Nice Wee Hoose in the country (Auckland) Coatesville, North Island, New Zealand
By glyn(the only one) on 04-Jun-07. Waypoint GC13D3N

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Clear instructions and clues but I think this cache is missing.

Need to check

Second cache for the day. Second fail of the day. A fairly clear hint. Pretty sure we're in the right spot but no cache to be found. Another fail for us. At least we're on a roll!

This entry was edited by Team Hiam on Thursday, 10 September 2015 at 03:46:35 UTC.

Heading out west from Albany chasing a completed puzzle cache. Missed this one when we visited the nearby forest a few weeks back so we thought a little detour would not go amiss. Impressive house G2's Bg. We would never have guessed you would live in a palace like this from the cloth on your back. I guess you can never judge a book by its cover.

Or is this where G2 is hiding out? He may not actually want to be resurrected from this life of luxury. Hopefully we have not blown his cover.

Found it! Great day. Freezing. Not stopping for a swim in the lake this time...

What a beautiful find.

An expected and much appreciated early finish after my exam today had me eyeing up a few target caches and a chance to clear the Riverhead loop of errant puppies, piggies and all manner of other fauna. With some healthily loaded salad and tuna sandwiches for company, a full tank of fuel, and a promise of rain all afternoon I ensured I'd got my scruffiest caching attire and was all set. Hitting the trail before 1 this afternoon had me back at my accommodation beforte dark with a succesful mission achieved. All in all got all the targetted puppies, piggies and over 40 smilies, including a first Smile cache.
What a beautiful property here, well jealous. If only I had some money.......
Dreaming again. T F T C

Don't mind the neighbours!

Had heard about this spot, however, my first visit. Great view. Tftc.

Easy find while in the area thanks ... Have been here many years ago on a garden tour !

Wow nice place

I shot past the GZ not because I wasn't paying attention, but because a car was right up my a---. So when I turned around, I saw the huge magnificent entrance to the lakes, I thought at first I could just drive in there and walk around the park, but I saw the letterbox and realised it was owned by hugely wealthy (and probably greedy) people... seems to be the area for extreme wealth. The cache was seen, signed, returned and onwards for more country caches.

I was out this way meeting friends for lunch at a nearby cafe so as I had a bit of time up my sleeve I stopped to pick up this cache on the way. Wow, it certainly is a nice wee hoose, oh, how the other half live! A straightforward find

First find on a very productive quest out west day. Certainly an advantage to have the Fluro gear on, no one seems to give you a second look no matter what you are doing. ...awesome ....makes Geocaching life so much easier. Cheers V.

Absolutely lovely place across the water! Out in the area to check out the route for coatsville Classic and thought we could do caches at the same time. TFTC

This one was completely water logged but was still able to record it due to waterproof markable paper?
More caches need this type of log paper. Now... if I could only win lotto, this might be a great piece of real estate to purchase.....tftc

Nice view. TFTC.

Lovely out here - called by after the market down the road. TFTC

Ha ha! Great cache name & Excellent spot for it. Thanx

#4276 @1130
Following a few days work in Auckland, I stayed on to spend a couple of days caching (and to cache up with my kids at uni). Stopped here as I was passing for a quick find. It seems this is a popular area for mansions. TFTC.

Replaced, all good

Out to find a few caches today in the West.

Another DNF - this is just not our day. Searched high and low.

Not sure if it is missing or not - hint is pretty specific, or we may be blind!

This entry was edited by KiwifruitsNZ on Saturday, 01 November 2014 at 10:59:18 UTC.

On an extreme caching mission day trip from the mighty 'Tron with 11hpgh11, HKCB & JDM99, hoping to complete three Auckland power trails/puzzle series (Dalmations, Route 66 & 30 smilies) & find as many extra caches as we could along the way. We logged as any of the possible combinations of H, H, K & J, as we kept forgetting which combo we'd agreed on.

Parking & the find here were all straight-forward; good fun caching as a crew trying to avoid the intermittent heavy rain with a definite absence of muggles around today to question our madness. And, yes, unanimous in agreeing this would be a nice wee country house but only if you had the enough coin for all the cleaning & maintenance staff too TFTC.

A trip a long time in the making. 4 brave cachers to attempt 3 Auckland Powertrails in one day. Could it be done? Who knows. HKCB, Kiwis69, Jdm99 and myself arose early and left Hamilton to attempt a massive collection of caches. We logged as a group name HKJH or HHKJ or JKHH as our brains got wearier as the day progressed.

