Melrose Beachfront, Devonport Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By ourtreasurehunt on 17-Oct-11. Waypoint GC3661H

As this cache has been out of action for too long and the cache owner has not responded or performed any maintenance, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to un-archive it.
 
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Can't find all I found was a weta the Second time I'm went it had had been cut and who ever cut I think thought it was rubbish

No longer there

Didn't find

Had a really good look here with Ric .....wonder if someone could please check and see if it's still there ? So many dnfs.
I fully realise big flax bushes can be pretty tricky to search ...

Looks like it's not there

Couldn't find it think it's gone

Sadly looks like it has gone walkabout

Couldn't find it.

O That is not good. We didn't find!

No luck here today. Looked under all the flax, nothing to be found.

Saw it straight away, assumed to be rubbish at first. Hid better when replaced, hiding as described in the clue. TFTC

Great hiding spot

Cool Placement but took Keika 2 seconds to find. Thanks.

Good find on sunny wet day.

I like Geocaching

Easy find, loved the photo!

Great little P&G while in the area. Spotted by geowife instantly.
TNLN SL TFTC

Nice and easy find. great placement. Im not a fan of flax, so pleased with this one. Thanks.

Good one

Got the cache quickly enough, the hardest part was not getting poked in the eye trying to extract it. Loved the postcard too!

Quick n easy. TFTC

Fun! Good historical flashback

Nice and easy find.
Little cautious of being so close to navy land but didnt see anyone giving me strange looks
Signed and returned with no problems
TFTC

Easy quick find,wasn't in the place the clue said.Traded a item.

Quick fossick, hands on the cache with ease. Tftc

Yay! Thanks

Yay! Thanks

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

What beach?

Right were it was supposed to be! Whilst the Doodler99 and I were faffing around with the GPS, Mungelman went straight to it.

Lesson learned. Don't cache in your blue suede shoes! The dew on the grass got them all wet. Hope they dry out ok! Quick find with Mini McArgister in the pushchair.

Exelent Beginner Cache I was looking at the papers trying to decrypt the hints when Mungleman found it under the stone,clever one that cache is

Easy peasy

Nice easy find with a muggle friend. Tftc

This entry was edited by Susan1989 on Wednesday, 07 May 2014 at 02:26:46 UTC.

#1768, Quick find TFTC

Interesting to think that where we were standing was previously beachfront and out to sea! Quick to find this cache, but took a while to retrieve the treasure (bouncy ball) from behind defence lines !!!
tftc

3.35pm. Nice area for a walk in the arvo.
Found the cache and off with the ball for a play.
TNLNSL
TFTC
Cheers M+S [:O)] (2503)

3.35pm. Out with The Pud and Oscatello who was pleased to find a bouncey ball in the cache. However it bounced through the fence into Defence Area ground much to his concern. Another ball was found in the depths of Mr JF's caching bag while Mrs The Pud attempted to drag the ball back through the fence with a stick We were probably a major security risk if caught on CCTV!! Mrs The Pud was eventually successful so Oscatello cunningly ended the adventure with two bouncey balls. Lucky the cache had not been difficult to find!! Left a signature pathtag.
TFTC
M&P.

Found quiclky
Tflc

Thanks

Nice easy first find for us, thank you

A quick find. TFTC

Nice straightforward find. Thanks!

Great find. I found it before emma 5-1 to me

Awesome 2 point 4 isabelle

#2575.
#17 in NZ.

The cache was quickly spotted and retrieved. TFTC!

We learned from our mistake the previous day in trying to find a parking spot in this busy city. This time we parked our camper in a motor parked and jumped on a bus to the city. From there we caught the ferry to Devonport and spent the whole day in the lovely city, exploring it by foot.

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A big thank you to all the geocache owners for being our “tour guides” in New Zealand while we are on our short holiday visit to this extraordinarily beautiful country! We traveled the North Island in our little camper van and we came across minimal damaged caches and we only had very few DNF’s.

"Groete" all the way from South Africa!

