Avalon Campus (Waikato) Te Rapa, North Island, New Zealand
By psychrn on 13-Sep-09. Waypoint GC1YMZF

Decided to archive this one. harder to get to these days with highway changes.

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It's a long way round now! This one was right outside where Steed did his chef training, but that was before (just) this cache was placed. No sign of it- unfortunately we hadn't read the recent logs as it was a spur of the moment one on our way to another.

Perhaps this one has had its day if it isn't going to be replaced.

Had to do a detour to get back here because of road works and then no luck in finding the cache either

No luck today.

Hunted along the entire Rosemary (type of lavender ?) hedge but to no avail...may pay to check if it is still there as hasn't been recorded as found since end of May

Parked up for a meeting & a cache 8 meters away; would have been rude not to sign the log!

Mmmmm Lavender hedge that goes well with Lamb.......... TFTC

Lovely quiet day for a quick find in the ROSEMARY hedge.

Easy find but not sure if it where it should have been.

quick and easy grab thanks

done well at course for the day and is just outside where i study tftc

Found it

Found

Easy find

Arm got a bit scratched by the [hint] but finally retreived it. No one around. TFTC

Quick Find, bit exposed. re hide a bit better. TFTC

Found on our 24hr cache-a-tron mission from Auckland to the Waikato. Quick walk to the cache since the barriers were down then returned to our trusty cache mover to carry on the mission

EIGHTY!!!!! of 164 finds in the 24hr Cache-A-Tron Waikato Cache Raid
(http://cacheatron.blogspot.com)

Once we managed to get into the campus, Barrier was down, and sun light was decipating... Tourch time.

TFTC.

Found on our 24hr caching mission, Cache-A-Tron - Auckland to Hamilton and back again. A bit of a peaceful stroll in (as the gates were closed) and a nice easy find. TFTC - #80 for the day

EIGHTY!!!!! of 164 finds in the 24hr Cache-A-Tron Waikato Cache Raid
(http://cacheatron.blogspot.com)

What the .... is with this road??!! - looks like the council has decided to make the campus hard to get to by installing an uncrossable median - we finally managed to get around and get into the grounds - but as expected the barrier was down.

more importantly... it was time to break out the torches as the sun was finally dipping below the horizon.... the rest of our finds would be in the dark...

TFTC

Found on our 24hr caching mission, Cache-A-Tron - Auckland to Hamilton and back again. A bit of a peaceful stroll in (as the gates were closed) and a nice easy find. TFTC - #80 for the day

Found this as part of our 24 hour team caching event. Number 80 for teh day.

TFTC

Number 80 of the day!!! Yeah!

# 5507 - 5542
Found during our vacation in North Island, on a day dedicated to find the mysteries solved before leaving Europe, from Hamilton to Auckland.
TFTC

#5332-5411
Found it with portokeil while visiting from France and Portugal
TFTC

Easy find, hedge has been pruned recently

Niceeeee

came out of this smelling heavily of lavendar, nice after hours cache to do. [8]

We came over to Hamilton for the Family history Fair so I had some
spare time to find some new cache's TFTC

Looks like theres been some gardening and it was a bit exposed so covered it up with leaves.

Cache was in plain sight. Was actually amazed it was still there as it hasn't been found for a week or two. Covered it back up.
Place brought back some memories of attending Wintec.

A quick find followed by drama as we found ourselves locked in by the barrier arms which automatically close at 17:00 hrs. We were VERY lucky to be let out by a staff member who just happened to be on site.

Boy was that easy, as it was visible from the car! If only my arms were longer I could have reached it from the driver's seat lol! Very quiet here on a Saturday afternoon. I've never been on the campus, despite driving past it daily for work for at least 10yrs, so thanks for brining me here. TFTC!

10.30am. Quick find as I could see it from the car. Covered a bit better when I left. Thank you. David.

Quick find in the pouring Rain, no muggle activity. TFTC

Had the niece (SSGBME) with us today so enjoyed the caching
T4TC

http://www.t4tc.co.nz/

Found while out and about with kiwifamily
T4TC

Picked up friend and grabbed this cache at the same time. TFTC.

Thanks for the cache

Left this cache smelling lovely. Was a bit strange crawling around in front of peoples cars, but soon had the cache in hand.

Easy Find TFTC

3pm - Easy find once we found what lot of lavenders, security arrived just as we were leaving. TFTC

Out and about signing off some solved puzzle caches, and collecting a few other caches on the way. Thanks.

found this cache and some star.
TFTC

Having never been to the Wintec Campus before, I found this to be a nice easy drive by cache. Picked up GC for some travels and left a GC . TFTC

Quick early morning find, while in Hamilton for a couple of days TFTC

Found It

Good place to hide one

thanks!

