The Blue's Clues Puzzle Bike Trail #17 (Auckland) Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By barkingmadnz on 25-Feb-12. Waypoint GC3D9CV

nice quick find avoiding the rain a short hop and skip up from #18

Found this one today after work. (That will be the story for most of next week, too - so much for my mid-semester break, I've had 25 extra work hours added without any choice.) I solved it at the same time as most of Blue's other puzzles. Didn't need to google anything because I must have spent so much time watching Blue's Clues when I was about 3 years old that it's just permanently stuck in my mind somewhere.

It was a quick find at GZ today, but the log is mush. I didn't have my handy dandy you-know-what with me today so couldn't replace it. Managed to sign though still

Thanks for the puzzle! It was really fun (#1582)

Quick find while passing thx

Construction at GZ, so had to bypass this one.

After finding the cache at the lookout, and seeing the last log on this one was almost a year ago, we weren't sure if it would still be here. But it was. The cache was in good condition, but the log needs to be replaced.

Slowly, slowly collecting these after mass solving them awhile back…

Grabbed this one today, all good here!

Thanks for the puzzle and cache!

Onto the Blues Clues trail, snapped up all available options and numbers now over 100 finds of barkingmadnz caches

A day to myself today with a lunch meet up with some mates from back in the old country and some fellow Fantasy football fans, this was happening over near One Tree Hill at 1 PM so I was able to get out and about and find some caches prior, and post this meet up. I headed to Henderson area first for a walk around the Adventure Lab circuit followed by a few in Cornwall Park and then a couple of beers before home. T F T C to all COs.

Nice to Finish solving this series

Solved this at home before heading out for a bit of a bike ride this afternoon, TFTC

I had solved the "Blues Clues" puzzle a couple of years ago but haven't picked them all up yet and I have noticed that some have since been archived so I came down here this morning with my bike to pick up a few more...and this was next. Again another nice quick find and again the log is saturated and I left another piece of not waterproof paper. TFTC

My kids were big Blues Clues fans. It was a great educational and interactive program. I knew the answer to this question straight away and was glad to make the find while in the area today. TFTC

log stuffed

I solved this one some time ago and i think i remember that this part of the road was closed for roadworks last time i was here? Anyway, returned today and parked illegally on the opposite side of the road. Cache was exactly where hint says. Log paper quite fragile but i was able to sign. TFTC

After a number of DNF's in this series on a couple of previous trips to the area; today was a nice change as I managed to find all 5 caches along this track. This cache is in a good condition but and log is wet but I still managed to sign. TFTC.

Recommend a bit of bug spray or the little blood suckers will get you. Cache needs weather proofing as log was very wet

Have kept an eye on this for a while and finally able to park nearby as the roadworks have finished. Quick park and grab, clue spot on. TFTC

This one was exactly where I calculated it to be (that makes a nice change) and a quick reach to the right place produced the cache, happy days. All in good condition here. At time of writing there is an awful lot of roadworks here, we were not cycling but parked a ways away and walked back, very pleasant in the sunshine. Enjoyed the nearby sign about the unusual factory that was based near here. Thanks for placing this series of caches.

Parked up, crossed the road and found it beneficial to hide behind the fence before searching for the cache, co-ords spot on, as was the hint. Nice to see the original log paper, it was dry too!

Busy road so had to time it right to cross. Saw a possible cache location from footpath but it ended up being a red herring. Find the real thing once I weaved my way through the trees.

Another quick stop. I decided to duck behind the fence to look which I think was a good idea because there was a bit of traffic and I highly doubt anyone saw me. The cache was quickly located and I was off to my last...TFTC! #879

#984
FITW ivss_xx
Out on a cold late evening walk... we had to find few caches tonight to tally our finds, so that we can achieve our milestones tomorrow. this one was already been found by ivss_xx, so had no much trouble in finding. tftc.

Nice and easy cache. Thanks and greetings from Latvia!

#10585. With a few caches under our belt, thoughts were turning to where to have our morning coffee. TFTC.

We loaded the bikes onto the car and headed west, the Blues Clues series being our main focus but picking up the odd other cache on the way. The weather forecast was for rain later, but apart from a few spots, it held off, fortunately. My first visit to Henderson and I enjoyed my introduction to the area via the great bike trails in the area.
Caches coming thick and fast now. GPSr was pointing to some cutty grass, thank goodness the cache wasn't hidden there! TFTC.

