Half Way There (Auckland) Red Beach, North Island, New Zealand
By The Clan Fraser on 12-Oct-09. Waypoint GC1ZQZG

Gone

Three sets of eyes here unable to locate the cache.

Add me to the growing DNF list. Had a good search. Even a PAF didn't produce the goods. This one needs a CO check, I would politely suggest.

Searched everywhere but could not find the cache. Lovely and lesser known area around the estuary, even for the locals.

No luck here. Needs checking.

Nice afternoon for a scooter ride around part of the estuary walkway. Searched for around 20 minutes without uncovering the hide.

Pretty glade. Searched around for quite a while but no luck, will try another time. Thanks for a tricky one.

Our last cache for the day before I had to go to work. We navigated our way to a nearby entry point to the bush walk and started off on our little trek. This was a lovely walk through a bit of quiet bush that was nestled in among the houses out here. After a few minutes, we arrived at GZ. As the GPS was bouncing around a little bit and misreading some of the logs for clues to the location, the right area was searched and the tricky cache was soon found. This was rather satisfying as the "where would I hide a cache here" strategy was used, and it worked. TFTC

Cool hide! What a great pathway. Enjoyed our little trip and took some great photos ☺ TFTC

Good hiding spot

No luck here today for us either... 20min search then we moved on.

I visited GZ with a group of ten students and a muggle teacher from St John’s College in Hamilton as part of their camp week. Over four days and three nights we visited Orewa, Whangaparoa, Waiwera, Whangarei, Paihia, Waitangi and Russel. We generally signed the logs SJC GEO Camp to save each student needing to sign the log. The boys literally ran from Geocache to Geocache trying to beat each other to the find. By the second to last day they had all at least found one cache each. They all seemed to enjoy the experience and hopefully will decide to keep Geocaching as a consequence. We found a great variety of caches in some amazing spots. A huge thanks to all the CO’s for placing and maintaining all the caches we found.

Without a hint and everyone's devices pointing us in different directions we decided to move on when one of the boys got a little to adventurous and ended up in the creek to the amusement of his friends. One of the more memorable DNF's I've had.

Nice cache. Took awhile to find.

Found it ! We were determined. Lovely hiding space. TFTC

Very nice location. Lotsa muggles around. Found this after a bit of searching! TFTC

TFTC caching with rustynz & Gorby.

We left the main track to this one, I got down to the bridge and asked rusty if the cache would be here, she said half way between there and the main track so together we searched, I decided one more big burst of energy was required, so stepped of track and got my hands rather dirty but found the caches hiding spot, phew, glad to get this one! With no plastic bag, I was quite surprised the paper was so dry, maybe there is a lesson to be had here!

This entry was edited by Gorbygorbachov on Monday, 03 August 2015 at 11:14:22 UTC.

Getting tired now, and Gorby had the energy to find its hiding place. We are fading, must need coffee, or at least a chair to sit on! After cache was rehidden, I spotted my first mosquito! no snacking on me, as I made my way back to the walkway. Cache contents lovely and dry, even with the log not in a bag. Lovely little spot, I walked a little further along, looks like the neighbours have some cleaning up to do! Thanks for the hide

We didn't find it this time but we will find it eventually!!

Not to obvious but good

Dude, yes you can get it on the path, but you gotta LOOK!

Sneaky tough find.

Tricky find on a lovely side path.Can be found with both feet still on the path. TFTC

Well, I wasn't half way there, but in the end it proved to be correct anyhow, be course I had to turn around because of the rain. TFTC!

Great little walk to the cache and a quick find ...TFTC

Tried this one three times before and finally had it in hand! Great hiding place and a good challenge thanks!

Cool man this one was super hard to find but heaps of fun

Have tried to find this one twice before. Finally Success today. TFTC.

Only halfway there and tired out already.
Good to rest and search. Tftc.

Nice quick find after I survived Alligator Island unscathed !!!!

One for the day walked the loop track thght we better find one:-)

Thanks. A fairly quick find with some help from my friends.

Beaut day for a walk. Nice to see this old walkway. Nice little treasure nestled away. After spending over 45 minutes and nealy giving up, I was determined to find. GPS was fluctuating but found in the end.

Nice place.ge0rg

My first geo cache find in NZ! TFTC

Just dropped by to pick up the TB and set it on its path.

Nice easy find had no idea this path was here, spent a little while searching though the bush before i read that i did not have to leave the track

Did spend quick a bit if time looking......but to no avail

Great cache!
All good, added pencil

Great little cache, found and signed log and replaced in the same place that I found it! thanks for the cache

Quick find walking the dogs

Quick find whilst walking the dogs. TFTC.

This entry was edited by GESAnderson on Tuesday, 29 July 2014 at 05:35:10 UTC.

Well, who would have known of this little pathway existing - now well marked. The log store was full today in the garden - a reflection of the temperature drop of late. TFTC.

Today was foggy and made this location seem mystical. Nice walk, TFTC.

GPS spot on. TFTC

GPSr jumping around a bit but 'gar' spotted it after a while. Nice little hide The Clan Fraser - thanks for placing. On to the next around this walkway - we're enjoying it so far, and made even better with these hides.

Oh wow I completely forgot to log those caches!
We went here with Donisa and the kids. It was their first time geocaching and they absolutely loved it ^^. That one was found by Donisa. Nice little path, well hidden . TFTC.

Today we went on a short walk along the sea with Karapo 88 at this place. The goal of this walk was to show what is geocaching to some children. We found 3 out of 4 caches we searched, and the children loved it. It was a pleasure, and there was a lot of sun.
Thanks for these caches.

