Healing Gardens-- Revisited (Auckland) Takapuna, North Island, New Zealand
By glyn(the only one) on 15-Mar-09. Waypoint GC140GC

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No luck today even with hint. Must be me

Nice find. Had to wait for juggles to clear the area. I was a bit surprised so many were around that late at night

This seems it have gone Glyn. Sorry. Don't have any replacement gear with me today either. You may want to disable this. ??

Will check out

Looked exactly were you said couldn't find it think it got chucked.

No luck here today, the gardens looked quite bare so maybe it's gone? We were in a bit of a hurry though as we were trying to up our numbers to hit our caching goals before the end of the year so we didn't stay too long though.

Found this cache during a small walk around the Hospital between treatments. 12 hours later gave birth to our new son! (hence the delay in logging).

Easy find thanks while doing hospital visit !

Hmmm, found this one ages ago but must have forgotten to log it.

Having found this a while ago, wanted to give my son the option to find it as well, but didn't see it where I found it. Few muggles around (due to the lovele sunny day and being lunch time!), so decided to go and have a look after my shift... But couldn't find it...

Looking to collect some slightly older caches and with this one being 5 minutes from work and another glorious day outside it was worth a walk. Came out here with Kiwigirlcacher and between the two of us went about checking out the suitable options for the hide. Found nice and quickly and back off to work. TFTC

Easy find but nice camo!

Read the hint and thought 'light'? What light? I don't see any lights! Then I sat and relaxed a bit enjoying the sound of the water running down the totem pole and I remembered the bit in the description about the gardens being lit up at night... Aha! Think smaller, and I went straight to it. Excellent camo colour. TFTC

She got it ..... bugger.

A lovely garden, enjoyed the water feature. TFTC

Wow, what an amazing place to take a little break after working my arm muscles! We both really liked this place and looks like baby snakelion was intrigued by the water fountain. She kept running around it and trying to touch the water. It was quite cool to watch her do that. The hide was again not too hard to locate but it had great camo on it.

Thanks glyn for getting us here and create this wonderful father-daughter experience! Awarding a favourite for that reason

I walk past through this garden every working day... and have never sat down to just enjoy... TFTC

Few muggles out today, had to bide my time to made this quick grab. Lovely relaxing garden!! TFTC

Was stopped by the barrier, so Uied and parked out on Taharoto. (I saw later that parking is free if kept to less than 30 mins.) Cache container was found to be in two pieces, due to the salt air no doubt. The lid refuses to stay in place - some owner attention is required. TFTC.

Nice little garden, easy to find, just popping in for a follow up appt, glad to add to our finds while we're here

The Future Finder wanted to go caching so we made a quick dash over the Bridge for some quick finds. After walking around the Lake side we had to wait out some muggles before making a find here. Which was just as well, as the GPSr was not making a great deal of sense--not helped given the FF was in charge of it this time. Eventually I checked the cache page and found the little bugger, even though it was partially buried. Cache is getting a bit rusted and the lid has seperated. Returned a little more appropriately. Cheers for the cache!

Found it, cache had been moved to a different location.
We suggest maintenance of this cache. Container is broken and we're unsure what should be the exact location. Have returned to where we think it goes.

Eclipse tin getting munted and log book could do with repair

Easy find on our cycling tour to Takapuna and Lake Pupuke. We had to wait quite some time until a smoking muggler and his two kids left the cache zone. After that it was easy...
Thanks for the fun!

We thought we may have some trouble with this one given the recent logs. As it turned out Mrs Tparty went straight to it and recovered the container within 10 secs. The inside of the tin is rusty and the logbook reflects that, however it was nice and dry and easily written on. Now we will go and see if our son is on the mend in Ward 7. TFTC

This entry was edited by tparty on Saturday, 27 October 2012 at 19:18:17 UTC.

Nope. Couldn't find it

Found it, eventually...as wouldn't call it the 'closest raised garden to the totem pole'. Nice wee gardent though, TFTC

Came here twice, the last time with the family. A nice place to explore, though I think the parking building blocks the view from most of the rooms. We searched the gardens with no luck, but maybe the cache has been moved? Anyway we still had an enjoyable visit here.

Retrospective log of a cache i grabbed with Gr33nslime back in the days we were living in Auckland. You may ask why bother logging something that happened nearly five years ago, well it may not be much but it counts towards my 22 caches that we did on one day. That and Project GC really has me making sure i'm logging everything correctly. While i can't recall the cache, i do recall the fountain and I think it was a great place to bring people. Very much a shame it got archived, but maybe it will live again another day some time soon. Thanks for the cache.

Found easily (once I figured that those things were lights!) with JimmyNZ. The dimensions of the cache gave it away! Nice cam!

No luck

Had a reasonable look but no luck

Lovely water feature.tftc

TFTC. Nice garden

Had to wait for area to clear but there it was. TFTC.

Nice quiet spot today, just before the rain certainly helped. So the find was relatively easy.

No luck here

Nice easy find. TFTC.

Quick find on a beautiful warm evening. TFTC

Yeah found it

Nice flax

A nice spot. I did explain what we were doing to some muggles. I'm not sure if they got it though. TFTC

We made light work of this one - TFTC

well hidden, fits right in with surroundings

thanks nice spot blends right in

Quick find in a nice garden, TFTC!

Found while in the area with Zork

Very peaceful and a nice place too sit. A favourite.

