Horoera Point East Cape, North Island, New Zealand
By Sweet-Sour and maintained by Shellnz on 01-Jan-15. Waypoint GC5J3T8

Checked the obvious spot this afternoon but no sign of a cache - just a rather smelly dead penguin.

This cache is up for adoption. Please contact me if you wish to adopt it.

Starting look a bit rugged. Great location, beautiful view.

TFTC! Greetings from Estonia!

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

Instead of Mordor (it was canceld due to bad weather) we journeyed to the east cape. This is my first Cache in 2024 AND for the forseeable future the easternmost cache I logged.TFTC and happy new yearShiroyama

Found it thanks for the cool stop

Thank you for the cache.

Together with Travelser I'm going Down Under. We are driving around with a motorhome. After 7 weeks driving around through Australia we arrived the 2th November in New Zealand. For ten days we will cross the Northern Island and than for 2 weeks the Southern Island.During our trip we of course search for several caches. Most of them brought us to very nice spots, like this one.All the CO's, and in this case Sweet-Sour, thanks for bringing us here and give our trip a special accent.

After traveling around Australia with Oopie for 7 weeks, we have now been traveling with the camper in New Zealand for 4 weeks. Along the way we will of course also visit various types of caches in beautiful places, including this one. Thanks CO for creating and laying this cache.

Gehschei visited the seals far East from home. TftC.

Ty other side of the earth

Such a good hide

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Czechia

Found on 26-0523

First cache of 2023, and what a beauty it was. First time to the Cape, so was stoked to find it sans coverage! Tftc

Beautiful stretch of NZ. Pity the lighthouse was closed by locals

Yes a lovely view to this destination..Spotted a lazy seal while here.. Beautiful weather..Untouched land/coast..TFTC

yes the only one but sadly saw 2 carcasses. A seal on the shore and a splattered ? on the road

I'm on a trip with my Mum and two youngest children. We're doing a quick tour of the North Island. We walked around the rim of the Waihi gold mine and stayed in Tauranga the first night. Last night we stayed at Lottin Point. Then today we're heading to Gisborne. Next we're off to Napier and Turangi, before heading to our old stomping ground Palmerston North. We're then off to Whanganui, New Plymouth, then Taumaranui via the Forgotten Highway. A quick dash down to the Raurumu spiral before going up to Waitomo Caves. Back to Auckland for a few days with family, the long awaited 2020/2022 Mega then home to Whangarei.

I was hoping to get enough of the first TMGT caches to complete the Tauranga, Gisborne and Taranaki areas. In the end I failed on all counts.

A rough start to the road with a few huge potholes. We think Mum lost her mudguard in one. A great disappointment to get out to the lighthouse and find the track was closed. Apparently Google knew but we didn't check. I picked this one up on the way home as my most Eastern cache so far no doubt. Pity about the ammo box burger described in the description. Thanks for the small but successful smile here

This will be our most eastern cache found in New Zealand at the moment, given the Lighthouse is closed to prevent gathering and Covid spread. Easy find on a beautiful beach, with alight wind and no rain while we were there. Both the container and logbook are in good condition. Thanks for the cache!

Quick drive by cache TFTC

Quick park and grab on the way. The drive is the reward!

TFTC Sweet-Sour and maintained by Shellnz

*** Out on our MEGA Roadtrip with Wilbywarrior. Who says this can only happen when the MEGA is actually held?! Greetings from Dunedin, caching friends
#193 ***

Quickly found in the obvious spot by malinkaly.
Malinkaly and I planned a road trip to go to the MEGA but Covid has postponed the event again. We decided to continue on with our planned journey making adjustments as we go with the ever-changing travel restrictions.
Greetings from Dunedin!
Thanks for the cache, Sweet-Sour
#2433

We had a blast from the past stay in the Hicks Bay motel last night. Now on our way to Gissy via the East Cape lighthouse.

On our way to the road end. Excited we are. A good spot for a hide. Thanks for getting us to stop here.
TFTC

Cool hiding spot stayed in the camp last night amazing spot tftc

Stayed at the campground last night. TFTC

Beutiful place, cache is dry and safe. Tftc

We picked a mint day to go to the lighthouse! A nice easy find on the way. TFTC.

Visited this spot during my East Cape Easter 2021 journey.
This is actually my second visit in the area. But last time I haven't got time for all hides in the East Cape area.
This time is quite different story. My longer Easter break is dedicated to this area only.

No problems at all at GZ.
Great road trip.
TFTC

#12,666. Park, walk and grab on East Cape Road in Te Araroa. GZ was all quiet at the time of our visit. Relatively quick find. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.Thanks for the placement, and for bringing us to this site, and .T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e..M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.

