First 100 (Auckland) Dairy Flat, North Island, New Zealand
By Dunnsontheroad on 20-Mar-12. Waypoint GC3EZZJ

Road works have changed the area so that the hiding place is no longer available.

#5551. I have flown back up to Auckland for several days to present a talk. Since I have come this far I have added some annual leave to the trip and hired a car so I can grab some geocaches. Decided today to head up north and start gathering up some of the Route 66 caches which I solved on the weekend. Ended up being a better day than expected with 57 caches found plus a few DNF's. Um I think you might have been a bit premature in archiving this one. I stopped here and headed for the obvious hiding place. It wasn't in the first place checked but seeing it was found recently I looked again. Yes the cache is still there. Its a bit muddy getting it out but it is still available and the log is fine. Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache Dunnsontheroad. Maybe see if the reviewer will let you unarchive it?

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Found on a wet windy day. TFTC

Couldn't find it anywhere - please check

It gone Dunn’s on the road!

New kerbs put in and all dirt dug up so it might be damaged

Out and about today with Keylev to pick up the smile series we had solved a while ago and a few traditionals along the way This was our 24th find of the day and a quick find although it's not a regular size container TFTC!

Great easy find - nice & dry

Great little cache for our very first one. 20/08/17

Good gps. Only one place it could be. Used a stick.

Find number 6 is so far the muddiest one, but all contents inside are still dry. Another easy find. TFTC

Took a little while but perseverance was rewarded. TFTC

No, not missing but took a determined effort to retrieve. Tftc

Might be missing again

Thanks for replacing the container supernanny, agree that there was really only place it could be. My hands were too fleshy for this one so deferred to Huan whose graceful digits were better suited to prising this out of its hiding place. Signed the log and headed on our way. Sounds like a band was practising in the hall across the way. Keep it up! TFTC.

Had to dig for this one but got it TFTC

As it was my third visit here I replaced the missing cache...as there is only 1 place it could be under ...
Thanks ...good idea to put out a cache on a milestone !

I was out today with Supernanny picking up some caches around Silverdale, this one was on our way up and one she had been to previously.

Still not here ....Could CO or a previous local finder please check for me ?.
Such a long way to come out if not here !
Or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places !

The Westies, Jag50, Jard 1037 and Rustynz were out collecting the smile series so we stopped to collect this one, after a bit of digging Mr Jag50 had cache in hand.

Out caching with "Team Westie" (Jag50, Jard1037, urbangypsynz & rustynz) doing the smile series. Last time we had stopped here the cache was nowhere to be seen. Rustynz knew where it should be but it wasn't. After a bit of rummaging we had the cache in hand. Not sure how we missed this last time. Maybe it was not quite where we thought it should have been.

Sorry but it seems to be gone...

Must be eluding me didn't find it in the only thing that it could be under

No luck on this one : (

Cache was just sitting blindingly out in the open so put it back near to where found but a bit more secured.
Nice work on the 100 finds we know that good feeling

Found with Rinders, tyfc

Fellow hunter loveapples find this with me

JDScout and are are in Auckland for a few days holiday. We wanted to go to Whangaparoa and both like walking so we headed for Shakespeare park. Next on the agenda was Smile Auckland style. JDScout was a brilliant driver.
One of two traditional caches found in the area. Well done on finding 100.

My wife got out signed the geocaches and I drove her. She got out and signed the car while I negotiated the roads, 3 point turns and u turns.

Found this one right there. There look.

4 legged muggles watching

Was out today doing the 'Smile' series, and found time to pick up a couple of extra caches along the way.

This was a nice quick find, as I was tracking back across Dairy Flat, TFTC

Nice easy cache. Nice starter for the day. TFTC

A Quick find on the way to do the 101 series with Jodiporsche

A quick stop and find on our road trip from HB. TFTC

Wasn't quite when it should have been, was out in the open, returned where it should have been

Found today with HeMaLuDy and purply

This was our first cache of the day, on a day we were attempting the 101 dalmation series. A nice quick find here with darthcacher1 and purply.

nice easy hide in great spot :^)

Our first geocache very awesome thank you

got my first travelbug, and all the way from Germany !! thank you !!

Hmmmh.... I led my wife and the children at home in Germany and so I'm out of control for about four weeks. So I needed only two days after arriving to finish 100 founds in amazing New Zealand and at the beginning of the fourth day this was number 132. A nice drive thru cache and I like it! I also put in a trackable that came along with me the very far journey.

