When did you Wynn? (Whangarei) Whangarei, North Island, New Zealand
By MiniMaxy on 15-Jul-13. Waypoint GC4GA6J

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I'm not sure this is still there, but there is a TON of trash in and around the spot.

Found some time today for a passing revisit of this previous DNF.

Meeting up with the little ones today at the new park, and after some play we went on a shortish stroll and snapped up some of the more recent (to me) hides.
Into June already and Winter is here with temperatures dropping later in the day, and curtains drawn earlier and earlier. Time to head to the 'Winterless North' - Yeah Right. A few days away up from Rangitikei and another 4 night stay at Chateau Ngunguru, the works bach. A good time to catch up with the family and grandchildren in Maungatapere, and a few trips to spend time with each other in Whangarei. Highlights of the visit; A few more Riser caches, some more 0B80B8 ones, meeting both of those COs within a few hours of each other on the Monday, and another rare Wherigo. As ever, thanks to all COs for their hides and maintenance.

Perhaps not the most inviting GZ now. I didn’t linger long to admire the aesthetics.

Thanks Riser5
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Logged using Cachly.

I have looked for this before without success..today the town was busy as boardering on mayhem....so a little time out to cache was on the cards at GZ it was also very busy....by the looks much fun and frivolity has been had sadly it's a mess around here along with that Santa may have even moved in temporarily I suspect ...but while he was out replenishing his or her stocks ..I was lucky enough to spy the cache hanging around ....so quickly and very quietly it was signed and replaced as found then gone in a flash...thanks Riser5 for the adventure,...

We have arrived back in the north fir Christmas. We stupidly thought we'd get a park in the Warehouse / Countdown carpark- along with thousands of others. We drove out and there, right in front of us was a large parking space just for us. After fruitlessly checking out the shop we decided yo look for this cache. Just as the rain came down! It didn't last and we were across the road and in. I felt rather uncomfortable looking all around someone's "home". Luckily, nobody there. But the cache was. Thanks for the placement Riser5.

Lots of rubbish around including shopping cart. Nice spot thanks.

Day 2 of our three day Geocaching trip to Whangarei. This stage included a large loop to the East of Whangarei picking up solved puzzles and some Old School Caches. We signed the log as BBIC for Bruzie, BFG, Infoferret and CrystalFairy.

T4TC

There’s a shopping cart in the bush… someone’s off their trolley. Found in a random spot after a few minutes. Won that one, thanks Riser5,

08:10 Day 2 of a 3 day expedition to the areas north of Auckland with Crystal Fairy and Barefootguru, (joined today by Bruzie) most logs signed as BBIC to save space and time. The focus of the trip was to find a number of puzzle caches solved over the last couple of years, plus other caches of interest we passed.

Somewhat random, but BFG spotted it.


TFTC Riser5 for placing this cache, number 11900 for me.

I'm on a road trip to the far north, attempting to complete the PWGT Tahi Geotour.

This is day four, touring around Whangarei via Cape Reinga. In the company of barefootguru, InfoFerret, and CrystalFairy. Signed logs as "BBIC" for brevity.

Will expand on my logs, post photos, qualifying caches for challenges, etc. When I get home. TFTC

A bit of stumbling around before BFG spotted it.

29 October 2022 8:10 am Find #5165

Sunday only one business open so less stares from muggles. I had to pretend I was taking photos of the reflections.

Scrambling around in the bushes on a Sunday, and, success!! Thank you!

**15,447**
Zigzagging across town collecting early morning cache finds. This was a nice quick stop and we had a giggle at the final once it all fell into place!! TFTC

Fun find while Mr was doing car shopping

Back to whangarei in 2022. Pleased to remove another blue sad face into yellow.
Thanks for cache maintenance. Was an easy find this time.

Found it. Very sneaky

Found it, forgot our pen though

Cool little find for my birthday in the rain

Joint FTF 2043 1/11/2021 on new log and cache with Yvettetb, in the dark when the carpark was less busy and no muggles to spot us. Thanks Riser5 for the new cache.

