Living the Dream @ Pukehina (Bay of Plenty) Pukehina, North Island, New Zealand
By Dominic-Aidan on 07-Jan-13. Waypoint GC440EF

The dream is moving on as this house has been sold, Tim will no longer be here to smile at Geocachers.
So sadly we are archiving the cache and Tim's buzzy bee will now retire to live in our garden
Happy caching folks

What a gorgeous day at Pukehina, man I hate doing this type of caches.....LOL. You feel like you shouldn't be here, dropped a NZ Mega 2013 coin which we moved along, but wasn't sure how to track this as has no trackable number on it. Maybe someone else knows what to do here, if so let me know so I can track it. Have already made contact with owner and they were happy for us to move along . TFTC Cheers Keltic-Kiwi

Thanks!

Nice hide tftc

One of the many caches we found on our campervan journey from Lower Hutt to Tauranga. A mighty and enjoyable journey through many great and iconic parts of the north island. Many thanks to the many CO's for the great cache placements and for bringing us to new places. Sorry for the generic log.

Tftc. Beautiful day!

Our first geocache of 2016 while on holiday in Pukehina. Awesome place!

Nice hide. Did some swaping. Tftc

Good find with kids. Tftc. Pukehina is a great place

Good hide easy find. TFTC

A beautiful place and a beautiful day to go with it. All good here, nice quick find. TFTC

Living the dream, living the dream

Found this one while on a holiday from our home in Whangamata. TFTC

Love!

Today is International Earthcache Day so a plann was hatched some time ago for White Island in conjunction with Alpenmilch80. However due to weather cancellations it has now worked out (this is our fourth attempt) so now today we are finally going . Needless to say that this was going to be a very long but memorable day (left home at 3.20am, got home at 7.45pm). Our planned meet up time was 6am at the Mount for the adventure to begin.
So in the company with Sleschke we headed over for what was going to be a most memorable day out with good friends in a great and unique spot.

As time was not always on our side this was our first cache along the way, had been here before but there had always been plenty of muggles to discourage any hunting. Today we had a nice and quick find with a beach devoid of others.

thanks for the placement, thanks for the cache

Plans were made with C&D to visit white island but those plans were postponed a couple of times. Luckily we rescheduled to today which turned out to be earthcache day . Slieschke decided to join the fun and wow what an amazing sunny and stunning day we had. Stunning to be at GZ at sunrise. Cute little hint . TFTC

Found and had a talk with Motor Homer on site

Certainly is living the dream, nice digs Lovely find for the kids. tftc.

a lovely beach - we have never been here before - thanks for the cach getting us to visit here

A nice find after dinner, lovely area, nice hide.

TFTC

Nice spot thanks.

Nice hide ...glad that bee did'nt sting me lol

Very nice area and quick find today. SL TFTC

That's really a dreaming place!

Found it even though i was quiet afraid an owner comes bursting out any second

Well this one certainly got me closer to a house than I am comfortable with.
But....armed with the knowledge that the residents know and or own the cache, I found it fairly easily.
I'm glad the container wasn't the item that was covered with wasps.........live wasps I mean.
TFTC.

We headed out to Pukehina Beach this morning to have our breakfast - ah Living the Dream. Walked along the beach then approached a back fence towards GZ. We then had to try and explain geocaching to the lady who was house-sitting for the owners, before making the find. TFTC.

Neat spot. Cache is obviously owned by the residents. Nice easy one. Thanks

A spot well known to us as we had a caravan in the camping ground for ten years.
Once we got there, the cache was buzzy obvious.
TFTC.

A beautiful location - the residents were clearly at home, not sure if they noticed us or not; TFTC

My first find! Very cute TFTC

Thanks! Lots of goodies to swap!

Cool camo and great trinkets

A trip to the beach on Xmas. Tftc

Found our first find for the day tftc

Cool

Gotta 'bee' honest, this one made us feel a little uncomfortable. Obviously everything is fine but it feels.... not fine.. A nice home, spot, container (buzzy indeed). Finished signing log when ?Tims wife unleashed the hounds! Back to the car park, we were running late anyway. TFTC

Very cool

Neat find

Quick find, had a chat to the home owner while we were there. TFTC

Quick find right on darkness. A few fisherman closeby but they were far too busy to see what i was up to. A nice quick find, fortunately no one home in the house above. TFTC!

An easy find on the way to tauranga creators of the box were on the deck watching us with giggles. Many people fishing today. Tftc

This one has been waiting for us for a while now and we have finally grabbed it, nice here today albeit rough. TFTC

TSLSSL

Touring with our daughters from Canada and having the most excellent of adventures. TFTC.

Very cheeky!!(; cleverly hidden!

Had to go out of my comfort zone to locate this one. Pretty disguise, thanks for stashing this cache :0)

Was getting dark so it proved a little difficult as we tried not to be conspicuous with our phone torch!!!
Enjoyed the visit. TFTC SL TNLN

My dad and I did a day caching, while my sister stayed at home. Was down and Pukehina today and showed her the cache. Cleverly made and saw the TB, so took it and will be taking it up to Auckland.