17:25
FITW muggle Jonathan
3rd Blue's Clue today. Another easy find.

Thanks for the cache!
#3525

Tftc. Looked like a bit of a weirdo sitting on the side of the road with this one... note to self... probably should have done these ones at a quieter time of day...

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Easily spotted from on high as it was not quite where it could have been out of plain view. Tucked it back as hard as it could go.

Continuation of the series, nice easy find, forgotten how busy this road is.

Pretty tricky at night took a while to find the right post, tftc

On a family holiday in the area visiting family. This trip is a holiday with caches, not a caching holiday.
Today was a day that wasn't as planned and I got three hours to play with. I decided to head to Henderson for a looksee and walk. I mopped up 23 caches, it rained, it shined, nice caches, nice locations. My first visit to the area too. Mopped up a bunch of Blues Clues puzzles and a few trads. I made it back to bade camp in 3 hours and 10 mins. Glad all finds were nice and quick.

Thanks for the cache.
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Found as part of a group caching on this day and have found I missed logging these a while back.
Watched Blues Clues when I was younger - fun caches to do.

Signed as June Bikers to save log book space

TFTC.

Found with my Mum, NewlynFam. Have now created my own account so am logging all finds I was present at and helped with.
The adults did the solving, we just came along for the bike ride and the cache finding!

Found whilst out with a big group including mum keylev and brother cragger.

Thanks for the cache.

Found whilst out with a big group including mum keylev and brother laval.

Thanks for the cache.

Found as part of June Bikers group.

A plan was hatched at 11:30pm the previous night at a get together that we should all attempt this puzzle series today.

Keylev, UncleSamNZ, Hemaludy, and NewlynFam were immediate starters. Stick-a-crane and Eirot were unlikely starters at 11:30 pm however an early morning roll call was quickly answered by EVERYONE!

Thank goodness as Mr NZT arrived at the start of the biking trail to find himself with a flat tyre which was quickly repaired by a puncture repair kit that Stik-a-crane had in his back pack! Thanks Stik-a-crane for that!!!

This was the first cache of a most enjoyable day!!!!

We found all the caches that we attempted in this series today including a,µ couple that we had to recalculate on the trail.

Thanks for placing this series!

A large group of us descended upon the area today to bike this twin stream trail.

Log signed as June Bikers. Thanks for the cache.

Set out on bikes this morning with Keylev, cragger, laval, UncleSamNZ, NZTravellers, Hemaludy, Stick-a-crane and Eirot to find some of this series.

This was a nice easy one, after a quick fight through a few tree branches. Right where it said it would be!

An enjoyable day, and a lovely spot for a trail of caches! Thanks for placing this series.
Log signed as June bikers.

Out with about 4 other families for a day of biking and caching. There must have been at least 15 of us. All logs done under “June Bikers”
Great day to get out and explore

Gathered with EIR-0T and a group of cachers to hunt down this series today... was sunny when we left home, but upon arriving to start the ride had to fix a puncture under an umbrella, which soon passed to reveal a great day.
Headed off and soon had a little competition between the kids and the adults to find each cache, which I will say ended up in a tie... to save arguments... we were even privy to being aducated in the local sport of Frisbee Golf....

Log signed as 'June Bikers' to save space.

Thanks for placing the series and keeping it maintained.

TFTC.

After a gathering of a few geocachers for dinner last night, a plan was hatched to collect the Blues Clues trail. Biking today with Darthcacher1, Purply, Stik-a-crane, eir-ot, NZtravellers, Unclesam, Keylev, cragger, laval, newlynfam. The logs were signed with "June Bikers" to save space as there were so many of us. Very lucky with the weather today, only a short shower at the beginning of the trail.
Thanks for the trail

Found as part of the June Bikers group. Nice easy finds today.

It was quite busy along here today so I had to pick my moment to nip in and make the find. TFTC

We've had two days of rain now but I've still got to walk the dogs (and geocache ) A carefully executed piece of timing between traffic and showers needed for collecting this one. tftc

out with 10centnz clearing up a few puzzles,nice easy one Tftc

quick find with Lokky1

A quick and easy find

I needed to go around to get close enough to find the cache. TFTC.

Nice quick find. TFTC.

Nice and easy to solve and find thanks !

I don't usually like copy / paste / template logs but will make the odd exception for 'power' trails. I solved all these puzzles quite some ago and have found a few of the caches in the past. Today I was in the area with time to spare to find some more. Not too much time taken to uncover this one. TFTC, Biggles.

