Rusty Pipe (Northland) Hikurangi, North Island, New Zealand
By Flowernz Maintained by Riser5 on 12-Mar-12. Waypoint GC3ED18

Done and dusted

Dnf,suspect missing as ground round post has been washed/eroded away

Easy find still in good condition.

Sorry previous comment was incorrect gps on phone was playing up. We found some camo tape that was all. May have washed away.

Roadside parking

We are new to this, but couldn't find it. Searched the posts and rails fairly throughly

Another day of cache maintenance,
New replacement log added as this one was flooded and full. Please ensure bag is sealed.
Easy find, nice rusty pipe indeed. TFTC

Found it

Funny

Found

TFTC... Not far off our (Dad a.k.a Matini264 and my) track home today to grab this one.

Nicely camo'ed container except it had broken away from its attachment which Dad repaired.

After admiring the beautiful farmland scenery and signing log noticed a muggle on a quad coming up towards us as we were leaving... guessing he was curious why 2 vehicles were parked up there?

Interesting... the rusty pipe! What was this for I wonder?

Nice easy find... sure farmer brown was wondering what we were doing. Cashe was sitting on top of post but managed to rewire and put back between post and railing all secured. TFTC

We were heading North today to spend a few days up in The Bay of Islands... and naturally we had to pull up the geo-map on the way to see if there were any caches up for grabs. That is how we came to be looking for this particular cache. So after detouring briefly off the main highway, we initially passed GZ and so we had to turn around. Once we found a place to park, I made my way to GZ on foot and soon made the find. The log book has been signed. So thank you Riser5 for taking the time to set up this cache. I really appreciate your efforts in doing so.

Nice easy find. Searched the posts methodically until I found it right under my nose. Nice little spot to pop a cache. Thanks for the cache.

Pulled up to GZ and cache was hanging in plain site. Signed the log and placed it back in a location a bit more discreet.

Yay!!!

????

Easy find

Easy find near the rusty pipe.

Feels like a long time since we have been home to enjoy exploring our own backyard, so off today to explore Kauri and around Lake Waro, but also a chance to collect some previous DNFs that have been updated. What an awesome afternoon of caching was had (although now to deal with the sunburn consequences). 22 caches in 3 hours of adventure, we even had to go for a swim to collect a cache, this was our seventh cache of the day.

Tftc

Start of the trail for me today. Wonder what the pipe is or was for with the square holes cut in it.

TFTC

Nice quick one.TFTC

Someone was parked right next to GZ, so I parked just before the bridge. Quick find while the muggle was nowhere to be seen.

Found at 14:27 - #6763

TFTC

Whangarei Day2.
We spent a delightful day in the outer region of Whangarei, driving through the rolling country side then onto the sea side where many surfers were enjoying the waves.
A great variety of locations & hides were found. Took a few minutes to spot this one.
Thanks for placing this cache Riser5

394 Great sunny day for a walk

Yay

Found it, thanks

Epic little spot, great find!

After climbing part of the Tamahunga track and Waikaraka walkway, I was feeling in need of an easy approach to GZ. Not sure what was happening with the GPS, as the area of the hide was in the middle of the drive? so had to search the obvious and not so obvious, before finding the elusive hide.

Easy when you know where! thanks for the hide

A fun rainy day find

Found it g

Fun find. Paper just about all used up and quite wet.

Nice

Nice little find - an enjoyable Sunday morning while on family vacation up in Whangarei

I'm back up in my home town of Whangarei for the holiday period and on this very wet morning teamed up with fellow Auckland cacher yorkshirekiwi83 and local caching friends tikitour for a couple of hours of caching, till the rain sent us home! Soon found the cache here, TFTC!

[red] For information on the 2016 New Zealand Geocaching Adventure being held in Turangi, go to... http://www.nzgeocachingadventure.nz [/red]

Decided to finish the year and see in the new year in Whangarei, Vistra and tikitour decided to join me and we spent the time grabbing caches around the region, in some cases it was just one that needed to sign in others it was all three of us, signed as TYV (or combination of those letters) or VY when it was more than 1 of us.

Early morning in the rain, quick grab TFTC


[u][Teal]New Zealand Geocaching Adventure 2016 Labour weekend in Turangi visit [url=http://www.nzgeocachingadventure.nz/]New Zealand Geocaching Adventure 2016[/Url] [/Teal][u]

A very rusty pipe. Here we had our first stop on the way to Paihia and also breakfast. A quick find.
TFTC!

Quick and easy. 3rd group to find it today.

A nice easy find

nice hide. the path once upon a time led to the QEII reserve but has since overgrown. will be doing some work around here over the coming year (planting up the stream banks) so could be quite a different space in a few months time. tftc

Found after a short search. I returned to the car to find it being swarmed by bees. I waved them aside and jumped in quickly. By the way, this is a micro, not a small, and the information should be corrected. It took me longer to find, as I was looking for a small. TFTC Flowernz & Riser5.

