Korean Gardens Takapuna, North Island, New Zealand
By G-2 on 06-Feb-11. Waypoint GC2KWH1

Unfortunately this one is missing. There were about 5 up and go pouches stuffed into the hiding spit so maybe teenage muggles found it? Thanks though!

Out and about in Takapuna today. Perfect temperature for geocaching, not too hot, not too cold, just right. Nice quick find in the obvious place, much appreciated as it helps me to clear out the area, Thanks for hiding and maintaining. Tftc.

Similar to the first one , great cache love it tftc

Had me confused as could see it but wondered how to access. Try the other side and bingo

Fun little find at midday on a quiet Friday - TFTC

Nice little hidden away cache, watch for busses though, EEP they tear through there close to the verge sometimes Logbook is a little wet but not too bad, pencil is definitely gone lol

Tftc

This sure is a busy station (even at this time of year), but thankfully I had the cache in hand quickly, and even spotted an old caching buddy while signing the log. TFTC!

Sneaky little find, had to wait as there was heaps of people just come off the bus.

Another great weekend in Auckland with Lis's Crew to complete this months challenge and find a few extra caches in and around Milford.

This was one of our first caches for the day and we may or may not have parked at the local transport hub on a quiet Sunday morning and walked to collect.

TFGC.

Yvettetb and I are down in Auckland again for a geocaching weekend. We had a great day yesterday at the event then collected all the different types needed for the souvenir around Auckland. That was a sucessful outing and although rain constantly threatened it only spat on us occasionally.

Today the forecast wasn't much better. As luck would have it we had another dry and productive day. We even managed to get 5 ftfs in Whangarei to finish our weekend off.

I was keen to clear out a bit of the Takapuna to Milford area today. We parked in the bus stop here for 15 mins and collected all the nearby caches. I was certainly glad we had our gumboots on for the walk on this side. It was a quick find of the cache here. I did wonder about the title as I couldn't see any Korean gardens. I wonder what has happened given it got consent in 2018. Thanks for your cache

Found it! No pen but here’s a pic

A quick find here with FMZ while over here on the shore. This cache find completes the Jasmer 2011 year for me. TYFTC!!!

Quick find here. Tftc

It didn't take long to spot the cache, but my brain took forever to work out how to retrieve it. Was quicker replacing it before the next bus came.

Allok here now.

Tftc

Found w k-adventure. Clever hide cache is a small bottle.

Took a little while, searching everywhere with our hands, but then found it searching with my eyeballs . Tftc

Spotted it, but couldn’t figure out how to get to it! After a quick walk around I grabbed it.

Loved the collection of Caches around here! Thank you so much!

Up in Auckland for the weekend....heading to takapuna we stopped in here on the way. Brr chilli evening but all quiet to grab the cache. A quick find and back to the warmth of the car.
Thanks for placing the cache G-2.
Find number 4610.
Log signed b&p.

Tidy little hiding spot

Easy find again in obvious place. Parking was tricky...

This one took me a while to find, missed it by touch on the first couple of passes. Quite a few cars go past here, not really a short-cut, but sort of. Cheers G_2.

Have had my beady eyes on a few of the caches around the North Shore with some future dot-days to come and which are on my actual route to/from Whenuapai, rather than the tenuous other 'on my route' caches which have already been gobbled up over the last few months.
A trio of close-proximity caches was in my sights today and success at all GZ s meant a good haul.

Being watched unfortunately, too risky. Will return!

Nice cache! Came here to find this one because it is my birthday. TFTC

An easy find. Tftc

Easy grab from bus station. Tftc

Nice quick find today before visit to hospital. Cache needs a bit of TLC as magnetic has lost a bit of mag..cheers V.

Nice quick grab and go! Great clue! TFTC

Great Cache and will be fantastic when the Korean Gardens is finished for all to enjoy
Thank you the Cache and History

Nice easy find and interesting to read about the proposed gardens. Parked in a very dodgy spot over the road so am pleased it was a quick one! Doing this silly streak thing ha!

Well it is June 2019 and no sign of a Korean garden being built here yet. There is certainly the room and it would improve what is an area that could use an attraction or two. We visited Korea last year and the gardens are lovely so it would be a welcome addition to the area. A pity that things in New Zealand seem to take so long to come to fruition.

As for the cache, walked down to GZ and saw the obvious spot that a cache might be hidden. Even so took a wee bit of poking about before I spotted it and retrieved it to sign. No problems here really, quiet on a public holiday. Thanks for the cache, all good here.

Parked my bike at GZ. What a joy! Handy one. Quiet here on Saturday. TFTC

A day in Takapuna: headed up to Takapuna today after helping my Father with some errands this morning. Spent the day walking from Akoranga to Milford via Takapuna Beach, and experienced some really good caches, especially since this appears to be G-2’s playground. Nice views and good fun all round, so a productive day it was.

The specific log for each cache is as follows:
Another cache in the guard rail here. For some reason, it was also a little hard to find, but I suppose I don’t know where all the nooks are on these things yet. TFTC!

Our last find of the day and a nice easy one as the area was completely deserted.
It's interesting to read about the proposed Korean Garden and we are keen to see how it progresses.
We had an enjoyable and mostly successful day caching in the area with the majority of our finds being yours so thanks for giving us a memorable day full of variety, history and a 15km walk.

Quiet Sunday afternoon to get my hands on this well hidden cache. Still no sign of activity of the garden variety 5 months into 2018. Thanks for a other great cache!

Came over this way this morning to grab a couple of caches round this reserve. 7 years on and still no Korean Garden tho or was it too dark for me to see it cos I am here early this morning. Nice quick find at the GZ to continue my daily streak. (Day #421)

Nice spot. Will be a beautiful gardens hopefully one day. Tftc

Nice quick find tftc!

