Holed Up at the River (Tuakau) Tuakau, North Island, New Zealand
By thejaybees on 12-Dec-11. Waypoint GC394JN

Going to let this one go. Make space for someone else. Bye.

Probably needs to be replaced.

disabled.

After competing in the Hillclimb at nearby Murrays Rd, stopped off here to find this cache. Found the holy tree, but unfortunately no cache present.

heading out for a caching weekend, with the route choose by caches off the beaten track,. just how we like it..

unfortunately we found plenty of holes and plenty of candidates here but no container... so the rain eventually dampened our enthusiasm sufficiently to move us back to the car

Staying with family for a few weeks before heading onto Oz. Kids were playing in the park when I noticed this one not too far away.

Quick find once the right tree was spotted. TFTC!

Could've parked closer, but found it - this tree was in need of a cache.
Lovely park, but dogs are tired after doing the planet series.
TFTC

A quick easy find as consolation prize after losing out at the Dmax Hunt nearby. Very picturesque & lovely park, good hide & a nice new fresh logbook. TFTC

Out and about with tufty today. Replaced the sticky v bottle with a small click clack. Please cover well.

On a job around Onewhero ways, I grabbed this on the return to Hamilton. No problems here, had to run back and grab some tweezers to pull out, TFTC! a nice area

Out and about this morning for a drive in the country, collecting some caches as I went. This was my first stop. Parked up close by and made my way to GZ. Cache was detected in the first spot examined for a super quick find. Took longer to get the log out! All good here. Cheers for the cache placement!

out enjoying driving a different road home. nice place to stop and explore. managed to find okay and keep the fingers dry here. Hmmm different hide.

Found with kakesnz. TFTC

Nice walk in the park & pleased there were public toilets to wash the sticky fingers. TFTC

Great little hole. Took longer to get the log out than find the cache. Sticky fingers too! Returning from a cool day sliding down the dunes at the port.

Thats a very new V Shot bottle. I think someone has replaced it

Nice quick find on way to cache the planets nearby. TFTC

Found this one on my way from Auckland to Raglan on my bicycle while having a stopover and having a swim in the nice Waikato River... TftC

Excellent access to the river from here. Cache found in good condition. Cheers for the cache.

Please can finders just replace the cache and cover it up with some bark. I did a cache check here today and it was just thrown in the hole in plain sight. Why would you do that????????

Another choice treasure hunt, cheers!

Tftc

A huge thanks to FapAndGap for fixing this cache for us. It had been far to long out of action. we owe you.

10.10am - Replaced log sheet and container for the jaybees with their permission. Cache in same location so this cache can now be reactivated. SLTFTC

Another grand adventure with Gap (of Fap and Gap). We hope to rack up as many caches as we can, and put them toward our current GIO License Challenge. Today, we head to North-West Waikato to tackle some of the most isolated, far-flung caches I've ever seen. A big drive that will take us from Port Waikato to Raglan Harbour, and everywhere in between... And the weather is going to make this ride interesting.

This cache had definitely disappeared and it had been disabled for a while. Gap was given permission to replace this, so we signed the log as found. It is now ready to be reactivated. The container is a small 'V' bottle. TFTC.

Looks like is missing. Will fix when we go that way in the future.

Found the obvious location, but no cache.

Pretty sure where I found the spot where it should be (?) but I couldn't find a cache.

Coordinates good, clue even better but the cache appears to have gone.

This entry was edited by tparty on Monday, 28 October 2013 at 21:12:05 UTC.

searched and search and wonder if it was muggled?

Love the camo

Cruising around enjoying life

Many thanks

Hole up....Hole down...Weird

Today, Vamber, KiwifruitsNZ and alpenmilch80 decided to tackle some of the caches out this way. We enjoyed a day of lovely (and muddy) walking, chatting and caching of course!

This cache proved no problems for us, despite taking a wee bit of the muddier approach to GZ!

TFTC

After finishing the Solar System trail, Vamber, alpenmilch80 and KiwifruitsNZ decided to tackle a few more caches in the area, with one aim being to see KFNZ secure their 1600th cache!

Whilst one team member decided to stretch their legs, the rest of the party drove to ground zero. Despite the use of automobiles, the tortoise was the winner on the day!

#1589

During the event at the Auckland's Botanical Gardens Team Vamber invited me to come along to tackle together with KiwifruitsNZ the Solar System trail and other caches in the area. I was a little bit scared about the weather forecast but it turned out to be a rain free sunny day . Due to the rain yesterday we had some muddy patches to cross which we all mastered slip-free and were rewarded later the day with some great ice cream....

Had a man vs car race to GZ which provided some nice laughter within the group. TFTC

The hint makes it pretty obvious but a cool hiding place anyway.

Quick n easy find. Then walking back to the wheels Mr ToT read the hint. Where we found was not where the hint suggested it be. So back we went and now cache is where hint suggests it be. TFTC!!!

Found it eventually when we abandoned the phone in favour of the old GPS. More looking down was required. Tftc

An easy find on our way out to the port, TFTC.

Took a couple of minutes to track down then success. A flying visit Up North. Visiting family and caches in marginal weather Thanks for the hide.

Off for a Easter Monday walk and a geocaching fix. Thanks for bringing me out.

