Top point of the trail Pukepoto, North Island, New Zealand
By G--2 on 10-Jan-17. Waypoint GC6Z56H

Enjoyed a bike ride of a few kilometres along this trail this morning, picking up a total of 12 caches. Had 2 DNFs, although I suspect one of those was actually missing. This one was a reasonably quick find. #8122. TFTC.

easy found. Thanks for the cache-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --French version below-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --Short late log but more complete now that we are back home.Our vacation will take us to the other side of the world to the land of the Maoris. After many, many hours of flying, a passage through China on the way there and through the United States of America on the way back, we will finally arrive in Christchurch which will be the starting point of our journey.We will enjoy the beaches of the Pacific Ocean and we will go back towards the North Island via State Highway 1. To combine business with pleasure, we will take regular breaks and small detours according to the caches that seem the most accessible to us.With a little more than 3500 km in 20 days, we will have discovered many facets of this island which is soothing. We will have to come back because there are so many places that we have not done . In broad strokes, the path will go from Christchurch to the Kaikoura Peninsula then towards Picton for the crossing to Wellington.New island, new road, and by State Highway 2 we go towards Hastings and Napier. We will leave the seaside for several days to go to Tongariro and Taupo. We will continue north towards Rotorua and Hamilton (without forgetting a detour via Hobbiton ) A detour to the Coromandel Peninsula and finally the almost north of the island with Whangarei and Waitangi to learn the history of this country.There will only be a few days left to spend towards Auckland and its suburbs before taking the plane back to the grayness of our European autumn.The majority of the boxes will be found, we have abandoned those where our English was lacking and where we could not understand the clue. Thanks to all the owners who brightened up our path, who took us to incredible places (that's also geocaching)In short, we had a great vacation, saw beautiful places that simply ask us to come back. We learned a lot about the history of this country and its traditions, it's a great motivation for our destinations.-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --Petit log en retard mais un peu plus complet maintenant que nous sommes rentrs la maison. Nos vacances vont nous emmener lautre bout du monde au pays des Maoris. Aprs beaucoup, beaucoup dheures davion, un passage par la Chine laller et par les Etats-Unis dAmrique au retour, nous arriverons enfin Christchurch qui sera le point de dpart de notre priple.Nous profiterons des plages du de locan Pacifique et nous remonterons en direction de lile du nord via la State highway 1. Pour joindre lutile et lagrable, nous ferons des pauses rgulires et de petits dtours au gr des caches qui nous semble les plus accessibles. Avec un peu plus de 3500 km en 20 jours, nous aurons dcouverts pleins de facettes de cette ile qui est apaisante. Il nous faudra revenir car il y a tellement dendroit que nous navons pas fait . Dans les grand traits, le chemin ira de Christchurch la pninsule Kaikoura puis direction Picton pour la traverse vers Wellington.Nouvelle ile, nouvelle route, et par la State Highway 2 nous remontrons en direction de Hastings et Napier. Nous laisserons le bord de mer plusieurs jours pour aller au Tongariro et Taupo. Nous continuerons vers le nord en direction de Rotorua et Hamilton (sans oublier un dtour par Hobbiton ). Un crochet pour la pninsule de Coromandel et pour finir le presque nord de lile avec Whangarei et Waitangi pour apprendre lhistoire de ce pays. Il ne restera que quelques jours passer vers Auckland et sa banlieue avant de ne reprendre lavion pour retourner dans la grisaille de notre automne europen.La majorit des boites seront trouves, nous avons dlaisser celles o notre anglais faisait dfaut et ou que nous narrivions pas comprendre lindice. Merci tous les poseurs qui ont gay notre chemin, qui nous ont emmen dans des endroits incroyables (cest aussi cela le geocaching)Bref, nous avons pass de superbes vacances, vu des endroits magnifiques qui demandent simplement que lon revienne. Nous avons appris beaucoup de chose sur lhistoire de ce pays et de ces traditions, cest une grande motivation pour nos destinations.

