P2P 6 - Don't get bamboozled! Western Bay of Plenty District, North Island, New Zealand
By Geckoh on 19-Feb-22. Waypoint GC9NPWV

Thanks took some looking to find it.

Log needing to be replaced

Cool cache tftc

I found it, but what to do about the two logs. I just signed them both. TFTC.

Neat

Found it

Tftc

TFTF

Cool geocache! Found this little gem while night caching!

Quick and easy

Good

Easy find! TFTC!

Found with Cympull. Loved the bamboozled. TFC

Thanks for your amazing cache Geckoh . I really appreciate the time you took to set up and maintain your caches. Found with Fisha1288 Cheers, Cympull.

Tftc

Good easy find!

Quick find despite dreading the flax TFTC

Bamboo and flax strike fear into our hearts at the best of times, so the potential combo of both was a wee bit scary. However our fears were quickly quashed and we made nice quick work of this one. Awesome camo. 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 Welcome Bay (Tauranga) NZMCA Campsite we decided that we would take our bikes out to the Kaituna Wetland & park up there ride from there to Papamoa & back, have some lunch then walk the Kaituna Wetland Track the cache was easily found, log book completed & replaced had to be a bit careful with lots of muggle cyclists zipping past on a regular basis pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #4,733 for us!

Heading north with tmann421 for a few days.This was day three with plenty of miles for us to cover.Enjoyed the hide hereGreat trail along hereSigned log tm/ww NZTFTC

Good find with woolwood9 on a few days away.*This was the main area for us today - we got a shock with the signs at start (or finish) by P2P 25 where there were barriers and signs saying cycleway CLOSED. However detour took us to access near P2P 11 so we started there. Track is blocked off heading towards the higher number caches on the trail as well.*We enjoyed the trail and good caches for us to visit!SL *tm/ww NZ*Thanks for the cache.

TFTC - searching for thesehas made our long bike ride a lot longer but the kids have loved it!

Have been meaning to tackle these two series for ages, and was hoping to knock them off before the end of 2023 to hit our 500, but just didn't quite get there. So, did the next best thing and hit them up on the first day of 2024 instead!13th find for the day today, and our milestone 500! Great camo again - loving these cache containers and all the variety!Thanks for the placement. Really glad to have this turned into a smiley.

Lucky guess. First spot we checked

Out with Pork and Puha on nice Spring day! Tftc! Nice container

Out and about with the shoesbs.Another nice quick, easy, find, sign, and flee.TFTC

Thanks for that one really cool definitely there

I have taken the advice of the CO and taken a “woman’s look” and of course, there it was right in front of my eyes. (I also noted some rubbish that needs to be taken out and the grass looking a little long so I have quickly reverted to my natural man looking as it suits me better). TFTC and a FP.

Checked on this one whilst in the area, and its definitely there - may need to have a "womans look"

Not saying it’s not here, just that I did not find it within the time I gave myself. I had a very good idea of what I was looking for given the style of the previous caches in this series. Another time!

Out on the cycle trail picking up some caches that I require for a personal challenge.

I had a bit of a job getting the cache out of its camo.

Cheers for the cache, Geckoh.

5 from 5 - a cool hide and another one to add to our collection

Mrs stik-a-crane spotted this nicely crafted cache .

In the area today with junior cacher and Mrs stik-a-crane for some RNR, and luckily the weather decided to play ball for the time we were visiting.

Spotted this trail and managed to lock in accommodation reasonably close by, but still decided to drive closer to the trail start......was going to park at the boat ramp, but due to recent heavy rain, that option had been flooded, and no longer an option, so went a little further down the road, set up the bikes, and set off along the trail.....

The cache was all good.

TFTC.

Quick find, lots of cyclists out today tftc

Paused for a bit to let muggles clear then went in for the grab. I liked the camo on this one!

Great hide TFtc

Another great cache. Loving the caches and thanking you for all the time you and the other Co's out into this

I needed a decent bike ride today and I could not ignore this trail any longer.
Cache is a different than expected but quite cool.
Tftc.

Nice easy find during our day biking the path with the kids. TFTC

With the Geotour coming to and end soon Yvettetb and I decided to go on a road trip to collect Tahi and Rua. Of course I had some puzzles at various places to collect and a few special types were added to the list too.

Today's plan was to get a few caches around Rotorua with high favourite points. We then wanted to head up to Tauranga via a few PWGT caches. As it turned out we only got one cache in Rotorua this morning as it was drizzling so we headed north to avoid the rain.

