Auckland Tourist Cashes! - Albert Park Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By stretch.kerr on 10-Jun-13. Waypoint GC4E1PX

Thank you!

What a beautiful tree. Didn't see any suspicious sticks but found it anyway.

Aloha! We've searched high and low... many areas... and many places. Not meant for us today. Knewcwe should have carried the GPS and not rely only on a cellphones inaccuracy! We're not saying it's not there, only that we didn't find it or the hint. Bummer. Maybe next time on the island... one day. Aloha!

I have only found the container, the logbook is gone. It should be maintained. But the park is nice. TFTC

Found it! Forgot a pen so photo log. Tftc!

Thanks for my first find!

Wie schnell doch die Zeit vergeht, heute ist schon der letzte Tag unseres groen Neuseeland-Urlaubs! Fritzi1219 und ich konnten die einmalige Landschaft, das tolle Wetter und die vielen neuen Eindrcke genieen! Zum Abschluss konnten alle Caches gut gefunden werden!TFTC# 7607 / 13:20hDanke und Gru vom Team Lawinia11 aus Deutschland, LilienthalHow quickly time flies, today is already the last day of our big New Zealand holiday! Fritzi1219 and I were able to enjoy the unique landscape, the great weather and the many new impressions! In the end, we managed to find all the caches!TFTC# 7607 / 13:20hThanks and greetings from Team Lawinia11 from Germany, Lilienthal

easy cache

Quick find. Not much of a log book left - just a bandaid.

We found what we think 'was' the cache. Put in the bag that was nearby. Woud say it needs maintenance. TFTC

7.2 World travelers adventure log.Out and about exploring the world with Nildran on this epic adventure!Thanks for adding to our memories and letting us explore your favorite spots all over the world!It continues to be a wild ride!TFTC SL If you find yourself at a local pub during trivia night, and the category is:'States shaped like a Mitten'here is some information that may help you win that round:Michigan trivia 7.223. Michigan is home to the first three tunnels in the world that connect two different countries: the St. Clair Tunnel, which connects Port Huron with Sarnia, Ontario, and the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel and Detroit Windsor Tunnel, both of which connect, you guessed it, Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.24. Detroit residents were the first in the nation to have phone numbers. It seems that by 1879, the city had grown so large that operator were no longer able to route the calls by name alone.25. A one-mile stretch of Detroit road was paved with concrete in 1908, making it the world's first concrete-paved road. 26. The world's largest weathervane was built by Whitehall Metal Studios of Montague. It's 48 feet tall and stands at the corner of Dowling and Water Streets.27. The Ella Ellenwood, a schooner that used to transport lumber from Montague to Milwaukee, went down in a storm in 1901. While the ship was not recovered, its nameplate did manage to float back to Montague all on its lonesome a year later.28. French-Canadian lumberjack Fabian Fournier, who worked for a lumber company in the Grayling area in the late 1800s, was said to be an inspiration for the legendary Paul Bunyan.29. Oscoda claims to be the official hometown of the literary Paul Bunyan, as the first published story about him appeared in the Oscoda Press in 1906. Oscoda puts on an annual Paul Bunyan Festival each September.30. Ossineke has a giant statue of Paul Bunyan and Babe, his blue ox. Unlike certain other statues of Babe, in this one he really is an ox, aka a steer.31. The Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids has a 24 foot high bronze equestrian statue that, while completed in the 1990s, was based on a design by Leonardo DaVinci.32. Petoskey stones, which are the state stones of Michigan, are made from 350 million-year-old fossilized limestone.

Out caching with TL. TFTC! Thanks for the spoiler photo and extra help!

Today we strolled around the city and collected some caches. This was the first one, after having some lunch in the park TFTC

Quick find after a nearby event.

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Found it during the event after meeting up with Lostcourse and Skandal. Quick and fun find. TFTC!

Finally found. The owners' hints are a useful goods mostly. Thanks

Thanks for this one. After searching around found it thanks to the hint pic by owner.

Eventually found the bugger after following hint by oc

So fun to find these in the middle of busy parks!

Had to reach my hand in pretty far so missed it the first time and looked quite a bit longer than I needed to. Thanks for sharing. Cache was in good shape!

Thanks guys.

Found thanks to a recent photo hint from the CO - initially was looking in the right place but didnt see any suspiciously placed thick sticks and moved on. Perhaps in November a different hiding material is used! And the bottle is waaaaay back in there so get scrabbling! GPS pinged around a bit, up to 20m off course at times. Thanks for the hide, nice excuse to come up here.

No problem at

338 | 25 October 2024 11:46First Cache for me of New Zealand beautiful park to walk around.

Quick check here, no issues. Definitely not lost! A hint if you need it (photo)

Lost

Found it. It was a bit hard at the beginning. And some people were saying it is lost. But it is not, it is still there. Go for it!

Thanks!

Found it with the clues!

Look for quite a while, but theres a lot of leaves on the ground couldnt find it

Found the sticks, but no cache..

Found on the ground under sticks

Coordinates were a little out for us but using the hint we zeroed into the right place TFTC LinseyG

11690In the park just across from where we are staying so of course had to visit and see about finding it. Which was done in a lovely park. Onward to a bigger park now.The cache is in good condition.TFTC Ribeana and the note.

Nice morning out in the park. My son made a quick find at GZ. Awesome trees for climbing around here! TFTC

Great little find, making us explore the city!

