Postman Pat 3 (Flat Bush) Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
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2 and a half kiwis on 25-Mar-12. Waypoint GC3FAG8
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Seems that the mailbox is now gone, we will archive this Cache before it disappears.
Easy grab after work, have walked passed many times and had no idea it was there!
Collected this while doing a few others in the area. This whole area is much more built up than when last driving along chapel rd. Looks like there is a fair bit more building going on too. TFTC
Easy find at the end of the day. Thank you. Disappointing I could not post my letter. 
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.Had an hour to spare while my wife was at Ormiston Hospital nearby. This was the closest one to the hospital. Arrived at GZ and quickly spotted the cache. First cache find for 2013. Been a slow year. 
Easiest find of the day, once we realised the postbox had been retired!
Not sure how long the cache will last in its current position.
#1393
Not sure how long the cache will last in its current position.
#1393
Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.
We decided to pop out East for a night caching session on a nice clear evening. The post box is now gone, but the cache is still there, just a bit exposed now! Quickly found, thanks for the cache!
We decided to pop out East for a night caching session on a nice clear evening. The post box is now gone, but the cache is still there, just a bit exposed now! Quickly found, thanks for the cache!
We decided to pop out East for a night caching session on a nice clear evening. The post box is now gone, but the cache is still there, just a bit exposed now! Quickly found, thanks for the cache!
Poor wee Postman Pat seems to have lost his black n white cat! Master 12 found this one in short time Thank goodness for street view on google maps or we wouldn't have found the location!
Thank goodness for street view on google maps or we wouldn't have found the location!
So close to where we were and decided to get this one with Sam as I manage to finish little early on my birthday and he picked me up for a drive down here. Luckly we missed afternoon traffic or I would have been in trouble with my wife on my brithday as she had things planned. Nice and easy find for us again while he pretended to post me a bithday card.
TFTC 2 and a half kiwis
TFTC 2 and a half kiwis
No pat
No little black cat
Just my first nano in Auckland on this trip
Thanks for the caching fun
No little black cat
Just my first nano in Auckland on this trip
Thanks for the caching fun
aiming to get 1 a day for the month of Feb. This one was a quick find on the way home. TFTC
Had loaded several caches into the GPS to find during my lunch break. Forgot I needed to bring a pen, so found but didn't sign.
Found after dropping friends back home on the return trip of a tramp to Cape Brett. TFTC.
Pulled up next to GZ, retrieved the cache, took to the car, removed the log book, signed and went to return the cache when the postie van pulled up to empty the mail box. Oh dear, drove around the corner to another cache, one of the team went to retrieve that cache while the other one drove back to replace the cache now the postie had gone. Lots of fun and the last one in the series for us. Hope to see some more soon. TFTC
Found in the wee hours of the morning while the locals were still well asleep. A quick find.
Its hard to pretend to post a letter for such a long time, while grabbing the prize, opening and extracting the log. Then signing and putting back into place. But all done and dusted. TFTC
Quick drive by on a midnight caching run in the middle of a very impressive lightning storm...
No-one else dumb enough to be up at this time of night... or out in the horrendous weather, so muggle factor zero!
TFTC!
No-one else dumb enough to be up at this time of night... or out in the horrendous weather, so muggle factor zero!
TFTC!
Night caching with a cousin. His first time on the hunt. Found this little bugger quite easily. Newbies surprised at size. Lid hard to open, but log was easy to extract. TFTC.
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Last cache for the night and a nice easy one after some dramas with our van (blew a bulb in the rear indicator, had to resort to hand signals so as not to peeve other drivers off - sorted with the help of the friendly local staff at BP). TFTC
Last cache for the night and a nice easy one after some dramas with our van (blew a bulb in the rear indicator, had to resort to hand signals so as not to peeve other drivers off - sorted with the help of the friendly local staff at BP). TFTC
Our last of the Park-n-Grabs for the day. Such a wet, horrible day - though very entertaining driving around for the Park-n-Grabs.
This one we let 4YO out to do alone. He searched and searched (we thought after having done Postman Pat 1 he would remember what to do). Mum got out of the car and pointed him in the right direction; and we finished the day with 5 caches under our belt and over the 50 mark.
This one we let 4YO out to do alone. He searched and searched (we thought after having done Postman Pat 1 he would remember what to do). Mum got out of the car and pointed him in the right direction; and we finished the day with 5 caches under our belt and over the 50 mark.
A quick stop to find a nano. Log "posted" TFTC
This entry was edited by tparty on Tuesday, 10 July 2012 at 07:19:34 UTC.
This entry was edited by tparty on Tuesday, 10 July 2012 at 07:19:34 UTC.
A quick find on the way home from the airport - ok a little diversion....easy find ...TFTC
Great quick drive by which was ideal as it's all about the numbers for us the week as we try and get to 999 before the Oz mega event this weekend! TFTC.
SO Went back again today. No car, but a lawnmower. Hmmm how can I do this. Just when he turned around a kneeled and yep found it immediately.
Handy to have a table (postbox) by hand and managed to scrible my name down.
Handy to have a table (postbox) by hand and managed to scrible my name down.
SO Went back again today. No car, but a lawnmower. Hmmm how can I do this. Just when he turned around a kneeled and yep found it immediately.
Handy to have a table (postbox) by hand and managed to scrible my name down.
Handy to have a table (postbox) by hand and managed to scrible my name down.
Hmm went today for this little one. Arrived at GZ and a car was parked close to the box. Oh what do I do. Ahwell I went to the mailbox and made the impression to see at what time the mail will been picked up (which is 2pm by the way)....Car is still there....Took a short look....but the man was still sitting in his car...Decicded to leave the cache for what it is. No mail for me today 
As we had already located a Postman Pat cache earlier we had a good idea what we were looking for. It was dark by the time we arrived here but the cache was found by touch. Quickly signed the log and headed off to the next cache. TFTC.
After finding MAXX 681 I realised I had left the other Flat Bush cache behind, unfound. Just hitting "next closest" is not always the best move. After back tracking a quick find was made. FTF number 28. Cheers for the smiley!
My 4th and final stop on a slight detour on the way home from work this evening. Quick find in the first place i checked. TFTC! 
