Back to School (Auckland) Ohinerehia, North Island, New Zealand
By St. Ouens, now managed by G-2 on 09-Feb-08. Waypoint GC19809

TFTC!
I understand from events that archived is still loggable but happy to be corrected.

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

It was a nice day today, so we decided to pay another visit to Rangitoto and clear a few more caches. A nice easy puzzle to solve this one and the cache was easily found at GZ - nicely camo'd too! Thanks for the puzzle and the cache!

This entry was edited by yorkshirekiwi83 on Monday, 16 June 2014 at 08:21:36 UTC.

going Trad

It was a nice day today, so we decided to pay another visit to Rangitoto and clear a few more caches. A nice easy puzzle to solve this one and the cache was easily found at GZ - nicely camo'd too! Thanks for the puzzle and the cache!

If some one is planning to visit this one soon, I intend to change this one into a Trad, all I need is you to add a new logbook with the new cache name--"Big Cache On Island" register the current find and when I change it to a trad , you can also get the the find on this one, albeit not FTF -;)

We solved this at home and made an extra turn just to log this cache. Finding the pretty large container was more difficult than expected but we finally made it. However, the male part of the team hurt his palm while opening the well camoed box. But was not severe...
Thanks for the nice puzzle.

A nice easy puzzle and a quick find while spending an awesome day on Rangitoto

TFTC and the puzzle

First and probably only visit to Rangi, main mission was the CANZ cache but managed to grab another couple of caches as well. Nice to find they were both G-2 ones

A great spot, lovely camo, and a quick find. TFTC!

Picked up on my way up the hill. Paddled over tonight and headed up straight away as the CANZ cache just got published yesterday so hope to be first to find.

Nice straightforward puzzle!! and great hiding place in the scoria. TFTPC

Solved this one the night before our impromptu trip to Rangitoto, on a glorious autumn Saturday. Only 45 minutes 'til the ferry leaves ... do we have time for this one ? Mr Jacksonz does a run for it. It was in the first place I looked. But the camo job was too good and I didn't spot it. With my allocated 5 minutes being up, decided to give it away. But that first place I looked is definitely where I would have hidden it, so once last check and voila - the well hidden, and well disguised cache. A quick signing, and then the run for the ferry. TFTC.

This entry was edited by Jacksonz on Wednesday, 23 May 2012 at 02:49:00 UTC.

I have to admit: that's quite a hard puzzle for somebody who's a non-native speaker. But Google is your friend and I was able to figure out the answer and could only hope that they were right and that I got the final right.
After getting close to GZ I still was very unsure whether I'm right or not. But coming closer and being able to make sense out of the hint, I was sure that I was right. Et voilà, yes, I got the answers right and a big box was waiting for me. Great to have such big boxes on special places like these and even no muggles around.

Enjoyed the cache very much!

Thanks!

Ina aus Wien
(Ina from Vienna, Austria)

Found this cache with hinemoana and sonia26642 and juju199629.

Got this one on my second trip over to the island. Hinemoana decided to go back to school, (I was busy already being at school!) and did all the working for this one. I did know some of them already though.
So, when we were clambering up the mountain, decided to make a break for this one. Cache took forever to find, as the coordinates were about 10m out, but since there were multiple of us, and it was quiet, and with the hint, we managed to find it.
This one also had quite interesting camo! We couldn't come up with what it was though.
TFTC!!

I have worked out the coordinates a while ago (but over 1000km away) and could not wait for the next opportunity to go and find it - took some time to search the area, but finally - success!!! TFTC

Very good cache.
I found with tunfisk.

Loved the puzzle. Quick find. TFTC.

Solved this one at work yesterday but left the cords at home...luckily I ran into avoyager who was able to point me in the right direction. Great to see a big cache on the island. Thanks for this one.

