G.H.R.Y.C (Rodney District) Whangaparaoa, North Island, New Zealand
By Merlins_Beard on 11-Feb-12. Waypoint GC3CEN3

As this cache has been out of action for too long, 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 unarchive it.

Regards,
Growly Bear
Geocaching.com Volunteer Reviewer.

DNF's for 9 months.

I'm out today with Vistra today around Whangaparoa.. We aim to get around 50 caches today. Please excuse the generic logs.

DNF with previous finder present.

and another one

Add us the the ever growing list of DNFers!

As per my log

Same as others, no find on ledge.

Only place a magnet would attach is one of three high voltage transformers and is way too
Dangerous!!

I couldn't find this geocache, maybe I'll have better luck next time!

Did as hinted went around every ledge still a no no

Oh the shame!!! Sadly I couldn't find this nano despite your recent maintenance.

Replaced full log.

Found it. I could not sign log as I lost my pen. Took photo of cache instead. Will go back to to sign log if I get the chance. TFTC.

Sorry forgot to log this, but know we visited on this day, took a little bit of looking but got there once we read the hint, tftc

Found with Chosen1978 on Mega Trip TFTC

Quickly found by granville86a and soon loged and replaced, TFTC!~

No 1 of the day. I let the eagle eyed Ro struggle getting the log back in while I posted the first find of the day on the S4. Could life be any more fun on such a beautiful day

This entry was edited by azza-ro on Monday, 28 October 2013 at 01:08:29 UTC.

Day 2 of my trip to Auckland for the Mega event. Today I decided to head north to the Whangaparoa Peninsula to take in some of the views and then to explore the Dairy Flat area to look for some smiles before finishing off the day with some Fish and Chips. The day did not quite start out as intended, so I ended up going straight up the motorway.

After Silverdale, I headed farther along the peninsula to look for some views. I was following my nose now and just stopping to look for caches. No-one sailing today.

TFTC Merlins_Beard

In Auckland for the mega event

Great to be collecting caches around the way. Thanks for the cache Merlins Beard

The hardest bit was rolling it up again at the end! TFTC

Geocaching with 16 newbies for Duke of Edinburgh silver exploration and were trying first without a GPS for our assessment.

Once the group stopped and actually read the cache description properly it was an easy grab.

TFTC!

Thought my luck was in - no one & no vehicles insight, nice quick retrieve of the cache.
However by the time I had on wound the log, signed and rolled up again, there were people everywhere. A bus had dropped of some college kids and by the time they had passed there were 2 ladies walking their dogs down the street - took ages for them to reach me and go passed so that I could return the cache. TFTC PS there's only 4 spaces left on log.

Damm! Forgot my boat. tftc

lots of dog walkers out today & lots of boats on the lake but managed to retrieve qwikly-tftc

A quick and easy park, grab and log courtesy to the detailed hint. Thanks!

A quick find with mum on a beautiful sunny day. TFTC

Kids (and husband) loved this cache

A great area to go geocaching.
TFTC

The yachts were out this morning. Wonderful sight on the little lake. TFTC

Good quick find here.
Lovely warm day and enjoyed my time hunting for caches in the area.

SL TFTC

Have to confess - used the hint . TFTC.

Just had to look for this one today before moving on. Quick find.
TFTC

Excited to find this so close to home!!!

Had to wait for a female muggle and her K9 owner to pass before signing this one off.

Cheers for the cache.

Found easily at dusk. A few people driving past wondering what we were up to.

Grabed while out on the peninsula, took a bit of locating this little guy

TFTC

Took a minute to locate this one. Good little hide

Awesome quicky

Great Little Find - But I couldn't physically log my visit as I could not get the log out of its container...

This one was close to home and we went looking at night trying out our new Garmin eTrex 10. Just as well we had the GPS as it wasn't where we thought it would be

Quick easy find for my NZ friends I think it won't be long before they purchase a GPS! TFTC

Nice quick find. Tftc

The bearings took us way past where the clue and description said to go

Found with my brother revhead. He found this one

love these wee micro's

Were in the completely wrong place- by the pond! However, found in the end. TFTC

Wohooo!! First find - With NoseandLard! Difficult to find at first, but when we found it, we couldn't believe we hadn't before!

TFTC

Found it - Sun morning walk with son # 2

Had a good look but found nothing

Found on the way home from a few finds down Golf Harbour, the GPS wasn't being kind.
An easy find after reading the clue.

TFTC Merlins Beard.

Nice easy find after a pleasurable walk downhill from home, tftc.

