Opua Marina (Bay of Islands) Opua, North Island, New Zealand
By RussellSchool on 11-Jun-16. Waypoint GC6KJ6A

Thanks for my first find! hard to get out though haha

Log wettish but was able to sign. On my way to Paihia

Thanks for my first find!

Easy find.TFTC

Was missing. Magnetic one in place now.

We had a good look but couldnt locate it unfortunately

Heaps of spots to hide it but a more specific clue would have been helpful. No find.

Couldnt find it, looked everywhere

Grey and rainy day, no pencil today very blurry photo as proof instead. Thank you!

Thanks, nice one

So cool! I actually noticed this little spot before I realised there was a geocache here. And then finding the cache was a bonus!

Tftc

Didn't find it:')

Visiting NZ, and heading off on the sailboat Second Sun for New Cal in a few days. While getting a few bits for the boat I had tome for a walk and a search. Found it right where expected!

Found it today nice and tiny we didn't have a pen, but logged here

Cache is still there. A little tricky but we found it today. SL and RAF. TFTC

Nice and neatly tucked away it it's hid9ng spot. Good place for a cache.

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My very first find in New Zealand and first also in any country other than the USA! Such a cool location for a hide! A fave! Tftc : )

Quick found, TFTC.

Couldnt find it

Quickly jogged over here while waiting for the ferry (Mrs T not impressed).Found what seems to be the cache container but no log?

Im just going home and

Yes

Im just going

Cant find it

No luck but short of time to ride back for train

Outnabout off the cruise ship and hired a trike bike. Great way to see the area and cover some ground for caching. Driver was very accommodating. Thanks to the CO for this one.

Nice and easy one

Found by Blenheim Bear on a wee day. Thanks for the cache all good today. Blenheim Bear crafty cache

Dieser Cache konnte heute erfolgreich geloggt werden.Danke an den owner fr's legen und pflegen TFTC Schmerzbefreit

Our Advent calendar sent us geocaching today. I missed the point that it was a micro, and the children played with the location point for a while. Luckily Dad found it! TFTC.

Tricky tricky.. will have to try again

Super fun but a challenge

Nice!

A very cover hide. Our last evening so had to stop in here. It took us a couple is goes abs then we had it in have. Tricky indeed!! TFTC

Yay found it

Still looking to this day

Tftc

Last attempt at this location. If it goes again I will have to relocate it. Tied on this time!

Didn't find it

It might be gone?

Replaced the cache

Will sort at the end of the month

No luck with this cache but we enjoyed waking along the Marina instead

No luck for us today. Looked in all the obvious places but nothing doing...

tftc

Was looking for a little while but couldn’t find it

Day 3 of a little tiki tour with Mrs NZ Travellers and today was explore Russell day.

I had started to look for this one before we headed over on the ferry but as I was doing so someone returned to his car and instead of driving off he opened the bonnet and looked like he might be there for a while! Skipped to the ferry…very efficient we drove straight on!

On way back we pulled up nearby…same car still there in closest parking spot but no people so we had a good look around but no luck for us today.

I found something that I thought might be an ideal decoy to host a cache but there was nothing in it….

I’ll be back!

Very easy to find on our long weekend!!

"Cool hiding spot!" say the boys

Found it this time because it was actually there. Frustrating looking when you don't know it isn't there. Thanks CO.

Lovely walk on a clear day. TFTC!

The new cache was missing. Let’s see if this one lasts otherwise I will re think it.

Not our day today for finding caches.
Great walk along the coast from Opua though

It was missing. A new cache is in place.

Nothing

10/7/22 didn't find. Think it's near the train lever but nothing there

Can't find it!!! Very tricky. Think it's bear the lever and rails

Found on a Northland Winter break from the deep South.

Quick find on our night cache run!

A quick find here before making the long drive back to the mighty Waikato. TFTC!

We had intended to look for this cache earlier in the day before/after our ferry trip across to Russell, but got a call from the garage re our vehicle with battery problems, so had to return to Paihia earlier than expected. We were asked to drive to the other branch of the garage which happened to be in Opua. After the battery was sorted we realised we had parked our little van right at GZ so Mr nzk couldn’t say no! The cache was where we expected but well hidden. TFTC Fullofun!

