GB1: #26, N, Riser5 (Whangarei) Waipu, North Island, New Zealand
By Riser5 + MiniMaxy on 21-Nov-11. Waypoint GC383FM

TFTC!!

Another quick grab on our road trip.Hoping to get to 5k finds before year end.Thank you Riser5 + MiniMaxy for placing this cache.Log signed as B&PFind number 4959

Had a pen for this one, but left the paper in the car, which was on the other side of the road. Did not want to cross the road more than I needed too.Found straight away, and was able to squeeze our names onto the log, but is out of date order as the log is very full Thanks Riser 5 for the hide. We had called into the Waipu market day for a power explore, as it was closing in 15mins, looks like it was a great day, so many stalls, and muggles on holiday over this Labour weekend.

Fun find with rustynz

Easy find lots of cars

Heading north on a warm Sunday have a bit of caching time tftc. 20.meters from gz

Found it! Lost its lid so it's getting damaged even though it is Under Cover. 3rd cache today! TFTC

Nice and easy find, love the barrier ones

On a caching afternoon with yvettetb and nessvab, trying to log a few caches before the cyclone hits. It was getting pretty windy but still no rain.
Thank you for these easy road side caches.

Out on a caching afternoon with Yvettetb & Thetravelbugtribe before Cyclone Gabrielle hits. Quick park and grab after doing a loop around Waipu to stop for afternoon tea and head back North on our way home. TFTC

Woohoo another barrier cache found. This cache was sitting wrong side up on the barrier so I popped the cache in a bag due to impending wet weather forecast and cyclone and put it back where the magnet would work. TFGC

A last minute return trip to Whangarei offered the opportunity to pick off a handful of park and grab caches north of the big city.

Another quick find here and my final one today before my destination.

Thanks Riser5
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Logged using Cachly.

Day 1 of our three day Geocaching trip to Whangarei. This stage included the drive from Auckland Airport to Whangarei and caching the last 30 or so km's before getting there as well as some caching to the west in the late afternoon early evening. We signed the log as BIC for BFG, Infoferret and CrystalFairy.

Another roadside with barely enough parking. T4TC

Quick find at another dodgy parking spot, thanks Riser5! Signed as arefootguru

28 October 2022 14:10 A 3 day expedition to the areas north of Auckland with Crystal Fairy and Barefootguru, most logs signed as BIC to save space and time. The focus of the trip was to find a number of puzzle caches solved over the last couple of years, plus other caches of interest we passed.
No cobwebs here

TFTC Riser5 + MiniMaxy for placing this cache, number 11834 for me.

A well deserved holiday break for Mr and Mrs NZTravellers saw us heading up to Russell with Geodog in tow.

A very leisurely drive up getting a few caches as they presented for either a food or loo break for Geodog.

Second one just along the road. Cache found however the log is full.



TFTC

Cache is dry. New log paper needed after 4 more finds. TFTC

Thankfully traffic was light on our trip north so we could pull over for some of these caches. Quick find here. Log full

Quick find on our way up to Whangarei. A well signed log.

Easy find but a lot of traffic on the road so had to wait for the side road muggles to clear the intersection to retrieve the cache.
Travelled up from Dunedin for my first Mega event and wanting to sign off some geotour caches as well in Auckland and Northland.
Thanks for the cache, Riser5
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1434. 5:05 pm. Yet another quick find as expected. Pull over area for this one is ideal. Logbook full but I found a missed line. Found with eKitten, GRAkiWi and Li0nPaw but signed as kanoe&co. TFT(last)C(before heading home).

Today my caching mission was to head North to Northland to find enough caches to make progress towards fulfilling the requirements of a challenge not far from where I live. The weather today was perfect - a real change from the last few days. So nice I was able to have the top down on my convertible cachemobile once the sun was up far enough. Another one where the coordinates seemed a bit out but I had a good idea where to look and there was the cache. TFTC, Biggles.

