Estuary Views (East Auckland) Farm Cove, North Island, New Zealand
By KiwiLeon on 18-Jan-10. Waypoint GC233FF

Had a good look a couple of time but couldn't find it myself.
Had to replace it before so time to archive.
Thanks for visiting.

no find

Couldn't find anything.

Found what I thought was the cache which needs checking

Very difficult find. Mistook it for a piece of rubbish - Inside log/notes were saturated and container was shot. Pleased when I did find it. TNLN

Just able to sign log as a bit wet. Was travelling lite today and had no spares on me else would have replaced it. This area had a never ending supply of muggles so took a while to find cache. Great area. TFTC

Great hide...took us all awhile but managed to avoid the mud! Swapped items. Log book wet and difficult to sign...nothing spare to replace with tho

Found. Read through the notes and pointed the right direction. Thanks!
Container had a bit me water in it

Found. Read through the notes and pointed the right direction. Thanks!
Container had a bit me water in it

Muddy search, thanks

TFTC

Found it after a little bit of a hunt round.

Nice hide, needed a little bit of searching and digging around to find.
TFTC

Found it on the third attempt.

Quick find having completed a short stroll to GZ. Unforfunately the lid was no replaced correctly prior to my arrival so log was a little damp. TFTC.

Turned up just as it was getting dark having reccy'd the area out 15mins earlier before doubling back. Hung round the seat for a bit, took a few paces each way to make sure no passing muggles were in sight hung round the seat a bit more looking at the GPS waiting for it to settle down, a couple of steps toward the jetty and looked up to see one very freaked out looking young lady about to dive off the end of the jetty ... oops pays to look first!

A quick find - love the wee Jetty.

looked everywhere and studied the clue but this one had us stumped.

looked hard but coudn't find it even though second time searching.
guess it's just bad luck...
but won't give up!
we will be back!!!

Followed unwashed away footsteps of the previous geocachers and retrieved cache easily! Nice, easy find. TFTC!

Poshepocket and I went, she found quickly with no problem after us eliminating the first obvious contender. TFTC!

Took a bit of hunting but we found it.

A quick find, which was good as I was being buzzed like mad by countless mozzies.

On the way back to the car I was ambushed by a really cute tabby kitten (much more fun than mozzies).

Quick find. Wow, this walkway has certainly been upgraded since I lived near here 11 years ago.

Found between all the dog walkers early in the morning.

What a nice area - this little cache took quite a while to locate. SL TFTC

Widen search as logs suggested and I found it. Took coin. Thanks.

On a caching spree with Kevs_Team, this took a while, we did the find after we broadened the search area.
Took TB
SL TFTC

Well the GPS had me looking at the wrong GZ. Well after rumaging around the obvious places I decided it probably wasn't there and tried a GZ next to the first. Nope, not there. Okay, over there five metres from GPS GZ looks likely. The cache! Signed the log and dropped of a TB and GC. Cheers for the walk and the cache tonight!

Took a while searching in the wrong one until a little log reading made us widen the search. Lovely bike ride along the estuary. TFTC

Nice and easy find T4TC!

After a short search I found the cache. TFTC

2639 Glad to be able to claim this one now that it has been replaced. TFTC

TFTC

Nice quick find for this one, didn't have to wait for any muggles so even better. TFTC

Looked for ages in an obvious item, exactly where the GPS indicated. Had to rely on Butterfly_lady again! Moved to another one and wayhay.
Pearl GC gone already. TFTC

A nice cache after work.
Cheers

Spent too long searching under the larger item nearby, when the cache was actually right in front of us.
Lovely placement. Left telemicro's pearl GC

Wasn't where we expected but found it the end. Lovely walkway, very peaceful. TFTC

Thanks for introducing us to the Rotary Walkway - it's been an interesting morning but now time for lunch. TFTC

#1471 (2/8 in the Howick area). Also struggled to find this one, and needed the hint here too. After this one it was time to had inland to where the GPS showed coffee might be available.

This could have been hidden in any number of places. Turned out to be in none of the obvious spots! Pleased when StreetWalkerNZ found it. TFTC.

brand new eat ha jut been planted here by the council, exactly where our GPS aid GZ was. no luck finding the cache

A nice walkway and some very pleasant views.
TFTC

Nice easy find on a great afternoon's cycle ride with the family.

TFTC

Took Old Key Travel Bug

Replaced container, slightly different location.
Dropped TB.

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 36° 53.537 E 174° 53.400
Distance From Old: 5 feet or 1.5 meters
New coords

Bother, didn't see that this was disabled after I did my GSAK download... Not sure what the area looked like when you placed the cache, but the ground seems to have been raked over for quite an area around the seat and into the nearby bushes.

Have to check this one out.

Were at the end of a long caching day this would have been our record equaling 51st find but instead a DNF, spent a bit of time looking, kept coming back to the most likely spot that matches the hint but nothing there, will keep on the watchlist to see if it gets found after us..........

Great find. Dropped off geocoins. Great spot.

Was really glad to find a seat in the shade on this really hot day. Good walking trail. TFTC

Another chunk of the walkway ticked off, good spot to sit and ponder!

TFTC

4031 Waited for a pier sitting muggle to leave before making the find, nice spot and walkway.

We were worried when we saw the earth works at GZ, cache is safe though. Left a green jeep behind the cache.

TFTC

Nice views, even in the drizzle

tb

Quick find along a nice walkway. Ta.

An after-work mission.

The neighbours were sitting on their deck, talking, but fortunately, they were out of view. I'm pretty sure I got away with it un-muggled.

Found it today while walking the dog. TFTC

I'd like to see the boat that ties up to this jetty. Must be good for fishing. T4TC - M@

Saw this one get published earlier in the week, but opted for a good night's sleep instead. Ironic, as today we have a full day planned and have had just 3 hours sleep thanks to an FTF dawn raid on Ash & Peat earthcache! Had a pleasant walk to GZ on the newly formed path. Quickly spotted the hiding spot. Thanks.

# 1358

Dropped in on my Ride home.

Lovely spot.
- GC
TFTC

Out and about on a spot of after work night caching. Pleasant walk to GZ on the nice clean pathways and an easy find T4TC.

Quick find on the way home. Last time I was here there was no path. The never ending march of progress. Thanks.

Saw this one published late last night but was too tired to dash out just before 10pm. Woke up this morning and noted no logs so decided to make a small detour on the way to work. Got to GZ, found cache and empty log book. FTF #27 . Was lovely and peaceful here at 7:20am, TFTC

Published

Coin drop