Thanks a lot for the cache.
dG

Nice easy find after a DNA at the airfield.
Took 1 TB; and left one TBD
TFTC

Another straight forward find, were no trades so left a key ring

This one was easier to find the the last one I looked for. Found parking nearby, a easy walk to GZ and the cache was mine. The main road is very busy, the car pass so fast, so it was good to pull over. Thanks for the hide

#10806. It was only after we stopped to look for this cache that I had a feeling of deja vu (I think last time we approached from the other road). This time round the cache was a quick find; note sure how we missed it last time when we had a carload of 5 cachers looking. TFTC.

Today we are leaving Auckland after spending 3 weeks exploring and caching around the city and we are heading northwards, destination: Algies Bay.
We had failed to find this cache when we were doing the smile series while attending the Auckland Mega but today it was an instant find - not sure why we didn't find it last time. Biggest pill container I have ever seen! TFTC.

On our way back from a weekend celebrating New Years with caching friends we spied this cache on our route and decided to stop and explore. Found the cache quickly and unfortunately someone had placed chocolates and lollies in the cache, removed the food as it attracts insects and no one is going to eat them if found anyway!? Signed log. TFTC!

Quick find. Thank you.

First find today, an easy one to kick off with. TFTC

#382 Quick drive by find. There where some chocolates and lollies onside the cache. Don't think I am hungry enough to eat those. Tightened lids to keep out ants. Dropped TB.
TFTC

Quick find on a lovely November day. TFTC

Found it with Team FIN [janahola, kapeka, laalaa & temyllyl]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in New Zealand. Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was pretty good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and really scenary country!

Greetings from Finland

FIN (laalaa, janahola, temyllyl, kapeka) holiday in New Zealand. Second day. We had fun.
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the cache.

Second day on our geo-roadtrip in New Zealand, and caching our way towards south. Logged using our group nickname FIN with janahola, laalaa and kapeka.

Todays mission was to do some powertrails north to Auckland. From trail to another, grabbed these few on our way to some mystery caches!

On a geoholiday road tripping to Christchurch MEGA and around beautiful New Zealand. Our four people group (temyllyl, laalaa, kapeka and myself) from Finland used group tag FIN to log the caches.

After the puppies we headed to Route 66. This was a quick find on a way. TFTC!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

Not too easy and cant believe ive walked past it loads of times. It's my first cache find. Thanks!

Just-Lookin and I really enjoyed visiting this area and finding the good caches.

Good quick find here.
SL TFTC

Great, quick and easy find! How on earth did you discover this hiding place? Lol.

Quick and easy find.

Easy find. TFTC. #11

Geocaching my way around Auckland with Just-Lookin.

Had lots of fun finding some caches.

TFTC

On a road trip with Princess-Emily and heading to the 101 Dalmations Series collecting a few others along the way. A nice quick find for us here.

TFTC

Mr 8 had this in hand pretty quick. VERY busy spot.

Great spot lots of muggles though
Tftc

Large cockroach on container - yum found with Christine - her first ever

A long way from home today... We are targeting several puzzle solves to put toward our current license challenge. With Gap (of Fap and Gap)...

There was a muggle sitting in his vehicle just up the hill. Gap used the car to screen off ground zone and we quickly did the business here. TFTC.

12.40pm - Quick find with Squirrel on our road trip. SLTFTC

Gosh darn I should've done 1 more before grabbing this.. This was my 99th cache!

Quick grab. Not many muggles around.

Nice quick find while doing some of he smile caches. Congrats on your 100.

This entry was edited by Saskia007 on Sunday, 31 May 2015 at 07:27:13 UTC.

An expected and much appreciated early finish after my exam today had me eyeing up a few target caches and a chance to clear the Riverhead loop of errant puppies, piggies and all manner of other fauna. With some healthily loaded salad and tuna sandwiches for company, a full tank of fuel, and a promise of rain all afternoon I ensured I'd got my scruffiest caching attire and was all set. Hitting the trail before 1 this afternoon had me back at my accommodation beforte dark with a succesful mission achieved. All in all got all the targetted puppies, piggies and over 40 smilies, including a first Smile cache.
Nice easy find here, cache full of lollies, took none
A nice old hall across the road too
T F T C

Nice quick find TNLNSL (was tempted to but didn't take one

Nice quick find, although the container had rolled from it's possie. Otherwise all good. Another nice cache on my way to the main event for the day - chasing puppies!