All good thanks

quick find in the rain on our way to pukekohe

driven past many times, but today we stopped. TFTC

Found it! TFTC

TFTC

Looked every where even went back later in the day. After reading one of the logs its there must be looking in the wrong place will go back to the wood chip pile . Its going to beat me

With some talking with Jaybees the cache was found and put back in the correct location. This is a great cache when everyone returns the cache to the right spot take a picnic and enjoy a day at the river

This entry was edited by mustang_nz on Monday, 21 January 2013 at 06:51:26 UTC.

Wasn't very optomistic, with the last couple of DNF's, and was even not going to look for this one. Decided since I'm here I might as well have a quick look. Got dragged into the bark pile and started digging but the cache name didn't quite make sense. Looked around abit and found something that was look plausable. Cache in had soon after.

Oops, no joy today in the obvious or in the less obvious. Too sneaky for me.

No luck for me either

Interesting part of the world,can't remember ever have been here before. Cache was a quick find,thankyou.

Had to laugh when I read the hint then saw the "handy" pile of bark within 10m of the cache that I assume the cache owner must have left there for our convenience (see photo).
Many thanks

At least this one is a safe distance from the river! No problems here. Parked in the reserve and wandered across. Found the cache in the second place I looked. TFTC, Biggles.

Had a nice day geocaching my way from Hamiton to Auckland. Found this cache easily. SL TFTC

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

We were down this way completing the nearby Solar System Trail and headed back to Auckland picking up a few more caches along the way.

A quick find and a nice spot here. Thanks for the cache!

We were down this way completing the nearby Solar System Trail and headed back to Auckland picking up a few more caches along the way.

A quick find and a nice spot here. Thanks for the cache!

tftc

what a nice place nice and dry easy find

Nice Hide

Miss Sara and I out today - the rain was threatening but we had bought coats and gumboots - TFTC

had 2 goes at this one today found it 5m from where gps said were it was someone just threw it on the ground after finding it ,it was to easy a find, have put it under cover but the owner needs to check it.

will check it soon. Sounds like muggled to me as Team Welsh would have put it back correctly.

Nice placement just needed a woodpecker. t4tc

Nice to have another place to stop in Tuakau, this sure is a beautiful little town. TFTC

First one for the day.
Nice hide rather cool and fresh in amongst the trees
T4TC

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Great spot for a cache
Tftc

Nice hide thanks

Nice and easy find, and great hiding spot! TFTC!

Cache check today. Cache has found its way down a little lower due to the rotting of its house. Can you please ensure its covered well. Thanks.

It was another trip for me down South of the Big Smoke to finish off what I started last week.

This is a very big park. Must have been something before. Saw a very large houseboat on the river.

Cheers for the cache.

Quick and easy drive by night cache, good hide TFTC

This entry was edited by Kiwi.bug on Sunday, 01 July 2012 at 06:41:10 UTC.

Nice quick find with Lellums, Menergh. TFTC

found with cheetora and Menergh TFTC

Found with cheetora and lellums. TFTC

Says find after meeting the owners nearby

A nice quick find and a chance for the kids to run. TFTC

Quick find on arrival to GZ. Cache found in the first place we looked. TFTC!

Easy find in the morning.
Funny hide.
TFTC

Our first find! How exciting, we have found a new family hobby!

A nice easy find for the afternoon. TFTC

Easy find when we stopped for a cuppa by the river. Great park here beside the river. Will probably be back to enjoy more. Thanks very much thejaybees

9101 No Holed Up at the River for us… quick find, then off to get stumped at the next one further along the river, TFTC.

thanks, great spot !

Nice quick find, no muggles around the area so retrieval was easy. Left a pencil for future finders. TFTC thejaybees.

Almost, but not quite a park n grab. I had to walk a few paces. Thanks.

With the shower at the previous cache not lasting too long, this was the next stop along the river side. Quickly found and signed, getting back to the car before another shower.

Holed up at the river for a while enjoying the surrounding area. Thanks for the cache and for bringing me here.

Forgot to log this last month, quick find, TFTC

Found on our 24hr cache-a-tron mission from Auckland to the Waikato. Unfortunately the gardening gloves were left at home, but our paper with all the caches we hoped to find did the trick and moved the prickles out of the way and we soon had the cache in hand! TFTC!

28 of 164 finds in the 24hr Cache-A-Tron Waikato Cache Raid
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Alas Loz47's excellent bag of tricks failed us and we were gloveless for retrieval of the cache in amongst many prickles. Fortunately, our 16page thick cacheatron cache list provided a most worthy substitute, and the cache was quicjly retrieved from it's hidey hole.

Nice place - we were all very impressed with the houseboat we saw on the way here too

28 of 164 finds in the 24hr Cache-A-Tron Waikato Cache Raid
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Great little spot, Would have been a nice spot for a picnic beside the river, but no time for that on this trip. 5 Min timelimit. those were the rules. Found it and moved on quickly. Prickles, damn Prickles.

Found on our 24hr caching mission, Cache-A-Tron - Auckland to Hamilton and back again. Gardening gloves would have been useful for this one, should put some of them into the geocaching bag... Luckily our paper worked ok to move the prickles out of the way. TFTC.

This entry was edited by Loz47 on Sunday, 04 March 2012 at 02:00:15 UTC.

This entry was edited by Loz47 on Sunday, 04 March 2012 at 02:36:22 UTC.

Found it. Tftc

Enjoy the view by the river.

A quick find tftc

Took a few minutes as there were a lot to check out.

TFTC

No problems finding before the heavy rain arrives.. River very high after all the rain