then heading to Paihia for a late lunch event. Quick finds are needed now on our drive back to Auckland, against daylight.

Quick find, easy now know what the hides are. TFTC


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Tftc

I like the duck stickers

Woo hoo another quick find Tftc!

Didn't even have to get outta the car. TFTC.

Didn't even have to leave the car for this one! TFTC.

#452 Quick find as we approach the end of our road trip. TFT(GB)C.

Numbers cache
TFTC

Another easy find. It was starting to shower so a quick grab and logged in the dry of the car.
Then another quick dash to replace it. TFTC

A quick find on the way home from a weekend in Paihia. TFTC

Quick find

Quick find on the way home to Auckland. TFTC

Quick find with hobbit, easy park
TFTC
4/09/14 11:53 am Find #255

Quick grab. Kids like finding these magnetic ones. TFTC

Another cache for us today. Yeah

Driving around New Zealand with campervan. This was the 12th find today. Only a quick stop here.

TFTC and greetings from Finland!

Found on a wet day with Fox_369

TFTC!
Foxes on the road

Up in Paihia for a long weekend celebrating my lovely wife, Stella's, birthday. Grabbing a few caches along the way...

Find #417. Thanks for the cache. 28/04/2014 13:24

on the way home from trip to Taipa, TFTC

Another find to add to the daily tally as we made our way up north for the Easter break.

A quick easy find and another Riser 5 GB1 series cache down!

#2557

This entry was edited by KiwifruitsNZ on Friday, 18 April 2014 at 06:59:35 UTC.

Did the rest of the serie a while ago.
Was on this side of town today.
TFTC

Another great cache found while on holiday.

Thanks Riser5 for the series.
SL TFTC

Found whilst traveling back to Auckland from the Bay of Islands.

Many thanks for the cache.

Found today with Sir & Lady Harveyjj.

TFTC, log signed & cache returned safely from whence it was found.

Greetings from the UK

Taking turns getting out for these nice easy finds

Just another barrier cache. Tftc

TFTC.

Missed #3 so this became the first of 5 caches in this series heading south.
TFTC

Found with feathertop this morning heading south in thickening traffic.
TFTC

new log

Another smiley to add to the rest. The end of the work day so lots of traffic. Reminds us of how nice it is to be retired:)

Found as part of my Post Mega northen road trip. Really enjoyed a part of the country I hadn't seen before. Thanks to all those who have placed cacahes to encourage us southerners to come your way!

NZ road trip with Schlitz13. On our way from Paihia to Auckland we found some of the GB1 series.

TFTC!

In the morning we visited Whangarei first and drove back from Paihia to Auckland, where we visited the Mega Event. It was very special, more lovely and smaller like than the one I visited in Prague in the Czech Republic (Europe) this year. We met a lot of very kind and friendly people and really enjoyed the time over there. I took about 54 TBs and Geocoins heading to Europe with me, that's kind off crazy, I know.

But we needed to move on soon, otherwise the Mega would have been ended before we arrived over there .

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additional information: I will change my name from Schlitz13 to megalodon

Nice and quick find.

Logged as RAD together with renelm and aedk.

TFTC

Difool - #1058 - 2013-10-23@14:42 NZDT

Found with renelm and Difool, logged as RAD to save log space, time and trees.

I am not much of a logwriter, so see renelms, and possibly Difools, log for details.

TFTC!

Another quick find..

Found at 14:42 - #4215 - together with aedk and Difool - logged as RAD to save space and time

TFTC

#6189. We just picked up a few of these (looked for good parking and lack of following traffic). Nice idea for a series. TFTC.

Another quick drive by on our way back to Whangarei. Signed as SWaT (StreetWalker and Troodles) to save space as the logbook was full. TFTC.

Nice and quick, which is lucky with all the traffic. Log is pretty much full.

Another quick find, with 5 days to go. TFTC, also no room on log sheet, a poplular few caches.

There is absolutely no room in the logbook.

Down for the event, couldn't be bothered saving caches for the 31 days of August as I'm hardly ever down in whangarei, so I just went all out!

Abusy road.TFTC

Heading home & passing 4 of this series of caches. Thanks

Easy find on our way to Whangarei. Quick stop and log Log will need replacing soon

#394 It's about time I started hunting down more of these in the series and get them ticked off. Decided to nab some South ones on my way back to Auckland. TFTC! Logbook full.

Still pouring with rain so it's wasa again

Hahaha....doing these using app on tablet...grabbed the one at other end..and as we drove off Mrs Jones says" there's another one". So we just had to get it...TFTC

It has been a while since I have done some others in this series. Time now to pick up the Southbound ones as I travel from Kerikeri to Auckland.
Cheers for the cache.

Late Log, TFTC

Hardly got the car started from the last one!!:-)
TFTC

Hardly got the car started from the last one!

Tftc

Qwik find-tftc

Quick find while heading back down south. TFTC

Found with Geo-daughter and fiancé on our way back to Auckland. We have had an excellent weekend.
TFTC SL
Greetings from Wales UK

Found on the way back south after a fab weekend on the Whangaroa Harbour fishing and diving!

I love these, just one more to go after todays efforts, after a weekend angling Keri Keri area with da wife

TFTCaches