BBs Barn Find Ohinewai, North Island, New Zealand
By eyespyben on 20-May-16. Waypoint GC6J4MX

Took too long

I have an afternoon caching between Hamilton and Pukekohemixed success so far. Tree caches are my bte noir and this proved no exception. Thanks eyespyben#5368Logged using Cachly.

Nice find here great views tftc

nice sneeky hide [8]

Mrs NZT and I decided to have a road trip day today. Left home at 6.30am (crazy I know when we are on holiday but then this is holiday enjoyment for us!!!), drove lots of kms all over the place and back home in time for dinner with a nice haul of smiles (we mostly had smiles today woohoo).Phew we were very lucky to spot this one so quickly today...yay!Thanks for the cache.

This cache was sticking out like a sore thumb as i made my approach so i moved it up just slightly higher. It was a bit stubborn and didnt want to open and then when i got it open the log didnt want to come out so it certainly put up a fight but i conquered in the end. Thankyou for the cache.

Echoing previous log.

Great little find! Easy as too. Log was wet! TFTC

Didn’t take long to find this nicely camouflaged cache. Tftc

Looked in two trees & then buzzybb found it. How did I miss that. Tftc

Cache blends in so well in the morning sun. Quick find.
All peace and quiet here.
I like this series.
Thanks for hiding and maintaining. Tftc

Hanging around

Quick find, thanks

Another quick find on our circumnavigation of the lake. TFTC!

Easy find.

Headed down this way today with the intention of collecting the Pickup 52 trail of caches, and any others along the way....as am in need of some numbers for my goal for the year.....

Thank you to the CO's for cache placement, and bringing me to these locations.

After locating all I could of the Pickup 52 series, I was still left with quite some time before heading home....in other words it was still light, so I went in search of other caches on lesser travelled roads for me.........

TFTC....

Cache is a wee bit corroded, making it hard to unscrew, but we persevered.
Nice spo

Very cool camo, tftc Ben!

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Nice easy find. Love the camera colour thanks

Tftc

Took a while to spot. No i cant unsee it. Hahahah

A quick find here, the bison could do with a new "O" ring. The last finder did it up so tight.

Nice camo. Thanks.

Took alittle longer than it should of walked past it a few times

**13,822**
A nice quick grab on our way to Auckland for the long weekend. Nothing like heading to Auckland when all the Aucklanders are leaving!! TFTC

Quick park and grab although i couldn't spot it, my partner did easily enough. Great little hide TFTC!

We made a mediocre attempt to find this one about two years ago in the pouring rain and failed so have been keen to remedy the situation ever since.
Today we returned in much better weather and were pleased to locate the cache quickly.
As we signed the log we thought we had been muggled by a nearby dog however it turned out that it was barking at cows.
But we didn't take any chances and made a hasty retreat as soon as we had returned the log.
Thanks eyespyben.

Quick find out with team Gold. Luckily could see it from the car as the drizzle has just started again.

Down from Northland for the weekend with the prime objective being to do the Hakarimata Trail. That was delayed a day because of the weather, so we ended up doing the Waikato River walk today and getting soaked in the process. After Team G0LD dried out at the pub, we then headed off for some more caches on the way back to our accommodation.

After a short detour off the main road, we stopped beside this one, which was a nice quick find in the hint location, as we managed to actually spot it from the cache mobile. TFTC

Our main aim for today is the Waikato River walk as the weather is too dodgy for the Hakarimata track. We're just filling in the area a bit. A nice quick find here, TFTC

Today I'm starting my road trip home from Auckland to Nelson with my newly acquired convertible cachemobile. I'm going to be finding a few caches along the way. TFTC, Biggles.

Another nice quick park and grab. Thanks for placing. The local farmland is looking rather dry this time of year.

Done a check log book all good

A nice winters day on our way to Auckland we stopped to look for this cache. Took a bit to find but eventually my eagle eyed daughter spotted it. A busy road. Thanks

Another stop on our journey today to find this cache. It took a lot of searching to find this well camouflaged cache.

Done check today all good

I think the farmer is use to people looking in the trees. Felt like someone was watching me. Lol He just waved and smiled. Tftc

This one took a bit of patience, both scanning site and trying not to look suspicious to the passing cars. A well disguised cache. TFTC.

