Raining Cats and Dogs (Auckland) Northcote, North Island, New Zealand
By
barkingmadnz on 09-Jul-10. Waypoint GC2BFYZ
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Logs
Quiet morning, nice find. Wouldn't like to try if there was more people around. TFTC
Trouve ! / Found it ! Une petite cache plus simple que prvue 5406me cache trouve.Merci barkingmadnz pour la cache A little cache simpler than expected 5406th cache found.Thank you barkingmadnz for the cache
Teenage cacher wanted to pick up a phone from one of his workmates, around here. Saw there was a cache nearby. It would have been rude not to find it. Nice hide, found quite find. Lucky the muggles were playing on other fields. TFTC
No cats and dogs here todayJust got this one in time before the muggles start playingNice hide easy find thanks
Up and over the bridge with ABCDF4 and eyespyben. No rain today. A beautiful spring day. Eventually Mrs ABCDF found the cache. Thank you for the placement.
This cache took a few minutes longer than it should have to find, but find we did. Thanks for bringing us to this park on a great sunny winters day with Lis's Crew. TFGC
The plan this weekend was to head to Auckland Friday evening with Yvettetb. Saturday we had a lovely day caching around the Northcoate area with great Harbour Bridge views from all over the place. Sunday we went geocaching in the Riverhead/Kumeū area before heading north again.
Today's plan was to do a bit of a clean out in this area. It was a bit of a wet park to walk through today so I was pleased I had my gumboots on. I had the right idea but it took us a while to spot the actual cache. Thanks for your hide here
Today's plan was to do a bit of a clean out in this area. It was a bit of a wet park to walk through today so I was pleased I had my gumboots on. I had the right idea but it took us a while to spot the actual cache. Thanks for your hide here
Sunny spell so I jump in the car. Upon arrival the weather has adjusted to this cache and it is raining cats and dogs. Still, after only a bit of a wait, there is a glimt of blue sky so I jump out of the car straight into the mud, ah well, sneakers can be cleaned. After finding ground zero, the cache itself was an easy find. Luckily I brought my own pen, thanks for the cache.
Wow amazing spot. Would love to live here with the city view. Found cache quickly once at gz. Nice hide.
A fav point for the spot and creative hide.
A fav point for the spot and creative hide.
Thanks to the previous cacher for placing a replacement here.
Rain might go here, and do you know what else might go here? Spiders. A quick straightforward find, but it took a lot longer to get rid of the cobwebs from my sleeve.
Found with GeohoundandI
Rain might go here, and do you know what else might go here? Spiders. A quick straightforward find, but it took a lot longer to get rid of the cobwebs from my sleeve.
Found with GeohoundandI
Very confident I found the right hiding spot and since it seems the CO hasn’t logged in for a couple of years, I took the liberty of adding a logbook inside a ziplock, secured with a pen. Hopefully that keeps this cache alive for a while. On my way back to the car I saw a three legged dog run onto the field, do its business , then run back to its house. Gross! Thanks for the piping hot cache!
Was in correct place and nope a DNF added to the list. Shame as such a nice place to visit.
Must be going blind. Searched here twice. Found an object fitting hint but was empty. Another day perhaps.
OK I said another cache was last cache of the day, but I noticed I was only 40 points off reach the peak. So off I headed.
Upon arriving at GZ there were a couple of loops done of the object until I spotted something while coming at it from another angle. Log signed. TFTC #1283
Upon arriving at GZ there were a couple of loops done of the object until I spotted something while coming at it from another angle. Log signed. TFTC #1283
Quick pit stop here as the kids wanted to play on the playground. While the kids played I went looking for the cache. Log was nice and dry but I forgot my pen in the car. TFTC
First stop here and I parked up at the top above the field and headed down. A few circuits of the host item were required before approaching from downhill like a recent log suggested and the cache was spotted and retrieved. Not many signature left on the log sheet.
Called in on the way back from work and a balmy 21 degrees in the area today and the sun nice and warm. Managed a few finds whilst on my mini-mission and some caches in and around the North side of the Harbour Bridge were todays target. Thanks to all COs for their placements.
Called in on the way back from work and a balmy 21 degrees in the area today and the sun nice and warm. Managed a few finds whilst on my mini-mission and some caches in and around the North side of the Harbour Bridge were todays target. Thanks to all COs for their placements.
No muggles at all here today since it's a bit wet and muddy and also Mother's Day. This one took a few minutes of searching but found it in a place that made sense. I was amazed to see that the log has been in there for 8 years and is still in great condition. TFTC
On my way to Northcote Point for a family lunch, but of course I got here a couple hours early to do some caching in the area!
On my way to Northcote Point for a family lunch, but of course I got here a couple hours early to do some caching in the area!
Absolutely great hiding place, was about to give up when we found it. So much fun and so rewarding finding it. Thank You!
