Blue Goose (Whangarei) Toetoe, North Island, New Zealand
By Pooke on 08-Oct-09. Waypoint GC1ZK6E

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Didn't have much hope for this one, given it hasn't been found for a while. Had a good look in several trees, climbed up, looked in holes, but nothing.

CO - can you please check if this one still exists. Hasn't been found for a while.

DNF. We climbed several tree with several holes. Found a hole with twigs next in tree next to GZ.

Clambered up and tried several hidey holes but no luck for us. Thanks anyway

Two of us spent 30 minutes. Owner check needed please

Good muggle free day. 99.9% sure we found the hidey hole for this. Stretched up, looked and felt around. Even used a good prodding tool but no luck. Long time since this was found so may be missing. Will put a watch on this.

Nice walk over to site - spent a while searching for this one.

Up here for another dog show. Looked high and low last yaer but this time with a bit better GPS location found the right tree. However that was the easy part. Extracting the log took forever. Log now signed. TFTC

No luck for me today

#540 Well, as previously logged, I came back for another go at this one, this time armed with a tall husband and a couple of handy tools to aid with the extraction. Very tight squeeze in there!! Took a lot of concentration and skilled handiwork to get the cache out but we did it!! TFTC!! Very well hidden and a good challenge.

Had a wee look at GZ but decided to come back with more light and my taller other half. Will be back!!

Took awhile to get out

Found on first attempt. Retreived log book on second

Found on first attempt. Retreived log book on second

Had a really good look & could not find.

Looked in to a couple of holes I could reach. Seams to be beyond me.

Easy find but tricky to get out. Kept biohazard_freak and indib1nd1 busy for about half an hour! Tweezers or pliers might be handy for this one!! Finally got the goods in hand and ticked this one off, before hitting the track for more. TFTC

Found with Violetflame2012,biohazard_freak and Indib1nd1. Had a lot of fun getting cache out of it's hide, but we got there.TFTC

Another cold windy day and had the park to myself . Located the obvious feature according to hint, but the cache didn't reveal itself. Must be too cunningly concealed for me.

Hard to find on a windy day.

Hey I finally went back to the Park and found the right tree with the right hole. Great excuse to go tree climbing on Council land BUT how on earth do I get the cache out - fingers can't do the job. Next day going past again and have a spoon in my lunch box - spoon can't do the job either. This is getting serious. Back again the following day with two tools and after much manipulating had the cache in my hand . . Fantastic challenge. No muggles around on all my visits, too wet and cold. Nice and dry inside the container and I left a small silk rose to give the cache some treasure. Great Geocache , it gave me a buzz completing it. Licklick TFTC

Oh dear, did not find this one. Found a very obvious, up high, hidding place but Grandson on my shoulders was too chicken to stick his arm in too far. Went back back early next morning with a bucket (20 litre) to collect rubbish ! but also to use as a step - still could not reach the bottom of this hole either wrong hole or need a bigger bucket ! Will try starting again.
Took out 1/2 a bucket of rubbish. Dog walkers love this park have to pick up rubbish while they move on.

I dropped my pen on the walk from the carpark/toilet block, so if any cachers find it, please let me know... it was a nice one!! Had to log the cache with a muddy-green smear. Im glad Im tall!! Thanks.

Cool little find

Never been to this park before and it looks so much bigger in here than from the road TFTC

Cool little find

Took awhile to spot this well hidden cache. Coords abit out for us but no problem tracking down the hiding spot. Luckily, i am quite tall so was able to reach in and grab the cache without too many issues. Watch out where you put your hands as miss pulled out a very unsavoury plastic bag containing doggy poop. Enjoyed the break between the GB1 power trail. TFTC!

found ages ago before a frisbee game and forgot to log it. Good hide has us looking for a while.

Took a couple of (ok 4!) visits to get this one. Had to borrow an extraction tool from the husbands man-shed and become a bit of a monkey woman.

Very satisfying find with libertebelle

29/11: Second time looking for this cache, still no luck

EDIT:
01/12: FINALLY got this cache with Gwench! Required a specific tool and a boost up. Frustrating, but so satisfying once we got it TFTC

This entry was edited by libertebelle on Thursday, 01 December 2011 at 02:02:27 UTC.

