Walk the planks (Bay of Plenty) Judea, North Island, New Zealand
By Rick-a-mortis on 20-Nov-05. Waypoint GCRCJ2

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As this one is not disabled I am claiming it. My brother found it for me last year, since then it has gone astray. I have the photo.
I came 11500 miles to get this one. Thanks

Went to check as we where showing a new cacher how to do it, and was suspicious of this one, and I am sad to say it has gone.

Couldn't find it. Might need to check to see if it's still around.

Went to look for this cache and found where it is suppossed to hang. Didn't have an extensive look around the area so it may or may not be about but it certainly wasn't where it is suppossed to be.

Quickly nice duck walk. TFTC MacBanger

Cpts Dorta found... was stuff in the bushes not where it said it should be... returned it to its rightful home tftf

Up early and cycled the board walk with junior geo. Junior geo's first cache find. Amazing how many times we have cycled this route never to know there was a cache there. Thanks for the fun.

Nice walkway, good clue lead us straight to it. Thanks

Found without a problem. Typical geocache location. Thanks

Found while out walking the dog at night shame about the local art work thanks TNLN

On a cache mission for the day with The Freezer Mice and managed to knock this one off. TFTC

The Freezer Mice strike again!!!
Out on a day of 'raiding' caches in Tauranga with Twigster.
One of the many spots that we stopped at... enjoyed being all 'pirate like'.
TNLN, TFTC.

A quick find in a nice neighbourhood - friendly birds!

Nice easy find after a damp walk! #350!! TFTC

Nice easy find once we found the rite road! TFTC cheers Muzy man!

sweet spot a nice easy find with captain muzy man cheers!

We took a first timer and he was so psyched when he found it! He took the Jeep Travel Bug and we explained the process so we'll be sure to have it back in the hunt soon. TFTC

We parked down the road a way, by the pukekos & ducks, and went to a bit of a walk to the cache. Quite a few locals out walking their dogs. TFTC, left Jeep TB. No sign of the travel slug.

Loved the pukekos near GZ. TFTC

Nice easy find in a neat reserve. With one of the neatest cache holder I have seen.
Cheers Jumboz

Had to wait for 2 young boys to move along before looking for the cache, but move they eventually did. Clever container. TFTC

On a geocaching day trip with Kiwicouple and Rosmar. We weren't sure about access to this one, but it was easy enough in the end. Cache was quickly spotted as it had fallen on the ground. Replaced in intended hiding place.

Second day of our caching weekend with kiwifeet and kiwicouple and our thirty fourth find . Once again we managed to find the long way to GZ on a cold afternoon. Cache was found on the ground but we replaced it to the correct position. T4TC.

Tearing around Tauranga today with Rosmar and Kiwifeet. A bit cold and windy to really enjoy the walk this afternoon. We weren't sure if the drains were going to block our path, but soon found we were on the right track. A nice structure at GZ, but too cold to sit and enjoy the view today. Found the cache on the ground, but intact. Replaced as it should have been.

# 399

Very nice walk, TFTC
IN:GC
OUT:TB

Easy find and managed to replace cache seconds before a muggle arrived. Used the droped our pen excuse to avoid suspicion.
TFTC

A Swarm Pooke? Small Swarm
I cant really claim this as a find as I watched from the car, My Monster fight has made mobility hard.

Found it and replace just as a swarm of muggles approached. What are you doing down there? I ummmmmm dropped my pen (quickly drops pen) Oh look here it is.

TFTC

A tricky place to get to for a non local. The traffic was like wow. TFTC

No Pukeko's today but a nice walk was had. Dropped off a couple of TB's from Dunedin, one is on its way to Auckland,the other making its way back to Canada. Sorry it has taken soooooo long to place them. They did help us shift house though.

SeaJ, Kat, Olivia, & Bells

Cool container. Good spot to see the pukekos. TFTC.

#208. Team Northwood came over the Kaimais for an anniversary day of caches.
This made harder by several muggles who arrived with us and wanted to feed ducks so we walked further and came back. Nice area. We do not understand the description and the other coordinates. Once we could search, it was an easy find. We grabbed the Fossil TB, no sign of the Travel Slug TB in the cache. Added 1 US cent coin.
#6 for day, in hand at 09:54.
TFTC

Easy find and nice walk, TFTC

Our first find. Great fun.

dropped in TB and took one.

