Piggy finds a Kawa to Cuddle. Waiwera, North Island, New Zealand
By G-2 on 14-Oct-14. Waypoint GC5ETPZ

Nice easy find, TFTC

Where the back of the tree is located does depend on where you define the front.Anyhow, once the right tree was found it was not long to find the object of interest.Log is all fine.TFTC!

Staying here tonight gathering a few

Thus one wasnt found for a while hmm me thinks Ive signed a correct logbook Being back in New Zealand for a while its lovely to have some time tondi a bit of cachingHere in this part of the northern island Im not that often , but these many caches are here It was a delightful day with nice weather and the walk was not too difficultFound wellTftc

A bit hard for me but I found it.

**20,924**In the area, thankfully had our bike with us so it was off for a cycle around the flat part of the park. Piggy must be on his meds again, as we found the used pill bottle (with log) signed and then headed off to the next one. TFTC

Yay

Found it before we hit a walking track. Tftc

On a beautiful morning stroll I came across this cash in the nice Wenderin regional park. TFTC I wonder where all this sea urchin houses come to that place.

We came to this one while doing our adventure lab as seemed to miss it on route to the beach. Had to google kawa tree. Definitely wear shoes doing this one as lots of discarded kina around. TFTC

Nice easy find at the start of the beautiful Wenderholm track walk. Close to car park so could be a park and grab. TFTC

TFTC, out for a walk and forgot our pen sadly. Cache in good condition. Like the cache name.

Spent a while at the wrong tree, once we figured out it was the other tree it was a quick find

Found it

Second cache for the day, thankfully not too many muggles in this part of the park. A nice easy find, TFTC!

Good find!

Find #729Found while walking Te Araroa - new Zealands long pathway from Cape Reinga to Bluff. Thank you to all the cache owners who place and maintain these caches, and thank you to all the people who help me and others on the way. Some logs signed as LBB to save space.Wandering back to join the trail I luckily approached this from the right angle to make a quick find. Cache was in good condition

quickly found and well camouflaged.

Long history!!

We're up in the area for a couple of days walking and geocaching in some of the Auckland Regional Parks which are amazing! Quickly found, TFTC

First for this park. Have tucked it back where the hint said it should be. Thanks G2

All good here

Easy find, nice walk, TFTC

First cache of the day! Thank you, log is full

Needed some time to discover but finally managed. Thanks!

Quite a few Kawas around here but they are all a bit big for cuddling! Unless of course you are a Kiwi because then tree hugging would be your specialty! Cache is all good. TFTC

All good

All good

Probably did not look hard enough because the roots were covered in spiders

stopped at this nice place on our way north to walk a bit.
the last here in the park
Thank you for the cache
NathanS05

Sanne got to the correct side before me to retrieve this one. 200th find for me. Thanks!

Found it! Post swimming event walk and geocache mission. Thank you.

Nice quick find. We came for the golden frame but it’s gone ️ TFTC

Final find of the day with Gernita and PhilBirdBoys, nice quick find. TFTC.

Came to find the Golden Frame but it's not here found the cache instead. SL TFTC

We decided to spend the day here, exploring the area, as we'd never been here before.
Refueled with coffee, we headed off to do the peninsula walk
A nice quick find to finish off. Thanks for putting this here

Easy find. TFTC

We were waiting for some friends and had a few minutes spare. Looking through the beautiful trees, quick find for the kids

Was looking at the wrong tree for a little while, then realized I should probably move to the other tree nearby and found it very quickly.

Thanks!

Left Cool Rock TM in pot.

Came over on this beautiful autumn day to do some caching and the ad lab. Good find and everything in good order. TFTC

Our first cache in a long time!!! Great to be out caching again with my mini cachers!! Happy Easter

Out with my wife doing the Wenderholm adventure lab.
I already did the adventure lab during lock down 2021.
So I'm back to do the geocachs I couldn't do before.
Thanks again G-2

Nice hide thank you. Lots of cobwebs around but I braved it lol

Travelled up to Auckland for the Mega this weekend and to visit our daughter. Stayed the night in Owera. Mr Rubbishparty cycled to Wenderholm this morning, but we both returned this afternoon. Cache all fine. TFTC

Found it! Thanks for a fun one.