We are on our summer holiday, we usually take a few weeks and travel around the South Island, but this year we are heading around the North Island. Heading up the West coast and back down the East coast. Finding only a select few caches along the way, we are mostly targeting some challenges we have qualified for, some large size caches, some that fill gaps in our date placed grid, a few D/T combinations, some with lots of favourite points, letterboxes and anything else that grabs our fancy.

I had a fall on day two of our holiday, while out geocaching which has resulted in a fractured bone in my leg and I am in a moon boot and with crutches and I was told to keep weight off my leg. So I am only limited use when it comes to our trip now. I tend to stay in the campervan and just hand out suggestions of when and where GK should search.

What a lovely area, there were no human footprints or tyre marks on the beach, just a few cows further down the beach, so nice to see an unmarked piece of paradise.
The cache was in the obvious place, so it was a quick find, the log was signed and returned as he found it. We stopped off here on the way back from the lighthouse and a fish was caught for our dinner.

Thanks for placing this cache and thank you for the smiley.

Day 7 of my week long road trip of geocaching, camping and seeing a few bands. Today I'm heading to Gisborne, the long way.

Having camped the night nearby, I got up early to head to the lighthouse, stopping here on the way. Cache was found safe and dry, TFTC

Easy peasy
Beautiful east cape

This is the time of year to escape from Gisborne while all the R&V revellers enjoy themselves. Decided to head up the coast. Stayed the night at Te Araroa. This morning got on my bike to visit the lighthouse. A bit of gravel road but not as much as there used to be. Simple hint once you get here. Thanks

Nice quick easy find on the way to the light house TFTC

Thanks on a two week geocatching trip around the north island with Kiscardi. She wanted to find all the TMGT cache.
Then she said She wanted to go all around the East Cape. I said it was a long way to drive. But here we are to sign this cache on our way out to the lighthouse.

On a road trip with NZ Bozzy finding TMTG caches , many oldies and also filling in some DT spaces. Today we took my first trip around East Cape . beautiful day and lots of views. Quickly found on our way out to the light house

Great spot. Tftc.

Quick find on the way out to East Cape lighthouse. Cache in good condition. TFTC!

Travelling from Lottin Point to Gisborne today with Nosynel and Ethness. Our goal is to find all the TMGT caches in a big figure 8 across the centre of the North Island. We did this on our way back from the Lighthouse. Thanks for the hide.
#6091

A quick find in the way back from East Cape.

Jude_E, NosyNel and I are continuing on our figure of 8 tour of the North Island collecting the ‘Tour’ caches, plus others, plus seeing the scenery, plus having a good old time. TFTC.

On a TMGT expedition, with four wagging tails in tow. This was on a side journey we had planned.
Having found the container mrs then checked the nearby seals were okay, while mr signed the double bagged log (signed as MM78) tftc

Can’t believe we missed this cache. We stopped here to look at the seals and have lunch and didn’t even think to see if there was a cache

Found after rummaging in the grass I heard the container. It’s red top helped to locate it. Left it in a slightly easier findable spot. TFTC

Thanks antnich for the new logbook. Happy caching

New fresh log popped in. Remove the “Needs Maintenance” icon, CO! I came equipped, but initially struggled to locate the small container in the very large hole. I wonder if the ammo can is actually in there!!!
Had a nice picnic near GZ.

On our way to the Cape! Soon located the container and we put in a new log. Super view! TFTC

Hate gravel roads. Especially rough ones like this.

Log book full.

New logbook required

Could the next finder please replace the logbook, I'm currently back in Queensland.
Thanks in advance

A quick grab on the return journey, say hello to the cows on the beach. Cheers

Beautiful location to stop!!

After climbing the hill to the light house I found this one. Sun was still setting and the bushfires in Australia made the water and sky look amazing.
Tftc

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Nice easy find

Nice quick easy cache

A quick find after walk to lighthouse

Great view greetings from Austria tftc

A great view greetings from Austria tftc

Found ist on our way back! Thanks for this amazing view!

These three East Cape caches were on our "must do" list when we planned this Australia/New Zealand trip. Week 9 of the trip and goal completed. Thanks for your efforts in keeping this cache going and for placing it in a great spot for a break. Cache in good shape. TFTC

Heading for the east end. A stop to admire the view and see if there are seals.

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Thanks Sweet-Sour for the geocache [^]
Greetings from Belgium,
Frank et Muriel travelling in New Zealand

Happy geocaching

#16048

It's so gr8 2 live on the Coast, Stopped in at Te Araroa to do a bit of Pogo hunting, then out to the EastCape Lighthouse, stopping to find this cache, awesome stop and TFTC - While there my daughter and I had the pleasure of the company of a Seal Colony sunbathing on the shore, rocks and two pups on the grass verge which I nearly stood on, before they wandered off back onto the sea, this is a fav.

