The Plaza (Auckland) Whangaparaoa, North Island, New Zealand
By azza-ro on 15-Nov-12. Waypoint GC41BPV

As there's been no cache to find for months, 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.

Looks like someone didn't replace the top properly and the gardeners have done a tidy up....will replace ASAP

No good no luck. Searched everywhere but mayb just not our day today

Think we found the container minus the lid and log.

Nice one azza-ro ! Luckily I had seem something similarish in Napier , so guessed what to look for when at gz . Just a bit tricky with all the muggles at nearby eatery or bar .....Thanks for the challenge !

Mastered the challenge and reaped the rewards.
Tftc.

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

I love this one a fantastic example of hiding in plain sight excellent camouflage. Favorite point from me.

Find #1013. Thank you very much for the cache. 28/09/2014 13:19

I'm out today with Cretti caching around the Whangaparoa Peninsula.

A few Muggles around but soon spotted the cache, took a couple of minutes to work out how to get in. FP from me.

Find #6436. Thank you very much for the cache. 28/09/2014 13:19

Muggles not a problem at 23:00. Even the security guard was asleep in his car. Easily found the cache. But couldnt find the log, I blame it on been dark and raining. Put it back and went back to the car, fummed about it for a while and then went back and gave it another crack, second time a charm.

Quickly spotted. Not much cover and didn't seem to match clue ? Replaced a bit less exposed. Not too busy luckily. Thanks

We camped for a couple of nights on the Whangaporara Peninsular, while we were there we saw killer whales come right into the harbour. A truely memorable moment.
All the caches we did were in amazing locations with fantastic views of the coastline & some withe viewscross to the Auckland skyline. All are worth a favourote point, I have only selected a few but if your cache does not receive one its not that its not as good as the rest.
Thanks for placing this cache azza-ro

TillyGeorge13 had a rest here, cool camo!

Stopped here on our way out to gulf habour but due to some nearby muggles we had to move along...but at seen the probable cache location. On our way home there were a lot less muggles about so log was quickly retrieved. No tweezers needed, but they were on hand, tftc

Well I Never! Clever little monkey's you CO's are! Well deserves a favourite point.

Loved the cache, loved this area and loved the company present even more!

Thank you for placing this cache, log signed and cache returned safely from whence it was found.

Thank you and greetings from the UK

(Ang, Chairperson of the North Wales UK Mega 2016)
https://www.facebook.com/northwalesmega2016

This entry was edited by B.D.I's on Sunday, 11 May 2014 at 18:10:02 UTC.

Very Cool Cache - neat hide

A Big FAV. point from us

We were in the area (meeting some of the nicest people you could wish to meet) and therefore just had to try and add this to our collection of finds
Sir HJJ had an idea what this cache should be but still struggled to find it

Many thanks for the cache. We have signed the log as HJJ & BDI's Sir & Lady Harveyjj & B.D.I.s and dipped our trackables

Out and about for a spot of afternoon caching in the hot sun. This cache piqued my interest when it popped up on the GPSr as I drove past earlier in the day. So I made sure to stop for a look on my way past again. Place sure is busy, but I didn't have to park to far away. Cache was soon detected and the log signed and returned with drawing any attention to the hide. Nicely thought out hide. Cheers for the cache placement!

Checked today - cache still in place

Is this place ever free from muggles snooped around for 15min then decided it wasn't there or to difficult for such an high muggles area

All good again

Checked this morning - has been muggled - will replace ASAP

Yet another DNF. Disastrous day for me. I searched the planter around the edge and in the middle. Found lots of goodies; a fork, a lighter, ..... but no cache.

*Found with PrincessDiala whilst trekking about New Zealand on the way to NZ Mega*

PrincessDiala + Hubby were planning to go out to one of the islands for the day on the ferry, but it turned out they were booked out today, so they decided to book for tomorrow.

so on our way back we stopped here for a quick cache find, a short search had it in our hands!!


TNLNSL

TFTC

Found with Chosen1978 on Mega Trip. Had to wait for a muggle to move on before grabbing cache.

Great hide in the centre of the plaza, had to be careful in getting this one, but easily found, tftc!

Fun time out caching with tmann421 while in Auckland for the mega tftc

Another good find with TuisReturn while in the area for the MEGA.

Soon had the container found SL TFTC

New Zealand 2103 trip for the Auckland Mega at Albany. Day 15, In Auckland Region, Northshore and Shakesphere Park. There were people passing but there were not too many spots to look and there were plenty of gaps so I was happy to get this one before the rain set in again. Thanks.

12574.529 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2013 Butterfly A#254

Albida

Garden been trimmed, making it easier

Tftc

Great find! TFTC, log a bit damp.

Nice one..cheers!

Very obvious!! Took very little time and went and bought a drink in countdown, thanks for the cache!

Quickly found. I just had to wait for the appropriate moment to search.

Fun to find in the dark. But less muffles this way.

11907... Soon weeded this one out, nice hide, TFTC.

First time found one - nice easy find

Early morning find but as the supermarket had just opened it was starting to get busy, managed the find when the coast was clear between passing muggles TFTC.

As I was passing the Plaza early in the morning I thought what better time to sign this one off than now. There was no-one about, that it, until I stopped and got out of the car. Then there was a cleaner and a security guard there as well. Ah well, I just had to wait until they had disappeared. The cache was soon in my hand, signed and quickly replaced before anyone else turned up.

Cheers for the cache.

Nice pre dawn walk to grab this cache. Great to find it so quickly.

TFTC!

Found it with my mate, wasn't too hard. Really fun though, nothing to take as it has just been replaced but put something in there. Good hide, didn't log in as i had no pen. TFTC

A quick find in a small shopping centre. A few muggles mingling around but managed to pull it off. TFTC

This was dodge the muggle on a busy Saturday morning. Managed to seize a quiet moment and was a quick find.

Replaced cache - lets see how we go this time.

Looks like this one has gone walkies........

Nope, no luck here

looked all round 0 point not found. Will try again

Quick find in the late morning. Lot's of people around today. TFTC.

Quick find. TFTC

Easy find while having a cofee.
Pleant of muggles around but all minding their own business.
TFTC

#1031, Quick find on way back from doing some cache maintenance. TFTC

Had to wait for someone to depart the seat, then straight forward despite all the muggles.

TFTC

Took a little while but kiddies eventually found it. TFTC

Took a couple of hours off this afternoon to find some caches on the Whangaparaoa peninsula. There were very few muggles around which made for a nice quick easy find. TFTC.

Checking emails before heading to the Plaza to go the library and saw this new cache pop up. Very convenient and as the weather is slightly damp there were not many people about this morning. Nice quick find and a blank log book to boot. Another rare FTF for us, thanks.

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