Forgotten Sentinel (Auckland) Browns Bay, North Island, New Zealand
By cabhassett on 23-Nov-10. Waypoint GC2JMB6

It is currently lost. Area where cache is hidden extremely wet as is the park through which you must walk to get to it.

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Found the sentinel, found where it looked like the cache would've been hidden, even found the big ants....but didn't find the cache.

Way to many ants needs to ear gently be cleaned was fun tho
J@L

We found it J@L

Went searching for this one the other day but came up with a DNF. The mega ants put us off searching any further!

Couldn’t find it

Needs replacing urgently

Found it but it's in a bad way.
Maintainance required.
But tftc.

This is so gross there are huge ants all over it and they are massive and everything inside is wet. Very muddy at the moment

Nice find beautiful view

Easy find

Easy find!

Easy find

Yay found it!
Not where I thought it was!

Found it! Note wear gum boots if the sign says field closed!!!!!!

Nice easy find

Couple of quick caches after work. Yes why ?.... never even knew this area was here.

I emptied the water out of both the inner and outer containers, unfortunately the outer lid is cracked etc.

Found it after a slip, an encounter with slaters and questioning why are we here!

Diagies first find with Rourke

I was out taking the geodog for a quick walk and thought I would try and get a couple before the weather turned on me. I drive past this park daily so it has been nice to claim a smiley. TFTC

Easy walk down hill here to find the Forgotten Sentinel ! Quite easy to spot him on my way towards him !
Thanks cabhassett !

Didn't even know this park was here! Easy find

Took my dog for a walk and thought I'd look for it at the same time first one found so pretty cool 830am on a Sunday so no one around

We did this one on Valentines day 2016, so much fun, if you find it our names were Sally, Lissie and Rob! Was an amazing walk from our house to here and we had so much fun exploring!

A lovely walk thru one park into the next park, around the corner as such and there it was! The sentinel on guard! Luckily for me I was under the radar today, so I was able to sneak to GZ and sneakily uplift the cache without being spotted. I even managed to get away in my get-away-car before the sirens went off, **Howz that!**

GPS 3 meters out

TFTC Found with my sister, visiting from South Africa.

Very apt clue! Took Browns Bay walking group here and they thoroughly enjoyed it! TFTC

Tftc

tftc

1st cache for the year. Cheers

The end of 2015 saw us take on a big couple of days of caching. At the beginning of the year, we set a goal of reaching 4000 cache finds by the end of the year. Towards the end of 2015, it wasn't looking too promising as geocaching got put a bit on the backburner for us as life and things happened. Come the 31st Dec 2015 and still needing a good portion of finds, New Year's Eve called for some binge caching in th North Shore to reach that milestone!

An interesting monument in this impressive park! A quick find today. Thanks for the hide.

Tftc! Found under a trip from Sweden to New Zealand.

Very easy find

found it thanks

Out and about this afternoon for some cache detection on this lovely day. Parked up and made the stroll down to the lone sentinel. Managed to execute a super quick find here. Cheers for the hide!

Found it!

Brought a friend with me to find this cache today. She was so excited to find it! I hope we have converted another muggle. Thanks for the cache!

Nice park tftc.

No grump just hunt

After a day at Piha we decided to carry on caching in the Browns bay area as we had just dropped MissNZT off at the sane side of the family so stopped for this cache. Sent MrNZT out to grab this one as it was getting cold at dusk. Quickly found all in good condition. TFTC.

All OK now. Log & container replaced.

Should have left the Sentinel forgotten as far as Scottie is concerned! That embankment is treacherous at present moment. Slipped from the top to the bottom even after mentally thinking to self this could be hazardous... Never been so grumpy finding a cache quickly. On the positive side this cache now draws us on the second half of the year with our mission of completing one each day, only another 182 to go TFTC ( I think )

Right in the backyard! An obvious but fun trek. Tftc

I thought I'd check the easy place before I dove in. This strategy saved me a dive. TFTC.

Good use of my stealth skill here although I don’t think anyone looking at me from the surrounding houses!
Thx for the hide

TFTC

Nice easy find. Ta

Nice find and interesting thing there. I wonder why that is there? Tftc

First one found - thanks!

