Ferry Power (Northland) Rawene, North Island, New Zealand
By nalawod on 31-Mar-12. Waypoint GC3FX30

We haven't been able to do the necessary regular maintenance that we initially thought possible, so better to let the area be freed up for other possible cache hides.

This geocacher reported that this geocache should be archived. A community volunteer reviewer has been notified.

Recommend archive as the CO is unable to get up here for maintenance over the last year.

As several have failed to find this one we have decided to temporarily disable until we have time to do a quick tour over there to check or replace.

DNF as with previous two logs appears to be gone.

Had a quick look in the obvious places but no luck. Please can the CO check that it's still in place for future cachers?

Stayed the night here at Rawene and had plenty of time for an early morning search with no-one around. I believe this one has gone. A couple of apparent finds logged look like generic "cut and paste" logs from a tour of the North Island. Hope the CO can check this one out. Rawene is a lovely town and deserves to have more caches.

We went to NZ for six weeks and did some geocaching on the way

We started exploring in Christchurch. What an exciting city, we loved it! The ReStart Market, the food trucks, the people, awesome city! After CHCH we went south. Dunedin and the pinguins were great! We went to Stewart Island and even Ulva Island to see some birds and find a geocache down south. From there we went to the North. Doubtfulsound was beautiful and sunny, Lake Wanaka wonderful! Abel Tasmantrack is an awesome hike, i can recommend it to all geocachers. The North Island was also a succes. Rotorua and the Vulcano's, wow! Napier, Tongariro Crossing, Ohopi Beach, White Island, big Kauri trees, Cape Reinga, the Bay of Islands... it was all fantastic.
We did love travelling and camping in NZ.

We stayed at the postmaster. Ofcourse i had to do some geocaching overhere!

MPLC

Was searching every possible location for a magnet but no luck...

TFTC, Zynikus

Log folgt

Looked everywhere but no dice.

Parked up near to GZ and had a good look, but was unable to find anything within 10 metres either side.

(144) Lovely day in Rawene working with the local youth. Was a tinny find. Tftc.

Happy

Parked my car in the queue and nipped off to sign this box. Luckily it is an easy find. Ferry was very busy today. Tftc

Field log

Field Log. Ausführliches Log folgt ein paar Wochen später.

Danke für den Cache,
Darmstädter 18:46

Mein 14. Cache in Neuseeland!
Mein 11. Cache unterwegs im Camper!

Heute wieder mit Darmstädter unterwegs auf der Nordinsel und nebenbei den einen oder anderen Cache einsammeln.

Danke für das Verstecken und Pflegen des Caches.

Great view of the water. Neat hide. SL.

Very nice day for a walk. Tftc

Easy, TFTC

Crossed over on the rawewne ferry after looking for the caches on the other side and at Kohukohu (finding neither of these two and the also seem missing!) and looked for this cache but with no avail but i now log with CO permission and it has been replaced. Thank you for this cache and another smiley face.

After a few DNFs we had to check this one. Sadly it was 'missing in action', so we have replaced missing container with a new one and it is all good now. Good luck.

seems to be gone

Searched for this one on the rawene side but with no luck

As the last log said not many places to hide a mag.

Not many places to hide a magnetic cache here but our search turned up nothing. Our best guess was a fake plate on the lamp post.

Visiting my dad in waimamaku day trip to Rawene had to grab a cache
Thanks

Beatifull view of hokianga harbor and had to run for the ferry
TFTC
thank you for bringing us here

Quick quick ferry is coming girls on the toilet. TFTC

Always a good camo. Thanks.

We have found this type before so it was an easy find for Mrs Sandalwood Cottage while I made Morning Tea in the RV.

Have this one a go while I was waiting for the ferry. Travelling from Napier up to Cape Reinga and I was rather confused and worried as to why my GPS was taking me down a road with a dead end and water all around!!!! I pulled over to call my mum and she said to trust my gps so I did and I ended up here! First time on a ferry so am rather excited!!! Glad to see a few caches here to do while I waited. Thank you for easing my stress levels a bit!