It had turned into a nice day and the cache's were fun, nicely looked after and quick finds so we decided to carry on with our walk to finish the series. A quick find here too and a nicely themed container, TFTC

Our North Island Roadtrip from Whangarei to complete Tahi & Rua of the NZ Geotour - Day Twelve.

Another cache to inspire. Thanks for the quick find at GZ. TFGC

Maintenance check - extra log sheet added!

While spending my summer holidays in the Bay of Plenty to the east of Opotiki, an unexpected (in a good way) text message from a mate resulted in an impromptu visit to Papamoa. With both of us being unfamiliar with the area and wanting something to do, I suggested we go geocaching. He agreed and I began the online search for local caches. This cycleway trail popped up and we decided to take a walk, attempting to find a few of the caches hidden along it. We parked at the end of Bell Road and began the short walk to the trail.

The sun continued to shine as we made our way down the cycleway to this cache. We'd been out and about for a wee while, but unfortunately, one of us had an upcoming dinner to attend to. As the next cache on this trail is a little further away, we decided we'd turn around after finding this one.

We noticed a potential hint object as we got closer to GZ. The cache was right where the hint was stating. Once we had the container in hand, we were a bit bamboozled as to how to extract the logbook. Fortunately we weren't bamboozled too long, as the logbook was soon extracted and signed. Replaced back as found, just before a friendly cycling muggle rode by. We then began the return journey to the car.

Many thanks for bringing us out here, we probably would never have known about this trail if it weren't for geocaching. I definately hope to return one day to finish the trail off.

TFTC

Quickly found here while on my holiday in NZ. TFTC

Out with CamCat1 before the made rush of tomorrow. Nice hide, Cheers

Out with CeeVee walking the cycle way

Another good find

A nice quick find. NIce container and a surprise find. Fav Point here. I found most of the caches on the trail, but not all. Thanks for placing your cache.

Ms_KR and I are off on our annual pilgrimage to Auckland to visit family. Today we cruised from Whakatane to Cambridge.. The weather was fine and warm, and the Christmas traffic is stating to build!

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

Great camo, but spotted quickly enough, cheers

Great camo here and a quick find. TFTC

Got that one fast

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Nice and quick to find. Number 6 today

Good spot to the left a bit

TFTC. In good condition.

Nice one

Thanks for the adventure.

Great hint, quick find! TFTC

Awesome hide loving the walk tftc

Got off work at lunchtime and headed out to enjoy the sunny winters day. Cold but not a cloud in the sky. Returned to complete this P2P series. Have driven past so many times and imagined I would return here with a bike but instead had to walk it. Still enjoyable with all the varied hides to break up the walk. Wasn’t looking forward to the flax hides however with the clear hints they were no problem. Took 2 hours to collect the remaining 18 caches. Cache and log all fine here. Nice camouflage. Thanks Geckoh for all your effort in setting up the series.

Khonig and I have been talking about doing the Papamoa to Paengaroa trail series for a while now... and with the added bonus of completing some puzzle caches along the trail we decided that today was the day. Weather was brilliant... no rain and just enough cloud to keep us from over heating. Between us we had two cars so decided to be strategic about placement of the cars so we only had to do the trail once... thank goodness because we had tired feet by the time we were finished. Thanks so much for all the caches along the trail... a very well maintained and enjoyable experience.
Brilliant cache!! Never seen one like this before but definitely hoping to find one again

Quick easy find.TFTC

Great camo, quick find while out for a bike ride along here, TFTC

Out walking the P2P trail in reverse numerical order from south to north this morning.
Speculated as to what we would find as we approached GZ, and were only half right. Thanks.

Now this was clever pity they had parted company but the log was found and signed and then placed back together as per the hint.
Thanks for the placement and the smiley

Another great hide. TFTC

Loved the container. Great hide

There are some cool containers being used on this trail. Great to see such effort put into these hides. Thanks for the placement geckoh

This nearly bamboozled me as the the camo had no contents umm back into the flax I go…phew there it was all sorted and signed in a flash…thanks Gecko thanks

Today is the day, regardless of the rain, that McJandals and I are doing this trail. Thanks for placing these caches. Yep another favorite
Cheers

Needing some fresh air and exercise after a few days if inclement weather and a break from the computer (trying to solve a geckho puzzle), teamed up with Dee+ME. Armed with our bikes and fingers crossed it won’t rain off we went.

