Welcome to Auckland (Auckland) Ihumatao, North Island, New Zealand
By TheWonderStuff on 17-Aug-07. Waypoint GC13DTX

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oh dear

Not a very warm welcome to Auckland at all!

Definately gone, all tree greenery is gone aound the tanks.

I coudn't find this - GPS kept taking me to the same place which I am sure would've been nice before all the bushes and trees were felled. Couldn't find anything welcoming here.

Also couldn't find this one.. Seemed like a few logical places for it, but nothing there...

Found it by GuanacosTeam
TFTC!

Trobat per l'equip GuanacosTeam
GPC!

Found it!
Cache found in our holidays in New Zealand.

Last hours in NZ, and nearly the last cache in this beautiful country.
Easy to find.

TFTC
Greetings from Barcelona

Should be ok now..

Very easy find.. The last one of the day today, thanks a lot. BTW it was the most smelliest place all over New Zealand.. TNLN
(I see that the cache is temporary disabled, I didn´t know that before, cause had in the GPS caches for ages..

Better disable for a few weeks!

just arrived in Auckland. This is the only nearby cache i hadn't found. Still there though disabled. Cheers.

my little boy and me had a look for this one when the wife
was shopping left some coal

I spent a few fruitless minutes hunting around until I found the classic sign of the human "travel bug" and decided that there was better places to be I'm sure next time I'm back in Auckland it will have disappeared. Thanks.

#155. 1/14 for the day. Dropped some family back at the airport. Dodged the rain and hail for a fairly easy find.
TNLNSL TFTC

Great spot for a cache, was able to park up after refilling the rental at Shell, and stroll across and find the cache. Good to see it has been replaced. Cheers Gav [2585]

Dropped in with some visiting coins & TB before heading out across the ditch. Found all in order and rehidden as found. TFTC.

I arrived from Bay of Islands to the airport, dropped my luggage at check-in & headed for 2 caches. Nice walking excercise before long flight to Niue. Now I'm logging my finds from a free internet terminal on a expo stand in departure hall No exchange.

with my flight to Christchurch being delayed for 4 hours, what better way to fill in some time than to co geocaching.

with out any cache notes, i was caching a little blindly, but the co-ords were spot on and the cache was easily found.

took geo coin for either a trip south or for a trip back to OZ with me

A quick find while waiting around to catch an international flight. +elastic tie, -nil, signed log. TFTC!

This cache is our first North Island find - found during a two hour stop over between flights. I picked up the Welsh TB 'Y Draig Goch' for travel to Western Australia while here. T: TB, L: calling card, SL. Thanks to TheWonderStuff for the cache.

Dropped some friends at the airport and some TB's into this cache. Both are looking to head overseas (Wales & USA). Cache was sitting out in the open so tucked it back in. Great spot for a TB swap lounge, cheers.

1st cache of the day. Quick easy one. Left Hogswild Travel Coin and took Diabetes Geocoin (UNA072)

Quick find, thanks. Sorry had no TB/GC with me to drop in.
SL TFTC

had a quick stroll there and didn't expect such a big container, thx

Came back today, flouro-shirt-guys were gone. Approached the site, flat battery spares weren't in the bag bought some more at $15 for 4 AAs ?!?!?

Found it quickly and easily without attracting any attention (was a bit nervous caching so close the airport, with all the bomb scares....).


TFTC

ben dan and chris first one of the day!

[This entry was edited by chris021 on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 1:21:32 AM.]

Farewell from Auckland for me. A delayed flight made it doable - unfortunately, if they had been more honest about the length of the delay, it would have been a lot more relaxed and enjoyable. TNLN, Thanks.

#330. Got to airport a bit before my flight, so went out in search of this cache. Initial searching was fruitless. Given it was dark, and my flight wasn't too far off, decoded the clue. Found soon thereafter. TFTC.

found on a cache raid weekend with Kiwi_Explorer
TFTC

Found with Q Moto. 2nd to last for the day found in the dark. TFTC.

Found when a member of LEDGIN'S.

In the book of LEDGIN'S Found at 1610hrs. Greetings from Brisbane, Australia.

As I signed the log I realised we should have been getting onto our plane to return to Australia. A very quick walk back to the terminal and we arrived just in time to be ushered onto the plane - not quite last but almost.