Found while out dog walking. Nice container. tftc. tnlnsl.

Great Cache. TFTC

Easy find with the clues/hints provided, in fact i'm sure the hint was not required.

Out Crocodile, in lizard.

Easy find. In crocodile. Out nothing. TFTC

Lovely little walk in the spring sunshine!

We dropped Jumper Jack tb here.

Nice location and hide. Delayed for a bit by fisher muggles and ended up along to the end (start) as part of the excercise.
TNLN thanks

Nice one, thanks Ric. A quick easy find, and we'll come back in good weather and explore this area further. TFTC

A nice walk.

Now is that the left side when you're facing it or turned the other way?? Took a lot of looking in the numerous possible hiding places! Not in the most obvious position, band definately muggle proof. Nice container!

Ran by to 'discover' Ryans Amazing Travel Slug, but he appears not to be there. Had to hang container back in proper spot too.

Quick find. Thanks

2nd visit...Can't believe we didn't see it the first time!
released Ryan's Amazing Travel Slug into the wild here, on the first leg of it's (hopefully long) journey!
TFTC

Different but lovely walk after working over here for the day. Stock story for muggles is "Can ya find it, it must've bounced when it dropped through the cracks. oh, there it is"
in- crocodile, Shellz shell. out- nil. TFTC

A nice 'purpose' to a drizzling morning run! Even so, there were others out and about so had to work fast. In light stick, out nothing. TFTC

Lovely location. Loved the container... Had to watch out for fast cyclists on the path.

TFTC

Spent about 30min finding it after walking to carpark then back to GZ very sneakily hidden. could do with a few more tradeables!!
In fish
Out Carrot rubber

Finally got to the right park, opened cache, a Red Jeep, cool, thanks R&R!

Some cows looked on and wagged there tails.

TFTC!!

Rumo and Rala were on their way to the East Cape for a short vacation and did some geocaching in-between.
We parked at the right spot and "walked the planks" along the water. GZ looks a bit yucky (what is this brown stuff on the benches and do we really want to know?). The cache was found pretty quickly (cool container!).
Lots of hungry ducks, swans and other birds in the water (we didn't feed them, though).

Took: Generic Geocoin
Left: TB Jeep

TFTC

Hi, a very nice area for this cache. I did come in from the wrong side, but found easy enough. Thanks. Left geocoin.

Tried 5x to finf a roud leading appr. to the cachesite-no luck. More directions needed where to get of the SH etc. for a foreigner.
Pity.
Meryl(Holland)

Another nice walk after the Auto Routing on the GPs with Brents maps took us miles away,should have looked at the obvious.Nice cache in a nice place,BUT,NEEDS new GOODIES! Thanks--TNLNSL

[This entry was edited by glyn(the only one) on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 2:35:33 AM.]

#622
Quick find to finish for the day. Staying at cousin’s place for the night, they live nearby in Solomon St. Nice wetlands.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Quick and easy find in the rain with no one around.

Nice walk on a sunny day. Very popular area, boys on bikes, girls on horses, walkers, runners, and dogs out walking their owners.
Excellent cache, couldn't be better.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Often seen people walking around this area now we have too. TFTC

Gosh this area has changed, what are all these houses doing here? We liked this cache, only a short walk and a neat hiding place. The container is excellent. Quite a noisy little place with the traffic nearby but the ducks and swans don't seem to mind. TNLN. Thanks. Forgot to bring bread and the ducks were lining up as we left.

Found a different way in, short walk as a result. Had to hunt about a bit for the cache though. There were big Canada Geese flying low down the road in front of us. They then landed and stood in the middle of the road as if it was there own private airstrip. Hilarious! TFTC

Found this cache after a nice short walk in the blazing sun.

Greetings from Austria,
Annari

A nice short walk and an easy find on our camping tour from Hahei to Whakatane. Contrarily it was hard to find the right way back to the street...

Thanks for this cache!
Greetings from Austria,
hixxx

Nice container and hide, had to rush the signing as I noticed an Indian gentleman approaching in the distance. Glad I got it back in time he was still there 1/2 an hour later.
-geocoin
TFTC

Nice walk with the kids, easy to find.

