Georgia's Cache #2 - The Sweet Shop (Auckland) Red Beach, North Island, New Zealand
By TheWonderStuff & Georgia(The Real WonderStuff) on 15-May-07. Waypoint GC12Y49

As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm temporarily archiving this to keep it from continually showing up in search lists. Just contact us when you have the cache repaired, and assuming it still meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Time to go...

Need to fix

Just stopped in on way home, couldn't find it :/ not sure if its here still, maybe someone else can have a look

Not found, tried a couple times now

We have searched for this 5 times and had a really good look at everything in the area. We believe it may have been removed by muggles. Please can you confirm?? Thanks

After two DNF's we thought this one would be easier. Sod it - another non-findable cache. We are rapidly going off Whangaparaoa micro caches. Should have heeded the "Say NO to Nanos".

No luck with this one today.

Easy to find, but a lot of muggels.
TFTC from Germany

Quick find, resisted the temptation to duck in for an ice cream on a very warm day, visiting parents/grandparents who have just moved in up the road

Found while cleaning up the area, Still a busy place .

Pulled in an saw the post boxes - great needed to find somewhere to post the mail that had been sitting in the car for a week. Posted mail and continued towards GZ. GPSr pointed past where I thought GZ would be. So stopped a bit short and located cache with first feel,thankfully, because I couldn't see how I could be inconspicuose if GZ was where GPSr said. Thanks Georgia FTC, and post boxes.

gps a bit out so took us a while, also lots of muggles about

Easy Find but overrun with muggles

Very busy spot, had to go back early morning.

Nice quick and easy find. I think I searched for this one once before without a find - don't know how I could have missed it. SL TFTC

This was the last one for the day. We had made a break here, only to find that the cache we were aiming to get was actually right here!!
GPS was pointing a wee bit off, it hadn't settled down yet, but following instincts, the cache was quickly retrieved!!
Log sheet to ages to get out! It was overly stuck! Before I managed to peel it out.
TFTC!!

Definitely the smallest cache found. Nicely weathered and conditioned too!
T4TC.

Bought some sweets from the four square whilst waiting for an elderly man to move from the area Yum! Small, cute cache.

Quick find while one of my kids is swiming at the northern arena.

THE smallest cache we have come across, TFTC

Found with Biggles while caching in the area. Tool a few minutes to spot it as I thought we were looking for a regular - GSAK playing tricks. TFTC

Found on day 1 of a 3 day Auckland cache raid with Kiwi Explorer. Found nicely hidden in its place. TFTC, Biggles.

Quick find pre-sunrise when no one was around. TFTC.

Great cache - had to abandon our first attempt - too many muggles. Came back later and waited for the foot traffic to clear - found it soon after the departure of pie lady.

GPS was playing up so we left this one and headed elsewhere to see if it improved. Came back later and had 3 young male muggles sitting on GZ Good excuse for us to buy ourselves an iceblock...and the sneakily grab the cache once they left on their bicycles

TFTC Found withFapAndGap

This entry was edited by nosh123 on Sunday, 05 February 2012 at 19:35:51 UTC.

6.50am - Second for the day and my niece found this one.TFTC

Lots of muggle problems here. A group of teenage muggles were hanging right at GZ so we went into the shop and bought some lollies but they wouldn't move on so we headed up the road to do another cache. Came back and this time it was an old man with a zimmer frame but he moved off after a moment or two allowing the Junior Pastamakers to make a quick find.

TWS must have bought up a batch of these little nanos!!!

TFTF

Fitzy and I are visiting New Zealand for a week to do some caching and have a look around.
This was our eleventh cache on day two of our adventure.
No Muggles and Fitzy had his 'eagle eyes' on today. Done and dusted!
TFTC.

3245 - Found with ACBC66 during our NZ Caching tour...Todays drive from Auckland to Bay of Islands...

These little suckers can be tough sometimes. There were next to no muggles around and we were lucky enough to locate this one straight away - Thanks TheWonderStuff !

TNLN - TFTC !!

Cheers....

11-12-2010 at 14:52

#206: Nice easy cache and grabbed amongst heavy muggle traffic completely undetected. Putting it back was even easier. Love those nanos...hehehe

TFTC

Very quiet at the shops today, was able to find, sign & rehide without being seen.TFTC

Buying a mince pie and finding a nano! What more do you want TFTC

Quick find by Mrs Woozy Moose during an arvo of caching with CDM261.
TNLNSL. TFTC.

Nice hide
Time to visit the shops for a drink - thirsty
TNLNSL
TFTC

A busy area. A typical urban nano!

Today we walked from Orewa to Stanmore Bay Park and back. It was a great tour. We enjoyed the town, the beach, the weather and lots of great caches.

Thank you so much!
Dschuko

New log book placed

But couldn't sign this due to no room :O( after my great work of finding this and letting no one know that I had this in hand Gee

Couldn't sign as log is full

Note maintenance log as can't sign log so here's a picture of log will sign next time we are in the area.
T4TC

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No muggles on Saturday morning, quick find. Log book is more then full, found a tiny space to squeeze the date in.
cheers

Well hidden. Thanks

Too many muggles..too many suspicious looks.

#47 The local was very rowdy tonight but GZ was fortunately quiet. read some logs and decided which object to search and was fortunate to make the right choice as the other place had too many hide location (have found quite a few in Japan). TNLNSL

Had to make a stop here anyway after A View of Wunderland, so why not grab a cache as I take a rest? Then we went for lunch at the nearby Indian restaurant! Energy for further searching! Have a few more in the area to get. Thanks for placing this one. Sweet. TN LN but my signature.

Logsheet is totally full. Not even a tiny bit of space left to initial.

