Punga Hole (Northland) Kerikeri, North Island, New Zealand
By bobcat105 on 23-Sep-18. Waypoint GC7Y5TM

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in a prior reviewer note.

Hi bobcat105This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.RegardsTheCoddiwompler

Found a hole in a punga where it should have been. Wasn't there.

Obvious spot from the hint, expanded search but found nothing

Wouldn’t find… saw the potential place for it but not luck

DNF

No luck today.

found hole but no luck with the cache

Had a good search around for this one but alas no luck ...the C.O may want to check

Hunted all over and expanded search but no luck

F

Tires kids will come back

Hard

Pretty hard but got it eventually

Found an obvious hole but no cache. Evidence of cache remnants, blue bouncy ball.

Took a little while to find the right path but succeeded in the end.

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Got a bit confused on these tracks but we found it in the end!

Long walk from the fairy pools found it though

TFTC quick find great walk

Found

Last cache of the day required a bit of backtracking from Fairy Falls, but no matter. The walk attacked my senses: the cacophony of cicadas brought the sound, and the flowers brought the smells and delightful visuals. A cache was soon to hand and then I was off home. Tftc.

Another cache down in my attempt to get 365 caches this year - this is number 11 so already a little behind. Great excuse to visit the 'other' side of the river. Have often walked the Rainbow Falls track but this is my 1st time exploring across the river. Interesting reserve with lots of trails. Was on my way to an appointment so had a deadline. Luckily picked the right tracks and followed the instructions. Very good name - says it all. Will have to come back and spend some more time exploring. TFTC

Got a bit lost but got there in the end. Nice network of paths! TFTC

My family and i decided it was a good day for a bush walk and thought we would give our first geocache location a go, it was a great little adventure for our babies. Thank you to the hider for the adventure.
Our tip to everyone who wants to give it a go is STAY ON THE PATH, DONT GO INTO THE BUSH.

Cache number 2 for our new Geocacher. Climbed along the fallen tree afterwards. Thanks. Love exploring these woods

Found it. Treasure hunting with my son.

It's the third day of our brief trip to the Far North to have a look around, take a break and of course find a few geocaches. Today we were hanging around near our Air BnB as the weather was the ickiest of our trip and a bit rainy for most of the day.

We wanted a spot where we could take Albert the geohound for an interesting walk and noted that there was no "no dogs" attribute on this cache or any "no dogs" reference we could find online or at the bush area entrance so perfect.

We wandered about as we didn't know the area and where the correct path would be - nice spot to take a walk about - pity about the ginger plants taking over though, they are such a pest. Got to the correct trail and walked right up to the cache, in the obvious spot - it was a bit out in the open as the natural camo had come off - so very easy really - quite a big cache for its spot. Signed in and replaced as found, adding natural camo to the top. Hopefully it stays safe. Thanks for the cache in this nice area, we enjoyed our walk.

Tuh

I decided to try and sign off a few caches while I was in Kerikeri.

This was the second when I finally got on the right rrack.

Cheers for the cache.

I found this by mistake on my usual walk down the track. I shared a video of my finding & people informed me it was a geocache:) I look forward to finding more in my area

Had a wee while to wait for Mrs Q so followed trails into this one. Thanks

Quick find while out for a walk.

TFTC

Went with family to GZ. LI0Npaw picked up the cache from the hidey-hole.

I found it .
TFTC

1217. 12:35 pm. A bit of a jungle adventure to find the correct trail to GZ and back out again. While all of us were searching the tops of punga, LI0NPaw had the right idea for the find. Found with GRAkiWi, eKitten and LI0NPaw. TFT(punga)C.

Great Punga hole ! lots of hint objects to check. Followed by two hopeful piwakawaka

Once we discovered the correct track, it led us to the location, though there was a bit of walking first while we took the wrong tracks. There are lots of hint objects, and by now we had two keen piwakawaka fluttering round, though they clearly had no idea where the cache was. Eventually zespri4 had her hand on it, and we signed and replaced as found. Thanks for placing this.

Found today on our dog walk

Found it , great description

We liked the hiding place!

Eventually found the hidden path and found the location very quickly. No problem finding the cache. TFTC

Up in Kerikeri for the Half Marathon today and after finishing a bit earlier than I expected, thought I should make good use of the time until prizegiving, to search for a cache or two.

This was one place in Keri that I have never been to before. Not sure I used the intended track to get to this one, but it was a nice quick find in the hint location, thanks to being spotted on approach, even though it was relatively well hidden. TFTC

I am up near the Bay of Islands grabbing caches. I found this cache in the first place I looked, but not before I checked several other places and the looked again a bit better. TFTC.

