Romantic Castle (Auckland) Chatswood, North Island, New Zealand
By G-2 on 06-Dec-08. Waypoint GC1JF29

time to re-do

Will replace this week

cache is gone, will replace, not in the same place though

Afraid we join LittleMelon on the short list of DNF's. Had a good look around and there were a couple of "out of place" possibilities but none that we could get a cache out of.

Looks like I'm the only one who couldn't find it. This is embarrassing....>.< Most of the time spent was waiting for the neighbours across the road to finish their lawn mowing. While I was walking back home, I received a catcall. I am so not going caching with a skirt again.

I'll come back another day!!

Out with Kyle&Coke introducing them to the delights of night caching... 9th (and final) of the night quick easy find.... this castle is special to us as this is where 8yrs ago we had our Wedding photo's taken... thanks for the memories Glynn...... TFTC

Sneaky hide TFTC

Very quick easy find, great story behind the cache.

TFTC

what an amazing effort and great love story
nice camo work too Glyn !
TFTC!

Finally got to this one! Had to wait quite a while to return the cache - strolling muggles! Love the simplicity of this hide! TFTC

#1287. Nice hide. TNLNSL. TFTC.

I love this place been past it so many times never ever thought there would be something hidden there...nice camo, Mr UGTME found it we so didnt have a chance...TFTC

Mr UGTME saw imediately... great cos it would've taken me ages to find...

concluded that I will no longer go caching without him lol

TFTC

Took my 5 and 3 year old who eventually found this. Used to walk past this castle and had reads it's history in a local travel book. Nice job. We took out a little umbrella and put in a lollypop

Interesting place. Thanks for the history lesson. Grabbed a pathtag to add to my collection.

Castles are sooo cool! Many thanks

Good location, soon located the cache. SL TFTC

Driven by previously but not stopped. Quite the sight - we felt a bit pervy holding our cameras over the wall, it would be nice to see inside - your pics are sure better than ours! Cool camo. PINO TFTC

nice easy find, seen the castle many times, great to know its history. TFTC>

Nice and easy find. Good camo

And each heart is whispering, 'Home, home at last.' ~Thomas Hood. Lovely story, beautiful location, true romance. TFTC! <3

Nice quick find on way home from "needle island' TFTC.

Always loved the castle - great cammo

Found this one on my way home. Didn't have any time to look at the garden, next time!
TFTC

Awesome drive-by cache, great effort on the cammo. TFTC

I never read the cache description before I drove up to GZ. After spotting the large green structure nearby I was about to immediately drive away without bothering to search, when I wondered about how come the cache's name fitted with THAT structure. So I decided to check on the placer. "Oh, it's one of his. He usually places great caches", I thought. Then I read the description and discovered the story behind the cache. That is one imposing family home, though I sort of wonder how damp and cold it may get inside. The cache was a quick find after that. Thanks for the cache.

Valentine's Day seemed appropriate to visit the Romantic Castle. Love-ly story, and a typical bit of Glyn camo on the cache. Thanks.

# 1475

Like previous finder, also on a late night hunt. Great drive-by cache. TFTC.

Quick easy find on a late night caching trip.....TFTC

Whoops! Quick find as it had fallen out of position... all fixed up... Amazing effort put into his castle... and great effort on the cache too. TFTC.

Nice place, TFTC

Our second cache hunt and first find.

Gorgeous, really loved it.
TFTC

A quick find despite muggle working on car across the road.

Quick and easy find with Kaz & Ethan... some things just don't seem right TFTC

Just around the corner from home. Love the castle. Didnt take to long to find. T4TC

Quick and easy find. Thanks.

Nice little hide. Blended in really well. TFTC

Spring was in the air, so time for a geocache or two!
Thank you for bringing me to this interesting sight!
It's a regular mini-Kiwi Taj Mahal!

Nice afternoon for a walk and a quick find. TFTC

This is my fifth cache today. I have now walked 8.3 kms and am not really looking forward to have to climb Eskdale Rd on my way to the next cache (FTF Much in Ding Dong Dang). Loved the hide.

