Petrol, Burgers & Souviners *Northbound(Auckland) Redvale, North Island, New Zealand
By TheWonderStuff on 06-May-07. Waypoint GC12NFG

Virtual bulldozer clears some space...

Grabbed cache, need to re access location, over grown and litter

A pit stop and leg stretch
Chris & Renate from Ontario, Canada

I was heading up North for New Year so I stopped for petrol, decided against the burger as I'd just had lunch and then signed the log on this cache for the souvenir

All that was needed was a simple cache to keep the streak rolling and this fitted perfectly. The volume of traffic was so much busier than expected heading North our original destination for a find was diverted here. Once at GZ quickly located. Cache has dried out but you can see the log has been soaked- see previous logs. Functioning but could benefit from TLC. TFTC

Logged the find...needs some tlc. Tftc

Quick find during a stop here, but log is in poor condition. TFTC TheWonderStuff.

sad to see this cache in very bad condition. it was water logged and we couldn't sign the log. needs an immediate maintenance.

Heading home from the airport and needed coffee. The area around the cache is sodden so we're guessing you've had plenty of rain while we were away. Couldn't sign as the container is also waterlogged. Will log a "maintenance needed". TFTC

Totally waterlogged, no pun intended.

A massive day ahead... Today's adventure requires 50 caches with at least a kilometre of separation. It's also a Dot Day for me... And we are interested in finding any caches that were published within a week of today... No problem! Out with Gap (of Fap and Gap)... We have a planned route that will take us as far north as Waipu (Northland).

Ground zone was a soggy, wet mess... We searched most of the shrubbery, expecting this one to be placed higher and out of sight. It turned out to be much more accessible and at ground level. Sadly, the container had taken in some water, so the contents were quite damp. I'm surprised this area doesn't flood in heavy rain. TFTC.

Frost at home this morning and 2 degrees and today is going to be a biggie for us. Planned at attempt our challenge of 50 caches a kilometre or more apart, problem is we have almost cleaned out all caches within 100 Km's of home so arranged with Hemi (Squirrel Nutcase) to pick up at 6am and head north. For some reason I was up at 3.15am so this just added more time to my day. Caching was a little sparse until we got to about Silverdale. State Highway 1 was very busy and with caches on both sides of road, watchful eyes were very important.

10.30am - Bit of a search to find this one, found on ground in mud. Log sheet wet and needsd replacing. SLTFTC

Quick easy find on a coffee break. There was water insode. Tipped it out and replced cache. SLTFTC

This could be regarded as the perfect drive by. Right time to collect on the way north. Tftc.

Nice and quick stop on way to Red Beach thanks ...
Had packed my lunch and bought petrol earlier so no need of burgers today !!!!!
No time to look at the souvenirs either ,,,, on to next caches !

ewy gooy cache. wet and dirty. children did enjoy a stretch before lunch. TFTC

Stopped off here on our way home today. An easy find then off to Burger King for lunch. A good stop, with easy motorway exit and re-entry and nice to be out of Auckland. Glad the weather is fine for our drive home. Hoping to pick up some caches along the way. TFTC

Stopped for petrol and lunch on the way up to the bach for Easter. Left Auckland early to avoid the horrendous traffic I knew would be heading north for the long weekend. Thought I'd just check if there was a cache here and of course there was. Pleased to go straight to this one and then hit the road again. BTW I can recommend the Thai Chicken Pies from BP

A not quite so quick find while stopping for a caching mission northbound!

Thanks!

Out with the geohubby for a long drive to visit his dad. We stopped along the way to pick up some caches. The roads were very busy so we only managed to get 15 but all of them were found quite quickly. TFTC

Hate when a muggle just doesn't wanna move in your time frame. Played a wailing game; the muggle won... plus the local bird life were getting upset with me as I was getting closer//

Cool to break up the trip north with something fun to find. Shame to see all the scattered rubbish lining the bush.
TFTC

Tftc

This one took me awhile to get a fix on and I ended up walking on the wrong side of the pond and stream that was in the area. Once I was on the correct side, it was soon in hand. TFTC!

Found this cache today while on our way from Auckland to Paihia.
TFTC

This entry was edited by ToineW on Saturday, 17 January 2015 at 10:13:40 UTC.

Today we were travelling north from Auckland to Whangarei, and when we drove in at this place to buy a licence to use the highway, we saw, that there was a cache right here. It was easily found. The container were soaking wet, but fortunately there was a dry log to sign. We poured Water out of the container.

Thanks for the cache.

On a short stop I had a look on my Garmin, saw the cache and and went for it... Fast grab.

T4t$

Short stop on our journey to Whangarei.
Mahopalu

One of many caches found during our month long tour around the South and North Islands. I am on rations for caching but finding around 10 a day.

Thanks to all the cache hiders.

Today took us from Miranda to Whangarei. TFTC.

