River Reserve (Coromandel) Cooks Beach, North Island, New Zealand
By surf5a on 30-Jan-12. Waypoint GC3BQHX

Could not find it as well.

Dont bother i think its completely gone

No luck here

Nice and easy find after a couple of hours chilling with our doggie along the beach. Coords are spot on for this one. Our little holiday is coming to an end, but yeah, nice to have collected a few caches along the way. TFTC!

Thank you!

So good!

Tftc

Thanks. Kids enjoyed the find.

Thank you

Big fish and I hit my leg on a spiked branch

Found it but no way was I putting my hand in there with that amount of web and being in a foreign country from the UK....hoping the attempts with sticks count!!

Found it!

Easy find. TFC

Thanks for your amazing cache surf5a. I really appreciate the time you took to set up and maintain your caches. Found with AquagirlieCheers, Cympull.

Found with cympull

With the assistance of my two Welsh relatives we found it, but no pen to sign log.

My first cache!

Found

Fun offpath one

BYO Pen

Phone really came in handy

Phones came in handy for this one

Thanks!

Great spot. On Cooks visiting family. Thought I would grab a couple of caches while I waited for them. TFTC

Tftc

Tftc!!

MPLC pour clturer une balade en bord de mer

Way bigger than I expected, nearly overlooked it xD thanks for hiding it

Today I walked around the pathway and detected the bix right st its coordinates. Tftc from macajoh

No pen so had to take a photo. Nice easy find TFTC

Thanks!

Thanks

We loved the walk. We came all the way from Whitianga. It was well hidden but we found it.It's a good idea to bring a pen. We couldn't sign bc we forgot one.

Found!

Quick find on a nice sunny day at Cooks. Thanks

Tricky to spot! TFTC!

Started at the wrong tree, other than that a quick find

First Cache in NZ! Thanks for the Cache

Found while exploring the local area. What a lovely bay. Thank you for hiding cache for me to find. Most beautiful country.

Tftc

We are on our long-awaited journey around the world in 99 days. Second try after canceling in 2020.
Our third stop after Los Angeles and Hawaii is New Zealand.

This time was of course used to find some geocaches here.
Today we were searching for the Traditional **River Reserve (Coromandel)**

Thank to the Hints and the good coordinates the little box was found quickly!
After signing the logbook there is a new smile on our geocaching map!

At least we would like to take this opportunity to thank surf5a for creating and maintaining this Traditional.

Greetings from Nuermberg/Germany
**Wild_Bee_**

P.S. To save space in the logbooks, we not only enter in sequence, but also in empty spaces between.
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Thank you for the cache - जियोकैश के लिए धन्यवाद - Vielen Dank für den Cache - Gracias por el caché - Merci pour le cache - Grazie per la cache - Obrigado pelo Cache - Bedankt voor de cache - Tak for cachen - Hvala na predmemoriji - Takk for cachen - Kiitos välimuistista - Tack för cachen - Спасибо за кеш - Díky za mezipaměť - Dzięki za skrytkę - Önbellek için teşekkürler - Dankie vir die kas - Asante kwa kache - ขอบคุณสำหรับแคช - 感謝您的緩存 - キャッシュをありがとう - ޝުކުރިއްޔާ - Terima kasih atas cache

Found it

Day 14 on our holiday in New Zealand. Today we are in the area and surrounding area of Whitianga. We also visited this tradi, found it, and signed the logbook.



***T4T$ - Many Thanks to surf5a for hiding and maintaining of this cache*** ️

The complete month march I am travelling on both Islands. Christchurch heading south, next the westcoast.
AbelTasman-Wellington-Rotorua-Hahei and finally Auckland.
This was one of the caches I found; thanks for showing me the area.

T F T C

Great find in a lovely spot!

Nice beach Thanks for the catch. Greetings from Finland and a happy New Year

Took us a minute to work out which tree, but then the cache was in hand. TFTC!

Tropical rain but fun to search. TFTC

Lots of holes

Lots of holes

Easy fine, thanks

Tftc

The hint was good and made it fun to find

After taking the ferry from Whitianga across the harbour, we made our way towards Cooks beach for a picnic lunch. A quick find here before stopping to enjoy the sunny Winters day on the beach. We watched a family using a kayak to take a longline out deep. Another family tooted the car horn and the line was dropped into the sea and the kayaker returned to the beach. A short time later the line was hauled in with a few snappers attached. TFTC

Great region to explore. TFTC

Found it

Great little explore. The satellite sent us off in a few different directions but we found it in the end. Good easy find once we had the right tree.

