PONDering in Coatsville (Auckland) Coatesville, North Island, New Zealand
By TheWonderStuff on 12-Jan-08. Waypoint GC18HG8

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Add me to the ever growing list of DNFer's
Suggest the owner does a little maintenance on this cache or archives it to free the area up.
No finds in over a year and two previous 'needs maintenance' logs.

Anything happening here?

Would love to add another smilie on this cache the next time we are in the area.......

Bummer. Hadn't seen the most recent logs so spent quite some time looking in every hole and poking all sorts of wildlife with a stick. Even did a bit of tree climbing... Shame it wasn't there to be found, but had fun trying. Then bought some yummy fruit from across the road before proceeding to the forest...

Definitely gone. TainJAjo found it previously and confirmed wp and final are lost

GPS sent us to a most likely spot with lots of great hidey holes for a cache.... only found bugs and cicada shells. Nice quiet day here so did a thorough search.

Both gps are jumping checked all trees but no luck this time

Qwik find once all the market crowd had gone-nice park-tftc

Logbook really saturated and also general contents of the cache.

A nice little multi. Final found some ways from GZ and on the ground. The contents and log book are quite saturated so I suspect it has gone swimming at some stage. Replaced where I think it should of been.
TFTC

Found this morning passing by. TFTC!

Great intro to multicaches for kids. Lovely stroll on a late autumn afternoon.

In: WSGA Summer Campout 2007 Geocoin, game, white car
Out: whistle and bling

TFTC

Nice easy find with young Janus TFTC TNLN

Only found WP1, because of the busy Easter market we have to come back in the future...

Straight forward multi. I had to go back to the car to get something to extract the WP info with. Fat fingers and small places dont mix. Thanks.

Found WP1 rather easily but retrieval was rather difficult. My fingers were too fat for this sort of retrieval. Got there in the end though. Quick easy find at the final. Cache was lying on the floor. Replaced were I figure it should be. TFTC

12.15pm.In the good company of Monkey-business and The Cullen we were onto this one straightaway. Nice little hide for WP1 which we covered with a few leaves as we left it to conceal just a tad better. Thought it would be damp patches on the knees of my trousers yet once again at GZ but care avoided that. Located quickly and sat down for the logging. Nice straightforward little multi in a rural setting without any hassel from muggles. No ducks in the pond today.
TNLNSL
TFTC
[8d] M&P.

Had the hound on a short leash for the sake of the quackers. Easy find, great pies and icecream at the dairy across the road.
TFTC

Took golfball TFTC

Found WP1 with no trouble but didn't have any luck with the final. Will have to pop back another time. Nice picnic in the park though!

WP1 replaced

Fixing up

Nice little multi and final GZ was where I guessed it would be as we arrived. the first stage however has lost its film cannister and the co-ords are still there in a bag but barely readable. TFTC

Found this thanks to 'Samy' who gave us some pointers. It was very much appreciated as we had all but given up, we had difficulty reading the stage one clue which is slightly water damaged. T4TC

Good find, but Stage one needs maintenance as part of its unreadable.
Came across two geocachers who were having problems reading it.
TFTF

Nice quick find, WP1 could do with a service its a bit wet, T4TC

Back to finally complete this one. WP1 is still a bit of a mess but quickly found then onto the final. TFTC

Found the Box. TFTC. No quackers today.. (^_-)

Found the waypoint and final with no difficulty. Not too many muggles around on a quiet Sunday morning. Nice little pond area. Thanks.

# 616

Out with Andrew - All ok here.

The Crew: TWS Driver, OGP Whipping boy

Getting further up north. A quick back and forth. Avoiding the muggle doggies and all was good.

TFTC

a nice spot in the country. Drpped Plan B Geo Coin, picked up jeep

A revisit to drop off a long overdue travel jeep

Left GC

Ahh great , Very Soggy everywhere. Lots of fun in the rain. Dropped off a TT "The world is our playing field" quite apt for here.

Nice quick multi .. that BBQ looked lonely if you ask me

Nice and easy multi. A random BBQ was sitting on the field. TFTC

Nice wee multi, saw a free range BBQ alone on the field, kind of random of you ask me.

TFTC

we live so close to this one and didn't even know such a cute place existed! very peaceful and pretty place!!

Having read that the last visit was an unsucessful find for WP1 we thought we would at least have a quick look.
Found the remains of what looked like a film container and just by chance, during a search of the surrounding area, happened to find the co-ords in a small plastic bag . Continued on our search and found the cache T4TC.

