Palm Beach (Bay of Plenty) Papamoa, North Island, New Zealand
By kennyclan on 25-Jan-12. Waypoint GC3BEXP

Due to several drownings & the possibility of a much more adventurous cache very close I have decided a new home will be in order

TFTC we found it.

Gps kept sending me around the place. But finally found it.

TFTC

Sanenwan
The Netherlands

Quick in and out, instead of muggles keeping any eye on us we had dogs keeping their eye on us

Thanks to Noodlekidz who rescued the cache & dried it for me,it is now back in place & good to go.

Cache drowned in the recent torrential rain.Bear with me,getting it dried out.

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Found with master 5 who also signed his name on the log. Thanks for the nice hide

In light of the last log have just come back from checking.In place & good to go

I think we found it, if you look up and see it? There outer tube was there but everything inside had gone.
Of course I could be looking in the wrong place. Doh!

Thanks for the prompt Phillip,have been down & dried out pretty well.

Not water tight - tried to dry - nice hide - moving on

Cool hiding place. Nice find inside too!

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 41.860 E 176° 16.439

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 41.869 E 176° 16.421

Distance from original: 102.4 feet or 31.2 meters.
Due to some new houses being built on the edge of the reserve right where the cache was I have moved it slightly & altered the cache info accordingly.

Nice day and a lovely spot, saw a big stupid duck try to take a shortcut through the window of a house being built. Easy short walk and find. TFTC

Thanks to pukehina the cache is now back in business.

Found tree and wall and concrete but no rock and no cache.

Have just been & checked after a dnf & it has gone alright.I will revisit this park area as this locality keeps giving me grief.Please bear with me for a day or so.

Found had no pen tho easy find

Nice quick find

after a ftf round corner, called in here to pick up this one in a cool case. oh someone had drawn a rude picture on the logbook, we crossed it out.

After the DNF we went to see if it was still there but it is. The cache had been placed around the side of the wall a few metres away from GZ. So placed it back where it should normally be.

Visited this one yesterday but had the wrong co-ords and hint, which explains why we couldn't find it! Came back today and a quick find this time. Felt a bit conspicuous due to the openness of the area and being surrounded by houses, hopefully no-one was watching us. TN, LN, SL - thanks!

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 41.855 E 176° 16.435

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 41.860 E 176° 16.439

Distance from original: 36.1 feet or 11 meters.

Due to repeated flooding the cache has been moved slightly & modified accordingly

Due to flooding the cache has been moved slightly & reduced in size.

Nice simple cache to remember the fallen soldiers. Thank you

My sheep ... my sheep ... sheeps can`t swim ...

Hope ist won`t drunk --- greetings from Germany to New Zeeland

Under a metre or so of water at the moment.will sort when the lake recedes somewhat.

Had a nice walk around the lakes. Passed Muggles clearly watching us walking toward GZ, so carried on walking, only to find the path stopped and we had to turn around and go back. When passing the Muggles house, he came out and and pointed to GZ and said "It is down there" On asking him if he was a cacher, he said no, bit was intrigued by all the visitors who came to look at this particular spot.

Two TBs listed on site, but none there now.

Thanks kennyclan

dropped in a TB i picked up in Rotorua

Nice easy find on a sunny evening. Lovely area to explore on the bikes. TFTC

Good first find with kids

Saw it immediately on arriving at the sad tree - why are they always weeping? However, it took me a while to retrieve it as the neighbours kept looking at this strange person who was just standing there looking at the ducks. Wished I'd had some bread. Managed eventually to sign and re-hide.

Easy quick find. Beautiful location.

Found it and also had builder keeping a hawk eye on me but he was more interested in working I guess. Took along my two year old and he snapped up the snoopy. Dropped in a bracelet I picked up in Egypt.

Another nice spot. Builder has gone home. TFTC.

Nice Sunday stroll through quiet neighborhood TFTC

We too saw the builder, & pretended to be admiring the area. Having read the previous logs, He either knew exactly what we were up to (& was probably having a good chuckle to himself), or he's going to start getting pretty curious!
Left a pet rock - a caterpillar. TFTC

We thought this one wasn't a goer as there was a builder working just there, but it was such a quick find that we pretended to be watching the ducks (probably unconvincing, but reading the last log, he may well have known what we were doing anyway) left a Snoopy as there was plenty of room.