Found with Cympull. Still enjoying the trail. TFC

Thanks for your amazing cache G-2. I really appreciate the time you took to set up and maintain your caches. Found with Fisha1288 Cheers, Cympull.

Lovely day for cycling this river trail tftc

we had a job getting this one fearing it was going to drop down to the unknown.But managed with stick and my pole.

Great cache.

Accio 11:22:29Staying in Pauanui for the middle week of our New Zealand holiday - with T4mmmy - today it was time to walk this trail. An easy 5kms (each way) amble which took just on 3 hours car back to car. Nice area, calm, quiet beautiful.I love it when the base of a tree is waist height Thanks G--2 for entertaining me at this location. *{Overall find #11712}*

Found with Pprime` ... what a great walking trail

A nice quick find here today. A lovely trail, very quiet today apart from lots of people enjoying their boats and jet skis on the water. Tftc

After a couple of DNFs, I finally found this one. Cache is all good and dry..thanks

Finally a find.
All good here with your cache
TFTC

Found with stairman1. Thank goodness for a find. Nice walk along here. TFTC

Had to be really sneaky as trail became busy. Great to see it being used and look forward to it's completion to Tairua in the future. Tftc

Quick find with a stretch for my short arms! Gorgeous view from this vantage point. TFTC

TaurusSix and I are in New Zealand for a three weeks holiday. We love New Zealand and have had lots of wonderful experiences here previously. This time we have decided to focus our attention on three destinations for one week each, all in the North Island. The Coromandel Peninsula, Waiheke Island and The Bay of Isles. We are very mindful of not focusing all our attention of the holiday on geocaching, however it will still play an important part. We are deliberately focusing on caches that involve some walking, great views, interesting attractions , history and general points of interest. And this will all happen in between exploring, swimming , walking, doing touristy things and relaxing .
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Day 2 - We are now based for the next little while at Pauanui on the Coromandel Peninsula and we woke up to a glorious sun rise. We are ready for the day ahead and exploring this lovely little town. After a very leisurely breakfast we headed to the beach and river mouth area where we undertook a local Adventure Lab, followed by an interesting multi before taking a beautiful scenic river walk with a trail of caches along the way . Part of the walk was a boardwalk through the mangroves which was quite impressive. We are actually very relieved that there are no snakes in New Zealand , we would not be attempting some of these spots at this time of year in Australia

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This is our ninth cache find of the day along with a nearby Adventure Lab. Nice bit of undulation for the track. Initially we thought the gps was pointing to the water and thought we might need to scramble . Happy to discover that was not the case and it was very close at hand. Thanks for the cache G-2

We're staying in Tairua for a few days break and today we traveled over to Pauanui to ride the cycleway and pick up caches. Great spot here, TFTC

Yay another one that fits my height. Big tick from the vertically challenge. Tftc.

Reached over to make another quick find along this great bike trail, TFTC

Its always good to get to the top, and even better to whizz downhill.
A bit of a stretch, but it was soon snaffled.
Thanks for putting this here

Ā nice quick find on a lovely sunny day. On our way from Ōnemana to Whitianga. TFTC

**#15,281**
Good to get to the pointy bit, which means it's all downhill from here...... looking forward to a big drink at the van!!
TNLN TFTC

Out this morning for a ride on our bikes.
The hill wasn’t a problem with the e-bikes. Stopped for a quick find and to take in the view. TFTC

TFTC Found with team seac

I had made a call out to team SEAC to see if anyone wanted to wonder to Pauanui for day outing to grab some caches. Ended up with a swamp of us wanted to go! So on the day itself, we packed up the bikes, picnic food and embarked on this great journey! All logs were signed as "SEAC" to save space.

We planned a Team SEAC outing to the Tangitarori Wetlands Walk and the surrounding area to cache and spend a day enjoying the Pauanui area. We joined Uncle Sam, Keylev, Hemaludy, Stick-a-crane, NurseDr and B4Dawn for the day and completed the bike ride in about 3 hours. After a lunch break we then completed a few more caches around the Pauanui and Tairua. A great day with great friends. TFTC!

