Matakohe Memories / Northland Matakohe, North Island, New Zealand
By supernannny on 05-Nov-17. Waypoint GC7EFV4

Needed that walk after having breakfast at the cafe

After a lovely dinner at Matakohe House I had to stretch my legs and watch the sunset here. Thanks.Fund Nr. 1396

Finished early!

Quick and easy find, only a short walk away from the museum.The log is dry and in good condition.TFTC!

Yayayayayaya

Thanks SN. Nice to be here in Matakohe and find your name as owner. Xx

GREAT HINT, TFTC.

Beautiful autumn day here and a nice easy find thank you. We've just come from the old Matakohe wharf where we spotted some spoonbills.

Staying in the camp close by. Dogs needed a walk, so what better than going to find a cache. Found with StonyCroft. TFTC!!!

TFTC

Thanks found it

Great view easy find TFTC

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An easy one, thanks!Geloggt mit c:geo als Chrolimasi oder meist mit CHR ,wenn mglich immer mit Datum oder wie bei wie Nano's/ Platzgrnden/hnliches/ irgendwo dazwischen/ganz hinten im Logbuch.Natrlich spendieren wir gerne ein neues Doserl oder Logzetterl falls zur Hand!Es knnen auch schon mal Einheitslogs vorkommen, wie bei groen Ruden/vielen Dosen oder vielleicht wenn mal nichts erwhnenswertes dabei war.Bitte seid uns deswegen nicht bse!Jeden Owner/in/innen zollen wir natrlich Respekt fr deren Arbeit,auslegen und warten der Caches ,jede einzelne gefundene Dose zaubert uns immer wieder ein neues ins Gesicht und einen auf die Karte!Egal wo auf der Welt,Servus ,Ciao,Hello,Hola .... aus !Und wie immer!TFTC!

Found with jac488 on a beautiful sunny day.

Found with Kaz53

Very easy find for the kids thanks

8 november 2023 18:52659Tftc

Tftc

Gut gefunden

Taking a different route home lovely little township to katian quickfind to ftc

The afternoon in the great museum and the night at the campground nearby.
Good day.
Tanks.

# 1994 Another wet weekend away with the fam. Stayed the weekend at Pahi. I know I'm getting out of the game when I start issuing directions to the kids and dont even bother getting out of the car. Well found by dangerSAM.

We stopped nearby for a refreshment break as we headed south towards Auckland and Mr Bb took a brisk walk to GZ where the cache was found after a brief search, only to realise that he’d left the pen with Mrs Bb at the cafe - D’oh!
Took a photograph of the log that we should have signed to verify our visit.
TFTC.

It was a fun geo cashe thank you

Enjoyed visiting this area along all the history..thanks supernanny for the cache I have enjoyed this unique area

It's been years since we have come this way and didn't venture to Matakohe. It's been a trip of memories as well as many of my school friends were from the Kaipara area, even some from Poutu. We are taking time to "smell the roses" this time. We even spent a lot of time at the Kauri Museum - a must do. Thanks for bringing us here Supernanny

Found it during our stay at the holiday park!

Thanks for this cache, supernanny and I apologise for the delay in logging.
1st major road trip in my Motorhome & I was pleased to escape SH1 to drive along this way !
I really enjoyed the Kauri Museum & seeing the Pou close to the main road; good to find these caches of yours, too.

That was hard!

This was a quick find while passing by today. All is well with the cache, thanks.

Thanks for the find… on our lil road trip to go find some geocache

Found it with @tayla28

Nice spot

Good spot

Easy park and grab.TFTC.

Nice one. TFTC

Very nice location thanks for the cache.

Out on a cache finding day.

Def small thanks for the cache, had fun looking for a Buffalo lol

Stopped directly by the cache and found after a short search - which took longer than it really should have. All is in good condition today. TFTC.

Well Covid has put a bit of a spanner in the works. With very few caches left to find in Northland, the intention had been to do a trip to Auckland in September to get the numbers necessary for this month's souvenir. However, with little chance of Akl being at Level 2 any time soon, a trip was planned to south west Northland to clear the few remaining caches in that area.

A real bonus of this 300 km trip today, was that I actually visited several places that I have never been to before, despite living in Northland for over 60 years. That's one of the great things about geocaching - it takes you to new and interesting places.

