What Do I Do Now? (Auckland) Wellsford, North Island, New Zealand
By TheWonderStuff on 05-Apr-16. Waypoint GC6F0JW

nice and quick park and grab. tftc

Park and grab! Lovely and drive. Safe spot

Tftc!, nice quick find for the kids.

A nice easy find for the replacement here, thanks for looking after them! TFTC!

Cache will survive

New cache in place - its pretty boring location ! Sorry

Quick stop here on our way home. This cache has seen better days. The lid is missing and it's full of spider webs but the log is holding on (just) so we were able to sign and replace, hopefully tucked away from the weather.

Need to replace this cache

Driving from Auckland back to northland I just need to stop from here to there to there and here, yay so many caches new to me And my muggle friends are so very much patient with me, Ill feed them with more wine tonight Found wellTftc

On our trip through New Zealand today we looked for geocaches on our drive to Auckland. Luckily we found a nice spot to take some home with us.Many thanks to CO for laying this cache.With warm geocach greetings from the Netherlands

Quick and easy find, tftc

Quick stop on our way from Northland. The lid is missing. Tftc

#13,952. I have been up in Northland on a work trip and now heading back to Auckland. Picking up just a few caches as the weather has packed in and its heavy showers on and off now. Parked close by and soon had the cache in hand. Signed the log and replaced the cache as found. Thanks TWS for hiding it here. Lucky last find of the day as the rain set in after this one.

Came by here today on our trip and looked for and found the cache. The Knuffelbren say thank you for the cache.

Found with Kan0eTFTCekitten

2103. 8:05 am. On our way to Tawharanui Regional Park for a day of geocaching. With so much construction and rain on our journey, this was our first stop of the day. Found with eKitten. TFT(along the way)C.

Found with Kan0eTFTCekitten

First cache on our trip up to see friends near Whangarei after using the new motorway.
Took a bit to get through the cobwebs and the spider to get the cache.

We’re on our way to Mangawhai for a paragliding afternoon. Nice to pick up some caches in the sun! Tftc

Heading back from Tinopai I saw this cache was on the way home so talked my driver into making a quick stop along the way. Cache is a wee bit Rusty and lost its lid but the log was dry

Found bit rusty needs lid

Busy road but good pull off area. Mind the flying golf balls. Found one in the bus too. Cache needs new lid but still dry and plenty of room on the log

Greetings from the Czech Republic and Thanks For This Cache.
Díky za keš.
9:53
Moje 5075

A quick day-trip to Whangarei with some caching on the way back.

We always remark at the feature at this entrance as we drive by so the location was well known as I passed by today.

Once I’d stopped, I made a guess, which turned out to be spot on.

Cache found, log signed, and returned.

Thanks TheWonderStuff
#4390

Logged using Cachly.

On my way to Auckland.
Thanks.

Great little park and grab on our way to Auckland with RAA & Nessvab TFGC

Quick park and grab on the way to Auckland with Yvettetb and RAA.

Nice quick stop and find

Heading home from a weekend up north, we stopped to collect this cache. We were able to park very close to go. There were a lot of cars leaving and we waited until the coast was clear before finding the cache in the obvious place. The cache has no lid.

Quick and easy, but with way too many spider webs for my liking. Retrieved the cache with the help of my pen and sure enough there is a spider living at the bottom of tin. Signed the log and put it back in its hiding spot, including the little spider.

A quick find here and a look over the golf course. Then on our way again. Getting stormier.!!! TFTC

Easy find on the way back to Auckland. No lid.

Heading south after the long Queens birthday weekend .

Found it but none of us wanted to brave the cobwebs to open so didn't sign the log! TFTC

**15,327**
A nice quick find, and was pleased the cache wasn't underneath the giant ball, not sure I'd like that hanging over my head. TFTC

A nice and easy park and grab on my way to Warkworth. Thanks for placing the cache

This one hasn’t been found for a while… it was spider central in there. TFTC

A nice quick find thanks. The lid has disappeared and the container was home to a few spiders

Ms_KR and I are on a wee break to find some of the Northern PW GeoTour caches. Today we cruiised from Warkworth to Kaitaia. We had some showers, but the day was mostly fine. Still a lovely day for driving and caching.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Heading to Auckland with evilC on our roadtrip adventure. Last one for the day as we realised that we might be late for dinner due to the building traffic. Quick find, TFTC!!

