Riverhills (Auckland) Pakuranga Heights, North Island, New Zealand
By KiwiLeon on 22-Oct-08. Waypoint GC1HEM2

Time to go. Thanks for visiting

Will have to check it out

We didn't spend much time on this. It looks like most of the Oriental Grass has been cut out and we found no sign of a cache.

I raced from the carpark, across the field to try to get this one before my caching buddy PC SNIFF, but to our mutual bitter disappointment, we could only find a hole where we thought the cache might have once resided.

GZ looks as though it has been maintained recently hence the cache could be gone. We found an empty hole under the bamboo.

Have been trying to get this one for a while but there have always been sports teams around. This time we managed to get there just before midday and had the place to ourselves. The cache was quickly found and we were on our way

Easy find, tftc!

Timed this just right, muggles galore arriving just as we were leaving. Tftc

Nice easy find, all the morning activities had ceased so no problems accessing cache, except for the neighbour bumbling away behind the fence. TFTC.

Nice

Nice little spot. Picked the best day, no Muggles in site...but this can be a very busy park.

What was in the cache today

What was in the cache today

Another nice day of Caching in Auckland. All quiet at GZ, and a quick find.Thanks for the hide

TFTC had to fake looking for a ball with the kids but found after a good search.

Pleasant stroll to GZ and expected a long vegetation related search to ensue but thanks to some recent pruning and the skills of my doggedly determined caching buddy we made a quick find and get away.

TFTC
# 733

Had to head out this way for a meeting this morning, so thought id have another look and see if i could find this cache after two previous DNF attempts.

Made the short walk across the field to GZ. This time, i noticed the vegetation has had a severe trim and the area is alot more exposed now. The bank was extremely slippery and i had to be careful not to slip over and get covered in mud before heading to work. Cache was spotted quickly this time and im glad to sign this one off the list at long last!! Signed log and covered cache up much better for the next finder. TFTC!

watched the local rugby team depart by bus as i garbed this one.

Got it, slippery

AdamsFamilyof2 today for the first day of school holidays. Dad and JacktheAllBlack (8) were on foot as the car was being serviced. We decided to check out a couple of caches near to our house. This was number 1 and found with little difficulty. TFTC.

I saw a Kingfisher and seagulls on the way. Dad found it pretty quickly number 1 of 3 today.

Found it this time. Removed a pencil sharpener, left a foreign coin.
Forgot to bring a pen to sign the log, will have to pop back later.

DNF Will try again tomorrow - not so close to sun down next time!

Not windy today...but certainly cold and shortly after raining.
Most of the bamboo is gone/broken off. It was a bit slippery for me on my workingslippers.

#187, Very Windy Park. Not much loot for the kids. they were a bit disappointed. TFTC

Think I fluked the find on this one as I don't usually have much luck in bamboo. TFTC

Spotted cache after a short search. It was really windy out there today! TFTC

A nice easy find on our way back from rockclimbing tftc

#3014. Quick find on the fringe of another big park. TFTC.

A quick find en route to the MWTP series of caches.
TFTC.

Found by mr Svesh after some searching. No mugglers around as it was raining.

Out caching for the afternoon and my GPS spotted this one. A soccor match was in progress but nobody paid attention. A quick find.
TFTC

A nice easy find in a deserted sporting park. TFTC. Cheers Bo

Found it! TFTC

Nice little find....easy to manage for the kids although someone ended up mudcovered! Great fun, swapped some cache stash. TFTH

Found by Miss 5, despite my having to carry Master 1 and keep an eye on Master 3. SO MUCH MUD! Winter defoliation has made cache a bit more visible, though.

1st find of a day of many.

In: Raccoon GC

T4TC

Out with Zork for the day, 1st of many,

Quick and easy find with evilno9.

Mostly weather for ducks today - just a few stragglers out in the rain including us. Did bit of a dance around GZ but EatOrBeEaten soon had the cache in hand. TFTC

Found Ok

Quick Easy Find on way to Appointment TFTC

Nice quick find. TFTC

Out on a mission to chalk up as many finds today as possible. No-one was around today at GZ which made for a simple stroll and find. Re-hid a little better than was found. TFTC.

Looking at nights probably not the best idea but seeing as it was found yesterday, it might have been too well hidden for us

Found

Didn't find it, but this was my first try at this game Will try again sometime!

quick find. pretty quiet at GZ. some sporty muggles in the distance

My last cache find of 2010 in another empty reserve which made finding the cache quite easily. The log book is quite damp.

Traditional Cache find 150!

Out this lunch time for some quick geocaching. A nice easy find today in a deserted park. Everytime I have driven over the nearby bridge I was reminded that there was a cache here that I hadn't yet found. It shall haunt me no longer. Cheers for the cache!

Last cache as I exited my exploration of Pakuranga today. The logbook could do with some attention as it is quite damp.

Nice easy find - Cheers

Our first GC search & find, even though it was after a second attempt, helps if you read the clues first. haha. Found it fairly quickly in the end. Donated blood to the mozzies.
Removed: foreign currency
Placed: NZ key ring.

Got stabbed a few times by the grass but all was forgiven with cache in hand.

Easy find with Kyle 891, sharp bamboo though! TFTC

I have no idea why I could not find this on my previous visit? I could swear I looked in that very spot for like 15minutes!!?!! [B)]

Must be the "domestic blindness" kicking in again [:p]

TFTC!