A bit of school yard general knowledge (checked by google last night ) and this was an easy find. Nice big cache. TFTC

The hardwork of this puzzel had been done by evilno9, and as I was coming along for the ride up rangitoto, joined in the fun to try to find it. The was a bit of dancing and avoiding off the bees that were protecting their nest, but it made for a quick find!! TFTC

Did the puzzle bit a wee while ago when planning our day out here, then had to navigate around the big bee's nest that is near(ish) to GZ. A few of them buzzed over to see what we were up to which prompted us to find the cache, sign the log then leave in a hurry without getting stung... TFTC

Walking on lava rock was exciting as we tried not to fall on it, had to climb the hill yet..
TFTC

A quick dash up and down to get to this as we were going up the other path. Thanks.

Enabling prior to passing across for adoption

Back to School (Auckland) was transferred from St. Ouens to user glyn(the only one)

Disabled pending archiving 12 Sept unless adopted.
This is to avoid cachers placing trackables in the cache

13:34 We were on a mission today from God to rescue some sad TB's that someone has doomed to a life of solitude on this desolate island of Rock. Picked up the travel bugs on a rescue mission (see www.tb-rescue.com).

Myself and my fellow rescuer Glyn scaled the mountain trails, avoided the flying vultures from the sky. Walked amoung students of the earth to reach this cache. We stopped and had lunch near GZ, Glyns first lunch but my third

The log book was pretty wet, so we dried it out while we ate lunch. Glyn surmised that the water must be from all the tears of the stranded travellers.

Great day on the island and enjoyed the rescue mission. Thanks for the cache.

Rescued:-

GISpuma's Travel Bug Dolphin Tag
Promo TB
Anne Bonney'sKeeper of the Cache Geocoin-KJ
Geoswag March 2008 Geocoin
The American/New Zealand Connection
Sano Travel Bug
Cockadoodle Kitty
BJC FAMILY TRAVEL BUG

Glyn rescued the rest of them

I was a little unsure of one of the digits: my first answer put it in the gulf, and my next two both put it next to tracks on the map! The latter of those seemed the more likely...and sure enough there it was! Thanks.

Come one people, please keep the BJC travel bug moving.

solved the puzzle in Sept. Enjoyed it & the nicely positioned cache. Good hints had us with cache in hand quite easily. Took 3 geo coins but had nothing to leave - will move them on quickly. Fun cache TFTC

Solved this puzzle AGES ago - finally had a chance to pop over here with a lovely invite from TWS!
Had wonderful Caching Outing BUT Very Looong long day with Gadget-Tron, GreenblAt, OG Phatazz, TWS, Great White and KiwiLeon.
Thanks Guys for letting me tag along - I had a blast!
Also Thanks For The Fun Cache.

Solved this puzzle before heading over to Rangitoto. The cache was well hidden and took a minute or 2 to find. Found while out with OG Phatazz, The Wonder Stuff, GreenBlat, KiwiLeon, Great White and Dexter King.

Found while out with the Fellowship.
Quickly solved the puzzle in the morning before we left.
TFTC

Solved Friday night but without a Geochecker I relied on my usual back up of Greenblat.

Great White (Dad) cme up with the find.

TFTC

Coin TB Drop

Was so happt to know we knew the answers. Co-ords spot on but watch those sharp rocks. TFTC

Out geocaching with WELSH - interesting spot. T4TC

Found on a Rangitoto day trip with Kiwicouple and Rosmar.
A nice puzzle, and good hiding spot.
#172

Sixth of 12 Rangitoto finds today, out with Rosmar and Kiwifeet. Solved the puzzle a few days ago - pleased to see the co-ords in a likely place. A good hiding spot for the cache - used the excellent hints for an easy find. Identified the spot from a distance. The scoria was difficult to walk on here so it was nice to be able to go directly to the likely spot. Kiwifeet reached in to retrieve the cache. Thanks.

# 227

6th of our 12 finds on a day trip to Rangitoto with Kiwi Couple & Kiwi Feet. Excellent camo work and neat hinding spot T4TC.

Quick find while out and about on Rangitoto. TFTC

Great camo!

+ Bendy pencil
- Pencil sharpener

TFTC!