Nice quick find on my last leg of the Blues Clue puzzle trail.

Nice quick one this morning after work...cheers V.

Found originally as part of rebel98 team, now created own account, re-logging as rustynz

Blues clues trail today, so far another success. Perhaps I do know my Blues clues. Thanks again for the hide.

I love it when a plan comes together! Cars pass this way in a hurry, so used the old shoe lace trick

TuisReturn were looking forward to this series of caches.

However quite a few caches are missing or in poor shape.
We replaced some and added a few new log sheets but still quite a hit and miss day of finds / DNF's for us

Good find here!

Good day out on the trail with tmann421 TFTC's barkingmadnz

Link to The Blues Clues Puzzle Bike Trail Series Log

This is Day 2 of our trip to the Land of the Long White Cloud for the 2013 NZ MEGA event in Auckland. I joined Gunnie69 and Kaisho53 for a fun packed 5 days of geocaching adventures.

TFTC barkingmadnz

Rambling along with Kaisho53 and Ghostgums, we were not having a good run with this series and were having trouble stringing two finds together in a row... Not how we planned it at all...

The ones we did find came to hand quickly though and this one was no exception. Shortly after arrival at GZ, Ghostgums pulled the container from its lair and the log was retrieved for addition of a sticker. In and out in a couple of minutes, we picked up the pace so we could wrap the series up.

Cheers barkingmadnz.

Spent some time caching in this area while in Auckland for the weekend Mega Event. Took a stroll along the bike trail this afternoon. SL TFTC

Found during the Mega weekend. The weather turned out to be much better than expected, and we enjoyed exploring all the walkways, nooks and crannies. Many thanks to all the owners of the great caches we found. A nice wee hide on this one.
TFTC barkingmadnz

This is such a popular series so we wondered why this cache hasn't been found for almost eight months. It was still there, nicely hidden. The camo has lifted off though.

Counting down on the series, a lovely warm and sunny day to be exploring the walkways/cycleways of Henderson. A lovely area to visit, and quite surprised at the artwork along some of the paths and the decorative touches.

Many thanks for the series, most enjoyable.

Perfect day for caching, wet enough to keep all but the hardy indoors, but warm enough to be comfy. Thanks for the hide

I solved these puzzles a month or so back now, so took the opportunity to get back here for a second look at this series today. Blue's Clues expert, the Future Finder, joined me for the action. Super quick find here. Camouflage has fallen off. Cheers for the adventure today.

Parked the campervan down the road at Parrs Park. Took the bikes and the doggies for a nice bike ride
Good training for the doggies. Traffic was fast running past. Easy find for the cache.

Had to wait until the traffic died down and made a quick grab. Log signed, cache replaced. T4TC

Was in Auckland for work and decided that I would come up to Auckland early and spend a couple of days in the area and pick up a few caches around the area. This was the seventeenth cache that I solved in this series in of the The Blue's Clues Puzzle Bike Trail, after managing to find a carpark not too far from the entrance to this lovely walkway it didn't take too long to make my way to the final GZ it also pays to check out all the locations on Google maps to ensure that you have the correct answers and also if you plan it well then it makes it so much easier to find parks along the way, was a bit of a pity that I didn't have room in the car otherwise this would have being the perfect opportunity to go for a bike ride around this area.

After finding GC3EHJK - The Blue's Clues Puzzle Bike Trail #16 (Auckland) it was time to move on to the next cache along this trail chasing Blue from cache to cache, working out where the next cache was it was another short walk to this cache, arriving near GZ it was a short and easy walk to this cache and as I got near GZ I decided to check around GZ to ensure it was muggle free and then after a short search I was able to find the cache quickly without any issues, another great little spot for a cache, thanks for placing it here and for bringing me to this very interesting area that I havent being to before, now it time to go after the next one on my list, TFTC TNLNSL (4661)

Joined forces with Tufty to go sign this cache off.

After spending a good percentage of yesterday in solving this series it was time to sign them off today. I had previously arranged with BaldEd to meet up with me at the end of this leg of the series. He arrived early and met me at this cache.

Cheers for the cache.

Took the opportunity to get out today and walk a few Km. This was my second cache of the day and another straighforward find.

TFTC

After talking with Cats&Dragons we decided to plan a trip up to Auckland and make a day of it. One the cards was this great Trail. Leaving Hamilton at 5.30 we made our way north. Cache was great fun collecting. Thanks for this Bike Trail.

