Hatea Drive-by (Whangarei) Whangarei, North Island, New Zealand
By MiniMaxy on 15-Jul-13. Waypoint GC4GA6P

Too long

Not found with wheelygirlnz

No luck

Might have been removed

Could not find anywhere. The hint makes no sense. doesn't look like it could be anywhere.

Left the bike and walked across the road, quick find cheers

On our way out to the heads for a kayak/fish. No problems here, thanks

Thanks for the nice cache


Logged together with zamppa00 using nickname ZZ FIN
Greetings from Finland

Found this quickly. Good hiding.

Logged together with Zuzzu using nickname ZZ FIN.
Thanks for the cache and greetings from Finland!

Zamppa00 kiittää kätköstä. TFTC

Silly shoe lace untied again! Tftc

A quick find on the way home. TFTC

Nice and quick find. TFTC.

Easy find nice after 3 dnfs

Nice and quick find TFTC

We were on our way to Oliver's event and stopped by so he could collect it. My TB's visited. Thanks

Found. Quick find.

Out for a days geocaching and stopped to "tie my shoe" at this spot. TFTC.

Hatea Drive-by (Whangarei) was transferred from MiniMaxy to user Riser5

A nice easy find here, exactly as described, yay. At least I can have one find in Whangarei on this trip! Grabbed and re-hidden during breaks in the traffic this morning. TFTC!!!

From the Bay of Island we drove to Kawakawa. Then we went to Tutukaka and Whangarei via the Touristik Drive. On the way we had very nice views and great beaches. On the coast we could make a very nice hike and some cache log. The hints were helpful and the coordinates mostly good.
Thanks to the owner for the nice caches.
Greetings from Germany from the Moorhelmis

Nice try found as soon as I read the hint TFTC

Has to time my grab lots of cars

Out for my evening exercise jaunt and stopped by to collect this one. With tyhe cliues it could have only been in 1 place and sure enough it was. TFTC

Today we left Mangawhai heading towards Whangarei.
After checking into our accommodation, lunch & a rest we decided to find some caches closer to the city area.
Thanks for placing this cache MiniMaxy

Found with staxcache on the way back to kerikeri from a shopping trip. TFtc

Had a great day out caching today, with the aim to collect as many TBs as possible to take overseas on tuesday. The aim was also to get ever so slightly closer to the 500 caches found mark.
Was able to park beside it, reach out and sign it.

The neph found this one on the river side of the road!! Awesome found

Taking the opportunity to grab some caches during my week long visit up here. Pulled over for this one whilst heading north and the coords had it on that side of the road, but there was only one spot it could really be. Quick grab once I sorted that out. TFTC

Quick find plenty traffic many thanks

Nice quick grab late at night so not many people around. Was able to spot it as we pulled up. Tftc

Nice one! another good find on an infrequent, but very enjoyable trip this far north.

TFTC

Kool quick find..!

Haha neat place to hide

Out and about picking up a few

Tftc

tftc nice wee hide

Nice hide pick this one up at night just staying in the motel up the road thanks

#11112. As advertised, it was a drive-by. TFTC.

Spent the morning finding a few caches around Onerahi then headed to Kamo for another go at this wherigo which we failed to find the other day. We were keen to keep as much as possible in the shade on another warm and muggy Northland day
Good to get another easy drive by as we head back to home base. TFTC.

Out for a wee walk on our final night in Whangarei and discovered this one along the way. TFTC

Took a little while but found it

I'm back up in my home town of Whangarei for the holiday period and today joined up with fellow Auckland cacher yorkshirekiwi83 and local caching friends tikitour for a hot summers day of caching around the city. The logs were either signed with our caching names or some combination of the letters T,V & Y for our caching names - depending on who had previously found the caches. This was a quick park and grab as we headed to Mair Park, although it was on the opposite side of the road from us. TFTC!

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Decided to finish the year and see in the new year in Whangarei, Vistra and tikitour decided to join me and we spent the time grabbing caches around the region, in some cases it was just one that needed to sign in others it was all three of us, signed as TYV (or combination of those letters) or VY when it was more than 1 of us.

