Geocaching 221: Intermediate Stealth (Auckland) Mt Eden, North Island, New Zealand
By sonia26642 on 12-Aug-11. Waypoint GC3224W

Cache obviously gone.
Freeing up spot for anyone else who wants to place a grab-while-you-shop cache or something else

Did not find either. Actually looks like they've done some gardening here. All of the bushes/plants at GZ have been completely uprooted and turned upside down. One of them had also been left in the middle of the carpark. Had a good look anyway and turned up nothing.

This entry was edited by fwankiebutwhy? on Sunday, 16 March 2014 at 05:00:04 UTC.

first did not find. Can see where people were though.

TFTC

Found with NZanz doing the groceries. tftc

Found during a nice cache run around Cornwall Park in the company of "Zork V" who graciously offered to take us on a little tour. Another gorgeous day in this beautiful city. tftc!!

Very easy tftc. Johnnie mac and the doctor.

Very easy! Could be hidden slightly better as it may be mistaken for rubbish. Perfect find on a nice evening.
TFTC
-Johnny Mac and The Doctor

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

Found it whilst on a grocery run. Tftc

Found on way to work. Tftc

woohoo, finally arrivef in New Zealand. our first Cache here. together with g.peter. tftc

Very easily found, but then. it's a beginner cache. Stealth wasn't hard in the evening when it was almost dark.

We managed to find it right before an employee of the store arrived to clean the area!
TFTC
Greetings from France.
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Nice quick find on way to work tftc

Nice quick one very early in the morning on way to work....still plenty of Muggles about doing their shopping...go figure...cheers V.

Nice quick park and grab. Car park was very quite on a Monday morning.

Drenched but found. Tftc.

Was passing by & saw one of sonia's trad caches - easy parking this morning & could actually park & grab this today !

Yay, thanks for my first cache in lovely New Zealand! I found the container lying on the ground unprotected. Since I wasn't really sure where it should have been, I also left it that way (which in hindsight seems pretty stupid - sorry about that).

Logbook is wet and I have a feeling that the container isn't supposed to be where I found it.

Nice quick find. Very quiet today. TFTC.

Quiet on a Monday morn!

Easy find very nice

Time for some grocery shopping after work including collecting this cache. Parked my cache mobile in front which helped me getting the cache with stealth. TFTC

Was sitting around at home not doing a heck of a lot. I knew there was an event cache on up in Auckland so decided to head up and attend. This cache was on the was so stopped by and tried to grab. Was a nice quick find with no one around.

TFTC

Lol this cache. Gj

Neat, quick find

On the 30th day of caching....one more day left . Car park was pretty busy but we were in and out before anyone noticed us, tftc

Our fourth find on our first day!

Walked right to it while doing some groceries, TFTC! Day 15 in 31 days of geocaching

This entry was edited by HowickSteph on Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 09:13:02 UTC.

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

Picked this as our day 9 cache for the 31 days of caching. Stopped by after work and parked right beside GZ, there were a few people around so we used the talking on phone and scratching ankle method of retrieving and replacing the cache. TFTC Sonia!

Picked this as our day 9 cache for the 31 days of caching. Stopped by after work and parked right beside GZ, there were a few people around so we used the talking on phone and scratching ankle method of retrieving and replacing the cache. TFTC Sonia!

Nice and easy and not even too muggly. Was able to lean bike against hint object and give it closer inspection with no one the wiser. As we've been filling in calendar blanks this series has been handy. Unfortunately we thought the series was going to be archived and we haven't been collecting the numbers in the lids. Oh well - we're enjoying them as singles! NINO TFTC

Nice and easy, thanks!

Close park and easy find.
GPS spot on. TFTC.

This is my Mother's local ! I even brought her here a couple of months ago without realising about the cache ! Nice and easy thanks ........!

It was my first one I have ever found and I don't have a smart phone or GPS. Nice and easy and a good challenge with the muggles. I am only 13 so it is quite challenging for me.

#406 Nabbed it while grabbing some groceries today. TFTC!

A nice cache

TFTC

Found it with W.P. during our great trip through New Zealand. tftc

found it during our amazing new zealand trip. TftC W.P.

