Turtle One (Auckland) Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By Geomatt123 on 24-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2MX70

I noticed that this cache has been in need of owner attention for a period of time well in excess of the period of "a few weeks" as contemplated by the cache guidelines published on Geocaching.com. While I feel that Geocaching.com should hold the location for you and block other caches from entering the area around this cache for a reasonable amount of time, we can't do so forever. Please either repair/replace this cache, or archive it (using the archive listing link in the upper right) so that someone else can place a cache in the area, and geocachers can once again enjoy visiting this location.

If you plan on repairing this cache, please log a note to the cache (not email) within the next 30 days so I don't archive the listing for non-communication.

Regards,
Growly Bear
Geocaching.com Volunteer Reviewer.

Had its day time for something new

Not much happening with this cache

Any chance of a maintenance check please?

All paced out with no luck. Found the likely spot the hint referred to but no joy

After half and hour of searching and researching, pacing and re-pacing I have to admit defeat. Perhaps the CO can check?

All good with T1.
TFTC

found the wee chap in his hidey hole.t4tc

Had a bit of difficulty getting to this one as there a muggle walking his dog nearby. Soon was able to locate GZ and had cache in hand. TFTC

A quick lunch time find. With the nearby traffic I thought that the park would be much noisier but was not to be, hence a nice little undisturbed spot

TFTC

Reveurs and I had found 2 of the turtles previously so wanted to find the remaining 2 today. Took a bit of searching, there were a fair number of places that matched the hint. But eventually found by Reveurs pacing it out as per hint and coming to it pretty quickly. TFTC.

Only one more to find Cheers!

Our last cache for the day, nearly called it quits after searching several fallen trees, but soon located this little turtle, sneaky littly guy. Hiding with the turtle was a huge spider, glad it was Tim who found the cache, urgh! TFTTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 36° 45.246 E 174° 42.813

Coordinates changed to:
S 36° 45.207 E 174° 42.782

Distance from original: 281.2 feet or 85.7 meters.

Back to original spot

Back up and hiding, same spot.

I'm happy to archive this cache and make it a new cache in the new spot. I Checked the co ords when I place it there and could not find any caches to close. Is it my archey frog that it is to close to and how far would I have to move it to make it ok ?

I'm happy to archive this cache and make it a new cache in the new spot. I Checked the co ords when I place it there and could not find any caches to close. Is it my archey frog that it is to close to and how far would I have to move it to make it ok ?

Moving

Hi Geomatt123,

Unfortunately moving this cache has placed it too near another existing cache. I'm disabling this for the moment until you can re-locate it again. Given the distance it was moved (approx 80 meters), I would suggest this is now quite a different hide, so the current listing needs to be archived and a new cache published at the new location.

Regards,
Zero Gravitas
Geocaching.com Volunteer reviewer
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Hopped to a new spot!

On the move

Coordinates changed from:
S 36° 45.207 E 174° 42.782

Coordinates changed to:
S 36° 45.246 E 174° 42.813

Distance from original: 281.2 feet or 85.7 meters.

Ready to go again, with a new spot and log book!

Ha ha the GPS had me try and take a left hand turn off road from the motorway! At least I have more common sense that the GPS! Finally worked out to access this off rooks road, so once parked it didn't take long to head towards GZ. Here I was minding my own business scurrying around in the bush when a small dog seeks me out. Yep you guessed it, in come the owners trying to retrieve the dog! Now one thing I've noticed thats different from caching up north, as the muggles just don't care or want to know what you are up to hiding out in the bush - they just make a real hasty retreat!!!!

The published cache co ords are out so I loaded the other cachers noted ones and bingo, a very quick find. Turtle has lost has contents but I've added a new log that's double bagged and added a few rocks on top so it doesnt blow away. It should be ok for a little bit but will need a new container to protect it better from the elements. TFTC

Yes as per last finder. Found the turtle, and as previously stated log book and all other items missing. Such a shame.

Per last log, just turtle. Log book and rest missing.

Well, we found a turtle. We fear the other items that should have been with it have gone missing. TFTC. Lyle family.

I searched the area stated, but couldn't locate the cache so read the logs and inputted the coords stated by WestHuge. Walked towards this and spotted the cache on route. I made the coordinates S 36° 45.205 E 174° 42.784 and it only took me about 10 minutes.

TFTC

Reasonably quick find. Nicely hidden. TFTC.

It took 5 of us 90 minutes to get this one. Found it at S36 45.202 in the end. Never give up!!!

Nice hide. Look forward to finding the others in this series. TFTC!

Found after a wee search while out getting a few caches with my daughter this morning.
T4TC

Running late to be able to do this one on way to work - probably a good thing or I would have been late again. Took awhile for GPS'r to settle and then to locate clue, all good fun. Lost another pen, that's 2 this week, managed to stratch in name with a muddy stick. TFTC

Took a little while but got there in the end. One to go of the Turtle series. TFTC

Having found the frog caches earlier in the day I knew what to look for with these ones. No problems with the find once my GPS settled down. Really slippery in the bush today after all the recent rains. Nearly fell a few times looking for this one. TFTC

What a lovely surprise - gave me a wee chuckle. TFTC #2390

BaldEd and waited for the shower to finish before venturing out to locate this one. The GPS had us going for a while but we soon located it.

Cheers for the cache.

Nice modern exercise walkway nearby but nobody using the apparatus today - probably due to the inclement weather. Both Tufty's and my gps's had trouble homing onto GZ under the wet foliage. Eventually, when mine seemed to stabilise at 2m I found the cache at my feet. Loved the little turtle. Thanks for the cache.

