Get on ya Bike #9 (Hawkes Bay) Haumoana, North Island, New Zealand
By ABCW2 on 07-Jan-16. Waypoint GC69AXP

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A quick find tftc

Having left Isla our geodog Isla at home and came touring NZ and to collect a few caches. Wife joined me in the search and she choose the right pipe. TFTC

Had the afternoon off so decided on a walk in the sunny Hawkes Bay. Thanks

Beautiful day biking up the river

Found with watcache. Tftc

Another nice find here cache is all good log nice and dry tftc
See attached my new trail

Today we hired a bike for a tour around Hastings. There are some trails we want to do so off we go.
We found most of the caches in good condition, a few could need a little maintenance. And we must come back one more time, because we missed a few.
To all the CO’s, thanks for hiding and maintaining the caches.

Nice hide
TFTC

Nicely hidden around the exact coordinated. Don't let finding this be a pipe dream.

No luck here

I had a hunch of where this would be but didn't check them all and moved on to other ideas. Eventually returned back to my initial hunch and sure enough. A clever lil hiding spot - well done!

Another quick find. Think another day we would be looking for a while. As we heard the electric fences ticking. Tftc.

Tftc. Sacred bovine that's easy, unless you have fat fingers!

Had cheese and crackers on the slope of the cycle path before coming to this one. Quick find. TFTC

Stop the cows, we need to find this cache, TFTC

TFTC

Thanks for the cache

We are away in our campervan just cruising the manawatu to Waiarapa then on to Hawkes Bay and return. During our tour we enjoyed travelling the quiet roads away from the main state highways. we enjoyed the bike trails around the Napier to Clifton and the inland trails up to Hastings and beyond, many of these trails of course were extra special because they had geocaches placed along them. Many thanks to all those who look after the caches. We hope you enjoy the same when you come into our area.
Sorry about the cut and paste if you have more than one geocache that we had found

Have been planning these caches for a few weeks in conjunction with HKCB for a mad dash and effectively a 24 hour run (so that we could spend time with our respective families) for the rest of the ensuing weekend. Signed most/all caches as HKCD or some such other that we could fit in
Leaving Hamilton at 7pm Friday and getting home midnight on Saturday so that at least 6hours quality sleep was acheived, sleeping in the car is always a bonus (2 hours) and the remainder of the time caching around part of the country we hadn't previousley done a whole lot, but have left plenty for the next trip across the hill.
Starting a new day with only a drizzle outside and an early morning bike ride to boot.
This was the thirty fifth of the100+ that we acheived in that time we were over here. The Bonus was that we largely managed to stay dry, if only slightly damp on the outside.
Thanks to all the CO's for the effort and giving some great caches, sorry about the repetitive logs but then 100 is a few to cover off.
Had the place all to ourselves and even amanged to get back to the car dry
Thanks for the placement, thanks for the cache

We had been talking about cache bash in Napier for a while, and when Cats&Dragons mentioned a trip down here this weekend I couldn't say no. The plan was to head down Friday night (leaving Hamilton about 7pm) and then cache til we can then grab a few hours sleep and then cache through til late afternoon and then head home. The plan worked well, with about 110 caches found over the 24 hour caching period.

It was the first time we had visited Napier to do a caching mission, and we were both impressed with the genius hides (some we hadn't seen before, I'll give a special mention to those ones). A big thanks to all the CO's whose caches we found, for placing and maintaining them. A great trip and looking forward to a revisit.

Tftc,piping hot

Away for a few days in the geocamper riding some trails and doing some caches. After overnighting at Clifton Reserve we headed out in the cool day. The cold front has moved in and pushed that old heatwave off the country to the relief of everyone. We set out with the intention of doing the trail beside the river. Mr S was riding the horse trail and Mrs S was on the cycle trail. He was making the finds. She was writing the logs. BEWARE !!!! paper wasps at GZ. Take extra care.

Thank ABCW2.

As our bikes were at home in Dunedin, this was a walk for us today, perhaps helpful for the caches off the cycle trail. A fairly quick find after trying a couple of wrong locations. TFTC

Haha-very sneaky hide-tftc

Second time on a bike for a few years. Great place to ride and cache. TFTC

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!!
Today I decided to have a big day and see if I can break 50, and I did, even with a few extras! I decided to go for a bit of a walk too. TFTC!!