Parked opposite and took life into my hands crossing the road, quickly had the cache in hand and signed though. TFTC


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I was in Whangarei with ten students and a muggle teacher from St John’s College in Hamilton as part of their camp week. Over four days and three nights we visited Orewa, Whangaparoa, Waiwera, Whangarei, Paihia, Waitangi and Russel. The boys literally ran from Geocache to Geocache trying to beat each other to the find. By the second to last day they had all at least found one cache each. They all seemed to enjoy the experience and hopefully will decide to keep Geocaching as a consequence. We found a great variety of caches in some amazing spots. A huge thanks to all the CO’s for placing and maintaining all the caches we found.

Having returned from a big trip north the boys were pretty tired but I was still keen to grab some more caches so I went for a late night stroll. I had to "tie my shoes" while I waited for a jogger to pass before I could pick up this cache as I walked toward town.

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Quick park and grab b 4 social event. TFTC

quick park n green once there was a gap in the busy evening traffic. tftc

New cache, MAg, Under

I didn't find this and I do wonder if it is still there. I hunted the normal places a cache would be hidden at such a specific spot. According to the hint. Under. And on sides. But no find today.

Down in Whangarei today with the kids visiting parks and playgrounds. I'd told them I wanted to grab a few caches today as well and was passing by. Had just been to get Riser's nearby cache for my 10+ souvenir. My daughter had forgotten this cache type but for my son and I it was an easy find. Thanks for the cache

Finally some time Ro grab this while going past on this beaut chilly dewy morning... TFTC

Clever! Very clever. I like it.

Brilliant!

Just keep looking and the numbers are quite visible! Easy find with my head torch upon me.

TFTC

This is what caching is all about. Enjoyed looking for this, thanks.

Veeerrryyyy sneaky =D

A nice quick stop and grab on a Sunday. Drive past here at least 5 times a week. Has been on the to do list for a long time and have always assumed I knew what to look for and I was right! Love these! TFTC

Stumbled accross this one while munzeeing. Tftc

A Waitangi weekend road trip to collect a few puzzle series of caches that we have solved over the last month or so - plus any other caches that we can find on the way!

A find that took us longer than it should have! We must have been blind - though it was at night!

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An early morning walk before work and a chance to grab a few caches...quickly located. TFTC

Clever!

Took me awhile to figure it out, but I finally found it. Visiting from Las Vegas, USA. TFTC.

Thanks from Gravelking
Found it together with juriga on our NZ journey.
Nice place.

TFTC. Found together with Gravelking on our great NZ journey.

Good quick find. TFTC

A classic but I still love these!!! TFTC!

Thanks for the cache. Like how you attach the log. Simple but clever

Thanks.

Inspektor Higgins and I came here on our way to Tutukaka! We had a hotel in the city and during a nice stroll through the city we found this cache! Thanks for showing!

Out and about with Pagenz before heading home. Could almost reach this one from the car but not quite. TFTC

Out and about with Team Welsh having a delightful break away before Christmas. T4tc

Glad I had kiwipeats with me today TFTC.

Good One! Had us searching for a bit before I spotted it. Still no idea what the hint is about though.

Replaced cache today

Stopped a couple of times to look for this one, no luck for us.
Maybe it has gone missing could the CO check it.

I like those ones. Nice

Another quick find on my way home from work. TFT(park and grab)C.

TFTC
Foxes by the river

Found with Fox_369

Quickly spotted. No problems recovering, signing and returning the cache.

Up from Wellington for work, so good opportunity to score a few caches in another part of the country!

TFTC!

First time I'd seen this type of camo - ingenious. TFTC.

Another great cache found while touring around Whangarei.

SL TFTC

Nice hide!-------------------------------
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Easy find walking back to the campground. Much preferred the walk down on the other side of the river!

Tftc

Went walking into town for dinner from the campsite. Had to cross this busy street 3 times... Vut the cache was in hand quickly. Love the hide.

Tftc

Sanenwan
The Netherlands

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Easy find in the dark.

Nice easy park and grab

Nice and easy park and grabe

Really enjoyed this one. TFTC

On a walk around the river. Quick find thanks

What a great find

Parked on the other side.
Not much traffic at this time of the day.
TFTC

Found as part of my Post Mega northen road trip. Really enjoyed a part of the country I hadn't seen before. Thanks to all those who have placed cacahes to encourage us southerners to come your way!

First time I saw this camo, really nice place to hide and an easy grab if you know what you are looking for.

Love the camo. TFTC

5554. Before leaving Whangarei decided to do a few caches. This was number 3 of the day. A quick and easy find. exactly what we expected. Thanks for the cache. Rodney and Iris.

Nice quick drive by today after an event nearby thanks.