Famous big funky kiwi found and delighted with the discovery

By far my favorite spot! Thought we were gonna get caught snooping around late at night! Took two new geocaches with me and left a lovely tracker behind TFTC!!!

Very interesting picture, TFTC

A lovely walk after dinner with family. Kids were really interested in the history. Thanks

Easy find. Good spot. Kids liked this one.

14032... Lots of banging going on at the nearby Navy Base, TFTC.

No trouble with this one. Quick find and drink stop on grass. TFTC

Nice quick find at the end of the day. TFTC.

Glad of the quick find as I didn't really want to be spotted from the base hiding a box in the bushes.

TFTC

Out for a spot of caching so swung by to grab this hide that had escaped my attention. Quickly spotted the hide. Cheers for the cache placement!

A quick find on our way to the shoreline. t4tc

A nice easy find on a good day out

TFTC

Nice to get away from that gale blowing across the harbour and into a nice sheltered area!
Quick find-first of the day
Tftc

Thankful to be finding a non-micro for a change! Thanks very much

Tftc, found on a sunny afternoon walk

Nice little cache to find, took longer to find a place to park the car. For a flax bush find it was a good one that caused no trouble whatsoever. TFTC

Out and about to find some geocaches in Devonport today. Quick find. TFTC

Quickly found after a hard day's work. I found the old photo of Devonport fascinating.

Cool history lesson. Thanks

Interesting info. Thanks for bringing us here

In the area today to see the Tall Ships leave Auckland, so snuck a few cache finds in as well. Nice quick find, nobody around. TFTC.

On a quick cache hunting mission with EBnano from Earthbound Chief. We set off bright and early to grab the closest accommodation to where we are staying for MEGA. Cache was a quick and easy find for this early in the day. TFTC.

A nice easy find while enjoying a day playing tourist in Devonport. TFTC.

EB Nano and the walenators went for an early morning walk with this cache in mind, seeing as it was only 194 metres from our rental house.
A quick find was made after ascertaining the best approach
Thanks for placing this cache so that we could come and find it

It was time to have a clean out of all the Devonport caches and today was the day selected. (Actually, yesterday was but it was lousy weatherwise.) So it had been a while the sister-in-law had been here so while she did "pink things" I went off and did "blue things".

This was the third for the day and it was a little exposed so hid it a little better.

Cheers for the cache.

Quick find at GZ during a sunny day off!
The hint didn't help because the cache wasn't at the right place. But we managed to find it anyway.
TFTC
Greetings from France.
(C)

Awesome cache! Joining the navy in Jan so was cool to see the picture

This cache formed part of the KiwifruitNZ and Vamber "clean up Devonport of caches" mission.

A nice quick easy find to get yet another cache under our belt!

#1775

We were out and about in Devonport again today to pick up some remaining caches with KiwifruitsNZ that we have not yet collected.

This was a quick find before we moved on to the next one. TFTC

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

Had to visit Devonport after work, so took the oportunity to grab this quick find whilst I was there.

Thank you for the cache

Had to visit Devonport after work, so took the oportunity to grab this quick find whilst I was there.

Thank you for the cache

My second find, also looked like it only had one other person who signed the logbook

1st find ever after failing earlier this morning! Lovely bit of history as well. Should of sold your house when it was beach front!

Great piece of history!
Nice cache, well done!
Thanks

Took a little longer than expected but got there in the end.TFTC

Wow noticed this as I was passing so stopped and located an empty logbook. Great to find one in this area TFTC

Had noticed this one published yesterday, but couldn't get out at the time.
Today I spent half a day on the computer (mostly logging caches) and needed to get out fro some fresh air. Checked out this cache and was most surprised to see it still with no found logs. So grabbed the water bottle and keys and headed out. even if I didn't get the FTF, I needed to find caches within a week of publishing for geoLicense challenge.
Cat&Dragons had got here earlier in day, so missed the FTF, but while out this way I picked up a few other caches.
Loved seeing the old picture. TFTC

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