Get Cracking. (Northland) Mangonui, North Island, New Zealand
By HairyLittleDwarf Maintained by the.pud on 14-Sep-02. Waypoint GC8DD1

We continue on our road trip through New Zealand. First up north, then as far as Stewart Island. Old caches in particular are on our radar, but of course we don't waste any that just happen to be there. This was one of them. Thank you very much for storing and caring for it! All answers were send by -moge-. I'm sorry for my late log. To busy to be on holiday.

Hallo HairyLittleDwarf Maintained by the.pud,On third day of our travelling through Aotearoa Dr Donna and myself only went up further north. After beeing lucky with one Multi-cache we tried some other but failed. Another try with an Oldie but again no success. In the end we went for an virtual which was an Easy find. Liebe Gre und vielen Dank fr die Hege und Pflege deines Virtual Cache! -moge-#############Der Cache "Get Cracking. (Northland)" von "HairyLittleDwarf Maintained by the.pud" war fr mich Cache 6607. Gefunden am 10 November 2024.Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hat der Cache die Wertung 1.0 / 1.0 (d/t)

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I now live full-time in our caravan & travel the country visiting places we want to visit & doing the things that we want to do we were visiting the Karikari Peninsula area & decided to drive into Mangonui for a Fish & Chip lunch but needed to grab a couple of caches on the way stopped down by the boat ramp what a logjam of vehicles & boat-trailers all around here information was easily located & has been messaged through to the Cache Owner pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally TFTC ... TN except photos:LN not even footprints:no L to S ... #4,979 for us!

Awesome bay

Thank you

#4494Holiday in NZToday we're in the area of MangonuiBefore going to Rangikapiti P we went by this oneTFTC

Lovely little place with lots of history. TFTC

Day 4 of our northland road trip. Enjoyed finding this old cache on a nice sunny day. Answers sent to the CO. Thanks for setting it up

Lovely area - found whilst out cycling this hot morning - tftc

Thats a cool rhyme and cool cache thanks

We didn't miss this cache on our trip through New Zealand. So I drove to this property and looked for the answers. Then the photo was taken and then we continued through this beautiful country. The Knuffelbren from Nuremberg say thank you for showing us.

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Czechia.

We are staying the bay here and could’ve walked to the cache. But after a day of rainy showers and caching, we decided to drive here before heading over to the Thai restaurant, where we had a wonderful meal. So good that we had to get some air before entering the vehicle which rolled us up te hill again.

Back to this cache. It had an eggselent description with an easy question to answer. We love simple caches! A favourite point for this virtually neighbouring cache from the bnb we’re staying at. Thanks for placing and maintaining the cache!

On our way north was also this venerable virtual. My travelling companion *Filser1* successfully contacted the CO. The log permission has been received.

T4TVirtual

On the way to Cape Reinga TEMBO! and I made a stop here and visited the cache. We found the solution and informed the owner.

Thanks to the.pud for hiding and maintaining the cache.

T4TC Filser1

Answer was sent. A funny thing to see next to the road. TFTC!

spent 6 great weeks in New Zealand with my The start was a bit bumpy (Cyclone Gabrielle) but then it got better and better. We travelled to both islands and discovered a lot. We photographed and filmed many beautiful things, but most of it stayed in our hearts.
Almost everywhere we stopped, a cache was already waiting for us. Most of the caches are well maintained and easy to find.

With mostly very nice weather, we saw a lot of this impressive island. In many places, caches were waiting for us, which were sometimes easy and sometimes difficult to find. This cache was also included and was successfully signed

We puzzled a lot in advance and the tours were well prepared
So this box was also well found.

now I have another on my personal cache card.

many thanks to [^] **HairyLittleDwarf Maintained by the.pud** [^] for the effort and the cache and greetings from Germany

TFTF

**Geistercacher**
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answer was sent to **CO** and leave a 28153; here for keeping this old one alive

Ruru_Nz and I on another road trip to complete this area of the Geotour before it finishes.

