Dannemora (Auckland) East Tamaki Heights, North Island, New Zealand
By mashnz on 11-Nov-07. Waypoint GC17AF1

Cache site muggled so now archived.
Cheers
MASHNZ

Couldnt see it anywhere.

Found remnants of what I think was the cache container. Coords had me standing on a rock in the middle of the creek.

Found the remains.

Found it ... dumped in the stream, open, with contents mostly missing. Definitely muggled.

Definitely muggled. Found upside-down in the stream, top missing, contents mostly gone.

No hint given and very difficult swam area to search...

I couldn't think about leaving this cache. It is a wonderful area for the dogs, so went again. After a nice hunt, find the cheaky cache
Wonderful, thanks

Got the wet feet, but also a do not find for me.
More to do, that I had the doggies still in the car and that's why I didn't have much time.
Maybe next time better

Out for an afternon of caching to show new cacher dave2good the fun. Relatively quick find after we got some feet wet and all shoes muddy. GZ smelt a bit. Left a signature eraser. TFTC.

TFTC

Thought I would grab some caches in the Dannemora greenbelt this evening. First up, Dannemora. Another well thought out and tidy hide my mashnz here. Clear signs of recent flooding, but cache is still safe'n'sound. A little bit of thought and the cache was soon in hand. Cheers for the smiley face!

Hi, can you please check it, looks it like cache was fladed. Thanks George

Great wee hidey hole. Kids enjoyed checking out the swag.
- toy + magnet
T4TC

Took a while even with all five of us looking for it but we eventually found it. Yay.

This was my 3rd try at this cache. Very pleased to finally get it! SL TFTC

nice hiding spot stinks a bit though TFTC

I found what appeared to be the obvious hiding place but it was empty. However I spent a bit more time looking and was soon rewarded with the cache from a good hiding place.Quite surprising how this one isn't muggled with the school so close!

I just could not find it. I had the wife and my to boys with me looking and turning over anything that looked like a possible hiding spot - any pointers pls?

Second time here and got it this time round. Thanks Kyle891 for the tips

3rd time lucky Thanks for the added hint. Turns out I was looking in the right place but the wrong spot TFTC

3432. This is a good spot - pretty lucky to have this cache survive with such a large school so close!
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Second time I've been down there and had a look. First time got rained out shortly after arriving at site and the second time spent a good while having a look at some very good possible spots but came up with nothing. Maybe I should invest in a GPS

what a beautiful evening, and a perfect end to the day with a spot of apres-work caching! took a while to find it until GPS settled down and got accuracy down to 1m! a crafty hiding place, which nearly has us foiled when we found its sister hiding place, very close by- empty!

This one took some searching... as I was a bit casual about checking the GPS location when I initially got to GZ... was sure I was in the right spot and there were certainly plenty of likely hiding spots, but just couldn't find the cache

Was about to give up and double checked the GPS one last time... while zeroing back in on GZ from a slightly different direction, I noticed a good looking spot I hadn't seen earlier... sure enough, there it was

Just as I opened it up, the school bell across the road rang and all the wee muggles emptied out... so I had to be a fairly quick and quite stealthy about my departure...

As I have been feeling a little poorly lately, I thought the little blue "Health Plus" fridge magnet was a good bit of SWAG, so:

-Health Plus fridge magnet
+foreign currency

TFTC

Qwik find whlie working out this way-tftc

We found it! We were so pleased since it was the first one we found.

Nice little spot daughter got wet feet. Hubby's fault

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This entry was edited by Kiwifamily on Friday, 09 July 2010 at 23:07:29.

Quick find. T4TC

Not a bad hide

Great find, although it wasn't easy with GPS pointing all different ways. TFTC

Took a while to find as GPS was wandering a bit, almost gave up but found it on the last try, a good hide thanks MADToo

Nice easy find. Great early evening wander with the kids.
TFTC

Found eventually with plenty of cobwebs so assumed hadn't been found for a while. Wrong again. Must be some industrious spiders in this area! TFTC

Thought I'd been here before, I was dropping off AC for fitness training and only had the palm.

The cache has changed position though! Still took me a while.

TFTC (again)

Nice and easy find on caching trip to Auckland. TFTC

Nice little hide. TFTC

Nice spot for a cache! I liked this one
T4TC

Went around in circles a bit on this one purely because I failed to look properly where first started looking

This is a nice area, so carried on down the path to get another couple of quick finds also
TFTC

No that is not a rock...wet feet but cache easy to find now

My first geocache, didnt know exactly what to look for. Took about 15min to find since I arrived at the spot.

