T2A-R: Haiku (BOP) Katikati, North Island, New Zealand
By nzkites on 24-May-14. Waypoint GC55AP3

We have decided to archive this one.

Checked on this while passing today, and yes it's gone. Disabling until we decide whether to replace or archive this one.

Sarah found it. Great place for a wander around and lunch.

No sign of it today, I think it has been muggled.

Found on our New Zealand trip. Cheers

Many muggles around but finally we managed to get the cache. Tftc

Good hide enjoying a walk checking out the murals tftc

Despite the weather forecast and the rain radar predicting rain, rain and more rain, we set off on a day trip to Katikati, with the occasional detour to find some caches, of course. It was dry when we left Tauranga, but we hadn't gone far before the drizzle started. That necessitated a slight change of plans (any walks of more than 5 minutes were now off the agenda) but we still managed to find 21 caches.
We found this while walking around the town, looking at the murals for the multi. No problems with muggles, the weather meant no one was mooching around here. TFTC.

#11870. Quick find while we were going around looking for murals. TFTC.

We left Tauranga for travelling to the Coromandel Peninsula with a lot of caches on the way. Thanks

Thanks for the cache. I found it on 24/02/16 at 10:41 AM. Nice stop on the way from Waihi to Whakatane. Pretty little park.

As part of the same series we found it but unable to do the rest. TFTC

#9996, Found it with DroidCachebox!

We visited this cache during our trip through out New Zealand!
With our rental car, we explored the north island for 12 days.
NZ is a beautiful country and we really enjoyed our time here.
We hope to return one day and explore a little bit more!

Day 7 - Rotorua to Auckland

Today the weather was pretty bad, it rained all day.
Since we had to travel to Auckland anyway, we tried to use the short periods without rain to find some caches on the way, we managed to visit some interesting locations.

Thanks for the cache.
Greetings from Portugal.

We found this cache during our drive towards Auckland.
The hint was spot on, and the cache found quickly.
Thanks for the cache.
Greetings from Portugal.

On our way to Waihi and a quick stop to pick up this cache, muggles on the wall watching us.TFTC

Having found the multi cache we walked back along the Haiku path to the market and discovered we had already been with 2 or 3metres of this one while doing the murals trail. Soon found it. TFTC

Left a wee trinket. The hint threw us off a bit but perseverance payed off

This cache was one of the many caches we found on our 6 day campervan journey from Tauranga to Lower Hutt via Waihi, Cambridge, New Plymouth and along the west coast to Wanganui and back to the Hutt. A mighty and enjoyable journey which took us to many great and iconic parts of the north island and of course some great geocaches. Many thanks to the many CO's for the great cache placements and for bringing us to so many new places. Sorry about the generic log but 200 plus to log. TFTC

TFTC!

Nice quick find tftc

Thanks for replacing this cache - a nice quick find on our way from Tauranga through to Whangamata this morning. Haven't been in this area for years so it was nice to pick up a smiley here. TFTC

This was our first find. Great fun, thanks!

Easy find tftc

Quick find on the way to the airport in Auckland to catch a flight home to the UK, SL, TFTC.

TFTC easy find

Found it, using the clue! This was our first one! Yay!

Tftc. A lot of muggles

Easy find with the clue, fun to do a few on an overcast day

Great spot. Some amazing murals. Tftc

The hint made for a quick find. Awesome wall here and a cute little town. Tftc

Quick find, Thanks

TFTC. Good quick find this morning to walk off a big breakfast from local cafe.

Nice and dry, but nit a clean sheet. Neat place. This one is a wrap. Mission accomplished TFTC! Blenheim Bear
This log posted with CacheSense for Android!

My mother and I were heading home after having brunch with the family in Bethlehem and we decided we needed a break from all the traffic so we stopped in Katikati. This cache was a quick and easy find. Tftc.

Cache replaced and waiting for the next finder.

Replaced cache this afternoon, size changed to a micro, description updated.

Couldn't find it

We called to check this after a couple of DNF and we could not find it either so will disable for now. If you need the code for the bonus cache please email us.

We had a good look at the specific clue site with no luck.

Was quite an easy find

Quick find on way to Pukekawa thanks to the clue no one out and about tonight .
Tftc

Extreme stealth was required today as its market day! Great quick find for the kids, shark taken, domino given. Thanks!

#7120. Parked off Main Road in Katikati this afternoon for a short walk and grab. The area was pretty busy when we visited, and maximum stealth was deployed. Thanks for the very specific hints for a super quick find. Took the cache some distance away for signing before return and replacement. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside.

- Dragons Cave

Left nothing, signed log.

| = = = = = T h a n k s _ f o r _ t h e _ c a c h e = = = = = |

On a way to catch up with some friends so we thought we would get this one off our list and drop off a TB at the same time

TFTC

Great park and gran.
Cheers

TFTC !

Thanks for the cache nice easy quick find plus bonus

On our way home to the north from visiting family in Tauranga, good spot to stop and check out the walks and cache while we were there. Will gradually pick up all the series and clues. Nice quick find thanks. TFTC

Mr & Mrs M-SEZ are visiting from Australia. We've left the geokids back home and are enjoying our New Zealand Anniversary-moon. Day 4 today and we're driving around the Coromandel Peninsula. What better way to enjoy our trip than to grab some caches along the way?