Beautiful day. Found on the way home from work. Cache is in good condition with new long. No pencil there though so BYOP. Tftc

FTF the new log. Thanks for the cache.

After finishing up some work during the weekend I had some sun left to get some geocaches done today. Easy find at GZ. TFTC

Replaced log, fixed tape covering , all ok
Interestingly there's no sight of the Korean Garden even starting

The rain was just starting so thankfully this was found quickly though it was lying on the ground. The magnet doesn't work anymore and after it kept falling down, I left it tucked in but it's still very exposed

Picked the right day to come searching for this, as the park n ride was empty. Merlot58 located the cache lying on the ground, and we had to tuck the cache in place as the magnet wasn't working anymore.

Found it pretty quickly. Cache was lying on the ground. Logged and kept in a place which looked obvious. TFTC

Still waiting on the Korean gardens.... can't see anything happening yet. I love Korean food btw. Nothing like Kimchee: Chinese cabbage, soaked in water for a few days then done up with a heap of ginger, copious amount of chillie, and heaps of garlic. Nothing like it!

No kimchee was seen in the cache though G.

did not really see a garden .

Cache could be signed quickly I then watched the small aircrafts ....

I carefully replaced the cache right back where I found it.

*thanks to G--2 for your cache*


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Came up from hamilton to attend a meeting in the Bruce Mason Centre, and fearing auckland traffic I left home rather early. It meant that I missed all the traffic and had 2 hours to kill. Instead of wasting them, I decided to go for a walk geocaching! may have looked a bit funny wondering into the park in my work gear today I have to admit it felt weird walking around here in the near dark, kind of like I was in someones back yard!

Quick grab at GZ tftc

Found with Miss Not-Quite-One on my Sunday morning coffee run. Quick find; log a bit mouldy. TFTC!

#220. Little traffic to impede my progress. Some construction going on but workers were otherwise occupied. Nice quick find. TFTC.

After finding a nearby cache in the park, we headed over to find the korean gardens. Spotted the cache quickly and signed in. Had to wait for a muggle to drive off before we were able to rehide the cache.

Nice quick find today, late afternoon so nice and quiet here today

Quiet day today makes for an easy find.

196

Found after a golf lesson nearby. Tftc.

Quick find in the way to the golf range. TFTC

Easy find, but loads of people around.

G-2 your very clever with camos but we found this one in seconds today. Thanks again for your hiding efforts.

Maybe a bit more of a clue!

Not able to find this today!

Found by GggadgetJ. Out for a bit of late in the day caching with the Gadget team. Easily found by one of the smaller members of the team.

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Found it tftc was easier than I thought it would be as it hasn't been found for a few months

Was quite a bit of traffic around so I had fun taking photos of the beautiful sunset while I search for the cache. Thankfully got a gap and picked it up quick and easy. I'm excited to see the changes they're going to make to this site!

Tftc nice spot and not to hard.

Thought we would test out our new biking gear- and pick up a cache

Found it's after my Sunday night market, nice hide, easy find.
thank you for bringing me a here
T FTC

GC visit

I got to the coords easily enough and looked in all the places that seemed likely, but was less brave than usual due to spotting a couple wasps nests. Perhaps another time.

It will be interesting if we ever get to wander through Korean Gardens near this site. It certainly sound appealing but at the rate work is progressing it may be 2030 before we see it.
A quick search soon had the cache in hand which brought hearty smiles. I think we have now fully recovered from a very tricky cache earlier this afternoon. TFTC

Quick park & grab. Thanks

First completed find for the day on my xmas visit. Thought I would take the doggies for a walk and found this dog friendly site with several caches hiding waiting to be found. Once at the GZ it was clear where the cache could be. quick grab. Lucky there wasn't alot of traffic. TFTC ;D

I somehow ended up in this area whilst going for walk exploring the surrounding area. The cache was a quick and easy grab on a sunny Sunday afternoon. I got a call for a pick up though before I could search for the other caches in the area. TFTC #251

Hardest part is finding legal parking, but a good hide in a busy (at times) area. TFTC

Found this one surprisingly quickly. Starting to get the hang of it now. Thanks for the effort with this one. Cheers.

Simple find on a short walk in the sun.

Getting the logobOOk out was harder than finding cache. Had to get out the trusty swiss army knife

Stopped by with my kids. When I made the grab, one of them asked, "Are they all that easy?" Little did she know. TFTC.

Found it on a lazy Sunday morning. Haven't been through here before. Still no gardens either. Contents all warm, dry and happy. Cheers for the cache.

Still safe for the next find TFTC

Still there, nice and dry . TFTC!

Be great to see some gardens here. Looks a bit bland at the moment. Quick find, tftc

Nice, I find the log and a driving ranch...TFTC

This was pretty easy find with simple bu effective camo. There were few muggles, so retrieval and placement were pretty easy to accomplish. TFTC! NINO.

an easy find with no one around on my last day around this area, tftc

Thanks

First cache of the morning thought it would be a nice track to do

First of a quick visit to this side of the motorway.

Nice easy find. Tftc

Easy run by

Initially did not find it but came back 15 minutes later and had a quick find on the way to the bus station. TFTC

Quick find after getting off the bus at the station nearby. Good clues. TFTC

Nice little find. Glad to have success after striking out at Statue-Bro next door.
Thanks

Easy find. Looking forward to the gardens. TFTC.

Haha ...we are a bit early to see gardens ! Nice easy find thanks .

A nice quick and easy Sunday find for my cache for the day which I was appreciative for as I'm not feeling 100% at the moment.


Thanks!

Checked cache, all good

This entry was edited by glyn(the only one) on Saturday, 01 June 2013 at 06:10:11 UTC.

No sign of sign but an easy find anyway. TFTC