Bilbo's Spare Button (Waikato) Matamata Piako District, North Island, New Zealand
By GeoRick on 16-Feb-19. Waypoint GC83JW3

So glad I helped Bilbo before we got to Bag End!! Thank you x

Day thirty nine of our epic New Zealand Adventure with The Morris.Staying in Rotorua, visited Hobbiton for a tour and lunch.That night we went to the Night Tree Top walk in the redwood forest.On the way to Hobbiton we dropped in on this cache.A very cute hide.Thanks, Robmc.

Day 39 of our Enzed adventures with Robmc and today was all about Hobbits. We were off to Hobbiton for the tour and lunch and had time for a couple of caches along the way.This was very cuteThanks for contributing to an amazing holiday.

Tftf intersectiun

Well done good spot east find

Saw it strait away

Quick found

Thank goodness I found his spare button!

After the visiting Hobbiton, I made this cache and found the Button fast. Thank you

Tftc. On the way home after visiting Hobbiton. Terrific day

After visiting Hobbiton we came by this cache and it was very cute. Such beautiful countryside out here and well worth visiting for the day.OCW irondale. TFTC

Checking-Caleb found it this timeAll good here

Thanks very much

Up from the deep South for a wedding, so out exploring the area. Nicely timed for the Cosmic Quest. A foggy morning, and the spare button is missing. The cache is there, but not the button. Thanks for the cache GeoRick# 3865 28 July 2024 10:08 am

Found the button and tried a bit of blutac... Not holding my breath though.

On the way to Tauranga to visit a customer.Found easy but camo came off and have stuck back on with tape but I would be dubious that it will remain to much longer.TFTF

On our way to visit Hobbiton with Hippitiainen. 2.5h driving has gone smoothly - the thing we were especially worried beforehand.

Today I am traveling to Hamilton, so I had to find a few caches along the way. TFTC.

Sunday afternoon / Evening mission with Reschedule. Taking some back roads to / from Hamilton. Quick easy find here, time to head for hobbiton.

Out with Kiwi Does Stuff for a quiet Sunday caching mission in and out of Hamilton through all of the backroads. TFTC!

Trouve ! / Found it ! J'avais un peu de glue dans mon vide-poche pour rparer le camouflage Tout est bien en place 5384me cache trouve.Merci GeoRick pour la cache I had a little glue in my pocket to repair the camouflage Everything is in place 5384th cache found.Thank you GeoRick for the cache

Was passing by helping out a friend, when we decided to take a stop and find the nearest cache......managed to dodge the rather large water puddle, sign in , and back on our way.....I believe the glue may have failed on the cache, and the hinted item may/may not be present for the next finder.....TFTC.

Very cool. Adventure awaits! tftc

Thanks GeoRick for the cache!

A quick drive by on the way to Hobbiton today. No problem here, soon signed and on our way. We're very excited about our tour! Tftc

Fast stop on the way to Hobbiton. TFTC

Slight detour on our way to Cambridge to find this cache. Nice and straightforward. TFTC

Found it on our way to the hobbiton movie set. Happy to help bilbo with his spare button.

Today continued my week long solo adventure on the North Island from Atlanta in the U.S. after putting GeoJayne on a plane yesterday. She made the south island visit incredible, but I was doing my best to find my way around the north island one geocache at a time. I found almost all the caches I looked for and saw some pretty cool spots along the way. I love when that happens!This was a super cute find on the way to tour the local movie set. It was exactly as described but not where I thought it might be. Of course, there weren't a lot of choices of location, so it was easy to lay my hands on, but I am awarding a favorite point for creativity. Thank you for the smiley and the fun!

Day 2 of our tour around the North island with Blue Jay. Today, we drove from Matamata to Rotatua, taking in a fantastic tour of The Hobbit movie set. We also found some great caches and this was one of them.TFTC. Toffee Man.

Another nice hide. Waist on a tall person high We also acknowledge the traditional custodians of New Zealand / Aoteroa, as we geocache throughout their land while on holiday.Thanks for showing us this place, & for placing and maintaining this cache. The is our playground

Visiting New Zealand for two weeks and doing some geocaches - Scooby Dooby Doo! After visiting Hobbiton on our way back on the Road found this one. Thanks for the cache in this beautiful country.

After visiting Hobbiton I found this cache. TftC. ??????

