Oh Christmas Tree (Auckland) Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By avoyager on 05-Dec-10. Waypoint GC2K15E

Checked on this today & its missing. After 10years with the same container its time to archive this cache. The area isnt a nice place to visit now.

Couldnt see it

I just couldn't see it

Visited Howick area today to do New Adventure Lab. Found container way off from the tree so replaced as per hint and cache description. Wet container inside as well but log dry as! T4TC

Found! Container and contents still in good condition. Good spot for stealth even when it's busy. TFTC

We set off in the daylight but by the time we got there the sun had set. Thank goodness for the torch on my phone! A nice easy find. There were lots of kids doing football training but because of the location it is nice and private. TFTC

Found. Kids loved the find.
TFTC.

Nice and easy !! X stay safe geocatchers!

Excellent find. My 7yr had a blast finding it

Found

Good clue

It was in a good spot but I find it

The boys loved finding this one, super simple and fun once you know which tree it's near! Thanks.

Out collecting caches today and trying to avoid the rain so it’s a bit car based at the moment.Managed to make a quick find here.

DNF

Got it thanks to the hint. Although we’re used to look for pine trees back home...

Yippee my first find for the year and may there be many more!!!

Boxing day caching with TheMexikiwi after a festive evening with friends out this way the night before. Decided to made the most of being out here to grab some caches on the way back for good measure.

Another suitably themed cache for us today and after initially parking too far away, made the short walk to GZ where the cache was quickly found.

Nice spot - TFTC

Yeah! So many “Oh Christmas Trees” here! Thanks for a nice little cache nearby. Logging now as just got account
Thanks!

TFTC

tftc!

Thanks, left a coin

Found!

Thanks that was my first time!

A bit of free time in this part of the world before heading home to Taranaki so hunted down a few caches. A good straightforward find. Thanks.
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Yay! Well done with this cache avoyager! Came here today to find this and had a quick look and then spied the sneaky little thing. Well done making this :] TFTC

Easy find

Nice quick find here, cheers

Enjoyed this mid winter Xmas TFTC

An impromptu visit to Auckland had Team BOP heading for a bit of night caching.
It was the middle of the night, or later, and everyone was well asleep by now, as it was more like 3 am when we visited this cache. We were getting tired, but it didnt slow our caching senses down.
Thanks for bringing me here.
TFTC

With a break in the weather this was the perfect weekend for geocaching. I had no plans so with the help of TNXPro and Squirrelnutcase we sought out a worthy adventure heading West to help Squirrel clear his map. What no one knew at the time was this adventure would morph to span 21 hours, cover 3 regions and we'd have Davidson clan join us at the half way point just in time for the Auckland leg of our journey. A crazy day with Team BOP but there's no denying - it's a lot more fun with friends!

With the sun well and truly gone we had the place to ourselves which was good as I imagine this place gets pretty busy during the day. The cache was found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords and a straight forward placement. Cheers avoyager, TFTC

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Out for a nights caching with Team BOP which consisted of Philip.Pery, Tnxpro,Squirrel nutcase amd myself didnt really have a plan as such just headed for Auckland and followed the caches.
Cache found in good condition

With (Mr) Davidson clan, Philip.Perry, and TNXPro...

Our caching adventure quickly morphed into an all night mission in East Auckland. We were looking for an area with a good spread of caches that didn't require a lot of driving from point to point. Botany Town seemed perfect... As with most nighttime missions, cache finds quickly become a blur as there is not much to focus on other than making the find. My lasting memory of tonight will be enjoying the company of our group, mixed with very cold, wet feet from walking across boggy ground.

A quick find as our energies began to fade. TFTC.

Cleaned container out & replaced log book.

Nice find. Log book was soaking wet

Started off with ok weather so we managed to grab a few caches, as the day progressed the weather got worse, managed a few finds, had some lunch, found a few more before the weather set in.
Thanks to the CO's who placed these caches

Yay found it. Had a spare 40 minutes while my daughter had soccer training

Did this one the hard way and approached from the wrong side down a slippery bank. Cache was quite exposed when I found the correct place but in good condition. Little extra cover added. TFTC.

Easy find on this first day of the long weekend. Thanks!

Easy find, cache is in good condition. We came on a day where there wasn't football going on, so no muggles. Tftc

Stopped here on the way to work, just a few morning football players practising, car park mostly deserted. Tree identified, even though not flowering at the moment, and a quick crash about the bush revealed the hide. Effective camo, and nice and dry, all signed and returned. TFTC

Found with antznz ty

Nice hide. Not too hard to find

Out doing some caches with Merlot58 and Aiden29 and saw this one as we headed past. So did a quick drive by find and collect.

A nice quick park and grab with Aiden29 and Jag50.

We almost headed straight past this one. Our driver made a quick stop so that we could head out and locate this one.

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An earlyish morning walk while waiting for others to get ready for the days activities. Quickly found. TFTC.