- Blue Bear
+ Foreign Currency
+ TB
+ GC

3438. We found our way in for a quick find.
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Visiting from Denver, Colorado. Last cache of the day. SL. Thanks!

nice spot blended in



TFTC

Quick find as clue made sense

TFTC

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 36° 55.348 E 174° 53.273
Distance From Old: 28.1 feet or 8.6 meters.
Ckecked cache today, was still where I left it when I placed it.

Took some new coords with the Oregon300.
(my slipping marks near GZ are visible today )

Well what can I say, it was obvious from the hint where it was, but took a while to make itself shown

Oh the shame! To be the first to log a DNF! It was very frosty out this afternoon but all good as it was very quiet around GZ. Co-ords seemed spot on but obviously brain wasn't.

Certainly not a good day for caching due the wet weather. When we arrived, it was drizzling slightly so we dashed to GZ to hunt for the cache. Just a we found it, the rain got slightly heavier but it still wasn't too bad. Signed log then made a dash back to the car. TFTC.

Cache find on push to 500 night trip with Stu4...TFTC

Out with 10centcoin on a night cache run TFTC.

Dropped off geocoin- Man in Black. Been here with kids sport many a time, now I know a new secret about this area.

Quick find inbetween muggles and muggles dogs. ta.

Found it! Thanks

Second time looking. Lots of mozzies. TFTC

QWIK FIND WHILE WORKING OUT THIS WAY-TFTC

Thought it may be gone as area looked fairly bare - but no still there and secure. SL TFTC

heaps of mozzies

Out and about with Team Welsh. There was no one around - felt very odd. T4TC

Another great find with Page NZ. TFTC

The muggle from over the back fence told me where the cache is and told me that he's asked the Council to remove the noxious weeds in the area so there is a chance that the cache might be affected.
Took the coins to move them on - Just in case.

Found on an East Auckland and beyond cache raid with Kiwi Explorer. Amazing to see from that logs that the last finder was also from Nelson. I can remember bringing my son here to play football some years ago when we use to live in Auckland. That would have been in about 6BC (before caching). TFTC, Biggles.

Found with Biggles while on a tour of East Auckland. A short walk across the pitch and the cache was soon in hand. Thanks.

Mrs B was visiting just down the road so took the opportunity to take her niece & nephew for a walk & a cache hunt. Took a few minutes but then success with cache in hand! Unfortunately hadn't taken a pen/pencil & there was none in the cache but left TBs & Geocoins as proof that we were there, and have photos at the cache site if required. Very quiet at GZ today .. I imagine this would be much harder during "match time" TFTC + TB & GCs

First find of the day - and an easier find than we feared from the hint. Thanks

# 788

A nice little cache. Went early on a rainy morning to beat muggles. Thought it might have been muggled at first but very well hidden from prying eyes; although a cacher will know where to look. TFTC.

This took longer than I first thought it should. Finally found it after a fair bit of searching. Thanks.

Nice quick find. Had to look around for a few minutes and then there it was. TFTC

Had to rummage around a bit, but found eventually. ground a bit wet, should have brought our gumboots. -tb

had us seearching a bit but grabbed it in the end.

Bit of a muddy walk to this one and pleased I was wearing my gumboots. Straight to the cache however, a quick find.
No swaps made, TFTC

Found with Mr & Mrs Mitchell. The guys searched and searched and the girls managed to find it. Guys 0 Girls 1!!! Was pretty late at night, so no drama with muggles. TFTC + TB Ma China

Had a night out with gandgnz... a few bevies first then out on the hunt. At 2230 muggles did not seem to be a problem. The grass proved to play havoc on the boy's new toys as the girls found cache powered with just a torch!!!

Nice hide!

TFTC

After randomly selecting this cache on the gps and saying go there
Cache was quickly found.
But where am I? who knows, as long as I have my gps.
TFTC

Quick dash through the rain to GZ, searched, found the cache, signed the log and sprint back to the car phew! T4TC.

I've had a couple of goes at this one over the last we while, finally put the time and effort in with no one else around.

TNLNSL

Cold enough to freeze something that won't freeze unless it's very cold.

On the plus side, there was nobody there, and I had all the time my slow brain needed.

T4TC!

Definitely need to be stealthy - lot of sports taking place.
Well camouflaged, but still a relatively easy find.
Penny in, tag out.
TFTC

GPS was playing nice day. Oriental Grass lol

4.25pm. No muggles near by so it didn't take long.
Thank you. David and Noeline.

Found this quite quickly whilst out with hubby and jnr.
Had to visit twice as there was a soccer game on when we went past the first time

Out - marbles
In - blue bear, cellph dangly, keyring

TFTC/TFTF

Luckily there was a game of soccer on the far field so I was not observed - I think.

There was no TB in the cache.

Cheers for the cache.

#515
Well it was just starting to get dark when we went for this cache. Mr Geckoh decided to return to the car for the torch as Mrs Geckoh made the find (hee hee).
TNLN TFTC

A game of soccer was underway on the furtherest field but no people close to GZ so it looked safe to hunt. Lucky to find it is the first spot I looked.
Many thanks

Found in the company of the inimitable XenaCommander.
TechnoKitten has been very slack with logs and is finally catching up.
TFTC