Hundertwasser Mem Park Ad Lab Bonus #1 Kawakawa, North Island, New Zealand
By 0B80B8 on 13-Jan-23. Waypoint GCA46K0

I had a few hours in Kawakawa before the bus left, so visiting these places was a must. Thanks

Drove from Whangrei to Paihia today and picked up a small number of caches along the way. Completed the local Ad Lab and worked out the coords for both bonus caches a real bonus having two, and both in the same direction! Took a moment or two to spot this ones hidey-hole! #8066. TFTC.

Today we visited Kawakawa and admired the Stowasser architecture. We knew the artist from Austria . We really enjoyed the lab session .After a walk we were happy to look for two bonuses and found both .A favorite point of ours remains here .MPLC and greetings from us from Germany.

At ground level, put it back where clue said-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --French version below-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --Short late log but more complete now that we are back home.Our vacation will take us to the other side of the world to the land of the Maoris. After many, many hours of flying, a passage through China on the way there and through the United States of America on the way back, we will finally arrive in Christchurch which will be the starting point of our journey.We will enjoy the beaches of the Pacific Ocean and we will go back towards the North Island via State Highway 1. To combine business with pleasure, we will take regular breaks and small detours according to the caches that seem the most accessible to us.With a little more than 3500 km in 20 days, we will have discovered many facets of this island which is soothing. We will have to come back because there are so many places that we have not done . In broad strokes, the path will go from Christchurch to the Kaikoura Peninsula then towards Picton for the crossing to Wellington.New island, new road, and by State Highway 2 we go towards Hastings and Napier. We will leave the seaside for several days to go to Tongariro and Taupo. We will continue north towards Rotorua and Hamilton (without forgetting a detour via Hobbiton ) A detour to the Coromandel Peninsula and finally the almost north of the island with Whangarei and Waitangi to learn the history of this country.There will only be a few days left to spend towards Auckland and its suburbs before taking the plane back to the grayness of our European autumn.The majority of the boxes will be found, we have abandoned those where our English was lacking and where we could not understand the clue. Thanks to all the owners who brightened up our path, who took us to incredible places (that's also geocaching)In short, we had a great vacation, saw beautiful places that simply ask us to come back. We learned a lot about the history of this country and its traditions, it's a great motivation for our destinations.-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --Petit log en retard mais un peu plus complet maintenant que nous sommes rentrs la maison. Nos vacances vont nous emmener lautre bout du monde au pays des Maoris. Aprs beaucoup, beaucoup dheures davion, un passage par la Chine laller et par les Etats-Unis dAmrique au retour, nous arriverons enfin Christchurch qui sera le point de dpart de notre priple.Nous profiterons des plages du de locan Pacifique et nous remonterons en direction de lile du nord via la State highway 1. Pour joindre lutile et lagrable, nous ferons des pauses rgulires et de petits dtours au gr des caches qui nous semble les plus accessibles. Avec un peu plus de 3500 km en 20 jours, nous aurons dcouverts pleins de facettes de cette ile qui est apaisante. Il nous faudra revenir car il y a tellement dendroit que nous navons pas fait . Dans les grand traits, le chemin ira de Christchurch la pninsule Kaikoura puis direction Picton pour la traverse vers Wellington.Nouvelle ile, nouvelle route, et par la State Highway 2 nous remontrons en direction de Hastings et Napier. Nous laisserons le bord de mer plusieurs jours pour aller au Tongariro et Taupo. Nous continuerons vers le nord en direction de Rotorua et Hamilton (sans oublier un dtour par Hobbiton ). Un crochet pour la pninsule de Coromandel et pour finir le presque nord de lile avec Whangarei et Waitangi pour apprendre lhistoire de ce pays. Il ne restera que quelques jours passer vers Auckland et sa banlieue avant de ne reprendre lavion pour retourner dans la grisaille de notre automne europen.La majorit des boites seront trouves, nous avons dlaisser celles o notre anglais faisait dfaut et ou que nous narrivions pas comprendre lindice. Merci tous les poseurs qui ont gay notre chemin, qui nous ont emmen dans des endroits incroyables (cest aussi cela le geocaching)Bref, nous avons pass de superbes vacances, vu des endroits magnifiques qui demandent simplement que lon revienne. Nous avons appris beaucoup de chose sur lhistoire de ce pays et de ces traditions, cest une grande motivation pour nos destinations.

Quick and easy find, while the small ones had a go on the playground! TFTC!

Out in the weekend finding caches.Nice locationsTFTC

Got it found a rats tail tftc

Completed the Ad Lab and with the required info headed off towards the final, no problems with the find. Thanks for setting this one up TFTC.

Thank you for the ad lab. Interesting wee town. Can hear the horn of the train today.