Got ya, closing in on first 50 - antznz

I was here a long time ago and didn't spot the cache. Considering where I found it today, I am assuming it was missing and was replaced. I know there are no logs to indicate this, but I still stand firm on the 'missing and replaced' theory.
By now there are some of you yelling at the screen that it was really there and that I am just blind, but I am sticking with it. TFTC.

Agazo:
I dont see any DNF log from you, so I dont know how long ago you last looked for this cache.

The cache was moved about 30m in January 2012 because the tree it was in broke in a storm, smothering the cache. The coordinates for the new 2012 location were updated in April 2014 as cachers were having difficulty getting an accurate GZ due to the tree cover.

A spoiler photo of the current GZ has been on the cache page since Sept 2012.

All the Owner Maintenance logs including updated coordinates (twice) are shown on the cache page.

First find with the family after not doing it for 2.5yrs, fun for the kids not too small

Putback in its place forgot a pen though

Was fun bushwacking. Left a small swap. Supermum5 (horace66)

Found - forgot a pen

Thanks for the cache

Cache 300. Up
From
The South Island and found this. Tftc

Tftc. Nice easy find with the help of the spoiler photo.

Found it

Was a bit worried about looking for this is such a busy area but on arrival saw plenty of cover. Quick find and sign - getting closer to the 300th find.

Went a bit wrong to start but Soon back on track. Tftc

Nice quick find. TFTC

Nice quick find by Miss Davieland. TFTC.

Nice quick find....thanks avoyager ! Donated a spotted frog !

Easy find. Thanks.

Found easily with the hint. TFTC

TFTC. This one took some hunting around for as I couldn't get the pic up on my phone, Found it in the end though.

Found it!!

Great hide TFTC

Easy find as container was exposed. Tftc.

Yay we found it. Thanks

Same colour as tree

Found this one the other day when we were down here for football but didn't have a pen, quick revisit today to sign the log.

Getting through a few caches now local to my new work. Quick find but no more Christmas flowers.

Today yorkshirekiwi83 and I decided to return to East Auckland for another part day of caching - basically continuing where we left off yesterday and the weather was even hotter than yesterdays! Parked in the shade right by GZ and quickly found the cache here. TFTC!

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Vistra and I werent happy with our find numbers the day before due to the heat, so another early morning and back out there today to get our numbers, nice quick park and grab, TFTC


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Good fun on a wet day. Thanks for the cache.

I'm currently attempting a 50 day streak for the GIO Licence I am working on and as an added challenge a few of the SEAC crew are joining in.

Decided this was going to be the cache for the day so made my way over here. Parked easily nearby and walked up to the first 'christmas' tree and hey presto there it was - nice easy find for today.

Thanks for the cache. Streak day #18

Found after taking my granddaughter to school. TFTC

FOUND IT! If you think it's the right tree, you're on the right track, just keep looking TFTC

Didn't identify tree as the flowers havent bloomed but made it! Saw a round reflection which helped me with the locating of the geocache! TFTC!

Yay. Second find ☺

The second cache for this evening. The name of the cache sounded so promising, because we in Finland know Christmas so well because of our Santa Clause. So, I came nearer GZ and noticed one good place to hide the cache. But the cache wasn't there. Then I remembered something important and immediately had the container in my hands after that. Thanks for the cache and very best regards from Finland.

We were out with lisadrysdale who walked straight to the tree and immediately had the cache in hand. Carpark was nice and empty and we could duck in and out without anyone noticing

Was out with my Geocaching mentors - so always happy when I find one faster than they do! This one was partially uncovered, so have hopefully rehidden it well enough for the next people, & so muggles don't spot it...

Found on the way to the breakfast event at Denny's. Always good to cache in a new area. Thanks for the caches.

So this is how the Kiwi Christmas tree looks like...
TFTC!

nice hide, soccer was on had to be a bit stealthy TFTC

Nice find. Rather muddy and slippery today. TFTC

Out picking up caches with attributes needed for our ongoing attempt at completing the GIO Licence.

A quick find after a short stroll.

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My GPS took me all over the place so I ignored it and quickly, there it was. TFTC

Quick walk to find whilst biggest geokid was in his guitar lesson. Now to sprint back! TNLN SL TFTC

First find. Great fir the kids. Thank you.

Up from the tron to get my spyder serviced and visit Father in nearby hospital. Easy find thanks

Quick find. Master 6 literally stumbled across this one, after tripping over a tree root and landing right at GZ! TFTC

Out this afternoon doing some caches in the area to increase our monthly count.

This was just across the road from where we were going to do some shopping so was an easy choice to do.

Parked and soon had the cache in hand.

TFTC

Found it, thanks. Left a little trinket

Lucky I knew roughly which tree to look by as my GPS battery died just before, doh! Mr 4 spotted it straight away Re-hid a bit better, TFTC!

Photo is a great clue! TFTF

yay found it all 4 of us.

Nice little cache en route to get groceries. Tftc.