Crown Mine (Coromandel) Waikino, North Island, New Zealand
By GreenBLAT on 18-Jan-15. Waypoint GC5KFC9

Going to be hard to keep a cache going here without them rolling into the gorge so will free up this space. Thanks for looking everyone.

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Quite sure the cache is missing as the hint was very obvious. Thanks anyway.

Think this one might be gone.... thanks anyway

Searched going up the valley and again when I came back but no sign of the cache.

This one is a DNF for me today we had a good look may be it has rolled

Dnf

Picked up the kids from their grandparents and decided on a walk through the Karangahake gorge. Originally went past gz as gps was being a bit unreliable, searched for a bit around what we thought was the obvious hint. Oh well will have to come again another time as we still have plenty to find.

Nice along the river, what a beautiful place.

We made a nice walk along the river and the historic places of the goldmines. Found some nice caches. Thanks for this one.

Danke fürs Zeigen dieses tollen Ortes.
TFTH
Die Pickwicks

We found some caches during the walk to Dickeys Flat!

Thank you for the cache!

Nice views, big drops too. GPSr was bouncing around with the terrain, but the clue was good.
Thanks for the cache!

3rd find on yr 10 camp. Swapped for travel keychain (4kmnge.) Great easy find.

We slept at the DOC campsite and do a nice walk loop the next morning. Very happy to discovered informations about ore mines thank to geocaching !! We really enjoy windows view and glowworms (by night).
TFTC


In: TB pink rabbit

First in the zone! TFTC

Needed to put in some time on the track before heading south to do the Old Ghost Road. Too hot to go to the summit so this made a good loop with plenty of caches along the way. TFTC

Found it

We didnt want to go this track, but the caches wanted to be visited ^^

ReCached and I weren't sure how far down we wanted to go on this hike before heading over to the old railway tunnel. But thanks to Geocaching, there was enough motivation to go at least the distance to this cache. Without the hint we probably wouldn't have found it. TFTC GreenBLAT!

December 2, 2017 @ 11:35
Cache #1903

Needed the hint for this one as we knew gps was going to be out. Its about 30m off but east to find after hint

Today's program is the Karangahake gorge including all the mining history along the way. It is interesting to see how fast nature takes over when the influence of men is gone. So many buildings are gone and overgrown and all that in a relatively short time.
The trail presents a lot of different types of trail and we started the easy way along the river Whaitawheta with a good path, tunnels and of course geocaches.
The Dubbo track appeared to be much more of a challenge, especially because climbing is not my strongest point. But the totally different track provided us with a new experience and the track is beautifull (and very slippery).
The path for the last part back was less interesting but gave us some extra caches to find.
All together it was a nice experiance and we enjoyed this a lot. There where no other people about after we left to the river track and all the others went back to the carpark along the other side of the river.
We missed the possibility of scenic views over the river, but you cannot have it all.
Team Mavos - Albert and Maria

my 100 found cache! greetings from holland. tftc

Quick find, TFTC.

We made the terrain part even harder than it had to be. Finally found it. TFTC!

Found it during our walk.
TFTC!

Mit Epizentrikus + Die Fossa + xTheChemist zusammen in New Zealand unterwegs und schöne Plätze gefunden. DfdC

A nice walk, TFTC

Our second for the day! We read the hint, too. No pencil so we couldn't record our names.

I scored some ridiculously cheap flights to Auckland, and that means one thing - geocaching!! i had some specific caches in mind, so I hopped into the car at the airport, and did not stopped until the K gorge car park. I have been through this area a few times previously, and always thought to myself that I will return one day and go for a walk. Today seemed like a perfect day for it, and walking I went! I had to survive in my hiking boots for the whole weekend to have suitable shoes for such an activity due to the seat only fare (I have perfected my packing technique since then ), but the cause was certainly worth it! I really enjoyed the walk! And I originally looked for the cache much closer to the mine entrance crossing a tape -
oops! but then the location became clear with the hint TFTC!!

After planning a trip to the bay of plenty for easter to gather a cache or two, it changed dramatically (we thought) when we heard that cyclone cook was about to bear down on this area our hopes had dropped .

