Little Lion Rock North Piha, North Island, New Zealand
By G-2 on 25-Oct-13. Waypoint GC4QYR1

After burning our feet off to get to this location we sat at a nearby seat to brush the sand off and get our shoes back on. Once we had that sorted we made the quick find here. Not only are our feet feeling burnt so is our exposed skin! Getting our tan on in November isnt a bad thing! TFTC

Very nicely done. TFTC from South Carolina USA

Mr KBclan took today off work so we could have a 'date' day while kids were at school. We headed out to piha for lunch and some catching. What a perfect day it was, sun shining, wind was low. Spring is in the air. Found little lion! Made us chuckle! Actually a fun view point I've never been up. TFTC

First i looked at the wrong place, but after a time i found it. Thank you

Great spot!

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I live full-time in our caravan travelling around NZ, visiting the places we want to visit & doing the things we want to do and fitting in a bit of Geocaching here & there currently staying in South Auckland for a few days decided wed go for a drive out to Piha so that we could cross it off our NZ scratchie-map, complete some Ad Labs & grab some Caches pleased to add a 'smiley face' to the tally TFTC ... TN:LN:LS #5,563 for Us!

Good spot! Added a couple of treasures

Thanks G-2 for the cache!

Nice one

First Cache in Nee Zealand! Yeay!Thanks for the cache, nice view!Greetings from Germany

Found during our walk along the Piha Beach. Tftc

Quick and easy find, tftc

With a clear day in the calendar, a plan was hatched to round up some friends and head out to Piha for an adventure. Anytime the Team SEAC crew are together its always an adventure. You can't predict what might happen but always know its going to be a good time. After the recent documentary about the people that have vanished in the area there was a bit of talk about that along the way but who knows what actually happened!! It started out pretty cold but soon warmed up and we enjoyed that pure wild west coast scenery.Nice quick find here. Thanks for the cache.

Today a few of the team SEAC crew decided to spend the day at Piha. For some of our crew it was their first time at Piha and Piha put on quite a wild show after yesterdays squally storms blew through. Luckily today was calmer and sunny. We cached into Piha, enjoying the caches along Piha road, including finding a lonely cache that hadnt been found for a while. A picnic lunch was also had in some shade and then home again for a well deserved wine!Keylev darted into the undergrowth and made a quick find before the rest of us had even collected our thoughts! it was starting to get warm and talk of lunch soon made us all walk a little faster and find a little quicker! TFTC!

A message went out a couple of days ago to the Team SEAC crew asking who was keen on a day caching at Piha. We decided to join the fun, and as per usual with a SEAC outing there were many laughs along the way. Out today was Keylev, NZIceman, Cragger, NZT and HeMaLuDy. This was our first visit out this way and the coastline did not disappoint. Keylev had the cache in hand before the rest of us even got near enough to search. Never been to Piha before. Loving finding all the caches and being brought to all the landmarks around here.

### New Zealand 2024 ###On our 1 week tour North New Zealand tour we visited many caches in Auckland, Habbiton, Taupo, Huka Falls, Piha, Devonport and Mount Eden.We had a lot of great experiences along the way and had a lot of fun searching for the caches.Thanks to all the owners for the great caches Team sissifalke

On our long term trip from Germany to Western Australia / Tasmania / New Zealand for about 3,5 month, we arrived New Zealand and picked up some caches. We went to Piha, where we had 5 overnights during Christmas. TFTC

JOH, T AND N Little climb.Michigan, Massachusetts and Auckland.

Beautiful day out at Piha! Found this while enjoying time with family. TFTC JOH/T/N

Tftf from usa.

Quick find all in good order and picked up trackable.

️ Trouvée ! / Found it ! ️

Trouvée sur la plage de sable de noir de Piha. Un lieu magnifique. Merci pour la découverte.

3904ème cache trouvée.
Merci G-2 pour la cache

Found on the black sand beach of Piha. A magnificent place. Thanks for the discovery.

3904th cache found.
Thank you G-2 for the cache

Awesome find! Managed to drop our traceable geocoin and pick up some to transport !

Tftc

I headed to Piha today to take in the views and admire the beach.

Unfortunately due to the recent devastation, the track up Lion Rock is closed.