No luck for me today, after an extensive search for WP1. Found the remains of what could have been the container on the ground. Looks like the mower may have got it. Will return.

1st of the day. Wonder looking at logs whether I found the cache that has been missing. Needed a stick to have one person on back pushing with other person on back with arm in as far as poss to reach it. It was full of water, dried out as best we could. and replaced closer to actual co-ords. Log book in OK condition. TNLN TFTC.

Nice easy multi while out on the bike. Pondered having a coffee over the road but decided to stop on return from Riverhead forest instead. When Roel and I got back we missed coffee by 3 minutes....bother! headed off to Her Majesty Hotel instead. TFTC

TFTC, picked up geocoin.

Replaced cache. One more chance.

need to check

Off for a bit of light caching this afternoon with the girls. Found wpt 1. Reached GZ searched, searched some more, with three pairs of eyes we where unable to find. Not sure if it has been muggled!! Thanks anyway.

[This entry was edited by kayaknkiwi on Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 1:29:46 AM.]

Out caching for an hour or so with KayaknKiwi, Seattle's Best and Indiana Jill - walked straight to first stage, but couldn't find second stage at all despite a fairly good grovel all round.

Took a wee while to find Wpnt1 - had looked at it twice before seeing it - needed a bit more light on the subject. Easy find of cache. TNLNSL TFTC

#845. No one around other than the ducks, so very much a stress free cache. TFTC.

Decided to check this one out on a MTB ride. Lovely PONDering at WP1. There were some kids doing PE in the school nearby. So I had to pick the right moment to dive underneath. Took a while to find GZ, but nothing wrong with a good hide for a great cache. Thanks!

[Found WP1 no probs, but ]though located GZ @ bridge, couldn't find the main cache beneath. [:-(] Gardener was doing the rounds so wondering if it's been "tidied"? Dunno. Did have a fair look though...

Interesting place. Quick finds at both stages.
TNLN
TFTC

Not an easy find as they were setting up for a wedding in the village hall, so there were loads of muggles milling around. Managed to find and replace discreetly in the end. Had driven through here many times but never had a reason to stop.
TFTC

(1179)
Quick find after a spot of PONDering.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Nice little park, nice easy multi--Thanks! TNSLLNTFTCACHE!

Great fun out caching with XenaCommander. On TWO bikes today.... XC on Xena, TK on SPlat..... TK is unused to the big bike and was pining for Flash the wee Daelim or even better the rumbleseat of one of the big bikes. We had just enjoyed a very entertaining visit with XCs uncle and cuzzys... this cache was close by so it was to be the last find for the day.
TK got her sticky paws on WPT1 in almost indecent speed resulting in low growling noises from the officer in charge of the GPS. The final also eluded XC... more low growling.
Thanks for the cache and nice to see the hall has been so beautifully restored and the grounds in fine condition.
TNLNSL

XC is on his favourite ride.. Xena (BMW R1150RT) in company with TechnoKitten riding her SV650 "Splat"..! We had just enjoyed a visit with XC relly and were heading back to Auck.
This showed up on radar so we parked bikes and walked to Wpt 1. Quickly worked out GZ and although XC was hoping to find first TK picked the right spot.. Mumble mumble... I need a solo hunt...!!
Signed the log and left cards..
TFTC #608

A lady was exercising her dogs in the park, she sat by the hall and let the dogs go, so it didn't interupt my hunt. Just hope the back of the rangerover is wet and smelly after the dogs went for a swim.

TFTC

18:21 Great ice creams across the Road, we have been here many times .

Didn't needed WP1, my caching sense led me to the treasure. The force was strong today .

TNLN. Thanks for the cache.

Easy find, because that is where I would hide it.

TNLNSL

T4TC TWS

Quiet area.
Cheers TWS - M@

Nice stroll late saturday evening and found it pretty quick. Party at the hall so trying not to attract muggle attention.

Took Tucan
Left Whistle

Fun search! There was a party going on nearby but it didn't spoil the hunt.

Too fine outside to be in the office today so what better than a bit of Caching. Turned out very hot and TT missed the AirCon.

Lots of Muggles on the road today. Interesting park.

Thanks TWS for the obvious work.
Cheers TT

Another nice spot. Enjoyed the hides. TFTC.

The team went for a late afternoon walk - nice 'n quiet, and a quick find was made.
left Toucan TB
TFTC

TB drop

Late night attempt on this one. There was some big party happening nearby but they didn't seem to notice me lurking suspiciously on the other side of the field.

Took the GC's to move them along.

FTF - 8th for the day in fact!

Thanks,
Chris & Vera

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