Spent ages looking for this one. Looked high and higher then low. Looked in all the holes but alas came up empty.

no luck will have another look next week before frisbee.

Sneaky hide and a challenge to extract, but got it in the end. It pays to widen your search area when you get to posted GZ co-ords. T4TC

Found in the first place I looked but not so quick getting it out to sign.

Managed to find a parking spot about 170m from the cache and then walked the remainder of the distance. Got to GZ and commenced the search. Looked in all the obvious places first and then had to widen the search just a little to find the cache. Getting this cache out turned out to be rather difficult but got there in the end. TFTC

At last we found the cache after 3 or 4 attempts. Very sneaky hide. TFTC, I think this find has given me the most satisfaction of all the finds so far!

About time we found this one, I can't remember how many times we've tried. Found with DeadRockFlower and 3 wee bucks. TFTC.

Nice hide.-Bitsprayer

Out for the day with Tikitour doing my first 'hides' - but of course we had to do a few 'seeks' as well...

Grounds very muddy and squelchy underfoot - but we're getting intrepid and shoes were filthy by now anyway.
Poked around in heaps of holes and then located cache using extendable mirror - but we're too old for climbing so haven't signed logbook - will be back to do this with either grandies or taller hubbies - TFTC though

3rd July - Thanks Mr Tikitour for being tall enough!! And thanks tikitour for signing log for me - will save me returning and muddying up my shoes... am off to Warehouse this week to buy boots for geocaching!!

This entry was edited by Flowernz on Sunday, 03 July 2011 at 06:32:05 UTC.

Sneaky hide !!!! Out and about with flowernz, lovely day to do some caching. no climbing buddies with us so used our mirror and found it but couldn't reach to retrieve to write in the log !!! will go back and write in next time going past with muggle hubby. TFTC

3 July 2011 - took dogs for a walk and hubby to do the reaching. signed log.

This entry was edited by tikitour on Saturday, 02 July 2011 at 23:57:29 UTC.

Sneaky!!! TFTC

Had a search where I thought it was. Though I missed it being Mini. Riser5 climbed up and retrieved the cache that had started falling further back in the tree. While I was logging the cache, Riser5 threw a few dozen small twigs in the hide to keep the cache near the front.

took a couple of tries, but finally found it!

Fun little tree climbing find watch out for spiders!!

Mr W.E.K.A. searched the one location he could just reach, without success. It seems a stepladder is almost essential.

On a short weekend break up Whangerei way in gorgeous weather picking up a few caches along the way.

This was a good one and thankfully no sports on today giving us time to search. Finally found when Mr Pastamaker hoisted the youngest Junior Pastamaker onto his shoulders for a better view.

TFTC

Just out of reach, lucky my climbing skills are in tact

A little bit of a soggy walk across the park today. Fortunately, it wasn't a game day, so we had the whole park to ourselves. Just as well, we would have looked a bit suspicious checking the trees out.
Thanks, Robmc.

First cache in the town proper and after parking a couple of hundred metres away we wandered over the grass to the hide.
This one would no doubt be an interesting retrieval on game day.
TFTC

3.07pm LOL these are great caches.
Much laughter was had trying to get this one
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (1626)

3.10pm. Found on our way out of town in the company of The Pud. Lucky we had them with us as they are younger and more agile! As The Pud has recorded in their log - many laughs were had!!
TNLNSL
TFTC
[8d] M&P.

Great, Today I was in luck as I have a TALL hubby who just loves to climb for me. Had a great laugh watching him have a little trouble to extract the mirco. Well done we have signed the log. Yepee.

easy find but will be back with STEP ladder as no hope in reaching it sorry.

4762 Great hide, took a while to find, had lots of fun trying to extract the cache, we liked, TFTC.

Energetic soccer game on here today. Must have looked a bit out of place doing a circumnavigation of the field. Cache very hard to retrieve, even for Mr TT. Mrs TT and the bear didn't have a hope. TFTC

With the football and dog agility, we're surprised we found a quiet spot with a well hidden cache in it. TFTC

came for this cache in the xmas holidays and spent an hour serching without any luck so came back a few days later with a head lamp and chair and still had no luck. cant belive that on our third atempt today found it is 2 minits TFTC

Climbed the tree to find,nice little hide.Enjoyed watching some very well trained dogs at grounds.SL.

