TheWonderStuff Celebrates 3000 Cache Finds (Ackld) Red Beach, North Island, New Zealand
By TheWonderStuff on 03-May-09. Waypoint GC1PCWJ

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Yeah I couldn't find it , not much to celebrate lol

On my way back from "Silverdale Town Centre - An Ammo Can for Zork" I paused for a quick look but no joy.

Searched for ages! Grrrrr in the words of Arnold "I'll be back!"

There's a lot of bush off the track to search. Perhaps a more informative hint would help.

Looked on both sides of the track. Lots of green bush. We will try again another time. Nice walk.

Our first geocache! Exciting!

14:30
Congrats on your 3000th find! Or more like - 20000th find as of now!
One thing that I still cannot understand - how kiwi geocachers take their measurements - this is DEFINITELY more than 2m from the track. This is about three times more, I'd say
Either the cache has moved, or the track has moved, or the meter has became shorter since the time since the cache was hidden.

Thanks for the cache!
#3502

Not to hard once you get past the green

I just found the geocache I didn't recognise it at first but then I realised

Another visit to Millwater to update the rapidly expanding subdivision onto Osm [leaflet map]
Actually found about 8m from the track. CO might need to check its in the right place. Nice hide. TFTC

Took awhile! Luckily I read previous comments about how far of trk. It was starting to irk me... well done on the container though, log paper quite dry too. This Millwater area really going ahead. Can't keep up with all this progress!

Don't know when or how you achieved your 3000th TWS, obviously it was some time ago now! I'm looking forward to this Sunday (16-8-2015) to making my 2000th cache land upon a mountain, Mnt Te Aroha in fact. Making plans to take a few friends with me to enjoy the occasion. What on earth are you going to do for your 20,000th cache? Land upon the moon, a day trip to Mars?

Finally found it took a bit of searching cool camo tftc

Found it today, certainly more than 2 meters, maybe it's been moved? We were a bit thrown by the wet log comments, it's not in any of the wet logs around the area! Left some pirate treasure! Love the Camo well done! TTFC!

Hint is a bit off... But found eventually:-)

After half an hour of looking around the bush - only our third try though so maybe looking for the wrong things!

Had a look around a few specimens before spotting . Bush has various incarnations! Thanks

Nice work hiding it!
I kinda think a little more than 2 meters tho.

Todays caching day was supposed to be all about 4WD along Muriwai Beach and grabbing those letterbox hybrid caches along the beach. The weather was favourable, tide timew was good as well and the geomobile full of fuel. Only problem, no company. My intended travellers pulled out one by one leaving me alone and, sniff, sad.
Nothing for it but to call off that mission and come over to Silverdale to grab a few easy caches to push the numbers along. There are absolutely loads here and in a new area that's always a winner. It also means I can park in one place, walk a loop grabbing 4 or 5 or 6 the go and move the car again to tyhe centre of the next cluster. Managed over 30 today which although not massive numbers was a nice gentle trip and back here at a decent time with time to log them and do all the humdrum extras before work again tomorrow.
Moved the car up to nearby and walked another loop of 6 caches.
Nioce sized container and an easy find today
T F T C

Not to hard

Awesome. Found it just as it says. Has a golf ball now.

Awesome. Found it just as it says. Has a golf ball now.

Fun! Took a bit to find as further off track than expected, but 4tr old enjoyed finding his golf ball treasure. Left pink fancy pencil, as wasn't anything to write with there. TFTC!

This entry was edited by SmallMushrooms on Saturday, 09 May 2015 at 02:23:06 UTC.

Nice little hide once found.

First find up this way. Quick and easy. My son loved the camo

A bit further into the bush than the hint says bit fun finding it!

Easy to find.

Found it!

Amazing

Haha scrambling around the bush for a while but finally found it! Def need to go a little further off track than expected and readjust what I considered a bush great hide tho!!

Tftf

Struggled to locate cache at the start. Checked previous logs and then re-adjusted our search parameters. Quick find for Kiwiscot after that. KS swapped a bouncy ball for a little torch. TFTC

Found our way to the right track and a short search was successful.
Tftc.

Oh THAT sort of bush ! Was a bit exposed so covered it with natural camo ! Wow ...look how many you have now ! 17 1/2 thou ! Congrats !

Had a power cut early this afternoon and as I can't do my job without power and the rest of the family was going out for driving lesson and shopping I decided to join them and do a spot of caching. Had I stayed at home waiting for the power to come back on I would have been mighty annoyed at wasting this opportunity to go caching as the power didn't come back on until well into the evening. Nice opportunity for some exercise walking around some of Silverdale. Had no luck even looking for the Silverdale Town Centre Residential and An Ammo Can for Zork due to construction site barriers and with lots of workers around decided not to risk it. SO decided to look for this one and followed the direction on the compass to dive through bush, over stream and up the bank to find the track mentioned in the hint (hadn't checked that yet) - obviously arrived from the wrong direction! Found the cache just gong by GPSr despite tree cover - definitely not 2m off track though. More poeple have found this one than the other caches around here though. Maybe I'll reach 3000 finds someday but won't be soon I don't think - this makes find 504 -by now you've reached over 17500 (that's a lot of caches a year)! Thanks for placing TheWonderStuff. [having now found the track I decided to head off to the Ammo Can cache because it now looks more promising]

Very cool hiding place.

Thx

Easy find once i readjusted what my idea of 2 meters was.