Cheers for the cache.

Quick find. Nice camo and thanks for the history. TFTC!!!

Amazing place. Having seen ti first hand I thought my daughter could consider it for her wedding. Any excuse to buy a hat. T4TC

HAVE DRIVEN PAST HERE SO OFTEN-WAS GOOD TO STOP & HAVE A NOSEY.QWIK FIND-TFTC

TFTC, our last find of the day and the littlest Welsh kid had to be lifted up to have a better look at the castle. Neat place

#728
What a beautiful castle! Mrs Geckoh would like one but Mr Geckoh said NO!
So we compromised and collected the cache instead.
TFTC

Wow! Never would have known about this place, so thanks for showing it to us.
Cool hide at GZ!
TFTC

Cache looks quite at home there doesnt it? Clever. TFTC

A quick find, and I made use of the nearby tree branches for shelter from passers-by whilst signing the log. Cheers Gav [3548]

1.30pm. Mr. JF did not know of this castle's existence though Mrs. JF said that he should. What an achievement. Peeped through the newspaper slot to get a better view!! Not frustrated by the camo. Must be getting to know you Glyn!!
TFTC.
TNLNSL.
[8d] M&P.

Didnt actually see the castle - to hot to goof about.

No probs with the camo - kinda reminded me one of mine.

TFTC

We are learning more of the local history with every cache. Quick find for the start of a night's hunting. Great camo T4TC

found with yo-mum, before i had my own handle. thanks for playing a part in getting me into caching =)

found with cents-less. awesome camo job, though i would expect nothing less from you glyn! tftc =)

Gosh - if only we could see over the wall.
T4TC - M@

Took longer to wait for neighbor to back his car in (looking at us sideways) than it did to find cache. Would have been even quicker if I had stuck to my first supicians, rather than look around elsewhere, but still was able to quickly introduce Joan (of Darby & Joan) to some of Glyn's camo.SLTFTC

Out for an afternoon with Helefant thought this cache would be nice to do. I some years back worked for Dee and Ron. Was sad to read she had passed away. Was able to point out to Helefant some of the features inside the castle which was simply an awesome place to work. Anyway back to the cache, thoroughly enjoyed the camo on this one. Very, very clever. Thanks for bringing us here, it was nice to remember my time at the castle. SL. TFTC.

7.50pm. Quick find, after something didn't quite llok right.
Another nice camo job Glyn.
TNLNSL.
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (1200)

Quick find with Adee, nice camo.

TNLNSL

Thanks for the hunt.

Found easily, rather fort like wall with its own castle, very nice. TFTC

I have driven by the castle many times and wondered about its story. Thanks for bringing us here, glyn. Gr8 camo!!

We're still laughing about this one. Well, two of us are. KayakNKiwi was driving for the day, so she parked and we shouted for notes as we wandered toward the GZ. KnK fossicked in her bag for the Palm only to look up and see us smiling satisfied smiles of triumph. So much for team caching. She then quickly isolated it from what belonged to the scene and found it herself. Thanks for the story of the castle. I visited the Taj Mahal recently, but didn't know we had our own Love Palace on the Shore!

Drive pass the castle often, now can drive pass and say - ha got that one!! Caching with Indiana Jill and Seattle’s Best this afternoon. Before I had even got out of my door, both were away walking towards GZ, while being asked so kindly to get the notes. I hadn’t even got notes out and both came walking back with great big smiles.... brilliant. Off I went in search of this with them both looking on!! Fantastic camo, really enjoyed this! TFTC!

(1992)
Quick find, spotted a likely location from the car. Nice castle from what little we could see. Many thanks for making us aware of this grand structure. Mmmm….. the block work ain’t half bad, looks almost as good as yours Glyn.
TNLNSL, TFTC

What else do you do on a wet day - Go Caching. At least the muggle count is down.
Thanks for the history Glyn. A very sweet tale indeed.
Quick find and signing.
Cheers TT

FTF!

Snuck in for one of those rare shore FTFs, no problems locating or retreiving, although came away with just the lid on the first retreive.

Interesting bit of history.

TFTC

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