MWTP#13 - Operational (Auckland) Mangere, North Island, New Zealand
By funkymunkyzone & 10centcoin on 26-Feb-11. Waypoint GC2P7WE

Like the previous searchers, I was unable to find the cache, sadly a DNF today

Making room for all the new caches that get published during work hours when I can't go out for them.

Our for a caching walk with Miss Davieland to Puketutu Island. Could not find this one.

TFTC. This was a good numbers booster series

Sorry I logged this by accident. Did not find

No luck.

Dnf

I'm afraid this one is lost

even after seeing the previous dnfs, thought to give a try.. no luck for us here..

Searching but no found.

Don't think it's here had a good look but Nito

Gave it a good look. Nothing showing up for me today.

no luck

Had a good look, but no luck for us here today.

Lots of birds around here. Saw some ducks will stop and feed them on the way back. Tftc

Oops was meant to b a DNF will delete log when we get home

Couldn't find this cache So many beautiful birds around here!

This entry was edited by FnJax on Saturday, 27 June 2015 at 06:20:16 UTC.

Some time available this morning and I decided to visit an other place in Auckland. Let's have a look to this small Puketutu Island ! There's fog and the atmosphear is really strange but also relaxing. A large part of the Island is private, so I visited the 2 accessible parts from the parking and also visited several caches on the digue.
Here's the outlet of the waste water treatment plant - the water is hot and full of food for insects, fish and birds. I've seen an amazing number of birds around the area. Step by step, the fog has disappeared and the sun replaced it. I spent 2 hours in the area with pleasure !
thank you for all these caches.
DNF of the digue. I had a close look twice without success...
TFTC

gps jumping about. Checked 3 closest trees before the wind and rain drove us back to the car. We'll be back on a finer day.

Found the other day on my latest venture over the water. Cheers V

Nice quick find, as we were filling in time before our flight back to Wellington.
Weather had started to deteriorate, with squalls coming in over the land-bridge.

TFTC!
with Tan1aNZ

Once you have understood how it works!!! Tftc

Found it

In town for a few days for a concert and a weekend away so decided to get some caching in as well. Thought that a power trail was worth a go so decided on this on seeing as it was close to where I was staying! Great and enjoyable trail! TFTC

Out for an afternoon Geocaching with the aim to break our daily record of 15. Down to the last CP battery. Time to get in the car and do a few drive-bys whilst the phone is charging. Find No. 21

Nice camo. Really blends in with natural surroundings here. Cheers.

A quick park and grab on the first day of my NZ cache tour. Visiting form Sydney. TFTC

tftc

Could see it from the car!

Looks like a popular route for cyclists out here tftc

#3094

Just flew in from Perth Western Australia and landed to early to check in to our accommodation so we decided to grab a few caches to kill time . We manage to find 31 and all were found quite easily.
TFTC

We took on the MWTP series today. Due to the number and similarities of the caches I will split into 2 logs to cover the lot. Island Rd caches. Liked the first one (#5) on this road – spotted from some distance away as soon as we got out of the car. The caches got progressively stinkier as we made our way along the road. It was a warm and humid day and the smell seemed to hang around. It started spitting & we thought that might lessen the smell. We were wrong. OK need to get through these quickly then. Lots of midgies around today. All good until we got to the final one & Mrs beconaze was trapped in the car due to an aggressive and populous swarm of midgies (see pic). We pulled up next to the cache and spotted it from the car so Mr beconaze could make a dash and retrieve, sign and replace. Almost finished the series, we just had to dash back and grab #7

Got it on our way to the next challenge TFTC

Quick find - battling the wind!

Tftc found with Chanellewaru

Tftc

Number six for today. Tftc, theGLS

Youngest now jogging between caches rather than in out of car. TFTC

Had our eye on this trail for a while, and having not cache much around this area decided to give it a go. After heading up Mangere Mountain, we managed to get all but 3 of this series. Thanks fmz

watched from above as a chopper flew over head but quick find
TFTC

Swans across the road were having a spot overy successful dinner-catching - fun to watch.

A good spot to spend time waiting for a plane

After returning our camper van, we went for a walk to collect a few caches...

T4t$

Quick find on the trail
with Jax479 & kiwikendyl. TFTC

We removed the oldest log, left the next oldest and left a new waterproof one.

An evening geocaching walk/drive with Kiwikendyl and metal-art.

Found on a honeymoon trip around NZ! Last day here! When got to the airport hotel we had a few hours of sunlight left. The geo-hubby was sleepy, but i couldn't resist the call of the caches. This area was pretty deserted so it was easy pickings. So many black swans here! TFTC!
~Aoi

Find # 11 ah ah ah! TFTC

Had found about half of this series before but not along the causeway. While out getting the Stinky series, Madgajh drove me along and I hopped out to get each one. Thanks for the series.

