Abbeville Farm Estate--in Mangere Māngere-Ōtāhuhu, North Island, New Zealand
By G_2 on 02-Nov-23. Waypoint GCAG0J7

Pretty spot. Been caching round here before. Good to pick up some more caches out here. Tftc

Out for a leg stretch from my local hotel. Deceptively tricky camo diverted me for a while but soon managed to sign the log. TFTC G-2 and a fav awarded.

Having spent a few days with family in Auckland, Im now on my way to the Dunedin Mega. I arrived early at the airport so spent a couple of hours geocaching nearby. I enjoyed my walk around this park, and with no one else around, I found them all easily. A good hide. Logbook signed and replaced as found. All good here. Tftc

Quick find. Sneaky "mounting construction". All nice and dry. Tftc

Heading south for a few days and made good time on the trip down from Whangarei, so had enough time to look for a cache or two before our flight.A nice quick find here in the hint location. TFTC

Up for the day and managed to grab a few caches in the area. Took some rime to find. Thankfully the others had already found previously. Lovely buildings. Thank you for the placement.

Nice little hide here, quick n easy, but enjoyed it. Really like the cache container. Found with teamrosenz and Greermae23.

Out finding caches on our way to Auckland today. Great hide. TFTC. Awesome container.

Not the container we were expecting but works well here. Lots of cool sculptures here. Geoboy calls the moving one right here, 'the spring onion.' tftc

Found with Arandee before our flight to Africa. Thanks for the hide.#10469

Quick find, thanks, short overnight when heading to Botswana, tftc.

An easy rural find within site of my hotel. This is a lovely area for an early morning walk. TFTC

**21,716**A nice quick find of a cache type we are becoming very familiar with- TFTC

Found while waiting for flight. Thanks!

Tftc, amazing little cache

Came to the airport this morning to meet some friends from the UK who were transiting through Auckland. With their visit cut short we have ended up with some time on our hands and what should we do but check out some local caches. Nice easy find, loved reading about the buildings and happy to report the stained glass windows are back in display. Now off to see the rest of the sculptures nearby. Tftc

Walking with MsEvs

We were out this way for quick collection or two. This was a quick find

Mrs Bay7 did the gardens & roses here for Weddings a few years ago, lovely venue. TFTC

Wandering around between planes TFTC

There was a lot of discussion as to where to park. I lost, and so we had to walk a bit farther. Another interesting hide. TFTC.

Out with Agazo today, good thing I had gumboots on, very wet grass, easily found, tftc

Thanka - good find!

Thanks for the effort

After dropping Mrs Coblet off at the airport this cache was calling out to Mr Coblet so he made a detour before heading home.There was no one around and he enjoyed a peaceful walk to GZ where he made a nice quick find. Some great pieces of art here, a few new ones since out last visit.TFTC.

Had a few hours in transit between flights so headed out for a walk. Enjoyed the various sculptures on the way. No problems finding and signing the log. Thanks G-2 for the smiley.

In Auckland visiting family we were staying at the Ibis airport decided to go for a drive and walk nearby and grab a few caches before heading out for dinner. Thanks for the hides appreciate the effort put in from the COs

I did my usual trick when caching from the airport of catching the park and ride bus close to here - works brilliantly. Very nice spot - looks like a perfect wedding venue. Quite an ingenious cache container too. Struck it lucky with the rain because it stopped as the bus pulled in and started again when I was on another bus out. Perfect! TFTC # 22,186

Very clever no pen so log next to the date for proof of find

Quick find tftc

A quick find this afternoon on a walk while filling in time before an overseas flight. The clever hide almost had me fooled! Signed log, TFTC.

What a beautiful day for a spot of caching 1.3 km way walking from the domestic terminal and you get a peaceful place like this. You may need a pair of tweezers to retrieve the log book, thank you for the smiley

Full log to come

This looks a nice place. Quick find. We also acknowledge the traditional custodians of New Zealand / Aoteroa, as we geocache throughout their land while on holiday.Thanks for showing us this place, & for placing and maintaining this cache. The is our playground

Quick find with Blue Jay before heading to airport to start our return journey to Ireland.Kia Ora New Zealand..TFTC. Toffee Man.

Wow what an awesome area with cute buildings. An easy find with the hint.Thank you G-2 for placing this cache.Log signed as B&PFind number 5038

Few hours to kill before my afternoon flight back to the mainland so out for a wander around the neighbourhood ,quick find tftc

A beautiful holiday in Zealand is behind us, we spent the last afternoon while waiting for our flight to Europe walking and catching some caches in the park near the airport. Thank you.

In the area todayNice wee hide thanks

In the area with ABCDF4 Nice wee hide thanks

We are waiting for a plane and we have plenty of time .... so - lets explore one more place near an airport. Beautiful sunset. Great! Favourite point for it.Thanks for the cache and greetings from the Czech Republic.

This is a great place for a cache. We found a sneaky park not too far from gz and walked the short distance to find the cache. A nice quick find here of a G2 signature cache. We checked out some of the sculptures before returning to the car. TFTC

Tftc. Nice easy find with hint after a tough DNF nearby.

