Construction For The Modern Idiot (Auckland) Waiwera, North Island, New Zealand
By TheWonderStuff on 30-Jun-07. Waypoint GC13ND9

Photo of old cache attached - new cache is a 200ml snaplock

Pretty easy

Its was rlly easy to find

Found in a very easy spot after scrambling around trying too hard in the gorse! Log is soaked

Found it

As per previous log. The cache is absolutely sodden. Unfortunately we didn’t have a container of that size to replace it with. Thanks for the hide Wonderstuff.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

been here before - now with the intention to "rescue" Schutzengel - been pretty boring in past months here :-O ....

The cache has a broken lid and consequently was soaked in water - no surprise with all the rain we had in the past months!

Great view of the bridge. Haven't been along this road for many years. Tftc

Such fun! Great find - excellent snaps of the motorway too

We are sending off the "Schutzengel" (guardian angel) now on a hopefully exciting journey around New Zealand Aotearoa - after a long trip coming from Germany and Switzerland .... Enjoy your journey and bring happiness to all people here Down Under.

Decided to take a drive out today and after a wrong turn somewhere ended up on this road. Noticed the caches so decided we might aswell grab them when we can. Parked up nearby and made our way over the the GZ. Cache found in the normal sort of place just as the hint suggested. No problems here.

Nice find easy but good tftc

An easy find, great trinkets to swap. Super dry cache. Nice roadside view. TFTC

Really cool cache TFTC

Could not locate

Cool cash

Thank you so much I traded a toy car for a toy mushroom. This app is so fun

Loved what they put in it

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

The container is starting to get brittle, and I poked my finger through the top when securing the lid. The rest of the lid feels like it will "shatter" when it is handled.

found with flossieteacake. Nice easy cache to find. TFTC

I've never driven so far up this road before. Great view of the motorway. Didn't take long to find the cache. Poked my finger through the top of it.

With virtually no unfound caches available around Whangarei and the Auckland border reopening three days ago, I thought I had better make the most of the opportunity to grab some caches and the Reach the Peak souvenir, before Aunty J uses Omicron as an excuse to lock us up again.....

The plan was to head to Wenderholm and clear that area out, but the newish trail out to Mahurangi also looked appealing, especially as it is one place I have driven past 100's of times but never actually visited. That's one of the great things about caching - visiting new places..

After completing the Wenderholm caches, I still had a bit of time left in the day, so carried on to Waiwera, to try for the ones here. A short drive out to here along a road with heaps of huge potholes. Cache was a nice quick find in the most likely spot. TFTC

Great spot, pretty easy

Pretty big for a small size.

Nice wal as I live on the road

Came down this way to gather a few caches. Pulled up at GZ, Located the nice sized cache. Signed and replaced, not before looking up at the road we came down on before taking the Orewa turn back. TFTC

Up at Wenderholm doing the ad lab.
Scrambled up and down the bank 3 times before spotting
this one.

Mrs Jag and I had been up to Puhoi to do the new Adlab and PWGT cache and decided to collect the newish ones around Waiwera and Orewa on the way home. My compass was initially playing silly buggers and had me on the other side of the road, then once it settled down I made a quick find of the dusty cache as it was quite exposed. I rehid it a little better

Enjoyable day geocaching with INSS.
Road was quite busy wth cars coming and going
Thank you for the cache

I was surprised just how busy this spot was with several cars coming and going in the short while we were here. Cache nicely camoed /covered in dust! TFTC # 16,079

On a geocaching expedition from Nelson. Way back in February Isis58, no.13 and I planned a trip to Auckland for the planned Mega event. When Covid struck and the country went into lockdown we decided to wait and see what happened - - that was less hassle than trying to get refunds on our flights anyway. Well, of course the Mega event was cancelled but luckily for us, flying was an option again by Labour Weekend. We changed some of the details of our trip but decided we would fit in as much caching as we could. We were joined by Mrs SoBad. We visited some amazing places, fitted in some walks, came across lots of people - - lots of traffic too. A huge thank you to the COs for hiding caches which presented us with puzzles to solve, took us to great places, were cleverly camouflaged, were cunningly hidden - - sometimes in plain sight - - all of the above and of course an equal thank you for the ones that just gave us one more smilie. We really really appreciated them all. Thanks !

