Nano Challange: Last stop before Eden(reloaded)(Ak Grafton, North Island, New Zealand
By mahupeka on 24-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2TXWV

Sat around for a while before actually locating the cache. The LB is very full but managed to find a gap.

TFTC

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As mentioned earlier, I've replaced this one a bit too often now. I'm making room for another cache here.

It appears that this one is muggled As this has happened a few times now, I'm not replacing it.

A quick park & grab at dusk. The log book is chokka! TFTC

Our office is shifting from Newmarket to the CBD and today was my last chance to reasonably pick up this cache on a lunchtime walk. And so it goes. Log is full. TFTC.

Got him.

A little sleight of hand anf nabbed it. Log is full though.

Usually avoid nanos, but was visiting a friend across the road, so grabbed it. Logbook is full and needs replacing.

Attempted this one today and sad to say "second visit, second DNF". There was a lot of traffic stopping and passing by, but even so, my observation skills let me down on this one. Oh well, will try again.

A challenge to find but perseverance paid off while I 'watched' the traffic. TFTC

Any muggles about were concentrating on getting home and avoiding the rain. I waited until the lights changed and drivers were concentrating on driving before I made my move. Managed to time it right for retrieval and replacement. Pretty sure I've found another cache in this park in the past. Log is full but I managed to find a little bit of space to make my mark. TFTC, Biggles.

An easy find for the female part of the team.
Thanks for the rest!

Nice easy one, aside for waiting for a gap in the traffic. TFTC.

had to wait for the traffic to pass, but otherwise fairly straightforward - TFTC

A busy place but the cache was surprisingly easy to find. Were are not fans of these nanos. Thanks for the micro-cache!

quick find on the coast to coast route on this fine muggly day. TFTC

This was my second go at this sneaky one...had previously tried back in January. But I was able to pick up this one rather quickly on the walk home from the train station. TFTC!

Second attempt at night time. Spent about 20 minutes navigating around the object described in the hint until my eyes fell upon it . I don't quite know why I didn't spot it earlier, probably in my blind spot TFTC

No luck for us on this one We looked for it for about 10 minutes trying to stay inconspicuous but no result

My second visit to this spot, this time I was successful helped by by new eTrex 20. TFTC

Our last day wandering the streets of Auckland before we jet off to OZ on our next leg...

Grabbing a few caches in the area while passing through on our 'how ever long it takes' NZ tour.

Thanks for setting this up.

TFTC

Mud & Kim

Left of it.. right of it.. left of it.. grrr.. where is the little bug?? Finally it got beteen my fingers. TFTN!

nice to cache while sitting down.

Not really fond of nanos, but as it was on my way anyway, I gave it a try. Thanks to the hint it was located easily enough. Not really many muggles around and none that seemed to notice me.

Thanks for the cache!

Ina aus Wien

A quick find on the way past this afternoon. I have a vauge recollection of looking for one in this park before. TFTC

Had planned on doing a cache on a 1hour bush walk, but caching wagon wouldn't start. As i needed to do a cache to fill inthe colendar for today I called caching son to see what he was up to - Heading into city to drop somethign of at work. So I hitched a ride and we did a few caches near by. At 6.30pm on a sunday, had no trouble getting a park only 20m from cache. Moon was fantastic tonight and I got several pix from nearby. TFTC

#4714

Our fourth day of our honeymoon to New Zealand and Australia.
After a nice night in our apartment in the Hotel Grand Chancelor we started our second day in Auckland early. Just after 7 AM we were ready for breakfast. We need to adapt ourselves a bit as there are no buns, so we eat rösti with sausages and scrambled eggs. After that we took our new Nomad walking shoes and Jo found out that changing contact lenses gave a clearer view. For today we planned to walk to the Auckland Domain to do several caches. When being at the silent witness the gps had a breakdown and all caches where gone from the gps. So we decided to grab a sandwich at Subway and went back to the hotel. After eating our lunch we started again with the wherigo trough the harbour. The weather began very sunny, but after noon it got a bit colder and cloudy. After doing some more caches we reached the 2 Degree shop where we bought a sim card for internet access. At last we did a [url=http://coord.info/GC246GN]multi cache[/url] but on the final location we discovered due to our new internet connection, after some searching that the cache was archived the day after our latest gpx file. It was a pity! Back on the way to the supermarket we bought our first souvenir, an humoristic sheep shagger underwear for men.
We had already discovered that food on New Zealand is very expensive (17 NZD for 25 cigarettes, but in the Netherlands we pay about 10 NZD, Boursin = 14,95 NZD but in the Netherlands only about 3,5 NZD) so we went again to a supermarket, Metro New World in Queensstreet, to try to find a cheap meal.
Finally we came home to cook mushroom soup with beef schnitzel and some garlic crackers and a yoghurt very berry as a desert. At the end of the day, the tracklog on the gps showed us we walked about 20 kilometres through the city centre of Auckland.