Had to wait for some Big and little muggles to move on before grabbing the cache.

In T4TC Travel Bug

Out USB cable (very handy)

T4TC

cool fun finding this cache and the parking spot

Have seen the walkway from the road. Good to get up close to it. NINO. Thanks

Found it after a while and crawling round for a few minutes, friendly ducks and heaps of mozzies

Looks as if this will grow into a spectacular park. At present it is just a very pleasant place to be. This took me quite a bit of searching to find because I thought it was a micro, which led me to look in smaller places. A really well done hide with a container that looks quite tought and waterproof.

A very easy find - nice walk in a nice spot - TNLN - many thanks...

Cache well designed. Nice little walk. Not much in cache.
TNLS

Did this one with my dad Rick-a-mortis he hid it and then we had to find it to log the log book.

Awesome place, mean view, cool brige, also did it with my sister Karah it was fun but tiring walk had to do another before we did this one.

TNLNSL, TFTC.

Found it. This will be a great place once the vegetation grows. Thanks

This was a nice walk and I believe we were in the right spot but just could't find the cache.

Will be back in the summer probably for another try.

Now this is a nice challange .... found Route B, to be beatin by a stream (yip the planks are gone!) ... eventually found Route A an the site. 6th for the day.

We were challenged by access - difficult stream! Eventually found alternative car park with help of local knowledge and got there with dry feet. Took a while to find but our perseverance was rewarded.

10.40am. This will be a great place when all the trees grow. Nice walk between the showers.Easy find.
Many thanks
David & Noeline

Found it with wanderinn GPS. Pity the board walk is so public, houses looking at you from 360* will be nice cache in ten years time when all the trees grow up.

Found with 'Geriatric Hippies.'
Parking confusing but a pleasant walk.
Our last cache for the day.
TFTC

Well, interesting. The main approach to the cache is fenced off, with construction / keep out signs. Attemtped another approach, to be thwarted by the wetlands. 3rd attempt, someone kindly left some "planks" across the wide stream - quite deep thanks to overnight rain. Crossed it, headed to GZ, found cache... oops! left pen in car, return across the waterway again, muddy wet feet!, popped a very short pencil in cache, across the muddy, now sinking planks to the cache site, return the cache. Back across the disappearing planks and final leap onto dry ground. Made it... wet sock, shoes, mud up to the knees. Glad to be in old clothes. This is such a good place, and there is plenty of room for a full cache, so like others, must comment that a micro is disappointing.... this spot DESERVES a regular cache. When not getting muddy, we enjoyed the black swans, swallow, pukekos, ducks etc... thanks for taking us here.

My GPSr zeroed in very well on what could be interpreted as the clue, so I focused my search there - no joy. On third attempt, widened the search and eventually found. I was really expecting a traditional cache in a place like this.
TFTC - M@

Finally after second time there. I don't know why I didn't Find it the first time round. Its so easy. TFTC

Hot Hot day. Found by our youngest, TFTC

Found this with the Tasmanian Aussie...nice wee stroll along the planks..hope they extend the planks. Thanks for the cache Rick a mortis

Took a short cut through the pond, thanks

Nice easy find. thankyou.

nice easy find thanks. Planks to no-where!!!

Took a wee drive around with Outdoor Annie and Gadgetman. Made a slight error in our first attempt at getting to the planks, but soon worked it out. Nice parklands.

We first drove through the new subdivision, trecked out, and then read on and realised our mistake. A quick spin around back to the correct starting place on this boardwalk and we were off in the pursuit of another cache. Raciegracie, and Gadgetman were in on this one.

Long walk, but easy find. Very windy here, but the cache is well protected! Would be nice on a bike! Ta.

Willbuild
Saw where I think it was as driving passed down the motorway , then found an entry which was the right one, Quick walk along the planks to find.
608

Attacked this from the "wrong" end of the walkway so had to cross a muddy knee deep creek. Lost my pen in there somewhere so "signed" the log by putting a grass stain "Z" at the top of the page. Nice hiding place.

Dropping off TB Hawkman Virtual

This was tricky to find the walkwy-after a few false starts we got there and it was easy.
A FTF as well

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