Sand Beetle (Auckland, North Shore) Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By Indiana Jill on 01-Jul-12. Waypoint GC2B8J5

Didnt find, also a guy with a metal detector was also searching the beach without success.

Where the sigma is it??? Dnf

Nice wander around Devonport, collecting smiley faces All good hereNice location, TFTC!

Do not find

Do not find but the spot is great

Thanks

DNF. Had a look around, did not want to keep displacing logs and rocks so as to not disturb the area.

Thanks to some convent cacher before us that left the location in the app. We still do not find it. I assume it was moved but it couldve been thrown away as rubbish

TFTC was such a good one.We logged as jade and unfortunately didn't have space to put the trackable I was planning to put in this cache...It Will be a good reason to continue our hunt

Ignore the previous message, it was for an other cache still planning to find this one!

It was a bit tricky but we found it! Thank you! We had fun!

Like others, the security cameras warning was a bit off-putting. Decided not to rummage around in peoples property.

A quick grab after a lazy walk on the beach. Water actually nice and warm. TFTC. Using iphone & geocache app.

Found it on our second visit. We hope the property owner of the house is also the cache owner! TFTC

Thanks

Seeing I don't work Fridays and ANZAC was a Thursday this year it was a good opportunity to get away and go geocaching over the extra long weekend. My Auckland Grandies had been sick so no visits to them this time but I did have dinners with my other Auckland son. I do love Devonport. With quite a few green dots out this way and no ftf needed for my dot day calendar I was excited to spend the day out here.I'd been here with Yvettetb and had a Dnf on 17.12.23. There had been lots of sunbathers back then but just a few walkers on the beach today despite it being a fairly warm day. After quite a bit of searching I read Gorbys log for a hint. I'd been focussing on the non camera sign wall. Pleased I finally spotted it. I couldn't actually reach the cache so took a photo as proof. I always use an android smart phone for my geocaching and I prefer to use the c:geo app. My latest phone is a Samsung Galaxy A12. Thanks for the cache

We searched around as much as we could for this cache but the owners of the property were on their deck having lunch so we tried to stay out of sight but had no luck finding this one today, will need to come back another day.

Tftc

TFTC. Caching on an iPhone X.

Felt a bit dodgy but got it haha

Pretty hard but found it

Didn't look very hard. The 'SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS OPERATING' signs were a bit of a turn-off

nice find

Hi

Lovely area - perfect first spring caching trip TFTC

Nice and easy find, good stuff!

Found thanks

A new and windy day and got across the bay looking for some more smileys. Thank you for the cache!

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Tftc easy find

I wanted my cache for the day, the month streak from HQ finished yesterday, but I haven't finished streaking, I'd like to beat my best of 62 days so on we go!

Took us bus into town from Te Atatu, then a ferry to Devonport then the 807 that goes around and back to the ferry, such fun it was then a short walk along the beach. Quite warm today, nice to see the sun out mid winter and it stayed nice all day.

Cache all good here, found on top of the stone wall wedged in by the glass fence, seems fine there, replaced the paper with waterproof stuff, it was well worn out and this should keep things ticking along for a while. Thanks Indiana Jill for the hide, will be back up here again I'm sure.

Very easy tftc

Awesome find

I love this beach; thank you for sharing it with others.

Found it xx

Took way to long to find. Superman gone, off saving the world. Cache is there, yippie

Another one walking the TA. Thanks

Easy

Easy to find once started looking

Not sure if it is meant to be where it is as it's in plain sight, but it does fit the hint. Thanks for another cache along the beach G-2.

Another day in paradise, exploring a new area of Auckland. Of course it's caching time. Tftc

Tftc superman still there

Oops logged as dnf. Did find. Tftc

Not really hidden

Thanks, my children loved this one

Nice easy find. Thanks.

From MA USA and stuck in Auckland until 5 feb due to rains cancelling flight. Went walking and caching in the rain. TFTC

Found it but log was on the sand and container was on ground

Found it, container open, superman still here but log seemingly missing (or very soggy and unrecognisable). I’ve put superman back in, and snapped lid back on

The gps was quite a bit out with both of the phones we were using. Then spotted the cache sat out in the open.
Log was a bit wet, and Superman was soaking wet. Replaced it exactly where we found it.

