Lost Spring., now found! Whitianga, North Island, New Zealand
By G-2 on 17-Feb-16. Waypoint GC69KKR

Thank you for springing this one on me. Love the theme and the quick find. Had a few muggles to dodge here but all good and favourite point from me. The cache is in good condition. TFTH

On a walk through the City I found this on fast. Thank you

Nice little themed find. TFTC.

kids enjoyed discovering this one

Found while biking with my wife.

The sun has come out Yay. It's so much nicer caching in the sun. We seem to be following the speedy sloths around town. We decided to bike into the area and explore. There weren't any listed prices so we decided that it must be very expensive.

The spring has been found TFTC

TFTC.

Such a fun cache:) went for the dine and dip at lost springs and was so lovely. Tftc!

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TYFTC

Accio 12:37:54A quick weekend in NZ - a quieter day today after much expended energy yesterday. I could have checked in - but found a cute cache instead. No worries here.Thanks G-2 for entertaining me at this location. *{Overall find #12324}*

A very fitting container, found whilst walking off dinner last night.Thank you for placing

One of a few caches we picked up in Whitianga today whilst holidaying in the area. This one was a quick find. #7036. TFTC.

Today we were searching near Whitianga during our trip through New Zealand. Seen challenging places and sometimes surprising things. Thank you very much to CO for making this cache available. With warm geocache greetings from the Netherlands

Quick find with CailleachH. Too hot to be going into the lost springs though

Quick find. Too hot for thermal pools

TFTC

TFTC!

Now I found it

Quick find thanks for the cache.

Our NEW ZEALAND - TASMANIA - AUSTRALIA JOURNEY takes us to beautiful places and provides us with an incredible number of wonderful moments and experiences.Occasionally we also visit a few GeoCaches along the way.After our adventurous kayak tour to the Catedral Cove, we made a short stop here to sign the guest book of "the Lost Spring".Thank you for placing, maintaining and caring snapfish2 from SwitzerlandPS: Translated with the Deepl app

Easy one thanks. As we are new to this we are not always finding them. Clues are helpful

What a great little cache, didnt bring a pen though!! Tftc

Great site, first of the year for us.... Tnx!

A trip to the springs was already discussed at home. Around Xmas I expected the springs to be crowded and demand to be high. But it was relaxed. There were still free slots left. We arranged the trip the evening before and enjoyd the baths. 2 hours are about perfect for the pools if you do not have a treatment. While muggle fetched the car I tried my luck on this jumpy cache.Thx for hiding.

Found on our way out of town, tftc

I first looked around one side but the massive cobweb put me off. Luckily all was clear at the other side so unhooked the cache and signed the log.

Oh sorry,we forget the swimdresses

Found with goldielover today. Another great cache. Easy favourite point. TFTC

Found with stairman1. Another brilliant and clever hide. Cheers from Australia. TFTC

Quick find at 1404 in mist. Unique hide.SLTFTC

A quick find. But the lost spring is closed

Ein schöner Spaziergang mit Eugenesen1962 durch Whitianga, wobei wir auch diesen Cache finden konnten.

Mihi and regards
hex59

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discover me 0WJX5W

Nice hang job. Beautiful looking spar but not today. Onto Whangamata now.

Easy find not a bad walk from nzmca park

Long walk, easy find tftc

First one in awhile for Bamz and Gspot. Catching up with good friends and watching Bamz Band Piston Broke at the local Smithies. Had no idea the Lost Spring was in the middle of suburbia!?!?!?!?!?!? TFTF

New log

A great find while visiting the area on a late winter visit to the north island from the south.This is a cool cache. I saved as a draft and forgot to log. Doing a catch up today. Tftc

Tftc. Looking forward to our soak here.

Quick find. Thanks

Sprung to get this one when I was in the area. Found on ground despite the description. TFTC, I thought it was quite clever!

Easter weekend day 2. Not how I had been expecting to spend it, but not half bad either!

This was the first stop on a long walk this morning. Nice and easy to find. I was confused, then I reread the title... and ohhh now it makes sense! All good here! Thanks

(#1934)

Short stop at citydqy.

Found together with Tomsle. Thanks and regards from Black Forest.

Very well done, worth a FP.

T4TC

TEMBO! and I found the "Lost Spring" this morning. The spring wasn't operating but the cache was there.

Thanks to G--2 for hiding and maintaining the cache.

T4TC Filser1

Camped in town for the night at the fabulous NZMCA camp. Had some spare time this visit to grab a few local caches.
Looks like a great place for a coffee but bad timing as we’ve just had one.
No problem with the find for this one, nice hide TFTC.

Heavy road traffic here but took the window of opportunity to reach in and grab it.

Visiting from Scotland, nice easy find TFTC.

Great find, love how the geocache correlated with the springs

We were on a very quick visit to this area and there was not enough time to do all the caches which are in the area. We will have to return another time. BUT we did manage to get this one - and it's a goody. TFTC

Up in the Coromandel for a holiday but the weather was turning wet and windy so we headed up to Whitianga to have a look around. Had heard about these springs but had no plans to visit them, other than to find this cache. Thankfully the menu board gave a reason to loiter between passing traffic before locating the theme-appropriate cache. Signed the log and returned as found. Thanks for the cache G-2 and worth a FP from us.

