Luciferinase (Auckland) Titirangi, North Island, New Zealand
By banaari on 26-Jan-06. Waypoint GCT5YZ

This one's had a good run, but it's time to close it out.
Many thanks to sp8sm8 for performing the last rites, and to all the folks who took the time to hunt the beast

Well this explains why we could not find this yesterday! We must have looked absoultely everywhere, getting more frustrated that we were beaten by it....little did we know it was gone
All was not lost as we would never have known about the great walking track we visited. thanks

Great one.

#2580.
#22 in NZ.

Fortunately we found this cache just before it was archived, pity because it was at a beautiful location! TFTC!

Now we are on our way to Piha and then sleeping over at Muriwai. TFTC!

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A big thank you to all the geocache owners for being our “tour guides” in New Zealand while we are on our short holiday visit to this extraordinarily beautiful country! We traveled the North Island in our little camper van and we came across minimal damaged caches and we only had very few DNF’s.

"Groete" all the way from South Africa!

Dropped off TB. Full log to follow soon.

Great little walk down to cache and soon found...Beautiful tranquil spot...walk back up however was a little more challenging...nice one overall though...
cheers V.

Easy find, log full so left more paper.

Very easy

Awesome spot!

What a beautiful hiding spot! TFTC

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

A peaceful spot. Glad to see the steps up to the top carpark have been replaced, makes it a lot safer in the rain. TFTC.

Loved the hint for this one. Walking down was the easy bit, walking back up was the chore.
TFTC!

Log book is onto the last page.

Came in from the top carpark so it was an easy downhill = a steady uphill on the way back. Cache was visible from the track as the original container has been placed inside a larger container, so covered it as much as possible. Logbook is close to full. TFTC

Found some months ago with Titirangi hunters, found with help of past comments as we don't use GPS, nice walk!

Should of read the name of this cache more carefully. Started looking for it at dusk...easy to find in daylight a little more tricky in the semi dark without a torch. Thanks for the adventure.

This entry was edited by sam__smith on Saturday, 02 November 2013 at 23:07:31 UTC.

A lovely spot especially if the waterfall is in full flow, it wasn't today. Though I suspect that there may be glow worms at night. A bit dodgy on those steps in the dark though. The cache was easily found too.

Easy find. The doctor. ..

Ahh good day.

Whoa second big climb in 10 mins think my mountain goat knackered then I got all muddy fighting the troll. Tftc

Out in the bush!! Love it! The dynamic duo strike again!
TFTC
-Johnny Mac and The Doctor

Found with Scenic Searchers, great walk and easy find once we got the right GZ. TFTC

A great spot. Loved the walk through the bush.

Couldn't have done it without Joan! Beautiful - loved the walk and waterfall

Lovely place for a cache ! Picked it up after my Sunday walk with the Titirangi Walkers ......Shame I didn't have camera on me to take photo of waterfall .....

Great walk! Awesome place! TFTC!

Log book almost full. It has been filled by random people who have stumbled across it writing stupid comments. At least they have not stolen it!!

Thanks so much for bringing me to this lovely spot practically in my backyard and I never knew! I probably wouldn't have gone way down if not for the hint in the last log xD
Spotted the blue from quite high up the track so covered it up a bit more. TFTC!

Don't stop at Joan's first rest, continue on to her second, much better spot! TFTC
There was a TB in here from Grandad8 which he has logged at the wrong cache, have moved TB on and will rectify.


This entry was edited by SynchNZ on Tuesday, 13 August 2013 at 06:29:47 UTC.

Easy find after sitting with Joan and pointing the way

Awesome scenic spot and a great clue. Tftc. Team THC

TFTC - The troll didn't get us.

TFTC!

2.25pm. Along a gem of a forest walk. A straightforward find once we had chatted with Joan. Left a tb and a pathtag.
TFTC
M&P.

Tftc log book was a bit damp so dropped some silica in, left googly eye and ezyauctionz.co.nz fridge magnet.

Thanks for the cache - getting back up that hill was fun - if not a bit puffy!

Another nice easy find for kiwi...... Tftc

A nice easy find...with wendythebean. ...

Anita's first geocache! Yay! Great clue. TFTC

found it

Last cache for the day onthe way home fromthe Whatipu campout event. Legs were very tired after the 20k hike the day before, so it was a slow walk backup to car.
Beautiful spot, thanks for bringing me, I love the bush too! TFTC

We saw a few joggers as we made our way towards the cache. Nice clue

Tftc, but not looking forward to walking back up the hill

Went to search for a few caches after dinner. Step climd down but a beautiful spot. Thanks Dad for finding the cache. TFTC.

This was my very first night cache and was an easy find. TFTC

I remember having a go at this cache on one of my firsts visits to Auckland after I started caching. Didn't have much luck finding it then but I was back in the area today and so decided to have another go. What a difference a few thousand caches makes! Straight to it this time. Beaut spot for it too. TFTC, Biggles.

Oh my goodness. This place was filled with muggles, whose dogs seemed to like the water near GZ. I sent Master Dean to retrieve, but we had to wait ages for muggles to leave before we could replace. What a neat spot so close to the city. Master Dean enjoyed seeing a wood pigeon and fat looking blackbirds. TFTC

A quick find as I walked down the track. Thanks for the hide

Found the right spot but couldn't find the cache

#840, Cool Walkway. Good Hide, TFTC

great little find use the clue well not far from track

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

We decided to spend the day knocking off a few more caches out west.