Nice and quiet today TFTC

#129 Easy find. Were shocked to see damage caused to the trees because of the wind. TNLN. TFTC

Was able to park next to the cache as gate open and only one other car here on a Saturday morning, TFTC

We drove in here and felt a bit uneasy searching in front of the parked cars but all went well
TFTC

We drove in here and parked quite close to the cache. Felt a bit nervous searching in front of others cars, but didn't get seen.
Did stink of Rosemary for quite a while afterwards though
Thanks, Robmc.

tftc!!!!

Quick and easy
TFTC

Easy find, very quiet today... TFTC

Nice Cache in a nice smell brush.Nice day to be out thanks

quick and easy to find

Finally had a chance to call in here today for a visit nearby and managed to sneak of and pick this one up.
Nice to see parking available right a GZ and an easy find.
Took GC and TB to move on.
Thanks for the visit
[red]TFTC[/red]

Thanks, signed log, took nothing. Dropped Kate's Tiger TB after visiting Hamilton Zoo, it now on its way to see more big cats.

Almost had to stick my head under a car to get this one; it was parked a bit too close for easy access. Dropped off CCWA5B.

Drove past this one already twice, but every time there are muggles hanging around smoking.
Was early today and had to sit an exam a couple of buildings further down the road.
Quick find.
Took Jeep TB.
TFTC

Nice find (nice smell)

Out on the big 'run' with Gadget-Tron

It was now dark and the torches were out to find this one. Misread the hint initially but once -OGP- corrected me we made the discovery in seconds. TFTC

Nobody about the campus today, quick find.

In: Red Jeep and German TB.

Out:Ben and Jerrys TB and Elmos Jeep GC.

T4TC

Nice easy find on a hot sunday afternoon. TFTC!

Dropped off tavell bug and geocoin. Cheers.

Found no worries, asked by security if we were looking for the GPS thingee. He had obviously seen it all before........

Just a quick drive by. t.f.t.c

TFTC

TFTC

Found with Hppo. We all smelled like rosemary!!! TFTC

Liked the smell - very enticing bushes. TFTC

2nd go at this one, nobody around today, found after a brief search. NINO TFTC

Quick find as there was no-one around because of the holidays. Weird noises coming from the neighbouring farm though. TFTC

Quick find once I managed to find the right way in. Cheers Gav [4878]

Found it

TFTC

I smell better now. Thanks.

nice easy find, tucked into the smelly hedge!!
-TB
TFTC

Youngest member of our clan discovered this one, left part of my broken pen so the next person can fill in the log book!

Our last Waikato find of the year, and the 84th in the past 2 days. This was a late night find, before dashing back to Auckland to find the last 4 caches we needed to reach our goal of 1200 before the new year begins. This cache left us smelling great! Thanks.

# 1196

So nice to come away from a cache without the normal dirty fingernails, instead we came away smelling beautiful. What a pleasant change. TFTC

Cache very exposed and impossible to cover up properly. No one around today so no problems finding. This was supposed to be the last cache of the day but we found an unexpected key, so just had to backtrack for another.

Ah, so that's what the key was for! Must have missed the fellas by minutes, as this was also our last cache of the day. Security left as we turned into the gate, so we knew that only the electonic eyes were on us. Easy find all the same. TFTC.

Waikato Polytechnic certainly has expanded since Mrs TT lived in Hamilton. Great campus. Discovered a key, so decided we couldn't resist picking up the cache it opened. TFTC

Easy find. GPS pointed directly to it and all I had to do to get the cache was bend down and ( refasten my shoes )
TFTC

Found on our way up to Huntly, half expected someone to come and tell us to bug off out of the area. Skweak picked up a TB

Found with Geo-goober, nice walk after work
Took TB
TFTC

Nice quick find. No security hanging around. TFTC.

Very quick find. Cache was quite bare, so I put some cover over it. TFTC

XC and TK having just attended the local Event decided to pick up a couple before heading back to Auckland... Stopped here and parked Xena walked in to GZ... Not many student muggles around so stealth was not required... Couldn't find the lavender but found something similar and XC located cache ok... TK Signed log and I dropped in Micro Visitor 02 TB to continue journey...
TFTC #1079

Found in the company of the inimitable XenaCommander. Quick find following others who had attended todays event. In Laminated stash note nil out TFTC

Not quite a drive-by, had to walk the last bit due to a locked gate.
Nice campus though.

TFTC

Had to walk a few hundred meters to this one.

TFTC

Out & about in Hamilton, 17th find of the day T4TC

Found as part of my three week caching trip from Wellington to Auckland - # 826. Thanks.

nice easy find in the rain with muzy man made the rehide a bit better to was pretty obvious when approaching GZ cheers