With plenty of time in hand, we decided to pick up some caches on our way to Waipu today, although we only selected random one's that were on the correct side of the road.
No problems making the find here, thanks Riser5

Good find

I did park on the other side of the road for this one but that was because I was on my bike. TFTC

Camping @ Uretiti for xmas... An easy find.. TFTC
Merry Christmas...

North Island Campervan trip Day 8

After the fantastic holiday I had a few months ago traveling around the South Island, making the most of one of those incredibly cheap campervan deals available at the time, I figured it was worth taking a week off work before the stresses of the usual holiday period to enjoy some of the delights to be found around the top of the North Island.

This would be a great chance for me to seek out some targeted caches such as the TMGT ones as well as some that would help me with my Jasmer grid, missing minutes (for a couple of challenge caches I'm working on) and any other caches that caught my eye.

Last night I was able to spend the night catching up with friends in Kaiwaka before setting off this morning to head up towards Russell in the Bay of Islands. I haven't been there in over 30 years, and was really looking forward to being there again. In the end I didn't quite get that far today, ending up spending a great night near a beach in Whale Bay.

The first part of my day way to be a casual drive up to Whangarei, making a point of stopping at as many caches along the way as I could, including this one.

I was able to park up and walk over to this one without any fuss. The cache itself only took me a moment to locate and finding no issues with the cache or the log I quickly added my name to the sheet and then was back on my way again.

Thanks for setting this cache up.

The elder Future Finder and I are heading north this afternoon with the intention of visiting family in northland. Normally, I take state highway 12 north to get where I am going. Today, I am taking state highway 1 and was keen to collect a number of GB1 N hides as traffic, weather and parking allowed. This, was a nice and easy park and grab in the rain. As a previous finder has mentioned there is no lid on the cache. Cheers for the cache placement!

A quick park and grab. Has no lid and plastic bag is beyond repair. Could do with some maintenance. Unfortunately I don’t have any supplies on me. TFTC.

Heading North this morning from Tauranga to Paihia. No worries here, A quick pull over and find. TFTC

Scary stuff stopping on this highway.

Power trails, I think a nice word for geo trash.
Thanks anyway I guess...

Tftc Riser5 + MiniMaxy
Making a road trip today from Auckland, Wellsford and Whangarei today. Thanks to all the CO'S who placed and maintain all the caches.
Cheers
SL
CJH

Found

Found with a sister during our expedition to NZ (from CZ), where we explored part of the North Island and could visit our classmates and friends that we have not seen for several years, as it is here, in Auckland and Napier live ... Thank you for cache ...

Heading back to DOC Camp from Waipu TFTC

I made a list with lots of the Northbound GB1 caches and hit them as I made my way to Whangarei. This was another where the coords seemed a bit off, but I used Geo-sense to find the cache also. TFTC

An unexpectedly early start heading up to Whangarei to celebrate Christmas today while everyone is actually going to be able to get there and we thought we should get a few finds in. This was our first stop. Last find in the series was some time ago. Now a smily on the map. Thanks for the hide.

22458 Traveling through New Zealand to see nice people and places. Also to find some geocaches.

Today we were went from Auckland to Paihia. On several spots we stopped to find some caches and to enjoy the lookout views. All day was sunny,so we also made a walk in Puhoi to get the caches along the path to the mountain view. Also the GB1 caches were very popular because you can park safely for them. At some Parkings there were many muggles, but they had no interest in us. they took many pictures.

Most caches were found quite quickly. A few took more time. Several were with waterproof paper, but our stamp and pen do not work that good on such paper, where when it was wet paper it logs fantastic.

Riser5 TFTC and the fun it brought us. Theo

We left Auckland quite late in the day after my conference was finished. However, having the door code for our accommodation in Whangarei gave us all the time in the world to find a few on the way up! The weather was abysmal, but tunfisk had a new piece of tramping equipment he was keen to test in exactly these conditions, so he was more than happy to do the jumping out of the car We had a great time and the time passed much quicker than expected. TFTC!!

Today we had a trip from Coromandel to Whangarei on the plan, thereby visiting many other locations near the road and coast 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 small clouds.
Almost no muggels observed us as they had other things to do than observing harmless geocachers.