Nice chat with the 'neighbour' great spot

Quick easy find

Nice easy night time find. TNLN tftc

Great find.. Thank you !!

Found it

Found out in the open, hid back under foliage. Took Jeep TB.

Took the young muggles for a walk. Found it and tropped off a T.B. (maybe wrong number)

A nice place for a wander. A good sized cache found practically empty. Unfortunately didnt have my swag with me, so couldnt stock it up. May come back later with some knick knacks. Thanks for bringing me here.

quick easy find another lovely walk.

quick find on a beautiful place!

nice place. tftc

quick find together with gezzi, nice place here, tftc

Quick find while caching on a wet day with tmann421 TFTC

Nice quick find here in the rain. SL TFTC

Pretty quick find, right where I thought it would be. My son enjoyed chasing the ducks and we added some swappables to the cache.

Lots of bird life around the lake, lovely spot. In: TB cross TFTC

Another quick find while taking in some of the local spots. TFTC

Checked cache as we are overseas for the 6 weeks. All good. Picked up TB to drop somewhere on our travels

Found it and placed a trackable in it, which is currently coming 4th place. Happy finding and look forward to seeing where the trackable heads to next

Had never been through this suburb before. Quite pretty with the palm trees and lakes. There is a large house next to GZ under construction at present but builders weren't interested in what I was up to.
Many thanks

Stinky pigs do it again

Reinstated & good to go

Managed to retrieve cache under 300ml of water.Drying everything out,will replace when the lake level recedes.

not hidden at all, so we covered it with leaves

Dropped in Porcupine TB.

Took the recommended entrance and went straight to the cache.Another nice reserve.Thanks.

17/6/12 @ 4.16pm - quick easy find, cache exposed do hid it better, left TB. SLTFTC

First find of the day. Nice and easy. TFTC

Found with sarnia89

Pleasant stroll. Took the long way to enjoy the scenery. Never a bridge when you want one. Left geocoin. TFTC

This entry was edited by tparty on Tuesday, 05 June 2012 at 06:27:25 UTC.

Pray to the lord!! TFTC.

A quick find on a nice day in the Bay

Thanks for feedback viki.czech. Dried out & new log installed.

There are wet things inside the cache. Better if it will be replaced. But very nice area.

Nice spot. Thanks

Found today, on a rainy morning grass was a lil slippery!! have taken TB to move on.

Another lovely day for a bike ride T4TC

Nice quick easy find - new house going up very near cache - was a bit damp with condensation

Exploring the bike trail. Dropped T/bug

Lovely sunny day for a bike ride and our first one we have found

Another nice day for a bike ride. Easy find. In: Kinder toy, out: bracelet. TFTC. #5

Number 3 now.

Quick find here. Back in papamoa for the easter weekend grabbing new caches since i was down here last. Grabbed TB for moving along. TFTC!

First find in NZ. Had to find using description as phone couldn't find any sats. Dropped off new TB from UK. TFTC

Black Mama Bear and Baby Cookie Bear out night raiding. Busted the first one out in a few minutes. First find for Baby Cookie Bear. Cheers kennyclan.

Nice Easy Find! TFTC

Have just been to check cache after recent DNF.Thought it may have got drowned with the recent storm but it is in place & good to go.

Looked in the obvious place. Appears a good posy for a cache but couldnt locate. Loojed in the cutty grass as well.

Had to come back a 2nd time for this one as the first time there were two muggles under the tree who looked like they were there to stay. Today it was drizzling a bit so no one was out. Perfect day to avoid the muggles. TFTC

Found easily with Sefrican aftere a second atempt this time muggle free.
TFTC, TNLN SL
Cheers
nzkeko

Our first find. Wet and windy day

Quick find on a quiet day in a very pleasent spot, TFTC

Good hide in a nice area. No muggles around today due to the rain or was it tears from the weeping one [?] TFTC.

Dropped in TB TCD789

Down this way for a barbeque and meeting for my Hash running group - remember there was a new one but didn't have my GPS so used my phone instead - all good - nice cache TFTC Picked up TBs

My second cache find after an early morning start. Loved the walk around the waterway. TFTC.

Quick find while out on a morning run while visiting in the area. TFTC

Dropped in TB

Too wet for most people to be out using the park.
In TB Travel Bug Dog Tag ( Now Racing from N.Z to the U.K )

nice quick find without GPS, TFTC TNLN signed log 1335hrs

I probably took the long way here, but it was a nice walk. Thanks.