So fun

took my neice on a "treasure hunt" on xmas eve. down the beach a little bit from our beach house dropped of a trackable cache.

lovely spot TFTC

2 nd attempt bingo. Wanted to get this earlier in year! Tflc gave you a eave too

Obvious once u c it. Tftc

Lovely little hiding spot - a great one for the kids. Took a marvellous hand made koura, left 3 little trinkets. TFTC

Appropriately named cache. Well done Tim. Our thirteen cache find of the day. What a gorgeous spot! TFTC Dominic-Aidan

Nice easy find while on holiday tftc

Nice fine on wet and windy day

What an awesome house. Hope I win the 30mil this week, get me a house like this

tftc

Easy find, made the dogs bark but no one seemed to mind. TNLNSL TFTC

1.10pm Nice easy find, no one around, must of pick the right day to do this one. SLTFTC

found it with Suziert and emma, nice to get our feet in the sand, lovely views on the sun nearly ready to set in the WBoP, TFTC

Easy find very good hint took TB

This entry was edited by pukehina on Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 21:54:29 UTC.

Aren't you indeed (living the dream) very nice and a favourite from us. Left travel bug.

My one for the day. I didn't see the locals but pleased to find that the cache is not too difficult. It isn't pleasant having to hunt around so close to private property. TFTC I hope you guys are getting your one a day for the month. Take that anyway you like.

Tim has been a busy boy! Well done, looks very nice... especially on a day like today.

Early start for a cache challenge today, nice safe place for a cache with guardians nearby, took the TB TFTC.

Jorja & her friends alice & kathleen found today. First one too WAHOO

Great cache on a lovely beach. Dropped off a tb. . Not sure if anyone in the house was watching or not. Tftc

Great spot. gonna be back for a fish. thanks

When we first arrived there was a crowd of muggles having a picnic in the car park so we went and did Dotty for Dotterels first. On the way back we stopped and bought a most delicious pie, fresh from the oven, for lunch, which we ate in the car park before heading off to do the cache.

Down on the beach was the same crowd of muggles this time sitting on the sand playing cards. !

However by the time we arrived at GZ we were not visible. After a short hunt....ahah...look at this. VERY cute.
Great hide. No one home at the house today. Tim was a very buzzy boy.

Well done Dominic-Aidan. Thanks.

Easy find despite 3 wasp nests nearby. We gave a bach nearby and have seen Timmy fishing and kayaking before.

#125 - found an a Easter Geocaching hunt, this was really quite clever, was a tad wary getting so close to the house, but it was a nice find.
TFTC

A clever little hide in a very pleasant spot. Had no trouble with the find. It was a nice and tidy container. A few fishermen were scattered along the beach enjoying the evening and the prospect of a catch. The shape of the beach did suggest a few nasty rips coming through here, and there was a steep drop off. Perhaps not the best place for a swim. Now to find some fish and chips and stay for a while to enjoy sunset. TFTC

This entry was edited by tparty on Friday, 22 March 2013 at 07:54:34 UTC.

Had a great holiday.

Great find even talked to the family watching over it

Quiet here this morning -Beach is beautiful with a good swell and waves pounding on the beach. Always love it down here but never been brave enough to go swimming. Don't think anyone was home today and not sure whether the neighbours knew what I was up to. Loved the cache especially when I realised that I didn't have to go near the wasp nest on the fence TFTC

Been holidaying in pukehina for the last 10 years or so, so was very excited to see there was a new cache here this time. Very well constructed cache. A favorite point because it's my favorite place:D

Might have been a bit early on a Sunday morning for any watchers - we keen cachers start bright & early. Great spot. Love the cache too - earns a fav from us.

First the day on the way down the coast. Didn't see Tim,might have been a tad early.Nicely placed,thankyou.

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Nice artwork..... love to be Living the Dream @Pukehina too, it sure is a beautiful beach and a fantastic location, many thanks for the cache.

Nightmares, no power left in batts, no clues, but had a quick look around these dunes behind houses, hope you had a good laugh watching me,
good fish n chips though a bit further down road to make up for it,

lovely to be back on this beach... awesome cache, thanks

Great day, quick find. Tnln. Good luck with fishing!!

Think we snuck in and out without being seen.

We know the owners of the house and my parents, who put the cache out there, were with us also, so our find was cause for much celebration and liquid amber was justly and dutifully drunk in the garage afterwards. Great bumblebee! Thanks Ma and Pa.

Beautiful beach and cache in a great spot. Tim and his family buzzed out to say hello...they are certainly living the dream. Nice easy and cute find, a favourite for us. We then had a lovely fish'n'chip meal on the beach (from the first cafe/shop which was recommended by Tim and co)
Glad we didn't try to race to Whak this afternoon...just knew D'n'A would happen to be there

Quick easy find TFTC

Quick find with the help of Missa, great day to be at the beach. Picked up TB to shift on soon. TFTF.

Good find. Hint is helpful. Good chat with property owner where cache is located.

FTF. The dog was in need of some exercise, so we decided to go for a cache run along the beach.

Followed the gps to begin with, then navigated by sight until I spotted a clue. The cache was nicely hidden and a great job has been done in concealment. I didn't expect to be the first to sign the log, though that was a bonus. Left the TB as I've transported this one before. TFTC. FTF

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Dropped off "3/4T" TB for further travelling!