Highland Fling (Paeroa) Paeroa, North Island, New Zealand
By nzkites on 11-Feb-15. Waypoint GC5MKKH

Checked on this while we were in the area on Valentines Day - sadly have decided to archive as we have had some problems with this placement.

Cache missing - disabling until we can sort it out.

Nice quite area no highland fling happening today.. half missing

Back in the area today for a ride with master 6. Nice morning for a quick cache. Tftc.

Nice easy fine

Anotehr one for the kid to hunt down. They had a good time searching for this one and were happy when they found it. They each took time to examine the hide and see how it was attached. Tftc.

Easy find. Nicely tucked away.

Quick find early in the morning on my way to Tauranga.
Tried the other one across the field to but a muggle was sitting on GZ.
TFTC

Checked on the way past this afternoon, cache all good and waiting for the next finder.

Number three!

I don't think I have seen that attachment method before. Original! TFTC nzkites.

Read the hint and a tune came into my head and is still there - I enjoyed the stroll across the park and a quick find - nice and quiet in and around the park today TFTC

Great clue, will be back next weekend for the fireworks display. TFTC

A nice rest after crossing the park

GZ was pretty obvious but noticed it was made of aluminium which caused a moment of panic but then the hint became clear.Thanks nzkites,good one.

Tonight we are heading over to Thames for the "Dragon's" auntie's 80th birthday so an opportunity to grab a few caches along the way (but never enough time to grab them all)
Area all nice an d quiet at this time so no problem for a quick grab

Thanks for all the Fun and the cache, thanks to the CO's for making our day so memorable

1.05pm. A quick walk across the playing field for an easy find. This place brings back memories of playing cricket here many years ago.
Thank you. David.

The middle is not always the middle!!!

Found this one while coming home from a walk along the rail trail, a neat hide TFTC

Park very quiet today...no one doing the highland fling. TFTC

Nice hide, TFTC

This was gone when we looked for it in April, so we found it a fortnight ago when we passed through, but I signed it today on my way to a book club weekend away as it was a dot day. Thanks for replacing it.

Good spot. Hard to find a reason to loiter in the pouring rain!

Early morning walk- and a couple of caches

Nice little find on my way through

TFTC

I was off on a Road Trip to pick up a Road Trip 15 Souvenir today and also visiting 15 caches. The only trouble was one of the 15 was a DNF[B)].

I am glad this one was reinstated as I have a few great memories playing in a Pipe Band here in my younger days.

Cheers for the cache.

Nice to get this cache in it's new position after a DNF here in May !!!
Thanks NZ Kites....

At last, nice to clear it up. Tftc.

Tftc! Junior scoobydoo tracked this one down super quickly. Great hint.

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 22.697 E 175° 40.331

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 22.701 E 175° 40.341

Distance from original: 54.2 feet or 16.5 meters.
Replaced cache in new position.

Replaced in a new position and ready to be found again. Please note changes to cache description & hint.

Replaced this today will update coordinates etc soon.

Checked on this while doing a cache maintenance run, cache was missing as expected. Will replace when we can get over next.

Disabling this one until we can check it out.

On our way back to the BOP after a successful cache raid of the Waikato, the first raid since Easter last year!!
Quick toilet stop meant time for a run around the park for the 3 caches there, alas this one got the better of us, oh well, next time maybe.

No luck with our night visit yesterday. Another look today without success.

Searched and searched but to no avail.

No find for us tonight ...

We searched for quite a while, and were in the right spot (some of the time) according to a msg from a friend who found it recently.

Almost muggled had to take and then place later

3.40pm - If my feet weren't wet before finding this one, now they are. Don't no how the players that were on the field just a few minutes ago knew which team was which. Cache all good. SLTFTC

Raining cats and dogs on our way to Tauranga today but MrNZT insisted on doing a few caches on the way, who was i to argue from the warm dry car!!