Found it

In the Bay for the long weekend, picking up a few caches with Allepousse in between doing a few other touristy things.
TFTC.

A quick easy find while on holiday in the area with Gone Fishing and the bikes. Tftc!

Couldn't find it. Finely bingo tftc

Carefully put back for next cachers.

Another sneaky hide. Enjoying a bike ride on this super pleasant day

#9 - nice hide. Cache and log in good condition. TFTC

A nice and quick find. Cheers.

I took my bike for a ride around Napier, Hastings and Havelock North today. Weather was a bit on the warm side, but had a great time anyway.

Thanks to all of the COs for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Nice easy find in a nice clean and clear area. How spoilt are we! Cache is all good. TFTC

Quick find thanks to the hint cache all good

Easy find. Good hide.

Another quick find - thanks for the series so far - this earns a Favourite Point.

Thanks for another smilie. All good at GZ.

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Thanks to the Cache Owner who has gone to the trouble of creating this cache, determining the coordinates and then averaging them to make sure they are accurate, placing the cache and registering it online for our enjoyment. Without Cache Owners doing their bit, there wouldn't be a fun hobby that we all love - so again a big THANK YOU. For our bit, all we need to do is find and log the cache that was carefully placed for our personal enjoyment. As we log it we should consider that the Cache Owner also needs to maintain it - when the log sheet fills up, they must replace it. When the container becomes full of water, they need to empty it. When the container is broken, they need to repair it. When it goes missing they need to find or replace it. Well..... the great news is we can do our bit too - make sure your log doesn't take an entire page - just a name and date. If full of water, empty and dry the cache as best as possible. Be careful when handling the cache and make sure you replace it where you found it. If it has a bag, seal it. Just remember - the Cache Owner showed respect to you by placing the cache - please respect them and fellow cachers that follow you by being careful with the cache. And if you have a spare log sheet and the cache you are at needs one, please leave it behind. Finally, if the cache does need maintenance, please let the Cache Owner know - you can log a Maintenance Log or you can drop a line to the Cache Owner. Above all - have fun and remember the Geocaching Code.

Hoping to see you at the [Oamaru Geofest](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6M2V0_oamaru-geofest-2017) during Labour Weekend 21-22 October 2017. Let's all help this a successful event!

Thanks to the Cache Owner who has gone to the trouble of creating this cache, determining the coordinates and then averaging them to make sure they are accurate, placing the cache and registering it online for our enjoyment. Without Cache Owners doing their bit, there wouldn't be a fun hobby that we all love - so again a big THANK YOU. For our bit, all we need to do is find and log the cache that was carefully placed for our personal enjoyment. As we log it we should consider that the Cache Owner also needs to maintain it - when the log sheet fills up, they must replace it. When the container becomes full of water, they need to empty it. When the container is broken, they need to repair it. When it goes missing they need to find or replace it. Well..... the great news is we can do our bit too - make sure your log doesn't take an entire page - just a name and date. If full of water, empty and dry the cache as best as possible. Be careful when handling the cache and make sure you replace it where you found it. If it has a bag, seal it. Just remember - the Cache Owner showed respect to you by placing the cache - please respect them and fellow cachers that follow you by being careful with the cache. And if you have a spare log sheet and the cache you are at needs one, please leave it behind. Finally, if the cache does need maintenance, please let the Cache Owner know - you can log a Maintenance Log or you can drop a line to the Cache Owner. Above all - have fun and remember the Geocaching Code.

Another quick find - thanks for the series so far - this earns a Favourite Point.

Thanks for another smilie. All good at GZ.

Did you know that planning has started for a Mega Event in Wellington in 2018? Check out the details on the [Wellington Event NZ (WENZ) Website](https://sites.google.com/site/wenzgeo2018/home) or visit the event's page on [FaceBook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/590545297801072/).

