T2A-R: Take a Break at the Lake (Waihi, Waikato) Waihi, North Island, New Zealand
By nzkites on 24-May-14. Waypoint GC552NE

We checked on this one while passing on 6/7/21 and it has gone missing, so we’re archiving it. We will make a note of the code on the Tauranga Bonus cache page.

Even though I have found this before, I never had the number. Came back today and yes, the cache has gone. I messaged the C.O's and they graciously gave me the number I needed. Thank you for that!!

After a fourth DNF we’re disabling this until we can check on it, after we get back from the SI in a few weeks time.

Out and about with the elder Future Finder for a start of the school holidays day trip around the country side. The park was rather busy today, particularly with muggles sailing miniature boats on the lake. As such, I was only able to have a very brief search. May still be there, though it might be worth a CO check just in case.

No luck today.

No luck finding this one today

Finished off at the lake tftc. The log is very wet

Nice and easy here whilst stopping off for the nearby Virtual.

On the way back home and after not walking around the mount earlier I was up for a walk so the Waihi mine rim was a handy replacement and with plenty of variety.
A road trip with my daughter today. She wanted to go to Tauranga, and I was on leave for the most part of this week so this was a mutually enjoyed visit to the BOP for the first time in a few years. We left at just after 6 to beat the traffic and after a long hold-up at Maccas we were soon on our way. A stop off in Paeroa on the way to the Mount (which was unexpectedly, and frustratingly, closed) and then a few TMGTs and the Waihi mine loop walk and all was good. Back in good time and late enough to avoid the traffic snarl ups.

Signed as best as I could log is very wet.

Well concealed

Yep

Visiting Waihi for the weekend from Auckland. Needed the loo so stopped here. Great park and fountain, and super loo music. Checked the map, discovered there are some caches here. 'Relieved' ... to find this. All good here. TFTC

Easy find. Thank you

Now NZ has moved to Alert Level 2, Geocaching is allowed but it’s up to each one of us to keep the rest of us safe.

Let's not turn Caching into Catching COVID-19

These are the most important things that you can remember and do:

COVID-19 is still out there. Play it safe.

Keep your distance from other people in public.

If you’re sick, stay home. Don’t. find this cache.

If you have symptoms of cold or flu get advice about being tested.

Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands.

Sneeze and cough into your elbow, Sanitise your hands before looking for this cache if possible.

Log online each cache found and keep a record of anyone you meet.

Stay Happy and Safe while caching.

Disabling until the Covid-19 guidelines allow geocaching. This is not permissable under Level 3 or 4.

Gevonden!

Nice spot to hide it

Bring your own pen but good find

Great little find. From the uk

My second ever find, thanks

Glad we had small kids with us for this one tftc

Nice easy find after a swim at the falls.
Tftc.

Cool

Easy. Perfect clue. Tfhc

Found it thanks to tip, cheers.

Kids found it, their first geocache! No pencil in the cache, so BYO pencil.

Lurking in the bushes

Good hide.

Stopped off for a quick find whilst passing.
Signed the log and replaced as found
TYFTC

FF65 got volunteered to retrieve this one. She claimed that it was no fun to crawl through long grass and leaves in shorts. I was unsympathetic........... Thanks for the fun!

Found it. Not that hard if you read the hint. Dodd family. Thanks to the creature.

Yea

2nd one of these today. 21st find for the day after walking the rim walkway

No 1 what an amazing place I will be back later to do others .

Stopped on the way south as I had a bit of time to spare. A quick find thanks to info from previous logs. TFTC.

I have the great privilege to be on a caching trip with Merlot58, Jag50 and Supernannny - they all have found this cache before so I was on my own. Merlot58 accompanied me and tut-tutted when I looked in the wrong place, and looking across I saw the container and could squirrel myself in there. At the moment my hand is a bit pakaru so I had to get in the right position to get the cache out but managed it find. Normals will have no problem. Thanks for the cache, all good here.