Needed to get our adventuring today. None of the family wanted to join so I just got in the car and started following the icons on the map! Tried to navigate to this one and ended up on the wrong road because I hadnt looked closely enough at the mapdoh! Corrected and soon had the cache in hand. Not sure Ive seen a saddle version before. Thanks for the cache.

later

TFTC and the story about this place

Trouvaille effectue durant notre voyage en Nouvelle-Zlande. Nous avons sjourn dans les villes suivantes: Auckland, National Park, Wellington, Upper Moutere, Greymouth, Franz Joseph, Wanaka, Te Anau, Queenstown et Lake Tekapo. Nous avons crois des gens sympathiques et trs serviables. La nature est formidable. Nous avons observ des paysages magnifiques. Nous en garderons un merveilleux souvenir.La trouvaille de cette cache a agrment notre parcours. Merci d'avoir plac cette cache.Salutations de la Ville de Qubec, Qubec, Canada.=====================Find made during our trip to New Zealand. We stayed in the following cities: Auckland, National Park, Wellington, Upper Moutere, Greymouth, Franz Joseph, Wanaka, Te Anau, Queenstown and Lake Tekapo. We met friendly and very helpful people. Nature is wonderful. We observed magnificent landscapes. We will keep wonderful memories of it.The find of this cache enhanced our journey. Thank you for placing this cache.Greetings from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

Dropped off family at the airport and had some spare time so decided to go geocaching. And as is often the case, I discovered a hidden gem in the process. Found the wee fellow then carried on exploring this interesting spot. Thanks so much for bringing me here. Favourite point given for that.

Thank You

Great place for a cache. Parked at the nearby shopping complex & walked over. Nice quick find. Lovely walk too. [TFTC]

Found while out for a walk after a long day in a meeting. Love the hide. TFTC

Down here to collect GeohoundandI but her flight has been delayed, probably her heavy hand luggage, so I left Daddypig in the carpark at Countdown and walked down here. Quick easy find then off to sit right at the front by the doors to give her a massive embarrassing mum hug as soon as she appears.

Time for a walk in the sun as plane arrival is delayed. Had to watch on for the mower man working near by . Nice old church.

4 for 5 today. I'll be pulling an all-nighter at the airport before flying to Norfolk Island in the morning. TFTC

Published

Happened to be in the area with junior cacher to drop off a puppy to the airport to start it's formal training .....when this cache was published.....had an idea that it might be popular to the FTF hunters, but given the publication time of day, clearly made it unappealing....lucky for me it was still available, unfound, after my 3 hour meeting/drop off, so we loaded up and headed to a close parking spot...100m walk with junior cacher in his wheelchair, and GZ presented itself.....had an idea of what to search for, and sure enough there it was....now, was it still unsigned....yussss, a blank log presented itself.Thanks for bringing us here...never knew this place was here....TFTC{FTF} #233

Found, log to follow FTF

?? Not claiming ftf here, but happily claiming a smiley as I was with the C.O on placement, as were 3 others. We had attended the event put out by our 2 Dutch visitors 00pie - Hans and TravelSer - Serv. There was supernanny, Net61, G-2, and sharkbait2013 who showed up and so while we 4some went to a cache called Pond, an idea came up by G-2 to place a cache by this church, an appropriate spot was chosen, and Glyn just happened to have his San Frans' with him and so that was that.???? But while sitting down on the concrete plinth of the revolving thingy, I happened to walk away leaving my backpack on it, it wasn't until we had all walked away a good 200m when supernanny asked me: Gorby.... "Where's your backpack".... I suddenly remembered where I left it but it was Ethan who volunteered to run back and get it for me, thanks Ethan! ?????? So we investigated the sculpture if you call it that, the swinging pinball arms, very unusual, then gently wandered back to our vehicles and called it a day, thanks G for placing.

As Gorby has said....a group of us had attended a great Event held by two lovely gentlemen from the Netherlands earlier.After that was over, Net61 mentioned she had 3 old caches still to get in the area . We all wandered up to the area where " Pond " cache access is ....and some of the group helped Jan locate it , as it is now terribly overgrown. Afterwards, G-2 , Gorby , Net61, Sharkbait 25 and myself had a walk around the Estate....admiring and investigating all the unusual outdoor Sculptures .Luckily G-2 had a very suitable container on him , and proceeded to place a new Geocache nearby.So we are all able to claim a smiley by being there on Glyn's placement ; now that the FTF has been and gone. Great area to bring people to!Thanks guys for the fun.....

M25: attended a meet-and-greet event nearby, two guys from Netherlands exploring New Zealand for the first time. Hope it goes well. After that, me and Net61 went over to a cache that I already found, so I was pretty much the "tour guide" around the terrain I already knew. While that was going on, Gorby, Supernanny and G-2 were at the location of placing a new cache. Placement makes a nice location, too. Claiming a smiley to add to the list, thanks G-2 for the cache.

After attending a nearby event....was with Gorby and G-2 on placement. Very interesting place.