Bowled Over (Auckland) Cockle Bay, North Island, New Zealand
By 5wheels on 01-Feb-11. Waypoint GC2N6VP

Hi, Bowled Over is now going to be replaced with a more fun multi hide.

Because of the ease to find this cache and the risk of trackables being stolen the cache will have to be disabled if we were to replace it. However it may need to be archived. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Was passing the area and then remembered that I hadn't found thus one yet.

Didn't take too long to find it.

Cute log book.

Easier then you think

Quick find while at Howick Bowling Club for National Intercentre Bowls. TFTC

Took a while looking in the slightly non-obvious places before it was spotted almost in plain sight. How did my eyes miss this earlier?

No luck today. But didnt spend long as i think i had a muggle watching me from the carpark.

Took a little while, but spotted it after a bit of searching!! Good hide. TFTC

TFTC first to write in new log!

We attempted this one while doing a multi in the same area... Mum and Dad were getting really mad at the GPS, which kept changing its mind about where the cache was located.
Just as Mum and Dad decided to give up and continue with the multi; Dad located the cache. Phew - at least the 15+ minutes spent looking for the cache weren't wasted!

Trackable is no longer in the cache.

great cache looked for it with my ranger unit (i found it) lots of fun

out and about introducing a group of Rangers to geocaching. Original log not evident, and remaining contents looking a little worse for wear. Added a notebook in a snap-lock bag to be used as a new log, so any future finders should be able to sign this.

I had my 2 boys and a friend’s 2 girls today, as part of our support groups holiday program. Geocaching without a gps unit is a fun activity to entertain the kids. Found the cache but it is wet throughout, and we could not write to the log. The other items is starting to rust and rot ;-(

Quick find,

Log very wet, almost too wet to sign.

TFTC

Nice easy one. Good clue. Switched a happy face badge for a poker chip

Quick find after detour to the craft market at the local church...no purchases this time but some cool ideas - oh the best of both worlds caching and shopping

Found with retrokiwi. Muggles walking around just as we realised where the cache was hidden, so had to wait a minute for them to pass. TFTC.

had a little rest while waiting for muggles to pass before sneaking it out - TFTC

Nicely hidden. TFTC.

~()~

I was super excited when I found this one! My friends were just about to give up and I located the cache.

Couldn't find it and unfortunately there were a few people playing bowls so we didn't hang around longer than 5mins

Our first cache...that was fun. Took 15 mins to find. Hit it better...under a rock

Was muggled by the caretaker of the bowling club! Oops! I found a likely hidey hole, but it had been cleared out. Dunno if it's actually gone, or just my incompetence.

TFTC! Left a trackable too.

Plenty of people at the bowling club today and managed to locate the cache without interuption. TFTC

Awesome location, with a great find with the kids. With a playground right there

Tftc

Thanks for nicely hiden cache. George

#2892. Pretty quiet today. Cache was a bit exposed, so left it covered up better. TFTC.

Huge area of bowling greens - must be a popular past-time in these parts!
No one was playing when we were there. We parked in the carpark and had a short walk to GZ.
TFTC.

#4, Great find, sons first find:-)

This entry was edited by neatad on Sunday, 08 January 2012 at 06:45:30 UTC.

Last time I was here there were so many muggles I just kept driving, (Bowles adn probus), this time much better luck, TFTC

Didn't quite beat the muggles on the green, even at 7am. T4TC - M@

Cache out in the open, Put back with cover on top. Busy place below.

Great little spot, I couldnt find it but my boy found it really fast

Thought there were plenty of muggles below enjoy a game or two there were oblivious to the hunt going above. Even so it still took some 10mins to make the find which did seem rather obvious in hindsight but then again they often do. TFTC.

A quick find. Dusted off the GPSr to find one of my closest "unfound" caches close to home especially to mark International Geocaching Day.
Thanks for the cache.

This was our first cache find! :O Very exciting. Took about 7 minutes for us to find it, but after we did it was pretty obvious lol.

Onlooking muggles looked a little confused by our location..

We took a little plastic boy, and replaced it with a yellow monkey!

Yay!

-Chavan

woot

Great find. 5yr old unearthed rather quickly. Muggles were roaming, don't ya hate it when ya tennis ball rolls down the hill.

Tricky, but obvious when you spot it. Thanks!

A nice hide. Had me searching a good few minutes. Thanks.

Yay!! at least we found one! Our first in Auckland while on a visit from Perth. TFTC

TFTC - did did a driveby after a very wet afternoon

6969 Bowled over to make a find on a nicely hidden cache, very well done, many thanks.

Nice hide. T4TC

Heaps of muggles around early on a Saturday morn, but a good find. TFTC

A quick mothers day find. Tftc

Had to wait for a couple of muggles to go past before venturing out of the car to the cache.

Cheers for the cache.

I have to say this one took me a while to find. Must have walked over it 50 times in my search. Found it in the end. Thanks for the great cache

Found fairly quickly while hunting good caches in the area. Unfortunately weather didn't make it so pleasant. SL TFTC

Great quick find with the kids on a dull Friday afternoon. TFTC. Took nothing, left small rat!

VERY CLOSE TO HOME !

It wasn't hard at all.I think it's very popular.

We were bowled over by a quick find here

TFTC

Plenty of bowlers in action. I made the find a lot harder than it should have been.

i was a little late to write my log
nice place.went with KiwiLeon.
TFTC

Closest to home.
Kept this one to fill up a gap in my caching calender.
Out with KiwiEric.
A few possible hiding places.
Quick find.
TFTC

Out east today, caching in the rain! Initially I was worried that there would be multiple potential hiding spot. However, I spotted the hide without any trouble. Cheers for the cache!

Nice quick find as part of our long distance caching finds from North to South Island in one day. TFTC.

Plenty of bowlers below, but they weren't interested in me.

TFTC

mass exodus from club house as we were signing the log and the sun was struggling to come out. NINO TFTC

Nice little hide and due to the pouring rain there was no one about. TFTC

No worries here, well hidden from the bowlers as I made the find. Thanks.

We were out and about on a sunny Sunday afternnon and this was our last cache for the day. There was a lone bowler having a practice and the search was not hindered by any passing muggles. Quick find. TFTC

While avoyager is galavanting around central otago av2 is left to fossick around without a GPS - so pretty happy to have this in hand pretty quickly

Nifty little hide...TFTC

Had a look at this one the night it was published but decided to not head out so late at night as I was doing month end reporting and needed sleep. Had a gad in my caching calendar today so decided to make a small detour on the way to work. Have driven past this park before and contemplated placing a cache nearby myself. NO problems with the find. Found within seconds (a lot easier with a GPS no doubt). Surprised to be 2TF 3 days after publication. TFTC

Saw the notification come out, copy&paste coords into google maps to get a rough idea where it is as bjarni1 has the GPS(Darn you!) headed out just before midnight, arrived at GZ only to find more wall than I expected... After 40min of searching everywhere possible with a finger light I saw one place I hadn't checked and sure enough it was there. (Why's it always the last place you look, or on your last look around before giving up?!) Finally I can claim a solo FTF! Whoop! 00:21 2-1-11 TFTC :D:D:D

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