Time for a Bath? (Auckland) Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By KiwiGary on 27-Apr-07. Waypoint GC12EY4

Bummer.... never got back to try this one again.

I have decided to archive this one, I think its had its day.

Thanks to everyone that came and had a bath

Yep this one is missing, checked today. Me thinks its time to rethink the placement of the final. Thanks hexe82 for logging the DNF. Will disable this one for a while...

Have to give up on that one...
Four attempts and no luck:
The first and second attempt took me somewhere and had me wondering what RHS means.
Attempt no. 3 with additional hints from the cache owner made me realize my mistakes. I felt absolutely sure I knew now, but had to leave due to a bunch of teenagers at GZ.
Returned for 4th attempt but still didn't find it ...

TFTC and your help anyway!

Easy to find once we found the right place. TFTC

Nice multi. Not much camouflage left at this time of the year..should be better in a few months!
Thanks.

No time for a bath! TFTC

Had done the calc's for this one yesterday, but had no luck looking at, what I hoped was, the correct GZ.

Back this evening after a harbour trip to Devonport and walked just about right to it. Glad to have found it and claim another multi and the last of seven caches for the day.

TNLN & TFTC.

Cheers,

Started but not finished with the pud.

Did the first part sweet as, but when going for the final we turned the corner only to be meet by around 200 people standing in the road. Turns out they were all registering for the triathlon the next day. So we flagged it for another day.
Cheers M+S [:O)]

Very exposed to muggles. How it could be found during the day I'm not to sure. With the help of SmilyKylie we found it.

Was in town celebrating the brithday of Mrs KiwiWoozle and had cracked the clues on this one previously but missed locating the final stash. Obviously hadn't looked hard enough as I recall seeing the Steinlager bottle first time around! Despite the late night and the friendly bloke who was settling down for the night in his house under the stairs, this one was not going to elude me again. With the help of a small torch we managed to crack this one too.

Quick wee lunchtime cache, although all sorts of theatricals had to be staged to safely return the cache under close muggle scrutiny. Cheers!

1st find for today on way to another of Gary's (WWWFM III - Kiwi Style). Removed Steinlager bottle that was directly above the cache. TNLNSL TFTC

Did this after the event held today.
Never been in those baths and would like to try today.
1 of 18 caches completed so no time today.
Geeze there were a lot of muggles getting ready to settle down here for the evening.
1 sleeping under the stairs nearby !!

Nice little multi! Just a bit tricky early (10.30 am!) Sunday with a couple of drunks sleeping off the night before nearby! Managed to not wake them I think. Thanks

Started this one on our flying visit to Auckland, but I don't think I wrote things down correctly, that or there was a more walking involved than time we had to do it before heading back to the airport to catch our flight. Next time maybe.

Thanks for the cache. Jim

We are visiting from Canada and doing some caches along the way. Decided to tackle this multi. Eventually solved the puzzle and found the cache. Thanks.
#1007

A quick find during a visit to the city on Waitangi Day to attend the International Buskers festival.

thanx for the cache! teamKollMont from Germany xx

Great clues to get us to the cache site, but was really glad I had read the additional hint before heading out. Lots of motorists, but hardly any muggle pedestrians. A few little birds and some pigeons came by for a wander. TNLN.

[This entry was edited by Seattle's Best on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 8:43:52 PM.]

A nice stop . . . .parking and muggles no challenge as it was a lazy Saturday . . . pigeons stopped in to inspect. Nice access.

An enjoyable stroll, and a good hide, thanks!

Glad we had a party of willing assistants today as even with 5 of us, it took a few minutes to find. Nicely hidden. TFTH

take pictures of cool paintings in the area while searching! regards from Switzerland

Great cache.

Found with "The Moor we Hunt..."

TNLN TFTC

We were caching with samandjim for a while this morning and Jim spotted this cache right away! Thanks for bringing us to an interesting old building in the city. SL. TFTC.

Also logging in and out our England Geocoin.

At least one success today - out of four. After three DNFs we started to doubt our caching skills. But it still seems to work.
What a nice swimming hall. We popped in for a quick look and immediately loved it. The cache itself was fairly easy to find with the help of the clue. Without it, one surely will have no fun at all.

TNLNSL, TFTC

nope?

GPS favoured the tree, instead of cache located empty beer bottles unfortunately..

Zed

GPSr all good on this one thankfully, have been finding some difficulty with the inner city caches, limited satellete view, reflections from tall buildings etc.
Good hide and a fun cache.
Many thanks.

Talk about satellite being against us ... stood in one spot and three GPS's all had different readings, sometimes 1 m away sometimes 15 metres away. Tramp was having a really good sleep on one of the benches and didn't even notice us rummaging and walking round and round in circles.

was a little confused at the location becoz of the GPS readings. But a clever way to hide the cache indeed.