Touring the North Island with laurienorton and JudithN.
Great spot, thanks for the cache.

With Judithn and cwnn on a tour around the norrh. Spent a bit of time exploring this beautiful area.

#15 Some muggles parked nearby so used me as a shield to retrieve and sign.

Quick and simple while the muggles ate their food sitting in their car. TFTC

On a 5-day tiki tour of Northland with sveppi. This is our final stretch before going home tomorrow. Rolled the car straight onto the ferry so couldn't catch the cache on the other side, but grabbed this one on our way off the ferry. Good hide, thanks.

Up in Northland for a little winter break with fanfan-77. Catching the ferry on the way back down we we so on time we skipped any caches on the other side but grabbed this once we were off. Nice hide. I like the camo. TFTC

On a mission this weekend with Cats&Dragons, with a the main goals of reaching Cape Reinga to find the Virtual caches up there and the 35 and 36 degree South challenges, plus with anything else in between. We had a great time touring around Northland, and it is a pretty spectacular place. Being from Southern Northland, it has reminded me that I need to visit this place more.

The initial plan was to head up the west coast and on to Ninety Mile Beach (which was a huge highlight of the trip) and then down the east coast, but the plan was flexible depending on progress. We mostly achieved our ambitious plan, but due to time restraints had to cut back a bit from the planned list. If we had another day I think we would of achieved most of what we had planned.

Some of the figures for the trip were, 1600km's travelled in a 48 hour period, 37 hours of caching, 4 hours of sleep, and 7 hours driving up from Hamilton and back, with a total of 176 caches found!!

Thanks to all the CO's for placing these caches and showing us around Northland.

Went for a wander while waiting for the ferry. Thought I was gonna struggle with this hide for some reason, but I spotted the nice hide from afar. Thanks for the hide.

This weekends little adventure was in the company of HKCB (as we'd both been given leave passes by our respective partners) so off we set.
The primary goals this weekend were to collect as many of the earthcaches as time would allow, the two virtuals, and complete both the requirements for the S35 & S36 challenges. Mind you this did not stop us working to collect anything else that we could find as time allowed.
It was a great trip with the weather playing its part so that we saw a great variety of countryside between caches and far too little sleep.

THe result was 1600kms (over 48 hours), 189 caches (35 hours caching) & 4 hours sleep, not bad for a couple of beginners. THanks to all the CO's and those that maintain the caches for us to collect on our too brief tour of the north.

It was nice to have a break and a coffee here while waiting for the ferry, Most Excellent

Thanks for the placement

Clever well implemented hide, TFTC

I made an early morning trip back to Rawene to look for the cache I ran out of time to get yesterday evening. TFTC

This one was less daunting than "The Other Side" SL; TFTC

Found it during my trip from south of South Island to north of South Island.
Thanks for this cache!:)
Greetings from Czech

Interesting cache. Very hot day today.Tftc

A verry famost Place - dit you grab the last Ferry. ...
TFT!

As the Ferry was just about to go when we arrived with our campervan we decided to look for this cache after crossing the water. This was really a quick park and grab. TFTC and greetings from Austria

A very nice one!
Tftc

Very clever hide, the first we have seen like this.
Love Rawene, my grandad was born here in 1895, I guess it is a bit different these days!
TFTC

We found the one on the other side, so we had to find this one as well.

After passing the ferry we made a short stop in this lovely village. To find this cache was quite easy, because in Europe this camouflage is quite usual. Thanks for hidding.

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thanks to all the owners of the geocaches that we found on our way to Rawene. TFTC and greetings from Belgium.

As we found the one on the other side it was mandatory to find this one after the crossing as well. TFTC

Nice magnetic cache. Thankfully ferry had just left so no muggle eyes to see : )

Waiting for the ferry, that was a good opportunity to start the new year! Tricky hide! Happy new year &
TFTC # 331
COOGOR
Found & logged with c:geo

First ever find like this. Loved finding it with M1kegreen. TFTC.