Quick deviation to see this one. It really is quite a quaint cottage looking building near by.

Answers on there way

Up from Southland with Cantabrian Kiwicampnut to get the final piece of the PWGT puzzle.
Day 6 - Kaitaia to Bay of Islands via Cape Reinga. Another long day.
This one looked interesting.
If it wasn't near the end of a long day we would have cracked up laughing after telling some yokes but we couldn't think of any... But here is one:
Why do hummingbirds hum?
Because they don’t know the words!
Permission received to log.
Thanks for the cache HairyLittleDwarf and the.pud
# 3649 24 January 2023 4:41 pm

interesting story info. thanks.

Came down here, wasn’t expected the egg, but had heard about it years ago. Great view of the bay. Thanks for this virtual (answers sent)

We passed the day north of Paihia. First in Kerikeri and then in Mangonui. We were lucky with the weather, sun shine the whole day.
Curious after reading the cache description, we went to GZ. Big enough for a huge omelette
Thank you for showing us this place
NathanS05

On a 2 week cruise on the Majestic Princess and we had the day in the Bay of Islands. Family who live in Mangōnui picked us up and took us on a bit of a tour. Great piece of history here. Lovely area. TFTC

It was a nice surprise to find an old virtual here.So while driving north could not miss it. Took two passes before I saw the info needed. Thanks for the oldie and greetings from Finland.

I'm on a road trip to the far north, attempting to complete the PWGT Tahi Geotour.

This is day three, heading from Kaitaia to Whangarei via Cape Reinga.

Will expand on my logs, post photos, qualifying caches for challenges, etc. When I get home. TFTC

Have you seen the size of that chicken?!?

Answer sent and photos taken.

28 October 2022 11:16 am Find #5132

Located with Ricardinho

Please refer to his log

TFTC

My wife sent in our answers.

️ Parking ️ was wonderful. It made finding this cache really enjoyable. An interesting spot, very sheltered from the wind, with great views. I sent in our answers to the CO for JDScout and myself.

A nice find this one. I liked the little story behind this, the way the road has been named and the cache page is well done too. It’s caches like this that take you to places and show you things you would normally walk straight past.
TFTC the pud.

Day 11 of our Northland trip, and today was Paihia to Whatuwhiwhi.
A couple of stops in Kerikeri on the way up for supplies and other shopping, and also to check out the Rainbow Falls, which we missed on the first time through the town.
Then it was north to Mangonui, the main stop on our trip for the day.
We spent some time here, and enjoyed it. Knocked off the Adventure Lab, picked off another few choice caches also, as well as the bonus.
We had lunch of fish and chips over the water at the fish shop (guess you have to tick that one off), and had some successful shopping for RG72.
Then it was off to the Karikari peninsular for our accomodation for the next couple of nights. The place looks great!
Thanks all COs for hiding and maintaining.

Its not that long since we visited this area, but I hadn't noticed how old this virtual is, and I love getting the older caches.
The forecast had been for rain all day, but the sun is out now, although it is pretty humid. So I figured I might as well go for a walk to get this.
There's so many points of interest as you walk along, which are great to see. This egg is definitely a great story, thanks for highlighting it.

#13,096. A park, walk and admire on Silver Egg Road in Mangōnui. A most interesting marker spot to get cracking indeed. Much better than night reflectors. Answer emailed to the cache owner. Appreciated the prompt confirmation and permission to log.

Thanks for the virtual placement, and for bringing us to this site, and …

.T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e.
.M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.

A beauty spot up here, must be really quite lovely in the summer vs the current overcast and cool winter's day.... A short diversion after lunch at the chippe and AdLab on our way south, a curious dog wondering what I was up to. Cheers

#11,112. I realised recently when looking at some Northland caches that I forgot to log my virtual and earthcache finds from my Northland trip several months ago as I didn't have internet access while camping out in the north. I visited Mangonui at New Year. It was packed with cars on the main drag especially near the place selling those awesome icecreams in a cone. But the street with the silver egg was rather quiet when I parked nearby. Didn't take much time to locate. Intriguing bit of local art and a quirky feature I would have overlooked without the virtual cache to highlight it. Reminds me a bit of the cannonball stuck in the wall of a building in Copenhagen. Without the virtual cache you would have missed the plaque describing that relic of a past war. Thanks HairyLittleDwarf for setting it up and the.pud for maintaining the virtual.

