Golden Circle Series Marlin Gates view(Northland) Omapere, North Island, New Zealand
By butchie bum on 16-Mar-12. Waypoint GC3ENJT

Cache replaced with owners permission . With Kaz53

Another find with Judith.

Lots of doggie doos.

Couldn't find it has it dropped off from where it was hanging

After searching, 2sets ofeyes and hints upon hints we couldnt find anything???

Quick find. Could do with a new attachment. Sorry didnt have any today

Great views of the sand dunes.I kept on moving around and spied it from a different angle.Thanks.

On a caching journey up to the north with Supernannny and Net61 to find some caches. Many kilometres were driven over a few days and many caches were found. Thanks to all the cache owners for the placements. Quick stop here. We met a couple of divers walking up from the beach with empty dive bags. With 3 sets of eyes the cache was soon spotted lower down than expected. TFTC

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Found it! Forgot pen, damn it.

Nice beach and views

Easter find - TFTC

Spent a while looking too high, got there in the end

Found exactly as described. What a lovely beach and even better marlin gates. Cache is all good., TFTC

Another lonely cache that has not been visited for a while. Makes the looking a little more interesting as there are no obvious signs of human interference with then undergrowth. Still found it. TFTC

Another great view of the sand dunes.
I’m on a roadie north to complete the PWGT and find other interesting caches - oldies, puzzles and ones at interesting places.
Kia ora rawa atu for the cache butchie bum.

I wouldn’t exactly call it hanging but nice find TFTC

tftc

Well it might be close to the views but man was my eyesight playing up here. I scanned down up, interior, exterior, you name it. Just could not see anything hanging on that plant. With precious minutes counting down I had to head for the virtual.

Second day of my Winter escape from Dunedin and a lot of new caches to find.

Yus! #2

One of several caches we located today travelling from Kaikohe via Opononi to Dargaville. Took a brief moment to spot this one. #4701. TFTC.

Yay got this one- was nice and easy

Tft easy F. Avoid the muggles.

Yep got this one snagged and tagged. cheers.

Day 8, Thursday 27 January - from Tokerau Beach dropping down leaving Zara in KeriKeri. Then exploring Kaikohe, Opononi and Omapere with Toby and Lenny, before returning to Zara in KeriKeri. The fishy series this morning before leaving Tokerau B. Lots to do so lets get moving!

Zara, Toby, Lenny and I are on our North Island expidition for a couple of weeks. Got The Seagnoid along for the first 4 days, heading to the Auckland Mega. PWGTs and TMGTs are on the radar for this trip. Lots of driving on gravel roads and visited lots of amazing places on our 6000km road trip snagging 200+ caches along the way. Visiting Cape Reinga, Bay of Islands, Gisborne and White Rock along our journey. Another awesome trip. Thanks to all CO's.

Only one place to hang

Jsjsbs

Yyy

Found it

A couple of finds and a DNF this morning so far. A find here.

Stopped in to check this cache today being 5/5/2021 and yes was missing. So I have replaced it with new container very close to gz. changed the hint for an easy find.

Saw all the previous DNF's so didn't bother to stop to look for this one.

No Luck

Might just be too blind haha

Did not find near the two obvious places

We trusted our gps and looked at the base of everything we could find where our gps showed us. We even came back with reinforcements and an extra phone to see if that gave us a different GZ, but still no luck.
We did however do our good turn for the end of the year and sent Daddypig123 home for the jump leads to help somebody start their ute.

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Quick little find on a quick little holiday in the north

Yay

TFTC
Scheffi12 & LaWutz
283

Yay and again

Prachtig plekje.TFTC

This weather is beautiful

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My first time in the Hokianga Harbour! We rented a waterfront bach in Omapure and stayed for a couple of nights with the family. This was one of my first finds ever as I started geocaching years ago but then had a baby and then another one... and I've been too busy for treasures. However, as I did a quick check on the app for GC in the area I found this one was only 200m from the bach! So I couldn't resist and escaped with my 3 year old to find it... And yaaay! We did... tried to explain the game to my daughter but she seemed to be a bit puzzled about this whole GC thing (all she wanted was to draw in the logbook, but don't worry I didn't let her , I'm sure she'll get it one day and I hope this is just the first of many we'll find together... We all enjoyed the trip and we'll certainly come back, perhaps then I'll find a few more, thanks!

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches in the area

We wanted more finds for today's calendar date, so we planned a trip to Opononi to find some of the Golden Circle Series. Rain was forecast but it mostly held off until our last few finds, though the very strong winds were challenging at times! Some of the finds had us hunting for a while, but we had no DNFs until the last cache on our list.
We spied the Marlin Gates as we approached, but the GPS was directing our attention elsewhere. Wandered over and couldn't see anything at our assumed GZ. Then spied where the container was hiding. Nice spot, thanks, but a little too windy today to fully appreciate it. TFTC

Odloveno s Lucka Black, TFTC )

I am traveling with my daughter Lucinka mundlinka and son Negrritos across the New Zealand. We are from Prague, Czech Republic. We love "geocaching", the main target is caches )
Many beautiful caches, amazing and unforgettable experiences, thank all owners, TFTC )

GPS too us to correct location, beautiful carving but no cache to be found, may have been removed for maintance?

