Waipu Cycle and Walkway #4 - flagstaff Waipu, North Island, New Zealand
By Nicholson_family on 07-Dec-18. Waypoint GC814W4

Drove from Mangawhai to Whangrei today, stopping to pick up just two caches along this walkway. Didnt find this one at the fenceline but thats where we left it after signing the logsheet. #8030. TFTC.

Enjoying the walk TFTC

Staying close by so stopped to grab this cache. Cache becoming quite visible with camo wearing of. Tried to cover it a bit. Tftc

Took a little while to find it but the youngest spotted it! Tftc!

Amazing cache nice camouflage

Easy find

Tftc

Tftc

Nice cache like the camo

I can't find this one

No luck here today

TFTC

Fun cache took me a bit

Find #706Found while walking Te Araroa - new Zealands long pathway from Cape Reinga to Bluff. Thank you to all the cache owners who place and maintain these caches, and thank you to all the people who help me and others on the way. Love the camo, took me a minute. Cache is in excellent condition here though part of the camo has worn off. Signed log as LBB to save space

Another great addition to the series and something different than the previous three to keep us on our toes.Hides like this aren't usually our favourite to find but this one is an exception because of the nice camo. So effective that we almost overlooked it.Only two more to find.TFTC.

TFTC

Thankyou, 3 in a row. Good camouflage

Found but didn't touch

Unfortunately, we didn't manage to find it. We don't know what mean "eclipse" and "GL"

Nice quick find great camo

On our way to Auckland TEMBO! and I made a stop at the "Waipu Cycle and Walkway #4 - flagstaff". We found the cache after a quick search and logged.

Thanks to Nicholson_family for hiding and maintaining the cache.

T4TC Filser1

The search took longer, but finally *Filser1* and I were successful.

T4TC

A great camo. Took me a while but I got there

Quick apart from dodging muggles in cars. TFTC

Not easy to find but I did !

Cool cammo

Took a while to find. Great camo .

Out for a bit of an adventure with the family. This one took a few minutes to spot, but trusted the GPS and eventually got there. TFTC.

Good find TFTC

Great camo - had to use our caching eyes but helpful hint! TFTC

Tricky

Nice little find on this bright sunny day. TFTC. Cache in good condition

**15,338**
This cache was easily located and we can see perhaps why the gardener keeps removing it. Tried to hide a little better. TFTC

Took us a little bit but we were so happy when we found it. Great hiding!

Stopping to do a couple along this trail, unfortunately we won't have time to do them all but collected the numbers for the bonus in case I'm back in the future. Clever camo, thanks Nicholson_family

#12002

A bit naughty but we're just stopping for the park and grabs along this walkway on our way past - sorry. Very effective camo here. TFTC # 18,346

Walked up and down afew times before finally finding it. Great camo. TFTC

Good camo.

No luck last visit , so had a good look today and cammo spotted after careful check. Tftc

Not easy - looked and looked. Got the better of us this one or wonder if the new wood under the fence has disturbed this geocache??

This one got me.

looks like new mulch been placed.

thank you.

Found it look harder and it is there.

Lots of work done here to beautify the area. Cache replaced. Natural camo - read updated hint.

Cache area has had new mulch added and a spruce up. Cache gone walkabout again. Will replace in next few days.

This area has had very recent landscaping done, in fact we chatted to one of the landscapers for a while. Area has been replanted and heavily mulched. Suggest more owner maintenance, sorry!

Maintenance has been done on the garden and cache was removed. New cache has been placed. Eclipse - Natural camo.

Had a try today. No luck and looks like some work has been done at the site. Will keep an eye on reports.

20 June 2021 14:25. The last of this series for me, as I need to get the hire car back to AKL. TFTC.

Found it

We set out early to find a few caches before returning home after a weekend in Whangarei. We had to pretend to be on our phones, as just as we were about to look for the cache a vehicle was exiting the nearby driveway. Once the car had gone, we zoomed in for a quick find. TFTC

Today I decided to venture out of Whangarei for the day to reach caches that might have caused problems if I had my snail shell in tow.

I decided to go for a wee walk along here. About 10m out.

Cheers for the cache.

This is the first ever geocache that we've looked for

We were in the campervan today but we figured we'd have a go at getting some of these cycle trail caches as we explore Waipu.
Plenty of room to park here and a very straight forward find.
Thanks for setting this up for us to find

Found it

Walking the Waipu Cycleway today to make a few finds. Nice bit of camo work. Thanks.

It was a hot day to be walking this track. Not much our hats and water. A good hint made for an easy find. Great camo. TFTC.

I couldn’t find any number on this one. Hopefully I don’t need it for the final. TFTC

Nice find

1016. 2:47 pm. We decided it was the perfect day to takes the kids for a geocaching bike ride. Quick find but the final number clue was almost missed by us. TFT(side road)C.

Day 18 of my TA adventure. After refueling in waipu it was off down the trail ..great to be of the road on this section ...
Nice quick find tftc

Nice quick find. Tftc

Log paper is damp

Tftc

Great find and easy to pull over

A quick find at this one. Collected the number. TFTC.

905 Walk track with a friend. Cache needs maintenance

Road trip up North. TFTG

On the way back to the car we met up with the mysterious disppearing cacher - and had a nice chat with Tramyard until moving off to grab the final. T4tx

Found it exposed. Quick and handy one. Nice to meet Auckland` Cachers - PageNZ not too far from GZ. T4TC

We decided to drive to the rest of these, but this procedure hairy in a 7.5m motor home. This one wasn't too bad as long s we were quick. Thanks for the cache.

Nice camo but it is showing signs of deterioration log was all good signed and returned as found many thanks N fam

It WOOD be easy

Shameless squad

Good hide TFTC

First ever geo find ever. How exciting...

AliGle and I spent the night near Waipu and this morning took a walk to complete this series of caches along the walkway here. A nice quick find here, TFTC!

Nice, shady spot. TFTC

Stopped on my way north to Waipu Cove. A quick find. Thanks for hiding Nicklolson Family.

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

Enjoying the walkway today.
Soon found the container, collected bonus cache number.

tftc

We spent way too much time searching in the wrong place. But when widening the search a bit, there it was! TFTC and Greetings from Sweden!

After a nice meal at the Pizza Barn we decided to take the caches on this trail.
TFTC!

Quick find here- and some great camo!

#1020. Day 27 of walking the Te Araroa trail and the 20th cache I found along the way.

It was surprisingly hard to work out what side of the road to be on but once I worked it out it was an easy find.

Signed a blank logbook! But no FTF here today - just a replacement log.

Thanks for the cache!

Replaced - good to go. Read updated description and hint.

Thanks P n E for letting me know about cache. Looks like the cache went through the mulcher when the gardens got a makeover - will need a replacement ASAP. Anyone doing the series can still obtain the bonus cache as only 5 of the 6 is needed (use checksum).

As per email TFTC

muched into a million pieces with the tree it was on - will replace. **See note below**

Walked this when walked Te Araroa. What an improvement. TFTC

Nice camp!

Out geocaching with Riser5 collecting gems. Tftc

A few trees trimmed but cache secure. Nice camo

Nice camo, QEF TFTC

3.30pm. Another quick find.
Thank you. David.

Took a while to spot this one, couldn't really decide which tree, but Mrs Sp8 eagle eyed it out in the end.

TFTC