We are in Waihi for two nights We will do some hikes in the area.
This afternoon, visit the small park.

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Thanks nzkites for the geocache [^]
Greetings from Belgium,
Frank et Muriel travelling in New Zealand

Happy geocaching

#15975

Thank you for cache
I’d give a favourite point for the artist who done the sculptures on rock-wow

Yep

We were in the area over Labour weekend to up our numbers for the year. Caching today with Stik-a-crane, purply, darthcacher1, eir-ot - logs signed as SEAC Labour or similar to save space on the logs (SEAC are a group of cachers from South and East Auckland who often take caching adventures together). A nice quick find here today. So much birdlife on the nearby pond

Down for the day caching the area with a group, consisting of HeMaLuDy, EIR-0T, Darthcacher1, and Purply.

Given we were a group we logged in as SEAC Labour, or SEAC Labour day to save logbook space.

Picking up the last few driveby caches in the area.
Thanks for bringing us here.

TFTC.

#4829. 5 of 9 for today.
[Sincere apologies for the delayed logging. Life ... a global pandemic ... and life got in the way. Better late than never.]

**Cache Specific Log**
Came to the Gilmour Preserve for the Memorial and grabbed this cache while here.

**Generic Trip Log**
A wedding anniversary to celebrate - provides a convenient excuse for a longer than usual vacation. So 3 weeks and travel to Australia and New Zealand sounds like an excellent plan. General itinerary is as follows:
2 October: Depart from home with a layover in Houston, TX
4 October (long flight + time zones = lost day): Arrive in Sydney
4-7 October: Sydney
7-15 October: New Zealand South Island
16-21 October: New Zealand North Island
21-23 October: Sydney
23 October: Fly home through Vancouver, Canada
Saw a ton and had an absolutely wonderful time. Can't wait to make it back here!

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Not in the flax made me smirk
Everyone seems to hate flax
Quick find on way home
TFTC

The weather was not on our side, so we decided to go for a drive with the hope of finding a break in between the clouds further north. We semi-succeeded, and found a few more for the day between rain. The park was quite busy around lunch time in spite of the weather!! Everyone was parked up nearby when we arrived, but they left by the time we had a walk around. TFTC!!

My 6 year old found it!! Bit tricky good spot

In Waihi for the weekend with Supernanny and Jag50. A local muggle told us where to look as he’s often seen catchers looking for it

Staying in Waihi for the weekend with Merlot58 and Supernanny, we were staying nearby so were able to walk to Gilmour park and collect the caches in the park. As we admired a painted rock near GZ, a muggle walking his dog (who lived nearby) pointed us in the direction of the cache.

Wow what a surprise to find a Protea. Beautiful Bush from the Fynbos family. TFTC.

MATM tick

Another one for little DOZ.

And another for MATM.

TFTC.

Ezekiel’s first cache!!

Found as a part of a previous group TanjackMüley, aka WanderingSparrow. Now I'm continuing on my own. TFTC

A squeeze to receive one we got the correct location. Now to quickly find the other caches in the rain. Thanks got the cache.

Lovely fountain

A little bit of Bush bash, but easy find. Tftc

Good find with the kiddies

Quick find tftc...

Came to look at the memorial here as a relative of my neighbor was a tunneller in WWI. Photographed the memorial and thought I would collect geocache while I was here. TFTC.
Olde Al

Some crawling was involved. Tftc!

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Yeehaa 3 for 3. Great!

On a road trip north, enjoying the day and pic up some caches. TFTC

Greetings from 2 Austrians  
Die_Asseln

Found it on my way home. TFTC

This was a test of our stealth as there were a lot of muggles coming and going.
Mr Coblet dived into the bushes when there was an opportune moment and emerged when Mrs Coblet gave the all clear.
We went for a walk around the park afterwards and it truly is a hidden gem. Some awesome sculptures too. Thanks nzkites.

