Rooses Retreat (Auckland) Pukekohe East, North Island, New Zealand
By Zork V on 25-Oct-09. Waypoint GC2085Q

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Need to check.

Came across what we thought was the likely spot, but no luck for us here today. Had a good hunt around in all the likely spots but came away empty handed. Did found something on the ground that looked like it may have been part of the cache, but no sign of it.

No joy here today unfortunately. Gave the tree a pretty good going over but all we managed to find was a stray calling card from a previous cacher laying about on the ground nearby. Will keep an eye on it in case anyone else has better luck than we did.

You're right, it is scary!

A good one! TFTC

Easy find. Thanks

TFTC!

Scary one

Great GZ! A few broken bottles around the cache which I cleared as best I could but take care.

A nice park and a good hiding spot. Enjoyed the walk to this one. TFTC, Biggles.

Quick find TFTC

Awesome reserve,had a bit a look about.Cache jumped into my hand without too much drama but you wouldn't want to breathe too hard around the scary one.TFTC.

This is my favourite of the day today - great clue - lovely little place. TFTC

Found w "elliephants" group.. tftc!

Awesome place to hide it. TFTC

A lovely patch of native bush to wander through. Left geocoin with the scary one! Thanks

A quick find on a caching spree around Pukekohe this afternoon. My first reaction on walking along the path towards GZ was "what's an Ent doing here?" Quite impressive, and a very nice reserve with some great tree specimens in it. Signed log, TFTC!

Nice little walk at the end of the day, TFTC

Attempted on our 24hr caching mission, Cache-A-Tron - Auckland to Hamilton and back again. We had a good scrummage around through all the little nooks and crannies in this awesome looking tree, but didn't manage to find any treasure unfortunately. The 5minute timer went off and we were forced to abandon search and move on to the next one.

Lovely morning for a stroll in the Bush.

Too many people in the park ' nice tree....

Tree didn't help

No luck this morning by have a few more days in the area so I am determined

Found after a very hard search. Left the "will you marry me" COIN in the scary tree as marriage and be quite scary at time (aye honey...ha ha)

took a bit to find but we got there good hide TFTC.

New 500 ml camoed container placed.

IN: Red Jeep Travel Bug.

Took a newbie up here to introduce to caching as I had previously found it but woops its gone I think.

Had a quick look on my way past, but couldn't find it. Cover stone had been removed and rubbish around the place, so possibly muggled.

Need to do a check.

Creepy tree indeed. Tim Burton would love it. t4tc

Nice easy find, no muggles nearby. TFTC.

Liked the hint for this one - makes a lot of sense when you see it. Thanks.

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A nice little reserve I haven't been to before. Thanks

Nice walk in the forest. We haven't been to this part of Pukekohe before, so great to explore. TFTC

The old Garmin not very helpful in here, so took a punt, which turned out to be right TFTC

1.55pm - Had to wait for muggles & their dogs to leave before attempting to get, reckon this location would be great at night with lights. TFTC

Yay!!! Easy one as familiar with this park, lots of little muggle's tearing around on kindy visit :/ Added a party popper

Our fourth cache for the evening. Nice evening for a bush walk! GPS had difficulty under all the branches but quickly figured out the meaning of the hint and there was the cache! TNLN. TB was not present in the cache. TFTC.

Wow - that is a REALLY scary tree.

Previously logged. Visited to drop off Shoot this Dog TB

What a lovely park. Fantastic trees, we really enjoyed looking about. Great spot for the cache too. TFTC

Thought this will be a nice one to see if my mother of 84 can find a more difficult cash.
It's still easy to walk for her with a walkingstick.
After the find she has declared herself for crazy because her nails were so dirty and normally she wouldn't shake a hand with dirty nails hahahahahaa

Took a bit of searching but found the cache. SL TFTC

TFTC.

Oh I know of this beautiful bush. I hope we get more and more in Pukekohe. Hoping that South of Auckland will be as popular as North Shore hihihihi
This is a nice bush. Specially brought my 2 doggies with me......You never know with the scarry one hahahaha

T4TC!

Out driving around Pukekohe visiting some caches.

A nice piece of bush in an urban locality.

In: Geocoin.

Cheers for the cache.

I spotted the scary location before I realised it was where the cache was located. I wasn't too comfortable standing in certain locations as I wasn't sure how on earth it was doing the impossible! The TB I'd got with me was too scared to stay here.

I had no idea this place existed! Will have to go back again to explore!