Thanks NZ for 18 days of rain and wind and 3 days of sunshine.

Nearly missing our plane gave us 50 Caches in NZ.

TNLN TFTC

It's taken me a while to log this one. Found during a gap between flights on a walk from the international terminal. Straight forward find, all in order and rehidden as found.

TNLNSL and TFTC
The Turtle strikes again!

Found cache en route to Samoa, where there is little technology, so finally getting to log the visit now that we are back home. Only one cache in Samoa to find.
TNLNSL
Early Rizers

A nice cache. I have taken a few items and we are going on a little trip.

Nice quick find this afternoon after dropping a friend at the airport. Had to dodge a few muggles nearby.
Out GC
In TB TFTC

Stopped off in Auckland on the way home so went for a little walk, found cache, dropped off Out for justice geocoin

Nice Quiet Place.
TFTC

Tom

A great cache in a cool place. Nice convenient parking.
TFTC
- Tweenies Key Ring
+ Jak Travel Bug

I hadn't been in the country more than half an hour and I've already bagged my 1st New Zealand cache! In typical ruffasgutts4x4 fashion I approached through the difficult way, I found the cache easily and left a TB to be moved on soon.
No swaps, Cheers Wonderstuff I hope I get plenty more while I'm here, this trip is supposed to be work related but one must get their priorities right. Thanks for the cache!

Quick find. TFTC.

Easy find @ 10:24
TFTC

Found on a nice hot day before my flight. TFTC! nice container!

Easy find, no muggles observing this morning! TNLN

30cm? TFTC.

Found after a quick search, it seems geocachers can't tell distance very well. When a clue says hidden X meters from an object you can almost guarantee that its at least twice this distance (in this case 5x the distance). Thanks for this cache I'm sure it will get a lot of visits from people transferring from domestic to international and vice versa. Cheers.

Bobo.

At the airport on the way home to Canberra, Australia.

Second to last of 25 found in Auckland during our 6 day stay. Had this one and another close by in a quick 20 minute run before boarding the plane.

Took nothing from this one, discovered 2 TB's and TFTC.

Cheers,

Gave this one a shot after a round of mini-golf at the nearby Treasure Island. It proved to be some difficulty as we hadn't planned very well (it was pitch black and we had 2 torches: one very dim one, and one very small one). However, a look at the clue helped us located fairly swiftly.

Dropped Sam the Monkey T/B into the cache...he is looking for bananas! TFTC

Nice easy find. TFTC.

Went for a walk to stretch my legs between flights. Am impressed with the high quality container in such a marginal location. TFTC.

Went for a walk to stretch my legs between flights. Am impressed with the high quality container in such a marginal location - but I wouldn't trust leaving any TBs or geocoins in it, the risk of it being muggled is too high. TFTC.

Hadnt intended doing this one but had to come here to get gas for the rental and was pleased to see it nearby.

Here with Moneydork.
TFTC

This time it was there.
FTF Replacement cache (not a real FTF I know).
TFTC.

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 37° 00.139 E 174° 47.202
Distance From Old: 296.2 feet
New Location

Boom baby Boom

Popped along to check this cache out - photo aattached of GZ - Will need to move this one.

Yep - thought it might have been in a nearby tree, but now, it appears to be buried in the rubble from the works. Cheers Gav

18:03 As Eder-Ents said cache location is gone. Bummer to lose so many trackables in one hit. The cache may still be under a pile of dead plants, but I had to run to catch a plane so didn't have the time to look. Any one got a metal detector?

Didn't know that it has been disabled.
The whole area has been dug up by diggers.

The area is being re worked, thanks Kiwi Gary for the info.

Will wait and see what happens here.

Sorry, think the bugs have gone to.

Was prevented from dropping off some TBs as site is surrounded by security fence and a digger has reduced everything to rubble

Found after attending Duran Duran concert yesterday

Nice hide, but was in plane (sp) view as I walked around the location. Made sure it was well hidden again.

Grabbed Avigeko, 'Nellie' The Elephant, and 07 Geocoin Poker Challenge Geocoin TTS TB's. Dropping shortly in the South Island.

Find #42 Decided to take a trip out to the airport to find a cache to drop the travel bugs in. A quick find. In Nellie the Elephant TB & AviGeko TB Out Galileo Geocoin. TFTC

Took advantage of some time before flight to show colleague Geocaching. Fast walk over to cache, quick search to find, replaced a key ring with a tatoo and then an even quicker walk back to just catch our plane. Uppie with Sarah R's help

Nice quick find on a hot Autumn day...