Thanks Riser5 for the new cache, joint FTF with Nessvab at 8.43pm, found and signed tonight. Quick park and grab, decided to come at night when no muggles around.

Cache was still hiding in place.
Replaced with new cache and dry log, on tree.
Avoid human waste near flax

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Searched pretty much every option at/near GZ, nothing found. Might need a CO check please.

Unfortunately logging a DNF today. To clever for us. Will have to try again another time.

Couldnt find it. Lots of rubbish in the bushes.

Found this one after a second attempt! Wow that one took some time to find. Log was unusable so I put a fry piece of paper in it to write on. TFFC

Found it but the log was wet and mushy

After a DNF here previously I found this quicker than a rat up a drain pipe. Which surprised me so my geo eye must have been tuned in. TFTC

Found it when picking up some paint fromWynn's. Looked at a few different ones but finally came across it. Nice disguise on the outside. Thanks for the hide

This one proved too difficult for me no luck here today

This cache took a bit of finding. When I found it, at 1220Hr on 5 April 2019, besides having a soggy log, my GPS said it's coordinates were 4m out: try S35°43.774 E174°19.543.
Perhaps it was my GPS that was out?!?

Had fun looking for this one. Nice camo TFTC

Familiar camo today tftc

Parked up in the motorhome by the river, came along here on the bicycle mid afternoon. Reasonably quite near GZ. After a short search came up trumps. Neat camo, TFTC

One of my trickier finds so far, lots of trees to check. Unfortunately lots of rubbish around so took some home with me.

Thought I would grab this being in the area to keep up my streak. Arrived at GZ had a quick look a there's the cache. Nice camo! had a bit of trouble getting the lid back on but fine apart from that. Nice bit of shade under the tree's as well on such a hot day. TFTC.

Log is soaked have replaced log, log is now in a small plastic bag inside cache.
Tftc

When did you Wynn? (Whangarei) was transferred from MiniMaxy to user Riser5

546 Found after a bit of a scratch around

Off on an evening exercise jaunt through town. Been to Wynn Frasers plenty of times, but never been past the shop to the rivers edge. Used the good clues provided and was soon able to locate the nicley camo'd cache. TFTC

Found it thanks! Cute camo !
My phone took me to wrong side of river !!!

Needs a replacement log is very wet

This one eluded us for a while but after 10mins we found it

We attempted to grab this one but when we drove up to site it appears that to muggles where having coitus in a truck nearby or atleast that's what it looked like. Came back an hour or so later to find the place was empty. Once GZ was located we checked the trees surrounding and were quickly able to find. Nice camo. Tftc

Acting as David Attenborough we soon had the Cache in hand. TFTC

You know what they say, third time lucky. Well this was more like 8th time lucky, not sure hiw this eluded me so long as I found it almost straight away today. Tftc

Picking up.some sparkplugs so had another look encouraged by the last two logs. Finally not too blind, lol TFTC

a bit trickier to find in the fading light but soon in hand once I found the right spot. never knew these shops were here. tftc

Easy find with the kids. Quiet today. Tftc.

Being a Anzac weekend Sunday, the place here wasn't that busy at all. So I parked at the rear and just waltzed into the bushes, after a short search I found the cache and signed away, then away I went. The inlet here was at full tide and it looked quite nice with the ducks there.

Needed some epoxy resin from Wynn's so had another quick look for this one but all I found was a gypsy moth trap. Too many muggles to skulk around the bushes lol sure miss my furry caching buddy! Good company & always made a good excuse for odd activity... .

Nice to get out of the sun and near water. Shady
spot for this cache. TFTC.