A plan was hatched amongst a few of the Team SEAC crew from south and east Auckland to spend the day in Pauanui and surrounding areas to find some caches. This trail was the first target. Mr and Mrs HeMaLuDy decided to walk the trail while the others biked, so they dropped us off at one end for us to get started and then they went to the other end to get started with their bikes.
The path was quite busy today with walkers and cyclists. Happy to make a find here

As luck would have it NZTravellers, B4Dawn and I realised that all our other work and social commitments aligned to give us some free time this week so what better way to put this to use then some afternoon / evening / night caching the WHOLE week!!! After 4 weekdays of very long days (work in the morning, then caching all evening) we took a break on friday to get ready for a bigger Saturday to finish the week off. We had many more Team SEAC keen to join this one which we haven't done in a little while with all the lockdowns etc so it was a great day!

Huffing and puffing (well some of us) but we got there and made the find which gave everyone a few moments to catch our breath back.

Thanks for the cache.

B4Dawn posted in our group chat of a trip down this way, a beautiful part of the country, to locate some of the local caches....some of us had found some but the majority were unfound by the group....

Thanks to the CO's for placing and maintaining the caches, with the majority in good condition and dry...

On our bikes for this stretch of caches, with 2 of the group walking...

Signed in as "SEAC" to save logbook space.

TFTC.

Moving along the trail quite quickly - might be home for lunch!

Easy find on the tree

We found this one as we cycled from Pauanui towards the end of the trail and back again. Not too many muggles on the trail today. We were pleased for the excuse for a stop at the top of this hill to look for the cache. A quick find here and we continued on along the trail to the next one. TFTC

Went straight to it! My wife is in sync with the hides, good day out even if just windy now...a bit more then lunch time

This is the top point of the trail and my last one for today as had already done the ones further on coming in the other way yesterday. A quick find and time to head back to the car which I got back to just in time to miss a heavy rain shower that passed over

Anniversary weekend for Vamber and we decided to stay in a Yurt in Pauanui with the geopup. Lovely early morning walk. TFTC.

Easiest one of the day so far, nice quick find. Number 9 of the day with PhilBirdBoys. Tftc.

Walk straight past this one as GPS playing up TFTC

Cool we are at the Top Point and another one snagged and tagged onour way past. Cheers.

Day 10 - Sunday 27 December - Tairua - up to Whenuakite and back and Pauanui power trail today. What will we find today?.

The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby and I are off on another geocaching escape over Xmas, this time to the mighty Coromandel, then over to Opotiki and stop off at Rotorua to return home on 5 January. Had an fabulous time exploring many wonders of our country. Rounding up over 400 caches along the way, with a few LABS, 20 odd TMGTs, virtuals and lots of interesting earth caches to keep the mind busy. Watching the sun come up on New Years Day at Mt Maunganui was spectacular. Lots of walking and even more driving. But had an awesome time. Thanks to all COs who made this adventure so special.

At this cache I realised that I am quite liking the generic camo that the CO uses on many of his caches. A painted cloth tape, sometimes put on crappily so as to have an uneven surface. Nice.

Taybeedragon and I went on a tour of the Coromandel - one of the few places of New Zealand, especially of Te ika a Maui, that I have yet to explore throughly, and from there along the coast to Opotiki to see one of my many, many sisters. From 18 December to 5 January we found over 400 caches, including 12 adventure labs (60 caches), 20 or so TMGTs and a host of virtuals and earthcaches. And I hosted an event to see the sun come up on New Year's day - surprisingly popular given that it was at 5am. We climbed a lot of hills, saw some amazing beaches that were quite popular despite (or because of) the insane access to them, walk a lot of bush, entered and explored 8 gold mines and generally had an awesome time. However I am glad to be back, but now is the hard part, and I fear it will take just as long - logging!