Great, got both bonuses. With Kaz53

Found it. Thanks to CO,

Quick find TFTC

On a holiday up in the Bay of Islands of the winterless north. What a busy time it was with all the historical sites to explore and their significance to discover. It is no wonder that by the end of the day, we were getting back to our accommodation and just blobbing after a good dinner. Of course, you cannot go anywhere other than your home town and not do some caching while you are there.As coincidence would have it, team HeMaLuDy were also having a holiday in the Bay of Islands as well and staying a few roads away from us. We conspired to meet up and do the vintage rail ride from Kawakawa to Te Akeake station along the old railway running from Kawakawa to Opua. This is definitely a trip worth taking if you get the chance. With the trip starting and ending in Kawakawa, we just had to clear out the town of it's physical caches, all three of them.We wandered around and got all the information from the AdLab, which was also interesting, and proceeded to figure out the co-ordinates for this bonus whilst we were having lunch. After we had refuelled, we headed over to GZ to grab the cache. It didn't take long until the cache was found and the log signed. With that out of the way, it was on to finding the next cache.TFTC

After completing the ad lab stages and admiring the art work in town we stopped for a picnic lunch and worked out the bonus coordinates. A nice quick find here.

#3036Found by the Tontako Team.Thanks for the cache

#2431 (Tontako Team) Kia Ora from Spain! We found this cache during our New Zealand / Aotearoa holidays.YuhuuuuTFTC

A nice walk around town and then an added bonus in the parkm all make for a good morning. Thanks.

Stopped on our way to Whangarei. Fun exploring. Thx for the bonus!

Replaced the damaged container today and updated the hint slightly to make it a bit easier.

What a unique artist Hundertwasser was and the AdLab was spectacular. It is always great to have a bonus and having 2 is awesome Tftc Two Aussies in NZ for 6 weeks thoroughly enjoying ourselves. This one took way too long before we found it, sneaky

Nice to stop for some lunch in KawaKawaHave not been here for a few years nowGreat wee Ad Lad around the town and then to get a double BonusAnd to Top it off the train coming down the main streetBig thanks to the CO

Up this way for the weekend with ABCDF4Thanks to CO for making it a great weekendAwesome hide now off to Paihia

Having a lovely time walking around the town. Admiring the new library.Nice sneaky hide.

We really enjoyed the AdLab here!Thanks heaps for setting it up.This hide eluded me and Net61 at first......pretty tricky !!!!

New log sheet today.

Had a great day caching with findbobi, Tftc

Quick find with kaari74. Tftc

Today continued our roadtrip with direction Kerikeri. During the day we visited some planned spots but also discovered some nice locations by chance. We read in our travel guide about the Hundertwasser toilet but we were not aware that this area is full of his art! Really great place to visit. We also learned some new fact about the artist as we didn' t know that he lived that long in NZ. We saw some his best known objects in Vienna and thought he would have lived most time in Austria. After the labcaches we went to the both bonus caches and found them.Thanks for hiding and maintaining the cache.Happy hunting!TFTCschnuckel1[#24272]

Quick

Had time for the lab but not time for both of the bonuses. Tftc!

Quick find after doing the adventure lan

Enjoyed the wander around Kawakawa with SJT_NZ exploring the interesting design work then a short-extended walk for the 2 bonuses, thanks 0B80B8.

Completed the AdLab on our way North the other day, so we picked up these caches on our way South today! A nice easy find here, TFTC!

Day one of our Northland road trip. A fun ALC here and great to have two bonus caches to find!! A tricky find here but we managed it - TFTC

Found after doing the adventurelab, tftc

At first I thought it is just rubbish. Tricky hide. The logbook is full. Tftc

After visting the Hundertwasser Park ... Logbookbfulk

Looked around the area where we were directed but couldnt find it.

We really enjoyed doing the Ad-lab and this bonus was a bonus for us. I can see how the previous cacher's misses it, I also did on my first sweep. It was pretty much where I expected it to be and a second visit to the host and a closer inspection revealed the cache. T4tC 0B80B8,Civvnr&MissTreadlightly....(UK) Geocaching.com finds so far 11343

Dubbelcheck voor mijn cordinaten, but could not find the cache...

Heading south towards Auckland, our final destination on our trip around NZ. We spotted this AL so decided to stop as we had enjoyed the Hundertwasser museum in Whangarei. Quick find at GZ after doing the AL. Great. We wouldnt have stopped here otherwise. Good use of an AL.

Coordinates led me a to nearby, but I figured the location quickly. Container is broken at one end and the magnet is out. It's being held together with the magnet.

Dieser Cache konnte heute erfolgreich geloggt werden.Danke an den owner fr's legen und pflegen TFTC Schmerzbefreit

Glanced over this one before using my phone to get a better lookTFTC

Walked away the first time, but King T found it on the return. Sneaky. TFTC

double checked our coords but still couldnt find either :/

#5.795After the lab this was a quick and easy find.TFTC says team mastba from Hamburg/Germany

1620 log will follow

Nice wee find at the end of a lovely wander around Kawakawa. Enjoyed a cinnamon scroll at the Railway Station cafe.

Wandered over from the other bonus cache and quickly had this one in hand too! Thanks for the time making two bonus' from the Adventure Lab.

