Shell We or Shell We Not? (Miranda) Kaiaua, North Island, New Zealand
By rosmar on 13-Jul-14. Waypoint GC58REW

Thanks for the obvious place!!! 3 Rd night on a3-night trip and havent found any of the three other caches at last two stops. So very thankful for this one and the earth cache close by! Lovely coastline and just now enjoying watching the tide come in. Thank you

Stopped for the night nearby so made for a good walk. TFTC

Walking today with granddaughter

Well yes we groaned as we approached GZ but it was big enough to not take too much time to find - so apology accepted (re the hint). Thanks. A magical spot of a sunny winters day.

Nice cache located quickly. It's a beautiful place to hangout..tftc

Good find on a stunning trail tftc

Kiwitrecker1 and I decided to go for a bit of a bike ride today. We hadnt cycled this section of the trail before and are both really enjoying it so far. Finding a cache or two on the way is a real added bonus to todays adventure so thanks for creating this one!

Nice find

TFTF short walk from Ray Rest

TFTC easy find dead bird wasnt so pleasant in smell though

Staying at Rays Rest, absolutely stunning day, enjoying a ride along the cycle trail

Hooray didn't find it last year but never looked as per hint thanks

Found while exploring nearby areas. TFTC! Greetings from Estonia!

TFTC! Greetings from Estonia!

#13,987. Making my way south along this coast before heading to Rotorua for the night. Parked close by and saw one place you might consider hiding a cache. Not the spot most cachers like to dive into but this one was big enough and on the edge to make it a fairly easy find. Thanks rosmar for hiding this cache here on the Shorebird Coast.

Quick find. TFTC

Our first geocache in new-Zeeland. Thanks for this nice view!

Was first time out on this coast so had to stop for this. Easy find good condition. Thanks

First cache of my mini Coromandel roadtrip. Quick find, cache all good. Back to the car quickly as rain is on the way.TFTC

Certainly obvious spot with stunning views. Out with Pussncat again today. Another one down.

Rather cold wind today. Tftc

First for my week on the rail trail, horrible weather today.

Here for a family weekend and after exploring the shorebird centre and shell beaches we carried on up this way, slowly enjoying the view. I asked i_halfpint to pull over next to the obvious feature and cache was quickly found. TFTC in a lovely spot.

Cheers!

Lovely place. Stayed the night and enjoyed the silence.

Nice easy find, stunning area, weather just clearing in time for a quick geocache. TFTC

Nice quick find, obtained trackable from Australia and will place it in Abu Dhabi or Armenia somewhere next month

TFTC!

Didn’t take long to find here today. Tftc

Dropped a TB

On a day which is very mixed weather wise, we came here and enjoyed the views.

Found w prettygirlrark and mrpretty

Mit Geruch stinkig gefunden

Gut gefunden

We stay at the nearby freedom campsite. So I walked to the cache to see this difficult object. I had to circle it twice to spot the cache. Thanks for placing this cache.

Dnf today just drift wood and wire

We stood two nichts at this great beach. It was a quick find.
TFTC and greetings from Germany.
Klatho & Gazzelli

Parked up for the night at Rays Rest and with it being a nice day came for a walk. Cache and contents are fine. Thanks for the placement.

Yes Frosts. Got it too.

Quick find. Tfth

Found as we were sleeping on the beach. Thanks for the cache.

Toadless and I are back out looking for caches after a hiatus. TFTC.

Found it. Snail graveyard

Drove up right next to gz. Hubby had mentioned where it might be and hint confirmed that. Thankfully it was a easy grab. Couldn't get over the amount of snail shells that were around. Wonder what that's about? Tftc

Made a point of an excursion to Miranda to see the godwits. Quick stop to find this cache. All good in the container. Tftc and MX!

A beautiful sunny morning for a stroll down the beach from where we're camped up.
A nice easy find, thankfully.
I took out all the shells and rubbish people have used for trades and left a pet rock - a bee. Also the log book is pretty damp, but still signable.
Thanks for putting this here

OH NO , not the usual place. But on this occasion there was no crashing and delving for a quick find. Tftc

A nice drive around the coast today, tftc

TFTC! Left a trackable behind

Staying overnight at Rays rest so walked down & found this in misty rain.
Dropped off our new TB to go traveling.

Fast and easy cache

Nice walk from rays rest tftc

Nice and easy love it!

939 Amongst the snails

Great place, beautiful!!!

Came here to stay the night and realised that there was a cache here so went to find it. Lots off fun swag, Really enjoyed this one.TFTC

Out and about on our bikes and doing a little caching on the way back. Luckily it was not too busy for a leisurely look. Thanks to the great container it was an easy find. Cache is all good. TFTC

Heading back to the big smoke after a weekend in the BOP. Taking the scenic route home, hopefully missing out on the traffic congestion at the Bombays with all the other long weekend returning traffic.

