A Local Haunt - (East Auckland) Shelly Park, North Island, New Zealand
By mattyandjax on 26-Jul-10. Waypoint GC2CCM4

The cache is no longer there. Considering the grief we have had over this cache we are going to permanently disable it.

Thought about it and tried again but still no cache.

Had a good look but no cache

The clue was a bit cryptic and want to spend too much time here due to other visitors.

Pleased to find it this visit. Although it still took me a while. SL TFTC

DNF

With the rain scheduled to ease this afternoon I was keen to go geogaching. So was the Future Finder, just so long as a clock tower was invloved. With that in mind Highland Park seemed like a good launching (and return) pad. First up was this nearby cache. Initially, I thought that the hint refered to the columbarium map. But when that didn't jibe with the GPS I soon adjusted my interpertation and made an easy find. A lovely little spot. Cheers for the cache!

Out on a mission to chalk up as many finds today as possible. Upon arriving at GZ I struggled to work out where I should be looking and then it hit me! Loved the hint. TFTC.

Nice little area, quick find, TFTC

Didnt find for second time....Maybe next time.

Went to check up on it on way to beach today and it's still in the right place so all is good

Spent 10 minutes looking but to no avail.

Yes, yes, yes...........thats right I didn't find it. No problem with location and tried hard to get it, but a DNF - this time.

Not sure if I found it but it did my HEART good to visit my Dad whose ashes are there.

Being a genealogist I didn't feel strange in a Cemetery. We honour those who have passed by respectfully walking amoungst them and reading their stories.

This entry was edited by wendyms on Tuesday, 07 December 2010 at 15:15:18.

[black]Firstly I want to commend you on your cache placement, we DNF'd this one a while ago and have had it on the watchlist ever since and keeping up with reading all the find and DNF logs, the thing that is starting to bug me and I feel needs to be said is the people who write negative logs about where the cache is placed (i.e a cemetery) but are happy enough to claim a smilie, [u]EVERYONE [/u]knows that this one is placed in a cemetery, if you dont like doing cemetery caches then by all means DONT, but it seems a little (or a lot) hypocritical to claim a find!
For us it IS about the numbers (and we don't have an issue with cemetery placements - we are happy to be respectful of the area as we are in Maori reserves etc) as well as all the usual other stuff like nice scenic walks, nice historical places (cant get more historic than a cemetery), and so on and so on, so we just hope the cache owner doesnt get bullied into archiving this one, we are looking forward to finding this cache and claiming our !!!

Enough said, Happy Caching Everyone! (Don't want to turn into the 'much despised' unofficial caching police)

Couldn't find this one. Felt a bit weird searching around this area so didn't spend too long here. Will come back another time

GPS'r pointed straight to the correct location, so it was a fairly easy find. I must say that I'm not all that comfortable with this type of location, feels a bit disrespectful to be on a "treasure hunt" here. I agree with Tramper Ted, let them RIP.

Jipppiee found it. I was just a bit too small, that's why I didn't see it the first time.
But I can't help it......I just wanted to find this one

Nope...couldn't find the cache. Our GPS pointed a completly different than the hint. But nothing on both spots

Called by but feel really uncomfortable in these sorts of spots, so didn't stay long. Let them RIP we say.

5303 Was haunted by the spate of recent DNFs... no problems for us, cache located in the obvious spot. TFTC.

Did try another look. But nope.
I do find it a bit uncomfortable to look (and touch) all those possible caches

just went to check on the cache, and it had been put back in the wrong place!!!
*PLEASE RETURN TO EXACT SPOT- OR THE CLUE IS WORTHLESS*

dnf

Was in the area visiting friends for dinner but had to take care of the important stuff first and grab a nearby cache - very peaceful area in the sun and it wasn't too long before I was seeing eye to eye with the cache - my back thanks you! TFTC

A quirky little surprise this one TFTC

thanks

A long hunt

3426. Out today with family and we decided to give this another go before calling it a day. With four of us looking it was still very elusive and we were about to give up and go and find somewhere for dinner when Rodney called out to us - there was the cache - in his hand!
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Visited here today with NODO. With no real information and not wanting to stay around too long we had to move on. After reading previous logs we may well have another go before leaving for Christchurch. Nice little cemetery.

Quick find with kyle891 on a night of caching. #4 for the evening. TFTC

Easy find on a wet under foot day

Had to look in a few spots, but got there.

TFTC

Took a fair while but I got there after some muffle dodging! TFTC.

Thank you for such a mindboggeling find

Nice little cache. Took a while to find being so short but got there in the end TFTC

Had a serious downpour the day before, so I left without a find. It gave me a chance to read the hint and know where I had to look. TFTC

We looked forever and just could not seem to find it !

After such a wet morning it was good to nab this one in the afternoon. T4TC.

Took two attempts to get this one, but not difficult in the end. TFTC

I missed out on the insomnia party the other night.
Must be a spooky place at night.
TFTC

Quick find. Thanks.

Was on my way back from Melbourne when this one was published. Bit of a bummer as I would have been up for the FTF on this one (only 6km away from home in a straight line). Only got home at 1:30am so decided to leave it till this morning. Arrive at GZ and quickly spotted the cache. Given the position of the cache this listing will not last long as its resting place is bound to be in demand some time in the future. TFTC

Published

After meeting up at the other new cache, stu4, rosmar and I came here in convoy to find this one. We did get the FTF but were all a bit uncomfortable about the location and surroundings of the hide - always a bit better to in locales like this to stay a bit further away from the centre of the 'action' so to speak. TFTC!!!

Meet up with FMZ & Stu4 at another new cache published tonight so decided to head in this direction in search of this one. A little spookey at night but luckily Stu4 laid eyes on the rather small urn reasonably quickly.[xx(] A joint FTF on a dark & wet night with a full moon overhead. TFTC

formed in the que of the mini cache convoy and headed out east. Not the usual place i would expect to find a cache, Hopefully cache wont be joined by a local to soon. Joint FTF. TFTC,