It was quite a shock to see the state of the buildings.

The cache was quickly found

TFTC

July 6, 2023 13:48

13947

Another adventure Sunday before we fly home and another g2 cache tftc

We brought my niece from France here to show her Piha beach and of course we had to look for a cache. Found and replaced a bit wet but thankfully RITR paper. Thanks for the placement.

La première depuis un petit mome . C’est reparti mon kiki
Mplc

Our second day in Piha. To drive away the jet lag, a nice walk on the beach. A few cans searched and found. Thank you very much for that!! Greetings from Germany.

Diky za kes na krasnem místě

Quick grab. TFTC.

I went today with Lumin298 out to Piha mainly to do a Multi as I need it for a potential challenge in Christchurch and the AdLab there plus others caches that we both wanted.

This is one of those that were in (on?) the way to achieving the above. Had to try a couple of others first.

Cheers for the cache.

Even with the good hint, there were still a few places we needed to check before coming up with the cache. Since most of the caches today were micros, it was a nice change here to find one that was a bit bigger

Thank you for placing it! (#1540)

A nice quick find. Thanks for placing your cache.

Ms_KR and I are in Auckland Auckland for a break and we are exploring the region while we are based here. Tday we went over to some of the West Coast beaches. The weather was lovely as were the views of the coast..

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Mr and Mrs KC had already found this cache so Mr TW and I stopped off to make the find. Busy little spot for dog walkers but we managed to make the find discreetly. Quite wet inside the container but the log was fine. Many thanks for another cache placement in this beautiful place,

Liked the hiding spot for this one, however the cache was sitting out in the open as such. A little damp inside, have re-hidden as per hint. Signed SXB

Glorious mermaid and sunshine shakakaka got it

A other DNF for me whilst camping nearby - wasn’t easy looking as quite a few passer-bys

Quite easy find.

I have lived in piha for 3 years and never come across this spot. Definitely good place to chill and read book or something.

Really fun one to find especially for the kids, my children had heaps of fun finding this one thank you

Found quickly. Beautiful view from
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Joint find with Nate nice and easy

TFTC

Found

EZ! According to the kids

Decided to visit Piha this afternoon it was ages since we last came. Managed to spend some time looking for this one. Must remember to read the description in future and then it might of been a much quicker find. Was nice to climb the small rock.Now on to the big one.

A lovely day out for a socially distanced walk along Piha Beach. This was a nice quick find, TFTC!

We're in the Auckland for the week, and today we took our first trip out to Piha. The weather was a bit showery (and it got much worse in the afternoon) and there was brisk breeze coming off the sea. So the place was very quiet - only a couple of dog walkers on the beach. This cache was right next to where we parked; it was a quick grab as we left. TFTC.

#3029

Great little hiding spot. Tyftc.

Not bad

Quick climb up and down, brief search, cache in hand

A great little cache in a high muggle area. Stunning place. TFTC

Perfect kid friendly find.

Out here for a Haloween walk in the dark, had time for a little caching.

Had a great day out here. Enjoyable area to come to and plenty to see and do. Few out here today. Quite a few doing the camping thing. Cache all good. Tftc

Diesen Cache habe ich als Teil des Teams LaMaLaMa (jetzt: Mr_Lama) gefunden.
Da sich das Team leider getrennt hat, logge ich nun unter meinem neuen Account Lærry nach.

Ich hoffe auf Euer Verständnis und danke Euch für’s Verstecken der vielen tollen Dosen!
Selbstverständlich werde ich jedem Cache einen Favo hinterlassen, bei dem es der ursprüngliche Account auch getan hatte. Falls ich einen Cache vergesse, dürft ihr mich gerne anschreiben.

Ich wünsche Euch viele tolle Caches und sage zum Abschluss: Bis bald im Wald!
Liebe Grüße von Lærry

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I found this cache as a member of the team LaMaLaMa (now: Mr_Lama).
Since the team unfortunately split up, I am re-logging with my new account Lærry.

I hope you will understand.
Furthermore I thank you for hiding the many great caches!
Of course I will leave a favo to each cache where the original account did it. If I forget a cache, you are welcome to write to me.

