Long Drive, Small Cache (St Heliers) Saint Heliers, North Island, New Zealand
By Nomis23 on 03-May-10. Waypoint GC27Y5E

Like the previous finder, my GPRs wasn't up to date and so still showed this cache as being available. This was an easy find and the marriage proposal is still there! Oh well!

Found after pub quiz as the container was still there which included the strange proposal note. Took a bit of searching to find it in the dark but it turns out it really wasn't hidden at all.

The caches on my GPSr weren't up to date so I didn't realise this was archived until afterwards.

Thanks!

A condom and a marriage proposal. Wow. It was interesting to say the least

Will archive to make way for a new cache in this area

Filling in the afternoon in the area for the uk catch up event later in the day. Were surprised we found it so quickly, just lucky I guess. Nice secret pathway. SL. TFTC.

Some random asked to marry me. There are crazies out there.

First find of the day. Shame about all the horrid tradescantia, hope it doesn't make it's way over the road into the native bush!

An opportunity for a spot of Auckland caching for us today. Good one. Dodging showers and getting things dealt to before the rain arrives. That was the theme of the day.
This one was pretty straightforward, and muggle free.
Love the cache name!
Cache in order; log signed, cache re-hidden safely, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

Quick find while on the way to visit friends in the area. TFTC

Spent about 15mins poking around this little pathway looking for the cache in the rock walls and around them with no success. Better luck next time I hope!

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

Had a few hours to kill this evening after work, so headed to this area to collect a few. Quick easy find once in location, took a couple of mins to work the cache out of the hide though.

TFTC

Had a few hours to kill this evening after work, so headed to this area to collect a few. Quick easy find once in location, took a couple of mins to work the cache out of the hide though.

TFTC

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Nice hide...couldn't sign log as pen clapped out doing previous one...cheers V.

Tftc

Found between my sons waterpolo games. Nice hidden location so able to search without being noticed. TFTC

Found this one pretty quick, nearly lost it in the wall!

Reperio at 1500 with Albida33 and Sol de lune.

After attending the mega event this morning, we decided to head out for a few caches this afternoon. With three of us on the hunt...the cache didn't take long to find, even though it was well hidden.

Gratias Nomis23.

New Zealand 2103 trip for the Auckland Mega at Albany. Day 16, In Auckland Region, Northshore. NZ Mega Auckland Day 1 then caching with Sol de Lune and Marcus Vitruvius. Another simple drive by on our way across town. Thanks.

12593.548 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 11000 Finds A#253

Albida

After a morning around the Mega site, Marcus Vitruvius, Albida33 and myself headed out this way to grab a few caches. No problems with this one and all was good.

Thanks for showing some visiting Aussies the area and for the cache....

Down the path to find cache. Found cache with Rediguana while in Auckland for the NZ Mega TFTC

Took a little hunting to find the right spot
Cheers Gav

This one took me a while to locate. TFTC

Tricky hiding spot! You don't need to go climbing to find this one, sadly we discovered this after pulling off some mean as Spiderman moves! TFTC

Very sneaky ... A little moist! Just the way we like it!
-Johnny Mac and The Doctor

5524. We are up for the week at a Social Justice conference at the Manukau Event Centre. Today we were both free in the morning so took a drive out to St Heliers for coffee with our nephew and his wife. After a delightful time spent at the coffee shop we decided to do a few caches on the way back to our camping ground.Took very little searching before the container was found and logbook signed. The area was showing evidence of lots of geocacher activity. Thanks for the cache. Rodney and Iris.

No luck for us yesterday so we tried it today (without the rain) but again no luck. So we have to come back.

#550 First cache on a caching outing with cmat068. We were laughing about starting on a DNF until we couldn't lock on to a likely spot at GZ. Determination pays off though and we didn't give up. Great hide and glad that we didn't have to worry about any muggles today. TFTC!

Quick find. Was in plain sight. Covered it back up.

This entry was edited by UncleSamNZ on Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 23:05:06 UTC.

