Paku View (Coromandel) Pauanui, North Island, New Zealand
By tgsnoopy on 08-Nov-02. Waypoint GCA5A3

Found the remnants of swag, but no container and I am certain I was in the spot. I suspect it has gone.

This entry was edited by tparty on Saturday, 15 November 2014 at 04:38:45 UTC.

Sorry, it's gone. Time to free up the location for someone else to place a cache.

NOT for beginners. Searched for at least 3/4 hour with no luck and 3 searchers

What fun!

It's hard bit difenataly there

Thoroughly enjoyed the walk up to this one with all the neat views we went in from the wrong seat but soon found it and came out by the right seat.cache all good.

This was a lovely walk , the cache took a little while to find. TFTC

Great view from the seat so took a photo then up to find the cache. Mr frewilys found it first tftc

My destination for today was go to the top of the Mountain. And I have done it.
tftc

Had a bit of lunch on the beach and then headed up the loop. DOC says the loop takes 30min, but we only took us 30mins all up including finding the cache (and Mum & Dad don’t move fast at 80), and taking in the view on the seat. TFTC

Fun easy find

yay thanks

It was only a short way up from the beach to find the cache area. The hint was very helpful and showed us the way.
Thank you for bringing us here. We enjoyed the view down to the beach.
Greetings from Germany
and TFTC

Found it

Found it

Tricky to find without first locating the seat. Ooops.

Out for a walk seeing it how it was such a beautiful day. Apparently I can't tell the difference between the hill at Tairui and Pauanui, but even after the mistake we just embraced it and went anyway.

On a mission with Spiderhouse today. The purpose; to collect a handfull of caches so that a challenge can be completed.

This was not as easy as the cache description suggests. In the end, three of us split up in different directions. Mr S went up, Mrs S took the middle, and I went down. The hint seat was found, but the cache was a way off. Happy to make this find. TFTC.

Out for the day with Squirrel Nutcase. We were on a mission to fill in a few caches to qualify for the 37º latitude challenge and to introduce "The Squirrel" to the wonders of the Coromandel Peninsular.

After the boys getting all the previous finds today Mrs S found this one, while they were looking in the all the wrong places. The Squirrel was hoping to be able to put a VERY LARGE TB in here but alas, it did not fit. have to find somewhere else.

Thanks tgsnoopy for another smilie around Pauanui.

Thanks a good day for a good find.

TFTC. Nice view from here. Introduced our friends to geocaching too.

First for the day. Introducing friends to the art of geocaching. Nice hide, thanks.

Good bush walk!

Yay. Found it

Easy find. Fun trip there. A lovely part of Pauanui:)

Found after climbing Mt Pauanui

Last found on26/12/2013

Last day before heading home... four kids and I go for a trek. Sit on the seat, enjoy the view, then a forest search. Found quickly. Cicadas drone, waves crash, not a single mozzie, peaceful. Thanks!

Found after lunch today after got too dark last night. Lots of muggles, had to be very furtive. Awesome view. Fun fun, left cool trades.

Phone died but found it in the end! Good one!x

Bossed it. CFTC

Big of a adventure

Big of a adventure

Big of a adventure

We need a few minutes...the hint was a little bit confusing. Sowe are looking from the lower way, but the higher one was the better option. TFTC

Nice hide, TFTC

Good cache.

Took a while to find but read the hint again and found the cache.

Nice spot, great day, TFTC, TNLN,

Nice cache. Some good stuff in it! Easy to find:)

After a wee wander through the undergrowth and a slight twisted ankle, we located said tree and cache, still filled with booty!! TNLN. TFTC!

Quick little walk up here after a swim below; big foot hole clue we were in the right spot! TFTC

Yes, a nice simple one before heading up the 'hill' on a lovely hot afternoon. TFTC tgsnoopy.

...while hiking the loop... we found this one... thanks, beautiful lookout here!

GP was doing a bit of a wander around so located the appropriate landmarks and soon found the cache. That great hole at GZ was me going through the rotten wood - ouch. t4tc

Great view could have sat on Tom & Pats seat for hours with a view like that.
TFTC great peace bush.

It had been possibly 20 years since I had been up this way (and Mrs Dragon had never been here),
Nice walk up the to the GZ and a quick find, liked the nearby waypoint. Thanks for bringing me here

TFTC

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

We spent the weekend in Whitianga and picked up a few caches on the way home on Sunday afternoon. We made a quick detour into Pauanui and made a quick find of this cache. TFTC!

We spent the weekend in Whitianga and picked up a few caches on the way home on Sunday afternoon. We made a quick detour into Pauanui and made a quick find of this cache. TFTC!

It was dark, we had a torch, but oh how things look different in the dark. A fun find anyway. The Italian Job was here.....!

Was on holiday with friends when we walked past this one after a long trudge up Mt. Pauanui. Didn't have my GPS with me, I couldn't remember the clue, but had a rough idea of the description. Looked around the tree, but of course, not exactly where it was. When I got back I read the clue and...FACEPALM, was looking in the right spot and everything, but not at one of the most obvious places there was. argh would have been an easy find. I will try again when I come again.