November in Europe, the dark month, neighter autumn nor winter: short days,rain, fog. Everywhere unlucky people.
But now we are in NZ. Early sunrise, mighty green and flowers everywhere. Happy cows and sheeps also. We delight look forward to such lovely challenge. Thank you NZ. Greetings from Germany, from the mountains of Harz. TFTC

TFTC. Easy find.

This entry was edited by thedalbeths on Monday, 26 October 2015 at 03:37:00 UTC.

Busy looking on gl but looked higher with honeykz

TFTC

Soon found the pipe and the cache quickly after. Tftc.

First I was worried I'd have to clamber right to the rusty pipe ! But then I found the hint item and the cache ! Cool thanks !
No idea what the pipe is for !

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
3 from 3 after earlier failures. A nice simple yet effective hide here

A quick find thanks.

Cruising around Whangarei, and its environs. A lovely fine day to be away from work!

Thanks for effort put your hides.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| For info on the next NZ mega, go to: [url=http://coord.info/gc587bc]nzmega2015[/Url] |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Nice easy find.

Watched a few little birds while Max grabbed the cache. Thanks!

TG

This entry was edited by Terra Girl on Monday, 18 May 2015 at 03:52:57 UTC.

Out with Terra Girl finding some good ones. Great fun!

Thanks for the cache!

TheDeviousMaxPower

Maybe I'm a bit rusty, but I didn't see any pipe, never-the-less I found the cache! Nothing rusty about me when it comes to that!

Tftc. Nice cache

Geocaching through the countryside during our short visit to Nothland. What could be more pleasant on a lovely summers day? Easy find. Cache good. TFTC

Phone had just died and my back-up as well! Just as well Poppa J was powered up! TFTC

Tftc nearly gave up was feeling a bit rusty today after 2 did not finds with scout n about

last cache for the day. Sun shining. one of the logs mentioned they couldn't see the pipe. lol. great day caching. TFTC ;D

Last cache for the day giving a total of 20 today. A new high score for us both. My Kiwi travel bug managed to open his eyes long enough to see the rusty pipe that previous cachers had failed to spot. LOL. Cool camo. TFTC

Had some time before work and made a quick grab, recent flooding has eaten away the bank so lucky the cache survived! Got a fright from the electric fence and a "growling?" Cow! Have turned into such a townie!!! TFTC

What a pipe.

Found it

Another nice find. Lucky it didn't get washed away last week TFTC.

Replaced log sheet

Nice

Quick find. More of a creek here than i thought. Tftc

Liked the clues - worthy of a favourite point.

Rusty with holes.
TFTC

Original owner

Decided to do a bit of a day tour of Northland and grab some easy drive-bys in the process. Thanks.

Another great find while on holiday in the area.

LOG NEEDS REPLACING TFTC

Rusty Pipe [Northland] was transferred from Flowernz to user Riser5

Log needs renewal please.

TFTC but log full.

Saw it as we was pulling up, Nice and easy.
Log is full though.
Thanks for taking us on this trail Flowernz, really enjoy ourselves.
We missed a couple on the way due to our GPS but well worth coming back out again

Log book full. Quite exposed but I suppose it's only crazy geocachers who come to this spot! TFTC.

The log is now full. TFTC.

TFTC

Nice easy find at the start of the trail. Log book is full

Easy find

thanks :0)

A good end to our trip in the valley easy find was exposed so recovered the best we could many thanks.

A little exposed so covered again as good as possible

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 great end to this fantastic wee trail. Thanks for the work that went into it, we had a really fun afternoon!

Nice quick park and grab. Lots if goodies in cache, added a blue dinosaur.

I finally made it to Matapouri Bay today after a false start last Tuesday. Today it started fine and stayed that way all day.

I'm now on my way home and decided to pick up all the caches in this series in the Jordan Valley.

Cheers for the cache.

I don't know what the pipe was for either. Soon found the cache. Thanks for the placement

All good thanks nice easy find

All good nice easy find

#456 Last cache for the day before I had to make tracks. Quick find. Thanks for the lovely detour- really enjoyed the views and the caches. Will be back to grab the ones I couldn't find.

TFTC, our last cache on our school holiday trip up North

easy find on our way to Whangarei

Needed another stretch of legs whilst driving south exploring NZ from the UK. Classic hide - SL dipped trackable, replaced where found T4TC

Almost went actually on the pipe

Found it while in the area. Easy find.

A nice quick find on a beaut day's caching up north, not an area I get to visit very often.

TFTC

Spotted on approach-tftc