Tough find, walked around it it for ages

Tihomir from Bulgaria (teeshirt)

Only had a couple of minutes to look before the ferry would leave and there were a lot of people around so I'll have to come back for this one.

(1187) Found while touring the North by bike. TFTC

What a nice cache! Thanks for it

Had just got off the ferry from Kohukohu - did not find but only had a couple of minutes to look.

Just back home in UK from trip to NZ so now able to log our finds. A quick find after driving off the ferry and parking the campervan. Now for a stroll around town. TFTC

Found on 4 th of november! TFTC

A quick find before taking the ferry to the other side! TFTC!

Quick stop after fish and chips (to be exactly two fish, two chips and before we've ferried over to "the other side".

On our holidays QuestHobbit and i were the first time in New Zealand That was great! In Rawene we ate our first fish and chips in this country hehe.. and before taking the ferry to the other side we found this nice one quickly its a long time ago i took a ferry that was nice and relaxed TftC..

had fun on ferry

En route on a very long drive from Orewa to Apihara. Quite enjoyed the ferry ride - gave the kids a chance to run around. Neat hide - wife actually found this one.

We found this cache on a 2 week trip around Northland, visiting such locations as Opononi, Kaitaia, Cape Reinga, Russel, among many other places.
Quick find, as we had plenty of time (arrived as the ferry left). TFTC

Found with Redants while on our Far North Road Trip to the Winterless North. We found ourselves in some interesting places that we would not have visited had we not been searching for caches. Thanks to all the cache owners.
Started a queue then got lunch and a cache. Three cars and an ambulance going over, plenty of time to finish my coffee before we got to the other side. TFTC.

There was no ferry queue when we pulled up at Ferry Power and found the cache. Then we drove over a bit to start one. Thanks.

While I was waiting for the ferry to arrive I noticed this one was not very far away (nor was the ferry). So it was a brisk walk to the GZ to sign the cache off.

Cheers for the cache.

Found with Riser5 TFTC.

Always like these types of caches

Found some time ago, forgot to log. Oops, sorry.

Easily found. Really neat cache -thanks

Neat cache. Beautiful day. Found on my way to Kohukohu. TFTC

Checking out the ferry. TFTC

Found with Nalawod on 30/4/14 while they were checking their Rawene caches.

Rather late to log this cache but been so busy since our Cape Reinga roadie with magicmannz. Loved the car ferry across the harbour & had to grab this cache to mark the spot. Thanks so much for bringing us to this lovely part of the country nalawod

Quick drive by to check - this one only needed a new log so is now good to go. Good Luck.

love these caches. tftc

I like this type of sneaky hide. TFTC

Found this cache on the way back from a great northern holiday. Easy find. just the right place to help keep the kids occupied.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

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Easy find before heading off to find nearby caches

Found on a misty april fools day mornng while waiting for the ferry to go to work placement TFTC

Quickly located with Yeetrees before any ferry queues were formed, many thanks.

tftc

We did a hitchhike from Kerikeri and a little bit time.

TFTC der Oerather

Nice to have these caches to bring me to this area. Quick find Thanks nalawod.

Left our car in line for the ferry and strolled over for the quick find. TFTC and regards from San Carlos, California!!

As suggested, the voucher and I found this clever cache while waiting for the ferry. TFTC

Found it with Tinaluttan, thanks! Greeting from Sweden!

On the way to Cape Reinga , ceklund55, me and our daughter stopped here before taking the ferry. Find the cache at once, no people in this area for the moment and took a lunchbite in a nearby nice cafeteria too.
Greetings from Sweden! TFTC!

This entry was edited by Tinaluttan on Sunday, 23 February 2014 at 07:45:44 UTC.

Had breakfast in a nearby cafe so I went for a detour to find this one. Ferry just left so nobodynaround.

Tftc

Sanenwan
The Netherlands