Whilst a few minutes before noon on Easter Saturday with the car park full of people should be a tough time to get this cache, I managed to apply good stealth techniques to make a quick recovery of the cache and return it with nobody seeming to notice anything.

Had no idea what a V pocket rocket canister looked like - but my iPhone GPS led me right to it. Yay! TFTC )

Nice easy find on the way to watch #theblues

Quick find on the way to the supermarket. TFTC

Passed this one with ease. Loads of mugggles heading to the cricket. Quick squat and grab and the same to return it after signing log. TFTC

I found this cache at 3:28pm. Another cache were I didn't even have to turn the car off!! The GPS even said 3m while I was still inside! This was a nice easy find.

My other half was spending the afternoon at MOTAT and so I had a free afternoon to collect caches around Auckland. It ended up being a numbers day, as I realised I only had less than 20 caches to find to get to a total of 1900 finds for me. It would be nice to get the landmark here in New Zealand, so that was the target.

Thanks for the cache sonia26642!! LouiseAnn - visiting from Melbourne

TFTC.

The first day in New Zealand and the first cache ist done.

TFTC
#1405

fast find with sjp999. Tftc nzanz

Fun times with sjp999. Tftc easy find! Nzanz.

Nice easy find, Thanks.

Have to be subtle here - my baby daughter and I were out for our Saturday morning walk, the pram provided some nice cover (pulled the ol' searching-for-something-in-the-nappy-bag trick). Easy find, but would be difficult if the supermarket was busy. TFTC

Was in the area this morning when this one came up on the radar.
Nice and easy, parking within 3 m, quickly retreived, signed and returned.
TFTC

It is a curious feeling when you simultaneously want the shops open (to buy some dinner) and want them closed (so there's nobody about). The fact I have a full belly and a DNF tells the story really. Had a look around, got muggled, waited, tried again, more muggling, got self-concious and gave up. Not at intermediate stealth level yet, clearly!

Quick find while we were waiting for our picnic takeaways on a beautiful new years day Thanks!

Found under the vigilant eye of the owner. TFTC

22:25 Quick Stop for a chat with the neighbours over the fence. Literally. cach'n wag'n provided perfect cover. Cheers, GC.

No go last time as I tried on the night of the RWC 2011 opening game and everyone seemed to hae made this a pick up stop lol... much better this time, even though neighbours chatting just over the fence

Was nearby having a late dinner out and realised that 10.30pm would be a perfect time to grab this cache. Even at this time of night there were still a lot of cars, but was much easier than during the day! TFTC

Quick easy park & grab on a beautiful day - very high chance of being muggled so watch out! TFTC.

Quick find after waiting on a muggle to move their car. TFTC

Another nice and easy cache which we found during our nice bike tour today.
This was the first cache of our guest cacher which he found on his own (and which was not by coincidence). Thanks.

Lots of people around but the rain helped us for once . We parked not too far from the cache and retrieved it quickly using the hint. TFTC

A quick and easy find, the rain on our side to help with an easy stealth find TFTC

Out and about with Mike-miss today, trying to clear as many caches from this series before they meet their end and in the limited time available. We were able to park right next to this one, and as mike was signing the log, we watched some young woman walk past wearing a dress that barely covered the necessities. We couldn't decide if she'd gone out last night dressed like that or whether she'd gone out last night and lost her pants along the way (hey, it happens). Either way, it was obvious from the heels she was carrying in a shopping bag that she was definitely doing the walk of shame!

Out and about with stretch.kerr this morning, with our main objective of making a dent in the series before they all get archived. Stretch was able to park right next to this one and it ended up being a quick easy find. TFTC!

Am considering archiving the final of this series, and possibly the series bit by bit too over summer/early next year, as I will be moving out of Auckland.
I'll probably be able to keep my other caches in between visits and asking friends to do me favours and replace them, but this series will probably be too much, so may take down the final, and then these other papers at some point over the coming year.

I'll maintain all my caches, and check up on them till then, however afterwards, this series will probably have to get put to rest.