I'm almost certain that I was searching on the right spot, since it fits description and hint perfectly. But despite 2 separate attempts I coundn't find the box.

B solved this while back home in Greymouth. We finally made it up here so had to make the trip across. Wonderful place to explore. Cache was found after a wee search. TNLN TFTC

Well, the scouts had fun sorting this one out, while staying in the scout-bach on the island. Lucky Gr8dad was there for support and some tips!!
TNLNSL
TFTC

Had the helping hand of Taiaotea Air Scouts to slove this one. Neat cache. Be careful on the loose rocks. TNLN T4TL

Cool puzzle and an easy find before rushing back to the ferry. TFTC

Realised on arrival to island that I had missed one of the questions required during prior research. A quick call home solved that and after the short climb to GZ was relieved that all answers were correct! Resisted the temptation to take the pencil sharpener.
Thanks

So Bobo and Jojo need to go back to school. We bush bashed 300m from the path to their calculated coordinates before I spotted their calculation error... so back we went. All good in the end!!

So..... its just so happens that I feel like there are a few variations on the possible answers. After a 30minute bush bash we arrived at "ground zero" just before commencing the search JK180 pointed out my mistake in the answers, inputted the new coordinates and we went from GZ to 1.5km from the GZ..... Oh well, my mistake, managed to find it in the end.

Found this one while on quest for The Ring with KiwiGary, glyn(the only one), Kay, Indiana Jill and JaimeMac. Lots of muggles about. Took sharpener (of course). TFTC!!

Knocked off work early to stop the Auckland Caches getting out of control.
Close to home and a great camo job.
Thanks for the cache ainaro01
Cheers TT

Quick morning jaunt with Tofska,Rumo and Rala, Tramper Ted. Tofska went straight to the hide so FTF honours go to him.. I guess 2000 t caches will do that for you. A good wee puzzle, thanks St Ouens. took pencil sharpener!

Found on the way down back to the ferry - gps took me in a circle at first, but then zero'ed in on the spot! Nice camo!!
Ps: Had the wife work out the coords at home, and she phoned them through while on the ferry on the way over!!
tnlnsl
TFTC

Fast walk up the hill in the company of Tofska, M2ZT3 and Rumo & Rala before the masses arrived. Group effort on the puzzle and FTF to Tofska who found it with astonishing speed. Good to get the brain going on the puzzle! TFTC

Worked out coordinates the night before. An easy find walking back to the ferry in the company of many others. TFTC

Thanks for the help with the coords St Ouens - silly us got a couple of things wrong!! Thanks to Philly(sp) for going to all the trouble of getting the cache and letting us cache in on it and filling in log book!

Another great one! TFTC

Saw this pop up last night but didn't look at it much till on the ferry crossing to great event day...
WOrked out what we could and compared notes with fellow cachers... Walked down to GZ with TK after lunch.
Nice hide... TK soon had it in hand.
SIgned log and enjoyed chocolate with alcohol shot!!!! ;o)
TFTC #660

This one was great fun with XC... answering the trivia and comparing/cribbing answers with other ferry travelers, was just the beginning. We trotted down from the summit after en enjoyable lunch with the troops and headed for GZ, TK skittered across the scoria and pounced on the goods. XC and I enjoyed an alcohol flavoured egg each yum thank you.... Hic ...staggers off into the sunset
In two gel pens out two eggs and two pencil sharpeners.
Thanks for the fun and adventure.

Quick find while on Rangitoto Rec event, with Glyn and muggle andrew! Cheers - sharpener + nill SL T4TC

Ill take the FTF for the cachers on the ferry , quick stop off on my 25 min assault to the summit. Texted Zork for the cords on my way up. Took 2 eggs, some sharpners, left nothing - sorry!

TFTC!

Had to wrack the brain cell and make a guess or two on some long forgotten stuff to determine the coordinates, fortunately correctly. GPS (not me!) was having some difficulty at GZ, but got there eventually. Need to avoid trampling the vegetation here. TsharpenerLN, cheers for another one St.O!

