End of the Ford for you (Ngunguru) Kiripaka, North Island, New Zealand
By
Riser5 on 06-Apr-13. Waypoint GC4969N
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Logs
We stayed at Nicau Bay last night and got off to an early start to make low tide for estuary crossing. That brought us by here at around first light. The cache took some finding but thanks to the clues in the description I was able to uncover the stash. Fumbled my biro into the dewy grass so it didn't want to play ball with signing my name, but I did manage to leave a mark. All returned as found and we were back on trail heading south on the Te Araroa (this cache is very close to the 352km mark).. aiming for ocean beach tonight.My thanks to riser5 for placing a cache here which certainly added to the enjoyment of this long day. Cheers!-- This log is trackable ! ---- Feel free to discover ---- Please mention, in which cache you've seen this code: ---- 3TABQX --
1341. 11:56 am. Like most I parked up and walked the last portion. My GPS was acting up and I just couldn't locate the "rocks". I was about to give up but decided to have one more look through the heavy shrubs that the GPS seemed to point to the most and thankfully bingo! I had expected the rocks to be visible in front of the tree. Definitely not one for tourists. TFT(end of the road)C.
End of the line indeed, in fact I parked at the top and headed down on foot. Took me aaaages to make the find before spotting the hidey rocks from the rear of the host. The log was soaked so added some RITR paper strip and placed the wet log in a nearby drinking cup. T F T C Riser5
It's our turn to look after Kaiah today as her parents are heading off to the North with visits to Waitangi, Kerikeri and other places on their list of places to visit. They were out for most of the day, so caching opportunities were likely to be at a premium but amnaged to get out for some fuel and a few caches on the way back from town (via the ford road).
Heading north for Christmas, we're off to Ngunguru for 6 days along the Tutukaka coast and accompanied by our youngest daughter, middle daughter and family, and will meet up with one of our sons and his family too, so a busy time. Had a great time away and ate well, watered well and a bit of fishing and kayaking, awesome weather mostly too in Northland.
It's our turn to look after Kaiah today as her parents are heading off to the North with visits to Waitangi, Kerikeri and other places on their list of places to visit. They were out for most of the day, so caching opportunities were likely to be at a premium but amnaged to get out for some fuel and a few caches on the way back from town (via the ford road).
Heading north for Christmas, we're off to Ngunguru for 6 days along the Tutukaka coast and accompanied by our youngest daughter, middle daughter and family, and will meet up with one of our sons and his family too, so a busy time. Had a great time away and ate well, watered well and a bit of fishing and kayaking, awesome weather mostly too in Northland.
A nice early start to my day as I head south .
It a beautiful day with not a colud in the sky and my next overnight stay.
This such a great pice of nz to walk through.
Log damp and hard to log
Living life one foot steep at a time as i walk from cape reinga to bluff and caching my way home as I walk the
Te Araroa and discover the hidden treasures new Zealand has to offer.
From the beach of the north to the forest and lakes of the south
Blùff here i come
Thanks for the hide
tftc
It a beautiful day with not a colud in the sky and my next overnight stay.
This such a great pice of nz to walk through.
Log damp and hard to log
Living life one foot steep at a time as i walk from cape reinga to bluff and caching my way home as I walk the
Te Araroa and discover the hidden treasures new Zealand has to offer.
From the beach of the north to the forest and lakes of the south
Blùff here i come
Thanks for the hide
tftc
Yah found it. I had work in Whangarei today and I needed (not wanted) a cache that hasn't been found for 1000 days. I'd spied this one the other day so I left home at 5.45am to grab it before work. The log was a bit damp but still writable. Thanks for the cache 
Out for an evening caching jaunt down N Ford Rd. Went to this one at the far end to start the day.
Stopped at the top of the hill and decided to walk the last 600m, just as a 4wd wagon went past. 4 or 5 mins later when I was ready to leave the car, another 2 cars went by, 2wd this time, so I tossed up whether to take mine as well, but decided the exercise would be good anyway. And I thought this would be a quiet location.
No more vehicles though before I reached GZ and the split bark tree was a nice easy find. However, whilst reaching for the cache, I somehow scratched my arm and it bled and bled and bled... Managed to keep the log clean though.
No more vehicles on the way back, but still bleeding when I reached the car...
TFTC
Stopped at the top of the hill and decided to walk the last 600m, just as a 4wd wagon went past. 4 or 5 mins later when I was ready to leave the car, another 2 cars went by, 2wd this time, so I tossed up whether to take mine as well, but decided the exercise would be good anyway. And I thought this would be a quiet location.
No more vehicles though before I reached GZ and the split bark tree was a nice easy find. However, whilst reaching for the cache, I somehow scratched my arm and it bled and bled and bled... Managed to keep the log clean though.
No more vehicles on the way back, but still bleeding when I reached the car...
TFTC
One would think that there wasn't going to me much traffic up here, right? right.. wrong! Not many seconds after having replaced the cache and gotten into the car, another car came up the track.
Slightly interesting in the rental, but it worked just fine
Found at 16:01 - #6744
TFTC
Slightly interesting in the rental, but it worked just fine
Found at 16:01 - #6744
TFTC
Glad we chose not to drive the last bit. With all that rain we've had, road is scoured out in places. Cache was easy to find. TFTC.
I have been meaning to do this cache for ages, as it is right at the end of my parents road. So I drove out there this morning, parked at the top of the first steep downhill section and walked the remaining 600m to GZ, where I made a quick find of the cache. TFTC!
Poor little cache, noone has visited you in over a year, an enjoyable drive in the 4wd Subaru. TFTC
Saw the road and chickened out. I would have walked the last 600m if it had been earlier in the day but I was feeling a bit weary now. Thanks anyway
The end was a walk in the hot sun for us.Have been here from the beach so now we have completed the circuit.tftc
Gosh it's all changed since we were last out here. We could drive to the water. Quick find. TFTC
Yippee, yes so glad to be out and about in the Geonut. Nice few minutes of rough terrian a piece of CAKE to park 3 meters from gz .Always wondered what was at the end of the road. so good chance to come see myself. taking the long way home thanks .Yay, down that rough road and off with dust behind me .
.Found this one while caching in the area. Was not brave enough to take my car the whole way. Walk the last 600m to GZ. TFTC
Out and about on a caching day with tikitour and 3 of our grandsons...
We were too scared to go down this hill in case we couldn't get back up so decided to leave this one
Thanks Nick
We were too scared to go down this hill in case we couldn't get back up so decided to leave this one
Thanks Nick
A beautiful warm Northland day for a caching day with flowernz and grandsons. Chickened out here.....that is quite a steep road and even though we were driving the 4 wheel didn't have the confidence to attempt. Will come back with mr tikitour.
CFTF.Luckily we were traveling in the trusty ute so we rocked on up to GZ.Found easily, was reading the signs at the gate and wouldn't you now it we heard a distant 4wd getting closer.Just as we left two "locals" appeared at the gate,we left them in a cloud of dust and they later passed us at the next cache up the road .TFTC.