I will give at least a week/two notice before I do, but just giving notice now too in case anyone wants to find the final before then. (as it is a pretty long series to do!)

Found and logged it without any muggle suspicion, promptly forgot to get the number again, returned and number noted! Thanks!

Found on a rainy day.

Tried earlier today, but a muggler sat in the car just in front of it for an hour! Came back at around 4.30 pm, busy, but I managed to find it very quickly..!

Use your car to block muggly eyes!

Did I pass?

TFTC

Out with snakelion for the day and wanted to cross this one off the list. Used to come along here quite often visiting a mate but as that more often than not coincided with the rugby never had a proper chance to look. No such problems today and the cache was quickly found with cars parked either side for cover. Still got busted coming out but it was another friend stopping in to do some shopping so no matter... TFTC

Out with evilno9 for some caches on a nice and sunny Sunday afternoon. This place was little busy but we manage to sneak out this one out without much trouble. Lucky no car was using that spot. We just stood there for a wee while chating to another mate we met at the car park. Nice little catch-up before heading off to next one.

TFTC sonia26642

Greets from Germany

TFTC LordFisch

As luck would have it, the carpark was pretty full but there was one space left...right in front of GZ. Problem sorted...parked up 4WD and was then completely out of sight from both motoring and shopping muggles. TFTC.

Quick find on a fun night of caching with davycrockpot (also retrokiwi and ancmcg but they've already found it!) Bit late for heaps of muggles - maybe was because the rugby was on!

Nice easy one. TFTC.

Greenslime and i are trying to do a degree in a day, 16/17 so far. Bad news about yoda though, i hope he turns up.

17/22 in attempt to complete a BSc in a single day with Jimmy NZ. Easy find, especially if you can secure the car park directly in front and conduct some sort of oil checking maneuver on your vehicle! TFTC!

Thought of a cunning stealth option for this one - back my car into one of the appropriate parks, and then go and do my shopping, giving ample cover for the find afterwards. Unfortunately, at 6:30 on a Thursday the car park is chocka so I had to just park where I could. But after 40 minutes of shopping the car park had thinned out so much that the standing-around-under-a-street-light-texting-on-my-GPS stealth was well good enough. (Of course it helped having had a prior DNF, so I knew exactly where to look). TFTC.

Nice easy find. Only problem is dodging the muggles, one gave us a strange look - apparently we still need to work on our stealth skills. Found with retrokiwi.
TFTC.

certainly a high muggle zone! TFTC

Dog in parked car yapped at me the whole time but no one else noticed

Nice and busy tonight, so plenty of cars and no one in them, nice easy grab. Trying to get these all done, but i know they wont be in order

I am pretty sure we are doing these papers wildly out of order, but we felt we had at least some reasonable stealth skills built up so we decided to pick this paper up. Easy find under cover of darkness and all dressed up for a fantastic meal at Merediths, so thankfully no mud.

TFTC
# 313

Came this evening to sit our Intermediate Stealth paper. Lots of cars in the carpark, but we were able to successfully complete the requirements and log another find. That makes a complete set of BSc in Geocaching papers from Auckland. Many thanks. Now off to Graduation.

# 5669

All good.

Went round and replaced.
Now a small pill container in same location.

Wow, didn't realise this one had so many dnfs! Will work on a replacement.

No sign of this one - I think a replacement may be required.

Its an inauspicious start for us today - 2 DNF straight out of the starting gate...Pretty sure its AWOL.

Looks like it's gone...

Parked right next to this one for an easy find - but no cache to be found .

I was very glad that I was able to attend the block course this morning to try and pass several subjects all at once.

"I saw the light" and quickly wrote down my answers for this subject.

Cheers for the cache.

Made use of the supermarket on my visit! Drizzling / raining persistently... TFTC.

A quick re-tie of a shoelace and the cache was in my hand, out with the tweezers and the log was soon signed. Thanks for this one. It's great to be able to attend summer school and catch up on some of the papers that I was lacking due to distractions last semester.

Found it very quickly. Parked my bicycle over the site and pretended to be fixing the bike. My first Uni cache. Looking forward to doing more of the degree course and becoming fully qualified.