180 SH16 Kwik Fix #17 (Auckland) Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By wasa & chec on 18-Oct-13. Waypoint GC4QG02

tftc - no cup here but we did see the smashes up container

Sign is a little bit in the way

Icky icky icky

No paper to write on but wrote inside it in pink

Nice easy find.

In the area getting the ad lab, so couldnt resist a small detour to grab a few extra caches. Tftc

Cup was a nice easy find with all the toys within, but no log to sign....so I signed the cup instead. I'm on foot (bad idea, no footpath) and have no supplies with me to replace

The container was definitely broken. I felt we had to replace it and all I had in the car was an empty Pepsi Max cup and lid. So we put the contents into that cup and replaced it off the ground. Should be an easy find. Also there was no log there to sign

Me again. Just adding a photo of the cup it is in now. By the way I am not the owner of this cache. So if the owner still wishes to change it then all good

Container was smashed up

Found the location someone thought it was funny to destroy the container.

Didn’t find

Found, but cache was destroyed in flooded waters including log boom

Good

Good

Good

Found on ground put it in waistheight but it was soaking wet!

Love to see the larger ones!

Great cache

Very good clues! Made it fun easy to reach with lots of parking..

Quick stop after a visit to Costco. Thanks . I willlog maintenance as was saturated inside, someone has tried to fix the broken lid with tape but needs a new one.

A new lid is needed as cache is saturated inside and tape isn’t keeping it dry. We popped a new log in with a plastic bag for the interim. TFTC.

A quick park & grab on a quiet evening. TFTC!

A nice quick find. Thanks for placing your cache.

Ms_KR and I are in Auckland Auckland for a break and we are exploring the region while we are based here. Today we went to Muriwai and explored some of the area. The weather was lspottining rain most of the day, sometimes heavier, and sometimes lighter. Still a great day out though.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Thanks I found it

Nice n easy park n grab on a Sunday morning, full of some old swag.
TFTC

**15,051**
This one was a nice quick find and hidden safely back from the ever-increasing traffic on the road. TFTC

Whoop

Hard n fast find

easy find thanks! Kids loved it

That was the easiest geo chase ever.

Quick park & grab. Thank you

Great cache. Gus and Bear found it. Thanks

Quick find thanku

Thanks

Quick park and grab. TFTC Found with Yvettetb

Quick park and grab. Contents a little damp. Great hide

Chur

Found & fill of tokens

Found it.
Thanks for the great spot.

Quick cache! Doing fred taylor drive today.️Tftc!

No real plans for today but over dinner and a couple of drinks last night Hobsonville was the choice. All caches signed Team HRP (Huntly,Rotorua,Papamoa). Great day in a new area. Couple of caches missed but that happens. Will be back another day to complete area.
Thanks to all cache owners for placements. SLTFTC

Was up in Ak for the day with ABCDF4, Fap & Gap, and Squirrel Nutcase to tidy a few caches in Hobsonville. Logged in under Tm HRP, to conserve the logs. Quick easy find. Thanks to all the Co s for the placements, good day had by all. Neat caches.

With ABCDF4, eyespyben, and Gap (of Fap and Gap)... Since Gap had jobs scattered around Auckland, we decided to base ourselves out West. With two Adventure Labs in Hobsonville, it made sense to hang out there for the day...

Definitely a big container for this location, but the plastic doesn’t appear to be holding up well. We noticed a big puncture hole in the lid, so this will need maintenance. Signed Team HRP (Huntly, Rotorua, Papamoa)... Thanks wasa & chec, and TFTC.

Up in Auckland {Hobsonville} to gather some more smilely faces with
Squirrel Nutcase.Fap&Gap and EyespyBen
What a great day.
Beauiful Art Work around.
Very cool place we will be back

Lots of goodies inside thanks!

Cool little find. Really big cache.
Love E and E.

Nuce

Found it!

️

Awesome find tonight. Left this little trade item. Hope someone likes it x tyfc

Awesome log! Love this one sooo much!!

Nice quick find again. Almost at the 500 mark. Thanks for the cache

Lovely sized geocache - great to see so many tradeables but sadly no trackables. Tftc

Out with 3daymist. Easy find which was nice after 2 "Did Not Finds".
Muggles outside their work meant a little delay completing.

Always nice to find a big, easy to find urban cache with easy access. Cheers

Easy find

Another easy find thanks

Find number 5543. Up in Auckland to spend some time with old friends. So after lunch I stopped by to collect some caches before heading home. Had to cross the road for this one once I had sorted out my GPS. Signed and returned. Thank you for the placement.

Going up north for a holiday. Tftc

Great location.... easy to find....tftc

Four of four. After work cruise. Tftc.

Tftc have dropped off this beautiful coin for someone else to continue with

Ahhh so great so many trinkets

Today we had a trip from Dargaville to Auckland, thereby visiting many locations near the road, and looking for caches, too. On this trip we searched, found and logged a lot of caches. The weather was good all day long with a lot of clouds, but it got better with smaller and less clouds in the afternoon.
Almost no muggels observed us as they had other things to do than observing harmless geocachers.