Three along this stretch of road so it was worth a sidestep on the way to the nearby regional park. We ended up with 1 DNF and 2 finds, including this one. As Meatloaf sung, 2 out of 3 aint bad, especially as this is quite an old cache. Log signed as INSS.
Thanks.

Happy Sunday to us! We found our first cache together! Look forward to heeeaps more

Great spot, nice to discover new places in the area

Found it while in the area. Good to see original log in such a good shape. RAF. TFTC

We had some plans in the area but they did not work out so we decided to did a bit of caching in the area. This one came to us relatively easy

Passing by this afternoon, so called by to search for this cache. Soon had it located and the log signed. Quite an impressive bridge from below. TFTC

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Bit awkward to park near there. Easy find otherwise.

#762 overall and #6 this morning at 12:28am. A nice easy find here. Love the view of the bridge at night. Copy / paste online log follows...
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My mission today was to attempt to get 200 caches in one day. I had everything ready that I needed - food and water, headlamp and spare batteries, power bank and cable, pens, pre-printed log labels (to save time logging), towels in the car so it didn't get dirty, overalls, hi-viz, tweezers, gloves and trackables. Started in Waiwera at midnight with the plan to get Route 66 and 101 Dalmations (sic) plus a few others that were on the way.

Unfortunately, at 1:39am after only 14 caches found, my car decided that it didn't want to start. This was a shock because in the six and a half years I have owned my car, it has never even once given me a single problem. I had zero desire to get stuck in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night in a car that won't start, and I wasn't prepared to leave my car running between caches because it's quite loud.

So after ten minutes when I finally managed to get my car started again, I abandoned the plan and drove home. I was gutted because it was the perfect temperature outside, there was no wind and barely any clouds, and a full moon, and I was having a really good time. Oh well, at least I quit because of something outside of my control, rather than giving up.

Thanks to cache owners for all the caches. Maybe I'll complete the rest of Route 66 one day. And now it's 3am and I'm wide awake... grrrrrrr

Found

THERE WAS A COW ON THE ROAD but we found the cache anyway TFTC

Easy

I'm up in Whangarei visiting my parents for one last time before I head over to the UK for the foreseeable future - however they are currently on their last leg of their south island tour, so actually aren't home at the moment, so I've got some time on my hands.

Woke up early this morning and after a quick look out of window into the darkness at the weather, I decided that I would head down Waiwera/Kaukapakapa way, to collect some caches in the Route 66 series. I solved the Route 66 series at least two years ago now and haven't had the opportunity to collect as I've always been in a hurry to get to the parents' place in Whangarei.

Another quick and dusty find here. TFTC

Well what a great Christmas New Years we have had so far it all started off in Friendly Feilding have Christmas lunch with the family then next day Boxing day off to Danniverke for a weeks holiday together so special first holiday with the Grandson hes only 7 months old, then we didn't know what or where to go next so ended up going to Napier and then across the Napier Taupo road got a cache and a trackable, not easy to stop all the time with a large caravan on the back. We finally got to Taupo and said where to now so we kept going and then we got a text message some plans next week had been transferred to the end of January so we could go away for an extra week. We ended up in Walton Gold course for two nights to finish off the Kiwi and another puzzle series got 46 caches in total some were traditionals as well, got that sorted and then headed off today decided we would do the Route 66 trail and Smilie trail so we ended up in Orewa so we are here for a few nights. We set off this morning and completed the Route 66 series had some lunch about 1.30pm then we decided to get some more traditionals in the area and then slowly head off to get some smilie series caches. we found this cache at 1.20pm signed the log and placed the cache back where we found it. thank you for placing a cache here. TFTC nice view

Today we made some caches of the Route 66. in addition we found some traditional Caches on our way. Thanks for the cache!

Lovely spot for a cache. Was quick easy one to find tho had gone to the power post as thought that could be it. Lol

TFTC

Easy find, nice and dry. Off we go for the next search/find.