Found eventually. Great spot. Well done.

Nice find, cool spot. TFTC

Well ain't that something? What? The last cacher to

visit here was my brother 19 days ago! Nice hide.

Thanks for the cache.

The third of twelve caches on a raid in SE Auckland. Great hidey hole.

Out: GC.

Cheers for the cache.

An attractive-looking park - the outdoor exercise equipment looks interesting. The area around GZ is particularly nice. The cache is well-hidden from muggles but a caching eye will soon spot the placement. Thanks.

# 791

Coin drop.

First hunt for the day and after a short search we located the well hidden cache. T4TC.

Quick hunt in my lunch break . tftc

Great hiding place. Thanks.

Was sure I had checked the spot where I finally found the cache. Maybe some junior muggles 'borrowed' it and recently replaced it. The two recent finds of this cache frustrated me so much I visited again this afternoon and was in luck!
TNLNSL. TCTC!

[Time between work and flight home to Nelson so a quick drive out here to find the cache.] Coords spot on but had me searching low then high - if I'd searched the other way round I would have found it quicker.[TFTC, Biggles]

Lots of bugs greeted our find. Brooke and mom found this one on the way home from Kindy. TFTC

Cache had been muggled. It has now been replaced. Doubt whether it can be washed away. (bit of a clue)
Please replace cover.
Cheers
mashnz
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Had a look around last weekend and appears it might have been washed away. Can you please confirm still there?

Had a good look around for this one during a break in BarCampAuckland but could not ind it.

Looked like the water had come through quite high, it may have been washed away?

This was our first ever cache, and it was a nice easy one to start with. Thanks for the new log. TNLN.

#472

Nice cache to do before our Dinner Break, Not a good start, only 11 done today so far, better luck after a good feed i'd say!!

Well Camo'd but easily found by Mrs Geckoh's keen Caching eye!! I was passed it and in dire need of food!!

As described something has chewed the lid and allowed moisture in.

I threw in another log book in a ziplock for the time being. But a replacement lid of a standard plastic jar. eg Mayo Peunut butter etc would fix it. Even a piece of packing tape would make it water tight again.

Contents are little grubby due to the Pin rusting.

Still locatable and worth finding. Swap items are not safe form moisture at the moment. No room left anyway with 2 log books in there.

The cache was missing when we last visited so second time lucky! Nice hiding place. Unfortunately a rat has had a good chew on the lid and the log is sodden.
Many thanks

Great piece of bush, nice camo.
But, container lid looks as though its been chewed by a critter & is letting the water in, hence the logbooks wet thru.
TNSLLNTFTCACHE!!

Logs wet, see my log--Glyn.

Nice quick find. TFTC

Last cache out this part of town this evening - nice quick find, and very quiet with no-one about after dark. Cheers Gav [2554]

We were heading for this cache when we saw the 3 cutest little ducklings in the grass, parents nowhere to be found. We collected them and moved them towards where all the other ducks and things were. We saw two of them move towards the cute little balls of fluff, so hopefully they survived.


They were *so* cute.


Oh, we found the cache too.

TFTC!

Found easily between passing muggles.
Muggle has found it previous to me, she claimed to love BOB and a certain part of the male anatomy. But at least she was decent enough to place it back.

TNLN, Cheers.

Enjoyed this one, tricky concealment! TFTC

4th for the day. Met up with a lady who recently rescued the ducklings who were trying to cross the road. Took a little bit to find but found when looking from another perpective. In: Dolphin Out: Teddy Beaqr stamp Out with PickleNZ & Roxbury TFTCSL

Found today with Roxbury & TealNZ. Enjoyed the young ducklings nearby!

TFTC

Great placement!

+ Badge
- Magnet

TFTC!

Cache has now been replaced. Please remember to replace site camoflage.
Cheers
MASHNZ

This was one of our favorite cache finds and a classic from MashNZ, so seeing all the DNF logs we were keen to check it out...

... Finally got a chance today and with disappointment we have to report the cache has gone...

The site has weathered quite badly with the recent rain. I don't want to say more about the location as we hope it will be replaced. Great location, great hide and 1st class camo

- Andy & Kathy
(WackyB)

searched for ages on both sides. No luck. Based on previous log entries, this one may be MIA

Looked on both sides of the river but still couldn't find it

Poked my walking stick in all sorts of appropriate looking holes and DNF.