An overnight stop on my way to Cape Reinga to start the north island section of the Ta.
Having spent the day sat on a plane or a bus I needed to stretch my legs (without a pack) so a short walk around the block was in order..
Starting to loose the light so had to use my torch to find this one ..picked up tb tftc

Today I finally got to fly north.
Its been a week of rain, hail and snow down south and all I wanted to do is fly north to start my Te Araroa adventure,
Life is short so live life one foot steep at a time .
I àrived at kerikeri and got to my accommodation for the night with plenty of time to stretch the legs so what better way than to pick up a cache.
A nice walk to start my adventures and pick up this one and drop off a traveler to continue it journey.

Drop tb

Thanks for the hide

tftc

Saw some beautiful tui on this track. Thanks for the cache

Mark your track it is easy to get lost.

TFTC
Didn’t bring byop so took photo of general area.b

Cute find thanks

Great walk easy find many thanks

Took a bit of a long route to get to this one. Took a small track that turned that went past an old campsite then turned into a bit of a bush bashing. Located the actual track and found the punga a short while later. Thanks for the cache

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Lost the track and bush bashed in jandels don’t follow me cos I’m lost but I found it.

Easy find

What a maze of tracks. Thankfully went straight to it. Just got to find my way out.

Picked up tb.

first Geocache FOUND

Nice find while in the area with tmann421 today
Enjoying the trip north and the caches
Signed log as tm/ww NZ

Nice find with woolwood9 today.
*We enjoyed the drive / walk around the area.*
Stamped logs as tm/ww NZ which may just look like a black smudge on plastic logs!
TFTC

*Nice area and walk.*

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Yay found it no pen to write my name

Tftc,found second time round

awesome track, don't second guess the way

Good find

Greetings from Tauranga. Loving our short stay in your corner of the world. Sunday today, but all was quiet here and very peaceful. We were very pleased to spot the cache quite quickly, thanks to the good clue. Cache is all good. In TB. TFTC

Found on a day off from our TA thru-hike. What better way to spend it than a pleasant, pack-free caching hike? Quick find, though cache was burried deep in cobwebs and required a lot of excavation!

Nice tracks in the heart of Keri

Another track, albeit a bit of bush basking, and another cache!

#6384

Lovely walk! Great find.

found

Back in keri keri today. So enjoyed another walk and found another wee track to follow. Very pleasant place to walk thx.

Out with Nicholson_family. Wandered through the bush from side road to get to this one. Easy find in the end. TFTC

Nice walk through the woods to cache. Kids loved it. Tftc

Easy find in a beautiful location amongst the city, thank you for bringing me here.

A tricky hide, very well camoflaged by the last finder so i actually dismissed the hiding spot a few times, dropped some swag for the next finders tftc!

Great walk, and hiding spot

A great walk and an excellent hiding spot.

Our first cache! Awesome easy find for the kids

Fun one

Much more exciting when you don't follow the track.

Yebo bobcat105

That was a nice walk in the forest and it took three attempts to find that path (passing the flowering gold...) leading directly to the hide

Tftc

Just down from where we stayed, lovely spot. Tftc

Ty, great fun

Easy find along a lovely track. TFTC

Returning to Zara for the night. But time to go walking through this park to snag and tag this one. Thanks Bobcat105.
Friday - day fourteen - Kerikeri - northwards with The Seagnoid , toby and William. Zara gets to rest up in KeriKeri again.

Its another epic 3+ week geocaching adventure with The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby and Willam 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..

Some of the tracks here are marked on the map, some are not. Lie the one to here. I would have plotted it on my GPS, but alas I have lost it. . Giving this a favourite for the park, many thanks (And that it is a decent size)

Great short walk, ty

Found this one on the way back to the car - such a nice area. We had a good walk

TFTC

I had an email mentioning that the cache was missing. I have now replaced the cache and it's ready to be found

Thanks for the cache

Cool wee bush walk. Found cache and added a wee token of our appreciation.

Yah {FTF} with my buddy. Lucky I was heading this way again today. Neat paint job on the cache. A nice little forest walk, TFTC

Got the call for a first to find but oh no im with a. Client. Client says go for it. Met lisscrew at way point and we hope pookie hasnt collected the {FTF}.. this. Cache must have been made last night as camo paint came off on my hand.Tftc.

2TF. A quick find once on the track. TFTC

Only just discovered this warren of walkways so happy to go explore it again! Felt like I was walking in a giant circle and a few false alarms with my GPS sending me to the wrong spots. TFTC great to have a new local one

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