Nice easy find, tftc, log is quite damp

First geocache in New Zealand with Kita Buhs!

Popped out for a Sunday afternoons caching with Stella while the sun was shining

Another cache logged on phone that hasn't produced smiley! Found after reading previous log. I would have said 6-7 metres off the track. TNLN. TFTC.

Awesome find it was on our second visit...

Found it after a while. More like 4 metres off the track. Cool container!

Nice hide thanks

Tyftc

Great find with kiwi_adventurer and girls

Found with kiwitrecker1 and the kids. Quite a surprise to find the path on the way. Congratulations on the 3000 WonderStuff! TBs out. TFTC

Nice hidden track and the cache as well. Thanks for hiding this big can so we could leave two travelbugs there.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

First Find! #addicted

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

We'll hidden tried wrong side of the track at first as GPS couldn't make up its mind

Great cache - you need a GPS for this one though
TFTC !!

Not a very nice place for searching....Why OH Why do the dog walkers think they are doing the correct thing by picking up "doos" then it's quite O.K. to just throw plastic bag and the lot into bushes. NOT O.K.

Searched here and there before making the find due to GPS bounciness. Thought to be a good cache to leave a TB, so I did. TFTC

Quick find. TFTC

Found it. Love the container! Awesome

[green] At long last, after two weeks of Auckland Mega and the GeoTours North and South, I can get my bike out and go for a ride. Over 30 caches by bike today!
So here I am, down this odd path. Looking at a pond.The GPS says the cache is 20 meters away, the hint says otherwise, and I have yet to see sloppy GPS work from this CO yet. So I put the bike down, step off the path about to search the shrubs here, when the penny drops. Duh! There must be a path on the other side! (insert your favourite feel-like-a-right-wally expression / feeling / colour here). Found a way across that did not involve getting my feet (or the bike) wet and found the cache shortly after.
Oh, and by the way, GPS is happy with the hide!

Hi

On the lookout for some regular sized caches and this one met the criteria. TFTC

after we couldn't find the last one was nice to find this!!

Thanks for the cache

Failed to find this today; I guess I should have read more previous logs.

Found cache after a bit of bush wacking and head scratching.

As a previous log said 2 means 4ish.

Didnt have a pen and there was no pen in the cache, so will have to return to sign the log another day.

Great location and container! Tftc

Found it. TFTC

Quick find- one of many i've found of yours so far mate!! Cheers!

Not sure if its still here. We searched for about 40 minutes

This, just like Goliath down the road was also un-covered, but all is well now.

Took us little while to figure out where to park car, a couple of u turns later we were on our way. Lovely little walk and a bit of a hunt and foraging around we found it and our first trackable. Boys (7,9) super excited and keen to get this moving. Congrats on the 3k finds.

Nice cache, congrats on 3000 :3
Watch out for the doggie poo!

Was a little more exposed than it should have been so covered it over a little

Dropped off Trackable

Fancied a few smilies in Silverdale today, another nice easy find - well done Wonderstuff (we were listening to the Wonderstuff as we got out of the car), tftc
OUT: Pickin' the Blues Geocoin
IN: Spare Four Wheel Drive Key

After gps made me over shoot, went back past again and found easily.
Signed and left a Trackable.

Another cache for the day on "KiwifruitsNZ Day of Milestones".

Easy find and quickly moved on to the next one.

#1038

Another quick find while caching about silverdale. thanks for the hide!

Glad we read previous logs to help with this one as we were nowhere near far in enough!!! Nice hide. Our twelfth and last find for today TFTC

#1037, GPS put us on the right side of the path today, and made for a quick find. Dropped TB. TFTC

All good here

GPS went crazy but found it eventually. Great hide.

Excellant hide and thank-YOU
TFTC

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

We headed up north to Mahurangi West this morning and called into Silverdale to pick up a few caches on our way. A short walk from Goliath and a nice quick find.

Thanks for the cache!

We headed up north to Mahurangi West this morning and called into Silverdale to pick up a few caches on our way. A short walk from Goliath and a nice quick find.

Thanks for the cache!

22-09-2012 at 16:10

#896: Found

Nice easy find after hopping over the stream and learning that '2 metres' actually means '4 metres' and 'green bush' means 'tree' in geocaching jargon.

TNLNSL. TFTC

2.20pm. No problems getting to it. That is a very long two metres though!
Thank you. David.

Quick find after having to cross the wee stream. Rather slippery but got a smilie . Yes hint is a tree now by the looks.

More a tree than a bush now.Tftc

After coming at the cache from the wrong side we finally crossed the pond and the cache was quickly at hand TB's picked up and will be dropped off soon TFTC

No Luck Today

Searched for ages! but unfortunately it was a dnf, despite quite a search. I suppose I need someone to come here with. More eyes make lighter work...

TFTH

3000 cache finds must be a distant memory for you now as I see you've cracked the 10,000!!!!! Amazing dedication to the sport TWS!!! This cache marks our errr, 642nd find!
Dropped off a couple of TB's.

Nice camo job here....

Grabbing a few caches in the area while passing through on our 'how ever long it takes' NZ tour.

Thanks for setting this up.

TFTC

Mud & Kim
Grabbed TB to move on

Found with my brother revhead. Thanks

cheers

Nice quick easy find (with hint). There's a lot of development work being done here. Interesting to see what this area will look like in a few years. TFTC.

Well hidden.tftc

Second cache for the day, the start of the round the estuary walk.
Coin out, Tb in