Don't know what went wrong here - nobody else seems to be having any problems

Found it!

Had this one on my list for a while (close to home). Wandered around for a while, and found it. Sometime it's easier than you think. Nice hide.
- Duncan TB
Logged at 1535.
TFTC

Jumped the stream twice before I decided to us some logic. Well hidden.

A nice find.
A lot of muugles.
Had to be careful.

Out on the prowl for some local caches with the inimitable XenaCommander. Nice spot. A quick find by XC while TK was on the wrong scent entirely. TFTC

XC and TK out and about on Splat... Just did a maintenance visit at Music Radio.. Came to this one on the way home... Hmmm a mashnz hide.. could be fun.. Rode Splat down walkway and parked on path... walked down to GZ and let GPSr settle... turned around and there it was... aha.. Whew..!
TK signed the log and I logged through trackables in my company.
TFTC #713

Tricky little hide.
I too was on thew wrong side-as thats where the new Colorado was pointing.
Plus I slipped into the yukky water !!!!
Eventually found however.

[GPS had us on other side of the obstruction. But logic determined it had to be] above the flood level [TFTC]

We'd been to this area before for another cache but its always nice to return. Didn't take too long before we sniffed out the cache. Nice hidey hole!
The water nearby didn't look very inviting...
TFTC

Found it . Another well hidden GC by MashNZ.

- Green grasshopper
+ Smiley magnet, Vancouver olympic pin, kiwi wire puzzle.

TFTC

Our fifth of 6 finds today, a great hide! TFTC, TNLNSL

We were out shopping, and remembered that there was a cache somewhere around, fortunatly we had the coords in the GPS, but of course no clues.

The GPS had us in plain sight, but on the wrong side, so while AC poked around muttering about it being muggled, I looked a bit further.

Spotting something not quite right I made the discovery, but the local inhabitants had done their best to add their own camo, and I really didn't like to use my fingers in case they were still in residence so tools were used.

+ antelope, - Marble

TFTC

Don't know quite how we managed this one. After completing "To the point" master Noora1 states the next nearest cache is called Dannemora. Problem was we had no details with us except the co-ordinates in the GPS. Decided to have a quick look anyway. Found a possible landmark and started looking under, up and in. Suddenly I discovered something that didn't look quite right & sure enough there was the cache. Great hide. TFTC. TNLN.

Cool spot, Mrs wonder grabbed this one while I searched the wrong spot.

+ Grasshopper(plastic!)
- nothing

TFTC!

Keep up the good work.

A short walk on a very hot afternoon brought me to a stream where a group of kids were hunting for eels - 5 metres from GZ!! I reckoned I'd spied the hiding-place, so I said to the kids "Look, there's the eel", and grabbed the cache while they looked down to where I pointed. Of course there was no eel in sight, but the cache logbook was soon signed. So I waited a minute until they were looking the other way before replacing the cache container. No swaps, thanks and cheers from Grandalf(1029)

Found quite quickly despite GPS trying to lead me astray once in close. Nice hide.
Out – nothing
In – Rubber stamp
Grabbed “Never Stop Geocaching†coin
SL T4TC

Had to look hard. Camo has detached. Cheers - M@

Spot on co-ordinates and a quick find.
TNLNSL TFTC!

No crocodiles in the swamp but the girls saw a half metre long eel in the creek which kinda contrasts to being in the middle of NZ biggest wall-to-wall-insta-lawn type suburb. Heaps of waterfowl even peacocks running round the adjacent lake...
Found after about 10min - Great placement & camoflague!
+ Screwdriver
- glow in the dark star

A great hide. Collected Geocoin. Quick stroll after a drive through the massive subdivision. TFTC

Went to try and crack the magic 300 today but found that one of the caches was muggled so it put pay to that.
Anyway, longer than normal find while trying to keep my little boy out of the stream and the mud.
Nice hide. Found after having to also wait for local kids further up to disappear.
Took nothing but left Never stop Caching coin that I purloined from a cache overseas.
Cheers. TFTC.

5:30pm (#2 of the day)

Well hidden! If you have done Pull The Plug cache then you will know what you are in for with this one
Again GPS coverage at the stop was a little flaky but close enough. Glad to see a replacement in the same area as the Logan Carr Reserve cache.

We always seam to end up jumping rivers unnecessarily

- Little green car
+ Puzzle book
+ Glow in the dark star
+ Blue Magic Geocoin

TFTC

Kathy & Andy ,