Getting Stealthy on Broadway (Central Auckland) Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By saggis on 20-Mar-10. Waypoint GC25906

Time for someone to put something else in the area.

I need to order a replacement container. Bear with me.

Had a good look. Lol and a feel. Maybe next time.

Couldn't find anything but if it was on the pedestrian side I saw some marking where the cache could have been.
Probably stolen...

After a busy, hot day, was trudging slowly back to accommodation, and decided to take a quick look at this one. Previous log reminded me of one in Tauranga (more easily accessed!), so once spotted it was a quick grab. Streets were pretty deserted too.TFTC

Awesome urban camo!!! My son I are novices but found it and replaced it without notice. My son was SO excited!!

UP from the Naki and getting dark so just the right conditions for being stealthy TFTC

Found on Sunday at 7:31. Not a lot of foot traffic. Have seen one like this in Tauranga so knew it was the cache when I saw it. Tftc!

Not quite where I expected it but a quick find with Okayness. TFTC

Busy place but kids found and no one saw

First one like that we have found. V.cool. not too many muggles around!

lol had to get on my knees rip

Headed down Broadway again after a walk through the park, and I couldn't help but have a go at this one. Not the most busy time of the day I suppose, or, it's just that I look very natural with the whole, I dropped something acting routine. It wasn't technically a nano that I found though, and imI didn't come with a logsheet. So, I provided one and replaced the cache soon after. TFTC!

A bit wet today, so our planned family trip to the beach for Mummy's birthday turned into a swim at Newmarket pool. Afterwards, Miss Three and I popped down the road to post her letter to Santa - and grab this nicely concealed urban cache! Thanks!

Middle of the night

Yeah a high viz jacket would have helped. Maybe a bucket and scrubbing brush. - - - I sometimes think some very very old smelly clothes and a walking stick would be fun . Perhaps I need to wait a couple of years before I adopt that ploy .
I got a little distracted by the wrong hint object, but once I realised there was an alternative I was soon signing the log. TFTC .

This was tricky especially as it was mid morning and there were heaps of cartons stacked around GZ making access difficult. Got it in the end.Tftc

This one would be almost impossible during busy times but we were lucky that the bad weather made the muggles scarce today giving us plenty of opportunity to grab and replace the cache undetected.
Thanks for the placement.

Quick pick up, took a long time for a replace

After a work dinner and still needing a cache of the day this was an easy park and grab with a work colleague assisting.

TFTC

Grabbed this as I was heading across the street to watch a movie. Managed to get a parking spot right next to the cache! Steady stream of muggles, but I spotted it early, and was able to make a quick grab of the container. Always love these kinds of hides. Invisible to muggles, but somewhat obvious to geocachers. Thanks for the hide!

On a guided cache walk of Auckland today I wound my way around the city and found myself here on Broadway - I'm never one to be too concerned by muggles about, in my experience no one bats and eyelid and anyone passing by in a wheeled vehicle has only time to Think "how odd" if anything... So I didn't worry too much here, although I headed the warning that this has been a troublesome spot, so I used the 'excuse' of fixing my footwear while I made a quick grab. Luckily I then dropped my pen, making for a swift replacement. Thanks for the fun urban find!

I once tried to find this when out for an early morning run and, surprised to see so many people around even early on a weekday morning, gave up after the most cursory feel around. Today I was walking to Kathmandu and spotted the hidden-in-plain-site cache from some distance away but didn't have a pen on me. So after doing my shopping, I went back to the car, drove and parked but discovered I still didn't have a pen! So I took some photographic evidence to prove I found it. Nice cache! #135

Hidden in plain sight! Love it TFTC

Gps was jumping but stick with the hint! Great one. Had fun "pretending" tying my shoe laces for 10 minutes!!

Almost gave up but stuck to the clue and reread the description. Highly camoed is right - very good cache!!

GPS jumped around. Stick with the hint. Highly camouflaged alright!

Trying to look like it's totally normal to be loitering like that but tieing my shoe and talking to phantom people on the phone..not easy. Urban caching at its finest.

Out attempting to get to 700 found caches today using the next closest strategy. Finally found this after a couple of songs. Now off to find 8 more...

Found it. What a great little find. TFTC!

Found it quickly beutiful condition
This cache was number 94 on my journey to 100

Looked like crazy people wandering around but we found it! Made it look I was proposing to seem more inconspicuous

cool.on our way to movies and decided to find one

Love this one. Hint is a big clue!

Lucky no one was walking in the area a quick swoop down and grab of the cache. Day two of a 4 day road trip from Hawkes Bay to Auckland and back to collect as many caches as we can. Log signed as b&p.Tftc

Ran into someone else looking for this. Neither of us could find it

Quick stop before my movie and no such luck

Yipee! Finally cracked it! Even managed a secret squirrel mission in the busy shopping time.

A very tricky one indeed. But managed ok. Tftc

#1278
As its midnight I thought it will be the right time to find this one. HuH... still the street is not as silent as I expected. But, the best part is, I saw the cache while walking to GZ itself, so no searching needed, just retrieve it. Usual trick of tying shoe lace, and soon cache in hand. Signed it and place it back with another shoe lace tying. tftc saggis.

Found it late at night. Super stealthy Super exposed to muggles on a busy street, highly recommend visiting at night.

Replaced this morning. Replacement camo took a while to arrive!

Muggled

Should've looked at the previous logs before stopping here this morning. Definitely been muggled.

had a look but nope, missing

No luck. I think it's been muggled

Hi. We took a try in the morning and like the last cacher we did not come up with the goods either. I am a bit worried it might have been muggled.

Appears to be missing, went for a post midnight mission and no where to be found.