Oow. This ones a gooden. Hidden in a very cool place. We’ll done

We didn't have time for this one earlier while waiting for the ferry so picked up on the way back. Nice easy one TFTC Fullofun

#11979

We did contemplate rushing to find this while in the queue for the ferry earlier but made the sensible decision for the way back. Just as well too as that ferry service is extremely efficient. This is the last cache of yours that we found today - thank you so much Fullofun for your significant contribution to our brilliant day caching. TFTC # 18,322

(# 7172) On a trip to retrieve the Auckland/Northland Geotour caches (TMGT/PWGT). Day 3 was from Kaitaia to Paihia. A good day out with the weather being nice and warm (and dry). A quick find just by my car where I parked it before catching the ferry. Thanks for bringing me here.

Right in front of eyes! Cool find

TFTC nice quick find lig full but found a spot

Cool spot!!! Took us a second to find

Good little hiddy spot..

286. Quick find while waiting for the ferry. Ended up missing the ferry but we were like eh. There is one in ten minutes. Went and got a coffee in that time. Guess what we missed it again. Finally got on. TFTC

OK before I get on the ferry I just have to visit this one. Left my calling card here. Cheers. Now on to the ferry.

Day 9, Thursday 27 January - Its Waitangi, Russel via ferry then cruising the back roads to Taupiri Bay and back to KeriKeri. So you ready Lenny?? Lets go!

Zara, Toby, Lenny and I are on our North Island expidition for a couple of weeks. Got The Seagnoid along for the first 4 days, heading to the Auckland Mega. PWGTs and TMGTs are on the radar for this trip. Lots of driving on gravel roads and visited lots of amazing places on our 6000km road trip snagging 200+ caches along the way. Visiting Cape Reinga, Bay of Islands, Gisborne and White Rock along our journey. Another awesome trip. Thanks to all CO's.

Cool spot! Tftc

Great to see a cache in opua. Stopped after trip to really Russell

#10,570. Today I am heading north on a 2 day trip to try and pick up most of the northern geotour caches. Its another super hot summers day. Sadly the fish and chip shop by the ferry terminal had closed for the night and this was the case elsewhere. Either huge queues for restaurants or nothing open. So dinner was a few nectarines and a slice of dry bread. Not quite what I was looking forward to eating at the Bay of Islands! Such are the tribulations of the travelling geocacher. Parked and wandered along to this one. Looked all around but only after reading the description did I find it. Well hidden. Signed the logbook and returned the cache where found. Thanks Fullofun for hiding it here. Time to get back to my tent site for the night.

Summer caching, started at Opau, whilst cruising round the Bay of Islands, so had to get this one! Had to wait whilst a tidy kiwi off loaded his rubbish!

Decided on a revisit today on our walk with our niece, even though we found it a couple of years ago(almost to the day).
Have added a bit of paper as log book was full.

Well hidden

With

Stood for a while and looked and looked and looked and then spotted the edge of the container poking it's head out. Uncovered the rest and pulled it out. Not much log room left.

Stopped to search for this one after leaving the car ferry. Soon had the log signed. Tftc

After getting the ferry back from Russell to Opua we decided to pull across the way out and have a look in the dark to see if we could find this despite the recent DNF. The hound was delighted to get out of the car for a stretch and after looking at the hint we saw something nearby that clearly was where we were supposed to be looking.

Our luck was in as we found it a very quick and easy find - I guess sometimes you just get lucky - it had got buried a bit down low but still fine to find. Pretty neat they have this item to check out too.

Another nice cache by this CO thanks - all good here.

No luck.. spent way too long.

Tftc

Miss 5 just happened to play in the area and we found it. TFTC

TFTC

I found it with kanoeboy.

I liked the cache. TFTC.

Nice place. Liked the train tracks TFTC.

1181. 12:12 pm. Love this cache . Found with GRAkiWi, eKitten, LI0NPaw and my BH. CO please note that we wrote on the last page of logbook and it is practically full. TFT(train)C.

Decided to ride the bikes from Kawakawa to Opua today for an ice cream. Did some ‘treasure’ hunting along the way. Great hide and would never know this object was here if you hadn’t brought us here. Thank you!!!

Quick little find. Just seen it. Picked up a few bits of trash while walking away and a bin close by too! Sigh.

Happy Easter
Long weekend and were adventuring around the North for some souvenirs!

TFTC
Found with Riser5 while adventuring around the North getting souvenirs for the long weekend. Can't help but do a little CITO along the way.

Took us a while but now obvious.

Couldn't find anywhere

Thought it would be harder, but great find!

Great, easy, little find. Thanks

Found it thanks