Stoned & High in The Grove (Auckland) Sunnynook, North Island, New Zealand
By G-2 on 03-Dec-09. Waypoint GC1N98W

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missing will replace unless someone else wants it

nice easy find. TFTC

Good clues made for a quick find. The log was discoloured with a type of rust residue which made it difficult to sign. TFTC

Easy find

My third day in New Zealand. Hurry, hurry. I must haved some cache! Thank for this nice place!

Log water damaged and unreadable. Interesting find, easy to find though I overlooked it at first as a novice geocacher - very small.

Nice quick find here saw the cache as soon i walked up to GZ. I must be slowly getting my glynn cache eye back in after a slow start to the year. Tftc

Tricky extraction of log, very rusty, trftc

Easy find but hard to open. Tftc

Killing time in the area. Easy find. Thanks.

Heading off to find a cache for the August Challenge but needed to pass by this cache, on the way, which we had 'looked at' before at night with no luck. Decided to stop off anyway, just in case, and found immediately, surprise! surprise!. Co-ords spot on! Container quite rusty and contents rust stained and log entries unintelligible, steel tie wire rusted through/away also. Never-the-less, a good hide. TFTC

Out and about for a couple of hours with the Future Finder for a spot of caching this afternoon. Parked up near GZ and after a circuit of GZ spotted the cache. Took a moment to work out how to open. Cache is wet and rusty on the inside. Cheers for the cache placement!

Found after a brief search. The cache was hidden in plain sight. The LB was wet and rust stained. Dried it as best I could and added my initials, but the log might need replacing in the near future. TFTC

Quick visit on the way betweem two jobs. TFTC

Very satisfying cache. Saw the cache quickly into hunt, however disregarded it as didn't realise it was the real thing. Obvious but yet had us hunting away.

Super quick find quite hard to open though

Nice quick find

I was afraid the find might take longer than reading the cache description luckily I spotted it quickly, nice little hide, TFTC

Well hidden, took a couple of minutes (:

Luckily the cache may have been stoned and high in the grove, but I wasn't, so I managed to spot it pretty quickly, as something just didn't seem right. I'm not too sure if it was in the right place, as it was kinda just placed there, but it had a logbook inside! So after a bit (Quite a lot actually) of shaking of the logbook, it came out!! Yus!!

So signed the log while peering over, watching traffic... How great is it to not be in a rush anywhere in the mornings, and be able to cache instead of having to go to work or uni? (I just wish I could do this forever! )

TFTC!!

Nice camo, had me searching for a while. TFTC.

Got to park near GZ but as it was raining cats and dogs, I sat in the warm and dry and read the story attached to this cache. So once the animals passed over, I knew where to look and what to look for, so it didn't take long before I had the clever little cache in my hand! And I had the pointed pincers on hand to remove the log. TFTC

Eventually got a park, nice piece of cammo, soon extracted with great care and back in place, TFTC

Was driving past so thought I would have a look. Clever wee hide and had me looking for a minute. TFTC & lesson

yep

Out this way to get my automotive's AC sorted and got here little before the appointment time. Thought to wander around and check out the hides in this area. Nice camo and hide!

TFTC glyn

Definitely a delicate little cache tucked away there. Log strip had rust stains on it so difficult to write on, but we managed.

Found it right away, but didn't realise we had...eventually found the log! Our first cache . KirsTim

second time here and finally found it this time, still took awhile and learnt a bit about stonemasonry from the story to boot. TFTC.

Nice easy find. TFTC.

Searched a bit for this one but soon had the cache in hand, TFTC

Bit of searching but soon had the cache in hand TFTC

Our fastest ever find even with Muggles about everywhere. TFTC!!

Quick find on the way home. TFTC!

Max Wall searching - but easy find thanks. First in the new log

Tries to do this one on the way from from Power 2U, looked and felt all over but no luck didn't spend too long in it as I was attracting some odd looks from passing muggles.

4.27pm. Spent 10minutes looking here, had the hi-viz and tape measure out so the passing muggles didn't even take a second look.
Found plenty of holes but they all had nothing in them.
Will come back with dynamite to blow the sucker out !!
Cheers M+S [:O)]

all good, new waterproof log strip from our local geocaching supplier Kevsteam, probably better to extract with tweezers..

home for repair

Great camo. Nice quick drive by

Found Log book soaked with what looks like rusty water. thanks.

Love the title....haha. Found this one after a few minutes. Nice little hidey hole

Found with Biggles while caching in the area. Nicely done would make a good earth cache too. TFTC

Found on day 1 of a 3 day Auckland cache raid with Kiwi Explorer. This took much longer to locate than it should have. I think we were over thinking the hint but eventually located the wee blighter! TFTC, Biggles.

Got a strange look from a man walking by as I perused GZ... soon found and logged. Note - cache log book very wet, and has rust stains on it. Still able to "just" write on log, but not sure for how much longer. Interesting to also note the two abandoned homes down the road ... they must really annoy the neighbours!

Found with Team Y-Cacho's during our Auckland cache raid 24 hour mission

TFTC

One of 262 finds on 24 hour Auckland cache raid by Team Y-Cacho's. TFTC

One of 262 found on Team Y-Cacho's 24 hour Auckland cache raid.