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I now live full-time in our caravan & travel the country visiting places we want to visit … we are now parked up in Whitianga for the next few days … we took the ferry across to the other side of the harbour & then went for a walk … thought it would be rude to not to check out a couple of caches while out & about … this one was an easy find, completed the log & replaced it … pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally … TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #2,788 for us.

Very hidden!

Fun find but our GPS was a bit glitchy

Yay, found our first one! Much excitement

Once the correct tree was identified it was a quick find. Cache all good. TFTC

Bro get beter

Easy find round the back

Found with toby84

Straight forward find with Reny90

Up in cooks beach for a week and we had a great bike ride this morning - in the rain for the first hour exploring and picking up a few caches. Great spot here, TFTC

Lovely location. Thanks for the hide

Found it today out with my son 2FLYTim . . . . thanks for the hide

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Yay

We found ir

Good one

Thanks

I got on my ebike to come and do this one from where I had left my snail shell.

Cheers for the cache.

Nice easy find on a lovely winter’s morning. Tftc

Cool find took a while though

Hunter Flynn and Torrin. 2nd one today

Ahhh nice and easy little treasures inside but didn’t swap TFTC

First time in area with muggle family, went to grab TB, but is not there. I'll be back at sometime. Cheers

Hole in one

Good find!

Did not look for very long though as it's near the edge of the parking area. As usual, surrounding views and walks were well worth while.

Tftc found with Lex007

#35 on fun roadtrip. With Sportynz

found with mwhitefield TFTC

TFTC

Nice and easy. Good hint.

Found easy by Max

Snagged and tagged this oen on our way past. Cheers.

Day 9 - Boxing Day - Saturday 26 December - Whitianga - Cooks Beach - Tairua. So lets go exploring.

The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby and I are off on another geocaching escape over Xmas, this time to the mighty Coromandel, then over to Opotiki and stop off at Rotorua to return home on 5 January. Had an fabulous time exploring many wonders of our country. Rounding up over 400 caches along the way, with a few LABS, 20 odd TMGTs, virtuals and lots of interesting earth caches to keep the mind busy. Watching the sun come up on New Years Day at Mt Maunganui was spectacular. Lots of walking and even more driving. But had an awesome time. Thanks to all COs who made this adventure so special.

Taybeedragon and I went on a tour of the Coromandel - one of the few places of New Zealand, especially of Te ika a Maui, that I have yet to explore throughly, and from there along the coast to Opotiki to see one of my many, many sisters. From 18 December to 5 January we found over 400 caches, including 12 adventure labs (60 caches), 20 or so TMGTs and a host of virtuals and earthcaches. And I hosted an event to see the sun come up on New Year's day - surprisingly popular given that it was at 5am. We climbed a lot of hills, saw some amazing beaches that were quite popular despite (or because of) the insane access to them, walk a lot of bush, entered and explored 8 gold mines and generally had an awesome time. However I am glad to be back, but now is the hard part, and I fear it will take just as long - logging!

Awesome find

When I had the right tree it was easy

We're travelling around in a rented campervan (it's okay: I know where my mirrors are, I use them, and I pull over often ). Day one was Christchurch to Auckland to Matamata. Day two, Hobbiton then off to Rotorua. Day three, was a trip to "The Squeeze" with NZ Riverjet, a *very* quick trip to Huka Falls (bucketing down, we didn't see much), and the Adventure Lab at Kuirau Park.
Today we visited the Redwood forest the drove to Cooks Beach in the Coromandel (a bit of a drive in a camper)! Loving the trip, and finding a few select caches.

This was one of two finds at Cooks Beach (along with two DNFs). A bit of a mixed bag. At least this was an easy find, once I got myself to GZ in jandals!

TFTC surf5a
Find number 4381

Another quick find while the smallest cachers had a swing. Gorgeous evening for our first explore here. TFTC!

Good hiding place

Super easy

No pen with me. Thanks for bringing us to such a lovely reserve

I stayed in Whitianga, but went over to Cook's Beach today to redeem some DNFs from our Christmas trip in 2017. I'm not sure how I missed this cache the last time I was here. TFTC.

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Nice spot, TFTC.