Chopped off (Northland) Pakaraka, North Island, New Zealand
By Schuetze family on 20-Jul-14. Waypoint GC596T7

It was easy once we found the teatree greetings from New Zealand

Clever hide. It was a bit easier to spot because it was out of place, but i put it where it belongs so might be a little harder now. The hint is good.

TFTC. dropped a friend off at the airport and had time for this cache.

A great wee drive by cache

fun find, nice camo

Clever quick find TFTC

Once I found the tea tree, the cache was easy to spot (the cache title helped). Love the camo.

First find ! Thank you for a fun and nice cache !

Easy find. Tftc

Today on our ride through New Zealand a ride from Orewa to Kaeo. Beautiful kilometers with a visit to Hundertwasser in Whangrei. Fortunately, there were a few geocaches along the way. Thank you very much to CO for laying this cache. With warm geocache greetings from the Netherlands

Quick and easy find, tftc

Nice camo. It took a while. Tftc

nice one !! getting the hang of this now.. 4th cache ever for us

Logged it!

Well hidden in the most obvious spot

During our way back from Te Paki Dunes we also passed this nice spot. Searched a bit before we were successful.

T4TC

TEMBO! and I was looking for a break and found this cache as a good place.
We found the well hidden cache and signed the guestbook.

Thanks to Schuetze family, adopted by thedbees for hiding and maintaining the cache.

T4TC Filser1

Great little find thanks!

Found just before the heavens are about to open. All good here with the cache

Great find, first timer

U won't know what the clue means til u find it

Park n grab . TFTC

Found on a Northland Winter break from the deep South.

This was a great hide!! Second ever geocache found.

Couldn’t find everything is over grown

A super quick park and grab at the end of a lonnnng day, Nice hide, T4tc

Clever words CO. I would add be prepared for all the small creatures within.

Great park and grab. TFTC

#10,573. I was heading to Kaikohe to pick up a couple of the TMGT geotour caches. But decided to stop here and find this one. I wouldn't say it was an easy find. I walked up and down the hedge a couple of times before reading the description and finally clapping my eyes on an object. I guess I had been expecting a tree with hacked off branches. Anyway soon had the cache in hand. Signed the logbook and replaced the cache where found. Thanks Schuetze family for hiding it here.

Easy find. TFTC

Quick park and grab using the hint. Tftc

Easy find with @peadub. Signed log and replaced where found. TFTC.

A quick find on the way past. Thanks for the placement

Taking a week off to have some nice quiet time up here in the Bay of Islands and we had a leisurely drive up here - no rushing about and at this time of year and wtih the borders closed to tourists it was certainly not tricky.

Needed to get one to mark the day and by now it was getting a bit dark and rainy so popped in to get this one before heading to our air bnb - Mrs Tuolei dodged the raindrops and made a nice quick find here. Signed in and replaced as found - thanks for the cache. All fine here.

Loved the cache. Great find and the name says it all. TFTC found with Yvettetb

Great little cache and park and grab. Thanks

What a neat cache. Very creative. TFTC.

Very cool cash.TFTC

Found it interesting, TFTC

TFTC. Happy to LOG it.

1173. 10:11 am. I started my search too far North, but a quick find at GZ. We added a new log since the old one was full. TFT(pull over)C.

On our caching journey up to the north with EyeSpyBen to sort out a few more caches and a couple of series, many miles driven over many days and many caches found, not to many dnfs
but lovely weather, Thanks to all the cache owners for the placements

Nice hide easy find thanks

Added charm to bracelet

A team effort here but it was found after 20 minutes, and I appreciate the cockroach warning! Cool hide picked up on the way from Auckland to Kerikeri, TFTC

Other than the odd thorn wound and the friendly cockroaches it was all straight forward

After a fair bit of crawling around in the thorns Tui came up with the goods. Great camo fav from us.TFTC

We were in Waitangi (Bay of Islands) New Zealand for the day on Holland America’s Amsterdam. We tendered into Paihia and had a rental car waiting for us there. We spent the day doing a 30-mile counterclockwise loop through beautiful farm country. By the time we returned to Paihia, we had found 20 caches. Great day!