{ At 10:45 NZST, A nice easy find but the log wasn't quite what we anticipated. Still I suppose in retrospect 'a log is a log is a log is a log'. Have now completed the series although NOT in the correct order. Thanks, it has been interesting...... TFTC ]

Quite a bit of searching to locate this one. SL TFTC

Nice walk through the area on a quiet Saturday - TFTC

2.50pm. Nice day for a stroll outdoors before going to mind the grandchildren. Slithered into the bush and searched for a while before finding the correct hint mentioned object - off about 5m from GZ according to our gps on the day but it was acting a bit erratic under the bush cover. Admired all the fungi around in the process. Enjoyed it all.
TNLNSL
TFTC
[8d] M&P.

Found this little turtle snug and safe, TFTC

#988 After a wonderful day out and about, this was the last turtle to be gathered up. Great fun, enjoyed whether its frogs, turtles, snakes... whatever next... Thanks for the fun. SL. TFTC.

Out for the day caching with Zork. Quick find in the bush.

Found thanks to Brett, gps froze at 15m, nice hide, check out the tunnel with the artwork further down the path

6598 Having rekindled our interest in herpetology looking for rare frogs... we thought we better track down the missing turtles too. Leonardo was the first one we found and logged, spotted Professor Glyn studying their habitat intently, TFTC.

Didn't take us too long to find and we loved the cammo! First time we'd been in this reserve.

TFTC

Nice quick find, a bit to hot for caching today

TFTC

Last of the turtles for me, quickly spotted.

TFTC

Found, TFTC

Great cache camo. Found after a bit of a browse. TFTC

Got it in the end, search area a bit out! Really hot day, glad the turtle is sheltering. Nice theme. TFTC

Found a nice close parking area for this one and the cache was soon in hand. TFTC

Had to laugh when we found the cache container! Clever idea, thanks

Almost rounded up the Bale, Nest, Turn or Dole of turtles.

Quick find, co-ords spot on.

TNLNSL

T4TC

Short walk and quick find, TFTC

My first turtle. No worries with the hide, I just followed the GPS. Thanks.

Getting the hang of where these things live now-great series-tftc

Published

Jumped the gun!

Published

Big group of finders waiting at this one, hilarious. Missed the publication by 20 minutes. Nice cache. TFTC!!!

Had ourselves a little geocaching party with the ten or so other cachers chasing this one Nice to meet some of you...We dropped our dinners and bolted for this one as it's the first to pop up nearby at a time we were free to hunt Easy find even without our GPS as there was practically an arrow of cachers pointing to GZ TFTC dropped off a $1......also...we weren't FTF but we beat FMZ (who's been nabbing everything lately hahaha it's ON )

Furbies and I rushed off for a FTF as we were just across the road at hockey when the notification came through. Clearly we weren't quite as quick as the rest of the local geocachers but turned out to be quite a cool little impromptu event on the footpath. TFTC

25-01-2011 at 20:32

#467: 3 minutes after the publishing, I had both GPSRs loaded and out the door I went. I parked at a nearby petrol station and noticed someone moving briskly towards the GZ which was 260 metres away. I started moving faster as well thinking this might be a cacher...then he picked up his pace to a trot along the footpath, which prompted me to sprint my stubby little legs across an overgrown field. As I arrived near the point of intersection of field and footpath 200 metres later I met FriwiNZ. We approached the GZ together and began the search. 5 minutes later Kai Gotti and Rosmar arrived, then I found it and we all shared an FTF.

Seconds later the cavalry arrived: Furbies, Merlins Beard, and eventually FMZ strolled in as well.

There had to be at least 10 of us milling around the GZ in the largest FTF party I have ever witnessed in my rather brief 'career' as a geocacher. What a cool little gathering., Hope to see more like this in the future.

TNLNSL. TFTC

Joint FTF with FriwiNZ, Kai_Gotti & Rosmar

This entry was edited by Gyro27 on Tuesday, 25 January 2011 at 01:31:06.

Had just finished dinner when this publication came through. Headed towards GZ and found a park in the nearby petrol station but only after witnessing several cachers walking briskly towards GZ. Followed these cachers towards GZ and after a quick search Gyro27 put his hands on the well themed cache. Joint FTF with Gyro27, FriwiNZ & Kai-Gotti. . Had an enjoyable chat with the FTFers and soon we were joined by a large gathering of other Geocachers. Keep this up and we will soon be able to hold our own mega event

Just checking my email when this publication came through. OK, it is not far from my place, I give it a go. Parked the car at the nearby petrol station, I was on my way towards GZ when Rosmar arrived. Together we went to GZ, FriwiNZ and Gyro27 already searching - not a FTF for me, but I claim a TTF [:o)].
Short after Furbies, Merlins Beard, FMZ and..... arrived. Geocaching party!
Sl TFTC and the fun

Great fun to meet so many geocachers . I arrived at the petrol station carpark seconds after Gyro27 and made a dash toward GZ only to meet up with him quickly after. We started talking and overshot the cache location Kai Gotti and Rosmar then joined us on the hunt and Gyro27 found the grail. We were soon after joined by many other cachers. Thanks Gyro27 for accepting a joint FTF TNLNSL TFTC

Well this turned to be a little geocahce event.. When Loz47 and I turned up, We came across Kai_Goti, Gyro27, Rosmar and FriwiNZ, soon came Merlins_Beard and FNZ. and we started the good old FTF story session.

Nice little cache... Thanks.

Got there to find heaps of people standing around looking very suspicious indeed Met a lot of good fun people. Sltnln tftc

First ever find

Found it, first one ever!