Nice hide,latest finds will give others hope.Heaps of dog people today.

Woo, seven before me missed and Yay I find, Its still there. Try a little further up the tree, I am 180cm and i just reached it standing with my arm outstreched.

had a good look around, threw my son up 5 trees, was a great hole to hide something at the back of the tree, the cupboard was bare

Didn't find the cache despite looking high and low. Boosted 1 wee buck up high to look in some of the nooks and crannies. I think it must have been muggled

Had a good look around, with no luck....

Still no joy. Took KingLuna to help. Boohoo. Will watch this space.

No luck today. Could it have gone walkabout?

aaaghh! Spent ages looking for it. Double checked co-ordinates!
Must be a bit short sighted. Stink was curious about the 'stretching' in logs!
Will have to come back with KingLuna some day soon...

No find for me. Cheers M@.

Good to get outfor a walk and no one around to bother us while we did the acrobatics. Great hide T4TC

Requires either a tall member in the party or a very light one that is easy to lift! Great start to our geocaching ventures!

Good chance to stretch more than the legs!!

Found by the Smith family on a pleasant afternoon cache hunting. Took along my son especially to find this one after reading some of the "find" logs. His climbing ability and small fingers helped in the search. TFTC

Last find for the day, the rock climbing genius used his skills in a different way and cache was soon in hand. TFTC

[3.00pm. Was here last week without success.] Realised that because I am a little vertically handicapped than many of you I should come prepared. So today I came with the kitchen steps and kitchen tongs. Having checked out the hard to reach places of last week I looked a little further and soon spotted it. Quick retrieval with the tongs. [No muggles about today. Thank you, David.]

Found quickly. Wife got stuck while retrieving. D'oh, left pen in car. Made a makeshift pen....

Felt a goose last time, but this time Mrs TWS spotted it on approach.

Took a few minutes to extract.

TFTC

The Barnacle especially enjoyed a really good leg stretch after a long day in the car... the mermaid hobbled along and luckily had the pirate to go the full stretch n fetch the cache TFTC!

Took a while to find this one.
Good way for a stretch after a long travel.
Coords were a bit off for me (~8m)
TFTC

I well remember the Blue Goose from my childhood, driving to Whangarei to stay with my gandmother. Have looked for it over the last few years and not located it, so nice to have a cache to force us to stop here! Checked out a few likely hiding spots before we found the right one. Thanks.

# 829

I blame the pesky kid asking dumb questions..... Next time!

Felt a few, s-t-r-e-t-c-hed and got it! Bit of drizzle about but all the players safely at school.

My first cache, wow this is fun thanks for introducing me to this.

First cache for the day. A few muggles in the park and it looked like they were training there dogs. Found cache with no problems but I did have an aditional hint. TFTC

Felt like a fool carrying around the appropriate equipment.
TFTC

Following the directions from the GPS I saw a suspicious looking guy loitering around right where the cache should be... turned out to be Grobyc, I knew I should have gotten up earlier! Cool hiding place, TFTC

Found on the 2nd visit, Came friday morning at 7am to try and snag a FTF before work but the rain decided to make that hard, looked as best I could but eventually gave in as I didnt want to be soaked before I get to work.
Came back saturday morning and looked for quite a while in the area that the gps said thinking that Sarah always gz's in the exact same spot as mine but no Sarah must have had a bad signal day 12m out..
Get to the spot that I beileve it is in and noticed a muggle so I waited for a moment and saw the gps in the hand.
Cache was located and retrieved quickly afterwards

Hooorraahh!! Found! Thanx to brother Ludz! Not the first but up there in the top 3! YUSS!!! Crafty hidey place - had us looking for AGES!
TFTC!

Out caching with & Mum, who supplied the bright green necessary equipment, also accompanied by another no fixed aboder. Good hide but we were on to it! TFTC

[This entry was edited by No Fixed Aboder on Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 2:10:12 AM.]

bummer - was really really really wanting this to be my first FTF!! Seems I may be just that little bit too short! Will have to return another day with a taller Ludz!

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