Thanks

Hiii very well hidden, a bit slippery if its wet

Milesker

After a day of shopping a couple of caches were in need so we shot out to find them. Gotcha, when I initially attempted the cash there was a young guy at GZ I went and had a look around before nabbing the find. Awesome cache TFTC found with Aalis_01

After being out shopping and stopping at our hotel to drop the bags off we set off to find a couple caches. Found with Elliot13. TFTC

Geoboy came from the top and had a wicked slip, lucky we packed the wet wipes! Decided to come from the bottom after that and made the quick find. Tftc

Cool find!

Our first find in NZ! First of many! Def a lil' harder than expected! ??

Back up in AucklandCool hide thanks

Back up in Auckland todayWe were also back in the area to pick this cache upGreat wee hide thanks

Spent good 20 mins looking couldn't find

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Second of a couple in the parklands for me today after an FTF on [GA22462](https://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga22463) nearby. It took a rather healthy squiz at the hint but with that done, it was a nice, quick find at 15:35. What an amazing tree. TNLNSL, although our BYO pen geocoin had a visit to mark the occasion. Thanks stretch.kerr.

Thanks!

Lukes find tftc

I got this one TFTC on holiday from the UK

it's my first geochache, it fell good when you found it.

Tftc

Found it thanks! Easy find with the hint

Found this one lying a bit out in the open, with the logbook on the ground. The cap doesn't close perfectly, but I think it is sufficient. I hid it a little bit better. The area is quite busy, so I hope the cache is hidden enough.

Gg

Together with Schatoh68 I made a wonderful trip, discovering Auckland. Nice place, thank you for this cache, that brought me to such a nice spot of this beautiful town.

Together with Birba68 on our way back from the museum we stoped here and found the Cache. Thank you

The navigation tool does not really help/does not work. Need more description as to which tree etc.

Noice TFTC

Thanks cache owner! My second find ever

A few days in Auckland on our way back to Oz from Peru, and geocaching seemed like a good way of getting some exercise. GZ was a little out on my Garmin, but we found it nevertheless. TFTC

Thank you for this cashes, Ribeana! It was very nice to find the cashe, while visiting Albert Park! There was a great surprise inside!

Yay

Nice SHC outing and geocache. Good hint. TFTC

nice

Gottem

Its a DNF on this one for me. Needed to take longer to look but had to leave. TFTC

2550. Tricky misdirect! I knew it might be harder with all the recent dnfs. As the younger geocachers checked out or rather played on the more obvious beacon I spotted a likely hiding spot. Signed kanoe&co. TFT(surprisingly quick find and)C.

The clue was spot on

Gg ez, thank u for this find

Ez

Thanks for the cache

I'm here from Darwin (Australia) for a conference, however am making the most of it being a quiet Sunday morning in Auckland (Tamaki Makaurau). Fuelled by my Starbucks caramel macchiato (98% sugar) I ventured into Albert Park with a pen ready to do business ???. I thought this would be a "walk in the park" but was surprised to find that it took a lot of searching - through logs: both metaphorical and physical. Agree with Three_dots that the *hint* gave a bit of bum-steer but got there eventually. Thank you stretch.kerr for hiding and maintaining this one for 11 years!!! ??Also, did someone lose a pair of undies, as there is a bad smell and pair of navy knickers in close proximity to GZ ?????? Maybe best to bring some wet-wipes/gloves/hand sani in the caching kit ???? Lastly - there was no log in the container but a nice hand drawn artwork ?? So I just wrote my initials & date on the back of the sketch, hope that's okay ????

Nice easy find, hint was very helpful and someone left a very nice drawn picture inside ?? thanks ??

Careful where you are treading here as someone has decided to take a poo very near the cache! Quick and easy find! TFTC from Hong Kong!

Beautiful park in town and one of the only green spaces. It was quiet here on a Saturday morning and I was geo-ing on my own. I didnt feel safe wandering around to stop in one place for too long. Im claiming the find as Im sure I would have located it. Heres a photo to show I was here. Thank you

Hint wasn't as useful so I just started looking around the general area. Great start to my first geochache

Visiting from Long Beach California. Our second day here. Found bottle in the open with cap off and no log. I am going to claim the find, but the next cacher may want to bring a log.

Found it!

first one of the day done, thank you for the cache

found it

Found!

Fun find in the park! TFTC!!

This is the last day of my Australia/New Zealand vacation trip. Had a couple of hours before having to go to the airport for my return flights to Texas, so I decided to grab a few additional caches.

Trouver

We got it !! Love the cach

Making my way over to the central city so walked this way. Wandered around a couple of times before being able to grab and sign. Lovelly old trees in this park. Thank you for the placement.

Merci pour la cache. Tout est en ordre. Trouve avec VinideVinci.

Nice corner of the city - rooting for the rest of ya;)

This was my first cache!!! Amazing experience

Picked up during nice walk through Albert Park. Quick and easy. Tftc

Last cache on my NZ trip. Tonight, our flight will go back to Germany. T4TCt.h.s

?? Trouve ! / Found it ! ??Une autre trouvaille rapide ici, je ne m'y tais pas attard la dernire fois et aujourd'hui la cache me saut aux yeux ?? 5489me cache trouve.Merci stretch.kerr pour la cache ????Another quick find here, I didn't stop there last time and today the cache caught my eye ??5489th cache found.Thank you stretch.kerr for the cache ????

Found it!

A bit more challenging in the dark but fun!

Quick walk through a beautiful park led me to your cache. Thanks for adding a smiley to my day.

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