Uncle Sam between 2 trees (East Auckland) Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By Uncle Sam on 02-Nov-13. Waypoint GC4RC1P

At GZ I stood and wondered on where to start looking. I turned around and the cache was there. Thank you for the placement.

Thought it would be more hidden than it actually is, so went venturing too far in the beginning. Then turned and there she was! All good here. Tftc

Thanks for the find it was awesome

Thanks for the great find

( ) I took myself and my e-bike on a train from Ranui to Newmarket, then swapped to a southern train and got off at Otahuhu, then the 352 bus over to Ti Rakau Dr. That's where I'm at starting my caching for the day, although this is my 3rd cache for now. ( ) As others have said, cache is quite exposed with a couple of sticks over it which basically are doing nothing to hide it, but amazingly it's still there and chugging along. No issues here to report. Loving this cycleway, one day I'll ride the whole thing without picking up any caches, thanks Sam-I-Am.

Found it, dropped my phone and almost lost it forever but what is geocashing without a heart attack

Tftc

lovely cache on a nice walk , thumbs uo

Out with himself and geodog for some more light caching. TFTC nice quick find here.

A very quick find as it was completely uncovered, so after signing the log I added some natural camo that was nearby.

Found it

TFTC somone gave us a hint

**#21020**Last couple to do along this pathway, making short work of it on the bike.Hint sort of helped get the job done quicker too.TNLN TFTC

Hint is good ,careful cliff is steep, watch out ,

Found

Nice walk along herecache found in good condition ..signed the log and replaced as found thanks for bringing me to this area thanks for the cache

We are taking our charges (dog and Mr. 10) for a walk. Mr 10 is familiar with this pathway, but we are not. Apparently, his friend lives just over the river. The cache was located and signed before discovering more of this walkway. Thanks for the placement Uncle Sam

Didn't take too long after I went to the right tree TFTC

Should have been much easier than it was tftc

Alot of rubbish has been thrown over the bank...nearly gave up & read logs & made the find. TFTC

We spotted the cache as we approached. We have covered it a little better.

Pretty easy find if youre ready to move a few bits of dry wood out of the way

Found after a wee bit of searching. Spotted a Christmas tree bauble hanging on the tree's bark and thought it might be an indication of the cache...but no...no need to go too far off the track. Found and left a few goodies for others

Feels good to turn a blue face green TFTC!!

Very quick find for me. Nice sized cache also and all dry. Thanks and onto the next.

Found a huge pile of garden rubbish the locals have been tipping over the edge, didn't find a cache though. Is it buried now?

Checked all the trees in the vicinity without success. Good variety of plants here - got pricked by cactus then soothed with some aloe vera.

First find in quite a while! Nice easy find today

Found took a while

really disappointing:(

We found the trees but no cache

I was searching through the trees and I still could couldn’t find it!: I think it got stolen:/

Good

Good find

Nice quick find.
Covered with natural camo.

Quick and easy find

Thanks you. easy one

Found whilst visiting friends in the area who showed us this walkway. Awesome place for an afternoon stroll.TFTC

Super nice find. My 3rd find of the day! Thanks

found it thanks for the hide

Found it thanks for the hide

Cool find

Tftc found with Lex007

Lovely stroll on an even more lovely evening. Haven't cached in a while...so nice to get back into it

Nice and easy find. Used the hint and good coords. Nice sized cache. Tftc

Found it. Relatively easy find. Lots of lovely treasures here

Took a little while. Don't let looks or camouflage deceive you. Careful not to get pricked

Fount it, but be careful its a slippery slope! Great spot

Near the bridge

Onto number 3 this afternoon in the full sun, whilst waiting for the text from the teenager to be collected from the photo studio at college....yes, I know it's a Sunday, but it's nearing the end of year and things need to get done.....

Nice find here, all though the people across the path from here could easily see from their lounge, so stealth was essential.

TFTC.

Nice find in a nice spot thank you!

Very cool. Found

It was easy to find if you read and understand the hints

Easy find

Needed a cache for dot day today so headed out for ‘lunch’ with B4Dawn to raid this one.

I remember being here before but not being successful. This time was a breeze as the cache was out in the open.

Signed and returned a bit more covered.

Thanks for the cache.

With keylev and she found this pretty quickly! Tftc

Thank you. Added few bits to swag for others. Nice to find a bigger cache. TFTC. Sl

Found this one while exploring the area this afternoon. No worries here. TFTC

In the area so decided to get a few more in the area. Hubby was quick on this one. Tftc

Nice easy find for Mr 12, he took Mr 22 with him.
TFTC

Great find

Found

Fairly quick find. A few muggles about. Great to have our dog with us so we could pretend she had lost her ball.

