P2P 8 - Fancy a bit of fencing! Western Bay of Plenty District, North Island, New Zealand
By Geckoh on 19-Feb-22. Waypoint GC9NPX0

I am back in Tauranga to sign off the completion of the P2P caches and the REALLY Side Tracked series in the Western Bay area plus a few others that might get in the way.I examined the fence for any errors but found none.Cheers for the cache, Geckoh.

To easy but fun.

Found cheers geriatric hippies

Easy fast find tftc

Now where have a seen a hide like this before? TFTC.

Silver

Found it

Tftc

TFTF

Cool geocache! Found this little gem while night caching!

Great cache hanging on

Same same

Number two of my geocaching expedition to collect geocaches on a segment of the path I have not yet cleared. TFTC and Onward!

TFTC

Easy find with Cympull. 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.

Thumbs

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Thanks for the find!

Another quick find TFTC

A nice quick find as we reached the end of our journey. Mrs Coblet was limping by now but it was so quick that we decided to carry on a little bit more. Caching is such a great motivator and a great way to keep fit. 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 ... #4,731 for us!

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. Quick stop here!

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

Great little find.

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!15th find for the day today. More spot on coordinates and thus another quick find here.Thanks for the placement. Really glad to have all these smileys on our map now!

Good find

Some more bending down to collect, but quick find

Out and about with the shoebs family.A nice quick, easy find, grab, sign, and flee.TFTC

6 from 6 - we didn’t even get a chance to get off our bikes before the not so little one had it in hand.

Another one that managed to survive the flooding.

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.

Great find along the trail tftc

The eyes quickly locked on to this one. TFTC!!

Nice little hide TFtc

Really enjoying this bike ride. Thank you for the caches as it bought my attention to the trail

I needed a decent bike ride today and I could not ignore this trail any longer.
Tftc.

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

Found it while on my holiday in NZ. 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.

Our initial plan was only grabbing a couple of puzzles. With the nice weather we enjoyed a walk along this cycleway. Another nice paint job on this one. Thanks again for the effort

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

Thanks for the beautifully camouflaged caches along the cycle track. Quick find at GZ. TFGC

Maintenance check - replaced with new log and container, same spot!

Out walking with CamCat1 on this damp day. Easy find but hard to sign log as it's very wet. Cheers

Very soggy wet log, hard to write on

Lovely day out. Enjoying the hunt

A nice quick find. 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. .

Another quick spot, thanks

Nice little find. TFTC

Easiest one of the day

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Quick to find thanks for the cache. Number 8 today

Nice and easy

Tried to stack up cover so less visible.

Thanks for the adventure.

Nicely hidden here! TFTC

This one was easy to find oranges across the road look good 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. 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.

5 June 2022 17:13. The light is fading quickly now but still just enough light to be able to see where this little beauty was lurking. TFTC.

Quick easy find.TFTC

Another great find. TFTC

Plan was to walk and cache this power trail until I needed to be heading to mt Maunganui. Found most but not all. .

A short quick ride from the previous cache, and beep goes the GPS again, yup very fancy, TFTC

Out walking the P2P trail in reverse numerical order from south to north this morning.
This was an interesting hide almost in plain sight. Checked no-one too close by and quickly made the find. Thanks.

Nice quick find as per the hint
Log signed and replaced as found.
Thanks for the placement and the smiley

Quick find on our adventures today. Tftc

Nicely tucked away, but a nice quick find for us today. Enjoying being out on the bikes today

Nicely tucked away out of site

I have a long standing fascination with the abandoned classic car over the fence which is slowly rusting away. Thanks for the placement geckoh

Quikly located this tidy hide..as usual very sharpe co ordinates thanks Team Geckho the cache is in good condition

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

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.

A great day for biking this trail and gathering some smileys as we go. Started at the Gordon Spratt Reserve, morning tea at the Kaituna wetlands - they're looking fabulous - lunch at Makatu then caching again on our way back. 49km all up, 32 caches and no DNFs. Cache is all good. TFTC

Went for a health walk along the shared pathway ,this is as far as I got for now . Lot of cyclists passing , only got one strange backward stare from a passing cyclist as I was rummaging though the flax on a previous cache.

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.
Spotted an interesting spot and sure enough there the cache was.
Thanks for putting all these caches on this cycleway

Cool

The bright reflection showed this one up. Added a bit more natural to shield from muggle eyes. TFTC.

On a roll
Bit of a strain to get down to this one today
Back sore from to much heavy lifting yesterday
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.

7923 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.
No trouble finding this one.

Found it 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
Yes we ready for a bit of fencing as there is certainly a lot of it TFTC

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Nearly done for the night quick find here thanks to the hint.

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 roar of motorbikes caught our attention. Mostly because the riders were coming down the cycle/pedestrian trail. They turned ahead of us and hightailed it back out again… Why? Anyway, we were not deterred from our mission with a quick find here. Thanks Geckoh and TFTC.

A cockroach is guarding this one already...doesnt take them long to find caches does it?
We've not done any trails like this and the 161 or so metres goes super fast when you're logging on the go!
Beaut sun giving us a great view over the pap hills

Published

Not sure how long the weedy camouflage will last. Thanks geckoh

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 The containers are getting smaller - 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.**