24/04/19 14:10 Roadside stop. Cheers, GC

A quick pit stop on the way to the Te Kauwhata charger. Interesting barn. TFTC.

On the homeward journey today via a maintenance run on the 309, with a few cache finds thrown in. Haven't driven this road ever so have taken a long detour to make some cache finds. Nice hide here. SL. TFTC.

Tricky beasties these are. Phew found it. Thanks foe hide. With rustynz

I think we had to miss the bus stop hide as a muggle was parked up, with feet up, with no plans to move anytime soon

So here I am searching, and searching, took a little longer to find, but there it was

Not a pill bottle, a "bison" I just love.... finding them LOL

Thanks eyespyben for another hide of yours that we found today (with rebel98)

On a bit of mission today to clean out the are after a ftf nearby boy the sand flies are big here. Tftc

Traffic moving a bit faster here, but found it nevertheless. TFTC

Tftc spit on gz

Awesome one, thanks for the cache!

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. Got through Auckland in good time and now I’ve got a bit more luxury for some more caching.

Quick find which was good because something was happening in nearby stockyards. TFTC

One of ten located, mostly on the Tahuna-Ohinewai Road, as we headed towards SH1 on our way to Auckland. Made hard work of this one. Didn’t know in which tree to look. Couldn’t find it in the first tree, so looked in two or three others. At that point I enlisted the help of Mrs tbird who had been waiting patiently in our car along the road. Of course as soon as she arrived I spotted it in the first tree I had started looking in! #2136. TFTC.

Detour of expressway now a little longer. Couldn’t resist TFTC

Another nice Park and Grab hide here. All good at GZ. TFTC

Parked right next to it. TFTC

Wow previous cacher was strong cos I struggled to open the bison.

Nice little camo bison here!
Managed to leap over the flooded drain!
Thanks!

Quick find here, cheers

Heading down to our Waikato base this afternoon to pick up a few caches and attend this evenings Event. Slightly overshot GZ but just a short walk from the van to make the Barn Find. Thanks.

Fabulous day out met up with Aiden29, Merlot58 & Jag50 and have signed Logs as McJAM to save room on the log sheet, MANY THANKS for the placement, Much Appreciated. Cheers

Made plans to head back down here and complete the Eyes have it series along with Merlot58 and Jag50. Signed as McJAM to save time. Missed this on the first pass in the fading light, but as I turned around to have another look I spotted the camo cache.

Heading south for the day with Merlot58 and Aiden29 to complete the eyes puzzle series. Met up with McJandals and signed the logs as McJAM. Apologies for the cut and paste logs... but we found 100 caches in total today! Last cache for the day. TFTC

Having completed the Eyes series we did a couple of nearby traditionals before heading home. A nice quick find here

Another quick stop although we found in the second place checked. All good here, TFTC!

Roads abit dangerous with kids but found it!

Out and about enjoying a drive around the Waiakto country side this afternoon. With work out of the way for today, I can focus on my leisurely pursuits. Namely, finding geocaches. I parked up near GZ and got to searching. No luck at the first potential GZ I checked. Had better fortune at the second were I made the find. The rubber seal has gone on this one, by the way. Anyway, cheers for the cache placement!

Our third find for today, on our way to do the puzzle caches in the Eyes Have It. The weather is starting to warm up so good to get a nice quick and straightforward find here. It is quite a nice barn but since we are out geocaching and not barn spotting we didn't stay too long but headed off. All good here, and thanks for the cache.

A hot hot day, tftc

done a check today log book still all good

Heading back home after a successful bout of power trailing with alpenmilch80 and themexikiwi and we stopped in here for a few extra caches for the day.

Quick look around and we soon had the cache in hand and carried on back up the road. TFTC

After collecting some eye geocaches in the area Themexikiwi, evilno9 and I made a quick stop for this one on our way back to AKL. Signed log as Team MC. TFTC

Nice quick park and grab on a quiet sunday drive to hamilton.

On a big day trip with KirsTim and yorkshirekiwi83, the goal of the day was to tackle the Eyes Have It Series, and a select few others on the route. Thanks to all the cache owners for their placements and maintenance, we really appreciate all the work into cache ownership! A great day for driving and hunting down caches, no issues or problems were had.