Taking the off road trail along this section of the highway, checking out the sights. Stopped here to collect this cache and have a wander. Found 2 hammerhead shark pups washed up on the beach which was a sad sight to see. TFTC

Flax, Bla! are awful to search in. We nearly gave up on this given it hadn't been found since July and the four of us had circled the flax probably 2-3 times, but managed to come out with the cache. Signed as KKKT

Damn flax are awful to search in. We nearly gave up on this given it hadn't been found since July and the four of us had circled the flax probably 2-3 times, it was good to give the 'found it' call. Grabbed the TB. Signed as KKKT

TFTC SL

Easy find - lovely area - TFTC

Ummm. The obvious place, always fun. Dropped TB. Picked up TB. Tftc

Nice golf ball

Flax bush it is. Dropped in TB from South Island cache originally from Germany

I usually groan at flax hides but thankfully a decent sized container was easy to spot here

A nice mothers day out.
A quick find.

Thanks for your amazing cache.

I nice stretch of beach on a lovely day. Nice easy find thanks to Miss 5’s hawk eyes.

Trackable taken to move onwards
Thanks

TFTC
Get day too

We were setting off on a bike ride from Kaiaua on the Hauraki Rail Trail to Piporoa and back - we were finding it challenging riding on the soft sand and the seashells, so were glad for the excuse to stop here and find the cache. One of us went one way and the other the other way and we soon spotted the large container.

What a magnificent coast and what a magnificent specimen at the GZ! TFTC

Found with Nutty Nora. Lovely spot!

Took the scenic route on a trip to Thames and did a quick stop off on the way to grab this cache which was a nice quick find. I dropped a TB, TFTC!

very windy here today. walked instead of biking as it would be tough with the head wind. had to look hard and reach deep for this one. tftc

We decided we should

On a mini caching adventure with rebel98, on our way back to Auckland, but with all the covid19 stories, not sure if we should

Thanks for the hide rosmar

Thanks for the hide, with rustynz. Good its dry

Nice sun rise

After cycling the HRT from Waitakaruru to Kopu and collecting caches along the way of course, we headed along this road to grab a few caches with keylev, stik-a-crane and NZTravellers. This was our last for the day. We avoided the bird carcass very close to GZ and circled the obvious item until stik-a-crane called out "found it". Happy to end the day on a smiley.

Out for a bit of cycling along the HRT trail. The Kopu to Waitakaruru leg, kindly arranged by Keylev, joined also by NZTravellers, and HeMaLuDy, Purply, and Darthcacher1.
Signed in as 'SEAC' to save logbook space. Stopped in for lunch at Pipiroa, and then back on the trail, before the rain came....not quite...got a little damp towards the end. (luckily it's not too cold today)

The last for the day before heading home.

A great day, and a great group of people.

TFTC.

An adventure was planned with some of the Team SEAC crew to explore a part of the country that we had not visited before now that lockdown has lifted and we are allowed to travel a little further from home.

There were laughs, groans and muscle pains but it was, as always, heaps of fun.

After finishing the bike trail we decided to get 'just a few more' on the way home (ok full disclosure....slight detour).

Amazing how far along the beach you can drive here. Hearts sank a little where we saw we would need to search but we managed to avoid the dead bird nearby and complete the find.

Thanks for the cache.

Having finished with my work commitments for the week I had some spare time today to go out and find a few caches. I headed off in a south - east - north - west kind of loop. Had a good time with a variety of caches found along the way. Parked a little way off from GZ and had a short walk to the cache. I circled around GZ a few times before I spotted it. All good in the end. TFTC, Biggles.

Out for the afternoon/evening with family and friends, locating caches along the way.

Heading to kaiaua for fish and chips with friends and we’re caching along the way on a beautiful hot day. TFTC

Out with friends to Kaiaua for fish and chips on the beach we stopped along the way to grab some caches. Thanks

Here for 3 days at the start of a month's holiday in this beautiful country and unspoilt area. Enjoying the fish shop and the scenery, TFTC

Was driving along past here this afternoon, stopping for a couple of caches along the way. Nice quick find here, cheers

First find for while. Will come back to sign log because no pen

During our vacation in New Zealand we did some geocaching. We saw a lots of amazing places and say thank you to everyone who shared his geocache with us.

Greetings from Germany!
Rote Teufel

After coming to Miranda for the earthcache and enjoying a soak in the hot pools we grabbed a couple of other caches after enjoying some fish and chips on the beach including this one. No problems with the find even in the dark. TFTC.

Beautiful view

Easy find. The day couldn't decide if it was going to rain or shine. On my way to the airport. Thanks for the cache!

Found whilst on our bikes from Ray's Rest
TFTC

Nice little find.

Camped at the freedom camping spot last night, and had a very pleasant wander down to pick up a couple of caches this morning.

This was a quick find thanks.

At Miranda looking at the sea birds. Lovely morning. Finding the cache wasn’t as difficult as we thought it could be on approach. Thanks.

Hallo, auf der Rundreise durch Neuseeland auch einige Caches mitgenommen.
Danke fürs Verstecken und
TFTC die Krümelmonsters

I like the hint! No big troubles here at GZ. TFTC

Found it. Nice stroll on the beach. Tide way out. Will enjoy watching it coming.

One of the many caches during this year's vacation. Thanks to all of you who contributed in hiding and maintaining those caches. You are those ones who made this hobby possible.