Great walk
Easy find

What a great day for a walk with Abcdf4
Nice easy find no muggles around

Log later

Lovely spot with great view.Well hidden but 3asy find.

Good Morning good cycling around.
TFTC

Well hidden, but easy enough to uncover and make the find. TFTC.

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Out and about for a few days for a bit of a road trip around the Coromandel area. Day Four of my road trip. I started my travels in Coromandel Town and ended my day in Tairua. One of the objectives of my trip today was to try to find as many caches along this trail as I could. It would have been nice to have my bike with me but I had to make do with walking the trail on foot which was just fine by me. Apologies for the cut and paste logs. I'll note anything that stood out for me. All good here. Found this cache in the first place I checked. TFTC, Biggles.

Great day for a bike ride. Thanks for getting me out and about. That's what I love about caching. Taking me to places I have never been.

No probs here. SL. TFTC.

Enjoying this bike trail. A good photo opportunity here. Thanks G-2.

Mrs sp8 had this one in a flash.

TFTC

In the Coromandel for a couple of days with Team BOP. The top of our list - Whenuakura (Donut) Island is now done and dusted so it's time to see whats left on the map. It's very clear I'm in G-2 country. This cache was found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords, a good hint and a straight forward placement. Cheers G-2, TFTC

Yeah baby! First find of the decade for us! Fabulous trail for the bikes. Tftc. Forgot the blinking pen

The hide was immediately spotted. TFTC

We are in New Zealand for 10 Weeks, enjoying our parental time together with our little daughter.
Tairua is our first longer stay and we love this region from the first moment.
Today we decided to have a nice walk in this swamp land area and enjoy the beauty of the river landscape.

Found it together with Sinlkid

TFTC Bodo on Tour

After having the trail mostly to ourselves we noticed a large group of muggles approaching just as we found the cache. We had to very quickly sign the log and return it before they arrived which led to much fumbling and muttering and ultimately taking longer than it would have done if we had just attended to it calmly.
But in any case they didn't arrive until after it was safely tucked back away in its hiding place.
TFTC.

We came to Pauanui for a great cycle and geocaching session and we had a really great time. The trail was SO busy with many families out on their bikes too. Actually thought this would be the end of the hilly bits. Silly me! Amazing views. Cache is all good. TFTC

We are on a road trip in our campervan to do some bike trails with geocaches along them and the plan is to head to Bowentown and on up to Whangamata then on to Pauanui. All these places have bike trails with geocaches along them so I wish to thanks the C O s who placed the geocaches along the trails as We really enjoy doing trails and getting geocaching numbers up.
Other geocaches were also sought out as we went along to help fill the day in. We were pleased most caches were well maintained and only had 3 no finds along the way
many thanks

Easter Weekend and time to dust the bikes off and get riding. Spotted this trail a while ago and decided to have a go. One half of the team is much more confident on the bike than the other. However we spent a very pleasant several hours on the trail riding and finding caches. Probably timed it right as the trail seemed to get busier on our return trip. Can see it is a very popular activity for walkers and bikers. It was a very pretty trail and certainly the hillier aspects add some interest for the more confident rider lol. Nice hide here. SL. TFTC.

Making my way along quiet nicely - biking is fun - wish more bike trails had caches!

TFTC

No worries with this one G! Easy spot and easy... something. Sent a foto to the C.O showing him what a nice spot!

I had a laugh when I read who got FTF here! I was up in Auckland at the time and I knew rusty and Rebel were staying as they always do at this time of the year at Whiritoa. So I rang them up and told them to hurry up and get up here and get this pile of ftf's, I can't remember how many there were at the time that they got. I probably would if I read thru all these logs....

Log later

Allok

Was up this way for the Leadfoot Festival of Speed and noticed I had a couple more caches this way to clear the area again.
Finally an easy find.
Thanks for bringing me here.
TFTC

Qwesy!