What a funny little spot!!

Makes you wonder what he was thinking when he did it!

Anyway, thanks for the fun virtual!

Found it with Cyclicalcaching, cool little spot

In Mangonui visiting family. Headed out to do some exploring of the area and find a couple of caches. Answer emailed to CO for verification of our visit. Interesting history and site to visit. TFTC!

Found with Flowerydaze on our Northern explorer tour. Beautiful area we admired all the boats. Some were decked out with lots of flags, must have been something of an event. Answers have been sent to CO and that's my hand on the egg in the photo. Thanks for the virtual the.pud

Talla64 and I stopped here to admire the boats, the scenery and enjoy the lovely weather. We are visiting from Kapiti and doing a spot of caching (a lot actually). We were amused by this egg and wondered why Mr. McKay had placed it here. Perhaps a visit to the i-site is called for. Messaged the CO with the answers.

1478. 2:37 pm. A Northland virtual that I was long overdue to stop and get. TFT(eggy)C.

Interesting even the road bears the name. Sending answers via message to CO

What came first?? Curious to know why. Answers sent. Thanks for highlighting this unusual bit of history!
Travelled up from Dunedin for my first Mega event and wanting to sign off some geotour caches as well in Auckland and Northland.
Thanks for the cache, the.pud
#3055

Found it! Thanks for the eggsellent cache.

Love the egg! TFTC

Hilariously weird, live it. Answers sent

Good to go.

Disabling due to Level 3 Covid-19 lockdown in Northland.
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Stay safe everyone!
Cheers M+S [:O)]

Cache 24 of 40

What an awesome find. Humpty would indeed be proud.

To celebrate my 40th Birthday (which was during lockdown) with Yvettetb we are trying to find 40 caches on our 40 hour adventure. We started this morning at 8am in Russell and heading North to Coopers Beach via roadside caches & Mangonui. We love sudoku (the 1st one was easy, 2nd one was challenging) and learnt about KenKen to solve another puzzle. Ending today's adventure with the night in Paihia

To celebrate Vanessa's (Nessvab) 40th (which was during lockdown) we are trying to find 40 caches on our 40 hour adventure. We started this morning at 8am in Russell and heading North to Coopers Beach via roadside caches & Mangonui. We love sudoku (the 1st one was easy, 2nd one was challenging) and learnt about KenKen to solve another puzzle. Ending today's adventure with the night in Paihia.

Cache 24 of 40 - thanks for bringing me here. What a great place and love the find. TFGC

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Fun finds

Nice easy find

Great cache once you figure it out

19 June 2021 17:32. Found the egg quickly enough, but unobservant me took much longer to find the information! I must be getting tired. Thanks for creating that virtual all those years ago in such a beautiful location.

A nice quick find thanks. Messaged the CO with the logging requirements. And added a Fav Point to

Ms_KR and I are on a wee break to find some of the Northern PW GeoTour caches. Today we cruised from Kaitaia to Paihia, The shortest road distance of the hoilday. We had some showers, but the day was mostly fine. Still a lovely day for driving and caching.

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

So fun learning random things in little towns.
On our Northland Adventure with Tonisch13 TFTC

So neat! Never wpuld have known this existed was it not for this cache! Was lucky enough to park in the right spot to be able to see it from the car, we were a little confused until we spotted it!

Can log the find, gets an FP for such a beautiful place.

Heading north to Cape Reinga with Vistra, geocaching en route. Enjoyed this unusual find. Eggcellent in fact.