To be honest, and as sad as it may sound, I never actually knew that there was a hospital on the north shore! Haha...
Any ways, I managed to find it though thanks to this cache...
So homely though, hospitals. I live right next to the city hospital, so for me, hearing helicopters past my window, ambulances, and seeing bit white sterile looking building just means I'm close to home! So after finding this cache, I just chilled for a while in the area... it was so relaxing!
Cache location was pretty difficult though... I didn't know which reference point to get middle/centre from! But found a likely spot after a bit, and there it was.

TFTC!!

this cache is doing great,amazed at the number of visitors! just dropped in after visiting someone in the hospital, replaced the full log with a new waterproof one from local GC caching supplier Kev.

Found it eventually.
TFTC

Out with Friwi - cache blended in nicely with surrounds.

Took a moment to figure out where to look then Geomatt saw the light TFTC

Found with Team Y-Cacho's during our Auckland cache raid 24 hour mission

TFTC

One of 262 finds with Team Y-Cacho's during our 24 hour Auckland cache raid epic.

OmaGosh, over and out...

Doesn't seem to be in the specific garden mentioned but found OK. One of 262 finds on 24 hour Auckland cache raid by Team Y-Cacho's. TFTC

One of 262 found on Team Y-Cacho's 24 hour Auckland cache raid.

T4TC

Found with Team Y-Cacho's during our Auckland cache raid 24 hour mission

TFTC

Parked by your cache while driving the Team Y-Cacho's Auckland cache raid 24 hour mission

Many thanks for your cache, plan to be back soon with Butterfly_Lady

Out and about with the Y-Cacho's.
It must have been the last garden we looked in!
Many thanks

Thanks - log book is quite full.

Good cache. Friendly security guard that knew what we were up to so left us to it

Nice little garden area, Had a little chat with the Security guard, Who left us to find it after he realised we were geocaches. TFTC

Cool little cache and a nice understanding security guard. TFTC.

Easy find, although a lady nearby approached us and asked us if we were geocaching, turns out she is a friend of a fellow geocacher, but she does book-crossing instead... easy find. TFTC

All the plants have been removed from the raised garden so it's possible that this one is lost. We did find a colourful eraser that may have been part of the cache.

Tried for this months ago while walking around the lake but there were so many muggles we did not search. Today we wanted to search by the lake for something else but smoker muggles were there and no one was here. Guess they must have been told to stay out of sight. Cache nice and dry and in seemingly right place. NINO TFTC

09-01-2011 at 18:36

#419: Easy after the muggle at a nearby bench left

TNLNSL. TFTC

This cache was so exposed I could see it a few metres away. This is probably the first time I've found a cache within seconds! I hid it back better.

Cache is rather rusty and rather difficult to shut.

TFTC!

tftc

Lots of people out here in the evening. Sort of walked around the small garden, looking somewhat suspicious. Spotted cache and signed log book sitting on a chair with it in my bag. Then replaced. Really freaky muggle staring at me the whole time. Don't think he noticed that I took something though.

nice easy cache to get us started

Visiting friend in Hosp... quick find on the way out... witnessed a very bad driver sideswipe a car while trying to park & then not leave a note ... good thing i had a pen and piece of paper...

Interesting scheme for the parking charges they've got there... Under three mins = $3, 3-30 mins = free... Well, I thought to myself, I'm not exactly Mr Slick and this cache is unlikely to take under 3 mins... so I like the sound of that. As it was I was probably closer to 10 mins by the time I got out the gate but it was an easy find. TFTC

It is a strangely ugly bit of garden. I would have though they would have tried to screen out the carpark a bit to try and increase the peaceful aspect.
I think we made the only muggle there a bit nervous as she left as soon as we arrive - all the better to cache by!
Thanks, Robmc.

A patient was enjoying the garden when we arrived but she soon shuffled off and we moved in.
TFTC

With one of the Jnr Pastamakers having X rays after a fall, we ended the day on a high with a cache find. We didn't have any info on this one with us as we hadn't planned on being here today so we all just spread out and hunted around with Mrs Pastamaker finding the right spot first.

Thankfully no broken bones and excellent care from the doctors and nurses.

TFTC

Nice garden.Thanks for the cache.

Its been a few years since I visited this establishment. Last time was when my Mum was ill a few years back. All's well with the cache though. TFTC, Biggles.

Thanks.

TFTC

nice little find, not sure about the accuracy of the hint directions

Had a quick look after visiting a friend in hospital; no one In the gardens, but just not used to such muggly surrounds, so but did not find it despite using the hint & also checking several of the options. but perhaps I'm just blind, LOL.
Nice spot & spiral/nautilus design... Thanks anyway!

Been a while since I was back here. Popped in for a quick cache Cheers Gav [6337]

A very pleasant garden. Quick find after visiting time.TFTC.

lovely garden even on an overcast soggy winter's afternoon. tftc

Found while dropping off the wife for surgery.
Quick find for the Daughter while raining heavy today.
T4TC

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Looked at every option and of course it was the last one Out with Future Finders today.

we looked at all the lights and thought we couldn't find it but we looked over it again and found it quickly

Last of the caches on my small wander between netball games.Just a matter of checking the likely spots. Of course it was in the very last place I looked but the poor weather meant there was no one around. TFTC

Good clue, easy find at night. TFTC

Nice Gardens

Long wait for the muggle to finish his smoke. Tftc!

very easy with the hint - quick find during my lunch break

Had to wait for muggles to disperse - including a nurse having a can of whipped cream for afternoon tea...

Cheers,
Blarghster.

had to come back a few times until the garden was empty but was a nice easy find once it was. TFTC

Found this somewhere in January - forgot to log. Thanks - good one!

So easy to find when you have read the page! t4tc

No problem with this one, explained to a couple of older muggles that I was checking to see what maintenance was required. SL TFTC