Thank you to Schuetze family for 8 of the caches, to (bobcat105, Toastice, Russellschool, and R18=R5+R13) for 2 each, and to the other 4 COs for their efforts and for their caches.
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This Cache: Quick Find - Cute container

Not by the fish head and no ti tree til aha! and then no cockroaches. Tftc

A nice quick find thanks.

Found on a drive up to Northland to pick up a few more TMGT, and have a holiday with my Ma.

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

Found 2nd time yay

Quick easy find here. TFTC

Nice find while in the area with tmann421 today
Enjoying the trip north and the caches
Signed log as tm/ww NZ

Nice find with woolwood9 today.
*We enjoyed the drive / walk around the area.*
Stamped logs as tm/ww NZ which may just look like a black smudge on plastic logs!
TFTC

*Lots of bugs!*

Found it straight away. One to stay away from if you don’t like cockroaches as they have made this cache their home. Other than that it’s still in good order.

Found after a short search, logging in field, TFTC.

Greetings from Tauranga. Loving our short stay in your corner of the world. Sunday today, but all was quiet here and very peaceful. Not quite Tee tree, but we were very pleased to spot the cache quite quickly. Shook all the critters out, but the log is fine. TFTC

Found with a sister during our expedition to NZ (from CZ), where we explored part of the North Island and could visit our classmates and friends that we have not seen for several years, as it is here, in Auckland and Napier live ... Thank you for cache ...

Amazing

Found! One of us walked straight to this, one of us went off hunting in the total wrong direction Awesome camouflage! Great spot. Someone must’ve been cleaning up because it’s pretty good here now!

Stopped to look for this one, being wary of the last DNF's. Crawled around in the bush, unpleasant as it was with all the thorn, but finally we found the cache. The camo was excellent, however the log needs to be replaced, it is more or less just a lump of pulp.

Could not find cache but on the bright side there was little to no rubbish around. Also could not find a teatree....

In a bit of a hurry. Didn't look long.

Nice hide but to bad that so much rubbish is about. Tftc

This is a rubbish dump. Consider archiving….!

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Found 3.40pm
Good cache camo just a pity about the rubbish dumped around area. SLTFTC

Stopped for a few caches whilst travelling from Kawakawa to Kerikeri. Found this with the helpful hint, however, as the caches before and after were at beautiful churches this was a bit of a let down with its litter.

We are heading to Kerikeri in Zara. Quick stop here to snag and tag this one. Cheers

Boxing Day - day twelve - Kaikohe - Kerikeri with The Seagnoid and Zara. Toby staying in Kaikohe - sick again. An amazing family in Kaikohe adopted us and are going to look after Toby for the day or weeks if he cant be fixed!

Its another epic 3+ week geocaching adventure with The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby and Willam to the Far North. What an amazing place to explore. Lots of walks, gravel roads and sand. Lots of amazing trees, beaches and interesting POIs. Lots of kilometers traveled by vehicle and foot. Vehicle breakdowns, making new friends and catching up with old friends and family. Snagged a couple of FTF's, lots of lonely caches and the odd event along the way. Lots of cache maintenance and replaced caches on this trip. But what an incredible adventure!!. Thanks to all the CO's who have made this trip so memorable..

A few days ago Toby got a problem in one of his wheels and went n for a noisectomy. he came out fixed, but a day later it happened again. So he is back in hospital to excise the bit they missed before. So we are travelling around in Zara. Head off to Kerikeri for a day and see how well Toby is doing tonight.

Had trouble finding the cache here. I could not find any stump anywhere. Whyfor this cache name? Ah!

Day twelve of an awesome, tiring, long, three week holiday geocaching with Taybeedragon in the upper north. Boxing Day! Caching Kaikohe to Kerikeri. The whole trip comprised of hours of walking on sand, sliding down sand dunes, hundreds of kilometres of unsealed roads, car breakdowns, paddling out to islands, lighthouses, dolphins, goats, events, FTFs, weird boulders. You name it, we saw it. Lots of bisons, lots of cache maintenance, lots of sunscreen. A month is enough. I am glad to be back home. Except that now I have to write up my trip. We averaged just 20 caches per day, but that is still a lot of logging!

Merry Christmas from the Seagnoid!

After two days of decidedly rubbish weather, it was time to get out of the house and what better excuse is a spot of caching. I'm back in Whangarei to visit my parents for the Christmas holiday period and I'm keen to do some caching a little further north to extend my furtherest north cache spot.