Saw it pop up last night so was able to answer the Q's with a little help from Mr Google before the big day out. Grabbed first thing on the way up in the morning. Neat camo.
Thanks for the cache St O.

Almost forgot about this one, must have been sunstroke.

Last cache of the day.

T4TC.

3.00pm. The only one on the island we managed to get today and needed a bit of help as well!!
A nice camo job St.O
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (999)

With AnnaFromSweden and other cachers, tftc!

nice hide , easy find on rangitoto event today. we had lots of beedy eyes checking it out. thanks to helirc, tribe of 4 and nofixedaboders for joining in the fun.

amazing seeing all the different forms of GPS units and PDA's used today and the different people that enjoy the same addiction that I do

I only wish we had a geocaching community like the 1 up here in tauranga. we all ROCK.

It was an awesome walk loved the cache.
Did this one with my friend kat also did this cache with No Fixed Aboders, HeliRC & Rick-a-mortis.

Thanks For The Cache % Event!
Tom

Thanks to Glyn & Kay & Zorgon for encouragement to back-track and get this one. I'd come round Wilson Park track, but made the effort up the track & Back To School. Cozy little hide-away and super camo job again. Good place for a bigger cache. Well done! The trip down with TWS & Zork was pleasant and seemed shorter than that going up? Hmm.

Despite still feeling groggy from all the wine consumed in the hut, a good group effort had this puzzle solved in less than 5 minutes. Damn - we'd walked past it only hours ago! However, there's still time for a quick FTF mission before the ferry full of geocachers arrives.
Put in some easter eggs for the hunting hordes to follow .
T4TC St.Ouens - M@

Did the puzzle a few days ago.....so I thought. But it is no good with one wrong number! Thanks to TWS for correcting me on this. Team effort find on our way back to the ferry. TFTC

Ahaaa...the name is fitting..Sharpeners and Sharp lava rocks Sat chatting with Glyn and Zork and whilst others logged this cache. Gencuster and kids found this one first. The last leg (limp) of the journey on our way down to meet the ferry. Thanks another excellent cache.

We got the description from M@ late in the hut the day before and solved it together with M2ZT3 and Tramper Ted. Then we went to bed...and jumped out again early (too early...) in the morning to have a - as TT called it - "fast walk up the hill". We would call it workout. At least we were awake then.

Took: Pencil Sharpener
Left: Bouncing ball

TFTC

(1204)
Easy find. Found by Phillapillar who graduated top of our caching class. Well done P, BTW Nice camo Mark.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Fun with a mystery cache, although nursery rhymes are not my forte...

14:36 Found this cool camoed cache on our way off the Island, we turned up and spotted several other cachers in the area. So it was a very quick find, thanks for the effort on the cache and the puzzle Mark.

Found it along with the.pud. New most of the answers and will I was Googling came across the web page St Ouens used.
Cheers for the cache.

15:25 Another brilliantly camo'd hide... Spotted cache then waited for some other cachers and a muggle (you all know who you are... ) to find it before we all stood around and signed the log and pinched pencil sharpeners.

Very sharp and black lava. Enjoyed the cache and well done for placing it before the event St. Ouens.

Strolled down slowly to the wharf with Glyn & Co. to make a pleasant end to a throughly enjoyable day. In keeping with my policy of not stripping a location of caches, there are two left to do on another trip - Issy Bay & that mystery one

Cheers,
GC.

team effort to do this one, thanks for the effort & work so obviously done, great camo! TNSLLNTFTCACHE!!

Impressive camo! Found this just as another few groups of geocachers arrived. So I can claim I FOUND IT FIRST!
Nice hide. Many thanks. Great day out!

A bit of brainstorming at lunchtime on the summit with HeliRC and Rickamortis had most of the answers. Called in on the way down the hill but was devasted to find that all of the chocolate eggs had already gone

Found on the way up, 2nd for the ferry catchers I believe.

GPSr was leading us round in circles for a while till it finally settled down.

Took a boozy egg and a couple of sharpeners.

TFTC

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