Hangout (Papamoa) Papamoa Beach, North Island, New Zealand
By mtncat on 26-Aug-21. Waypoint GC9FKC1

Area clean up. Water tight issues

Fun

#13,068. Park, walk and grab on Gravatt Road in Papamoa Beach, Papamoa. GZ was all quiet at the time of our visit. Found after a short search. The cache itself was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. The logsheet was torn though, but managed to sign ok. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Thanks for the 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.

Over visiting the granndies from the Tron. Yes needs a new log book

Nice easy find!

Needs new paper, couldn’t sign as it was all squished down the bottom of the container

It was pretty easy

Looking like we will need a replacement log paper soon but yay for finding it

Easy find

I found another one !

Reasonably quick find. TFTC

Too hard for me !
Even brought my tweezers...

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There was a piece of paper but not hidden

Paper stuck

Thanks

Found it

Nice quick find here and luckily nice and quiet. TFTC

Once found extraction was the next challenge,done.

That's a really good HANGOUT spot

Quick an easy

hanging in the tree

Took longer to retrieve log than to find it. TFTC

Cool find with the family

that scroll was impossible to get out

After 2 dnfs we were ready for a find. Not long hiding from the sun and we spotted it. Thanks

Nice easy find with the family

Nice easy find with ABCDF4 and some family
Thanks to the CO

Found it!

tftc! didn’t have a pen so took a photo instead:)

Second for the day qas quite easy

Our second find and was so fun. We couldn't get the paper out of it though. Lots of fun had by myself and 6yr old

On a slow drive up to Auckland for the Mega next weekend. Stayed the night at the freedom camping on the beach and got on my bike this morning for some caching. Great cycle paths without too many people around. This cache was all fine. Thanks for the smiley.

Kids wanted to hide something with it so wrapped a hair tye round it

Easy as tftc

Good hint

Didn't take too long thanks

Hate these ones. Spent twenty minutes here.

Nice one.

It was fun

Came over to Tauranga to get some caches to reach the souvenir challenge for November. nice quick find here today.

Took a little while to adjust eyes to see it..a nice simple cache.

I'd found this one a little while ago but can't remember when. Cache found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords and a straight forward placement. Feels like forever since I've found a noodlekidz cache and it's hard to believe only 2 (of 42) of your caches are still active... I doubt these 2 new placements signal a full blown return to geocaching but your presence has been missed. Cheers mtncat and TFTC

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TGIF. Sneaky little find. Hint was a big help.

Cool geo cash

Thanks to squirrel nutcase for replacing the log sheet

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)… The next instalment of ‘Reach the Peak’ began today. We were looking to get a jump on the challenge, so we set off on a small road trip.

This was an immediate find, but we were somewhat disappointed that the logbook was jammed inside. This needed emergency surgery… We tweezed out the old paper log and replaced it with Aqua-note paper - It’s all good to go again! Thanks mtncat and TFTC.

Hi. Log is jammed into the rube and l can't get it out sorry

This was an adventure. The traffic in Gravatt was so busy it was a mission just try and park nearby, and not get run over.

Made the find but gotta heck of a fright when muggle dog came roaring out of somewhere.

As per previous logger, the cache log was jammed in there, but we went back for tweezers and was able to sign it.

Cool

Was really fun

Thanks it was really fun and easy
TFTC

Fun and good bike ride

Headed in thinking I had spotted this but no. A quick circle and I could see it, right where I had been standing! Another nice little green space. Thanks for bringing us here mtncats

There are lots of nooks and crannies around Papamoa a geo caches paradise nice tidy cache found without any problems many thanks mtncats for the cache

Needed to drop some lockdown recycling at the Te Maunga depot so took a short detour. The container blended in remarkably well considering but, unfortunately, is not that waterproof so the log is quite damp and fragile. Nevertheless, good to see the CO back in the game after a long break in local caches. TFTC.

Really cool geocache good hiding spot it is close to my friends house.

Kinda easy

Cool

Quick search and found it
Tftc

Took me a little bit to spot, good find

Sneaky little bugger! TFTC

About a km from home,out of lockdown so had to be the go.Nice easy find mtncat thankyou.You must be home currently,it must be 10 years since we last met.Cheers man.

**#14,278**
This type of hide goes on of two ways, either a quick one or a long drawn out meticulous search, lucky for us it was the former so out of here quickly.
No probs in the early morning,
TNLN TFTC

Just after finding another cache on Gravatt Road, we came down here and stepped into a reserve that we'd never visited before. After a little rummaging, we found the culprit and happily signed the log. TFTC

Published

We saw this publication pop up this morning but did not realise how close to home it was. Finished my morning coffee and went to check this out along with the other new publication in the area. Just missed meeting Kimbathelion who got there first. Nice little hide. TFTC.

Popped up when working from home so had to go & see if I could be ftf. Yay. 8.22am. Fav point. Tftc