Nice and tidy. Well done

I am logging using the Cachly app template so please excuse generic logging along the way. It’s just my way of keeping track, but I do genuinely thank each and every one of you cache owners for taking the time and energy to place these caches. Logged with permission. Many Thanks for bringing me here. Cheers.

Well, it can be hard not to get bamboozled, especially in the flax bushes, but this one worked out like a dream. Cache is all good. TFTC

Nice container

Ooooh how exciting, a new trail of caches on a cycle path, and in the direction we're going!
Having joined up with mr rattll again, we left Kawerau and headed here. Mrs rattll headed off on the bike and this time it was mr rattlls time to do the dog sitting.
This was a super quick find, but i loved the double camo
Thanks for putting all these caches on this cycleway

Cool

Not bamboozled. Trying to rember the gadget at the Mega. TFTC.

Great container
No problems to find on a warm sunny morning
Tftc

Finally we had a weekend free and this new trail gave us the opportunity to get back out on the bikes and dependent on the number of successful finds, also gain the final summit challenge souvenir which we had almost given up on.
ROS had been on this cycleway several times before but at a much faster pace than today.
There were a lot of passing muggles who offered help thinking we had lost something and the occasional runner who must have wondered why we made such slow progress when he passed us on his return!
We had been expecting someone to set this trail up so it wasn’t a complete surprise when the caches were published. Enjoyable trail TFTC.

7922 After seeing this trail pop up over the weekend I decide to get on my bike and collect them. Parked at the northern end and took me just over 3hrs to do the round trip. with only 1 DNF. Will have to comeback for that one. Enjoyed the trail with interesting hides some of which I found a challenge to find. Thank you for all the effort in creating these caches.
After reading the cache name I thought I knew what to expect here as I had created a replacement cache for a hide near Hamilton (Pandas Dream). This was correct so pleased to quickly sign and move on.

Found it
27/02/2022
Time to get the bikes out and tackle this trail. The first challenge was to navigate our way through all the new housing down Papamoa. We parked down the end of Te Okuroa Drive and hopped on.
Nice easy start out around the pond and on to the trail We have been waiting a long time for someone to set up a trail along here and really looking forward to it
Number 6. And we are on a roll. Again started looking around my favourite plant but with suck good coordinates the log was soon signed TFTC

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Tftc

Onto the trail again a car at both ends. Nice quick find here. Tftc loving the hints great for a cycle trail makes finding caches easier.

Off with ABCDF4 for the weekend, sat ended up with the Squirrel and Davidson Clan on the trail from Papamoa south boardering the motorway. Neat walk, good hides and a beer at he end compliments of Fap & Gap.Thanks to Cos for placements, Highly recommend.

Off on a weekend away
Heading for the Beach
got a call from squirrel Nutcase to see if we wanted to join him,there is New P2P trail.
Didn't take to much persuasion
Awesome Trek,hints spot on
Nice hide a bit different
Thanks to the CO Lots of time gone into this trail

With (Mr) Davidson Clan, ABCDF4 and eyespyben… Our Huntly friends responded to our invite to walk the P2P trail, and we were able to park a vehicle at either end…

The coordinates and hint were spot on. This was one clump of flax we didn’t mind searching - and the hide was cool too. Thanks Geckoh and TFTC.

Loving the names of these...and the spot on hints! The sun is going down and the crickets are chirping at the mo, glad we didnt have to dive in far.

Published

Muggle on this one. Lots of flax here.

Went out during our lunch break (with kimbathelion) in the hope to be FTF unfortunately 2 others beat us to it. Another cool cache. Thanks for the hide.

Out with buzzybb. Cool cache disguise. Fav point. Enjoyed doing part of the trail. Shame we had to go back to work. Will finish the rest another day. Tftc

Excellent to see a power trail taking shape along this walkway - it's something we'd long talked about but lacked motivation. I made my way over to gz 3 hours after publication unsure if the [FTF]s were still there - but happy to find that they were. It was pretty close though considering I met Grifter13, kimbathelion and buzzybb on my wander... This was the first fifteen publications of the series and all the hides were all straight forward with good hints, accurate coords and reliable containers. We expect nothing less from the 14 year geocaching veterans - Team Geckoh. TFTC Dumb flax - onto the next one.**Early 2015 a group of Tauranga based cachers started a [BOP Geocaching Facebook Page](https://www.facebook.com/groups/GeocachingBOP/).240 cachers currently make up this [Closed](https://www.facebook.com/help/220336891328465#What-are-the-privacy-options-for-groups) group where we organise various geocaching events and excursions as well as share information and friendly banter. Please check us out if you're interested.**