Out caching today with Move Star, a quick find for us today. TFTC. Nice little walkway

Out with mike-miss today for a few caches and we swung past here to try our luck. Having spent ages looking for similar types of hides in the past we were both expecting to be here a while but the caching gods were feeling generous today and we had the cache in no time at all. Nice hide - TFTC

A quick and easy find this afternoon as evilno9 made short work of finding the cache. TFTC!

Second visit to this one, only this time spent a lot more time searching a lot of potential hiding places, and this time I had more luck. A sneaky hide this one and i'm glad to finally get a smiley

First place i look and got it nice hiding spot. Tftc.

This was our second try. First time our GPS was totally off, this time not so much. TFTC

Searched up and down the wall. Couldn't find it before I was disturbed by local Muggles; will return!

I thought I could sit in the car whilst Mr grabbed this one, but after a while wandered down to join the search. Moved away from GZ slightly to continue search along the wall and soon found its little hidey hole, tftc

Quick find while caching in the area. TFTC

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My first find on a full day of caching. Tricky wee hide - got it on my second attempt. Quite a busy path this can be with walkers and joggers apprearing from 'nowhere' .
MTFTC

Great hide, and you weren't kidding about the mozzies! Overshot it at first but when the coords settled down it was a quick find. TFTC

Loved this one. Photo was a great help. Beautiful lane and park. Bugs were biting though.

Couldn't not do this cache while in the area for the Anzac cache. Should have followed GPSr, would have found it straight away, but I started looking early - in cache co-ords of under the trees. Wasn't there so i then followed GPSr. TFTC

Mossies were still out early this morning as I approached GZ. Had the cache in hand quickly but it took me awhile to get the log out with my fat fingers. Got it in the end. Cool spot. Thanks for the cache. Off to grab your next one.
Day 97 of our streak.
#706

Quick find while out on the area picking up some solved puzzles. TFTC

Another nice day of Caching in Auckland. A quick find and thanks for the hide.

Nice hide and quickly found. Walked up from the Anzac cache at the other end of the road. TFTC.

No red sides - white medicine container.

Found it second time round. Very easy to find after reading previous comments. Tftc

Was making my way around Auckland today cleaning up a few caches as I managed to get another weekend stay over in Auckland.

After finding GC3HV8T - Hobocity (Auckland), it was time to drive over to St Heliers, I knew that there was another cache that I should pick up on the way. After leaving Glendowie Park it was a short drive to GZ. Arriving near GZ I noted that there wasnt any car parks on Long Drive so I decided to go and find a car park on Fern Glen Road and walk back to this cache.

After finding a car park not too far away it was a short and easy walk to GZ, arriving at GZ I thought to myself where was this cache hidden after reading the hint it still took a few seconds to sink in and then I spotted the clever little hiding spot. Found the cache and signed it before returning it as found, must have looked a bit of a sight with all the passing motorist wondering what I was up to. Thanks for placing this cache here and for bringing me to this spot. TFTC TNLNSL (4793), now time to go back to the car and make my way to the next cache that isn't that far away.

A little tricky!

Pretty difficult to find

#794, this was proving to be tricky, so read through previous logs and then bingo there it was. TFTC

Took a bit of finding. Tftc

Now in a white medicine bottle. Beware of the neighbours dog. TFTC.

First I took the high path, then i took the low path, at which point a dog tried to eat me through the fence. Then i snuck back for a find. Container is no longer as described in the description.

Found it after a few minutes but had to give it some thought with all the potential hiding spots.

Found it. And annoyed a few spiders long the.way

Before taking parents back to the airport we decided to come and do this cache we have been meeting to do for a very long time! Being a great day for it we took a stroll and found this one quite easily. TFTC!

Not for us today. Had a muggle pass by, but he didn't appear too worried. Will have to try on another trip.

On way to my sisters after viewing the Dega to Dali exhibition at the refurbished art gallery.
Great exhibition and nice easy cache - TFTC

Looking for a TB Black Phantom Tetra, left in a cache and not logged by "noddyuknz" sometime after 18th February 2012. Have you seen it?

Found in the dark but needed the hint to find it. Went straight to it the second time. Were a little concerned that the neighbours in the spa pool might spring us but they were too busy nattering to notice beams of light through their fence. TFTC

Second time around. Think it was the cache that I found anyway it had a bit of damp paper with other cachers names on it but nothing else.