Thanks to 'Riser5 + MiniMaxy' for showing us this location and for the fun we had at 'GB1: #26, N, Riser5 (Whangarei)'. 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 @ 13. November 2018 @ 17:23 Uhr @ [#12472](https://coord.info/GC383FM)

TFTC... geodad and I have teamed up under one username "Matini264nJaimee83" previously "Matini264" and "Jaimee83", so are re-logging any that we hadn't found together, before deactivating one account. Have notified all COs involved for permission

Signed as Matini264 (half the team)

Sorry for generic log, there are a few to do!

TFTC Riser5 so good to be able to get a for a 48 tonner

Another quick park and grab by Bird. Think the passing traffic enjoyed my dancing to Love Shack!! SL TFTC

Luckily not too busy for a park and grab. GPS was a lot out for this one TFTC

Quick find though I would not recommend getting out of the cat on the driver's side.

These ones really aren't that safe. Made a quick grab but was hard puling over and out. Missed another one earlier on the bypass as it was impossible to stop. Car shakes every time a car goes past. Cache is missing lid. Tftc

Cache was found in the usual place despite the co-ords being out.

NO LID - LOG FULL == DONATED NEW LOG IN BAG AFTER SIGNING, AND REPLACED
Cache soon found by DD on our way to Whangarei for the dry - great way to make the drive more interesting! Apologies for cut and paste logs, but the caches are much appreciated by us. Many thanks

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see main log at GB1: #27, N, Riser5. this one was soon located but the log was full so we have added a new bit of log and a new bag, as the tin has NO lid. TFTC

I was heading north to the Bay of Islands and thus cached on the north caches in this series pulling over whenever I could for consistent and reliable caches.
Thanks for putting these out Riser5

Next one on our way up north. Again a quick find but through the spiders web used to protect the cache.

Heading home late after a flying visit to Akl. Had mananged a few caches already, so thought would try for some of these North ones to make a good total for the day.

Full moon tonight, even though it's hidden behind heavy clouds sometimes. A lot easier cache than the Brynderwyn one 10 minutes earlier.

Staying at Waipu so this is very close. First cache for the new year, cheers

Got a txt from dad "managed to lock myself out of the van- any chance you can go pick up the spare car and ring it to me" Not sure what his plan was if I said no So off I went and then used the way home as a chance to grab some of the North direction caches. TFTC

On my way up the line for a week of r&r on my way further up to northland today. Pulled off into a safe-ish parking spot and the cache was quickly in hand. Not sure about these ones so close to speeding traffic. TFTC

Not the easiest one to get to. Log wet but signable. Thanks for the cache

Take your life in your hands getting this baby ...lucky for a quick find and sign tftc riser5

Quick and Easy find. TFTC.

Just out geocaching with another cacher. Nice park and grab. TFTC

Looked all over with lots of traffic passing no luck was just about to leave one last look as i was walking away ..ahaa cache in hand ..still not sure how clue helps but got it in the end tftc Lokky 1 27 March 2016 16:22

nice park and grab 2 tftc

The summer holiday this year was to visit the far North. We decided to take our time and travel with just short trips and stop over to visit friends/relatives rather than one big long drive through to Whangarei, so there was a little time allowed for geocaching, although this was fairly restricted. We planned a couple of longer stays at campsites where we used our tent and at other times we were at friends or cabins/motels. Some of the caches took us to a little out of the way places but these were really worthwhile, while others we discovered and visited and as luck would have it there was also a cache! The logging of these cache has had to wait until we got to relatives, on the whole.
This is a fairly generic log with additional notes about individual caches that had something extra that remained in my memory.
Thanks for the cache and another smiley face.

Found with Mrs McMike2012 ... we were doing a 'road trip' to Whangarei as we had a couple of messages to do ... thought we'd do a couple of caches on the way up & a couple on the way back home as well ... this being the 5th of 15 for the day ... quick & easy find ... another one in Riser5's 'GB series' ... we'll get them all eventually/maybe ... TN:LN:SL ... TFTC ... #1,116 for us

Found by Grammy. GPS about 16m off.

