Sunrise View. Bay of Plenty Athenree, North Island, New Zealand
By willbuild on 08-Jan-21. Waypoint GC94XTJ

Im working my way round the Athenree area, seeing how many GCs I am able to find before the rain comes (though so far so good). As I arrived at the GZ I met up with Willbuild and had a quick chat, so that was a nice bonus. As always, TFTC, and two more on the list for today, all going well.

New logbook added

I wasn't here for sunrise but the view was still worth sitting and watching, tftc

Thanks for my first find!

This took a bit of hunting around for, but we eventually got our hands on it. Then it took a bit of maneuvering to extract it. Beautiful spot. Tftc

Staying at the local hot pools campground for the night. Easy find with miniAG. TFTC

Staying at the local hot pools campground for the night. Easy find with gavinjodie. TFTC

Bowentown adventure jul 24. Number 2 for the morning. TFTC

19.2nd of the day. Another easy one. TFTC

Nice 1 Found with nina

Helped by a neighbour who I told about geocsching

Meet the cache owner on the way to the cache site so the pressure was on to find it. Mr B persevered and finally had it in hand. Such a lovely spot for caching with an amazing view. A fave point from us for this cache and all the others weve enjoyed today!

What a great hide!Thanks again

You are right,it is a beautiful spot.The cache was spotted quite quickly but with my big fingers the extrication took a little while.Thankyou willbuild

Out & about while staying in the area. all quiet at GZ quick find TFTC.

Met the CO as we walked down. Buzzybb found after a short search. Glad to turn it to a . Nice to meet willbuild.

Nice to come back here and change this one to a smiley. Didnt take too long to find this time round. Nice to meet you willbuild. Tftc

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 are currently parked up at the Waihi Beach NZMCA Campsite decided that we would head over to Athenree & have a look around and do a couple of caches while there the cache was easily found, completed & replaced gets a Favourite Point from us pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #4,640 for us!

So hard but really fun

Found it after coming back for the second time.

So fun but hard

Pop over here for the day at the beachVery hot out in the sunGreat we hidethanks

Nice wee hide out of the hot sunthanks

Great day for visiting from Tauranga for a GC trip. Lovely holiday vibe around here with all the families enjoying themselves. TFTC

I was out for a mornings walk with FriwiNZ although he had already found it, but couldn't remember where it was so it was like finding it all over again. Great watching the sunrise this morning. TFTC

After having to admit defeat at the previous cache, this was a nice quick find at the end of a hot day of caching. Nice seat to sit on while filling out the log.

Quick find after fighting all day at unfounded caches, between muggles guarding the area and the hot sun bearing down on us. Great to discover some of WillBuilds caches and log a few. tftc!

New log book added. All good

Log is full

Found with Dadandkidsnz and my family that live locally.

After a nice day with family and eating too much we all went for a walk around Athenree and figured lets try and get a cache. With a big group and muggles for Africa I wondered how we would go.At GZ we started looking, but the GPS jumped about for a while but finally settled down. We had already checked the location once, but obviously not well enough as my 8 year old niece found it (go girl). Cache log is full, but others have put in an off cut of paper in there for a temporary solution.

Tftc, Merry Christmas!

GPS all over the place. But was persistent and found it.tftc.

Nice walk along the water edge from Hot pools. Original log full so added new sheet. Nice spot thank you, view is lovely

Probably our only find at Athenree. Heading home in the morning. Tftc

Lovely area around the hot pools stayed in camp

All is still in correct place

It wasn't there

Nice find thank you

TFTC

As anticipated. Tftc.
Met the owner while walking back to the car with geo dog

All good with cachet

Sadly did not find it. Two pens and a golf ball in the flax though

Lovely spot. Couldn't find cache. Must be well hidden.

area very quiet this afternoon.
no problems to find cache.
TFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)… Usually, Sundays are spent preparing for the work week or doing chores. We decided to be kind to ourselves and made plans to go caching instead…

As soon as we arrived here, we thought this would be the perfect spot for watching sunrises… A quick find - hidden as we anticipated. Thanks willbuild and TFTC.

A plan was made with Gorby, tramyard and rustynz for an overnight road trip to Waikato/BOP. We targeted Karangahake Gorge, Waihi, Katikati and Mount Maunganui/Tauranga.

We had packed up the wet tents after a heavy morning rain, had breakfast, and were heading out to Katikati, but we had to stop for one cache before we left. As we started our search the CO came down to watch us. We searched in all the spots, multiple times by different people all under the amusing eye of the CO. Eventually I approached at a different angle and had the cache in hand. Very sneaky.

Sunday, Our last day around this area and we have packed up the tents while they were wet. Not raining now, but something I have to attend to when I get home. This our first cache for the morning and who knew the C.O lived so close? Well he did, he saw us arriving and wandered down to meet us. Then there was a LOT of giggles and sniggering from our C.O he was having a great time at our expense, because we just could not find the cache! He said Danielle was hot but Sharon was cold (or vice-versa) - how rude...lol. But eventually we found the cache, even though we all checked 'that' spot several times.