Enjoyed the walk and made a quick find. Left a Travel Bug. TFTC

Youngest daughter found, thanks for the nice spot to stop and enjoy the view

Yay another find

Found by the kids straight away

Could not find maybe last person who found it took it

I was staying at Tanners Point with Bookclub and some of us came to check out Katikati. We parked SO close to this that it seemed rude not to. Tui10 went in for a quick find. It was only then that I realised it was a T2A-R one, just in time to note the bonus number.
We then took a stroll along the haiku walk (not the first time).
Below is the timely haiku that caught our eye this time.

Easy to find but difficult to replace as there were so many people around! We enjoyed the haiku walk after a stroll around the shops.

Tftc. A quick grab and retrieve today while noone was in the area. Returning it was a bit more of a challenge as muggles turned up to admire and photograph nearby murals. When they turned around to look at another mural, we acted quickly and cache was quickly returned to its hiding spot and covered appropiately.

Yea from the Gypsies!

Soon found and signed. Did a careful cover job . Tftc.

Thanks again for a nice easy grab. Could see it walking up to it. Please cover up with some natural cover people!!

First Timers

Had to be careful here, we had a muggle wondering what we were up to. TFTC

Thanks for replacing the cache ... all quiet here this morning.

Easy find, a tad too easy, could see it from a way away, tried to cover it a little bit on replacing. thank you!

Fascinating mural. TFTC

Quick and easy find no one noticed us was a good time to do the end of the series witg Drulisa. Tftc

Had a lovely walk, found it. Lots of Muggles! Not a lot in this one so topped it up!

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 33.236 E 175° 55.013

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 33.235 E 175° 55.013

Distance from original: 5.8 feet or 1.8 meters.
New position.

Checked this today and it had gone. Replaced with new container and logbook.
We will update co-ords when able, but new GZ is very close to original. Hint also changed.

This entry was edited by nzkites on Monday, 20 July 2015 at 03:26:21 UTC.

Couldn't find it, it was too hard to find

Searched for 30mins couldn't find

GPS wonky need better hint

On a geocaching holiday in the area.

Nice fairly quick find here.
SL Thanks for the fun!

nice one!

A quick pickup and then a walk down to the river, enjoying the poetry along the way. TFTC.

Part of the T2A series, one of my travelling companions rustynz pulled us over (me with Rebel98 and supernanny) to this cache. I have been here before in Katikati many times, long before I got into geocaching, I think I have photographed every mural here! No mean feat I can tell you! But tonight, and it was dark by now, we all pulled up, the co-ords led us to a mural but I could see a tree appropriate for a cache and soon had the thing in my hand. Just as a joke rusty took fotos of me with Rebel 'massaging' a woman in a bath (see mural fotos we took) we all got a laugh over that!!

Heading towards Tauranga this morning and stopping for a few T2A-R caches along the way. We have long enjoyed driving through Katikati and seeing all the murals. TFTC.

We are off on an aventure weekend this will be one of many to come Tftc

Headed over this was with Kiwis69 to head to a certain birthday rave in a cave. We set off from Hamilton just on dark and grabbed some caches on the way to fill in time

Made this one a bit harder and parked further away than we could of. Got a nice walk none the less and got to see what happens in Katikati after dark. A quick find while hidden out of sight of the muggles

Found this today with Auckland geocaching mates after attending two events !!!
Great fun ...
Always love the murals round here !!!

Its getting dark now, but we could still see the murals, but sadly my camera could not pick up the images. The GPS seemed to be little out for us, this seemed to be no problem for Gorby, who found the cache almost straight away. Again it must be all those night caching missions he does!

Another number collected, we hopefully will collect the bonus on our travels back to Auckland tomorrow? Again thanks for the hide and the adventure [;D]

So exciting to find our first one ever! Onward & upward!

Taking a circuitous route from Hamilton with 11hpg11 so that we can have a few hours' child-free caching binge on our way to a geocaching birthday rave in cave. Less chance of muggles at this hour too and good fun to test the caching senses in the dark. Followed the sat-nav a bit too literally here but that worked to our advantage in being able to reach GZ without being spotted by those who were clearly enjoying Katikati's nightlife. Thankfully a nice quick find & we were on our way again. Cache all good, TFTC

Found quuckly. Just employ ninja mode!

Nice find!

Checked on this today while doing a cache maintenance run, all ok but a bit exposed, please leave the cache well covered when you replace it, thanks.

Amazing town with all the murals and statues - and here in Tauranga we can't even get Hairy MaClary onto the Strand! I think I have still have many more of these to find so I'd better keep going. TFTC, can't wait to finish it.

Nice find:) Coordinates almost spot on:) beautiful town

Took the opportunity to do part of the walkway even though I couldn't quite get all of the poems... TFTC

Also doing the Ak- Tauranga - Ak run so great to have some caches to do along the way. Thanks for the cache.

Haha finally found it!

As we arrived at the GZ, we noticed a few young muggles looking slightly suspicious, so we quickly grabbed this one and moved on. TFTC.

After our State Sand to Surf ocean swim event at The Mount yesterday, it was time to head back home to Auckland - but of course we had to grab a few caches on our way back.

A nice quick find for us, while trying to be subtle around teen muggles walking about.

This series sounds like an interesting one and we managed to pick up a few on our way home. Will have to make sure we find the remainder of them at some stage when we are next down BOP way

Well, it's not immediately obvious.

Great quick find. My kids loved this one

12.55pm. A quick find here with no one in sight.
Thank you. David.

This place was so busy with locals for a Thursday! Eventually we got a gap in people and very quickly grabbed it!

Nice quick find. Off for a feed now. Never actually stopped in kati kati before. It's nice to walk around. TFTC.

Awesome hide and got my first clue