Valley of the Mangemange (Auckland) Shelly Park, North Island, New Zealand
By KiwiLeon on 27-Sep-08. Waypoint GC1GMZX

Spent 40mins giving this a very carefull search. Pretty sure I was able to pinpoint GZ--no sign of the cache. Checked every likely and unlikely spot. This needs maintenence or archiving. Note also, that the track is currenly closed due to slips (though I didn't encounter any coming in from the south).

Will clear the area for new cache placements.
Thanks for visiting - if you've found it.
Sorry for those who couldn't find it.
But is't a nice walk anyway

Confirmation that it still exists needs to be placed. Not a cache in this vicinity

Four of us searched for about 30 - 45 minutes. Zilch!! Nothing!! Nada!! Either it is VERY well camouflaged or else it has been muggled. I assume it is up the bank. Confirmation of its being there would be great. Thanks for the exercise on a beautiful Christmas evening anyway.

3rd time down there this time at low tide. I wandered up and down the mangrove flats pin pointing the spot up on the bank. All the angles I tried all led me back to the same spot. Nothing to find! After a few emails back and forth with the last few people to find it and I'm certain I'm in the right spot. Can we get a note saying yay or nay to it being there? cheers

Had a good search with bjarni1 behind every tree within 7m of the track and came out empty handed. The tree that looks most suitable had a bit of a walked in track leading up to it? Walking all the way there and back with nothing to show for it is a little annoying Will try get some more clues for a future visit.

Ran out of time to do a proper search.

a very lucky and quick find. nice walk along the track.NTNL

TFTF, NLNT. Nice walk, remember to take some water!!

Great walk, Great find, take a drink with you, you may need one!! TFTC

TYFTC

A good find

;0 we found it. thanks

Found it very easy with jolcha and cheeroke.alca. Thanks for a cache.

TFTC - found our first Geo Coin here

After a couple of false starts eventually found.Dropped Geocoin GRZR07 into cache and took Travel BugGWF377.Fun find

Very nice walk along here that I used to do when I was younger.
out - marbles
in - TB
T4TC!

Had just enough time after work to go for a short cache hunting trip. Quick found, TNLN, TFTC

Really lovely area. Would never have found if it wasn't for geocaching. SL TFTC

Our third Mangemangroa Reserve cache this afternoon. A very hot afternoon, and it was incredible to see so many people running up and down the steep stairs - they did not look and sound like they were enjoying themselves! The tide was out, exposing the mudflats at the boardwalk. No trouble locating the cache at GZ. Thanks.

# 1069

Nice walk. TFTC.

Had a nice walk.
The clue was helpfull.

It was a bit surreal walking on the boardwalk with the tide right in. The tide level came up to the boardwalk joists so it seemed that you were walking on a floating walkway.

In: Geocoin.

Cheers for the cache.

Geocoin drop.

Easy find with the hint, despite the tree cover! Found during easy walk through the Mangemange Reserve. Many thanks

real easy to find, mean as calming walk especially when having a break from hardcore studying. also cool as items to trade

Good to hunt around. Thanks.

lovely walk

Got really close before cover & cliffs made my GPS go all over the place; estimated where it was pointing when it was pointing, and found it easily. I covered it up a little better.

A lot of people were doing really hard work jogging up and down the hill.

Left the Jeep Safari TB, took the yellow/purple Jandal, which may become part of a travel bug (if I can find my unused TBs).

Had the grand kids out for the day in the camper and walked down from the school . whew tough climb back out of the track but lots of people on the boardwalk today.easy find when the 7 meter limit is scaned.

Really easy to find, and found a travel bug!! a friendly koala that needs to be returned to the us!

Struggled to get my very old GPS to work under the bush canopy so it took longer than it should have. Left a YELLOW RABBIT. Thanks.

What a walk. No fun with kids as you need to carry them back up all those stairs. Out dice in rubber spider. TFTC

[This entry was edited by Gadget-tron on Friday, September 04, 2009 at 8:04:29 PM.]