#2268 ... 19:27

Quick stop during our journey to north.
Thank you for cache and reason to wake up and walk!

Greetings from Czech republic!

It was just coincidence that I stopped here with my car and had a look if some caches are nearby. It was a little bit wet and I have dirty shoes now, but I found the cache . TFTC

This is my third trip back for this one, inspired by the recent finds I returned again.

Found it this time without any issues. The cache was wet inside so I drained it. The log is soaked so I added a new one inside of a fresh baggie.

Find #1064. Thank you very much for the cache. 19/11/2014 17:10

Found together with harrylime on our trip through New Zealand.
tftc.

Found together with divingbrothers.
TFTC
harrylime + Ingrid

Found together with divingbrothers.
TFTC
harrylime + Ingrid

Cache and log is soaking wet

Stopped in for a tollway pass, coffee and a smilie of course. Sorry to say the cache is wet and the log soaked... I didn't even attempt to sign it

Accurate GPS. found first place looked. Log book damp & water in cache

Heading north for the weekend and stopped for burgers on the way. Left Mrs & Mini McArgister in the car for a few minutes. Didn't have this loaded on the GPS but had looked at Google Maps before leaving with the hope of searching for this. Meant that I tried a few wrong places first and got quite muddy shoes but got there in the end. Log full to halfway with water and mushy dissolved swag. Emptied and cleared as much as possible but couldn't sign the log. Thanks for adding a smiley to my burger & fries!

Soooo much rubbish around! Yuck! Found on second attempt! Was looking in the wrong place. Cache filled with water so didn't sign the log

TFTC!

On my way home after an afternoon of caching with my sister (casaba3) and petrol was low so stopped for petrol and, of course, had to look for the cache I knew to be here, just one more to squeeze into the day. Getting dark but still enough light to see by I set off on the hunt. Looked in the same spot a number of times before locating the cache. Unfortunately way too wet to sign so didn't attempt (had no luck with similarly wet log in the weekend). TFTC The WonderStuff.

Difficult find. Log very wet and cache full of water. Hard to write in. TFTC

First find of the day as we made our way up north for the Easter break.

This cache took some finding but we got there in the end.

Coffee and food in hand and we were soon on our way.

#2552

This entry was edited by KiwifruitsNZ on Friday, 18 April 2014 at 06:53:18 UTC.

Found this one during our month long campervan/"Road trip" vacation in New Zealand. It was a wonderful experience driving around this beaurtiful country.

This one was found on our first day with the campervan driving from Auckland to Waitangi

Thanks to TheWonderStuff.

Our find # 11740

Tftc . Very wet but still able to sign. Took quite a hunt though - with quinella

Quite a search required. Co-ords good. Tftc

Intended on doing that one for about a week now. Finally made it there before work. Took me a while to find though. I was looking at the right place but missed it at least 3,4 times. It was really well hidden and hid it we'll again. TFTC

Wet!

What the &*(&) are we doing here - I think we took a wrong turn somewhere and once on the motorways its hard to get off. Hmmm time for a cuppa and a potty stop and rethink of where we should be. Checking gps - there's that traditional just round there we could get so RuruNZ and I did. RuruNZ found it but log has been wet and is still damp but writeable in it. Now where are we going? Oh yes - to find that puzzle cache back down the road!!!

Found with kiwicampnut on Day 7 of our Mega trip north.
We'd been here last week when heading for Route 66, but were rather focused and didn't check.
Today we made a wrong calcuation for a puzzle, ended uo on the motorway with no exit til after here, so called in again now knowing there was a smilie to be had.
Definitely WET. Though has dried out enough to sign.

Reminds me of motorway rest areas when I ws in the states (as a child) in 1979. It was usualy to have spots like this (Stuckey's was the chain of shops) but also some restaurants that were built across the motorway so both North and South (or East and West) traffic could stop at the same place.

Picked up a wet trackable geostuff card here.

Fairly quick find while out with TuisReturn.
LOG NEEDS REPLACING TFTC

Fairly quick & easy find, fortunately no trucking muggles watching today. Cache is soaked, emptied out water as best I could but had nothing to dry out cache with.
TFTC

See note

Quick stop on way up north..feet wet from the dew on the ground. Everything in cache soaked. Didn't sign log book.

Everything wet and damaged - maybe from dew on the ground. Log was to wet to write in.

Good find - had to be careful of trucker muggles

Found it, bit mucky.

Quick find with Zander being first to the cach

Does need some maintenance, if the rubbish is cleared the cache may go too as looks part of it now. Is getting wet through between visits.

On our way north and finding a few caches along the way. Stopped here after the long drive through Auckland on the motorway, no caches there so boring.....found the cache, it is wet through, the camo on the lid is all but gone and the log is only just signable. There is a lot of rubbish around GZ and if anyone does decide to clean it up the cache may go too. Didn't have any replacement supplies with me I am sorry but do appreciate the cache being there. TFTC

Found early in the morning on my way to silverdale.
TFTC

Tftc!!!!