Attempted another in the domain but were thwarted by rugby muggles so off to do this cache. We thought we might have miss-negotiated which side we needed to be on but luckily MrNZT spied the cache and we made a mad dash back to the car to sign the log. Extracting the log was actually the hardest part of this cache, luckily a bobby pin from MissNZT did the job and cache was signed and returned. TFTC

What a horrible day to be caching... It rained heavily for much of the time. And we sat in wet, damp clothes as we travelled from place to place. It just proves how crazy and slightly addicted we are to this game. Out on a long-range journey with Gap (of Fap and Gap) to locate different sizes of caches for the Geo License Challenge...

Unbelievably, there was a rugby match being played here in torrential rain. We drove off to find other caches and thought it best to come back once the game had finished. When we returned much later, the field was drenched with several centimetres of water in some places. We pity the boys that played here today... We waded across the field to ground zone and made a quick find on this one. TFTC.

Checked on this today while doing a cache maintenance run, o-ring missing off cache container which means it's no longer waterproof. Replaced with a new container and log. Future finders please don't over-tighten the lid as this will cause the o-ring to break. Cache description and clue updated to reflect this.

found

found

Decided to get the last three unfound geocaches in Paeroa on my way thru to Auckland. found after changing the perspective. TFTC

Left Grandma in the car in a nice shady spot while picking up these 3 in the park. Took a little while until another point of view revealed the cache. Thanks

This cache took a while to find even though we knew where it must have been... TFTC

Our youngest cacher was given a voucher for a nearby farm park way back in October and we finally found time to use it today. We decided to collect a few caches while we were in the area. Found with Darthcacher1 and Purply. A nice quick find here today.

Was curious about the size of the cache. Seems it was an easy straight forward micro. Great location though.

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!

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.

Fun cache. Thanks

Well, this is a sneaky little micro! Was having a good look around when Shellabellabee spotted it for us, great to have company! TFTC

Took a bit to locate this one, but then a ha! There it was. Very clever

Not to busy in the park and away for the gardener.

With the lure of an CITO event on in Whangamata I thought I'd make it a days caching mission and grab a few others throughout the day. At another event in Hamilton earlier in the week, I mentioned to IamMrWalker my plan and invited him along. With the leave passes sorted all was set.

An early-ish start meant we could grab some caches along the way before attending the CITO. With it barely being 7am we had the place to ourselves, mostly. A few neighbourly peaks through windows as we searched for the cache. Very sneaky hide, glad we found it.

This was a tricky little hide and took a couple of minutes to spot. While most people were tucked up in their beds HKCB and I were out and about on an early morning Geocaching adventure, this was our fourth find of the day.

On the was to the Thames Coast and a stop on a Sunday afternoon to get caches
tftc. Was laying on the ground so put back

Spent a long time searching, pointer kept moving, sometimes inside the fence and sometimes outside. Very frustrating

Not quite as easy as I expected it to be. Nice hide.

667 Have played rugby (reasonably well) and done athletics (reasonably badly) on this ground but never the Highland fling.

Been here many times but not that corne

Off to a few days of R n R, at BOP. Stopped by to get a few smilies around P. TFTC and the opportunity to stop under the shade of the big trees.

This was a quick find. It's a nice little stroll to do these 3 new caches. Thanks for setting it up.

Found on an impromptu after work drive with FMZ and mike-miss to find some new caches! A joint (FTF) after the wee hide was uncovered at GZ when muggles were looking the other way.

Thanks!

Found; full log to come.

Headed down to Paeroa after work with FMZ and slieschke in the hope of a few FTFs in the area for our troubles this evening. Stopped by at this one first and noticed that the park was being setup for the highland games the following day. A few campers also parked up but we were able to sneak in and find the cache. A blank log revealed we were first so a joint FTF for us, TFTC!

Decided to go for a quick drive after work with slieschke and mike-miss and found ourselves in Paeroa. Found this one while the campervan gypsies were otherwise occupied. Joint {FTF} TFTC!!!

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