Tried to find this one some months ago. Having read some of the earlier logs our focus was on a different spot, and we even had it confirmed we were looking in the right place. Re-read the later logs, and realised that the placement has changed (confirmed by Rosmar - thanks) so stopped by again today and made a quick find. Then it was off to the sweet shop to buy some treats for when the grandchildren come Trick-or-Treating later.
Logsheet is totally full - had trouble finding anywhere to write our name.

# 919

Sweet Shop....Yummm!! Log full so I had to write "TF" in the middle of the others. Thanks.

Caching with BookwormMum and Kayaknkiwi. Lots of muggles here today, so Knk and I went into muggle mode and got us some sweets. While enjoying our lollies, BookwormMum made the find. TFTC!

WAAY too many muggles waiting for their shoppers, so Kayaknkiwi and Seattle's Best went in for supplies, leaving me with GPS to try and look inconspicuous! Quick find once they came out, but log book full.

Found it reasonably fast.TFTC.

Off caching with Seattle's Best and Bookwormmum. Arrived at GZ, and yep the sweets were calling....Then hmm all these cars with muggles in, but no probs retrieving or replacing. Thanks for the pit stop and cache. Great little adventure. TFTC!!

Lots of muggles around, but cache was eventually found... TFTC

Kids needed the toilet so they went to the Mobil nearby while I headed to find the cache. Found reasonably quickly. Log was full and will need to be replaced. TFTC

No problems!. T4TC

Last time I hunted for this one it had disappeared. Found it this time...now it has been repositioned! TFTC

TWS as driver, Kiwileon as co-pilot and Greenblat part of the crew.

Lovely hide.

TFTC

All ok here too

Found together with KiwiLeon & OG Phatazz. TWS driving.
Sneaky hide
T4TC!

looked initially in the wrong place. Reread the cache description and changed my focus on soon had it
TFTC

TFTC

Feelings of total inadequacy have now left as we finally found it, don't know how we missed it before but we can finally stop wondering where it was. Thanks You would of thought that this being #593 find we would of got better at this.

Armed with another Georgia and Georgia's geocoin that we retrieved earlier today we came to check out her namesake's cache (the girls are even the same age!). Alas, we couldn't find it....

Found it this time round as last time we looked it was gone. TFTC

Ahh ha, another one down. Was missing in action last time. I have notice that the phone books have been removed from all phone boxes around the country now.

TFTC

Ahh found this time, quite busy even at this time of night

Took a little to find as it wasn't quite in the place we were expecting. Luckily there was no-one about in the dark. Cheers Gav [3673]

At last!!!!

2679. A quick find for our last cahe of the day - then off to find something to eat!

Thanks
Iris & Rodney

20th and last find of the day and unfortunately it was at a busy time with lots of muggles around . Lots of shoe laces needed adjusting. Thanks Georgia for your cache T4TC.

Found with Imgettingannoyed during our 3 n half week NZ mega cache mission!!

used the clue, and was a quick find

Had a quick look with no luck

12.50pm. Had lunch and some shopping - now to see the surgeon!
Thanks to Georgia. David.

First for the day, well hidden.
A few muggles round, but don't think i was seen
TFTC

Replaced - new spot

Could be gone

Looked and looked, but after a quick txt to the owner discovered that what the cache was on seems to have gone.

There are a lot of people around this area so was difficult to have a proper snoop around.
Could not find. Even with the guidance of adnshe who have previously found this cache.

xplorz

2nd time more luck, around 7am there are not many muggles around. Only a few walking to the mailbox.
Quick find. Signed log an left a whole lot of trade items ( )
TFTC

[This entry was edited by KiwiLeon on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 10:21:38 PM.]

Looked in a few possible placed, but too many muggles around (school holiday)
Will give it another try.

Would call this a nano - great hide. Thanks

Been meaning to get to this one forever, and was passing by so stopped in. Used the clue straight up, and found in record time.

Cheers, The Fergs

Too many muggles, not enough time as I have a plane to catch later this afternoon.

I had to put on my glasses! Thanks for the cache. On a trip from Arizona.

Popped in, caches still in place

10.58am. Scoured the object for about quarter of an hour, didn't find a thing.

#12 so far. Quick find after having some more incoming phone calls.
TNLNSL TFTC.

Great hide, easy recovery. TFTC

Nice hide! tftc!

Nice easy find, guessed correctly and went straight to it.

TFTC

Not even close on this one, lots of muggles about and decided to pull the kids out after they began rummaging around the rubbish infested bushes. Managed to nail 3 out of 5 after a good hike so all was not lost.

Found in 5 secs, is that a record? We even surprised ourselves! We're getting good at these...we love them, but getting the logbook back is becoming harder. We'd been looking forward to this one. TFTC.

My second visit back to the GZ and now that the glass is back in place I didn't feel so conspicuous. My greatest trouble was to get the log back in the container.
Cheers for the cache.

And another teasing cache that we could tick off our list. Today was our fourth visit, armed with a hint from TWS. No problems finding it. No problems fiddling the logsheet out and back again. And no problems rehiding it. What was the original function of the container?
We rewarded ourselves with some tasty takeaways from the bakery (darn, the custard pies looked so great. But when we returned for dessert later, they were closed. So we bought some sweets from the sweetshop instead).

TNLN (how?) TFTC

Looked at the "obvious" place. It was dark and I hadn't taken the clue's with me. Nuts. A good potential area with a huge challenge. Will be back soon.

The butterfly almost admitted defeat again, due to a too literal translation of the hint! But thought hard about a similar type cache or two of the butterfly's and widened the search area. Bingo!
And as to putting the log back - no problem.
Thanks for the challenge.
Cache find #920