On a road trip with Rebel98 we thought we should get cracking before heading home. The carpark was full with boats and trailers, but we found a sneaky park and made our way to gz where we found something that we were not expecting. Answers have been sent to the CO. Thank you for bringing us here to a place, where we would not have been without geocaching.

As I imagine has happened many times over, there was much speculation as we drove towards GZ as to what we would find. Well, long story short, we didn't have a clue. Of course, as we arrived all was revealed. Awesome . Answers sent. TFTC .

Nice spot up this way with Eyespyben thanks for bringing as down here

On our caching journey up to the north with EyeSpyBen to sort out a few more caches and a couple of series, many miles driven over many days and many caches found, not to many dnfs
but lovely weather, Thanks to all the cache owners for the placements

Today, Friday, I am on a mission with FMZ and rustynz to complete the top half of the North Island for this new PWGT series of caches. We left at 4:30am from FMZ’s place. And plan to pick up other caches as well if they happen to be there too. This is an excellent tour, FMZ is doing all the driving in his 4WD.

I have been meaning to get this virtual for quite some time, and I had said to FMZ we MUST get this one while doing the new PWGT. He agreed and rusty wanted it too. So here we are, saw the plaque and we took fotos. Rusty sent the info thru on our behalf, thanks for that Sharon. Then we wandered around taking fotos. I love panorama fotos at the moment, so will add one on the cache page. Now it’s time to do one more cache before early dinner at Mongonui fish n’ chip shop.

Travelling around Northland, finding mostly PWGT geotour caches, but also special ones like this one

Parked nearby, and walked the short distance to GZ.

A picture of the plaque was taken, and the answers have been sent to the CO.

Thanks HairyLittleDwarf for creating this virtual hide, and the.pud for maintaining it, all good today, and it looks like it might have a new coat of paint, very shiny

Day one of a five day North Island Pokai Whenua GeoTour expedition collecting all the geotour caches for PWGT Tahi and PWGT Rua. 3550km travelled over 5 days, 70 geotour caches found. Today we travelled from Auckland to Auckland via Pukenui. Our group consisted of Gorby, rustynz, boneybruce and myself.

I've actually been here before and collected the answers but obviously forgot about this cache. So today, with gorby, rustynz, and boneybruce, I've completed it. Nice spot. Thanks HairyLittleDwarf.

Finally found the info needed to claim this cache. The last time we were here we found the location but not the occupations, we think maybe it was covered in foliage.
Very happy!!

Required info has been restored.
It's all go again!
Enjoy.

Started our walk in mill bay and went out to the pa site then down to coopers beach then back up and over. Lovely day.
Our first cache of the day. What an interesting road.

Looks like the required info has been removed.
Let me get this fixed and it'll be back up and running.

We parked as close as we could in amongst lots of cars and boat trailers, but only a short walk. Answers sent to CO.

What an eggciting find from 1945. TFTC

Found

TFT(virtual)C... have always wanted to stop here each time muggle hubby and I visit the area. Finally got the chance before setting out on the water for a day of fishing.

The water was flat, we managed to bring some fish home for the family.. and of course... find answers to a virtual! Overall a perfect day

Such a beautiful area in Mangonui... cannot wait for the next visit to find the other GCs in the area

Interesting object and story. Answers to CO

Back again now we're in Level 2.
Cache safe everyone.

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J’ai voulu l’emporter pour notre petit-déjeuner... puis j’ai eu des remors pour les autres géocacheurs qui ne le trouveraient plus! Alors je l’ai laissé! et on s’est focalisé plutôt sur le sympathique bord de mer! Merci à l’owner pour cette originale cache virtuelle!

Google translate :

I wanted to take it for our breakfast ... then I had remorse for the other geocachers who would no longer find it! So I left it! and we focused more on the nice seaside! Thanks to the owner for this original virtual cache!

I am using the excuse of friends of mine getting married in Northland this weekend to finally get to do what I have wanted to do for over 30 years now, visit 90 Mile Beach and Cape Reinga.
And of course whilst doing that I'm also making the most of a rare opportunity to grab a whole bunch of caches that either help me with my Jasmer grid, my Hidden Dates grid, or else are part of the TMGT, or lastly because they are an Earthcache or a Virtual which I like doing.