Approached from the rear, solid spot, firm find, stoked!! #stewssummertraditions #huszakandirwinadventures

We had to get some coffee so we headed this way and once we had refueled/ or is that recaffinated we were on task. T4tc

Found the lone sentinel. Nice spot.

First cache found

Thank you

Nice find as part of our mission to get cache #200 today
Tftc

This entry was edited by Zukibabba on Saturday, 03 January 2015 at 09:12:47 UTC.

This entry was edited by Zukibabba on Saturday, 03 January 2015 at 09:26:36 UTC.

Nice easy find. We've lived up the road for 17 years & played in this park loads of times but never been down to this area. Thanks!

Poor lonely sentinel. Tftc

A quick easy find with Alice Lunar, this sad little sentinal all alone. It was very quiet in the reserve today, so it was a nice peaceful walk to the cache and back to the car. TFTC #317

'Twas a rather bleak and wet morning when I trooped down here on my way to visit a friend. Not a soul around in the park so no need for stealth. Disturbed a rather fat snail who had made his home under the cache out of the rain. Dropped off a TB.

Easy find on the way for a walk.

A heap easier in the daytime to find this cache TFTC GOOD FIND

Second look, much easier find when it's dark

Out to visit friends with the family. Nice find

Another cool find to add to the weekends cache total. Tftc!

On way to Long Bay Regional Park and I was a bit too early to meet the group so stopped to collect this on the way. Not sure I entered from the right direction but nevertheless found the cache safe, sound and nice and dry. The sentinel is forgotten no longer.

Thanks for hiding.

First find !

First find

I couldn't find this geocache, maybe I'll have better luck next time!

Perfectly named cache. Russian doll cache within in a cache.

Thanks

First find!!

Another one for Oliver and Nate! Go team!

Another one for Oliver and Nate! Go team!

Thanks

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

This one was spotted out in the open a little bit, but not before finding hundreds of pinecones.
TFTC

Nice area, seems like a nice park for soccer. Thanks for getting me to see the area ^_^

Nice & easy little trot across the reserve.
Stands out like a sore thumb. Great find for a cache placement
One can assume I found this after virtually every dog in the Shore.
Washed hands

That's our second one! Go us!

Out with Reveurs for some sun, exercise and caching. Another quick find. TFTC.

Almost forgot to log this one until Lycurgon reminded me, almost forgotten oops! TFTC though

Thanks for another hide in this area canhassett.

EB Nano made the find after our slip, slide down the hill. He was impressed to find a cache in a cache. TFTC

Wow, I see what you mean by the park being bigger than first seen! What a great local resource. A quick find on the way to the Mega BBQ. TFTC cabhassett.

Out for a MEGA day of geocaching with Earthbound Chief & Co. A quick easy find. TFTC.

Found with KittyKatch after completing the NZ Mega Okura Bush Walk. We enjoyed the short stroll to this one, which is aptly named, TFTC.

Found with edvern after completing the NZ Mega Okura Bush Walk. Just starting to rain but we are deternined to go on and grab a few more Lots of fun TFTC

Having been up this way to conquer the Tor we thought we better grab some more caches up this way too. I wasn't aware this lower tiered field was even here (and I grew up in Torbay) the things you learn while geocaching!

As we got close to GZ, the name of the cache stood out... Nice and tall.. Quick find thanks. TFTC.

Replaced container, with new log book etc.

Will disable for a while until we do maintenance on the cache.

Found quite easily as GPS worked perfectly for a change!!
Couldn't even write on logbook as it is so wet
TFTC

Could do with drying out and replacing log book???

Raining when we found it. Logbook soaked and basically stuffed.

Great hint, log book saturated

This entry was edited by waiake on Saturday, 27 July 2013 at 05:36:56 UTC.

In a fit of rank stupidity, I decided that the weather should be no barrier to doing some much needed caching. This was a quick find, though apologies for not signing the log. The cache was wrist deep in water and I was just as soaked. I did not want to risk getting water in the thing. A weight might be a good idea, as the cache has a fair amount of buoyancy to it. Anyway, TFTC! NINO, of course. It was worth the soaking!

Found it but it is very water logged, I suggest coming out to replace the log book. I had to blot it dry as much as possible with a napkin to write our name lol.

Thanks for the cache