Awesome find. Quick but hot. Nice break

Tftc

Dot Day... A massive day ahead... Today's adventure requires 50 caches with at least a kilometre of separation. It's also a Dot Day for me... And we are interested in finding any caches that were published within a week of today... No problem! Out with Gap (of Fap and Gap)... We have a planned route that will take us as far north as Waipu (Northland).

This was the last one along Highway 1 before turning into Waipu. As it fell within a kilometre of its nearest neighbour, we decided to use it as my Dot Day find. Another quick park and grab here. TFTC.

Frost at home this morning and 2 degrees and today is going to be a biggie for us. Planned to attempt our challenge of 50 caches a kilometre or more apart, problem is we have almost cleaned out all caches within 100km's of home so arranged with Hemi (Squirrel Nutcase) to pick up at 6am and head north. For some reason I was up at 3.15am, so this just added more time to my day. Caching was a little sparse until we got to about Silverdale. State Highway 1 was very busy and with caches on both sides of road, watchful eyes were very important.

5pm - Last cache collect heading north for today, easy find. SLTFTC

A quick find on the way North! Tftc!

(1471) Out caching south of Whangarei on a beautiful sunny Northland day. TFTC

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

Another quick find thanks.

Having a wee break in the North Island, heading north from the Airport toward Whangarei.

Thanks for effort put your hides.

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Found that one quickly, TFTC

Quick park and grab on the way north. TFTC

Last for today and last for the weekend. easy Barrier cache. TFTC

Wanted to collect this barrier for my 35* challenge. I needed the other two nearby but we had cars behind us and my driver said it wasn't easy to pull over. These caches are hard to get to from home as they are so far away. Still need a 59 minute cache so I'll have to visit Waipu sometime. TFTC

Another really quick find here and on my way north for 2 nights in Whangarei and a loooong weekend of caching, yeh hah!

Parents & I were holidaying in Ruakaka for a week.
Lovely sunny day, so had gone for a walk along the beach norht of Ruakaka river. After lunch we had left dad behind for a rest and headed out for an after noon of caching.
Having visited the falls we were heading back to our cottage. Still ahving soem time up our sleeves, we grabbed a fcouple GB1: caches along the way, when there was no traffic behind us. TFTC

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! Did a u-turn and backtracked to 26 and 27 as they were useful for a latitude challenge! 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.

Needed this for a challenge now to get back into the Auckland traffic, oh thats righht there isnt any, woohoo. TFTC


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Quick find in the rain on the way back from Auckland.

Late night drive by

One of many caches found during our month long tour around the South and North Islands. I am on rations for caching but finding around 10 a day.

Thanks to all the cache hiders.

Today took us from Miranda to Whangarei. TFTC.

Needed to adjust my clothing levels, so may as well stop by an unfound cache. Quick find.
TFTC

Took long and then no find...

Another quick grab from the GB1 Series during our roadie up North for the weekend. TFTC!

This took me far to long well a find is a find and was fun

Day 4 of a trip up north.

Good weather and plenty of nice caches to find.
Found this cache quickly.

Thanks for making my trip fun!

Headed away for the weekend to Waipu and decided to collect a few caches along the way.

Wanted to finish the day on a round number (ie 20 for the day) so secured this one on this Riser 5 trail. A quick drive by find.

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After a disappointing STF nearby I decided to grab a couple of P&G's on the way back as consolation. Thought this was further south than it was so had to turn around at the next turnoff. Got back to the car and realised I had driven back past another in the series. Back to the turnoff to head north again!

TFTC

Found today with Sir & Lady Harveyjj.

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

Greetings from the UK

On our way from Auckland to the Bay of Islands and just had to try and nab this.

Many thanks for the cache.

One more jump out of car to sign this one .....

Heading North and good to have my Co Worker to do the leg work in the rain. TFTC

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!

A quick find on a brief stop as we passed through Whangarei. TFTC

Right side of road. Busy road. Found with Rediguana, Moneydorkand Bladesedge. TFTC

Nice quick find heading north
Cheers Gav