Another nice quick find here thx. TFTC

Could see the cache from the car. TFTC

What a view across the valley, took a moment to sit on the grass and look at it.

This is a stunning day to be out and about exploring...so peaceful.

Nice and easy find, TFTC!

Great find

Another generous diversion by tuolei so I could pick this one up. The rest of the team had found this one so I jumped out to find it whilst they turned the geowagon around and it was all found signed and replaced before they got back. TFTC

Checked...tiny bison!
Put a piece of concrete in front....

So far so good...3 from 3 in Matakohe. Off to the last one down at the wharf

1085. 3:29 pm. Day trip with a little geocaching. 9th find of the day. Found with eKitten, GRAkiWi &Co. TFTC(that I nearly missed).

put my hand almost on it then phisolofurr spotted cache! tftc

TFTC! Mr 6: “It was very small”

We are on our summer holiday, we usually take a few weeks and travel around the South Island, but this year we are heading around the North Island. Heading up the West coast and back down the East coast. Finding only a select few caches along the way, we are mostly targeting some challenges we have qualified for, some large size caches, some that fill gaps in our date placed grid, a few D/T combinations, some with lots of favourite points, letterboxes and anything else that grabs our fancy.

I had a fall on day two of our holiday, while out geocaching which has resulted in a fractured bone in my leg and I am in a moon boot and with crutches and I was told to keep weight off my leg. So I am only limited use when it comes to our trip now. I tend to stay in the campervan and just hand out suggestions of when and where GK should search.

A nice quick find here, gk went and found it and signed the log then he returned it as he found it. We are filling in some time this evening while we wait for the museum to open in the morning.
Thanks for placing this cache and thank you for the smiley.

I had been here before, but there were too many muggles about. Today thankfully, nobody. Quick find. TFTC

Easy find, thank you

Great hide. Found it thanks

many thanks tuolei....I really appreciate your replacement.!
My plans to come up there in August were delayed by Covid ...Hope to visit in January or February ...

Hung a new bison for you supernannny - hope that’s ok.

Coming up to Dargaville in August...will check then.

No luck here for us today, it looks like the fence line has been weed eaten.

Memories of times past are always good to keep. Good view from here.

Cheers for the cache.

We found this cache during our holidays, on the way to Auckland!
Thanks for showing!

Best regards bhudi from Germany

First cache for the day after staying the night at the nearby holiday park, what a lovely spot TFTC.

More later

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Easy find thanks as a local to northland it’s a lovely museum to visit!

Found while staying at local camp ground TFTC

New log in as old log was past its best

These caches are cool

TFTC

Gilmour tribe found...12.10.2019

Found 8.35am
Stayed at Paparoa Motor Camp last night. Good room and facilities, and only $30 for the night.
Fish & Chips from the local takeaway, thought about going to the pub but the place was packed with rugby followers.
A few caches to collect today before heading back home. SLTFTC

TFTC
New log sheet may be required soon

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches in the area

I quickly spotted this one as I walked up, but then it took a few minutes to get to the log paper since it was rusty and hard to open. TFTC.

Auf meiner Reise an das andere Ende der Welt, konnte ich heute die Gelegenheit nutzen diesen Cache, zu suchen,
zu finden um mich dann erfolgreich ins Logbuch einzutragen. Danke für das Legen und Pflegen des Caches.
Mein 22ter Cache in Neuseeland

After not beeing able to work today due to the rain we decided to go on a little drive to visit the Kauri Museum and to find a few caches in the surrounding area.
After finding the two caches father up the road this one was a quick find after turning the car around. One more to go and then back home for a quiet rest of the day.

There is a lot of history in this area and having stayed a few years ago at Matakohe House I was able to explore the history and area.

I'm from Switzerland and spend 4 months in New Zealand on vacation. Found this cache after a few minutes search, thanks.

A lovely day on our journey to do some caches ..Was nice up here in nature.Thanks from Swiss guy !

Quick find though I had to pretend to be taking some photos as two camper vans exited the camping ground just at the wrong moment.

TFTC

After a long drive we arrived at Holiday Camp Matahoke. Chilling a bit and after dinner we walked to this cache. Thanks to the hint we found it quickly.
Thanks for hiding and greetings from Holland.