After collecting the caches along the NW motorway cycleway, we headed out to New Lynn then on to Titirangi, collecting some caches along the way.

A nice walk through the bush to GZ, where the cache was quickly found.

Smurf TB out.

TFTC!

We decided to spend the day knocking off a few more caches out west.

After collecting the caches along the NW motorway cycleway, we headed out to New Lynn then on to Titirangi, collecting some caches along the way.

A nice walk through the bush to GZ, where the cache was quickly found.

Smurf TB out.

TFTC!

Very pleasant bush track. Previous logs and clue a great help as GPS did not like the tree cover! TFTC

Took two goes. Joan would have seen the billy goats too from her seat. Great stash. Took geocoin, left TB, SL, TSLS.

Awesome track walk here. Loved the zig zag and running through the tracks. The ladies waited for me in the car as it was started to shower lightly! I got to this awesome spot but then realized that I left the phone in the car, so could not take any pictures of that waterfall! Anyways nice hide for the cache and wondered what the hint meant, until I got there, loved it!

TFTC banaari

Tried to do a quick find with wee ones. Not to be. Will try at night next time in Auckland.

A bit tricky

Easy with clue seemed 8m from expected spot. Tftc

Also distracted by first Joan... Great walk and hope to come back one night:) left a trackable from Aussie.

Beautiful spot, know it well so was looking forward to this one TFTC TSLSSL

Got distracted by Joan the First despite no obvious signs of trolls but persevered and found the GC with a little help with from the dogs as the light faded quickly. TFTC.

TFTC through the beautiful bush with Tui bird sounds to accompany us. We also enjoyed the additional sights of Titirangi soldiers memorial close by.

TFTC

With my Grandchildren. Nice Place for trolls.
TFTC

Found on trip down the zigzag TFTC

Good scenery, good clue but watch your head, TFTC

Last find for the day. Needed a hint but then found it in seconds!

no luck to day have to try another day.

After the great 11/11/11 event, I couldn't resist doing one more before I made my way home and being just north of Titirangi this seemed like a great choice! The area was deserted and I had a nice walk down to GZ. The cache was a nice easy find, and even though there was a full moon tonight I was still able to shut off the flashlight and enjoy the view. This is a really great spot. TFTC!

and this would be the second cache we found... great walk and location

Found this one on our 2nd attempt after a bit of a hunt around. TFTC [:)}

TFTC

Couldnt find it today. Better luck next time.

Long overdue maintenance visit - first time with sufficient time between flights to get out to Titirangi for many a long month. Swapped in a new log book and upgraded the cache to container-in-container. Retrieved a TB while at it.

What a surprise to find such a lovely spot so close to Titirangi centre. Easy find. TFTC

Sought out by Joe Possum's Kiwi Family as a temporary home for TB Smiley Pirate after crossing the Tasman Sea (albeit by air)in pursuit of his objective to travel the high seas.

Very wet inside.

Maintenance scheduled for coming week.

Nope. Looked all over the place, nothing.

Sweet cache, was a bit wet inside. watch out for the tree outstretched going up sum stairs, my mate nailed his head on a huge branch. was fricken hillarious but still dangerous lol.cha chur..

great geocache found it with literal translation from the hint awsome cache

This was so much fun, like an actual Treasure Hunt! The clue is pretty much all you need, We went at night with Torches, was kinda freaky but all the more fun. Don't Slip

Our first GC in NZ! Wonderfull track, zigzag trough te forrest. have been looking a while but than found is in a nice place. Log needs maintenance, is realy damped... TfTc Team Roedeer from the Netherlands.

A really lovely walk that we had never done before. Thanks for showing us a new beautiful spot. TFTC.

Nothing where I looked, but I may have been in the wrong spot. Albida

Nice cache and an easy find after searching the other side. Lovely little area.

Found it 2 nite.Cool glow worms.Notebook a bit soggy...great brand though:)

Easy find after coords updated. Gps signal not the best and track very wet. Getting almost dark here at 5.30 pm even with day light saving still upon us. Loved the clue.

Spectacular waterfall near cache makes caching in the rain worthwhile

TFTC!

Coordinates changed from:
S 36° 56.426 E 174° 39.457

Coordinates changed to:
S 36° 56.417 E 174° 39.458

Distance from original: 54.9 feet or 16.7 meters.

Should be slightly easier to find

Went with Eyretle after dark to see the glow worms, shame I too walked into the tree. Also right Joan wrong troll but found it in the end after going further down the track. TFTC

Great cache love the clue. How many Joans on one path?? Polly got caught out by that tree too!

Great bit of bush and a nice little stroll to GZ. I managed to walk into a tree but survived to find the cache. Thanks for this cache.

The coordinates for this cache are well off. This has been stated by numerous posters. The cache owner needs to go back and take a new reading.

As everyone has said before the coords are well off. Despite having fairly good accuracy it was over 30m off. We would have never found it without the hint and even then we were going to give up. This is a real shame as if the coords were good this would be a great cache as it's a really good clue and a great hide.

This entry was edited by mattandjax on Sunday, 09 January 2011 at 10:37:44.

Pretty place. TFTC

Had parked at Lopdell House so earned the terrain. A most enjoyable track and pretty waterfall after the rain. NINO TFTC