North Island Campervan trip Day 7

After the fantastic holiday I had a few months ago traveling around the South Island, making the most of one of those incredibly cheap campervan deals available at the time, I figured it was worth taking a week off work before the stresses of the usual holiday period to enjoy some of the delights to be found around the top of the North Island.

This would be a great chance for me to seek out some targeted caches such as the TMGT ones as well as some that would help me with my Jasmer grid, missing minutes (for a couple of challenge caches I'm working on) and any other caches that caught my eye.

Last night I ended up spending the night at the DOC site near Okere Falls, which was nicely quiet and a great place to start my day from. I knew that tonight I would be in Kaiwaka visiting friends there, but today would be a lot of driving to get there so plenty of opportunity for caching. By the time I got to here, the afternoon rush hour traffic out of Auckland was in full swing, so the roads were pretty busy.

However, thanks to the decent sized layby, I was able to park up and walk over to this one without too much fuss. The cache itself only took me a moment to locate and finding no big issues with the cache or the log I quickly added my name to the sheet and then was back on my way again.

Thanks for setting this cache up.

A quick park and grab, road getting busy so might call it a day. TFTC

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Rick-a-mortis was here OZR3RZ

Early morning strike on the way home to Taranaki

tftc

Added new waterproof log
Allok
Thanks!

Nice quick park n grab, was going to leave a coin but the lid isn't there, log a little damp and quite full. TFTC

A golf course car park seems like a good place to eat breakfast, and there's a cache nearby too, double bubble. All good here and replaced as found. T F T C TWS again.

After just about a week in the area of Northland it's the day to head back to the airport and return the hire car, and fly back home. There was time for a fe wcaches on the way, both Northland and Auckland, so that was nice. A good weekend away, and some great weather too.

After a weekend in Wellington and catching up with my UK based mother and her cruise trip to NZ, we made the most of being up here on the North Island and added an extra 6 days in Northland to the trip itinerary. We flew up to Auckland on Sunday afternoon and after a faff around with a hire car we took the scenic/dark route up the Helennsville highway to the North. Arrived late on Sunday night and straight to sleep. We had a week with son Ed and his 4 under 3 years old children. Fun time was had and some nice experiences.

Nice find while in the area with tmann421 today
Enjoying the trip north and the caches
Signed log as tm/ww NZ

Nice find with woolwood9 today.
*We enjoyed the drive / walk around the area.*
Stamped logs as tm/ww NZ which may just look like a black smudge on plastic logs!
TFTC

*As already pointed out tin has no lid but the log is ok.*

The Elder Future Finder and myself are making the trip to my parents, North of Dargaville, collecting a few hides along the way. Traffic was not thick as we were approaching GZ, so, I took the opportunity to park up right next to GZ and attempt our first find of the day. Cache was found in the very first spot I checked. I will note here that the cache is missing it's lid. Otherwise, log was dry. Cheers for the cache placement!

Nice easy find

It was a Sunday afternoon and I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms after too much family business and not enough caching, so what do I do now? A quick park and grab on the way home, that's what! Tftc!

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches in the area

Decided to try and get 9 Caches on my drive back to Auckland airport! Why 9? Because then I will have 930 and will only have 70 left to get my 1000! This is 7 of 9. Tftc

Mal wieder eine lange Autotour heute. Für eine etwas geringere Aufenthaltsdauer bei der einen Glühwürmchen-Höhle. Die war trotzdem ganz cool, auch wenn die Gerätebei der Dunkelheit gestreikt haben. Was die Fahrt anging, war der Hinweg ja noch okay. Zurück war jedoch ein mega mieser Stau, der bestimmt 30 Minuten gekostet hat. Kein Wunder, wenn alles einspurig ist. Da haben wir aber zum Glück gecheckt, wie das hier mit der Maut funktioniert. Ein paar Caches lagen auf dem Weg und das Anhalten, um sie einzusammeln erforderte teilweise genauso gutes Geschick wie das Finden selbst. Den einen Cache bewachte sogar eine riesige Spinne, etwa 2x2 Meter groß war die! Das hinderte uns aber nicht am loggen.
21. April 2019, 16:01 Uhr.