Back onto the Smiley series and thankful for the good parking, clues, coords and caches. A modest wee hoose isn't it. Give me a 100 year old cottage any day.

Out and about with Kiwis69, 11HPG11, and JDM99 on the sole purpose of tackling all 3 power trails in one day, and any else in between. To maximise as much daylight as possible it meant a real early start, so was on our way to Auckland at 3.30am, and the first cache located just before 5.30am. After many puppies, a couple of piggies, a few smilies, some epic field puzzles, and a trip down route 66, 16 hours of caching, 250ish caches and numerous kilometres we achieved our goal about 9.30pm. A great day, with some great company. Thanks to everyone for all the placements, we signed the logs with some combination of HHJK, for some reason the order kept changing.

Nice hoose here, but not my cup of tea. Straight forward find.

Our stay in New Zealand is now almost at the end. We use this free time to find some caches with our firend Karapo 88 in the surroundings of Dairy Flat. It was quite an efficient day and we found a lot of cache with her. We even met some others geocachers on the way. ANd as usually, the weather is super fine... It will have been an only unny stay.

Thaks to the owner for the cache and to Karapo 88 for the ride in the surroundings.

Notre séjour en Nouvelle Zélande touche à sa fin. Nous profitions d'un peu de temps libre pour aller faire quelques caches avec notre amie Karapo 88 dans les environs de Dairy Flat. Ça aura été une journée efficace et nous avons trouvé pas mal de caches avec elle. Nous aurons même rencontré d'autres géocacheurs. Et bien ur, comme d'habitude, le temps est super. Ça aura été un séjour uniquement sous le soleil.

Merci à l'owner pour la cache et à Karapo 88 pour la balade dans les coins.

New log, all good

That house is magnificent! I liked the water and the little board bridge... One favorite point for that unexpected view TFTC.

TFTC. First find of the day, on the way to hunt out a letterbox and a couple of other caches whilst the lads ran round the forest. I reckon cutting the lawns would be a full time job in itself!

After long orienteering race this morning actually had enough energy left so I toured around the roads surrounding Riverhead Forest, and eventually came out near Albany not realising where I was for a time! Was not really wearing suitable caching clothing [my shirt was a bit too visible]. So pretended to be stopping by to admire the view here - a nice wee Hoose with lovely surroundings.
MTFTC

This entry was edited by Rudy355 on Sunday, 30 March 2014 at 19:39:34 UTC.

Easy find thanks

Nice quick driveby . Container looking a bit worse for wear and log full up no room to sign tftc

Found today with Sir & Lady Harveyjj.

Please forgive the generic log as I'm logging as & when I have access to wifi so details of individual caches have become hazy, however that does in no way detract from the time and effort you as CO have put into your hide - that's very much appreciated.
We're in New Zealand on an extended holiday and have loved every minute of it.
We're very grateful to you for placing caches which have led us to some of the most beautiful places on the planet.

The logs have been signed either in our individual caching names or as T2 (being Sir & Lady Harveyjj plus B.D.I's)
Cache returned safely from whence it was found.

Thank you and greetings from the UK

(Ang, Chairperson of the North Wales UK Mega 2016)
https://www.facebook.com/northwalesmega2016

Another Cool Cache - neat hide

We managed to grab this cache whilst travelling around this wonderful country on holiday from the UK - we decided to have a rather BIG day caching. Therefore, during our move up North from Auckland to Omaha region we did a 'little' detour to collect as many as we could

Sorry for the late logs, we have only just returned to a PC to log our mission.

Many thanks for the cache. We have signed the log as T2Sir & Lady Harveyjj & B.D.I.s and dipped our trackables

Sure we have been here before ,and being sucha rapid find even with a smartphone. .cant believe we would have missed it...log book full but the friendly spider in container seems to ensure some people drop rather than sign?

Cheers. Nice place down there. I just got the last space on log sheet.

Quick find as we drove by. TFTC!!!

We got a bit confused as we thought we had to walk into the mansion. The Gardner was really nice and let us have a walk through though! Amazing house

Lid has rusted off the cache, logbook is full

Nice sunny day in the countryside.

TFTC

Now that's my kind of house. A quick stop on a drive in the country. Thanks for the cache glyn.