Muggles passengers eating passion fruit bought roadside so I grabbed a couple of caches! Tyfc

This is a muggle-intensive spot and a middle-aged person diving into the shrubbery can look a little odd so our new pup Meg was a massive help. Oh dear, her ball seems to have rolled into the bushes - better go and get it! We took the cache to the car to do the admin, them returned where found. TFTC - good to tick this one off.

Found. Went with dad.

This was out first find, found it exactly where the clue said!

Yay found it

Another one found

Took a while but found it in the end we were looking at the wrong fence

Exactly where the clue said it would be —-just getting to it was the more difficult part. Thanks for bringing us here.

Liked around and got a tip from a local man
Tftc

Found it

Spiders everywhere! TFTC

22406 Traveling through New Zealand to see nice people and places. Also to find some geocaches.

Today we were went from Whakatane to Pauanui along the seaside, seeing nice places and visiting caches, along the road. on both sides. Crossing the road is not always safe. We visited the nice town Katikati to see all the drawings on the walls and to walk a part of the Katikati Haku trail with 4 caches.

At arrival we walked through the town to see the shops/streets, and cactch some caches near the motel.

Most caches were found quite quickly. A few took more time. Several were with waterproof paper, but our stamp and pen do not work that good on such paper, where when it was wet paper it logs fantastic.

nzkites TFTC and the fun it brought us. Theo

Eady find

Decided to stop at the lakes to get the 3 caches in the area. This one was an easy find to start the walk. TFTC.

Gathering a few caches with Vamber on our way to the Mount. Had to check out the pond and ducks while some muggles ate their lunch by GZ, luckily it was a quick lunch break for them so we could start searching. Coordinates looked out for us, considering there was no hint item there. Went to the hint and soon found the cache

Nice spot. Power Workmen nearby but not looking when retreiving cache. Several muggles enjoying this spot also, as well as the prerequisite ducks etc. TFTC

Nice
TFTC

Great thanks

Nice easy find for the kids. TFTC

Huntsman2015 found this one of his favourite GZs.. mainly due to the slide and that we let him out of the car cache was easy to find but I'm sure eyebrows were raised when I emerged from the depths... right to someone getting into their car ...

Found with a little stealth and not stealth lol

Good spot well hidden

Quick cache ! Nice spot. Don't be afraid of crouching and dead leaves

nice easy find was out in the open so replaced as per clue tftc

Another cache on the list from 12/8/2017, nice little spot..TFTC

Nicely hidden. Was fun to find without being seen.

Nice and easy park and grab.TFTC

I'm on a rare solo drive down to meet up with the other Tregonnings in Tauranga, so taking the opportunity to make a few stops en route. Quick find after my lunch break. Thanks!

Last day in BOP before heading back to Wellington. Mum was headed to the coromandel for the day for work so I hopped in the car to join her. Last stop on the way back to Tga. Found quickly as nobody around but would be a challenge on a weekend or after school!

Yeah! Found it! 2nd time lucky. There was a lady on her phone close to the stash. Had to be VERY sneaky going in and as soon as I'm done... she leaves.

This was another one of T2A-R. Need 6 more in this series. Thanx!

Sorry to say that i could not find it.

The weather was supposed to be good, so I planned a camping trip to Whakatane for one night.
I stopped here to get another one in the T2A-R series. I really liked the detail on the sculpture, so it wasn't just a ruse to throw off the ubiquitous muggles. TFTC.

26/05/18 12:00 Quick stop as it’s freezing but it’s always dark & cold when I usually go past. Thanks for this, well but logically hidden. Cheers, GC.

Edit: Had date 26/06/17 for some fat-fingered freezing cold reason... But I was definitely enroute to Whitianga on the correct date of 26 May 2018, which is when I found it...

This time - don’t know how I missed it last time. TFTC.
Cheers,
G

Thought it’d be quiet after 6 as it was getting dark but more cars kept appearing. Quick look didn’t produce results ... this time

a quick find, tftc