Thanks to 'wasa & chec' for showing us this location and for the fun we had at '180 SH16 Kwik Fix #17 (Auckland)'. The search we had here today didn't take too much time.

Greetings from Germany and hope to see you soon in the forest.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 19. November 2018 @ 13:21 Uhr @ [#12567](https://coord.info/GC4QG02)

Left a little something

Thanks for the find! It was a first find for a mate of mine!

Nice and easy and very child friendly. Found by 10yr old Madison! Empty CO2 cylinder out, anchor in. TFTC

#5512. I am up in Auckland for a few days and after completing the various jobs I had to do on this trip, I had a few spare hours before dropping off the rental car at the airport. So headed up north west to pick up a few more caches in the Dalmations series and other nearby traditional caches. Nice quick find here. Good to see a larger container after a string of micros today. Signed the log and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for the cache wasa & chec.

Planning is now well underway for a major Event in the Wellington region later this year (2018). Check out the details on the Wellington Event NZ (WENZ) Website. The official cache page is live GC78NMQ - WENZ Event 2018. You can also visit the event’s page on FaceBook. If you are planning to attend, please ensure you register each planned attendees geocaching name on the official page and also on our WENZ website.

We stopped near GZ and waited for a few cars to go past then ducked in behind the sign when the coast was clear.
Nice to find a large sized container, the cache is safe and sound and tucked away nicely in its hiding spot. TFTC.

This morning I headed west to find some caches in my spare time before I had to get down to work stuff. I tried to find this one about 3 years ago with no luck. No idea how I missed it then or maybe it was missing? Anyway, a nice quick find today. TFTC, Biggles.

sorry for taking so long to log. Found with Keylev TFTC

After a local Geocachers Anonymous breakfast out East, Mrs NZ Travellers and I decided to head over on a caching raid.

Nice quick find here.

Thanks for the cache.

Out and about in the west with Keylev. Enjoyed the sunny weather and collected a nice cache total for our efforts. We overshot this one a little and had to walk back. Found the cache easy enough and were on our way again. TFTC!

Easy find. Off to Melbourne Friday so will drop while over there

This was my last cache for the day, and it was a quick fix

A little wet underfoot due to the heavy rainfall 30 minutes before, but for now the sun is out. The cache is quickly found, and the log was signed. Thanks for the hide, thats me for the day with caching, time for some lunch

Great sneaky hide here, but quick find after dark when its nice and quiet, TFTC

No one was around today, so I had no trouble getting this one. Left: ilsonannie's Sydney the Koala TB. TFTC.

Log to follow

Grabbing all the Fred Thomas Drive caches in one hit. A good sized cache in a nice spot. As I left I saw a woman on her ciggy break eyeing me suspiciously, so I hope the cache is ok. TFTC

Introducing a newbie. Nice cache thanks

Quick easy find

Quick easy find, very quiet today, tftc

#4 On the way home after a cheeky beer and couldn't miss the opportunity to tick up another cache. Easy find made slightly more difficult by the fact everyone was just finishing work in the area. TFTC

I had to wait til a truck that had pulled up right by gz had moved along before making a nice quick find on this good sized container

Hitting up a few park and grab caches after work today, as the sun was setting. There was a police car sitting right next to GZ as I drove into the lot, but while I was checking my GPSr to see if it really was right next to the cruiser, he pulled away. I made the quick find of the nice sized container - right next to where he was. Thanks for the cache!

The area has changed a bit since the last time I really spent any time here which was when I used to watch Waitakere City play Auckland City at football. Nice quick find here, managed to avoid the scrutiny of the guy relaying the concrete in a nearby drive. Good sized cache but as we were darting across the road and back again we didn't have any swag with us - TNLNSL - TFTC. All good here.

On my way to Muriwai. Had to stop for some caches along the way.

First stop this morning and rewarded with a quick easy find between gaps in the traffic.

Log was a bit damp, plastic bag needs replacing. Nice easy find. Thanks

Found with chickenrib.

Quick easy find.

Nice to get these bigger size caches now and again. TFTC

11/06/2016 3:57:00 PM
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I came up to Auckland for a few days to catch up with friends, and have a bit of a deserved break from work!!

Day three, and I was mostly hanging out with the same friends today, however I managed to get about an hour free to find some caches for the day. So stuck nearby to my friends house, and only found a few.

Number three.
A very easy quick grab - cool to get the numbers up in a short period of time!!

Consec caching day # 1315

TFTC!!

Found it

Nice quick find. TFTC

I picked this for today's cache because JrGun9 was sleeping in the car and I figured this area would be quiet so I could park right by it.
It turned out to be even easier than expected as I spotted it as I pulled in to park.
T F T C wasa & chec.

Quick park and grab with Bchefj&p on a visit from Hastings

Loving the park n grabs today. On a 3 day road trip from Hawkes Bay to Auckland and back. Grabbing as many caches as we can. Tftc