Tftc!!

Found with Arted123

No problems with muggles today, found fairly quickly. A great deal of yukky rubbish at GZ. Log book is very wet.

Thanks TheWonderStuff.

Damp ground too.

There were a couple of muggles parked nearby who must have thought we were quite strange. Found the cache pretty quick and moved along, tftc. Cache is in bad condition, full of water and the log was quite disgusting

On my way to an HCMC day/night bentsprint, I stopped off here to put some air in my tyres, so picked up this cache while I was here. Cache had some water in it. Emptied it out, and cleared some mud off the seal, so hopefully its waterproof again. Could do with a good dry out though. TFTC.

First find of the day to chec

Nice "drive by" during our trip.

Thanks a lot!

Blacksheep1977.

Now in the right order, #2 on our way to Bay of Islands

TFTC

Nice quick cache and dash. TFTC

Quick stop. TFTC

Found on stop off on way to Kerikeri, TFTC

TFTC. Left fridge magnet.

Well, if the others would use the facilities too...

TFTC
Roland aka tasdevil13

Found it together with tasdevil13 during our holidays in NZ.

#296.... creeping up to a landmark. On our way north to see family- TFTC! Good excuse to stop and use the facilities too

Found the Southbound a couple of weeks ago, today it was time to head North and find its twin TFTC

Cache 2195
Quick find, but log is pretty wet.
Thanks for the cache Quiri

Today was the day to drive north from Auckland towards the Bay of Islands. I was not the only one who had this idea so the traffic was rather heavy. The pitstop was very welcome. I gave up to pay the toll on the machine there after 10 minutes waiting and went for a geocache hunt instead. This I was able to finish much quicker! The log was quite wet, but still suitable to write on.

Thanks for the cache!
smorp7

A good find while we tanked up. Tftc

Zwischenstopp in Auckland zum Cachen genutzt.

Nice quick easy find. Wet log. Gangnam style!

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

We headed up north to Mahurangi West this morning, collecting a few caches along the way. Our first cache for the day, found after a brief search. Cache was fairly wet inside.

Thanks for the cache!

We headed up north to Mahurangi West this morning, collecting a few caches along the way. Our first cache for the day, found after a brief search. Cache was fairly wet inside.

Thanks for the cache!

Stopped in to refuel today so thought it was a good time to do this cache. Good quick find even thou a tad mushy underfoot. Cache a little wet. Tried to dry out, signed log and replaced thanks.

Wrong Coin put in:-)

Now the right one!

Greetz Rainer

Today on our first day in NZ we have found this nice cache and also left there 2 coins.

TFTC
GR+GR
*2954*

Heading north to the work site, needed a short stop to use the "facilities" and found that there was a cache nearby. Well it was a particularly easy find, as it was floating in a small puddle created by all the rain we have had lately. So having signed the log, wedged it under a low branch and covered it over. Hopefully it wont float off again.

Grabbed this one on the way North. That completes the double. TNLN SL TFTC

Quick find after breakfast and on the way to do the dalmations caches.
TFTC. TNLN.SLB.

Quick find today with no one rearly about, well cammoed, almost missed, TFTC

#736, quick find. Container full of water. But log sheet is safe and dry. TFTC

Got the Southbound version of this cache once ages ago, so naturally had to get this one at some point too!

I passed it many a time on the bus to snow planet, but of course, you cant make the bus pull over for a cache! And the few times I have been since I got my car I haven't had time for an extra caches.

But, this time I made the effort, and purposely left home 2 hours before night rates started, so I would have time to get a few extra caches along the way. And so although it ws pouring down with rain, I attempted to go for this one. Ground was gross and soggy, and yuck and all, but eventually I was in the right place, and then spotting the cache came not too long after. Some of the camo appears to be peeling off the outside, but it was still pretty dry on the inside.
So a nice quick find in the muddy weather!

TFTC!!

09:47
A couple of Aussies traveling from Auckland to Paihia to spend a few days in the Bay of Islands area. Our fist stop - even hire cars need fuel. The very wet cache was quickly in hand, unfortunately we had no means for drying it out.

NOTE TO CO: This cache needs some TLC.

TNLN . . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt TheWonderStuff.
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09:48
Cache is very wet and scrappy, the contents were drowning. Needs a new container and some TLC from the CO .

Drives passes this one a million times. Got it today. Cheers

This was our first stop for the day, on our way to Whangarei. Miss decided she would get the petrol and coffees while i went on the hunt for the cache. Quick find at GZ after a DNF here back over the Christmas Holidays. Not sure why i never found it last time we were here! TFTC! Contents a little wet but log was still able to be written on.