Nice quick find here exactly where and how it should be.

Thanks for the smiley and the placement.

the light fading lucky we have a torch.

Took my 3 year old grandson for a walk here today. He is already a seasoned cacher and a great long distance walker. Of course he wanted to find it - with his torch. The hint was welcome. Thanks for the cache Greenblat

Nice hint! Difficult GPS coverage...TFTC

It's always an enjoyable walk a long The river bank and native bush that has covered and hidden a lot of past history......arriving At GZ a quick search and soon had the cache in hand and log signed thanks Greenblat for a clean and well maintained cache

Needed hint co off

11.55am. Finally got back after a DNF when this one was AWOL.
Thank you. David.

What a gorgeous gorge! And very interesting mines. I could feel the spirit of the past!
TFTC!

Thank you! We enjoyed the windowwalk a lot - especially the glowworms

We came over to walk from Dickey's Flat round to Karangahake Gorge and back - great walk enhanced by a beautiful day and also by picking up a few smileys here and there. Great spot for this one, TFTC

Nice easy cache. TFTC.

It's amazing how to can convince your kids to walk further when there's geocaches to find!!! Wet walk today but loving the caches. TFTF.

Nice piece of history on the nearby sign. Quick find with no-one around, TFTC

Nice and easy find

Nice easy find, off for a beautiful walk while down visiting relatives - cheers. Found a TB so will head off up north with it.

thanks for the nice walk found the cache with abcdf4 and pukekoridge what a nice area to have a pinic lunch with the family and that tftc.

We couldn't find it but the cave entrance is blocked off by orange fencing know so maybe its behind that. We did look but didn't want to get caught by muggles

Once ApacheD and I had set up camp we proceeded to do the loop track and find all the caches on the way. Nice quick find here by Apache after several groups of muggles had passed us.
Tftc

Nice to be on this trail and away from the crowds on the Windows Walk. Only a couple of muggles in the area when I approached, but they were busy taking pictures, so I was able to grab the container unseen. Swapped trackables here. Thanks for the cache!

GPS on phone didn't like it in here. So just went with hint. Easy find. And a surprise tb here. So pick it up and drop one off. TFTC

Today we hiked in the gorgeous gorges. First we hiked the Not the HRT Walkway on our way back we took the Railway Track and then we hiked the Waitawheta Pipeline Track.
The hike on the Pipeline Track is awesome. Interesting locations combined with beautiful landscapes and nature. At GZ the muggles are not so many anymore but we still hat to care about.
We found the cache right away at 12:20 pm.
Thanks for the hide.

TNLN
#4945

CZECH
gps prostě nespolupracovala a vůbec jsem nevěděl, jestli jsem u kešky nebo ne, ale hint hodně napověděl a už jsme ji měli
IN: TB

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**TFTC** [^]

Today, on a beautiful spring day, we have made a very pleasant 18 km walk, mainly along three trails in the Kaimai-Mamaku Forest Park: (part of) the **Not the HRT walkway**, the **Waitawheta pipeline track** and the **Dubbo 96 track**. Especially the last track was quite a challenging hike and took more time than expected, but overall it was great caching fun and basically the reason that we decided to go caching in this area.

Several caches were not found, in the beginning because they were too well hidden and at the end also because we were running a bit out of time and had to limit the searching time. Two caches were intentionally skipped. In total we have found 14 caches.

Our big thanks to the COs for bringing us to all the interesting places.

*French*
Objectif du jour, la rando dans la vallée et les anciens sites miniers de Karangahake.

On s'écarte un peu du chemin pour rejoindre celle-ci et elle sera trouvée sans soucis.

Greenblat, thanks for the geocache
Frank et Muriel
10033
Belgique
Log with GSAK

The GPS was pretty jumpy in the gorge and the proximity alarm didn't go off when we walked past it before lunch. On our return from finding the Waitawheta pipeline cache (YUS!!!) made sure we didn't walk past it again. GPS still bouncy but sveppi located it using the hint as I had walked too far again!