Ein Ausflug zu den Waipu Caves stand für fazzyOne und mich heute auf dem Programm. Die Fahrt von knapp 2 Stunden war dann aber für das gebotene Programm doch zu lang. Die Hölen waren sehr schön und die "Glühwürmchen" echt schön. Aber der Strom von Touristen hat das Erlebnis leider kaputt gemacht. Auf dem Rückweg landeten wir dann auch noch im Stau, sodass wir die geplante Cache-Tour im Anschluss auch streichen konnten. Naja für diesen Cache auf dem Weg hat es zeitlich noch gereicht.

Last cache for the day today, and pulled in here and made the find in exactly the place that I'd put it (and pretty much the same format of hide too) so no problems at all. All good here and thanks for the cache.

Camping in Mangawhai Heads. Kiwi only packed half the gazebo (missing the poles and ropes) so we have no shade. Heading to Warkworth to hopefully buy a replacement. Plan unfortunately aborted due to a serious accident in Dome Valley. Traffic going nowhere fast. About turned and pulled in here to collect our daily cache. At least we managed to get one thing sorted today. TFTC

Time to start heading down the island towards home in Feilding, however I’m stopping if in Rotorua for a night at the holiday home that they have rented for a couple of days.

I set off early and I didn’t want to spend too much time caching prior to Auckland as I wasn’t sure what the traffic was going to be like through the city. However I decided to grab a few on the way.

Found the cache very quickly to find another set of familiar names from my home region had signed the log a couple of days ago.

It’s taken a while to get around to logging these finds on the computer but in December of 2018 I tagged along with Scoria for a trip north of the Bombay’s to get a few out of region caches under my belt, target a couple of D/T gaps and partake in a couple of cooperative caches with cachers that were state side as well. Have set my find date to match Scoria’s since we were there together, apologies for the lateness and generic nature of the log.

Thanks for the cache and the opportunity to flesh out more of my stats

Up in Auckland to complete a previous geocaching commitment and decided to jump the boundary to get a northland cache. Stayed the night in Wellsford so this gave me the opportunity to escape the heat for a while and go for a six am stroll to this cache.

Nice misty morning and and easy locate. Could do with a little maintenance as the log bag is split and the containers lid is no longer attached, but aside from that it is in good condition with a dry log sheet.

Cheers.

Not as quick as o should have been, a bit confused by the hint. TFTC!!!

Northland Day 5: Last day in Northland before heading back to Auckland. Started off on a foggy morning in Whangarei to pick up some of the Onerahi caches, before slowly working my way to town and heading south to Auckland through the Bream Bay Beaches. Lovely weather today, and a great finale to the Northland trip!

The following is the specific log for each cache:
That’s a big ball... what should I do with it? Definitely not stand under it, that is for sure. A nice quick cache, and another standard one along the route, so TFTC!

The weather was just right, so I took two days to go up to Waipu to get in some Geocaching. Also, I wanted to make sure all my camping gear was in order for next month's Mega in Wellington.
Golf: that silly game where you wander around looking for your golf ball. Geocaching: that silly game where you wander around looking for a plastic box. You decide. TFTC.

We headed north to the Te Arai Trail this afternoon for the FTFs on the 3 new caches published last night. On the way home we stopped for a few more caches to help us qualify for the last Hidden Creatures souvenir. This was a busy spot this afternoon, with several cars entering in the few minutes we were here. TFTC

Quick stop in the light rain, cache lid has come apart but still stashed away from the elements.Tftc
PS : my brother once got a golf ball to the roof of his car here while heading north,left a massive 1/2 golf ball impression smack bang in the middle of his roof.

Today I had some time to spare to go and find a few caches. After finding the new cache at Tinopai, I found a few more caches as I drove back to the main highway and then southwards back towards Auckland. Last cache for me today. Time to concentrate on getting back to the big smoke in time for dinner with some of my kids. TFTC, Biggles.

