HIPSter 2 Cycle - Shared Pathway (Whangarei) Regent, North Island, New Zealand
By 0B80B8 on 12-Nov-19. Waypoint GC8FYT7

Found during today's visit to Whangarei. Another great hiding. Took me a while. Thanks and FP+

Out for short dusk-time wander along this pathway that I've not yet set foot on for a spot of urban caching.Not where I was first looking, but reading back through some recent logs I was able to glean more detail and focus my search in a slightly different area. Whilst attempting *not* to fall down the hole, I spotted something which didn't look quite right. I reached in an gave it a nudge...and it nudged free from it's host.Some more nice handiwork here 0B80B8. Thanks#5225

Very clever hideGreat work thanks

Was up in Whangarei for the Wild Kiwi Trail run at Whangarei Heads. Headed up early for a little geocaching. Had to wait out for some muggles to pass by, but that gave me a chance to glance around and notice something to investigate further.

Found. Tftc

A nice quick find, on our way to find dinner. The flax sure has grown according to the CO. Thanks for placing your cache. Ms_KR and I are on the road again, up "North" to visit family an friends. Today cruised around Whangarei. The odd torrential downpour and and then sunny skies!Occassionally signed MK+KR on cache logs, and apologies for the generic logs.Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches.

Plenty of confusing foliage but the Persea americana might help a bit. Thanks 0B80B8

Not such a nice area to search having to bush bash through flax. Lucky we were right on the spot for a quick find. Nice camo.Thank you 0B80B8 for placing this cache.Log signed as B&PFind number 4991

Stopped by this one a while ago but didn't look long. Got it this time.

Tough one with all the growing brush but Brian found it! TFTC

Wow! Im in danger of running out of FPs in Whangrei.Mahi Pai! Tftc

Checked this whilst passing today. Cache is still there where it should be, although the vegetation has grown considerably, so not really HIPS anymore.

Probably need to push past the edge of the flax to be able to see it ..

Boooo! DNF ️
I thought we were getting better at identifying the disguises by this CO, but this one has alluded us unfortunately. It's been 7 months since the last find so either it's gone, or is just too good for us.

There was one interesting object at GZ but inspecting it provided no clues or caches. We searched the area around GZ thoroughly, but found very little that could hold an invisible attractive force.

No luck with this one today

Full log to come

Second stop as I made my way back to the CITO event.
It only took a moment or two to locate the hide.
I love not having to be worried about muggles seeing me acting suspicious around busy areas like this. I'm totally blending in today
Thanks for another clever hide

In Whangarei with Mrs Jag for 3 days of geocaching!
This was another really cool 0B80B8 hide !
Mrs Jag made a quick find here.
Exceedingly well constructed to totally blend in !
Thanks so much for the fun!

Our last day in Whangarei with Supernannny and we had time to collect a few caches before heading home. We were targeting some highly favourited caches and this was on our list. Once at gz, we soon spotted something that required closer inspection and soon had the cache in hand. Another well constructed cache in plain sight. TFTC

Yesssss finally found it after yesterday we had to come back for another look lol

Checked this one on my exercise jaunt tonight. Was a bit worried with all the severely pruned flax bushes around, but cache is all good, right where it should be.

We're stumped can't find it

Whoaaaaaa!! This is clever! Had us looking in all the wrong places first! Thank you!!

nice cache TFTC

My 6 year old went straight by to this. Great cammo. Thanks

took us a wail but we got it.

A very clever cache

A nice early evening walk before dinner and Nette made a quick find while I checked out another spot. Nice camo here

Enjoyed this walkway just around the corner from our motel.
Great cache. Fav point.

Love the camo and hint. A great find on the shared path. TFTC

Spotted this hide on my walk back north (having walked from Kensington Ave and starting my short caching time today with the hide just south of here), not having looked on the way passed before, and luckily there wasn't anyone on the path at the time so I could retrieve, sign and replace the cache. Nice hide OB80B8!

Thanking you CO for being creative and making it more interesting than a pill bottle.

Son found it right away awesome cashe fun hiding spot

A very cool camo, was looking thinking yer but nah, but yer it was, cheers

Found it, very cool way to hide

Loved this cache! Great way to hide it. Tftc

Thanks for a great cache, found quickly by luck more than strategy I think.

Just enough time between appointments for a cache or two and lovely strollthx.

Enjoying a bike ride on a lovely day with dodge1923......Took a wee while to find....cleverly placed. TFTC

Walking the Mob Dog past this one so had to grab it. GPS took me to an obvious metallic object that I searched for a while before realising the GPS was off a bit. Great camo. TFTC.

Very cleverly disguised

What a nice sneaky wee hide with a bit of help from the co. Found with fire house 0405.

Decided to walk up from the basin to try and get a rtf on this shared path. Once we got it we decided to walk a bit further to get a couple more. Nice wide trail. Took us awhile to spot this one. But there it was looking straight at us. Unfortunately to small for hip hip hippo (TB)to hide away in. Will have to continue looking for a good spot. Tftc

Another clever hide. Easy find in unexpected spot. TFTC

950. 5:31 PM. I guess it was way too dark the last time I looked as I spotted the well camo'd cache quickly. So far I'm very impressed by this series. Found with GRAkiWi &Co. TFT(great)C.

Not much joy today.

good hiding spot

had to try look twice, but good find

Great hide TFTC

Thanks for the cache, was a fun one and had to wait for muggles to pass to search

Another quick find however had to wait several minutes for muggles to pass

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 one.*

Found one of these a couple of caches back. Cache quickly located, signed and replaced on this hooot day!! Tftc.

Cool hide on this new pathway. TFTC.

Not again... another great hide in plain sight. Day 3 streak... not gonna last long.

Another great camo. A nice evening stroll to maintain our current 3 day streak. Tftc

Great hide!TFTC

Published

{FTF} at 2.32pm. I nearly didn't look for this one as it was one of the first ones published at 8am today. I was sure the ftf would be gone. I was very pleased to see a blank log sheet. Another really great hide.

After 3 ftfs, 4 2tfs (not all logged) I was heading home and in time for a visit with my 93 year old Grandma which was initially my only plan for the day. Thanks for the time and effort you've put into these cool hides Pete