Oops ... walked past this on the way so grabbing on the way back. Easy find with the hint (GPS still having a bad day!). TFTC

My 21st smiley today and what an awesome spot. I had no idea these trails were here and I'm still amazed these places are on my door step and I'm persistently oblivious. It's a shame not all the tracks were open but ... falling rocks haha. Cheers Greenblat, cache found quickly and in good condition - nice and secure.

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Awesome location for a cache. Walked across the old track to the top of the stope before coming down to get the cache. Used to go through this stope as a kid. TFTC.

Man I love this place.
CHEERS

Nice walk. Great spot. TFTC

Yay!! Found it! So pretty

#1549 10:00

Found with no problem, very nice surroundings. What a wonderful place!

Thank you for the cache and greetings from two Czechs!

#2377 Out on an exploring day of the gorge with friends today- none of us had been here before. Beautiful walk with amazing scenery and no crowds- doesn't get better than that! The map of the mine was incredible - such a huge area!!! TFTC!

We're visiting from Florida, USA. That was great fun. Thanks for placing the cache.

13:15
Another one found during a long 40 km walk around the Karangahake Gorge.
TFTC

We found this cache on our goldminetour today.

Thanks for hiding and carrying

just offsite the trail we found the cache
tftc

Replaced this one today after meeting the CO at the Wentworth Valley Camping Event and confirming that I'd been searching the right spot last week & that the original seemed to have gone. We walked to the Wentworth Valley waterfall lookout this morning, with a surprisingly large turn-out of keen cachers, despite the foul weather. Some of us had plans to walk a longer loop but the continuing downpour eventually convinced us otherwise. So I'm now heading home to the dry, sunny Waikato and some dry clothes. Driving past here & the gorge is in glorious sunshine so, having been thwarted by heavy rain this morning, decided to stop here for a walk instead. Got more than a few weird looks: could be coz I look like a drowned rat or that I'm wearing tramping gear on while the muggles are meandering along here in jandals Cache replaced as per hint, with a couple of rocks to hopefully hold it in place.

Battle barbie and I confirmed as per the previous visits, that it was not in its place. Unfortunately we missed out by a day as it has now been replaced. Will come back and log this sometime when I show the fqabulous windows walk to the rest of the family. Cheers. TFTC

Sad not to have found it while out with MojitoMa and family. We had a replacement cache in the car, but we couldn't test the patience of our family too much. Glad it's been replaced and will get it in the future!

We were spending a lazy long weekend catching up with friends in Whanga but then, late last night, the rest of the family got the offer of an early morning west coast diving & fishing trip: I'd hardly even blinked & they were gone! I opted to stay behind and meander home today, as I was keen to go for another walk in the gorge on my way past. I'd hoped to get up to the summit again but, with heavy early morning rain & low cloud, decided to play safe, stay low & hence set off from the gorge carpark to walk to Dickey's flat instead.

Not a soul around in the rain, and a very helpful cache hint, so it should've been easy here, but still no joy for me today. Not sure what I was doing wrong. Still, its a stunning location, despite the weather, so a good excuse to come back!

Could not find it

Looked for it could not find it.

No luck for us either.

NO luck for us today.....Poppymjr was most disappointed as we were past the cache when she was in charge of the 'treasure phone' and we said we would pick this up on the way back. On our return down the hill, what should have been an apparent easy find turned into a DNF - certainly not where I thought it was going to be......will watch this with interest.

A great walk nonetheless

Great cache. Well maintained. Lovely walk. The Brits Kerry, Jon, Tom and claire

Tracks getting busier now; on our way back through the tunnels to Dickey Flat but loving the walks through here and the history lessons. Cache all good. TFTC

Found it. Nice and easy and the place is absolutely gorgeous!!

Nice easy find on the walkway today with The Rusty's (the ones that hadn't run ahead anyway). Love this walk. Thanks.