Best wishes, Lærry

Tftc. The 4th we found during the day.

This was a quick find - we enjoyed the area very much @15:55
geonenad - TFTC #3333

Notre dernier jour à Auckland, on décide de se rendre du côté de la Piha Beach !
Impossible de faire sans monter sur le lion ! Merci pour la cache

Easier find than the big lion. Rescued a tb.

added more log sheets

Gut gefunden und endlich geht mein 1. TB auf Reisen. Tftc

Quick found on our last Camperday, what a nice finish our holidays in New Zealand and my first TB goes on tour. Safe travels

Really fun

Bei unserem Urlaub in Neuseeland konnten wir auch dieses Döschen gut finden.
TFTC

Had a free day, so nothing better than going to an amazing place like this, getting some waves and of course finding the caches in the area right? Took my Muggle friend with me and he was the one finding it.
TFTC

TFTC photo to prove find as no pen

Grabbed this early before it got busy. Nice quick find. Great place. TFTC

Kids found this one! What a great place to bring them. Not too many muggles mid week.

Found by my friend Linda after a short search. TFTC

Nice and easy find with a side of a walk on the beach. Nice walk up Rock too.
TFTC
Kiwi_Eagles

Time for a visit to Piha after a year of lockdowns. Can't believe how much the beach has changed in the years since I was last here. Wonderful to take the time to explore and enjoy this great beach. TFTC

If you close to Auckland go there. Nice beach. TFTC.

Located this one in between rain showers today.... poor weather does make locating ones in potentially busy locations a lot easier though! Cache in really good condition. Thanks

Allok

Cute wee Lion Rock! Thanks for cache.

Nice easy find here after doing Big Lion Rick!

After the Kitekite waterfalls we was walking to Piha beach it is a wonderfull place. Thanks for the cache and showing the area, Greetings from Germany!

Tyfc, great spot

Last day of our Southern Hemisphere Adventure. Traveling from Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. My daughter decided she wanted to come to Piha, NZ for her last day. It did not disappoint. We hiked quite a bit, checked out some waterfalls, walked the beach, climbed some more rock formations in the water watched surfers, ate lunch and most important watched the sun set on the Taz Sea. It really was the perfect day to wrap up an awesome vacation. TFTC.

Beautiful view today tftc off to the beach

A visit to Piha today after reading about the area in a fellow Aussie cachers' holiday blog. So glad i came as it is a beautiful area to visit.
Had to settle for a find at Lionheads' little brother after a DNF at the big one. Still, any find is a good find so thank you G-2 for your cache here. Cheers and greetings from an Aussie on holidays.

Great view!

Found it! TFTC

Found this one quickly on a windy and rainy day! Out: 1 TB, In: 1 TB.

2.05pm. Found while explaining geocaching to Nadia.
M&P

Nice!

Last day in Piha. We were on the beach again and also on the Lion Rock. We also took a closer look at the little rock Thanks a lot for hiding

# 1506

**Find #2628**

**NZ #93**

On the last day of our N.Z. Holiday it was a mad rush to tick a few last minute boxes. Black sand was what we wanted to see. Another stunning place. So glad we came here. The sand is so fine to touch. Would have loved to have climbed Big Lion rock. Once I search the proper tree the cache was quickly found.

Thanks **G_2**

TFTC.

Great view and nice hide. TFTC!!

Quick and easy find tftc. Relaxing the last days.

“New Scotland to New Zealand” Greetings from Nova Scotia, Canada. We are travelling through New Zealand for a month and hope to enjoy many caches. Thanks to all cache owners and to this beautiful country.

I wish I'd taken better notice of my gps and the description. I was with some previous finders who remembered it to originally be much higher. Pazza No2 soon found it on the lower reaches. Tftc

Beautiful beach. Visiting from the USA. First cache in NZ.

took a bit longer than it should have but a straightforward find in the end.

Nice shady spot to cool off...TFTC

Another great view.
TFTC

Found on our last day in New Zealand. Greetings from Canada

Easy to find this nice little cache.
Thank you and greetings from Germany.

Thanks a lot for showing this nice place. Easy find and good maintenances box

Während dem Neuseeland Aufenthalt gefunden. Tftc schlumpftrupp