Sighted Geocoin and TB but left then alone
+ Geocoin Spok's 3rd Ear.

TFTC

I was there swapping TB's. Thanks for the cache.

Nice easy find but very interesting place, just perfect whilst waiting for plane to South Island. Picked up Coin to take on trip and deposit left calling tag. TFTC.

Easy find. Good way to fill in a couple of hours whilst waiting for my flight back to Nelson.
Took Purple Longhorn TB

Chance to drop a TB thats want to go overseas TFTC

Brought the boy to visit the site. He loved the Kiwis & Moa nearby. Great place, so close to the airport. Note: The free car park was chained off, so had to walk a way. Thanks for the cache.

In a convenient location. Swapped TB's from Arizona. Thanks for the hide.

A quick find at night after an airport drop off. NTNL. TFTC

dropped bug, took other bug

Found it with out a GPS. Thanks for the clue!

Found our last geocache in NZ. Until the next trip!

Stpped off to do this one whilst picking people up from the airport. Left a couple of TB's. Good convenient find. TFTC.

Called by today to see if any bugs wanted to travel to Napier or the South Island. Picked up Blue Blazes for more miles.

Found between planes. +-0

It's time to say Goodbye to NZ today.
We loved being and caching here.

thanx for the cache! out:coin

teamKollMont from Germany xx

I travelled 34 hours to get this. Now I know what some of the flora around here. Switched TB's!

I pass by this place all the time coming and going from the States. Have often thought this would be a nice place to stop but always in too much of a hurry. I'll allow more time now that I know this is here! Gr8 place for a cache. Thanks!

Nice easy find. Love the bird sculptures that are close by. TNLNSL Thanks for the cache.

The markers around this point to different international cities and have distances shown! Who knew? Can't see that when whizzing by on the road.
Just as I was replacing the cache, we heard a siren and saw flashing lights! Ahhh . . . oh, some poor guy just got pulled over for a traffic violation, but boy were we relieved to not have to go thru an explanation with officialdom!
Took Jesus coin. Left Sunglasses. Ta!

Dropped off son at the airport tonight, so made a swift stop off to drop off The Letter 'C' TB who wished to continue its journey...

A quick find on the way to pick up the rest of the team on their return from C-Church Scout Jamboree.
TNLNSL
TFTC

Just taking a look. If I have the time I will return here in feb just before we fly back to the Netherlands.

Ironically this was my last NZ geocache, and was only one muggle nearby but well out of sight.
Pass on my thanks for all the NZ caches
MTRAX Canberra, Aust.
Took King Geocoin

Sorry for taking so long to drop this travel bug in. Ended up doing some photo shop and was able to decript the markings for the tb.

Stopped by after picking up some friends from the airport.

Left Spidey TB,
Blue Blazes TB
Cache is King Geocoin

All wanting to leave NZ.

TFTC

Let the husband feel important and hunt for it. Stayed in car with sleeping son. Sad to see the playground gone and replaced with a carpark.

Left a tb picked up from last nights event, unfortunatly will have to do some investigation to work out the code to move it. Sure it must be on one of the lists I have from last night.

Also dipping dragon spinner

6.05am. Quick find after the shuttle was way early and we had some spare time.
TNLNSL
Took 'Adapt Me' TB.
Took 'Aotearoa to Suomi' TB.
Took 'What the Heck am I?!' TB.
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (941)

Obviously took the wrong route to begin with as headed down the road to the free parking only to find ourselves in the $2 minimum car park. Paid our dues then found a comfortable layby to retrieve the cache not sure where the free parking was as there was no other way to this layby? Found cache easily TN Left What the Heck Am I TB. TFTC

Off overseas for the next 5.5 weeks with the family...so had twenty minutes to kill and this did the job.
TFTC.

Note from Wonderstuff, He has collected the bugs and coins available today.

Easy find, no one around,Nice cache in a nice hide, easy to get to with those TB's. dropped off 2 TBs TNSL--Thanks(ones going to the USA & the coins trying to get to Finland--Good luck!

TB drop

Nice big cache and easy to access.
Traded TB's
TFTC