This has been coming up as the closest unfound trad from home since it was hidden. We did try early on and it seems we didn't post a frownie. I noticed it had been being found yesterday when I went to get 29 Feb off our calendar and also noticed we'd never found a cache on 1 March so killing 2 birds with one cache... NINO TFTC

Thanks.
Was in a white container ?!

I had walked past this once before and looked everywhere but couldn't find it. This time I walked straight to the cache and it was staring me in the face! Not sure what had changed, perhaps I had my eyes open this time? TFTC

We had driven past here on Long Drive while heading for ANZAC Cache but couldn't see how to access the cache. Made more sense as we drove back up the hill from that one. Parked and found our way to GZ. Made a quick and quiet find at 1am. Thanks.

# 4965

Tftc

Managed to make this much easier than I thought when first viewing the area, happended to be first place I looked, TFTC

Was in the area, for more caches, and decided to get this one as it was on the way. First day out caching with the brand new car, (OK, it's far from brand new. But it's brand new to me, and it's MINE! Haha, my first car.) and I saw this one on the map. Discovered that when one is driving, one cannot look at the gps to see how far the cache is, or what road to look down!

Luckily my memory is pretty photographic though, as I managed to stop within 20m of the cache! Just by guess!! Sweet!

GPS then putted out, and wouldn't tell me where I was. So I had to guess that too!! But I took a look for likely spots, and first place I looked! Yay! Sweet as!!

TFTC!!

Love the hiding place, not too easy, not too hard. Log book was damp (the bag doesn't seal so that could be why). TFTC

I like how it was hidden. It was not an eclipse case as described but a small white pill bottle instead. Logbook was damp. TFTC.

quiet spot, clever hide, thanks

Another lovely hidden spot.

Difficult find, behind a brick

[:(} Tried from the road and on the path on the other side and could not find it

Nice hide although cache is damp added some paper.

been 3 times! couldn't find it i dont think it is there [?]

Find #792. The first cache on our second day in Auckland - one of the twenty finds we achieved on the bikes that day. We were up nice and early from our 'home' in Saint Heliers, and on the bikes pretty quickly. This cache was only 200 metres away from where we were staying so it was a must do!

An easy early morning find in one of the few locations it could've been, we made light work of this cache. No muggles about. SL TFTC.

On our second attempt we found it! Great little hiding place TFTC

This entry was edited by gernita on Sunday, 09 October 2011 at 04:42:42 UTC.

Had a brief look while walking past, and found the bleeding thing!! Well done with hiding, but can't believe we didn't find it the first time!!
Rehid and made it look as natural as possible.
TFTC! love it!

Found this time after quite a long hunt - container was a white medication container not an Eclipse tin.

Yep it is still there. It is my second time and this time I found it quickly.

First day of geocaching and found a second one !

In the area dropping some tools off for a work mate so decided to make the most of a sunny day. Quickly had the cache in hand TFTC

A quick find with Crystal Fairy on an afternoon's caching in the area. Signed log, TFTC.

Quick and easy find. Only found one cache container. Thanks for the cache. Did with agcnz on a weekend caching spree.

I was off eastwards today for a hunt for caches. This is my second time looking for this cache and was successful.

Cheers for the cache.

Quick find while at GZ thanks to the wife!
T4TC

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9.37am. Funny I only found 1 cache in the hiding place?
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (1801)

I noticed this cache on the map as I drove past on my way to finding a nearby puzzle cache. Walked up from there to find this one. There were a few possibilities that a quick process of elimination revealed the right spot! As per the last logger, not quite sure why there are 2 containers here. TFTC, Biggles.

Maybe too well hidden - gave up after quite a while.

Found both caches, do I claim two finds?
Thanks!

Quick find. TFTC.

6608 Long Drive... thankfully a quick mossie free find, TFTC

TFTC
First cache with Poppa in tow.

I already knew this short bushy track but it took me a while to find it. Well hidden. TFTC, schlobofreds

Found with Team Y-Cacho's during our Auckland cache raid 24 hour mission

TFTC

One of 262 found on Team Y-Cacho's 24 hour Auckland cache raid.

T4TC