On a Beautiful day, we were on our way to the East Cape and came along this cache. Thanks to the hint, it was a quick find. Only 15 meters from GZ there were two seals enjoying the sun. Thank you for leading us here.

Found as a part of a previous group TanjackMüley, aka WanderingSparrow. Now I'm continuing on my own. TFTC

Found on the way back from the lighthouse. Really beautiful place that had lots of seals very close to the location. We made sure we stayed well away and pretty them rest as when we got out of our car they looked panicked. Tftc!

Stopped by on our way to the lighthouse. Beautiful location, fresh breezes, small squall rushing through..... aaaah! Good to be alive and out and about touring the East Cape and coast after overnighting in Waihau Bay. Found on my second peek through, and decided to leave a TB for the next finder. TFTC

Found with my wife

We started out today early. Last night was spent in Tologa Bay. Tonight's destination was Whakatane. JDScout pulled over on the wzy back from the light house. I dropped a tb in here.
We crossed Cook Strait using the Inter Islander on Saturday. Today is day five. We spent the full day in Gisborne yesterday day.

This Easter JDScout and I are off on an East Cape adventure. We are driving in our campervan from Christchurch. This has been something we always wanted to do. I am combining this trip with geocaching.

Sadly there is no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. I plan on going to the OzGeomuster in July. To find out more visit this site: https://www.ozgeomuster.com.au

If you can't make Aussie. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. I will keep you posted in my logs.
Thanks for hiding this geocache.

Straight to it and the red lid caught our eyes. Took the Travel Bug to help it on its journey. TFTC. Cheers Pinetree and Sunrise.

Beautiful evening! Been down here before but forgot to get this one. Awesome cache. Thanks so much. Managed to CITO while I was here and pick up some rubbish near the cache. I have a theory that if we all do this each time we log a find, the world would be a cleaner place.

Another easy find after the lighthouse visit.
TFTC

Nice hide! The last of ours for the cape. Tftc!

Today swimming here. It‘s a beautiful place. TFTC

An Tag 14 unserer Tour ging es von Gisborne weiter in Richtung Nordost. Dieser Ausläufer Neuseelands ist sehr einsam und touristisch anscheinend nicht sehr interessant. Oder liege es daran, dass dieses Gebiet den Maori gehört und daher von Ausländern gemieden wird. Nicht dass es uns auch so wie Cook's Erkundungstrupp ging, die aufgrund leichter Verständigungsschwierigkeiten einfach mal von den Maori aufgegessen wurden. Das war wohl das erste Meet and Eat in der Geschichte des Geocachings. Auf der Straße waren wir meist allein und Viewpoints und Japaner (oder Chinesen) sind hier absolute Mangelware. Ebenso verhält es sich mit den Caches, was das Vorwärtskommen zwar beschleunigt aber auch irgendwann zu Langeweile führt. Man ist gar nicht mehr gewohnt eine Stunde am Stück Auto zu fahren. Die verlassene Tolaga Bay Wharf war dann das erste Highlight mit dem angeblich längsten Pier der Welt. Man wolte das Monument tatsächlich verfallen lassen, hat es sich zum Glück dann doch noch anders überlegt. Sehr imposant und fast schon für einen Powertrail geeignet. Ab Te Araroa änderte sich die Lage. Denn nun stand die Fahrt zum East Cape an; 21 km Sackgase auf größtenteils nicht asphaltierter Straße - wobei Straße wohl die falsche Bezeichnung für den Weg ist. Es leben aber anscheinend tatsächlich Menschen in dieser Gegend und ein paar Touris kamen uns ab und zu auch entgegen - immer schön grüßend, wenn man sich aneinander vorbeiquetscht. Die drei Caches im äußersten Osten Neuseelands (und somit wohl auch im äußersten Osten der Welt; ca. 100 km weiter östlich ist die Datumsgrenze) konnten mehr oder weniger leicht gefunden werden und die Besteigung des Leuchtturms haben wir uns auch nicht nehmen lassen. Nach diesem Abenteuer kamen wir noch an einem extrem alten (dem ältesten NZL) Pohutakawa Baum vorbei, an dem wir ohne Cache bestimmt mal wieder achtlos vorbeigefahren wären. Unser Campingplatz lag dann sehr idyllisch auf einer Schafwiese und wir machten außerdem noch die Bekanntschaft von einem älteren Paar aus England, die in Frankreich leben, deutsch sprechen und aktuell NZL bereisen.