We found this cache today around 10.00 AM local time.
With the very clear hint this nano was found very fast and easily. It is a pity that the bench is not located in the park with a scenic view. Now you just get the exhaust fumes from all passing cars. So quickly after the found we walked further to the next cache.

In: -
Out: -

TFTC

"Soms gaat het om de reis, soms gaat het om het doel", is ons cachemotto

[navy]2012: Voor ons het jaar van nieuwe ervaringen opdoen [/navy]

[limegreen]Cachegroeten uit Rotterdam, the Netherlands[/limegreen]

Found by helefant saw her sitting on the seat as I came round the corner waited for mr ugtme to find us as he headed for the other direction playing with his new iPhone app.

Lots of walkers/joggers/cyclists around this morning, but managed a quick find during a lull in proceeding. TFTC

second go at this one and we almost thought it was missing but eventually got it! nice and quiet on anzac morning! tftc

This is a high muggle area, so took us a lot longer to find than it should have. While looking I heard someone shout my name from a car passing by. Was a friend of my daughter and her parents. They're probably wondering what on earth we were doing. TFTC

This entry was edited by dean-crew on Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 11:38:17 AM UTC.

Out on a FTF on another nearby cache only to find a homeless man sleeping at GZ, so thought it would be rude to make a trip out and not find a cache, been wanting to grab this one for a while being so close to work and all!! TFTC

Nice quick find tonight, Not many muggles about at 11am on a Sunday night. Apart from 1, who decided to offer us some cigarettes.

We ventured out to look for the nearby FTF, but aborted it due to the homeless fellas sleeping at the GZ, So we thought we had better grab at least 1 cache on our way back.


TFTC.

Furbies, MissFeez and myself and rushed out from our home on the shore to be in the running for a nearby FTF in the domain - upon getting there we found there was a homeless person in residence so we were forced to abandon search before we had even begun. We thought we better find one geocache over this way to make ourselves feel better so this was the pick of the night. Thanks for making us feel that little bit better

found it in the dark.

Found it, then had a terrible time trying to extract the logbook. Eventually worked out I could use one half of the cache to pull the logbook.

First nano. So tiny!

Auckland was my last stop of my newzealand travel. Getting used to this nice nanos. Will miss them back home. Tftc

This took some time as the time between lights was not long at all. I think it took me ten revolutions of lights to finally spot it. Can't believe it took that long though as it's such an obvious spot!

Thanks no pen

a quick grab between lights when the cars were moving so they wouldn't notice me, TFTC

On a cache tour today with some other german friends. We were looking and searching, but couldnt find it. The hint was so obviously, but didnt help. So I waited for another green light and then I found the Nano on the floor between a lot of leaves! Lucky that we found it! Otherwise would be gone maybe at next cleaning! So I put it back after log me in.
TFTC and greetings from Germany

Thought it would be easy to find late at night. Managed a pretty good search between waves of traffic, but could not spot the cache. Searched with hands and by torchlight, but found nothing. Hope it's still there.

Didnt think i was going to for a while. Cheers.

Quick find in between muggles doing laps of Domain. Nice spot for a rest too! TFTC

Took full advantage of the quiet streets.

TFTC

Like others I made this harder than I needed to. Area fairly deserted tonight, being Xmas Eve. TFTC.

Able to have the area to my self in the rain. Used to work 3 doors along the road 30 years ago.

Cheeky little cache whilst waiting for a futsal game to start nearby. TFTC!

Last find on the way back to Wellington after visiting family at Starship. Made it more difficult than I had to but wasn't going to be shown up by the last finder.

7.50am My third DNF for the morning.
Cheers M+S [:O)]

A quick stop on the walk back from Newmarket to Ronald Mcdonald house. The rain had stopped but it was quite muggy and carrying children and groceries had taken it's toll...perfect excuse for a sit down at the park. TFTC.