Einmal um die ganze Welt,...Hundertwasser ist bei uns in Austria sehr bekannt. Heute nach dem LAB noch diesen Bonus gesucht und wir konnten uns eintragen. TFTC Liebe Gre GM70 Unterwegs mit meinem Gatten Baumi_B

### Around the world in 85 days - Step 8 - New Zealand ###My wife GM70 and I are traveling around the world enjoying beautiful places in many countries.Thanks for the walk after visiting the Hundertwasser Memorial Park. We found the cache quickly. All the best from AustriaBaumi_Bon the road with my wife GM70

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Czechia.

We are spending the night in Whangarei with Team Welsh, on our way home from a week's holiday in the Bay of Islands. We enjoyed the wander around Hundertwasser Mem Park doing the Ad Labs, and 2 puzzles for the price of 1 sounds good to us! Thanks for this one.

I decided to have a go at 2 caches for the effort for 1 AdLab. There should be more of these.

It worked out very well. I soon had the coords for this worked out and went to retrieve it.

Cheers for the cache, 0B80B8.

Excellent bonus plus bonus of adv lab! Tftc. Worthwhile stop northbound, FP for bonuses

Wondered what we'd found when a local asked if it was 'Medicine mate?'

After completing the adventure lab, we headed to Ngawha Springs hot pools. As we had to return through Kawakawa to get back to Whangarei, we stopped to collect the 2 bonus caches. We parked very close to gz and soon had the cache in hand. We had to wait for the train to pass before replacing the cache as found. TFTC

Found this micro cache after completing the adventure with our New Zealand cousins.

Nice park wonder with my furball and very quick find.

All worked out perfectly. Thanks.

We are on our long-awaited journey around the world in 99 days. Second try after canceling in 2020.
Our third stop after Los Angeles and Hawaii is New Zealand.

This time was of course used to find some geocaches here.
Today we were searching for the Mystery **Hundertwasser Mem Park Ad Lab Bonus #1**

Thank to the Hint and the good coordinates the little box was found quickly!
After signing the logbook there is a new smile on our geocaching map!

At least we would like to take this opportunity to thank 0B80B8 for creating the ALC and maintaining this Mystery.

Greetings from Nuermberg/Germany
**Wild_Bee_**

P.S. To save space in the logbooks, we not only enter in sequence, but also in empty spaces between.
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Thank you for the cache - जियोकैश के लिए धन्यवाद - Vielen Dank für den Cache - Gracias por el caché - Merci pour le cache - Grazie per la cache - Obrigado pelo Cache - Bedankt voor de cache - Tak for cachen - Hvala na predmemoriji - Takk for cachen - Kiitos välimuistista - Tack för cachen - Спасибо за кеш - Díky za mezipaměť - Dzięki za skrytkę - Önbellek için teşekkürler - Dankie vir die kas - Asante kwa kache - ขอบคุณสำหรับแคช - 感謝您的緩存 - キャッシュをありがとう - ޝުކުރިއްޔާ - Terima kasih atas cache

Greetings from the Czech Republic and Thanks For This Cache.
Díky za keš.
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Moje 5066

Sadly lorry driver enjoying his breakfast on the bridge stopped me getting this one

After coming up to do the Ad Lab decided to go and grab the 2 bonus caches. Got to GZ and for some reason was looking for something different. This took way longer than it should finally located the sneaky cache after a bit. Signed and replaced before wondering off the next cache. TFTC

We, geosnuf and I, are on holiday in New Zealand.
Partly thanks to geocaches, such as this alc, we come to many beautiful and special places.
We are on our way south, and what a wow-spot is this here: colourful!

We enjoy the beautiful nature in NZ, the pleasant encounters and the many nice caches.
Cache owners thank you for taking us here and for placing and maintaining this cache.
0B80B8, thank you and greetings from NL

This one was a bit harder to find than the five ad lab locations. I was at GZ as the train rumbled past. Interesting experience, TFTC.

First stop of the day is Kawakawa and completing this Adventure Lab on our way to today's event in Paihia.

This was a great quick walk Exploring Kawakawa. We had lunch at the Cafe next to the last waypoint before heading to get the bonuses. This was an easy find. TFGC Found with Nessvab & The Travelbug Tribe.

On a trip up to Paihia for a geocaching event with nessvab and yvettetb. We stopped in kawakawa for lunch and the ad lab. Loved having 2 bonuses to find! Kids loved playing in the playground while we found them! Tftc

We stopped for a yummy lunch at Konnies Cafe after finishing the Adv lab to work out the locations of the bonus caches. Quick find on our way up to while out to the Paihia event today. Found with Yvettetb and Thetravelbugtribe (while the youngest TTBT members played at the playground). TFTC.

It was nice with brownie52 as an Austrian to made a LAB here and found 2 bonus caches.
Thanks a lot and one point.

That’s always nice to have an extra cache following to an adventure. Found nicely.

TFTC

I've been here several times . Sneaky hide. The adlab was fun and sneaky too. Off to lab 2. Tftc

Nice little track to discover which could be entered from various points. Even has a loo too.

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Yah an early bday pressie ftf at 5.54pm. Thanks, more later