Heading to the Gorge with my sister jazzmo and the kids today. Our holiday in NZ is almost at an end so need to fit in a few more caches.
This is a really pretty part of the Gorge that I haven't been to before. The cache was a nice easy find, which allowed more time to take in the beautiful surroundings.
TFTC

Today with the start of daylight savings it would have been wrong to not make the most of the extra hours light and the chance to be up the hill all on my own. Today I managed to collect 26 caches and cover 18kms in this part of the gorge. What a magical place up in the upper reaches especillay where there is a distinct lack of others about.
Having taken the wrong track from where I had parked the car (which put me about 40min behind my self imposed schedule) I stopped here as it was my first cache of the day and I was hoping not to have to come back along here.

After having been up to the summit and struck by a spot of madness this was my second cache along this lower Dicky's Flat track heading back for the Karangahape Carpark.. A nice and simple walk here and am certainly enjoying the more level track that what I had faced earlier in the morning. The track was a lot drier than I had expected it to be.
This was my eighteenth cache for the day and a quick find here

Thanks for the placement and the trek through the hills into areas that I hadn't been before.

Beautiful spot!! Thanks!

Nice place

Todays Road Trip for us and Squirrel Nutcase was to attempt the Waiawheta Loop Track. Left home about 7am and finally got home about 8pm with mission accomplished plus a few extra caches in between.

2.40pm - GPS all over the place but no problems to find cache. SLTFTC

A very long day of walking ahead... With Gap (of Fap and Gap). We've been wanting to clear out the concentration of caches in the Dickey's Flat/ Karangahake/ Waitawheta areas for a while now.

It's just staggering to think that people lived and worked in these inhospitable conditions. I don't think I'd have coped well. No wonder why bars and saloons were popular back in the early pioneering days... The gps struggled under shadow of the towering cliffs... This one took a bit of searching to find, but Gap soon had it under control. TFTC.

Arrived here at 6.45am and it was very cold still a nice walk to warm by doing the loop track tftc It was great being the only one here and to have a good nose around

After a long hésitation, I decided to head south this morning and to ho to Rotorua for 2 days. Weather is bad but country is so beautiful that I'm confident to have a good and interesting day.
First stop in this gold mine area. It is really well restored and I enjoyed walking along these small paths and exploring the old mine tunnels. No rain while I'm here ! A good start.
Cache is in good condition.
Next target in my trip: Tauranga in order to discover the mount Maungani.
Tftc.

A quick find on my way up to the swimming hole at the end of the track. TFTC

Great River walk. GPS all over the place. Thanks for the hint. TFTC from a pair of aussie cachers.

Beautiful walk to this mine in family
The gorge is gorgeous. Tftc

It was time for me to do the big loop walk starting from the main Karangahake carpark, up the Crown Hill track to the Dubbo and then back down, with a few ups and downs on the way.

This is the second time I have been on this track but the first time going this way.

Cheers for the cache.

Found thanks

Can't believe how extensive the mine was and far it extended below the level of the river. TFTC

Yes, hint helped a lot. TFTC

We wanted to go only for the "windows" cache, which we passed without even looking. My GPS was freezing up so we passed that one and came with this one, which was lying out in the open.
Great location!!

Needed the hint but a quick find TFTC

Stayed the night in Hamilton to be able to make it nice and early out Karangahake Gorge to hike the trails and explore some of those tunnels.
It was an awesome day out for a good hike and at the end of the day I walked around 28km .
Knowing the CO I saw item given in the hint in the river. I made my way down there swam to GZ and made the find ... TFTC

Every day we are traveling around is same but also different. Today we had again the pleasure to visit some very beautiful spots and were also able to find nearly placed geocaches. I thank every single owner for placing it and giving us with doing this an other good reason to come here.

Mallorcatommy and I were travelling through the northern island of New Zealand. What an amazing, breath-taking landscape! On our way we did some nice walks, enjoyed ourselves and found great geocaches. Thanks to all owners for nice hiding spots... We wouldn't have been to a few places without these little boxes!


Thank you!

Great history in this area and I admire the men and women who lived and worked here. The river is beautiful but a bit muddy today after the rain yesterday. TFTC

Yay - found all 11 new caches on the 'dubbo loop'! Thanks for setting them all up, we really enjoyed the walk.