TFTC! Hello from Singapore!

we were on a roll.. from the bathe place, under the bridge to a bench!
daddy found this one after mummy keyed in the intial co-ords... me?
i looked & smiled [8)] at muggles so no-one suspected anything!

we walked & we walked & we walked...
we saw & we keyed & we found!
great hide gary!
thanks for bringing us to the bathhouse 2!

Up in Alks to see our daughter for her birthday, easy walk and find ... no troubles solving the clues, GPS soon had us the middle one, an there it was in open view.

A bit sad as we couldn't get a GPS signal. Got the clues and gathered a final co-ordinate but the satelites were against us. Another time perhaps....

#694. Found with Junior Ouenette. Spent a lovely Dads day afternoon caching with Junior. TFTC.

Needed to talk to the residents in the building to find the answer to A. GPSr was struggling to get a decent lock but managed to find the cache with the hint. Many thanks.

While caching some time back, gathered all the clues and tried to find it on a Sunday and had to give up for the approaching muggles were a hinderance.
Went back this afternoon and found it still infested with muggles. Gave up again! Work function finished and decided to give it a go with my workmate rxnshark. Had to do the mexican standoff until this guy finished his phone call, still going on his call after about 10 mins but walked off. Got into stealth mode and found the cache.
TNLNSL TFTC, good to knock this one off finally. Did note the cache location support mechanism seemed a litle unstable so hope the cache holds OK.

Cheers.

I think I solved the puzzle OK, but at GZ there was nothing to match the clues. Reception tricky in this location.

Went past today to check the cache, the plants have died away but the cache is still sitting there waiting to be found.

Well, saw it on the GPS while looking for another cache. Luckily I have alot of cache info on my phone so looked at the necessary details. Quickly solved and went to look. Fossicked around the obvious places to no avail. Also looks like vegetation has been cut away (That's if I was looking in the right place of course). Quick phone call to a mate who had found earlier, confirmed my spot as OK so don't know what's up. Not sure if vegetation was cut when the cache owner checked earlier.
My go back for another look but GPS was a bit skitzo that day with the buildings around. Most sats were on the horizon.

Cheers..

08:50 – After Grandalf DNF, Checked the cache this morning and its still in place and doing fine.

The puzzle was easy enough, but GPS was going mad under the roading overpass. Tried the clue, but it was no help at all.

Parking meter Lady arrived as getting out of the car so had to pay for ticket . Easy find

Not the first to visit today.
Found a velcro dot first and was sure it was missing, then read the clue, to confirm. Oh its not there, and found soon after. See now that we found the old hide as well as the new.
TFTC

A fresh log sheet!
Cheers KG - M@

Log to remove Needs help flag.

Replaced the cache this morning, which wasn’t easy with everyone rushing to work. Please note new hint, hopefully this hide will last longer than the last.

Found with Zork, found the the spot

Looked at that part last week.

TFTC I guess

[This entry was edited by TheWonderStuff on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 2:51:12 AM.]

Claiming the find as we found the ------ at the GZ. Cache has gone though.

[This entry was edited by Zork V on Monday, June 04, 2007 at 2:59:32 AM.]

Cache is gone, please replace.

Thanks Zork for the update on our cache, bummer its gone. Will disable until I can replace the cache.

Update 29 May 2007 - Yes the cache is missing, will replace it soon.

[This entry was edited by KiwiGary on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 2:39:49 AM.]

Got cords - will be back

great evening cache.... although fridays may not be the best evening as near by bars have a pretty good view of gz!!!

Found with BFR after work, at about 7pm.
Calculated the co-ords rather quickly and after a quick search the cache was in hand.
A nice cache in the heart of Auckland
Cheers
TNLNSL

Not quite a drive by cache (Unless you can get a park). But it's certainly a walk by cache.
Spent a few minutes working out the clues, then ambled over to pick up the final.
Thanks for the cache.

Quick find whilst playing chauffeur for my dad was interviewing some former High Commissioner in nearby St Mary's Bay. Bit of a mission putting it back what with local park workers taking a teabreak close by! TNLNSL TFTC

#277 Quick find, passing thru'
TNLNSL, TFTC

TFTC found it without any problems, thanks.

Well not much effort used. 1/2 TT works within 100 meters and also walks past on the way to another site close by.
Interesting that we had considered positioning the final for "Petes Pond" here but choose not to.
Thanks "Kiwi Gary" for the effort and making it easy for TT to get his goal of 950 before heading to Tibet.
Cheers TT

Floundered around in circles, the GPS didn't want to help, it pointed us to something nearby. But we persisted and found it! Nice but busy spot. Thanks.

Was all geared up to go for this one at 4am, but having just returned from Portugal yesterday, the car battery was flat.... Oh well...

GPS preferred the tree, which due to its position kind of fitted the hint. Found it though. TNLN

Thanks!
Chris & Vera

FTF after dropping off family to airport,found easily at 06.00hrs as not many about.Fun one to do,thanks.

Alas my hundredth, but not FTF as someone had got out of bed and found it at 6am!! Darn. Still one that you might want to do in the quieter hours. I thought 8am was early enough.

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