Made an Auckland Expidition with Nova Lightining to collect the cycle trail and over at Kauri Point, 19th of 60 for the day, Left home at 5.50am, finally made it back home at 7pm, what a great day.
Thanks for the cycle trail, TFTC

Parked nearby number 19 to make the attempt at another leg of the trail early this morning, pre-8am.
Had the bag packed with all the necceccities, and some snacks too, and just pulled he bike out of the car, and put it together to grab these caches!

Most were nice and easy, thanks to the hints, and due to the fact that I was getting caught in and out of pissing down rain, I ended up being pretty much the only one on the trails...

And wow the water level has risen since a few days ago!!
Was good fun, and was soaked to a thread by the time I got home, but wow it was fun! Haha. But I definitely enjoyed that hot shower upon returning...

TFTC!!
And for the trail!

Solved the puzzles last weekend while the weather was lousy and we were stuck inside - in Auckland for a few days so able to complete the paperwork tonight. TFTC and series.

Back on the trail again, but the finishing line is in sight.

TFTC

A bit of water had shifted Cache so replace in spot. TFTC.

Another one down in the bike series on foot.

TFTC and the trail barkingmadnz

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

We solved all of the puzzles on the night of publication then headed out on Friday after work to start on locating the caches, only having time to locate numbers 1 to 8. Resumed the series in the heavy fog early on Saturday morning, completing numbers 9 to 22 before heading out to the airport to pick up family delayed by the fog. TFTC and the series!

Decided that this was a good excuse to dust off the bikes in the garage and give them some use, so recruited evilno9 in the process and made a plan to solve all the puzzles before the weekend. Luckily the weather turned out nice so made for enjoyable ride.

Took a bit of a guess on this one, but came up with the find. TFTC!

Decided to grab a bike and hit the trail with mel_ramsay and see how we got on today. Had solved all the puzzles during the week so assuming we were smart enough to figure out the clues we were looking forward to a nice little ride about our local area.

Went in blind for this one but soon had the cache in hand. Replaced and moving on again in no time. TFTC

We solved all of the puzzles on the night of publication then headed out on Friday after work to start on locating the caches, only having time to locate numbers 1 to 8. Resumed the series in the heavy fog early on Saturday morning, completing numbers 9 to 22 before heading out to the airport to pick up family delayed by the fog. TFTC and the series!

Out and about with Team Welsh, Trout Fly and Josie (the geocaching dog). Great series, brilliant weather, lots of caches. tftc

Had arranged to meet Pagenz, Troutfly and Josie to knock these caches off. Great to have 3 GPS's to use and caches were soon in hand. Great walk between caches, trouble is we all get carried away catching up on news we had to remember to stop and look for the caches. Thanks for series and as this programme was a favourite for the kids of the team when they were smaller we could answer some of them without any research.

Josie and I got the call from Team Welsh and PageNZ to join them for a bit of a walk around the cycleways. We had all solved the puzzles and in some cases had different answers(?) but a bit logic at GZ had all the caches quickly in hand. Thanks for the series.

We were working from home when the new notification came through. We were not familiar with Blue's Clues prior to this series so there was a need to research each and every question. Luckily we had worked out all the answers so were able to join Yugeo4 on a night hunt so these would qualify for a selective on a challenge we are attempting. We ensured we had the necessary night equipment to last the distance and off we went.
This was our second to last cache for the night and luckily the gang working of the road was just around the corner. Didn't take too long to place our hands on this one!! TFTC.

Saw these caches being published in the morning, so took a quick look and decided to give them a go. Quickly had the puzzles sorted, well all but a couple for which the maths didn't seem to work for me in a hurry (later realised one was my fault and the other was because of conflicting information on wikipedia). At first there were just 10, but while out looking for those, another 10, and then another 10 were published. Had a look at one or two on the phone, but figured it would be sensible to go home and go throught hem there, which I think turned out to be the quickest method. After that, headed back out to complete the series (as published - there have since been another couple added). Unfortunately later in the day when I got home, I could not log them as our internet connection was down.

Having found all the unfound caches in the series, now just on a mission to find the rest. Quick find here.

9284... Out and about collecting a few Clues left by Blue… Had arranged to meet up with rosmar for a bout of night caching, in order for us to complete some requirements for an elective of a certain challenge cache down South.

Just filling out the Handy Dandy Logbook for our second to last find of the night after a quick look, TFTC.

FTF. Log later.

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