Parked opposite the mansion entrance and wandered up. Lid has come off the tin, but contents are still dry. Nice location to be rich, tftc

30/10/13 Visited at 15:41
Find 08 of 17 for the day and #1548 in total.

Got here while the gardener was doing the rounds and Spice was mesmerised by the ostriches in the front paddock.
We walked up to GZ for a quick find and stayed a while for view of the mansion, great viewing spot.

Echo 7 - Spice 1
("\(0o0)/") Thanks for the caching fun!

{Sent from a mobile mind, not just a mobile device.} °°° +

#4945 We headed on an afternoon of caching in between events with our travelling companions Coruze, Kiara001 and TrooBloo. This indeed was a nice wee hoose in the country - it was a picture of tranquillity.....some people have it all . Our thanks to glyn for bringing us to this POI - we would never have stopped to see this hoose otherwise. Cheers [^]

Having a look around the area and picking up caches along the way
is not a bad way to have a good day in another country.
Now, that's a house. Did they win tatts lotto?
While having a gander, grabbed the cache of course.
With our names (Coruze, Kiara001, Skullracing and I) in the log
we moved along.
SL.....TNLN.....T4TC glyn(the only one)
troobloo

A few of us Aussie's banded together to make NZ a hyper of activity! Accompanied by team Skullracing, Troobloo and Kiara001 we randomly picked caches to do so we weren't stuck in one particular area. We thoroughly enjoyed our time in NZ with the different variety of caches and some really unique ideas. WOW call this a wee hoose, its huuuge

Nice quick find by Geodad. What a lovely house and nice area! TFTC glyn

A quick find - TFTC

A quick find on a drive up the road to find the trio of caches in the forest at the end. Definitely an impressive habitat! Signed log, TFTC

Nice wee find in the country
Cheers Gav

A quick & easy find, TFTC

First driveby of the day. Found on a day trip in the area with Looking4thebroc, Sharfiefan and MacpacMum. TFTC

First cache for the Mega trip easy find to start the day with sharkiefan, Hello Mrs & L4TB

Found with Hello Mrs, MacPacMum and sharkiefan during the mega weekend. Cheers!

Found today on a day trip in the area with Looking4thebroc, HelloMrs and MacpacMum. Tftc

First find ever!!!!

I actually spotted this one as I slowly drove past, so it was an easy find in the end.

No device find

Nice quick find, enjoyed driving around these roads. TFTC.

HAD THIS ONE SO CHEC LEPT OUT AND GRABBED IT

A lovely day for caching and a lovely hide. Nice house!!
Lid has fallen off container
Thanks for bringing me here and all the caching fun

I've visited this house and grounds before in a garden tour - very impressive. Particularly loved the lake and aviary. The upkeep must be a full time job!! 39/365 TFTC

Nice to finally get this one as the first time we tried for it the structure that the cache was on was MIA. A nice quick find this time around. TFTC

Finally managed to get back for this one. On our first visit it looked like a tornado had taken out the sign. Oh and yes a nice wee hose indeed. TFTC.

A drive through the country had us pass this one. Nice quick grab

This entry was edited by Missfeez on Thursday, 03 January 2013 at 07:02:21 UTC.

Yep im gonna win lotto and buy this! (lol)
TFTC

Great find on a great morning out.
Nice lake and interesting information.
T4TC

http://www.t4tc.co.nz/

Found at 11:37:00 AM, another bonus cache on the way to the start of the Dalmations. The house and setting look great.

Thanks glyn(the only one)

Yes wow that is a house. Quick find at gz after I dusted the cobwebs. TFTC

Lovely wee drive in the country. OH WOW that wee House indeed. Think I'll stay in my good old kiwi batch thanks. Cache found ,signed while admiring the view.

Had some time to kill before returning our hired camper van and getting the airport shuttle for our return flight to the UK so did a few drive bys on the way. Cache soon found , signed and returned. You Kiwis like your mint tin caches! Thanks. XN. CBE

found in the middle of the night! First geo caching experience! Very exciting

Yes I agree its a nice wee house, could do with some more swans in the lake and a few zebras roaming!!!

in the area doing the 101.....

Grabbing a few caches in the area while passing through on our 'how ever long it takes' NZ tour.

Thanks for setting this up.

TFTC

Mud & Kim

quick find on a training run
had no pen but will re-sign soon
TFTC

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

Headed out this morning to locate some of the 101 Dalmatian caches that we failed to find when we did the power trail last year. Having more time this trip, we decided to locate some of the other nearby caches also.