Cape Reinga roadtrip day 5 - the drive back from Cape Reinga to Auckland.

It was going to be a very busy day, trying to get as much caching done as I made the long winding way from Cape Reinga back to the hustle and bustle of Auckland to catch my breath before tomorrows final push back home to the lower North Island to finish what would end up being a 2300km round trip.

There was only a couple of locals going about their business as I parked up as near to GZ as possible and my only concern was the intermittent rain. The seclusion of GZ meant I could gather the info needed without having to be too surreptitious. I took a few photos (to be uploaded later today when I'm home again) and gave the egg a rub for good luck lol!

Thanks for the old school Virtual cache.

Had a wonderful week up in Northland with my overseas visitor, checking out this beautiful country, and taking the opportunity to grab a few caches. Enjoyed this small town, with its interesting history, had a coffee over the water before cracking on with this cache Now back home logging all my finds and planning the next trip. TFTC

Answers coming

Cruising around New Zealand and picking up caches when we can.

This was an interesting place, which we would have not known about!

answer sent!

TFT Virtual
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An easy find unless thick fog present. Greetings from Scotland and TFTC

Well all I need to know now is why?

Stopped off at the quiet part, not sure what to eggpect but pleasantly surprised

We are travelling up to Cape Reinga for a day trip and it’s time to stop for an icecream @ Cable Bay but not before a stop here first. What a beautiful little bay. Answers sent to CO TFTC

Found in a trip up to the far north. Like coming to new places. Thanks for the virtual.

Round the world trip Made it to New Zealand and will spend some days in the northland. Thanks for bringing up this cache! Mail has been sent.
Vielen Dank fürs legen und pflegen und beste Grüße aus Leipzig!
Thanks for hiding and many greetings from Leipzig/Germany!

Frmen1 and I walked both sides of the road from the boat ramp to the end trying to find the information to no avail. We even searched through foliage at gz. Must be cache blind.

Found the silver egg easily. frmen1 and I walked both sides of the road from the boat ramp to the end of the road and could not find the answers required. There appeared to be 2 new wooden stakes on the property that could belong to real estate signs. I will attach a photo of my foot and the egg to prove that we were there.

Found (sort of) with tassie expat while visiting from Australia. Pls refer to tassies answer and notes. Tftvc

Having problems with website on phone. Pls find attached the promised pic.

Looked in the wrong place... will pick up next time we are in the area.

No idea about Mr McKay, but the item was located

After looking around a while I found the item I was searching for. Answers were sent.
TFTC
twin trapper

Answers sent. Visited this site after dinner and on our way back to our room. TFTC.

Today was the fifth day of our trip to the Bay of Islands region. After having a nice breakfast we set of heading north along the tourist drive. After visiting the Rainbow Warrior memorial at Matauri Bay we picked up the cache at the intersection leading to Matauri Bay. Before continueing along the tourist drive till we reached the beache at Te Ngaere to stop for a few minuets to relaxe. Continueing our journey along the tourist drive we stopped at the Letterbox-Hybride. We drove to Tauranga Bay and a few other beaches along the way. Arriving in Mangonui the main interest was on this virtual cache. Arriving close to GZ the intem of interest was quickly spotted and the requiered information noted. Answers sent. Now heading father north along the shore. Tftc.

We had finished our job early today so had time to explore. I wasn't actively caching but when I saw a virtual up for grabs I took the opportunity.
It's a beautiful area and the egg is interesting.
Thanks for bringing me here.

Found it pretty easy. Thanks for the Cache.
Die Krümelmonsters

I stopped off in Mangonui for a walk around on my way to the Far North. I parked by the shops and walked around the bay as far as this virtual, collecting a couple of other caches on the way.
It was a nice walk, I enjoyed reading the heritage signs and the views of the peaceful bay. Thanks for a fun virtual, very odd!