Left a buggle.

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Another quick find so just how I like it when short for time. nice view alright.TFTC

This was a last minute planned trip for just the morning to try and get a few numbers for the latest bl**dy souviner challange by Groundspeak. So as it had been a while since I had been over here I thought that starting along this area and working my way south was an option (also would tidy up the map).

I arrived earlier than anticipated so collected the five at the end of the trail were collected as the light was changing. Quickly grabbed this one then went for a bike ride to collect the resbefore heading South.
Thank you for placing these along here and giving me a reason to stop on by. Next time I come over it will be to shoot up the hill
Another nice little collection by the master "G-2", feels good to be back collecting a few of this CO's, THanks for all your work Glynn.
Thanks for the placement, Thanks for the cache

Day 2 of our Whangamata holiday and on the quest for more caches and some fun winter beach time. Decided today we would head to Pauanui to tackle the cycle trail and a few others.


Puff puff puff... The child is now beating me up the hills. Oh dear. I need a break, thankfully there is a cache so I can use that as an excuse. A quick find here of a nicely camoed container.

Time to revisit Pauanui. Last time I was here was in the 70's. Also wanted to give my new e-bike another run.

It's a bit grubby.

Cheers for the cache.

Very nice hide easy

Tftc another great find

Only distant traffic noise to hear. TFTC

Cool camo. Tftc

Enjoying the walk and the caches. The track is great for walking and biking with almost no hillsTFTC

We found this one on top of the Trail
mercy

Having walked up Mt Pauanui this morning and wanting to stay local to Pauanui today I decided on this trail which I’d been eyeing since arriving on Saturday.
I could see where this was going to be as I approached and I wasn’t wrong. Great views from here as promised.
Thanks for placing and greetings from the .

Another well placed hide. Enjoyed walk here in lashing rain. Area here reminds me my beloved Ireland. Rain was a cherry on top of the cake. TFTC

Very impressed with the camo on this one

All ok

Great easy find!

TFTC

Another nice spot along this lovely walking track. Easy to find and in good condition. However, I removed 2 soaked cardboard cards advertising Wellington event. They were about to turn into pulp and kept cache interior wet.

Quick easy find.

Quick easy find, while on holiday for a few days thought May as well do a few caches. Weather is holding off at the moment since its been raining most of.our trip from tauranga. Tftc

1.55pm. Another quick find which we spotted on approach.
Thank you. David & Noeline with Andrea & Natalia.

Another one quickly located and logged

I found ages ago but G-2 deleted my log so... TFTC!

Cache number 3209. I am enjoying walking the trail. As I approached GZ I considered the possibilities. I was not sure whether the fence was new or not. Once at GZ I was easily able to locate the cache so the fence is part of the construction. All good with it. Signed and returned. Thanks for the placement.

Nice out look from this spot .".super camo ....I like the hand crafted effort you put into personalizing your caches G-2 thanks for the cache

All OK here and enjoying the views - in sunshine. Thanks for the cache G-2.

School holidays and we are out with the grand children for a walk and they love to find some caches on the way. Thanks for the cache and something to make our day interesting.

Continued this nice walk today, some great finds and did not try the caches not found 2 days ago. Some are quite challenging and would question the terrain rating. TFTC

No problems locating this one here as it was a nice easy grab. A lovely peaceful location, TFTC!

#250 at 4.50 p.m. Another quickie, getting better at this! GB Leader helped. Tftc G--2.

Nice little spot as we wander along the track & a nice quick find to add to the day's tally. Gorgeous autumn day, only issue is finding a gap to look for caches between the many muggle cyclists today, TFTC

An easy find with our 6y old. Thank you for the view.

What a great spot you have brought us to Tftc greetings from England

Really enjoyed this new walkway, great weather for the walk along.

Easily found.

Thanks,
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#2581, 11.02.2017 um 13:08

I think this is the one that we had to negotiate the high tide. Stunning spot. Tftc