My daughter race at it as she saw it

Easy find but keep the kids on the grass

Vic07, SikoSako and me drove up here from devonport to take this small segment of the 66 cache series. We got a very nice walk in the nice weather, all the 9 planned mysteries, and two bonus trads on the way.

Great! Thanks for all the caches!

#5595. I have flown back up to Auckland for several days to present a talk. Since I have come this far I have added some annual leave to the trip and hired a car so I can grab some geocaches. Decided today to head up north and start gathering up some of the Route 66 caches which I solved on the weekend. Ended up being a better day than expected with 57 caches found plus a few DNF's. Getting close to the finish of todays caching run. Picked up this traditional amongst the many mystery finals. Fairly quick find here in an obvious place. Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache TWS.

Planning is now well underway for a major Event in the Wellington region later this year (2018). Check out the details on the Wellington Event NZ (WENZ) Website. **The official cache page is GC78NMQ - WENZ Event 2018.** You can also visit the event’s page on FaceBook. If you are planning to attend, please ensure you register each planned attendees geocaching name on the official page and also on our WENZ website. There are over 300 will attends already listed. We are on our way to 500 and hopefully mega event status.

Yebo TheWonderStuff

Off we are to the famous 66 Geo art and had to stop here (after reading the description )

Well found

Tftc

Found! TFTC still dusty...

The cache must be a finalist in the most dusty cache awards

First time I’ve seen the bridge from this angle.

Quick find on a drive-by as somehow missed this the other day. TFTC!

Thought this might be to do with the road cone above the actual placement but no, sadly. Easy find and replaced as found.

Just under 4 hours total to do the series, caching on my own and driving, navigating, glasses on and off all the time, not too bad an effort and great views along the route, thanks for bringing me down here.

A few years ago I had an operation on my feet and was laid up in bed for a long time, too long. Being a geocacher I re-invested this time in solving a few puzzles here and there to while away the time. Among those puzzles were the Route 66 series which I hoped to one day find if I was ever in the area, with wheels and with time to spare. This weekend is that time and I vowed to improve my current May 13th total of 2 finds on this date to better. When I've finished logging it will be a nice round 100-day!
Managed to get on the road nice and early after breakfast and increased my Rosmar finds from a paltry previous 4 to a healthy 70-plus!
I know Green Day are playing the city this weekend but today was my own version of a Green day; converting green boxes (and blue puzzles) to positive smiley faces of joy and success. I was even done by 4pm after a trip after lunch out to Shakespeare Park out Whangaparoa way and a pleasant stroll around on this wonderful sunny day. I used the hints (where they were provided) to help me with a good rate of success today. There were quite a few quarry trucks around for the first hour or so and I feared a dangerous day but after I passed the quarry I never saw another one, phew! Apologies (in advance) for the cut and paste logs but hard to remember all stories on a power trail. Even saw a Route 66 plaque on the fence at one GZ. Gotta go out and make another big day out tomorrow as well, yay.
Oh and today was landmark reaching day too, with my finds total going past a mighty 7000 finds, thanks to all CO s who helped achieve this especially rosmar T F T Ps and Cs.

During our vacation in New Zealand we also did some geocaching. we did this route 66 in two days. The puzzles have we solved with a little help of the CO. (tnx a lot)

The route was very nice we liked it and we had a stay over in Orewa at a campsite.

Found it during the route 66


TheWonderStuff hartelijk dank voor het leggen en onderhouden van deze cache.

Groetjes,
Team Geo Meijer
(We loggen vaak met TGM or TGMeijer)

Dit was onze: 6648 gevonden cache

Nice greets from Dresden in Germany . Tftc

#5353 - #1667

This cache was found in the Route 66 series. This cache was a little more inaccessible than the one before. I had to make myself small to stretch my bushes. I was rewarded with a big box.

Thanks for cache. In: - / Out: -

Tuto keš jsme nalezli při hledání série Route 66. Tato keš byla trochu víc nedostupná, než ta před tím. Musel jsem trochu změnšit, abych se protáhl křovím. Odměnou mi byla velká krabice.