Day 14 of our tour took us from Gizzy further into the northeast. The beginning of the day was a bit boring because of very few caches along the road. It seems that we are no more used to drive longer than one hour without a cache or a stop for a view point. The first highlight of the day was the Tolaga Bay Wharf with one find and one DNF. The second highlight of the day was the drive to the East Cape and the most eastern caches of NZL and maybe of the world. The last one at the lighthouse was really difficult to find but finally we did it. Unbelievable that people live there in total loneliness. The last cache of the day was a very interesting earthcache at the oldest Pohutakawa tree of NZL. We would have missed this without the cache. Thanks for showing.

A quick find this morning. This will be my most eastern cache now as I didn't walk up to the lighthouse as I was worried about leaving my vehicle there. TFTC

Tftc

Found! ??

3rd find before 8:00 this morning! TFTC

3rd find of the day and it is not even 8am:)
TFTC

lovely sunny day to drive out here. it was low tide on the way out so great views of the interesting rock shelves. stopped here for lunch after visiting the light house. tftc

Found it on a beautiful day!
TFTC
das_marieschen

I'm in Queensland at the moment
Could the next finder please replace the logbook
Thanks in advance
Happy Caching

Quickly located although the log is a bit full!

Particularly love the cows along the road!

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

Easy find, on a beautiful coastline. Thanks and cheers from Grandalf (2544)

13.45: Still on the way to the East Cape. Lovely weather, marvellous landscape and friendly cows all around. No ammo box anymore, but a remarkable place right beside the road. Beautiful stretch of beach.

Weather: sun, some clouds, windy, 16°C;
Wheelchair: no, down the bank...;
State: all good.

Thank you!
Oliver+Gabi

Today we made a trip from Hicks Bay to Gisborne, again on the route of the Pacific Highway, thereby visiting many new sightseeing locations and looking for caches, too. On this trip we searched, found and logged a lot of caches. The weather was very good all day long, a bit colder in the morning but it got warmer in the afternoon. Funny clouds were our compagnions especially in the afternoon.
Almost no muggels observed us as they had other things to do than observing harmless geocachers.

Thanks to Sweet-Sour and maintained by Shellnz for showing us this location and for the fun we had at Horoera Point. The search we had here today didn't take too much time.

Greetings from Germany and hope to see you soon in the forest.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 5. November 2018 @ 06:59 Uhr @ [#12332](https://coord.info/GC5J3T8)

Located on drive out to East Cape lighthouse while on a trip round Gisborne with muggle sister. Was hoping to show her an ammo can but obviously replaced at some stage.Easy find thanks to good coords. TFTC

Day 6 - Wednesday - Te Araroa to Tauraunga. Another day in the sun - so lets go!

We are on our way to the East Coast Lighthouse. Stopped off here to snag this one. No container here just a bag with the log. So its another maintenance job and a replacement container was installed. Cheers

The Seagnoid, Zara and I are on another epic caching adventure for the next two weeks, starting with the Wellington Mega, then East Cape, Taraunga, Waihi, Rotorua and back to Wellington. Its been an awesome journey, over 2500 klms later, visiting many amazing places. Thanks to all COs

Early morning trip to the cape, having spent the night in Te Araroa. The cache description says ammo box, but the cache we found was in just a plastic bag. No worries, Taybeedragon and the seagnoid have your back, and soon a new cache container was installed.

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Day 6 of my Mega trip: East Cape to Tauranga. Two weeks of travel with Taybeedragon, from Blenheim to the 2018 mega event, then on to my mum's eightieth birthday in Rotorua via the East Cape and Tauranga and the hole in the ground that is Waihi. Dropped the dragon off in Wellington while I continued on to Motueka for more family time before at last arriving home. We may have only found 230 caches over that 3000 km, but I qualified for 4 badge upgrades, hit the 10,000 cache mark, and even have a missing month ticked off! Throughout most of the trip we targeted special caches - earth caches, virtuals, wherigos, etc, although there were a lot of traditionals too. On the cache maintenance side about eight caches were replaced, and many more logs were added to or replaced. Many thanks to everyone who made this an awesome trip.

One week off during school holiday time, combined with some cheap flights made a great adventure in the HB and Gisborne area, popping into BoP a couple of times also. I had great fun and I am grateful to all CO's who placed the caches for others' entertainment!!
Nice spot! TFTC!

Phew, the start of the road out here had us wondering what the drive would be like, but of course it soon improved for a pleasant trip. Loved the scenery - - - both the seascapes and the landscapes. Loved observing the cows and calves as they observed us or went on with what they were doing. Thanks for the cache .

Caching with Sidewaze as we make our way around East Cape to Tauranga and then back to the South Island via Palmerston North and ferry across Cook Strait. TFTC

Got this one on our way back from the lighthouse. Nice spot and easy find. TFTC. Sherlock Hood and Squirrel.

Nice !

Found on the way back from the lighthouse. Lovely spot. Tftc

Great view. TNLNSL. TFTC.

A nice spot for lunch and a quick hunt for the cache. TNLN. TFTC.