Let the kids take control to find this one and luckily had no trouble at all. Great find on a beautiful mornings walk from the campground. Such a beautiful place here.

Nice hiding spot where the general population can't see you find it. Awesome instructions

My 5 year old found this…but we came out without a pen whilst on a morning jog from the campground. Thanks for the cache!

A nice quick find thanks. Thre must have been an incident here this morning, 2 police cars and a tow truck!

Time for another trip to the North Island for Ms_KR and me. Wellington and beyond here we come. Today we toured north of Orewa, visiting some regional parks and beaches. Choice.

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

Awesome trees. Tftc

Nicely nestled in a hollow tucked away. Not around the back of the tree although that does depend on your perspective. Out with Mookow.

Updating my new geo account with my old finds. Geokid has grown out of the geo adventures, but I'm still keen! Found as thebrownehornet but not logged, with keylev and B4Dawn and finally logging 31 03 2024 as NurseDr.

Day out with Keyley, Iceman and an old Team SEAC member! The task to day was to clear our this park and get thos numbers as much as we could! Crazy productive!

If I recall, this was another quick find by Keylev. TFTC

Decided to make the most of another lovely Auckland day and explore this regional park with NZ Iceman, B4Dawn and The Browne Hornet.

Another quick find here...woop woop we are on a roll...

Thanks for the cache.

Max, age 6, found this one - easy!

With virtually no unfound caches available around Whangarei and the Auckland border reopening three days ago, I thought I had better make the most of the opportunity to grab some caches and the Reach the Peak souvenir, before Aunty J uses Omicron as an excuse to lock us up again.....

The plan was to head to Wenderholm and clear that area out, but the newish trail out to Mahurangi also looked appealing, especially as it is one place I have driven past 100's of times but never actually visited. That's one of the great things about caching - visiting new places..

Into the Wenderholm caches proper now. Found a nice shady parking spot to leave the cache mobile for the day. One of the benefits of getting there early I suppose. It was certainly packed out by the time I had completed all the local caches.

Headed over to the nearby tree and soon located the cache, which was not really by the tiny roots anymore, but probably safe enough where it is. Signed log and replaced as found. TFTC

After going one way around the tree, reversed direction & spotted.
Thanks to the competitions phone dying i have a small beacon of hope to win now. 4-5 current score!

Nate got this one first nice and easy

Irisacacia found this one! We were on the other side of the fence for a while. Great to be here.

Our GPS was a bit off, could of been the mad wind! Hunted in the wrong bush but finally found it tucked under bark!

Saw the massive pile of rubbish and decided not to bother today.

Gave this another try. Went the other way around the tree and saw it straight away. Replaced in the same spot but covered with a couple of pieces of bark.

Found with flossieteacake. Lots of rubbish nearby.

Thanks for a lovely cache!

The kawa was found the hint was followed and the cache was in our hands. Another smiley at Wenderholm.

Pretty sure we found the location but couldn’t see anything.

Young geocacher found this one after a good walk.

Woohoo! After a rather unsuccessful day we finally found one!

Easy find! Tftc

Nice quick cuddle as my car wasn't far from here after such a lovely walk in the park.

Sorry no hugs today as a bit wet.

An afternoon visit to Wenderholme with Vistra. Quite possibly our last one here for now. A quick find. All good.

At the beach doing the ad lab.
Quick find.

Nice tree, nice cache and on we go. Mr P and I were enjoying the sunshine while it lasted. Those grey clo9uds were gathering. T43c

Enjoyed doing this cache with inss
Quick search around wasn't long before the cache was signed
Thank you for the cache

For some unknown reason I decided to check another littered tree over the way and circled that many times before twigging to the cache names relation to its hiding place. Oh yeah there it is then, and the cache was in hand. T F T C G-2

Another capperz in Auckland day out. Waiwera followed by Wenderholm and a good day out it was too. The great thing about being new in the area is that a lot of the places we visit are for the first time for mrs c and a revisit from fleeting previous toe-dips for me, mostly. I'd been to Waiwera before, but not gone into the nearby Regional Park so a good idea to do that today.
Parked up on the 30 minute slot and reckoned we had time to get the three nearby caches in that time, and use the facilities too. Nice and quiet here and able to sample the warm foreshore as the tide came in.