#9528. A good stop while passing through Wellsford. GZ was all quiet when we visited. Quick find. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Thanks for the placement and for bringing us to the 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.

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Nice easy find on our way North

Nice park and grab

Quick park and grab while out this way for work. Had to wait a few mins for golfers before I made my move.
All ok here

Nice easy cache while heading south, cheers

Nice 1

Off on a quick day trip to Auckland today. Been past here heaps of times previously and never stopped, but with slow traffic holding up progress, decided today was a good time to stop. Cache was quickly found as described TFTC

Stopped on the way home. Couldn't drive by without having a look for it. TFTC.

A quick easy driveby find. TFTC.

One of 22 caches that I found this morning on this cache rich highway.
Thanks to The wonderstuff

Thanks for quick stop and sign here TWS.
I felt like I should beat the big gong thingy !

Another cache down on this trip down to Auckland airport. Yay, this is a fun way to break up the tedium of driving in traffic... now to make it back onto the road...

Quick park and grab while heading to aucks today.

On a road trip up north with a few caches in the mix.Quick find,thankyou.

Quick drive by while on my way to Auckland. TFTC

I stopped on my way back to Warkworth and couldn't believe how cold it was outside. I have been to Waipu and Langs Beach today in 31 degree temp and it is now 22 outside Brrr.

Swung by this cache on our way to Wellsford to pick up our daughter as we knew we'd be going back over the back roads. This cache was placed not long after I completed all the caches between Warkworth and Wellsford so time to turn it into a smile on the map. Stopped on the north side of the road and walked over. Luckily not too much traffic coming past as yet although there were a couple of guys finishing up the hole nearby. They were just leaving as we found the cache. Thanks The WonderStuff.

Quick little park n grab. Thanks.

On our way back to Auckland from camping and last cache of the day. Had seen this one on our way up north but was easier to stop south, quick find thanks

After Xmas Lunch in Whangarei, this was a quick stop on my way back to Auckland. A quick find here, TFTC!

Found on my way to Auckland to play with my granddaughter.
I had a lovely day, as always. AAA+++ TFTC

Mangawhai to Auckland.
Today we drove back to the city, our holiday comming to an end.
So much going on in the last couple of days so I have not been able to log this untill we arrived back in Aussie.
Thanks for placing this cache TheWonderStuff

Had a cache rest to go very near here... oh well another find fortunately.

Doing a bit of maintenance on some of my caches up this way while I was in the area. After completing all the ground work decided to grab a few new caches in the area. Quick stop and find, not to many people around which allowed me to park right next to the cache.

Great place for a cache. Nice park and grab. TFTC

I always thought this place deserved a cache but it's too far from home for me to maintain. This one was eluding me but my buddy found it quickly. TFTC

Strange object - I wouldn't imagine you could play golf with it. T4tc

Headed south and home so saved this caches to do on the way. Pagenz did some skillful parking and the cache was in head quickly. Thanks

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)... On a flying visit to Northland with the intention of finding very old caches and anything else that is within short walking distance of the vehicle. The gloomy, black sky is an indication that rain is only a minute away...

Another quick stop find on the road going north... TFTC.

The Squirrel and my plans for the weekend was to log as many old caches as possible to go towards completing another challenge. This meant a lot of kilometres driving and a bit of forward planning and plus collect as many other caches as we could. The plan was to travel to KawaKawa Bay and stay at Hemi's uncles home.
Early start Saturday morning with our goal to get to KawaKawa. Google tells me its 266 Kilometres one way, but with caching who knows how many km's it will be.
Left Rotorua after work on Friday with a stop for dinner (Cambridge Roast House). Next stop Huntly for a coffee and a chat with fellow cachers, then on to KawaKawa Bay. No caches done on this leg.
Early start Saturday morning to achieve our goal.

10.10am - What we did was park right beside cache and grab it. SLTFTC

Nice to have a few more caches on the road north or south. Thanks for placing and the nice quick find.

TFTC

Was driving back after the get out of doors event at Mount Manaia, and had to stop for this one.

Parked near the cache and quickly made the find. TFTC

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1.55pm. Easy find and good parking heading south.
Thank you. David.