STOP--end of trail? Gulf Harbour, North Island, New Zealand
By G_2 on 04-May-22. Waypoint GC9TACB

Nice day for a walk

Nobody there, still very careful operation. Easy to see, not too easy to get to with the required stealth. TFTC!

Wow. Big boats and houses here. Lovely wee walk

Some very expensive properties around here, we plan to buy one when we win Lotto tomorrow. But until then we will settle for finding this very nicely placed cache. Blends in perfectly.TFTC

**21,868**An evening stroll with the dogs, the wind in howling through the wires making the dogs a bit jumpy. The cache was a nice quick find here and then it was a pleasant return trip back to the van. TFTC

Found after a lovely meal with Lynne and Gra TFTC

Easy find tftc

Nice day out, beautiful weather. Tftc

Having fun getting the four today for leap year. Thanks G-2

Good info made this one super easy whilst out exploring by bike - tftc

Easy find at a beautiful location TFTC

After a shortish day in Auckland back to accommodation and time for dome more birding at Shakespear (Fernbird the highlight) and a few more caches.Missed one but wandered to thr end. Generous hint here made this a very quick find.TFTC G-2

I set the alarm for 3.30am this morning to allow 15mins wake up time before the half hour journey to drop my kids off at the airport.I then thought I'd try the electric highway cache near the shopping centre near the airport. I've been there many times but there's always been cars parked there so I've never hunted for the cache. I was very pleased it was empty this morning so I could tick that cache off.I then checked my emails and got excited by the possibility of an ftf hunt out Henderson/Swanson area. With them found I picked up a few others while I was out this way.I was beginning to feel my early start so headed back to Mum's apartment in Parnell for breakfast and a nap. Refreshed slightly I visited the Grandkids in Stanmore Bay and dropped off forgotten bits from their recent trip north. With them being under the weather I didn't stay too long hoping not to catch their bugs.Hoping to bring todays tally up a bit I targeted this area. I parked up in the nearby road and enjoyed a stroll along here. Some very flash houses and boats. A quick find here as I watched a boat go out. Thanks for your caches out here

Out & about in Gulf Harbour today collecting all the newish caches. TFTC

If Glyn didnt place there would be no hides ? I was out in the area looking for caches with a friend . Nice hide . Refreshing to be out looking for caches Tftc

An absolutely stunning marina with tge bonus of great little caches. A quick find. TFTC

A nice easy find, but the log was well & truly stuck, so I signed a leaf and added it to the cache.

Decided to come to collect some more caches in Gulf Harbour this afternoon. Parked up nearby and made a nice quick find at our first stop on this trail. A beautiful marina. No boats or muggles passed by whilst we grabbed this one.

Last one on the trail. Sadly have very wet and muddy shoes now!! SL TFTC

Trail completed! Thanks for bringing us here. Found with Gernita and PhilBirdBoys. TFTC.

Another quick find! Co-ordinates have been spot on today. TFTC

¯_( ͠• ͜ʖ ͡•)_/¯ After bringing myself along to Gulf harbour on 3 buses, I decided a good walk would bring me some caches. I did have in mind though one particular mystery cache for a dot day of those, but this cache was in an excellent place, those little suckers just go anywhere, and this was no different. No matter where you take a foto around here, it's going to be nice, lucky people who can afford to live here with their boats.

The clue gave it away

No problems with this cache but needed nimble fingers getting log out. Tftc

Best view of these strip of caches

Whoop! The clue helps!

A quick and easy cache to get us back on track for another look at the previous one.

Found it! Thanks

Easy find, no one else around. TFTC. now back to try that 2222 again

1960. 12:54 pm. Stealth definitely required and so I was thankful for a quick find and a sneaky return at the end of this short caching trail. TFT(marina view)C.

Quick find. Obligatory photo taken. Tftc

After our epic morning caching at Shakespeare Regional Park, we stopped at the nearest cafe to refuel ourselves; which turned out to be at Gulf Harbour. What a lovely area we said. There's bound to be some caches here we said. So refreshed and re-energised, off we set again. We hadn't gone far when our instructions said STOP. And because we were new to the area we had actually read the instructions! So we stopped and we saw straight away, thanks to the good clue. Cache is all good. TFTC

Had a good Indian meal and after a good hike around the harbour.
Thanks.