Not many muggles around today but nearly got sniffed out by greyhounds. Great hiding spot.
Lovely sunny day for a bit of exploring and caching. Never been around here before. Signed log as KTNZ
Fortunately there were no muggles around so we could search undetected although a couple of magpies didn't seem very happy about our presence and were acting quite menacing.
We were pleased to make a quick find and moved on before they got too angry.
Very nice hide. Thanks barkingmadnz.
We were pleased to make a quick find and moved on before they got too angry.
Very nice hide. Thanks barkingmadnz.
Nice easy find! Love the spot! Took about 2 minutes and we had it in our hands! TFTC
Finilly found this trick one. Ended up that it wasn't so difficult to find it, but I had to go there three times, the second attempt there are some Muggles playing and walking around, so I decide to leave it to another opportunity, today I was just passing here with some spare time and made it. Clever!
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After already turning another of our blue faces yellow this afternoon we thought why not try out another.We spent a long time searching the last time we were here.There was one idea that we were not brave enough to try on our original visit but now we are more experienced cachers we didnt hesitate to give it a go but it turned out that it was not there in any case.After another good look around but with something helpful in mind from the hint we spotted something clever which turned out to be what we were looking for. Great another blue face turned to yellow.We are very pleased with ourselves now.
Had been to that place on 21/12 and today, still didn't find it. Today there were some Muggles there, couldn't go further
A clever hide. Luckily someone had left the perfect tool to use to retrieve it. Tftc.
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Good hint in the name. Nice playground nearby.
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Good hint in the name. Nice playground nearby.
Cool hide. All nice and dry. Found together with Greenkiwikids and signed as team Piraten. TFTC
So simply and so effective. Right GPS bouncing a bit but no problems. Took a bit but it was good time around GZ. TFTC
We had noted a few DNF's on this cache, and thought we would give finding it a try as it is always satisfying if we find a cache that has been difficult for others. We quickly spotted something that looked like a likely hiding space, but that was then ruled out. Then Mr HeMaLuDy spotted something out of place. Upon close examination it contained a ziplock bag, although it was out of reach of our fingers. Luckily we found a handy tool nearby that helped retrieve the bag, and it contained a log sheet. Happy to sign this log. Found with darthcacher1 and purply.
we think we have guessed where it was likely to be but didnt come up with the goods.
Nice little camo. Cache is in good condition and thankfully there weren't too many muggles today. Tftc
Pretty good hide. Clue was definitely helpful and so were some previous logs. A bit muddy today but not many people
Lots of dog walking muggles around so we had to be careful. Aiden29 made the find here
On our way to meet up with a few Westies in a park nearby, and since we were a few minutes early merlot58 and I decided to stop here and try to find the cache, since last time merlot visited there were muggles near GZ. Took a bit of searching to narrow in our focus on something that fit the hint.
On our way to meet up with family on Christmas day and we had a few hours to get some exercise first. Headed here and enjoyed the location. Very hot and a quick straight forward find.
On our way to meet up with family on Christmas day and we had a few hours to get some exercise first. Headed here and enjoyed the location. Very hot and a quick straight forward find.
out with 10centnz for the day, this was my 3rd visit here, and i thought i would beg the help of another cacher this time, but alas i had cache in hand within a min this time no help needed, grr not sure how i missed this one last 2 visits, maybe over thinking it, tftc
Out with Lokky1 for the morning. Lokkys third time here but my first. Quick find by lokky this time
Tftc. Took a bit of thinking outside the box for retrieving this one but blow me down the solution was easy.Gets a fav point from me.
Nice camo. It had me confused for a few minutes, but walking around a bit helped. Tftc.
I was pleased to spot this one almost immediately on approaching the GZ on this clear, wintery afternoon - though the extraction proved to be a little more tricky!
Very nicely done, thank you.
Very nicely done, thank you.
Out for a late Sunday cache hunt with the gadget team. A small red herring spotted initially but then we tracked down the right spot! Good hide.
Hmm maybe my geo sence not working today or has it gone will kerp a watch Lokky 1 8 March 2016 14:51
8 March 2016 14:51I did a wee detour off the motorway to find this one. Was able to grab quickly. Great camo. TFTC
Another great hide from this CO 
Took me a few minutes to click as to where it was.
Took me a few minutes to click as to where it was.Was sure it was in another object and even looked twice. Then another nearby object. Hmmmmm nothing. Then Mrs Beconaze suddenly spotted something and the cache was in hand. Tftc
Found it... this has eluded us previously, will have to drop by with a pen next time we are going past!
Such a gorgeous day! Excellent for caching. I wanted to make a start on doing the hundreds if not thousands of caches over on the Shore. I'm starting south by the bridge and eventually work myself north. This cache I thought was clever. But because I suspect the C.O has gone bye-byes and no longer caches anymore I won't award them with a FP!