Nice house! A quick find at GZ, TFTC!

Headed out this morning to locate some of the 101 Dalmatian caches that we failed to find when we did the power trail last year. Having more time this trip, we decided to locate some of the other nearby caches also.

Nice house! A quick find at GZ, TFTC!

Another one to MIG

Quickly found with Mike-miss this morning on the way north to tackle the puppy power trail. Fancy houses!

Another quick find here on our way to the Puppy Powertrail with stretch.kerr. There certainly is some beautiful houses around this area!! TFTC!

#4836

Our fifth day of our honeymoon to New Zealand and Australia.
Yesterday it was a bit late before we had logged all caches, but we woke up very early this morning. For *Ba it was a nice day with a nice wake up and a nice amount of caches in view. After having our New Zealand breakfast we walked to Hertz to rent a car for one day. It became a Toyota Carolla, which is here a small car, but in the Netherlands already a medium size car. As always driving on the right side of the road it was our first experience of driving left. But it went not too bad. We took only by accident the exit as we did not notice that the left lane was the exit one and not the slowest way on the highway.

Normally we are not the geocacher who love to do trails like this, but as our target is to reach our 5.000 founds during our honeymoon trip in Australia we needed a certain amount of caches. For us this is the second time in our geocaching career that we found more than 100 caches on one day.

After doing the trail Jo wanted to go back to the hotel as she had some pain in her eyes. We decided to take a little detour to also visit a multi cache , letterbox and earth cache. The total founds of today came on 110 caches. After driving back to Auckland we first changes glasses in the hotel, brought the rented car back and walked again to the supermarket for a diner. Along the way we visited some shops and Ba found a belt for only 5 NZD. In our opinion the food is very very expensive in New Zealand we had a simple diner of Mexican wraps out of the oven and a salad of onion and cucumber. The desert was the same as yesterday, because we bought already a six pack.

This was our last day in Auckland. Tomorrow we drive further to Whitianga. We hope the weather is at least as good as today. We started with a very cloudy sky, but during the trail we saw also some sun. And if it could be a bit warmer, that would even be more nicer.

We found this cache today between 2.15 PM local time.
On the way to the letterbox we came along this cache. While parking in the sholder we saw already the cache, so it was easy to go to it. The sheeps were a bit scared and runned away. As the cache was covered by a spider web, we approached the cache carefully as we are not familiar with all animals over here.

In: -
Out: -

TFTC

"Soms gaat het om de reis, soms gaat het om het doel", is ons cachemotto

[navy]2012: Voor ons het jaar van nieuwe ervaringen opdoen [/navy]

[limegreen]Cachegroeten uit Rotterdam, the Netherlands[/limegreen]

Pity the inhabitants have to put up with people like us gawking jealously.

Easy find.
Out = nil, In = rubber lizard.
TFTC

Found at 10:00 AM on 6/04/2012.

Quick find in between passing cars / horses / cyclists etc...

TFTC glyn(the only one)

Great hide. I am used to foraging around on the ground so it was nice that it was in a different spot! Some fun on a rainy day.

The house and garden looks beautiful - cache was an easy find. Thanks for showing this area.

A nice hoose indeed. There are some really flash properties in this area (including the 'Chrisco' mansion just up the road). Cache was a nice quick find. TFTC.

What a lovely house! Might have to come back and do the garden tour sometime. TFTC!

12.14pm. A quick stop on our way to pick some strawberry's just down the road.
You can't see much of the house now as the plants have grown too high.
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (2020)

Think I'd like to live here...hope Santa managed to find it ok. Nice easy find on Xmas day. TNLNSL TFTC

This entry was edited by oscatello on Monday, 12 March 2012 at 00:50:33 UTC.

Too easy.tftc

Loved the view
T4TC

Really nice view, TFTC!

Nice wee spoot on the way to the Forest, TFTC

Hopped out of the car for a stretch and was well rewarded

Found when in the area.

# 2401 @ 18:40 on our North Island visit

Yep, sure is. Imagine having to mow that much lawn.

Thanks to glyn(the only one) for bringing me here.

Cool spot, must have had my caching sight on full beam as spotted immediately TFTC!!!

Found this cache with Hinemoana and sonia26642.

Very good cache.
I find with tunfisk.