Picnic at Poutuia (BOP) Pukehina, North Island, New Zealand
By nzkites on 07-Aug-16. Waypoint GC6MW79

We're not able to get out to this in the near future so have decided to archive.

log to follow

Definitely gone. CO please replace or archive.

Disabling until we can check on this.

Well my luck had run out. Ran my fingers over every surface.
Pretty sure it's gone.

The junior geocachers went out on a solo trip today and introduced their friends to caching. A good first find for Michael and Layla.

Found on a glorious day. Thanks for helping me get out and about

Another good find on a trip away. SL TFTC

Spotted in the first place I looked for once, its usually the last!

TFTC

Quick park and grab with livee_nz, after fish n chips for dinner Cache and log in good condition. TFTC

Georunnermatt and I took a drive out to Maketu and Pukehina to see a new place and find some caches. We grabbed this one whilst having some fish and chips for dinner. Tftc!

All was quiet here today - this was our very first cache of the morning on our Pukehina/Ohope/Kawerau loop trip. Thanks for the placement J & J - much appreciated.

Neat hide tftc

On a wet summer day tftc

What s gorgeous beach! Thank you for bringing us to the spot. TFTC

A glorious day today
Quick park and grab
Happy Waitangi Day from Pukehina Beach
TFTC

Been out and about looking for fresh corn. Yum. Last time we tried this one there were too many muggles.
Mrs S went and found it this time even though there were a couple muggles in the house next to the picnic area they didn't seem too interested in what she was doing.

Thanks nzkites. Pleased to be able to turn this into a smilie face.

My first find
I've only just joined up

Yay found it

Found it

**#10,926**
Another FTF hunt to Tauranga this time, and again beaten to it, decided to carry on caching for the afternoon as we had not been here for caching reasons for a long time, got a haul of 20 for the afternoon/evening.

This was the last find of the night, just after 9.30pm and definitely time to head home.

TNLN TFTC

First one of many

Yeah first day at the beach building up to New Years. Thanks

TFTC - Beautiful spot.

Taking kids for an after school outing. TFTC

2.45pm - Very slow day today after yesterdays marathon effort. Needed a couple of caches for today so thought Pukehina looked good. Cache quickly found. SLTFTC

Found It

A nice quick find after chatting to a man and his son who had been out in their canoes. TFTC

Staying in Pukehina for the weekend and noticed a few new caches since last time I was over. Life got in the way and I only had time to grab this one on the way to the GIFF event in Papamoa. A nice quick grab, used the geomobile to shield my activities from nearby muggles. Thanks for the hide in my favourite little place!

Heading down to the in-laws for the weekend. The little one was hungry so we decided to detour off to Pukehina beach to feed her and give the day a bit of a walk.

All feed and walked now so heading back on our way, but first I had to find the rest of the caches here. A quick find here, thanks for the hide.

Just needed a cuppa too!
Great place to watch the world go bye
Tflc

Thanks nzkites for another hide. Nice quick find while the sun was out

Probably shouldn't have gone for this one straight after a night shift but hey, I made it and everyone's alright Stoked it was a quick find and in the obvious place so all up it only extended my bed time by an hour. TFTC nzkites.

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A nice park and grab cache tftc

Out for a geocaching drive with frewilys looks like we are following Mc jandels. Quick park n grab tftc

Nice quick find today. TFTC

Beautiful afternoon for caching even though the wind is cool. Easy find and area deserted so quick retrieval and sign. Thanks for bringing us here

Thanks NZ kites for tidy little cache..cold and windy today but I guess it's majic here on a nice sunny day tftc

Because my better half had a coat on she elected so find the cache & bring it back to the car for signing so I could stay dry but she started looking at very short peoples height with no joy so I had to join the hunt & picked on the right spot straight away.Cheers guys,Pukehina is now all smileys again & only got damp.

With the dog... We haven't cached together in a very long time. She was excited to be out and about...

We were debating on buying and eating fish and chips at this location, but it was too busy here on arrival. We got down to business straight away, with the dog providing some extra diversion for any onlookers. We were intrigued by the Brazilian banknote... TFTC.

I knew I had been here before - nice to know the last cache was just removed and not muggled. Lovely spot and a great place to enjoy the view of the beach - a bit of a rough sea today. Cache all good and quickly spotted - no muggles today but it can be a very busy spot with fishermen accessing the beach TFTC

Great to have a new cache along here as we removed ours near here when Tim moved house .
What a glorious sunny day to be out and about on International Geocaching Day
TFTC

(FTF) at 430pm
Stopped here on our way to Te Puna was only a slight detour. The kids were really happy we were at the beach however we couldn't stop to play we had caches to find so they watched the waves from the car park and I grabbed the cache then it was onto the new puzzle cache down the road.
TFTC

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