I love this little sneaky path. Parked up at the shops & wandered along. Nobody around so made a nice quick find. Took a photo of the area. TFTC

On a dot day, out to collect a couple of caches in this lovely area

Nice, found it after a few DNF this afternoon ..TFTC

I always enjoy coming back and visiting places that I haven't been to for a while. It also really makes it loads more fun when there are bunch of new caches since I was last in the area, so having parked up at the marina for the evening, I came for a wander. Thanks so much G2 for another great hide, TFTC

Quick find at the end of the trail. Lovely Sunday walk here.
TFTC

Out for a walk around the Gulf Harbour marina with AliGle this afternoon. A quick find here, then we turned around to head back from where we came. TFTC!

A nice afternoon stroll to the end of the path. All in order here.

Rainy Auckland day but we've put our rain jackets on for some exploring.
Quick find!

The sun came out after a very wet morning and MrsJAG joined up with Merlot and Supernannny for a trip to The Hibiscus Coast. A short walk along the well formed path to gz where the cache was soon spotted. TFTC

While I was in a phone call, Mrs Jag made a quick find

Nice walk along this path. Enjoyed looking at the yachts.

Was out with nette1234 today for our usual caching Thursday...
Weather not looking too promising so no long walks for us today!
Finally found where to park after phone navigation tried to put me wrong!
Very civilised short walk and a quick find thanks!
Lovely to see all the boats along here.

Early morning walk along this very picturesque path. Nice quick find here and no one else was around at all. Tftc

So today a crowd of 14 Team SEAC members encompassing 10 different caching names travelled north to the park and attempted all caches in the park. Logs were signed SEAC to save space. The weather today was perfect. After the park we found a few more caches in the area. Another nice quick find with so many people looking.

Published

FTF with NZT

A group from Team SEAC decided to have a day trip around the Whangaparaoa, in particular clearing out Shakespear Regional Park. It was a stunning day, and as this was about the fourth attempt at doing this day out (thanks covid), we were very lucky. A couple of us decided to leave the others to do the bigger walk, while we took a more gentle walk. Mrs NZT and I (Mrs LiverBird from LiverKiwi) were over in Okoromai Bay having just walked over from Army Bay. We had decided to take the dog for a walk along the beach then head off to find a coffee. Next thing our phones started going crazy with messages from the rest of Team SEAC up at Shakespear. Quick, go, go, go - FTF at Gull Harbour. We'd just been talking about taking a drive down to Gulf Harbour to get our coffee. This made us walk a little faster - unfortunately the dog decided he didn't want to walk faster and couldn't sense our urgency to get moving when there was so many new things to sniff and check out. With the dog safely in the car we headed off to Gulf Harbour - I have only been there a handful of times, and it was Mrs NZTs first time, so it took us a couple of attempts to find the correct road (maybe we should have checked the map first...). Finally we arrived, parked and headed off along the track figuring that maybe if we were lucky, we would get a STF, not thinking for a moment that the FTF would still be up for grabs! But imagine our surprise when we opened the cache to find an empty log book. Log quickly signed, we set off along the pathway in search of the next FTF. Thanks G-2.

Taken Geodog for a wander around here and do some caching prior to the whole Team SEAC team tackling Shakespeare Regional Park.

AND THEN the releases came out. DARN completely other side of Peninsula, so trek back to the car. Took a bit of time to get close to GZ and all the time in the back of our minds was that someone else may have claimed this.

Walked to GZ made the find and were rewarded with a Blank Log. Joint FTF with LiverKiwi

TFTC

{FTF} 271 for Team NZTravellers Geodog also starting to rack up a few FTFs as this was his 5TH!!!!!

Headed up this way today after one of our group suggested (for the fourth attempt) to take a walk around the park....as we had camped up here a few times before, we jumped at the opportunity, plus it was an opportunity of catching up with the group after being locked down by Covid-19.....parked, and headed into the park.
Now out of the park collecting nearby caches....

This one came out whilst we were in the Park, and we knew others were going to be much quicker to this than us for the FTF.

Signed in as SEAC to save logbook space.

TFTC.

After a morning of caching in Shakespeare Park some of the team SEAC team continued on caching as it turns out well into the night!!

We had seen this published as we were in the park so no chance of a FTF for us walkers but for LiverKiwi and Mrs NZT who were in the general area it was fair game and they made the find.

After finding the other new one we continued on the path and Mrs HeMaLudy did the honours here.

Thanks for the cache.