Okareka Bushes (BOP) Lake Okareka, North Island, New Zealand
By Agogo on 06-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5ADF3

Bit tricky to get to unless you are the size of my 5 year old, but we got it. TFTC

TFTC! On a walk with my fitness class.

Out on a lovely rainy day amble with my mum. We took photos of the birds and found this cool lil find along the way. While searching I had to hide from a group of wild muggles... Mum was a great cover! TFTC

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I now live full-time in our caravan & travel the country visiting places we want to visit & doing the things that we want to do we had been staying at Ngongataha & decided that we would go for a drive and check out an Adventure Lab and grab a couple of caches if the opportunity arose out visiting some of the nearby lakes turned out that this was an easy find, log signed & cache container easily replaced pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #4,907 for us!

What a beaut track - thanks for placement

Thanks for your amazing cache Agogo. I really appreciate the time you took to set up and maintain your caches. Cheers, Cympull.

Tftc a little off track due to navigation

Had a little search but in the end my granny spotted it

Tftc

Thank you for bringing me along this stunning walk. I started at the wrong tree, but once I followed my gut instead of the GPS I was soon in the right spot.

Found with DVNKSY, a bit to the left of where we thought. Definitely don't need to walk down the grass bank to water edge.

That was a very tricky find! Thanks for maintaining.

All good

Spending Labour weekend 2023 in Rotorua. Decided to come for a late afternoon walk and collect some caches. No luck finding this one on our way but decided to give it another go on our way back. A bit more searching and eventually we got this hide. The hardest one of the day for us.

Okareka Bushes (BOP) was transferred from Agogo to user Davidson123Clan

Took a bit of searching, cool container. Nice walk along lake. Tftc

Nice walk along here. Took a little for GPS to settle & then I spotted it. Very cool container.

Tftc:)

Cool spot.

Visiting from Australia and took this lovely walk in a break between thermal parks. Spotted several (new to us) birds. Thanks Agogo.

Refuse to go this far off track, not good for plant growth

Nice walk after a stormy Cyclone night, greetings from Austria, TFTC

The Freezer Mice Strike Again!
Out on a little stroll to the beach today so hunted out this geocache along the way. Signed log. TFTC

Took a bit of persistence but we got it. Log book in good order. We wrote the date but pen ran out when writing parklh! TFTC

Its a hot day and there is not a lot of shade. I have my wide-brimmed hat, but still - coming here another day would be better.

Thankfully, the CO put some bushes here. I retreated into the shade to sign the logs.

Found with CailleachH. She did all the hard work

spotted its bright colours glistening in the sun

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After missing the Birds cache and leaving it to Mrs Geckoh to make us look good my pride was on the line to make good, make good I did with a quick find here, now on to the next one!!
TNLN TFTC

Good spot nice winter days board walk TFTC

A beautiful day to be out geocaching. I’m finally learning the tricks of the trade, looking for worn areas in the grass ect thanks to my mate TBS. A nice easy grab
TFTC

Cache container replaced and restored to hanging location.

Container replaced and new logsheet. Enjoy your walk.

Found with Kauriforest. I don't think this was quite in the location it was supposed to be. We have repositioned but this might need some attention. TFTC

Hi. Found it on the ground with no obvious way of hanging it up. Lovely peaceful lake

Thanks for the find

Bit more looking than probably should have but you know. Big group of kids and stuff.

Yay! A nice quick find. TFTC

A quick find while wandering the nature walk. TFTC

Yeah, not hanging at all. A bit off the mark.
TFTC

Nice and easy. Yup definitely not hanging anymore

Not micro. Definitely small. The hint also didn’t apply very much and my GPS was a bit laggy. TFTC

Found with KaelynKingi tftc

We have come away for the weekend to this beautiful spot, I had been told to do this little walk and could get some caches as an added bonus. Got to GZ looked about head level, cache no longer hanging but quickly spotted and signed. TFTC

Great cache - great day to be out - many thanks

Tftc

School holidays, out walking with little people. TFTF

A nice little walk, thanks!
TFTC Agogo

Thank you for the cache. Took my mum along with me!

Hunted for a while but no luck.

Decided to look again on the way back. Found it on the ground. Nothing to hang it with so it's now 'nestled'. That's now the quickest time I've changed a sad DNF to a smilie! TFTC.

No luck here, 2 of us searching but maybe we are lind

TFTC. Might have fallen. Not hanging when we found it. Is now.

Found it, but getting to it provided a wee challenge. Thanks!

Nice hide thanks

Tftc

Not really hanging but ok verry good tftc

Thanks for hiding

Last find on the way back to the car. First time past there were too many muggles. Cache in good condition.

It was a miserable July morning - rainy, a strong wind coming across the lake, and half dark. I wasn't going to stop and search for caches in the rain - luckily it paused at the right time for this one. A nice quick find using the hint - TFTC.

Took a little while as we were searching in the wrong place. Lovely walk tftc

Out geocaching after a horse ride. Loved the bird life here as we walked along the lake edge. Nice hide. Thanks Agogo.

Nice quick find. Lovely lakeside walk. Thanks!