The GPS and phone was all over the place, but found it in the end TFTC

First find around estuary. Cheers

Tftc

From both side we couldn't find this one - it might be too natural comoed for our eyes.

Found by harebell and Chris and Dusty beautiful views tftc.

Cute little side path, might have missed but for the compass! Gorgeous area, thanks for bringing us here.

Surprisingly quick and easy find. Hubby found it. Very nice hiding spot!

Third time lucky - missed it by the smallest margin yesterday - need to learn to be a bit more thorough when searching. TFTC.

Yahoo. Second time. Tftc

2nd attempt finally got it! tftc

Great little hide. Looked at obvious places first and then thought harder and made the find fairly quickly. TFTC

Nicely hidden. Took us about 12mins to find with two pairs of eyes. Tftc.

[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!
Over three quarters of the way around the inlet and I've reached half way! I love this walk/cycle way. If I lived here I'd be on it all the time.

I couldn't find this geocache, maybe I'll have better luck next time!

Took a while to find this with my GPSr bouncing about. Eventually found in a sensible location after searching expanding my search area to more logical places. Thanks!

Gosh I remember when that bridge wasnt there and you had to go though the trees to get over the other side

Will need to try again another time .....

Had to keep one eye on the weather while looking for this one, as it had been raining most of the day. Quickly found.

Out today to clean up a few missed caches around the 8 km estuary walk. Pleased to have bagged this one as we just couldn't find it on two previous looks!! The GPS was a little more friendly this time and cache was soon found; why did we miss it previously ??? Number two for the day!! TFTC

Nah-not today

Its a shame to see this part of the track not used much any more due to the pristine cycleway being preferred. This one took me a few minutes to find after walking down the track a wee way was able to spot it. A clever hide and a lovely spot. TFTC

Out in silverdale to clean up ones missed from last time. Nice walkway.. fairly easy find. . Tftc

Up in the Silverdale area so decided to get some more of the caches up here.
Lovely secluded walkway.. found cache after the GPS settled down..
TFTC

Found it in a very pretty place, thanks!

I was out with on a family Sunday drive today and decided to pick up a few caches in the area. This was the first time that I had ever been on this walkway and I must admit that I really enjoyed it. As for the cache, this proved to fairly straight forward with the only difficulty being a resident muggle overlooking the GZ and hence my searching activities. Although I quickly found the cache, I decided to retreat back to bridge and hence out of sight to sign the log . I then managed to return it without being spotted. TFTC.

Enjoyed this walkway. GPS jumping about a tad, so walked out along walkway then came back in. Spotted cache, signed and wondered off as muggles came along.

Found by Lizzie10 and Roger from the UK out with fellow cachers(family) ChrisnDust and James.For some reason we took a bit of time before finding this,we were trying to be too clever!TFTC.

Found eventually, gps was playing up under the trees. Tftc

Found eventually. GPS was going bananas!!

A nice simple cache on labour Day.
Cheers

Got it with thebarrows!
Couldn't find it last time, got it straight away this time around

Almost to the end. Thanks nice quick cache

Took a wee while to find, however, got there in the end. A very nice hide. TFTC.

Nice quite area for cache
TFTC

New Log. Waterproof Paper this time.

#666, Quick Find. Log Completely saturated. Needs a new log sheet. I didn't have any with me today. TFTC

I like having out of the office meetings, give me a chance to do caches a bit further away from home. Glad there was no one home as took a while walking slowly back and forth trying to get the GPSr to settle. Decided where I felt it was and then started with a quick look around, with no luck. OK will need a bit of a closer inspection - afterall it is dificulty 2, so won't leep out at me. Started looking in the right places but took awhile as I started at the furthest away. TFTC

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

Easy find, good hiding spot though. A path I have used many times in the past before the new walkway went through
The log book is very wet, but didnt have time to dry it out

No luck for us here today

Came at this a second time, from the opposite side, and hey presto, we found it! Logbook soaked and couldn't sign it. Lovely spot. Thanks for bringing us this way.

I did look for this one earlier today....no find. So after 4 DNF on this little track we needed to check again. With the hint we looked and looked, and almost needed to admit another DNF.....But I just wanted to take just one look (as my hubby was already on the bridge back to the campervan)....and yes just that one look was a golden look....And so we found this on our 2nd attempt of today.

Nice area didn't sign log as it was saturated. Tftc

Gave up as our GPS was going haywire with the directions and everyone was rather tired after a day of caching will go back for another try soon

The log was muddy but the cache was intact and well hidden! TFTC

20-08-2011 at 17:01

#834: Found

TNLNSL. TFTC

Log is completely soaked

usually walk the new track, nice to know there is an alternative, good hide

Easy find thanks. We have been here in the past before the modern walkway was constructed. Co-ords were OK for us. Log is without plastic bag and very wet. (Sorry didn't have and bags ith us to leave).

Cleverly hidden...

#788 On a bit of a journey today to collect family member from Orewa, take to the airport and then return home. So decided to cache on the way there. Nice walkway. Took a wee while to locate. SL. TFTC.

gps a bit out here but found with a good search. (No pencil here).

Quick find , Have done this walk before , Nice new bridge.

What a great area this cache bought us too. Muggles stopped for a chat on the bridge so we had to wander around a little - just as well, as it gave us an oppurtunity to view GZ from a new perspective and it gave us an idea of where the cache could be ... bingo, cache soon hand, signed, put back and the muggles none the wiser. TFTC