We were staying at the campsite up the road, so after dinner we wandered up to grab this. Took a few seconds to locate the cache, all good here, thanks

Stopped here for a quick snag and tag after spending a couple of hours at the nearby museum. Cheers

Monday - New Years Eve - day seventeen - Whangarei - Dargarville - Whangarei today in Toby. Zara gets another rest. So lets go exploring!!

Its another epic 3+ week geocaching adventure with The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby and William to the Far North. What an amazing place to explore. Lots of walks, gravel roads and sand. Lots of amazing trees, beaches and interesting POIs. Lots of kilometers traveled by vehicle and foot. Vehicle breakdowns, making new friends and catching up with old friends and family. Snagged a couple of FTF's, lots of lonely caches and the odd event along the way. Lots of cache maintenance and replaced caches on this trip. But what an incredible adventure!!. Thanks to all the CO's who have made this trip so memorable..

Stopped by here after spending an awesome morning in the kauri museum.

Day sixteen of an awesome, tiring, long, three week holiday geocaching with Taybeedragon in the upper north. Taybeedragon and I scooted over from Whangarei this morning, especially to visit the kauri museaum, then back to dargavile for a sundown event and back back to Whangarei for bed and a sunrise event. The whole trip comprised of hours of walking on sand, sliding down sand dunes, hundreds of kilometres of unsealed roads, car breakdowns, paddling out to islands, lighthouses, dolphins, goats, events, FTFs, weird boulders. You name it, we saw it. Lots of bisons, lots of cache maintenance, lots of sunscreen. A month is enough. I am glad to be back home. Except that now I have to write up my trip. We averaged just 20 caches per day, but that is still a lot of logging!

Happy new Planetary Orbit from the Seagnoid!

Northland Day 1: We drove up from Auckland to Hokianga today, passing through the Hibiscus Coast before heading across to Kaipara District and then into the Hokianga Harbour. Stopped by various beautiful regions along the way to take in the views, and of course, there was always room a few cache finds... well, not a few Thanks to all the COs along the way for showing us the lovelier parts of the Northland!

The following is the specific log for each cache:
Glad I was able to grab one more cache before leaving the town. This one was fairly quick and easy, but as usual, it was a little game of guessing which post it is at. TFTC!

Nice view, good hide, been meaning to do this obe for a while.

3 or 4 trees?
Thanks

5.10pm. Make that four trees! Took a while to spot but we got it.
Thank you. David and Sarah.

Sneaky!! Great hints! Signed ZMC

Found with FMZ, Gorby and Lostcourse on a day trip caching up north. TFTC

Lostcourse directed us to this one, FMZ is driving us around, and I'm a happy passenger glad to be out caching for the whole day! What an adventure so far! Still dark, early morning, mu headtorch is quite poor at the moment, so I searched for the cache and didn't find it, so FMZ jumps out with his very bright torch and spotted what I missed straight-away! Thanks for bringing me here again.

Love the museum here Helen, nothing to see today however, since it's dark, but how's this for a memory! I came here 27-10-2003, took a foto of a tall Kauri right next to the museum (planted 1965), I see on Google Earth now, that it no longer exists, has been cut down and replanted. My fotos are 2013, the google one is 2012...

Left Auckland in the early hours of the morning with Lostcourse, Gorby and 404, and heading through this area on our way to Dargaville. We decided since we might not go back this way figured we should clean out the area. Made short work of logging this cache before moving on. TFTC!!!

Log later

We drove north early this afternoon after our work was over for the day. We have been to the Matakohe museum before, but don't recall driving further down this road. Lovely rural views from GZ, and a straight forward cache find, thanks.

Quick park and grab. ....just had to wait for the kids from the holiday park to go back to their caravan.

Another easy find in this lovely area. My Grandparents are all from England so we don't have a lot of history in NZ. I'm pleased to be living on the farm that my Grandparents then my parents owned. My brother now owns it so I'm glad it's still in the family. Thanks for the cache

On an Odyssey with tigatat2
Stopped here for the night and the museum and as we were going past, why not.
Signed with our joint name TT2M.P - saves space.
Tftc

On an Odyssey road trip in Northland, with My.Precious. It was originally planned as a motorbike trip in Feb, but due to me having complications with my accident recovery, our summer holiday has become our winter holiday.
Due to time limitations only afew special easy caches will be signed and logged as TT2M.P
Stayed the night at campground and went hunting on the way out. M.P wasn't keen on finding barbwire in the long grass.
Nice find. TFTC.