Pure New Bridge (Whangarei) Whangarei, North Island, New Zealand
By Riser5 on 28-Jul-13. Waypoint GC4H9C0

Gone

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Will look into this

Think this one has gone walkabout. The bridge was recently water blasted and painted.

End of my hoilday back to huntly

Nice easy find while doing the loop

Nice hind great walk around thanks

Sneaky little find

Failing at being inconspicuous. Tftc

Easy find
TFTC!

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. Wandered up to GZ and was standing at the right level to immediately spot this nano! TFTC!

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92 Bridge had just come up while I was finding broken beacon cache

Very easy quick grab. TFTC

nice quick find TFTC

Have finally gotten around to doing the loop and finding a few caches along the way. Last one to complete the loop. TFTC

Sister tikitour and I headed off for a walk around the loop, I picked up a few geocaches along the way. Nice to see the bridge up close . TFTC

Tftc with scout n about

Found by one member of the Team during a 3 weeks holiday trip to NZ.
TFTC

After a 2h visit of Claphams National Clock Museum i found a couple of caches, this was one of it
TFTC

No eagle-eyes with me today and mini me is getting grouchy

Yeay my 140th geocache.

Thanks for this fun cache. It was nice to walk over the bridge and find a wheelchair accessible GC

(133)
Had visited this spot once before but the cache had been muggled at that time. Glad to finally cross this bridge off.
TFTC

cool

Will it ever stop raining????? !!!!! TFTC

Made the most of a sunny Monday and went caching with PageHeart and AdamsFamNZ. Had a lot of fun watching the youngest of the AdamsFamNZ find this one all by herself

Tftc

We saw the bridge opening while we were waiting to cross it. The kids and I enjoyed walking both under and over the bridge looking at the way it opens. They were amazed at how huge it is. The cache took us longer to find than it should of as we were looking on the wrong side. An enjoyable little cache. Thanks for this little adventure

Found 2 caches, a wee nano and a plasic one on the ground. I took the plastic one away, it was wet and yucky.

Did a walk around the city basin and earned some smiley's while Ms KR went to the Art Gallery

Thanks for effort put your hides.

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I finally got to watch this bridge in action after crossing it and signing log. Amazing design. Tftc

Was in town for the night for work, so took a walk around the river.

Got to see the bridge go up, which was great to see.

TFTC

Log full. So many people about!

My first cache neat container

Just got back and heard the motor, so watched in AWE.

Cleverly done. Needs new log. Tftc.

TFTC

A very cool bridge to walk over. TFTC

TFTC! Now we have gone under and over the bridge!

Easy find, but good spot

Got it this time round. Just such an interesting bridge. TFTC

This one was a nice quick find and we had the pleasure later on in the evening of driving over it when it was all lit up. TFTC

A very attractive bridge with some interesting design elements. Quick find. T4tc

Decided to walk from the dog park to Okara Park shops while the rest of the family went to do some shopping - I was more interested in caches after a long drought after injuring my foot, despite the rain and wind. Found this one in seconds - the signing of it took considerably more time, but fairly sure it didn't go back in any wetter than it was (was a bit damp along one edge). Think it was this one where the log was full - I squeezed my name in underneath someone else's (although not a 100% sure it was this cache because this wasn't the only container of this size and colour today). Have yet to see this bridge open to see what it looks like then. Looks cool at night too what with all the lights. Thanks for the cache Riser5, my second find for the day placed by you.

Could have been tricky but found it by fluke... Super tiny.

Walked across one side and back on the other. Interesting design & mechanism on the bridge TFTC

Dragged the Mini Mob around the loop walk today so chance to grab a few caches. The Cache rate has been slow this year so need to make up lost time. Mini Mob scootered ahead of me and was standing at GZ for a while. Told him to look for it but blind as a bat I think. Grabbed it quickly. Fantastic view here watching the bridge. TFTC

Cheers!

Found it while out walking with miss 1. Forgot our pen though so unable to sign

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.
I had seen this bridge in a construction magazine but hadn't known it was here. Parked on the other side and walked across to this cache. TFTC.

We found this cache on a 2 week trip around Northland, visiting such locations as Opononi, Kaitaia, Cape Reinga, Russell, among many other places. We were lucky enough to see the bridge lift when we got here. TFTC

Yeah cool one

Bike ride with the kids

#215 Quick find during a walk to see the two new bridges in the Hatea Loop. TFT(a-luring)C.

Found the cache and then UP went the bridge. Is every find celebrated with a bridge-raising?

After the Keep New Zealand Beautiful event we kiwicouple and I headed down the path to quickly find the cache on the bridge. Impressed with the path around the area, looks like it would be a really nice walk, must remember to do so some other time.

TFTC

After the CITO we drove along to the New Bridge to find this cache with yorkshirekiwi83. It has been a while since we were in Whangarei and we haven't seen the bridge before today. TFTC.

BAck in the running

Replaced cache with a micro. Attached to the arm rail.

Looked everywhere with 8eyes but nothing:-(

need to check

Don't know if this one is still here? Couldn't find but could have been under the dead pukeko covered in maggots

DNF... A Pure Failure for Us... Found the discarded camo but not the cache.

T4tc

(932) Third time lucky for this one. How did we miss it the first two times. Cache hound spotted it. Yay for her. Was team hunting with Matt tuc76 TFTC

7.35am. Another one that took a while to spot.
Thank you. David.

Nearly gave up but finally got it. A case of over-thinking it. First chance of seeing the bridge. Cache intact.

This entry was edited by gardermoen on Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 08:04:41 UTC.

Qwik find-tftc

Very quick find and please be aware the container lid has come a drift

Wife found this one. Tftc.

This was a tricky one but found on second day of searching

Do hope it is still there but no luck for us today but will be back. Stopped looking as I slipped over.

Stopped by to check it. Still holding in there

so sorry Nick have manged to create two pieces out of one.......

Hmmm - we maybe kinda over-complicated this one and tried a few dodgy one-armed moves...
When found it was a bit of an 'a-ha' moment!! Thanks to tikitours for there support here

As flowernz said we definitely overcomplicated this one, found it after retracing our steps. quite impressive bridge from all angles !!! Then we did find it and oh dear so sorry riser it came apart in my hands when I was trying to open it in the rain......have replaced it as best as I could but it does need fixing....TFTC

Nice wee stroll with max and Sheryl after lunch today. Getting my cache for the day as off home early tonight, so unable to attend the local event. Nice quick find here thanks .

Never mind a little rain... Pure & simple decision- the bridge was such a pretty sight all lit up that a walk over & around was a must do tonight, and so was this cache since I was walking right past. TFTC

clever

There on placement

Pure genius! Thanks

Down for the event, couldn't be bothered saving caches for the 31 days of August as I'm hardly ever down in whangarei, so I just went all out!

Walked over for the first time,was part of the flotilla at the opening last weekend so had to try it out on foot.TFTC.

FTF Before work, took me a little bit of time to find this one, then it all made sense. TFTC

Got excited about being FTF but seems I missed the that title. 2nd will have to do. Quick find but busy with muggles driving and walking. TFTC.

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