Díky za keš. In: - / Out: -

Interesting view of the bridge from here. TFTC

On a bike ride after watching my boys jumping off the waiwera bridge found with ease TFTC

Found the cache and watched the traffic above.

Out and about with Scot of Kiwiscot today, looking to hunt down a couple of first to finds. With those in the bag, so to speak, I took the opportunity to stop here, while passing by, to make the find here. I parked up, crossed the road and executed a super quick find. Cheers for the cache placement!

We were in the area collecting some puzzle finals and picked up this cache along the way. Found with darthcacher1 and purply. A nice quick find. TFTC

On a lovely sunny day found this cache whilst doing the Route 66 trail. TFTC.

Out completing Route 66 and headed to Waiwera to stop for Lunch. Stopped to find the cache on the way. TFTC.

Caching in the area, the sun was shining, we were heading for a pucnic lunch

Finally stopped raining so decided to head out into the sun . TFTC.

Was out with Jag50 & RustyNZ doing the Route 66 Series and stopped here to add this trad. It was a wet and drizzly day but nice to add this to the days tally of 75. TFTC

Was out with Jard1037 & RustyNZ doing the Route 66 Series and stopped here to do this traditional and add to our collection. A very wet and drizzly day, so we were relieved that this was found quickly.

Busy day caching, in the pouring rain we made a detour. We looked around the obvious, and the previous hiders, hid it too well, but Jag50 spotted the hide, and we soon had the log signed Thanks for the cache

Collected while out collecting the route 66 mystery series. TFFC

Took a wrong turn on way out of Waiwera ! Must have been daydreaming ! But it was all to the good ; as this road has 3 caches on it !
So I can manage to round up my total to 20 finds today at least !
Thanks WonderStuff !

7th find of the day after attending the Bayleys 80's Bash in Orewa last night. Watch out for the electric fence. TFTC.

Matches the color of the dust perfectly, almost walked right past, nice hide. TFTC

on the way to paihia we had a short break. we also used the break for searching the cache. it was not so difficult, tftc.

Found it with wurftaube.

A quick find while out for a drive to get our toddler to sleep. TFTC

On a road trip to Auckland for the day and then back to the north and while on the road picking up a few caches. Nice park and grab find. TFTC

Don't quite know where the idiot part comes from, but a quick find in this area. Now the big question, will I be able to turn round this Motorhome.
TFTC

A quick pop in while grabbing the rest of the caches we had to get in waiwera. Cache was nice and easy to find.

Another quick find after a picnic lunch at Waiwera. TFTC

8:56
FITW harisree
During a drive on Route 66.
Hmm, I guess this is one of those cases where I don't get what the cache is about. I guess I just haven't fed a horse enough apples and carrots if you know what I mean.

Thanks for the cache!
#3708

641
FITW ivss_xx
collected this one on the way to Route 66. cache was all good here. tftc.

Rather dusty spot, but interesting to see the road from this angle. TFTC

Nice quick find, tftc

Interesting aspect from here as I haven't been up that way. Thanks

My first cache in NZ! Went out for a stroll to Waiwera, and found this one on the way there. Nice and easy. Tftc!

Found it with Team FIN [janahola, kapeka, laalaa & temyllyl]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in New Zealand. Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was pretty good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and really scenary country!

Greetings from Finland

FIN (laalaa, janahola, temyllyl, kapeka) holiday in New Zealand. Second day and Route 66. We had fun.
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the cache.

Second day on our geo-roadtrip in New Zealand, and caching our way towards south. Logged using our group nickname FIN with janahola, laalaa and kapeka.

Todays mission was to do some powertrails north to Auckland. From trail to another, now it is mystery time!

On a geoholiday road tripping to Christchurch MEGA and around beautiful New Zealand. Our four people group (temyllyl, laalaa, kapeka and myself) from Finland used group tag FIN to log the caches.

We visited here while driving the "Route 66". TFTC!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

Quickly signed In between muggle cars haha tftc!!

A nice quick find with Just-Lookin while out on a road trip.

TFTC

A nice quick find with Princess-Emily after completing Route 66.

TFTC

Really dusty due to traffic here. Took pics of tunnel and bridge. TFTC