Easy found on the coast-to-coast walkway.
Thanks a lot,
brischniz

Nice little one, busy spot

No worries. Nice crisp new log signed. TFTC

Changed the log.

Logbook absolutely full and needs replacing.

#2409. Quick find at night. The logbook is full, just managed to squeeze into a tiny space to sign it. TNLNSL. TFTC.

took us a while to find a gap in the traffic

great hide TFTC

Found togehther Lenka from SpeedyGT
TFTC!

Found with Simal during our stay in NZ. Greetings from Czech republic and TFTC!

Normally Name like nano challenge would be enough to put me right off, but this one certainly wasn't the toughest nano I've ever done! Thank goodness. Tftc. Centuryson from Australia

Lovely park, had to sit a while waiting for a gap in the traffic! TFTC.

Trying to find caches on busy afternoons can be a bit difficult with all the traffic and muggles nearby. However, I persevered and found a nice place to sit and ponder the location of this one. Soon the cache was in hand and I was logging it. There are very few spots remaining on the log. TFTC!

found it with my friends! I like NZ!

Found it whit San24 and other friends! They didn't see the cache, bit I did it!

Quick find, TFTC.

Second visit this time with much less traffic and two extra pairs of eyes yeilded success. Found with max53y and SPL00ZEN. TFTC.

Beat my fellow geocacing buddies DazndKy to this tiny one. Lovely! TFTC

Got beaten by Spl00zen and DazanKy only just. TFTC

Cool! My first true nano. Muggles and muggles and muggles. Got it eventually, cheers =]

Found it after waiting for ages for the muggles to disperse slightly.
First nano, TFTC!

Found while in the area as wife had an appointment not too far from here.
Quick find with plenty of traffic!
T4TC

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Very cool, very small, didn't have to say we dropped our keys >< hint: magnetic

Second attempt: started a run at this cache in the dark DNF! ended run after Dawn - easy to see now. Tftc.

Second find on the way back to work from Newmarket. Good one. Played the "I dropped a key" when a muggle questioned me, but assured I was a better solo searcher... TFTC.

Ko taku kitenga tokowha mo tenei ra. Kia ora.
(My fourth find of the day. Thanks.)

An early morning find while staying at the Domain lodge. TFTC

Nice little spot that most people don't know about. TFTC

a very easy nano TFTC

Sent Ryan off to find this one while the mum in the team turned the car around. TFTC

Good find, stealthily replaced. Nice little park on a beautiful Auckland morning.
TFTC

Quick find on a lovely winter afternooon. t4tc

First cache in a few weeks - just started a new job down the road so grabbed this on my lunch break!
Gorgeous day and lovely view of the Domain
TFTC SL (visited some tb's here too)

Easy find on a easy Sunday afternoon. TFTC

Passing by and re-visiting the park. Thanks for this cache.

I looked for this cache over the last few weeks while on our first stay at Starship so I am logging it now that we are back home.

Well I had been walking for a while so it was nice to have a rest and I didn't look to much out of place while looking for this one.

A great place to stop and just watch the world go by.

Sorry I didn't have a pen with me to sign the log book.

TFTC

Same park as my very first cache find!
Busy traffic here - getting the hang of sheepishly 'looking' my way around a seat with fingers!
TFTC

My second last cache stop today. Although I attempted to be stealthy and look while no-one was looking it soon became apparent that this would be impossible late on a Friday afternoon. Even so after thoroughly searching the bench no cache was found. Disappointing soon as I have placed a few nano caches out myself. Challenge failed today = DNF.

No probs here

TFTC

Quiet in the area tonight so we were free to look between light phases. Good hide T4TC.

Returned back to the city central after finishing the Power Trail up north, arrived at Grafton Station and grabbed this one whilst walking past. TFTC

Lovely park! Saw it in dusk anyway, but so nice that it has public barbecue places and walking in the ground!
A lot of traffic but the magic trick with shoelaces always helps

I am in Auckland for a few days without my GPS, so what shall I do? Why, go geocaching anyway. Three found so far within a short walk. This was a little busy in the middle of the day so I took it away to sign.
Thanks Mahupeka

Quick find, Ben Mc had a cache here years ago so I knew the area well.

T4TC

Late night find.
Only spotted it after getting my torch from the car.
Still a lot of traffic just before midnight.
TFTC

Quick lunchtime find. Thanks.

Nice quick find at site. SL TFTC