Thanks for this. Bought us out of the town’s hussle and bussle.

Great wee puns too!

Nice easy find

Tftc. Good easy find.

The town was busy today when I cycled through on my way to this next cache. Nice placement here, cheers

Found easily on a day out in Whitianga. TFTC

Loggade med kero54
TFTC

# Found with mobi12 26 november 2022. Greetings from Västmanland Sweden

So my daughter has finished high school, done the graduation and all. She did not want to go to schoolies, so we decided to spend a week in New Zealand.
Cache 21 for the trip.
So up early to grab a few caches in Whitianga before we move on, and to then grab some breakfast.

The cache is in very good order. Now has our squiggle in it as well.
Thanks for placing this, and the imagination!

Staying nearby at the Sovereign Pier for a few days, it was one I couldn't turn down as I come from the hot springs city in Bath, England.
Although it was a little showery this afternoon it was a nice neat find. Enjoyed the twist too.

Cool cache, we enjoyed the hot springs too

A small cute town and an easy find! A lot of coming and going muggle traffic here.
TFTC! Found by Jessie and Alex

A very clever container. Was lost but now found. TFTC

Caching around Whitianga before tea.

A quick find and loved the container!

#7026

Staying in Whitianga for a long weekend and doing some caches while we are here. Thanks to the cache owner for placing this cache.

Went for the clue as so many people around today. Quick find!!

We were heading into the Lost Springs, so stopped off to find this cache on our way into the pools. A very well themed cache and gets a FP from us. TFTC

Cool hide, had to pick our moment! TFTC

Out for another drive today with xsaveya and watcache, this time in the opposite direction. Weather not as good as yesterday but didn't get poured on so that's a plus.

Quick easy find here today. TFTC

Out for another drive today with emiliyah and watcache, this time in the opposite direction. Weather not as good as yesterday but didn't get poured on so that's a plus.

Quick easy find here today. TFTC

Out for another drive today with emiliyah and xsaveya, this time in the opposite direction. Weather not as good as yesterday but didn't get poured on so that's a plus.

Quick easy find here today. TFTC

This sure is a popular place.I really had to time my search carefully between muggles going in and out.
Thankfully it was a quick find and lingering in front didn't attract to much attention.
Thanks for putting this here

Who would have thought the lost spring would be so busy at night. Cache soon located and log signed without drawing too much attention to myself. TFTC

Such a Terrific place. One would think they were in the Islands . Tftc

Nice find!

Such a great, quick find!

Another fun find, thanks.

Haha, loved the cache. Busy driveway, managed to work between muggles. Tftc

Nice quick find today while up on a girl's weekend

Cool cache container.

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Was staying in Rings Beach for a few days with my niece (booboobecky). Was able to get her back into caching as well.

We were off to see some of Becky's friends in Hahei for a swim, and stopped off for some caches on the way.

Wasn’t sure if the cache was the cache just took a little extra brain power to open it.

Found with toby84

Quick park n find. Log book nearing full, space for a couple more entries. Found with Reny90

Out for a morning bike ride with Ms M to collect as many Fitty caches as we can.
A perfect day for it. Nice and warm with no wind.
Our first stop, a block away from our accommodation, for a quick find.
Nice camo on the bison. Worth an FP.
TFTC

I had a few hours to myself this afternoon without the family so wondered off to clear out the caches in Whitianga. I was hoping for a relaxing drive and cache and it was! With majority G-2 caches, it was sure it was going to be a difficult afternoon. Thank goodness it wasn't as the sun was out in full force. Perhaps G-2 was feeling merciful at Whitianga!

First one for the day as it was the nearest to me. Straight forward and the clue made it obvious. TFTC

Easy fine. Love it.made me laugh. TFTC

I was expecting something like this. Pleased I was not disappointed Well done

Dreary old day but only here for one day and night. Wandering g around getting a couple of caches (hopefully) before it pours. Great hide, thank you

A coiled spring at the lost spring

Ha! Great twist! And had I known I would come past here, I would have brought my bathers.

TFTC G_2

*** Out on our MEGA Roadtrip with Wilbywarrior. Who says this can only happen when the MEGA is actually held?! Greetings from Dunedin, caching friends
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A well themed hide. Quickly found here on a detoured walk back to our accommodation.
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, G_2
#2509

Thanks for your amazing cache. I really appreciate the time you took to set up and maintain your caches.
On a mystery trip and found this cache. Will spend the rest of the day here.
Cheers, Cympull.

Easy find, looks like Jurassic park with the gates closed! Will be coming back one day for a relax

A nice and easy cache after some relaxing in the hot pools. Retrieved, signed and returned really quickly. Definitely recommend some time here if you've got it. Thanks!

Straight forward find but forgot my tools and couldn't retrieve the log. In the end my own broke and I managed to get out. Signed but not very well with the broken pen.

Found this in between covid-19 lockdowns on a rare weekend away crafting with friends in Whitianga.... having a break from crafting a few of us decided to take a stroll around the area and picked up a few local caches along the way.Sorry for the late logging, found with HeMaLuDy.....TFTC.

Nice quick find of this clever cache container. With auntymegs