WBay Trail #1 - Tauranga Welcome Bay, North Island, New Zealand
By Mc Jandals on 19-May-21. Waypoint GC9BJ87

Searched like everywhere and couldnt find

At the base in a dirty spot

Great find

Over in Tauranga today for some walking and geocaching. Enjoyable walk along here - and happy to find the cache. TFTC

Found earlier in the month and didnt log it

Another great hide. TFTC

Found it

Cool geo cache, took us a minute. GPS was a little off

Bit of night caching with Kiwi Does Stuff and ticking off the board. Made our way to GZ for a quick grab, signed and off to the next one, TFTC.

In the area after doing a couple of other caches, so why not grab a couple of quickies. TFTC

Very dirty but found

Off for a wee walk along the trailNice easy find thanks

Over in Tauranga for the dayKGD found very quickly now off to next oneThanks

Over with ABCDF4 and eyespyben. A hot day enjoyed this walk as plenty of shade. At GZ we soon located, Signed and returned the cache. Then on down the trail we went. Thank you for the placement.

We have a few days in Tauranga on our trip - nothing much planned just a quiet spot to stop for a few days. Kids are sleeping in this morning so time to get some caches - not many close to our accommodation so a quick drive first.A quick walk down this trail. The hint made sense once i got close and a quick reach in and the cache was revealed.TFTC Mc Jandals

Tricky

That was sneaky and took a while tftf

Found it after a few moments of looking. Tftc!

In the area for 2-3 days over Christmas. This was the second of a couple of finds. No dog walkers around before 7.30am on Boxing Day morning! A reasonably quick find. #5654. TFTC.

Second find along the path. Very clever/cool hint on this one!

Found it well once again my mum found it
Don’t no what a Hume is I was looking in
Wrong place

Fnf

Easy to find. Tftc

Found it very quickly, tftc

New walkway for me to see. Quick find at site. Good to have the track to ourselfs. TFTC

Quick easy find.TFTC

After having trouble at the first two was glad to finally get a find. Lol. Different thought on a last one so after going to end of track plan was to stop and have another look. Tftc.

Our first cache hunt in a long time, and our first with our newborn! It might have been a while, but Mrs Taylana had lost none of her rhythm, and within a few seconds of looking, the cache was in hand! TFTC!

Easy find on a nice path. We added a small token to the cache for the next person.

Got eaten by mosquitoes while we searched. Wear bug spray on this trail. The cache was easy to find but I didn't know what to look for until my Mom pointed it out.

Another nice easy find, well camouflaged. TFTC

(# 7007) On a new years trip to see my brother in Tauranga. Grabbing a few caches while out and about. A quick find. Thanks for bringing me here.

Yay found it

At a loose end & not too hot.Wasn't sure what a hume is but spot on co ord left me no doubt as where too look.Nice easy find Mc jandals,thankyou.

Came over to Tauranga to get some caches to reach the souvenir challenge for November. Looking at the map I see I forgot to log this cache from the last time I was here.

Nice find during our explore of the area.

Heading up to the Coromandel for a few days. Good to have a few new caches along the way since we last passed. Quick detour here to take the dog for a walk along this trail. Cache/log all fine. Thanks Mc Jandals for the smiley.

TFTC!

Quick find while walking dogs. TFTC

In the area and had a few to knock off, so why not on a lazy Sunday. Lots of land here, both public and private.

Today we came out for a walk along this great track - quiet and peaceful... perfect on a mild and sunny winter's morning; thanks McJandals. Our third find of the day.

I'd just managed to catch the tail end of a conversation centering around some Rotorua locals coming to Tauranga for a clean up... I jokingly (NOT JOKINGLY) told them to "pick me up on the way!" In the end I joined Davidson Clan, Squirrelnutcase and Fap'n'Gap which was rather convenient as they have much sharper eyes than me

This cache was found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords, a good hint and a straight forward placement. A nice little wander and a neat area for some more caches. Cheers Mc Jandals & TFTC

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we had no problems with find here
just had to time placing cache back as there was a couple of muggles nearby
tftc

Arranged to cache the afternoon away in Tauranga with (Mr) Davidson clan. Then the phone calls started coming in, and we were joined by Gap (of Fap and Gap), and Phillip.Perry. This will be fun…

A passing female asked if we were alright. Without missing a beat, Gap asked if she was alright… This hide needed no second guesses - we spotted it immediately. Thanks McJandals and TFTC.

Decided to explore a new area and little man made short work of this one, first success of the day.

Out collecting some new caches. Very cool this morning but the sun is shining This is a nice walking and good spot to bring people TFTC

I had been orienteering at Summerhills & was wet so thought I may as well look for this. Loved the little trail. Tftc

We have a sneaky suspicion that our T-80# series might've inspired this series and we're STOKED if that's so!

Glad it hasn't rained at all great find thanks for all these great caches I had planned on putting some round here myself as we live here but never got round to it. Tftc

Plenty of dog walkers that's for sure - and we thought we would have the trail all to ourselves in this showery windy weather! Cache is all good. TFTC.

Nice easy find and walk , TFTC

**14,131**
Having located number #2 in this series first I knew what I was looking for so this find was very quick. This is a lovely walkway and thankfully, being out early, there were very few muggles to contend with. TFTC

Published

2nd to Find.
Saw these published this morning and got around to looking this afternoon. Thought there was a chance for an FTF as no logs. Got to GZ and started to search. One team member found the cache where another member had already scanned. Got out the log and found out that we were 2nd to find. So, we got ourselves all excited for nothing - oh well.

I guess I'm going to have to be happy with 3TF on this one as well. Never mind, I'm out of the house and in the fresh air. Thanks for all the new caches. Now to try and find my car...TFTC.

Well what a day it’s been ..I received a message from a fellow cacher asking if I had solved the mystery...what ?. Didn’t even know there was any published ...no phone alerts ?????? any way I was working...but I had a quick look and ?????? Thats a bonus it’s just down the Road from where I am trying to earn an honest dollar???? a quick call to the leader KL and we were soon on the trail....this was a simple but tidy hide, though it’s #1 it was last one it this short sweet series.?????? thanks McJandals appreciate your caches and a fav for your nice short cache cameo{FTF} joint

We have run this trail many times but not for a couple of years. It's nice to see some gardens established up here. At least another {FTF} here. (And no solve... yet).