#714, Quick Find TFTC

Up the track until it split off - GPS saying 'look here', but nothing to find. Checked hint, and found the seat, cache was soon in hand after that.
GPS in the end was not that far out. TFTC.

Took all the right trails to Geocache but there was no seat that I could see. Not sure about the 1 star terrain, bit hard getting a wheelchair up here.

Found it after a quick search but others might like to look 10metres down the hill from the track.

In:

bit of a mission for this one, rather a lot of fallen trees! got there in the end! tftc

Took a while to find this one - took the wrong track initially but got there in the end. TFTC

great veiw took us about to days to find great spot

Nice walk to the cache, dont beleive the time on the sign it doesnt take that long, took us longer to find the cache

After taking the wrong track we sorted ourselves out and hunted in the right place. Found by Mr Grimdragon. TFTC!

#5175-5236
Found it, and certainly not a T1!
TFTC

# 5383 - 5412
Found during the fifth day of our vacation in North Island.
A great day in Pauanui looking for a few of the caches around this nice peninsula.
TFTC

I know I have been here years ago for this one, didn't matter had me and some new geocachers scrambling around.

At Pauanui from Tauranga for a day's tramp with the PackN'Boots group.
Straight up to the top, then down to Storm Bay for lunch and across to cave Bay for a well earned swim. Easy find, inner cache & log in good condition, outer jar a bit damp. TNLN TFTC

Got there in the end. GPS was of no use. Great views indeed. TFTC

Another one found for the day. Nice spot

Great hide.

A quick find on the way through. Sadly we can't continue on this time! TFTC!

TFTC

Looks like this cache has been around since just about the dawn of caching in this country! Remarkably clean and dry cache too. A damp old morning so go quite damp myself pushing through the last bit of scrub. But otherwise an easy find. TFTC!! Centuryson from Australia

AWESOME PLACE--ATE THE LAST LOLLY THANKS.

TFTC! Lovely lovely spot.

good hide. dad was a t the wrong seat and mum was about to give up when i spotted a fallen trunk.
T4TC

The girls thought that there was something wrong with the GPS when I found it and they were miles away. A beautiful view across to Paku, sat a while to soak the suns rays. T4Tsunny$ SL

Took a bit to find the correct trail. When I got to GZ I was nonplussed, so checked the hint on my GPS. It said "The cache is approximately fif". Well, that's not much help. Fifteen meters away? Fifty? Fifteen feet straight up? Undone by a verbose hint.

did this the hard way took the bottom track and was 12m out so i went bush and straight up what a mish .found easy when i had the right seat and Tks for the LOLLIES... #19 for the day choice

would of been easy if one had read the clue better-went alone bottom track to a seat -WRONG-sent the younger bori5 up the hill to find while i went the rite way -he had in hand before me got there-cheers jumboz

The same for me. So nice to find this cache, hope that somebody will adopt this one Unfortunatly we also couldn't sign the log too wet.

Nice hide. But the log is soaking wet. TFTC.

We had the grand daughter out for a picnic and had
time to add a few caches to our list The log book is
so wet you can not sign it.

We had the grand daughter out for a picnic and had
time to add a few caches to our list

Log is too wet to sign ... simply soaking in water. A 1/1 cache is accessible by wheelchair. This cache is at least 2.5/2.5 due to the terrain and the choice of 3 tracks to get to it. Vort.

Found this one while on a tandem cycling tour of New Zealand. Thanks very much. What an amazing spot. Vort

TFTC log book very wet

Glad we consulted the gps on our way down from the big hill and managed to pick this one off without any additional walking. The log is saturated to the point it crumbles when writing on it.
TNLNSL
TFTC
Found at 12:00

Quick find on the way to the top. thanks

We were on a day trip and walk to Broken hills afterwards we saw there was some caches to do in the area so we knocked 10 off in the afternoon all nice quick finds

Great spot after I got the right track. Note that the container needs some TLC and log was quite wet. TFTC, always good to get one of these older ones.

Nice spot to watch the beach and weather. TFTC

a bit of climbing around for this one, will have to come back another day for the one at the top. Log is wet.

Will have to tackle the big hill another day, this one has a pretty wet log.

Log book dripping in water and the entire container smells very manky. Needs to be a better/drier container if TBs/coins are to be left there. Needs some maintenance. T4TC.

Pauanui Rampage TFTC

Didn't find bench and struggled with coords but eventually found it, more by luck than anything. Dropped off TB - TFTC

Was very wet, log had not been placed back in plastic bag and lid not tight

A very nice walk and good view of the surfers in action

Located while on a camp nice location great adventure.

Great little spot amazing views TFTC

A photo I took. What a cool view.

Didn't find the seat but got the cache.

Great views and only a short walk. Gps bang on. Tftc