Looked in a few spots before managing to find. TFTC

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Such a beautiful spot and a great day to go out geocaching. Nice easy find. TFTC

MPLC
Paper are wet
Thks Superman
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Found it really quickly - only about one minute hunt! tftc

What a really lovely place. Up here for the day with kimbathelion. Didn’t take long to find this one. Tftc

Sneaky hide but didn't take buzzybb long to locate it. What a beautiful spot. Tftc

Quick easy find on a beautiful beach. Thanks for the placement!

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Thank you! (With phone)

Spent 30+ mins searching. couldn’t find it. dont know what i was doing wrong I didn’t want to trample on the plants.

Few snails

What a nice view!

TFTC

Lovely family stroll on a beautiful sunny day on a beautiful beach! Thank you!
Left a poem for superman to enjoy!

Nice place!

Little bit mischievous!

Found, during a storm thanks

Found it! Thank you.

A nice quick find. I added a slip of waterproof paper to tide it over till the CO can refresh the log. Thanks for placing your cache.

Ms_KR and I are in Auckland Auckland for a break and we are exploring the region while we are based here. Today we cruised to finish off the Mega beaches Ad Lab. We had four still to do. We had another great day out, with rain threatening most of the day.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

The snail comments from others were a great clue! Slaters and centipedes too! Where do they like to hide??

Found it but full of water and no paper so didn't write my name! Guarded by gig centipedes

Thanks, the phone GPS found without to many issues. Not where I thought it was going to be, but seems easy once found. Thanks

This is one of those caches that when you find it it's obvious, but it doesn't seem that way when you first get to the GZ. A friend actually found this, but didn't want to open it, hahaha. Thanks!

This was a cool find! It looked really old but made the experience heaps more fun! Thabks!

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On the ground

1st DSG found on 23 June 22

Spent ages looking but was actually in quite an obvious place haha thanks to the creator as we had a great time walking on the beach and getting smoothies ️

found it after about 10 minutes. was a bit confused with some of the photos but was able to find it

#438

We were out exploring Cheltenham today and thought that doing some Geocaches along the way would be fun.

100d of snails couldn’t touch it but thanks

not too easy but not too hard!

My first visit to NZ and after a few hours of sleep before heading out to discover my surrounding. I decided on doing a few caches which didn't end on a couple. Sadly I didn't take a pen along with myself so took a photo. I also didn't put a log as I logged on phone. I really enjoyed the walk and the views. Some caches were more difficult than others .
Thanks for all the hard work that went into the caches.
Apologies for copy and paste.
T4T$

Way too wet to sign and covered in snail friends! TFTC

we didn't have much time, and the hint was a bit confusing

found it without drawing attention from other beach goers thanks

Nice spot! Not signed as lots of sun bathers around

Nice one thank you. Me n my human dog

Found but way to wet to sign

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Visited on a gorgeous crisp winters evening right on sunset. Pretty sure I found the general area of the spot - and thanks to the person who placed this cache for helping me discover a beautiful beach I’d never visited before. Didn’t like to rootle around and look for the box as I was under the eyes of neighbours and multiple muggles.

Log needs replacing too wet to sign. Had no replacement with me.

Great spot! Thank you

Last day in Devonport. I DNFed my target cache for today, so walked a bit further along to this one. Lots of muggles enjoying the midwinter sunshine but none near GZ, apart from a couple dozen snails! Container in fine condition though. TFTC (found using c:geo on my Samsung A10.)

Quick and easy find. It seems as if the natural camouflage has been cut back. Cashe was out in the open.

*** Retrospectively logging finds now Lock-down has spoiled my plan for improving finds to become 10+ find days. ***

There's not many places you can head to in early June and get a sweat built up whilst strolling along a beautiful golden beach, but there is here. Nice hide though the log was a little delicate and brittle when signing.

When I first started working over on the North Shore, initially for 3 months, then out to 6 months, I identified this target-rich environment as being what would enable me to upgrade my finds per day from single-figure find days (there were about 20 days of 5 or more). I went out over a range of dates and physically made the find, signed the log, and noted the date on my personal note. These were reserved for finds when required, or back-dated finds if not 'required'. I'd been tracking well and improved all days desired until this week when Lock-down meant the end of finding caches and thus the 5-day on 20 Aug will be missed, as will a few others coming up, I suspect.

A lot of snails! Tftc

Found it with Ally, a little dirty. Tftc!