Riders On The Storm #2 Waimauku, North Island, New Zealand
By G_2 on 22-Jan-22. Waypoint GC9MMFA

Well we looked for simply ages! we just could not find any flat stones today and so despite looking around we just could not find this cache. If anyone had any hints for us we will be back again in the near future to finish the adventure lab as the fence stopped us heading down as far as we needed. TFTC

Cool little hide, had not stopped at this park before.tftc

Found it thanks, and signed the new log sheet.

Not there, an obvious spot but the whole area has been ransacked. Suggest owner revisits as it hasn't been found in months.

Couldnt find it, maybe its been misplaced.

Probably ok

Had muggles taking quite a bit of interest so no luck here today

Helaas pindakaas. Nothing to find here, at least for us. Tftc

Work takes. Us back to the beach today clouds and sun bjt no rain so far. Tfrc

A quick park and grab here of the cache in an obvious spot, while out on a Sunday drive exploring the area.
Thanks for the cache

After attending an event in the domain we came west to grab some caches. This was one along the way. There were people in the hall preparing for something . Mr ABCDF made the find and we soon had the cache signed. Thank you for the placement.

Up in Auckland today for a Event not a very nice day
We also had to get a Trad for a challenge.
Mr ABCDF4 got this one
Thanks

On a mission with ABCDF4 and KGD after Gorbys event so out west we go and bingo, quick east find. TFTC.

I decided to finish my attack on horses and no park and grab attribute caches for 2 challenges put out by tramyard. Today is the day that has happened, this cache has a horse too, so I couldn't go past it on my way up south head.

Parked in the carpark of the hall, seems like there was stuff going on there, so just rocked up to the rocks and soon found what I was looking for, thanks G for the hide. BONUS.... there was a pile of bamboo close to GZ, now one big piece is in my van.

Out and about this afternoon, amongst the showers, to sign off on some target hides. This was the sixth targeted hide of the day. A targeted cache because of certain "Watch for Livestock" and "Horses Allowed" attributes. I parked up in the car park and wandered around to ground zero. Good coordinates and a helpful hint meant the cache was detected after a brief search. Cheers for the cache placement!

Quick find
All safe and dry.
Thanks G-2.

#11,958. I have been back in Auckland for a few days on leave. I have a rental car to drop back at the airport later today. But that is still some hours away and so had time to come looking for a few caches. Decided to start in Waimauku. Its quite a warm summers day and needed a lot of stops for drinks. I parked in the mostly empty carpark and headed to GZ. The hint got me to the right area and I saw something promising and soon after had the cache in hand. Signed and put the container back where found. Thanks G-2 for hiding it here. I must be of the right generation as I was humming the tune soon after reading the cache title. It still plays quite often on the The Sound radio station which I tune into on the rental cars.

Another solo caching trip for me, this time looking for the remaining unfound caches out west of us.
The carpark was pretty full when I arrived, but I parked up on the grass next to a few others. No problem making the find once I reached GZ, thanks.

Quick find all good here thanks

A nice quick find. Thanks for placing your cache.

Ms_KR and I are in Auckland Auckland for a break and we are exploring the region while we are based here. Today we went to Muriwai and explored some of the area. The weather was lspottining rain most of the day, sometimes heavier, and sometimes lighter. Still a great day out though.

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

An early Saturday morning find whilst heading home to Whangarei.

Found it
All the kids signed it lol

Finally, a fine day to go caching. We headed out west from our house with the plan to pick some outlying caches. Lots of road works or something going on around here but fortunately it was away from where we wanted to search. Nice quick find. TFTC

Phone reception played up but just used geosenses to find it. Tftc

On my way out to muriwai.
A quick park and grab.

It was the three amigos out today, Merlot, Bertie and I heading out before a possible storm. The weather felt hot and there was no sign of rain at this stage. Once we got past all the road working crew it was a quick find here. Tftc

We were battling some few road works here so parked down a side road and walked the last 100m to gz. A quick find was made thankfully as the road workers were only meters away from us

Waiting here for my daughter to get home from cub camp and spotted this cache right here.
Found quickly before the happy campers swamped the area. TFTC

Quick park & grab this morning. Nice little hide, not as easy to spot as you would expect

Nice to see a new one in the area got this one on my way to work today thanks!

Found it on my way back from Muriwai. Could not pick up on the way in as there was a muggle van parked right in the front. All good.
TFTC

A bit of excitement on my way home from my holiday in Northland.!
Decided to get just One More Cache...as I was passing...kind of.
Got stopped here by a policeman!
Must have seen me drive in and jump out of the car and go into the bushes!
Very suspicious!
And it WAS pretty late at night!
It took me a bit longer than I thought too...
He thought someone was dumping a stolen car and hiding!
Luckily when I explained he said he knew about geocaching!
Funny end to my Road Trip!

Published

Was preparing dinner, when the notification came in. Woah, pretty close to home! However, as I reluctantly admitted to Merlot, I’d had one too many preprandial wines, to be in a fit state to get behind the wheel. Then when I checked an hour later & it still wasn’t gone… I managed to bribe my wonderful brother (who’d been out kayaking all day) to drive me the short distance. And wahoo, a clean log! Made it just in time! Thanks G-2 FTF

I had to go into town so ignored this cache when it came out but it was still there at 8pm on my way home so I kept on going and raced to try and grab the FTF....only to see Bertie Blowfish walking out of the GZ. Missed by that much!!. Nice quick find with the excellent clue. TFTC