Amazing place I never knew was there. Keen to go back for a longer walk on a day with better weather. And a really cool hiding place

We were very taken with the many nikau ferns, and wondered why the lack of regenerating trees and shrubs. TFTC

Very lovely bit of bush there. Spotted the scary one quickly. On the way out a guy walking his dog said, "That's an easy one" Not sure who he was TFTC

Haha it was pretty scary! Was nice and easy to get to (was on crutches!) TFTC!!

Nice easy find... thanks for the cool SCARY location. T4TC

Nice little spot
couple of mugglers but no concern.
Will have to come back and take a longer walk here soon.
T4TC

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The only cache I ended up doing in Pukehoke and it was one the way out. A really nice spot for a wander. TFTC!

Another place we had not visited before and on arrival at GZ, we soon spotted the scarey one and the n the cache was soon in hand T4TC.

TB grab.

3.15pm. What a dfelightful stand of totara!! Definitely spooky!! Found in one of many likely spots at GZ. Cache in good order. Added a bangle and TB. Took a rubber and mini frizbee.
TFTC - Many thanks Zork for bringing us here.
[8d] M&P.

Have no idea the TY bit of the clue related too but we did find GZ OK and the cache soon after. I think we could have parked a little closer but never mind. TFTC

What a wonderful feature! Had to wait out a family group enjoying exercising the dog and the juniors on the loop. Thanks

A lovely spot, enjoyed the visit thanks.
TFTC

Found it. Cool hiding spot!

First find for the day on a trip through the Bombay Hills and surrounds.
GPS had a bit of a hissy fit but the find still happened quite quickly.
Found with timj7 and 5k1p1nnz. Took nothing, left signatuer eraser. TFTC.

This entry was edited by Woozy Moose Tribe on Sunday, 01 August 2010 at 20:49:40.

Found with Woozy Moose Tribe & 5k1p1nnz. As said GPS went a little crazy, but we got it. TFTC

A nice walk in the park with friends, but they found it before me the mongrels as they told me to look in the wrong location and blame it on the GPS! Yeah right!

Great place for a cache. Dropped off the Tardis and took the Belt Up TB so we can travel home safely.

very scary!

easy find but this cache is less than 200m from where i live so know the area well as walk the dogs there daily.

Late log. Found on the way home from Auckland with a little detour to pick up some caches. A little more learnt about this historic character.
Many thanks

What a choice forest and its right here in puke. some lovely big trees with heaps of character

Nice area for a walk. Very appropriate clue.

Our first Geocache it was a lot of fun! Easy to find and a great little spot for a walk.

Had a bit of time to kill so grabbed this cache and took the geo coin for a train ride to the Waikato.
TFTC

First find of our day. Grabbed the TB and left a coin. Thanks!

Really like this NZ caching

Took highway patrol to south island. TFTC.

Found with Thejaybees. TFTC

Easy find by the members of Teamhoward5 with thejaybees today. Left a TB here times 2.

First find of the day on our road trip South. TFTC

Quick and easy find. Thanks.

Took some time at the end of the day for a walk in the bush. Very therapeutic! Easy find. TFTC

Found it in spite of an army of Mosquitos trying to keep me away.
Left "KIWI" TB.
T4TC. TNLN. SL
Godfreyh

Nice spot I didn't know was there. Mosie city!!.TFTC. Took hair band and water pistol. In Jandal keyring. TFTC.SL.

Wow this is a really lovely reserve with some stunning trees well worth the visit tucked away here not far from the city great for a stroll.

Easyfind with daughter Teejay

Nice hide and nice cache. We'd never been here before!

+ Frisbee
- Shell
- TB "Sparky"
- TB "Jeep 4x4 #0039"

TFTC!

Nice park, very surprised there haven't been caches here before.

TFTC

Replaced cache with a 1 litre camo encrusted Lock in Lock. Please watch out for muggles on pickup and replacement.

In: Sparky TB

New Cache placed

Disabled for over 3 months now!

Anything happening here [?]

Well we could almost list this as a find as we found the cache contents and a page from the log book. Container was no where to be found. It would appear that this one has been MUGGLED. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

I will check it out.

Great spot for a cache. T4TC - M@

gps didnt like he tree cover, had to take a bearing and pace it out- landed me about a meter away.

GPS was pointing 10 meters away, no matter where I stood.Eventually found it with the clue.

Checked the level of petrol first before heading this way.
Quick find. Nice big container and nice bush.
TFTC.