A quick dive under the bushes soon had this one in hand. My brother worked for Repco here for a while before our local Repco came up with enough hours. Promised ourselves a coke after this cache, so we're off across the road for a quick thirst buster before continuing our caching day. Cool camo, TFTC

Nice quick find and very cute camo. TFTC

Evening caching so no-one around. TFTC

Had a nice walk to GZ and a quick find once there. T4tc

Cool as camo!!! Can't wait to find another of yours! Tftc

All quiet at GZ after hours, pretty cool camo, blends in nicely so it was a Wynn Wynn here for us today, TFTC.

Got it. TFTC.

Took a while to find, good camo.

Quite tricky on an overcast day to get good coordinates

It took a bit to figure out how to get closer to GZ, but once there the cache was easily found. TFTC.

Almost gave up on this one! Great cache, well camouflaged. tftc

12.30pm. Had a DNF when it was not in place. Thanks for putting it back so I found it this time.
Thank you. David.

Was quite difficult terrain. Nobody about

Heading back to Jafaland after a romantic evening and dinner in Paihia

Nice hide

Tftc

Cache was still in the area, had fallen under the leaf litter. Replaced in the correct place.

The following cache was attempted as part of KiwiFruitsNZ trip back to Auckland - involving attempting Riser5's GB1 series - after a well deserved long weekend away. A road trip that we managed to stretch to 9 hours instead of the regulation 3 hours - due to caching (planned) and holiday traffic (not planned!)

2nd DNF for the day, but judging by the previous logs (something we checked after looking for 5 mins!!!) we were not alone in our unsuccessful attempt!

Spend a while looking around for it but couldn't find.

Searched for long time in the bushes.... without find

No luck for me in the dark.

Nice wee find while nearby sorting paint . Felt a bit uneasy when I popped back out of the bushes as some muggles in a nearby car. Nice smile and off I headed .

Find was definitely made easier as in Mr tikitours company while others waited in car - yep - Sunday pm a good quiet time to do this one - Thanks MM

I first attempted this one wet Monday night when I came in to pick my daughter up and thought it shouldn't be too hard. Well grabbed the torch from the car then found it didn't work, so went to change the batteries to find I had the wrong size. So using a key ring torch and the phone, I attempted (note: attempted) to find the cache. Headed towards what I thought was GZ only to meet a possum who made a hasty retreat back up his tree. It then tried to pee on me!!! Argh!!

So after spending half an hour here, searching all the likely hides, I had to admit defeat and retreat back to the car (and the fact the teenager was texting where are you, you're late!).

Back for another attempt tonight, armed with a torch with new batteries and full of information gleaned from the logs. Well, after another 45 min search, I texted a friend for help. Luckily for me he was in the neighbourhood! So after a quick catch up, he lead the way in and straight to the cache! Man do you know how frustrating that is when you've been looking and feeling and you still didn't see it!

So with all frustrations over and more grey hair in place, TFTC!

Coordinates changed from:
S 35° 43.775 E 174° 19.545

Coordinates changed to:
S 35° 43.774 E 174° 19.539

Distance from original: 30.2 feet or 9.2 meters.
Second set of Coordinates, hope these are better. If not, give me updated coords.

All the shops were closed late on Sunday afternoon so we could have a good hunt around until we located the cache. Great camo and the tree wasn't the obvious one (or two). TFTC.

TFTC

Quick run out after the family had left to find my cache for the day. Thought this would be a quiet time with both the businesses closed, we were the only people there so able to have a good look. Good camo....TFTC

great camo

(584) New what type of camo to look for, so had cache in hand pretty quickly. TFTC

Up in Whangarei for the night so as to see a Rep in the morning so a little bit of night caching was the order of the evening.
Like a previous logger it was left of where I had started looking Got there in the end thank goodness

TFTC

I won around about 7:30 this morning,took a while to locate, cache was more to the left than expected.Good shop and the folks there are friendly and helpful.TFTC.

Nice quick find tftc

I suggest you up the difficulty rating... Looked for a good quarter of an hour under every tree and bush.

1st ever FTF

Couldn't find it either!!!

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