A quick find here, to find that the ants are taking over this cache and making it their own. TFTC

Our third visit to this beautiful country and this time for a family wedding in Tutukaka. After that we will travel south exploring and finding some caches along the way.
Signed and replaced all of them as we found them.
Thanks to the CO's for placing these caches and keeping the game alive.

Found 2nd time. Clever. Tftc.

TFTC... geodad and I have teamed up under one username "Matini264nJaimee83" previously "Matini264" and "Jaimee83", so are re-logging any that we hadn't found together, before deactivating one account. Have notified all COs involved for permission

Signed as Matini264 (half the team)

Sorry for generic log, there are a few to do!

Very busy at this time of day Highway 10..nicely camo'ed cache. TFTC

Only DNF so far since arriving here on holiday from OZ
Still looking

Did not find

Yebo Schuetze family

Driving from Kerikeri back to Matauri Bay there seems to be a loop-of-caches..... we'll face the a try and had some more smiles on the map

Pulled over, followed the trail, found camo cache critters

Tftc

This is our weekend of fun cycling to Kawakawa from Opua.

rustynz tells me I need to catch up with my logging. Sorry for the generic log. Thanks for the hides and for maintaining all your hides

What a tricky find this one turned out to be. Tried to avoid the prickly bush, but that was where the GPS was sending me.

rebel98 joined in the fun, and he soon had the cache found

Thanks for the hide, a well constructed cache.

Our journey today bring us from Paihia along the west coast to Auckland.
By the way we found some caches. Thank you for showing this place and hidding the box.
Greetings from Germany!!!

Today was another nice day for our holiday trip in new zealand were we of course also found some caches along the way.

Today we took a trip from rotorua to kerikeri.

This is one of them. thank you for maintaining this cache.

but did not find this one though.

Up north for a sporting event today. Had previously had a quick look for this as a geocaching newbie in November, when I was last up this way, but I couldn't get a good GZ with my old GPS and the hedge was terribly prickly.

With 300 caches more experience now, it was easier this time, but the hedge is still prickly..!! I like these neat camo'd caches though.

TFTC

all good. good to see this place much tidier than it used to be.
happy caching:)

Easy find

#2082, Quick find, some lovely kittens guarding the cache. TFTC

Lovely. This cache is home for many insect critters too!!

#10866. Always good to find good parking on the open road. In this case we got rid of a muggle by giving him a jump start. TFTC.

After spending a couple of nights in Algies Bay, we are now heading for Northland where we will be spending the next phase of our North Island tour. Just our second visit to the area, the first was during the week before the Auckland Mega, when we travelled as far north as Keri Keri, so we are looking forward to exploring more of the region.
We pulled into the rest area only to find another car there, but the owner was mighty pleased to see us as he needed a jump start after leaving his cell phone charging in the car while having a snooze. That was enough to flatten the battery. So StreetWalker helped out the guy while I looked for the cache. Soon spotted something that needed further investigation and yes, it was the nicely hidden cache. TFTC.

Found container out in the open,looked around and spotted something it belongs in and rehid properly.Found while heading home after another working day in Kerikeri.
Tftc.

(1645) Out on a road trip with Lazac to collect some caches in the mid North and Kerikeri area. TFTC

Nice camo. T4tc

Co-ords are a bit off and those trees hurt when they scratch sunburn!!!! Not too keen on the cockroaches wait her. Couldn't get log out to sign it but too photo for proof if needed of actual cache and camo

#7083. Parked off State Highway 10 to wait for the heavy shower to pass this afternoon. Even the road grading gang had to stop during the downpour. After they moved along, and GZ was all quiet, went out to have a quick find. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside. Nice hide, and yes, the bugs liked it too. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

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Brilliant, the bugs seem to approve too TFTC

TFTC. Very clever hide.

Great clue - couldn't see it being of use until we got very close. Good hide. TFTC

Nice quick find. Used a twig to extract the lid and replace for you.

Didn't realise we had found it at first. Lid has come off. Tried to reach out but it's stuck in its hidey - hole.

EWWWW! Opened the cache and out poured litrally hundreds of wood lice and roaches rushed out to meet me. Not sure what they were all doing in there