There has obviously been quite a party here and no one bothered to clean up after themselves. Poor tree. Pleased to find that the cache was still safe and sound. Capperz seems to be following us round today - it would've been great to catch up with them again. TFTC # 16,085

On a geocaching expedition from Nelson. Way back in February Isis58, no.13 and I planned a trip to Auckland for the planned Mega event. When Covid struck and the country went into lockdown we decided to wait and see what happened - - that was less hassle than trying to get refunds on our flights anyway. Well, of course the Mega event was cancelled but luckily for us, flying was an option again by Labour Weekend. We changed some of the details of our trip but decided we would fit in as much caching as we could. We were joined by Mrs SoBad. We visited some amazing places, fitted in some walks, came across lots of people - - lots of traffic too. A huge thank you to the COs for hiding caches which presented us with puzzles to solve, took us to great places, were cleverly camouflaged, were cunningly hidden - - sometimes in plain sight - - all of the above and of course an equal thank you for the ones that just gave us one more smilie. We really really appreciated them all. Thanks !

The INSS have had a cat to cuddle at the AirBNB we have been staying at so did not need to cuddle a Kawa. Just find a cache and sign the log - which we soon did.
Thanks.

Piggy has made a mess and I wasnt equipped to CITO.

Tyftc

Miss 12 is having fun hunting today

Great find

Having got back from walking the hill, the others headed back to car to get out lunch, while I tried to figure out what was meant by the first part of the clue, and searched with no luck. In the end I followed GPSr - lol
TFTC

Fun cache, thanks!

I came out today to pick up some caches in Wenderholm Park with the ones around the perimeter track being the main target. Really enjoyed my walk around this area today, big thanks to all the COs for their effort in setting the caches.

Last one for today, I tried to find this at the beginning of the walk but looked all around the tree (the wrong one as it turns out). At the end of the walk I was concerned by the muggles who had appeared at GZ but I was able to hide behind the tree (the right one this time!) and made a fairly quick find. TFTC!

Little Friwi is on a roll here, 3 in a row for him. Nice house not too far from here. TFTC

Found ... Mrs McMike2012 & I went for a bit of a drive today & ended up at Wenderholm Regional Park ... we had parked nearby & after a short walk, we were at GZ ... cache was easily spotted, well once I got the correct tree it was, log completed & returned without incident ... TN:LN:SL ... TFTC ... #1,679 for us.

Quite glad l was here early so l didnt look too dodgy ducking in & out of bushes. Checked a few spots before finding it in the last spot. TFTC

Headed up to Auckland to carry on working on those caches in the northern parts to see if there were a few that I could find before there were too many people about that would make me want to head back home to the quieter parts of the country. It was still well dark when I left as as it was only myself I got to listen to the cricket without Mrs Dragon telling me to change the station, ah bliss.

As I knew I would be early for my real objective, I took a bit of a circuitous route to Wenderholm Regional Park as I wanted to be there early as generally that was when it was quietest and the best light to be out walking in. Signed the caches CD (aka Cats&Dragons) to save space in many of the logs. Managed a grand total of 43 finds for the morning which I was quite pleased with.

Nice and early here so no-one about to worry about how the car was parked. Had to be quiet here as someone was asleep in their car right beside GZ, got in , got out as quietly as possible.
Thank you to all the CO's for their hard work in making this day possible, in both the placing the caches and maintaining them.

Quick find tftc

Located this one during an all-too-brief visit of the park. Thanks for placing this one G-2!

Trouvée facilement par une belle journée ensoleillée

We really enjoyed the Perimeter walk and found our way to the car after locating this treasure. Soon on the road again, back to the North Shore tftc!

A cache carnival road trip yay!
Logged as R18 tftc

Which back lol. Got it.

Out with scouts easy find

all ok

Out and about for a weekend adventure with the younger future finder on this fine summer's day. The FF was keen for a walk and specified the requirements of both beach and bush. This sounded like the perfect excuse to explore some of Wenderholm Regional Park and earn some smileys along the way. After experiencing success up at the river mouth ("end of the park") we took the beach back down towards our car. As this one was realitively close to our parking spot we decided to attempt this too. But not before we collected the auto and parked jp nice and close to GZ. A quick circuit of GZ and the cache was soon found where Kiwiscot had left it. Cheers for the cache placement!