Day 11 Rotorua to Hobbiton, New Zealand. A Fantastic day visiting the Lord of the Rings/ The Hobbit movie set and a few caches on the journey.I could imagine the Hobbits running through the corn field.After finding a similar cache, I knew exactly what to look for.Log signed and replaced as found.Thanks for the traditional cache GeoRick #7,884

Quick grab after visiting Hobbiton today.#2266 - Mar 6, 2024TFTC GeoRick

Hello from Seattle! After an amazing trip along the southern coast of Australia heading from Sydney to Adelaide to attend a Mega-Event with my fellow Lackey and best Geobuddy Giacaches, we headed over to New Zealand for a week of caching and adventure - as I often say, we've never been closer, so it made perfect sense to plan for a stop. We have a loop around the North Island on the schedule, and I'm so excited to see all the things there is to see!After being fully immersed in Hobbiton, we got back on the road and headed out on our way, stopping here first to keep working on the list. This is so very adorable! Thanks so much for the cache and for adding to our awesome adventure!

Greetings from Seattle! I traveled down under with jtcoffee to attend the Great Leap Forward Mega-Event in Adelaide on Leap Day. Of course, a trip from Seattle to Australia just wouldn't be complete without a detour through New Zealand Per usual, We're squeezing in as many extra activities as we can, including, but not limited to: Logging our geocache finds in the southern hemisphere Finding Australia's oldest, [GC3E](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3E) at Lane Cove, and the first-ever Earthcache, [GCHFT2](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCHFT2) Enjoying the spectacle of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in Sydney Cruising along the scenic Great Ocean Road Completing a challenge that requires finding 31 Earthcaches and 31 Virtuals in 31 days ([GC32TBZ](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC32TBZ) and [GC32TC2](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC32TC2)) Finding the oldest cache placed outside of the US, [GC46](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC46) Exploring the iconic Lord of the Rings filming locations across New Zealand We found this one after visiting Hobbiton, a place I've always wanted to visit. Of course, it was incredible! Thanks for placing this cache and thus contributing to our epic adventure!

Quick find on way back to tga

4-week family trip through NZ - Find #72!Another quick park&grab on our way to Hobbiton. We had a good laugh about the hint "knee level" - I'm not a cave troll !TFTC!

Today we visited to amazing and totally different places: Wai-o-tapu and Hobbiton.On our way to Hobbiton we made a quick stop here and searched the cache.Thanks for hiding and maintaining the cache.Happy hunting!TFTCschnuckel1[#24241]

Found it on our way back from hobbiton ! Thanks

Found within amazing trip around New Zealand. Thanks for nice cache ....................................................................... TB Koumesovo geopivo DDEV7M

We had a great time visiting Hobbitton, we also found this cache. Thank you!

# #7,188 #----------A nice quick find here on the way up to the Hobbiton Movie Set. Parked to nearby and walked over to this one. Glad to have found the spare button lying around. However instead of returning it to Bilbo, Ill leave it for others to discover too! TFTC!!! ----------> All geocaches are signed as mmmPIZZA or mPZ

### New Zealand 2024 ###On our 1 week tour North New Zealand tour we visited many caches in Auckland, Habbiton, Taupo, Huka Falls, Piha and Mount Eden.We had a lot of great experiences along the way and had a lot of fun searching for the caches.Thanks to all the owners for the great caches Team sissifalke

Very quick easy find thanks to hint. TFTC

Fast find on the was back from HobbitonTFTCShiroyama

Yesterday we visited Hobbiton. Today we found the cache. Thank you for the cache.

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Greetings from Canberra, Australia! I came to Hobbiton with my friend 6 years ago but was on a charter bus from Matamata so I couldn't get any caches near Hobbiton. Today, with the boys, we did the tour and found this cache on the way back. Cute container. Great tourist destination, the sets are stunning and the buffet was top notch. TFTC!

Thanks! Nice break on our drive! Found by JOH/T/N

TFTF.Nice short break.JOH, T and N.From Auckland, Michigan and Massachusetts.

came by here today on our trip and looked for and found the cache. The Knuffelbren say thank you for the cache.

Found with Pprime`.