A straightforward find, thanks for the hide!

Vamber, KirsTim and myself decided to tackle some of the Waikato caches today, or rather focus on the eyes have it series and anything we came across on route. Thank you to all the cache owners for their cache placements, they are very much appreciated. It was a hot day with the threat of thunder storms (which we got on the drive home) and ended up suffering for hayfever for the first time in my life, legs attacked by long grass but this is all in the life of a cacher, we had no issues with farmers or the like.

TFTC

Out on a bit of a cache run, even though its a little rainy. Oh Well. I'm all booked in to Rotorua for the night, so on I go.

TFTC

out for the day with butchiebum, a quick find after a busy day, tftc

interesting title. a must do while driving past thx.

I could not believe my luck!!! Just after a couple of weeks of having been up north, I got an unexpected invite to AUT, with an opportunity to come up the weekend before (=do some caching!!). With flights and accommodation sorted, I was more than happy to invest in a rental car for the weekend TFTC!!

Early start heading to Matamata then onto Taupo for a day trip. No one about on the road before 8am so we stopped off for a stretch and to grab this. Nice easy find, thanks

Leaving Huntly on a caching expedition to Hamilton via some back roads today.
My GPS took me to the wrong tree, but Ms M found it quickly.
TFTC

No worries here. Found while passing by. TFTC

Muggle sister was turnng the car around as I hopped out to find the cache. T4tc

done a check today all good still got heaps of papper

After being cooped up inside all week with bad weather, sick child and school holidays I had scheduled in today for some 'me time'. I had planned to clean up around Hamilton but after finding a few urban hides I was well and truly over it and decided to head into the country for some peace and quiet and some nice country roads.

A nice little stop and a nice old barn. Spotted the cache on approach thankfully, I seem to struggle finding this sort of hide!

This took a few minutes to find as the natural camo and weathering is doing a great job ...great old barn ...thanks for the great placement Eyespyben

I've never noticed this barn before, usually on a mission one way or the other. Nicely camoed. Thanks for the placement eyespyben.

Quick find as we headed south for the weekend.

TFTC

Decided to take the scenic route to Auckland and try a few caches on the way. Having found a spot to leave the TB I had, I made this my last cache. TNLN. TFTC

This was to be my last cache before heading home, parked up close to the cache and under the light of my head torch it was found in the first spot I checked, how about that??

log later

Nice quick find tftc

TFTC. Out for a drive and ticking a few caches off on our way.

Quick search and cache found here. Thanks eyespyben.

Up in Auckland for the weekend with Team bop (myself Philip.Perry and TNXPRO ) collecting a few of the puzzles we have solved. We had an long tiring weekend but still managed to stop for caches on way home.
Tftc

Has been a long weekend of caching in Auckland and on the way home we still had time to pick up a few.

Thanks for bringing me here.

TFTC

TEAM BOP had descended upon Auckland with a pocket full of solved puzzles and now we're heading home. The cache was found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords and a straight forward hint. Cheers Ben, TFTC.

FITW FMZ
A late night weekend caching trip. There was no muggles around as it was really late/early morning.
Found it easily. TFTC

On an impromptu caching raid into the Waikato, a quick find in the company of harisree. All quiet at GZ and a nice quick find. TFTC!!!

During the monthly 18@18 event Kiwi69 mentioned an interest in taking off for an afternoon of Geocaching and since I had not returned to work yet and my wife was agreeable to the idea a plan was quickly hatched. Kiwi69 popped around for some lunch and then we shot off heading north with me driving and a rough plan in place. I really enjoyed the drive, the Geocaching and the company. Thanks to all the CO's for placing the caches we found and for maintaining them.

It took us a minute or two to eventually spot this one. Certainly became easier once we were searching the right hint item!

A very enjoyable catch up with local geocachers at the monthly 18@18 event last night in Hamilton also led to a very impromptu mini-mission with IamMrWalker to cache along the Tahuna-Ohinewai Road this afternoon. My recent knee op limits my caching options for the time being, but its great to be out & about finding caches again and these drive-by placements that don't require much walking or deep knee bends are absolutely perfect! This was another that was ideally located for me, once we'd worked out which hint item! log signed, cache all good, TFTC

Found it