Yyeess! Finally got this cache! No pen to write unfortunately though hahaha! Right next to work but always too busy to find! Have tried every trick in the book to gather this cache stealthy but finally we went out for a movie and managed an easy midnight grab!! Found with Anz and Jazsa! TFTC what an awesome container idea!

Interesting camo... Though it is VERY hard to not look insane while looking for this.

Third time the charm. 2030 on a rainy day. No muggles presented a problem. Love the cache though log is getting full.

Nice quick find!!
Easy to retrieve at nighttime
Otherwise will be quite funny not look crazy kneeling in Broadway in broad daylight!


Tftc

Greetings from spain

Fast find. Found the cache on the way back from work. Thanks and greetings from Latvia!

This cache was my #1938 and was found at 16:36

#498 Wow, had visited this one a couple of times over the past six months. There has either been to many muggles or I couldn't devote time to find. Today I was in full suit camo so blended in just fine. Made a move on the geocache at about 3:30 so plenty of muggle traffic about. As I approached today, my Geosense must have been dialed up to 11. Quickly has it in hand covered by my work diary. Walked up street and took a seat to fill in the log. With that done now to the job of replacing the cache. Almost as hard as retrieval, I happened to lightly drop my folder to cover the return. Love the cache.
TFTC

Tftc!

99% sure I was stealthy enough

We were in Auckland New Zealand for the day on Holland America's Amsterdam. We had a tour in the morning that had a long stop at the War Memorial Museum. In part of our free time there, we ran and got three caches.

We went our by the Wharf after we return to the ship and found four more caches there.

Thank you to each of the CO's for their efforts and for their caches.

Found another bday cache nice one to find amongst the heaps of people walking Broadway

After a long walk we refreshed us in a near-by pub and listened to a local pub quiz.
This was easy to grab after that in the evening.
TFTC, greetings from Finland!

Did it at night, great place to hide!

Quick easy find. Helps when you have a small child with you to retrieve it! TFTC

In Newmarket ae the wife was refered to a particular store here to find something she had been having trouble finding. Wife was happy with purchases so what else do you do while out on a nice day, you do a spot of urban geocaching. This one was close by and so we had a go at this one. Stealth is definitely required on this one and a small child may also be a good idea as noboby really blinks an eye at small children doing wierd things.
TFTC

Triple d tick

Quick grab by StiftLeer. This was our first cache in NZ.
TFTH

In this muggled area, we really needed to get stealthy.
TFTC!

Quick find together with StiftLeer and RuhigBrauner.

TFTC

First in NZ! TFTC!

It was easy to sneak in during a break between both foot and car traffic, but it was much harder to sneak back in to replace the cache after signing the log. Where did all these people suddenly come from? I eventually managed to catch that lucky break.

No TB in here, looks like it disappeared when the cache was muggled

TFTC

Yep, gotta be quick and sneaky, a well "dropped" item to "pickup" disguised our activity...lost our pencil, so no log...

17:57
Not very many people around but still I had problems to cache the right moment to retrieve the cache.
Cool container!

Thanks for the cache! Greetings from Latvia!
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On a Sunday morning in Newmarket, no need for stealth as it was deserted. Quick park and grab. TFTC.

Sunday morning, before the shops have opened seemed like a good time. Still had to dodge muggles none the less. Speedy find, signed and replaced hopefully without to much attention. TFTC

Great location. Great clue. TFTC

I stuffed around with the more traditional post box for a while before noticing the competitior next door. it was then a matter of sitting and waiting for a break in the traffic.

Find # 100 For me. Wanted one that would be a bit of a challenge. At 2:20 PM on a Tuesday afternoon, there were not as many muggles as thought. Sitting nearby waiting for a break in foot traffic up and down the street, I shot over and made a quick grab. Log signed and placed back in it's spot. Just happened to have to tie my shoe as several people walked by. Cache could use some maintenance to secure the magnet. I repositioned the magnet to securely hold the cache. TFTC

Found in the morning without muggles, tftc

Was having a meal just up the road and noticed that this was close. After dinner we wandered down to this and set to searching for this. I could have been difficult during the day, but this evening no-one was about and it was made easier for me as I found it lying flat on the footpath. It may need some maintenance to replace it in the intended spot. I managed to place the cache back to hide it better. Please message me if it is not in the correct place and you cannot find it.
TFTC

Out for Dinner with TNXPro and a muggle. So what he said

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6.45am Sat was a very good and quiet time for this!

Easy find

This is my first geocache. I found it without having created a username. The username I put down had already been used. I used Mantisman so log that as me

found with 4 of us, tftc

Nice quick find on a cold, late, Sunday night. The lack of traffic and niggles made stealth a breeze! Thanks for the cache!

Nice hide sunday a great day to pick up thanks

What a nice and easy hide

Ha! So much traffic but stoked I could grab this on my way to work!

On my way walking to Newmarket to celebrate Audi's launch of the new Q7 and the timing to get this one was just perfect. TFTC

Very well hidden! Good, quick find. Tftc

Walked along here on a wet Sunday afternoon. Quite a few people about but presumably only a fraction of the number there might have been on a weekday. Took a few minutes to find. "Felt" in a number of places before finally hitting the jackpot. #837. TFTC.

Not as easy as we thought! Great hide!

First one! And not as easy as expected!

Lots of muggles, but I timed it well with both cars and pedestrians. TFTC.

Very nice hide, Was there sunday afternoon with not many people around, very very high muggle activity. Only attempt on very quiet day or nigh time. People everywhere, clever hide.

Great spot. Quick find before work. Nicely camoed. Tftc.

# 39 Auckland

Easy find:-)

TFTC

Back up in its posish.

Significant muggle traffic! Will have to come back at a quieter time.

Muggled!