Accio 14:53:11After such an amazing experience up the road - we had a drive to get onto ...but time for one more stop to get our bearings. * Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. *Thanks GeoRick for entertaining me at this location. *{Overall find #11658}*

A quick stop off here as we head back home to Hawkes bay after a weekend in Auckland. Cute cache.Thank you GeoRick for placing this cache.Log signed as B&PFind number 4877

Out and about with beautiful wife and tylerdrummond who are up visiting me from Kapiti while I'm here working for a couple of months.Our fourth and final cache of the day and what a ripper day it was too. If that was an indication of how hot things get round here over summer then I'm pleased I will be going home soon!Thankfully a nice quick find due to similarities to one of today's previous finds.TNLNSL Thanks yet again GeoRick

Travelling down to Tauranga this evening and wanting to pick up some caches that are a little lonely. Quick find here this evening. Thanks for placing and maintaining the cache

On My way to Tauranga. Kiscardi's eagle eye spotted this one for a quick find. Nice cache. Thanks

School holidays so time for a road trip and some caching. A quick park and grab. Looks like Bilbo needed his spare button but happy to find the cache anyway. Thanks for the smiley.

Nice hide!! Quickly retrieved without getting wet! Thanks for hiding.

Car park covered in water . Just able to get to spot with out getting my feet wet.

Quick easy find. TFTC

Visiting from Ohio, USA and came out this way for the Hobbiton tour. Another fun one!

Greetings from the Czech Republic and Thanks For This Cache.
Díky za keš.
16:31
Moje 5095

A nice quick find, first for the day. Thanks for placing your cache.

Ms_KR and I cruised over to Tauranga today. The tarffic was pretty good and we visited some places that we had not stopped at before.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. .

Cute az! Thanks GeoRick

Day 13 on our holiday in New Zealand. Today we are in the area and surrounding area of Rotorua. We also visited this tradi, found it, and signed the logbook.



***T4T$ - Many Thanks to GeoRick for hiding and maintaining of this cache*** ️

Quick find after the first one! Thanks! Great hide.
Visiting from Canada.

Awesome little park and grab on the way home tonight. One of my favoritely hidden ones of all time. Clever as. Logging on behalf of yabbsdabbs too as he seems to be too tight to buy premium. TFTC!

TFTC! Heading back to NP via Hobbit/ LOTR related caches.

Sneaky hide! TFTC

Last time I was here this was missing, nice to see it back...TFTC

Found the button, tftc!

Cool hide. Stopped on our way to Hamilton.

A quick park n grab en route to Matamata. Very cool. Tftc and Merry Xmas!

Cool find after the Hobbiton tour.

This was a cool find! FP for sure! Extra points because we are on our way to The Shires Rest for a Hobbiton Tour so this fitted in nicely with the theme. TFTC

Found with trayc.g on day 6 of our family holiday. Today is the day we head to The Shires Rest for a tour of Hobbiton. Can’t wait!
TFTC

FP of course. On our way to hobbiton. Greetings from Västmanland Sweden

Ww found the bortom. TFTC

Thanks for the cache!
Jessie and Alex

Going for the obvious direction, Hobbiton, this could not be missed. Nice implementation for the cache. Thanks and greetings from Finland.

Doing some caching before our Hobbiton tour. Loved the container. Giving it a favorite. TFTC!

Found with sneakykiwi yesterday. Last minute hunt before home. Nicely hidden . Think we got all of bibles buttons.. TFTC

Found with DopeyKiwi on a slow meander back to home base for a few days. So nice to find a cache of this kind.
I think we are homeward bound now … in search of good plain food
TFTC

Děkuji za kes cestou z Hobitina

Nice park and grab on the way to Hamilton. TFTC

Found it 26/09/22

Spotted it straight away. So happy to get this today. Haven't been out these ways for years so was great to be back. TFTC!

Tfc

Parked nearby and the grandchildren jumped out to find this novel cache, well themed for the area.
Thanks

Today we visited the set und found Bilbos Button.
TFTC!
Greetings from Felsmaus.

Great idea for a cache! Had the grandkids look for it, they liked it a lot.
Thanks!
FP added.

Having just re read 'the hobbit', this seemed a good time to pick up this cache.
It was a quick job locating Mr Baggins button.
Thanks for putting this here

Checked all good here.

What a great wee cache. Perfect place to hide TFTC

The wind and rain is not stopping me cache!! A quick find. TFTC GeoRick.

12.35pm. A quick find and now we think we have found all the lost buttons. Heading into Matamata to get some lunch.
Thank you. David and Noeline.

Visiting for the Halfling Marathon. Lovely day for after-race participant tour caching. What an adventure! TFTC