Cool. Quick find. Tftc

Quick find. TFTC!

Another quick grab, just comes down to where do you stick your head in, TFTC!

Found it

Had to drop Middle Junior off at the airport at some unearthly hour so had an hour or two to kill before having to be back in town. Just enough time to pick up a few caches (some MWTP ones and a half dozen stinky jobs too).

A nice, quick find. TFTC

This one still operational ! Thanks ....

Lovely area with a great trail of caches! TFTC

Still enjoying finding these caches, not a bad way of spending the day I reckon.

My last one for the day, phone power is on 5% so all over red rover. I will be back to complete the trail

found 1 - 20, good bike excessive ( most of the log books are full )

We decided to bring up our numbers today. We looked at the map, we took our bikes and out we went. We picked up all from 1 to 20 except for 16 which we had to sign off on the way back when the "honey mooners" had left. Thanks for the power track.

Found as part of the family - "find 28 caches in one day and get to 400". This part was done in car, though when the kids are older certainly need to do some cycling around here.

The air sure is fresh around here!

Lots of swans in the area, turned into a sunny day. tFTC

The sun has failed us,its starting to rain

A quiet stretch of road in the early morning sunshine. TFTC

Very few muggles about today whilst out and about with MisterAnthony made for some very easy retrievals on this lovely walk. Plenty of birdlife about though, enjoying the peace and quiet even if it was a little drizzely. TFTC

This obviously marks the really popular bit of the trail as many of the logs from here are getting really full, need to be replaced very soon.

Great trail! It twas such a nice day so I decided to vlog it! (May contain spoilers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P0RqMJGcJ0

Did the trail with BradFisherNZ
Lovely walk, even if our legs did hurt at the end
TFTC

Another easy find and ditto the last few logs.
SL TFTC

Tftc quick find

Quick find. Tftc

As it was a pitch black night, there was nothing to see around me and I was getting annoyed with finding disintegrating logbooks with no room to sign, however, I kept going as it was a nice evening and took a moment (and photo) to enjoy the view of the lights across the water. (log continued in #14)

TFTC

Nice straight forward drive by. TFTC

This was our 1st day of caching in Auckland. This series was just around the corner from where we picked up our motor home. So what better place to start our caching tour. Well to think about it , there are so many more scenic & sweet smelling places.

All the caches we found were in good condition .

Thanks for placing this cache funkymunkyzone

Despite the slight ordure in the air Dottie and I enjoyed the drive and the walk we did to grab this series.

Many of the logs are full, some of the caches have additional bits of paper being used as spare logs but these are crowding the cache somewhat and causing the logs additional damage.

Took binoculars and watched some of the local avian residents.

Thanks for setting the series.

#3980 @1742
With a few hours to spare before my flight back to Christchurch, this series was the obvious way to fill in the time. A very quick find. TFTC.

I had great joy in logging this series with the help of a local and a fellow traveller. Thanks for the series funkymunkyzone it has enabled this foreigner to get a bunch of caches while visiting your country. TFTC TNLN SL.

Mrs Daywalk Senior reminded me that we toured this sewage treatment plant back in the 1970s. She was a biology teacher and this was the state-of-the-art facility in the country at that time. So when we were visiting friends at St Heliers, she phoned up and arranged a tour - you could do that sort of thing then. The man taking us around was apparently a bit surprised to have young teenagers in tow, but an expert is always interesting to listen to. I can't remember the place, can only remember the talk about the oxidation ponds which were new and taking some time to get working properly.

In Auckland for a Masonic Convocation in the nearby Hotel. We have been watching this series for some time and what better opportunity but do cache between conferring.

Thnaks funkymunkyzone.

Lucky 13 for me as this should also correspond with my 1300 finds. Thanks for making it an interesting one - surrounded by the smell of my previous working life with the City Council/Drainage Board back home in ChCh many years ago.

Being trailed by a slow older gentleman ... Passed us and hadn't stopped again yet

Originally logged and found whilst out with mum (keylev) but now have own account so logging all finds I was present at and helped with.

Thanks for the cache.

Originally logged and found whilst out with mum (keylev) but now have own account so logging all finds I was present at and helped with.

Thanks for the cache.

Quick find - kids are good at this now...

Thanks for the cache.

With geo-sen tftc

Started to round up the geocaching for the day with Dylan.Owen TFTC!

TFTC

A quick find. TFTC. FMZ.

TFTC

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

Again

That's thirteen.

Our last day in New Zealand. Before going to the airport we had some spare time. This trail was nice and easy.

TFTC and greetings from Finland!

Thanks

thank for this cache

TFTC

Almost at the end of the straight - then we'll have to scoot home in time to gather the younger geocachers - thanks for this series of caches

Nearly at the end!