Nice to sign this off, and a lovely spot to walk down to with a cup of tea in the mornings! Thanks willbuild.

With aiden29, tramyard and gorby on a weekend of caching fun

We had stayed the night at the nearby camping ground, woke up to the sound of rain bouncing off the sides of the tent. Luckily it eventually stopped, but now have a wet tent to dry out when we get home.

This took a little while for us to locate, with the added pressure of the CO seeing us struggle just a little to find it.

Eventually after what felt like ages, and hot n cold, we were at last signing the log.

Lovely to see you again willbuild, thanks for the hide and the adventure.

First find for the day.

Yesterday stats: 26,612 steps, 34 floors, 18.22 km

(wonder what today's will be?)

As it was middle of the afternoon no sunrise was seen but it was a lovely place to sit for awhile. I looked in all the possible places before a last sweep produced a result. Pleased I made my way back to the car. Thank you for the placement.

Yay! We found the cache in a stunning spot. TFTC

Beautiful spot, even when the tide was out. My partner is having a ball finding the caches, tftc

Awesome relaxing spot! TFTC

Nice park bench and spot. Lovely meeting the owner too!

Great find

Back for another round and instead of looking in the Flatbush this time I was smart and looked under the seat and I found it so Allgood thanks

At start of our coromandel trip, had planned moving on today, but with the current weather decided to hunker down and figured good opportunity to grab a cache between downpours
Nice hide
TFTF

We were searching for a while but no geocach in sight thanks tho

Lovely wee spot for a morning walk.

Took a while but found it. Excellent hiding spot.

Last cache in Athenree for the day, and a really nice spot to wrap proceedings up! Made the short walk over to GZ, where I originally started searching in all the wrong places. I looked at the CO's name and then quickly relocated my search as I had found a couple of his last night, and this one was surely no different, right?! Sure enough, I quickly spotted the cache and signed myself in, taking in the great views across to Whale Bay and beyond Once again, TFTC willbuild!

Whilst my family was busy going to a nearby car show (BORING!!!), I decided this would be a good excuse to be dropped off and grab some caches around the Athenree area I've been to the hot pools here before, and even kayaked over from Whale Bay on the other side of the estuary, but never was involved in caching at the time. Thanks to the CO's for bringing me to some great locations!

It was hard but it is possible

Hard but fun

Tftc

It was a fun thing to do

Really clever! TFTC!

On the way home from over the other side Could have walked across as the tide was well out
Nice and quiet at GZ allowed a rest on the grass while I signed the log. Walking back to the car I did look to see if anyone was home TFTC

A great tftc the log all good a favorite from us thanks for bringing us here while we are traveling through in our caravan awsome place

Found it the second time and found

Nice and handy. Quiet here after summar. TFTC

A nice walk in the shade and quick find tftc

Dnf, but beautiful spot!

Took a little time but got it

All good with cache, still in place put back in correct spot

Looked everywhere we thought it could be

Couldn’t find it

All OK with cache.

Looked through all the obvious spots but no luck. Good excuse for me to come back

**14,383**
Cache a super quick find - definitely been here before on a caching mission - the nearby residence looks very familiar. TFTC

DNF. A hint would be good!

Found it, with help from the hider!

Looked in the places we thought but no luck.

Pretty sure we were in the right spot. 2 sets of eyes looking for this one, but no luck

Just had a walk out with a coffee and all good, No moon or stars. No Problems with the cache.

Found tfc. Naes14 I am love you

Fast and easy find with Piston Broke and Teddles - TFTF willbuild

A great spot for sunrise viewing but had to resort to a sunset find. Tftc

Back with my brother for a holiday, after living in Scotland for a number of years. Dropping off my travel bug for visit to the sea side in New Zealand

We were heading back to Auckland but saw the sign to Athenree and decided to detour briefly to have a look.
After exploring a bit we headed to this cache and were pleased to see there was no one around so we were able to make a quick find.
A nice peaceful place, we will be back again to explore further and look for the other nearby caches.

K

Thanks for your amazing cache.

Found it at night. Nice view

Beautiful place for a rest. Lucky one of us had small fingers. TFTC.

Cmac

Nice relaxing place to come to. Tide was low this afternoon and a number of people were crossing the estuary. I might have been spotted by some people admiring the view from their deck, hopefully the cache is safe. TFTC

Down this way today to find some newish caches in this area...plus some in Katikati.
Nice easy find for me as TWS has one in Stillwater I found recently.
Easy to access.
After this cache I caught up with the CO for a chat!
Thanks.

Easy find thought the view was amazing and just loved the cache

This was a real devil to extract from its hiding place, made me swear at one point as it evaded me. TFTC

Last time I was here I was pretty certain where the cache was but there were also two muggles exactly at GZ who were fairly settled. Today, GZ was clear and the find was made in seconds. TFTC.