Quick easy find yeah we trusted the coordinates TFTC

All good, bikes stayed above while hunting for this one. From here a walk to the next one and then back to the bikes.
TFTC

During Easter weekend we took an afternoon to cycle along the flood bank, and pick up this series.
Thanks

Hubby had to come up this way for a couple of hours to help his sister move so I tagged along to grab this trail that I had been wanting to do, with the weather being in our favor we had a high chance getting most of these, we found all bar the first one, we learnt pretty quick which trail to be on and how lovely it was, we only passed muggles at the start after that it was quite, on one of the caches we came across a cattle stop, looked down and there was a hedgehog at the bottom, I had a thin pair of gloves that I used to get the poor guy out hopefully he wasnt in there too long, the caches were all in great order bar the last one asit had a cracked lid but good sized and enjoyable to find, thanks for the placement and bringing us here - sorry about the copy and paste logs.

CZECH
geožena ji vytáhla ze skrýše

Out biking although the rains a bit of a shame. Started this series at the Haumoana end. Enjoyed the well placed caches and hits. All fine till No 8 and the lightning. That defeated me and I headed home soaked.

Great idea. Co ords spot on so quickly found but you need to be observant. Tftc

I, along with LhutiNe, decided to Get on our Bikes and locate and sign off the caches along the Tukituki River bank. I needed them for a personal challenge.

Cheers for the cache.

I was out with Tufty today on our bikes, doing this power trqil.It was very enjoyable.

Found with JoBevNZ and our Geo kids on bikes. All good at GZ.

TFTC.

Found in the fourth place I looked Nice hide, thanks ABCW2.

Quick find on the trail. TFTC

quick find, TFTC

Nice hide, cache and log all good. Cheers.

I made this much more difficult that it needed to be. Quickly found once I realized that there were actually two of the hint objects! Thanks for placing the cache and creating this trail which I really enjoyed doing today.

Nice

I was heading to Taradale for a gathering later in the morning, so loaded my bike into the car & headed off. I arrived at the start of the trail at 7.30 a.m. -- a lovely morning for a bike ride & fourteen caches - all straightforward finds. Thanks for the cache ABCW2, & for the Trail.

Passing a surprising number of fellow cyclists, runners and even family groups out for a walk here today, it was great to see how popular the track is.

TFTC

Thansk for the cache! CZ

Thanks for the cache:-)

last find in this series for me will have to let fred dagg complete the rest on his own thank you for the series i have enjoyed it fav point given for your efforts Aroha and happy caching

Clever wee hiding place

Back this morning to finish off this trail. Wasn't raining when we left home but driving to the caches there was some rain .... uh oh! Well we were here so we were finding the caches whether we get wet or not. Lucky for us the rain held off ..... until we got back to the car, but it didn't matter anymore. This one was nicely tucked away, great hide TFTC

Found it! And managed to rescue a hedgehog while we were at it!

Nice east find. Thankfully cache has a pencil because i forgot to bring a pen with me! TFTC

Was looking in all the wrong places here and came up empty handed. Stood back and surveyed the area in front of me and ahaha! Tftc

Cruised on down to this one, another quick find on what is turning out to be a great geocaching day for myself (Angel) with son and geo dog. We stayed on the horse trail for the next couple of caches I think, the animal trails make for good bike trails as long as I manage to stay in the centre lol. My son had a bit of a"what ARE you doing Mum?!" moment when I took my eyes off of where I was going briefly... close call. TFTC

Thanks for another fun cache on the trail.
Found with Just-Lookin.
SL

Really enjoyed this bike trail with tmann421.

Great weather and a nice selection of caches.

TFTC and the series.

A good hiding spot, and the bonus of another pet rock to add to the collection.. what more could I ask for? TFTC.

Good co ords & a good clue made this a very straight forward find.
Left a pet rock - a blue whale .
TFTC ABCW2

Great getting the kids off trail.

We decided to hop on our bikes today - a perfect school holiday activity for Mr 5, Miss 8 and Mr 8. The kids enjoyed looking for this one and then waiting for their siblings to spot it. A great variety of caches!

[FTF] Another clever hide along the trail. Looked in one, no, then another, no, then another, YES! Thanks for all these caches. A trail well worth completing

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