A wonderful walkway... to good to miss on a beautiful spring afternoon. TFTC

this was a good workout.
suggest terrain be upped a tad. Cache was hard to find as well.
thanks for the challenge

Think we must have taken the long way for this one but a quick find when we finally made it to GZ. Interesting walkway however it was now bucketing down and we were wet through by the time we got back to the car so this had to be the last for the day T4TC.

Have often thought of doing this walk with the kids, so it was great to have the excuse.
Nice easy find. Marbles in, frisbee out.
Warrior and Ring TB in.
TFTC

We often walk in this reserve, great to have found another cache.
SL
TFTC

Really enjoyable walk to the cache! Cache itself was a nice easy find.

+ Dice
- 'Buddy' TB

TFTC!

TfTC took TB left cards. Walk well what can i say lol.TOO MANY STAIRS LOL

Lovely family walk with Mr Two in the backpack on a Sunday evening celebrating Daylight Savings. Lots of muggles jogging through here.
+spider and TB dice
-TBbike and TBhorse

Nice walk, easy find.
Out with Gong, in with Spider

A beautiful walk with some great views. Met some interesting characters on the track with local knowledge of the valley.

Cache was quick and easy to find once we got there.
+Frisbee
-Nothing

Thanks

Nice walk down from the woolshed. Quick find at GZ. TFTC

#512
Picked up this cache after completing Mangemangeroa.
In: Dice TB to entice fellow cachers to the area to enjoy it also!
Thanks for bringing us here!

Plesant stroll from Shelly bay, This is one of my favourite walks in the area!

Had trouble getting the GPS to settle, but once I found the cache I looked down and the GPS had decided we were in the right place

- smiley magnet + Gong

TFTC

Parked at the gate and walked across the paddock to the path, very nice walkway, thanks for the placement, grabbed some pics.

Cheers

Had an enjoyable walk here, didn't take the shortest route on purpose. Was surprised I was able to find the other cache in here by memory, must be over three years since I visited it.

TFTC, -2x TB's, +TB and jeep

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Not perfect but close. In and out with the support of the local barking dog.
Thanks KiwiLeon for the cache.
In - Ksenija
Cheers TT

Found on a pleasent downhill walk. Yhanks for the clue, helped a lot. Dropped in Mozzie GC, but someone may have picked it up before I could log it.

Picked up TB.

Cheers.

A great place for a cache.Found the other cache in this park a while ago.Gpsr was all over the place under the trees.Found after a little bit of a search.Little bit of a workout getting back up the hill.
I didn't see any bugs,but I found a coin which wasn't log in.

Cheers KiwiLeon

Logging in Weathered's Australian Adventure coin

Always a pleasant walk this one, with some decent size puriri trees and lots of bird life. Love the the way that the walkway curves out over the mangroves (you can see it on google earth). Did it from the northern end this time. Took the Ireland Geocoin.
Thanks for another good one Leon.

(1683)
First to log, but not first to find. No problems with the cache co-ords. Was really surprised no one had claimed this one earlier, bumped into the FTF party as they were leaving GZ, Well Done to M@ and team.
IN: Ireland 2007 GC
OUT: Castle Man's Traveling GW5 Sunburst Geocoin
SL, TFTC

An easy find, GPS pointed straight to the cache although when I marked the co-ords there was a difference to those posted, but obviously not enought to worry about.

The hard part of this cache is getting back up the hill.

Out - Nil
In - A Christmas gift & Cheesdale collector cards.

SL-TFTC Leon

Very lucky FTF today - only half deserved really! I don't know about this cache but luckily ran into Yugeo4 earlier, who gave me the coords. Then managed to get there first, just before 3pm! Coords are good.
+ GW5 geocoin
- Treasure Map gc.
T4TC - M@ & Crozier Clan.

Published

TB/GC drop.

Can somebody give me some feed back for the coords? It was a bit hard under the trees? Thanks.