Away with friends for the weekend and we had a geocaching blitz today. We enjoyed the walk along here and picking up the caches. TFTC

In Rotorua for the weekend with friends we went out geocaching and had a lovely walk along this track and of course grabbed a few caches along the way. Thanks

Took a little detour, and was soon reaching for the cache

Loving the walk so far, lots of muggles running the track, or power walking. I am walking at a leisurely pace, although I have just read it is 5km return, about 1 1/2 hours. From looking at my pictures, it took me about 2 1/2 hours with caching time! hmm I guess I was walking at a more leisurely pace.

Another fun find, thanks for the hide Agogo

Very creative hide. Loved the walk. Beautiful area.

Found it, nice spot

What a very beautiful spot
Co ordinates good
Opened it and pencil fell out sorry ... a bit of a stretch to replace log tftc from uk

All it good. Going for a nice family stroll.

Found while walking at the lake. TFTC!

Caching areas missed or unexplored after 7 years away from the country. Thank you for bringing us to this stunning lake.

TFTC

Breeding geese next to the hide, please avoid disturbing them too much. Fast found. TFTC

A new string of Geocaches spurred this visit so it's time for a tiki-tour. I contacted my mid week caching partner Mc Jandals and proposed a nice little clean up of the area. We had quite the adventure caching from dawn and finding some really beautiful spots. I managed to walk away with 28 caches and my highlights were the views out towards Mt Tarawera and of course... the company

This is the second time I've done this walk in the name of geocaching but it is a particularly good stroll. The cache was found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords and a straight forward placement. We did have to be a little careful as the Canadian Geese were nesting and they weren't too happy with us being around. Cheers Agogo, TFTC

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On a trip with Philip after seeing these new caches out. A spur of the moment plan was hatched and here we are. II am logging using the Cachly app template so please excuse generic logging along the way. It’s just my way of keeping track, but I do genuinely thank each and every one of you cache owners for taking the time and energy to place these caches. Many Thanks for bringing us back here. Cheers

Found it! Came past here the other day with Baby Dillnutz and couldn’t make it off the track. Today was a different story though. Found it easily with the help of the hint. Introduced some of our coffee group to the idea of geocaching - I wonder if they’ll join in?!

Made a visit here yesterday and replaced container with something more durable, Enjoy your walk.

Found ..nice spot except for those geese...it is now laying in tree not hanging the outer has perished ..thanks agogo

Poor batty has seen better days. I spotted the tether but he had flown. Found him in fork as per last finder. Replaced as found. Thanks for the placement Agogo

I was down in Rotorua for the weekend and this afternoon went for a drive out to Lake Tarawera. We took a detour out to Lake Okareka and took a walk around the walkway, looking for these caches along the way. Found where the cache had been hanging and thought that it might have gone missing, but soon spotted it sitting in the fork of the tree. TFTC!

In Rotorua with Merlot58 for Easter. The cache had fallen from its perch and we found it on the ground. We placed It back in the fork of the bush.

In Rotorua for Easter with Jag50 with the aim to put a smiley face on as many caches as we can. Found the cute cache on the ground so after signing the log we ticked it into the fork as we couldn’t see where it was suppose to hang from

Found on a early morning walk along the Okareka walkway. The trail was very quiet with lots of bird life and great views across the lake. Thanks for the fun cache container.

Took me a while to find this one got it on the return journey, love the container, peaceful quiet spot, thanks Agogo for maintaining this wee sweetie

New container installed , happy hunting, Ensure the cap is secure after writing your log. Remember to bring a pen.

After a huge weekend of eventing, the string of caches along the walkway were that little bit of extra incentive/lure to convince my tired legs to go out for a little jog. I was grateful to stop for another rest here. Followed the geotrail & cache easily spotted. Unfortunately, it did not have it's lid! But had been propped up so the log was still there. I fossiked about in the grass hoping to find the missing lid, but quit when I nearly put my hand in a wasp nest. TFTC!

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Great day for caching!

My sister lives in the Lynmore area. My family and I are staying at her house for the next week or so... enjoying the lovely Rotorua weather!

I discovered this track a while ago and have a plan to come out for a walk all (or at least most) of the days I am here.

This is my second day on the track. I had my running gear on today and went quite a bit further before turning around to head back to the car. I stopped here on the way back.

I spotted the cache straight away, exactly where I imagined it would be.

The cache is in good condition. All nice and dry.

Thank you

Cherrys Rule

I’m staying with my brother and his family at the bach they have rented at Lake Orareka. After a late-ish start and a big breakfast, we decided to walk alongside the lake, and because of the lure of geocaches, I of course was keen to join in.

Another quick find here but mainly because my niece had found this a couple of days earlier and knew where to look. TFTC

Found a wee bonus treasure while looking for this cache
TFTC

Tftc. Left the tinest trade.

Took a careful hunt to find this one.
Got there in the end. Tftc

Easy find for kids

Found today with Miss 8

Nice walk the cache was found reasonably quickly but cleverly hidden

Located while enjoying the track and this series. Thanks for bringing us here!

Right in your face

Tricky

Last time I was here, I searched high and low, both on the way out and back, to no avail. This time it took less than a minute. Turns out it's easier to find a cache when it's there! Thanks very much for replacing the cache. It's no hardship to come out to this beautiful lake again on a perfect autumn afternoon.TFTC.

Took a while, but it's there! Great sun set, a sliver of sun gave it away... Lol

Great spot!!