T4TC

Found with Team Y-Cacho's during our Auckland cache raid 24 hour mission

TFTC

Parked by your cache while driving the Team Y-Cacho's Auckland cache raid 24 hour mission

Many thanks for your cache, plan to be back soon with Butterfly_Lady

One of 262 finds with Team Y-Cacho's during our 24 hour Auckland cache raid epic.

OmaGosh, over and out...

Out and about with the Y-Cacho's.
Nice hide. Log is rather wet unfortunately.
Many thanks

Quick find by my partner suprising!!! Nano cache!!! Very vey VERY cleaver hiding spot!!! TFTC!

First Find for the night...Taking my 2 newbie cachers for an evening/night outting... Have been meaning to stop and get this one for quite some time. TFTC.

First find of our 1st official geocaching mission with Sammyy09 and Furbies. Cute little cache

Cute find at the beginning of an awesome cache hunting night with Furbies and Loz47!

Nice quick find by the female half of the team.

TFTC

Found after a quick look, very neat cache. TFTC

Found after looking for a few minutes. A good re-read of the clues & details helped. Good hide for a micro, well done.
25 October 2010 : Edited this log after recording our finds on the computer - The clue ' Read between the lines' is a good cryptic one. I have only just seen its meaning now. Although we ourselves yawned at the short novel of a description written & didn't bother to read : LOOK & READ IN THE HISTORY SECTION & ye shall be rewarded.

This entry was edited by 4Sansons on Monday, 25 October 2010 at 05:09:10.

Finally could get in and sign the log for this one...
The spider from last week had left the the cache hiding hole...
T4TC nice easy find...

No probbies here. Went straight to it. TFTC

new logbook, hopefully not too much more rain -;)

12:07 After a little search, we found it. Cache is very wet and there was no way of signing the log so I took a photo of the cache, for verification, if needed. TFTC

#280

We were actually looking for a cache on other side of overbridge, but overshot the mark so had to find a turn around and this one popped up! Tricky little hide. Headed back to the other side of the bridge to the next cache . Log wet and full. Could do with some maintenance. TFTC

Found with Ledge End - Fantastic camo!
TFTC

found with mondoolix, our 7th for today. love the camo on this one, one of our faves for the day. tftc

Took a few minutes but was eventually located by one of my vertically challenged comrades. Awesome hide TFTC

Quick drive-by cache... Nicely hidden... TFTC

Very quick find. Lol my boy found it 1st...... Teaching him well
Very well hidden. Tftc

nice quick find with Future Finders

[This entry was edited by Louise 5 on Friday, May 14, 2010 at 9:42:51 PM.]

TFTC

Very quick drive by find despite the very clever cammo. We're getting used to looking extra carefully now on Glynn's caches! TFTC

lol easy found within 2 secs of looking at the wall... much to Helefant's dismay

Nice hiding place TFTC

Very nicely hidden. Thanks!

More work in stonemasony then I realized. Many thanks for the hide and the write up.

Great camo, had to go bacl twice to have a good look
Nice one

Great Camo, was found on second attempt

Quick find, excel camo job.

TNLNSL

Neighbors were a little suspicious at our presence but quick find TFTC!

Very clever camo ... TFTC

Left the GPS at home for this one. Great hide. had some of the local muggles a little curious.

11.50am. Cleverly concealed but the guidance in the notes gave us the confidence that we would find it. Eventually, on the second look in the spot - Yi Ha!! Many thanks.
TNLNSL - obvious really when you find it.
TFTC
[8d] M&P.

Loved the camo. Quick find with a little torch. TFTC

1818 Another wonderfully clever Glyn hide, had us going for alittle while before the cache revealed itself! TFTC

Great camo and thanks for the extraction tool TFTC

Took a while to find, then a while to work out how to open. SL TFTC

More great camo.......... ggrrrr, arrggghhh, and @#$%^%^&&*. Thanks.

The first of a series of unfounds on the northern part of the Shore.

Great camo, Glyn.

Cheers for the cache.

12:41 - Great camo from the master, who was with me when I found this. I think Glyn was surprised I found it so fast.

Thanks for the cache and the Wild Bean Coffee...

About to leave when Mrs P had an aha moment and all was revealed. t4tc

Nice hide, great camo that only the master can do.
TFTC

Just as we were scratching around the Cache Master turned up and came and laughed at our efforts. Said we were in the right area - and hey, there it was. Very cunning hide, well constructed (yet again) thanks Glyn.

GETTING MUCH BETTER AT READING THE CLUES SO FOUND QWIKLY-TFTC

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Nice camo, quickly spotted.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Brilliant camo. TFTC

Very good cammo job on this one. Glad I did this in the day as this would have been tricky at night time. Nice quick find. TFTC

Superb camo, but quickly found, well there weren't too many options.

TFTC

Too tricky for me, will admit to getting a little help. A very clever hide.
TFTC

Thought this one would be quite easy as I "Rocked" up after work. Took some time to find it - to be honest.

A clever hide, and a nice challange. Cute.

Many thanks