TFTC!

How cool it that - our 100th cache for the day here at Auckland's First 100. Would have loved a chocolate but I wasn't sure how old they were. Down here for the weekend with my caching buddy GraciesGPSfun. It's been a major caching weekend for us. Seven different types of caches found in 24 hours yesterday, Route 66 and the Dalmations today. Collecting a few extra caches that we pass on the way back to town to get our 100th for today. This weekend will be great for my stastics page. Such a buzz, TFTC

This cache worked out to be our 100th cache for today.
Stoked to have achieved this challenge and good to be off
those dusty roads.

Found it TFTC

It was pretty cool to find thx a lot

Kiwiscot & Kiwi out for a few hours rounding up some missing puppies. Grabbed this on the way back home after the rain had set in. Thanks for the free Trumpet token. Kiwiscot is looking forward to her ice-cream.

Left a nice little prezzie that can be claimed at most New Zealand convenience stores. Enjoy

A nice quick find the other day on my marathon ride cheers V.

Nice quick find thankyou.

Found it. TFTC.

Ou on a mission to collect the SMILE series and found this cache too close to ignore - would have been plain rude! Easy find. TNLN, thanks for placing Dunnsontheroad! Will have to seriously think about putting one of our own out soon - this being find 462.

We found this one on the way up north for New Years. It is always nice to take the scenic route and grab some of the caches on the road-less-travelled for us. The cache was not hard to find or retrieve at ground zero, with hardly anyone around to bother us. The cache is dry and in good condition. Thanks for the cache! Happy New Year!

A good size cache for swaps and TB's. Easily found just back from the corner. Good parking on either side of the road.

A couple of U turns later - 9 year old in the navigator seat and we had the cache in hand. TFTC

Nice easy find while heading North.

A very nice and well maintained little Box - thanks for this easy find! Cheers from Germany!

#4279 @1225
Following a few days work in Auckland, I stayed on to spend a couple of days caching (and to cache up with my kids at uni). A quick find. TFTC.

A lot of people and cars in the area, but no one looking at GZ except me. Nice quick find. TFTC.

Raced out to get this one while the dog was getting clipped. TFTC!

Starting out on our journey to get the 101 Dalmatians so had to collect this on the way to the start. A nice easy find. Thanks. Well done on getting your first 100 in a year with 3 kids. A great effort.

My daughter is visiting this week so we're having a Geochacing day. This was a warm up, we're going to try doing 101 Dalmations. tftc

On an extreme caching mission from the mighty 'Tron with 11hpgh11, HKCB & JDM99, hoping to complete three Auckland power trails & find as many extra caches as we could along the way. We logged as any number of the possible combinations of H, H, K & J, as we kept forgetting which combo we'd agreed on. Parking & the find here were all straight-forward; good fun searching as a crew in the early morning & trying to avoid the intermittent rain with no muggles around to question our madness. TFTC.

A trip a long time in the making. 4 brave cachers to attempt 3 Auckland Powertrails in one day. Could it be done? Who knows. HKCB, Kiwis69, Jdm99 and myself arose early and left Hamilton to attempt a massive collection of caches. We logged as a group name HKJH or HHKJ or JKHH as our brains got wearier as the day progressed.

A nice quick find, well done on 100!

Out and about with Kiwis69, 11HPG11, and JDM99 on the sole purpose of tackling all 3 power trails in one day, and any else in between. To maximise as much daylight as possible it meant a real early start, so was on our way to Auckland at 3.30am, and the first cache located just before 5.30am. After many puppies, a couple of piggies, a few smilies, some epic field puzzles, and a trip down route 66, 16 hours of caching, 250ish caches and numerous kilometres we achieved our goal about 9.30pm. A great day, with some great company. Thanks to everyone for all the placements, we signed the logs with some combination of HHJK, for some reason the order kept changing.

Tagged along with Kiwis69, 11hpg11, and HKCB in the hope of grabbing 3 Auckland power trails in one day. A big day out and lots of fun. Thanks heaps to everyone for all the cache placements, logged as a combination of JKHH in random order. TFTC

Out with Agazo and keylev. Quick find.

This entry was edited by UncleSamNZ on Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 10:49:43 UTC.

Agazo, UncleSamNZ and myself had a day of caching planned. This was on the way to the start of the Dalmatian series so we thought lets stop. A quick dash across the road and the cache was soon in hand.

Thanks for hiding.