Found out. However log was wet and therefore not possible to write upon. Needs maintanance. Send picture to owner

Nice spot for summer! TFTC

On the way to the south - direction Coromandel, we stop and log this cache.
TFTC
schmerzbefreit

Nice easy find. Beautiful day. Tftc.

835 Getting windy now.

Out on a mission today, to collect as many caches as possible toward the Hidden Creatures souvenirs. With very few unfound local caches, a decent journey was required. Left at dawn and covered over 300km through the winding gravel back roads of Northland, passing through Twin Bridges, Donnelley's Crossing, Waipoua forest, Omapere, Opononi and Taheke, before the heavy rain finally set in. This heavy rain, combined with the sunset, put a halt to further searching, so had to settle in the end for 29 finds and 7 DNFs for the day.

Made it to Omapere now, so time to look for as many here as possible. Grass seemed a bit boggy after the rain, so pulled off the road 80 metres past GZ and walked back. Cache was not where I originally imagined, but was a quick find in the logical place, once I trusted the GPS. TFTC

Exactly as expected

Wasn’t quite sure about this, but followed the GPS which took me straight there for a quick find. Thank-you butchie bum for placing this cache for our enjoyment. Out caching with Will of the Wisp on our “Round the World in 80 Days” trip to celebrate retirement. Signing logs with our names or initials depending on space. Greetings from England, TFTC.

Quick find with beautiful view.

Soon found this one, thank you.

Soon found this one. Container no longer has camo. tftc.

Quick easy find. A bit of a geocacher's trail to it.

Another cracking view

Enjoyed this spot for family beach fun, and then found the cache as a bonus. TFTC

Tftc. Nicely placed. Yep GPS was spot on.

Awesome marlin gates tftc

Yebo butchiebum

A circle at the western coast with 2 handfuls of caches sounds very tempting- we're giving it a try

Parked the car, walked over , trusted and Well found

Tftc

Thanks for the maintenance on this one. I have been after this one for ages and it was just not there. Park was a bit wet underfoot, had to use 4WD to get the geo wagon moving again. TFTC.

larger new container dropped in today and ne log in place. happy caching.

Looked at the post and at the foot of the cliff below, but couldn't locate it.

The travelling fox is disappointed =u_u=

Hasn't been found in over a year. Followed my GPS to the base of a pole but no luck here

Didn't really look that hard

We struck a few really bad patches where we could find any, We had a good search around but no luck at all.
Thanks

Another easy find thanx to the well marked path!
Tftc
Greetings from Spain:)

Tftc,easy find

On our down through the Kauri forest after a delightful stay at Ominoni this was a quick find. We trusted our GPS!! TFTC

In Hokianga for Valentines Day and decided to pick up a few caches before a "romantic dinner" on the bay!

A quick find - if you trust your GPS!

#5289

Some lite rain, nice. Nice view. TFTC

Beautiful place the hokianga

Beautiful

Last few days of our holidays in NZ...

Made this cache on our 4 weeks honeymoon through New Zealand. So many great places to see in this beautiful country.
On the 23rd day with our campervan we drove from Paihia to Kaihu. On the way we stopped at Opononi and Omapere for some geocaching. Nice are which we enjoyed at good weather. This one we found.
Greetings from Germany
TFTC

We're on a road trip around Northland. TNLN SL TFTC!

Perfect place for a beach walk and a picnic. Tftc

Today is the first day of my son's four day unicycle trip from Opononi to Cape Reinga, I get to cache while he pedals. I didn't see the item in the title until after I found the cache. TFTC.

Some founds, some DNFs today (too many), but we were lucky with this one. Thanks.

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

Lovely spot quick find. TYFTC

Enjoyed the views and found the cache. All is well. Thanks.

#24 Looked in the wrong spot and then decided to listen to the clue. Ah yes the clue is wise and cache in hand.
Last for the day - no more light to see.

Pretty much dark now, but Grobyc found quickly once in the right spot. TFTC

Stopped in for a wee visit ( maintenance ) after reading the last log. Cache still there and thx I have changed the damp log. nice new log and awaiting for some visits on such at beauti place on a sunny winters day. happy caching,

On my way back to my So...easy to find. tftc

T hat was easy, Thanks for showing us this lovely place.
The cache needs maintenance!

We trusted our faithful GPS and went straight to it. Tftc.

Lovely easy find Thanks butchie bum! Admired the Marlin gates ....

Looked where the GPS said and no luck

To day we went to whangarei, on the way we pick up same caches an this one was one of it. An other great day here in new zealand with great caches and nice views. TFTC