Ardies cashe Omana Beach, North Island, New Zealand
By sabre5 on 03-Jun-23. Waypoint GCA9JAN

TFTC. Very pleasant other than the grumpy children

Taking two kids 8 & 9 camping for their first time and they were super keen to find a geo cache. Anthony finally found his first one and was super stoked so thanks for the cache! They stayed and played in the near hiding place for a while Thankyou

Found on the ground..Returned to tree & covered.

Didnt take long to find. Found out in open so returned to its hidey hole. Tftc

Ezzz

I found it. Nice cache. THTC!!

TFTC, Nice and easy hide!

Cool cache , tftc

On a roll!

Found it!

Noice, TFTC.

Took me a little while. But was very fun

Nice find

Camping nearby in our Motorhome & grabbed this afternoon. Found on the ground but replaced as 'hint' TFTC

Quick find. Not the tree expectedLast cache of the day, and just before it started to rain. We sent Daddypig, his Assistant and the geohound back to the car whilst we came across the park to find this one. The gps took us past the tree I had thought it might be, but we soon zeroed in on another one. I went in at one side, and GeohoundandI went to the other, and she spotted the cache straight away.

In the little bush

Found

Out with Agazo today, not our quickest find today but still a find, tftc

The cache may have migrated from its assigned location and down to ground level. TFTC.

TFTC

Keeping it 'local' this weekend and taking a stroll with Mrs NZT and two geo-hounds. Weather was perfect and the caches were a bonus along the way!Found the right tree easily but the cache was hiding a little further away from it but that didn't stop me making the find. Thanks for the cache.

Found it on a stunning day!

Out for a walk with the new puppy so took a look to see what we could find

Found on a beautiful day. Tftc

Being back in the area of Auckland and having some muggle friends with me I opted about for a nice (loooong) walk, and they joined me they seemed a bit exhausted after some hours so off we went to waiheke island to visit some vineyards Well foundTftc

Looked in every hole in the tree. Then i lowered my search.T4TC

Hard

Boxing Day fun day out. Lovely view. TFTC.

Easy find!How gooood

Spent time looking in the slight wrong area, found from a different angle after 10 minutes

Found it thankyou M&SDidn't have a pen on me forgot

Tftc

Out this way this afternoon to walk the MPI beagle along the beach for the last time before he heads back for formal training...hopefully he makes the grade an becomes an airport sniffer dog....When we first arrived here the mowers were doing their thing, so we headed along the water front first, and we walked straight up to this one for the find upon our return.......TFTC.

Nice location, all in good order, thanks.

Very cool cache

Found it cool cache

Cool

Found but having no pen, we took picture,avail on request.

Not too many worries here. Found after a walk along the beach. TFTC

Was threatening another heavy rain shower, so tiptoed my way to GZ. Took me a while but got there eventually. TFTC

M25 / m14: looking around, we saw what the hint described, and there it was. Nice and easy find, log all good and signed here. TFTC.

After walking to Maraetai form Omana we came by here this cache on the way back. Still quite muddy around the area which almost had me sliding down the hill. Check a couple of places further in first then readjusted to make a quick find. TFTC.

3rd attempt and got it!

Finally came back and found it almost straight away.

On another tidy up mission to Auckland with ABCDF4 and KGD , arrived at this cache and cache was soon located, signed and returned. Thanks for the find

Nice find! Tftc

Mr ABCDF4 got this one
Had some DNF in this area today
Easy find thanks

Another find in the park. Originally looked at the wrong hint item before we located. Thank you for the placement.

Great find, thanks

It was very wet, muddy and slippery underfoot getting to GZ but careful stepping got us there without incident.
After initially checking the wrong place we changed our focus and soon spotted the nicely concealed cache.
Thanks sabre5 for this and the other caches you placed nearby. It was really nice to come back and walk this trail again.

Nice hide .. a bit tricky until you look from the right angle .

Enjoying a walk today with Net61 in this lovely area!

Even saw a dotterel on the beach.... plus lots of oystercachers .
I think Net61 spotted this one first.

Cheers for the new caches!

Discovered this beautiful spot early in the morning and got my feet all wet due to the long grass. Arrived close to GZ and spotted a suitable hint object from a little distance. I went straight on to it, only to discover that it was the wrong object.
Mmh, couldn't find another suitable hint object and decided to do it all over again. Approached GZ slowly and eventually spotted something promising that I had passed the first time. Yes, it was the cache. Reading the hint I was expecting something a little different, but got there in the end.
Thanks for hiding and maintaining.
Tftc

Could find very sad. Will definitely come back again with fresh eyes.

Not found

Published

Cache found full log to follow.....

Even though this cache came out first thing this morning I was dubious about going for this and two others released in the immediate area. I had had an interrupted nights sleep with an upset tummy and wasn't sure if I could trust the length of walk... however it WAS an FTF opportunity.

I grabbed geodog who was expecting his normal walk and we headed to Omana. Parked close to GZ and wandered over. The grass was long and full of dew so my shoes were soaked even before I got to GZ.

I made a real mess of finding this. Geodog sitting on the perimeter with his head cocked as if to say "hey dad are you gonna be much longer"

Eventually found the cache and was happy to find a blank log for my troubles.. Signed the log and replaced.

Geodog looked a lot happier now that we could continue his walk.

Thanks for the cache placement.

{FTF} 299 for Team NZTravellers!

TFTC. I had previous commitments first thing this morning so I had to let NZT claim the honours. Took a bit of rummaging around but it payed off.