A quickish find but I was hindered somewhat by a reasonable amount of traffic and not wanting to attract attention with the torch. TFTC

23-09-2012

Put us down for a DNF on this one. .Checked every centimetre of the GZ furniture to no avail. However, we DID find an unexpected piece of electronic gadgetry in perfect working order. If anyone lost something at the GZ then please let us know what you lost and we can arrange to get it back to you ASAP.

TFTC.

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

Decided to spend the day caching out Whangaparaoa. A quick find and a nice colour match on the container! The little yachts were out racing today also.

Thanks for the cache!

Decided to spend the day caching out Whangaparaoa. A quick find and a nice colour match on the container! The little yachts were out racing today also.

Thanks for the cache!

Quick find.tftc

1st for the day, nice area
T4TC

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1st for the day nice area
Tftc

Why is it as soon as you get to GZ every man and his dog appears from nowhere and looks at you with great suspicion. Got it in the end. TFTC

Very well colour-coordinated!

The postie was sorting his mail right in front of GZ when I arrived, only a short wait required though.

TFTC

Great place for a Nano... Easy find with the youngest member of OMCNZ!! Thanks Molly..!

Found by our daughter Molly, working 'closely' with rival team 3 wise monkeys - TFTC

A milestone cache for me. Have been saving to do this one as an emergency find for an age as its been the closest cache to my home for quite a while. Almost did it straight from a hospital bed earlier this year but a sick surgeon saved the day.
I have been working towards filling in the geocaching calendar for a few years with the view to completing it on Feb 29th just gone. Unfortunately the International dateline got in the way and I skipped this date last year so this finally completes the dates. Seemed appropriate to grab the closest cache to me rather than one on the other side of the world which after 2 million km under my belt seemed a good chance.
Its new hide should last a bit longer for the owner.
TFTC

nice little find this, also got to spend some time with the kids watching a load of older gents racing model yachts !

perfect place for a nano....

Coordinates changed from:
S 36° 36.573 E 174° 47.367

Coordinates changed to:
S 36° 36.659 E 174° 47.335

Distance from original: 543.6 feet or 165.7 meters.

At owners request

This is the third time this cache has been muggled. Have moved to new co-ordinates. Due to the move distance I am waiting for this to be re-published.
Cache can be found here:
S 36.610979
E 174.788924

2nd visit and were hopeful this time, but not to be. No sign of a nano here.

I nice little cache

TFTC

Nice place for a rest and watch all the other walkers go past.

Great place for the yachts! There were about 5 yachts out charting courses around the bouys. While everyone was busy watching the yachts I just had to tie my shoelaces, several times. Aha, there is the cache. Got the log all signed and had to re-tie the shoelaces again to return the cache. Sat and watched the yachts for a while. TFTC.

Was busy today with radio controlled sail boats.
The were ebusy minding their own business.
Easy find.
TFTC

A nice simple cache. Cheers

Finally found it:) went looking for it a month or so ago, but never found it, searched agin today and there it was. it must have been gone for a bit because I checked there several times.

This is so close to home for me. my closest cache. also a really cool one. I liked it alot.

TFTC

Arrived to find three hard-core yachtsman racing while sitting down...so I did a few other caches in the area and returned just in time to see the last sailor packing up. A quick find and a tight log had me sitting down for a while too! Thanks for this one.

#354, quick find, daughter found instantly, a very keen eye. TFTC

Quick easy find in Gulf Harbour. TFTC.

Quick and easy found. Nice camo and cache. TFTC.

Quick and easy find TFTC

Geocache replaced.
Please take care when retrieving and re-hiding. This this a highly visible area full of muggles at times.

Many thanks.

Looks like this one has been muggled.

Will replace shortly.

Nope, we couldn't find it. DNF for us.

Looked for a while... Not there anymore.

Took a seat, admired the spot. Searched all over but could not find it. Perhaps its been muggled? Will try again another visit.

Interesting little spot, very pretty.
TFTC

Great spot for a cache and luckily we had some bread for the ducks. One of our sons had a radio controlled yacht that he raced down at Lake Pupuke under the guidance of Mr Smale TFTC.

8897 Got a txt from Rosmar, who were caching behind us, while we were signing the log on the pew with the view. Arranged to meet up and had a cuppa nearby. Enjoyed the yummy Belgian Slice and the catch up, good luck with the night caching, cheers YuGeo4.

Was pleasantly surprised when this cache popped up a couple of days ago as we have a few mid week gaps on our calendar and this one was not too far from home. Saved it for our first calendar gap which was today and was even more pleasantly surprised to discover a blank logbook. Nice place for a cache but those Pukekos were after food that we didn't have. TFTC and the FTF

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