Found

Well done

Nobody wanted to look apart from Bird so off she went. Got very frustrated with no one helping so in the end Phil did and went pretty much straight to the cache much to Bords annoyance!! SL TNLN TFTC

Took our time finding this one today searched around the base of one tree and then the other.A good size cache.Have taken the trackable to carry on its journey.

Hot Saturday afternoon, came along for some Botany caches. Trying not to look too dodgy, and hoping no-one would come along the walkway, it was lucky I made a quick find. Signed and replaced. The TB coin is still there, left for the next cacher. TFTC

One of my quicker finds today, dropped a TB, TFTC

Found by my son (9) kids loved the stuff inside.

Found the trees and cache spotted soon after.

Nice quick find in between showers. Good to get outside in winter. TFTC.

Found, but not as per description. Neat little thing.

Thanks for hint and thanks for the cache.

Good find very well hidden ! Beautiful spot

so big! Great find!

Found this time around. Nice wee hide. T4tc

After finding a couple of others along here, Pagenz and I carried on the walkway and this was another great hide. TFTC

No real plans made for today but Auckland was the place to go.
We still have in excess of 2,000 caches in area to find and log so this is going to take some time to complete.
Spur of the moment and teamed up with ABCDF4,Eyespyben & Squirrel Nutcase.
Thought we would hit one area and try to clean it up. Apart from one cache that is disabled, think we got the rest plus a few outer lying caches on way home.
All caches signed as Team HRP (Huntly,Rotorua,Papamoa) This being our home towns.
Thanks to cache owners for their placements. SLTFTC

Nice easy find
Also a great hint
Thanks for the walk
Sign the Log HRP

With Gap (of Fap and Gap), ABCDF4, and eyespyben... All logs were signed Team H (Huntly) R (Rotorua) P (Papamoa).

Our original plan was to complete the Hakarimata Northern Walkway this weekend. However, the weather deteriorated and we chickened out... An alternative was suggested by our Huntly friends - Let's go up to Highbrook (Auckland). It seems that this location is getting a lot of attention at the moment, with a lot of new placements in the area.

It was mid afternoon when we stopped for lunch. The break recharged our batteries and we decided to look at a new suburb to cache attack... Burswood looked good, and it was just over the road from Highbrook... Followed the pathway around to this hide. A quick find without incident. TFTC.

Got u early in the morning and said the the team why dont we go and clean up some geo caches in auckalnd so they said lets go so we end up in high brook with my team of squirrel Nut Case/Fap and Gap/and Abcdf4 we sign the log book as H (Huntly) R (Rotorua) P (Papamoa) and tftc for the nice wee hide.

Nice walkway been built here since our last visit. Cache was quickly located in a place we had previously looked. Nice to turn the frown upside down.

Back in the area nearly 2 years later to turn our frown upside down. A very quick easy find this time in a place I'm sure we searched last time. Nice to finally get rid of that blue frown off my map.

Tyfc

I'm from Switzerland and spend 4 months in New Zealand on vacation. Found this cache after a few minutes search, thanks.

Hi I am Swiss too and was very cheeky to snap it away from Nöggi2 !!!

Found at the second attempt. Happy to change to a smiley. Really good new path.

Yay! Came here to get the third to find for the new cache ‘butterfly creek’ by the Coblets and then found this and a few others. Thanks Uncle Sam and the Coblets for this fun adventure with Cachewnut today! I really enjoyed that!

Found today:

•Uncle Sam between 2 trees
•Butterfly Creek
•The Orphan of Burswood

TFTC!

Nice walk along the new pathway. No trouble finding this one. Tftc

Luckily the aforementioned fence was not half removed, so no need to climb it for us. After a short, pleasant stroll, found the cache quickly enough - though had to be a bit careful to avoid some unpleasantness. Thanks!

No problem with the hide but to get there near GZ was different story. Had to jump over the fence on construction site. Found TB but not in the cache just beside .... TFTC

Great weather for a little Geocaching Tour! I could spot a couple of Caches in the area around Burswood.
The clue made me looking at some wrong places first even if it is not wrong. Found it finally!
Thanks for hiding!

Yet another trip to Auckland for me, this time for a nice long break over Queens Birthday weekend. Having had a great day caching on Friday, but a much quieter one yesterday, I was really keen to get out and about today.

I did wonder if the weather gods had it in for me today though, as the heavens absolutely opened up late morning, to the point where you almost needed a submarine to go down Ti Rakau Drive! But suddenly it all cleared up, so I left it half an hour to drain the worst of it away and then I hit the trail.

I had seen a couple of caches I wanted to grab last time I was here, but couldn't gain easy access at the time, and thought I'd take another look today. On closer inspection, I realised that the reason I couldn't find easy access for the 2 caches in question was because the council had closed off the access at either end to build a new concrete pathway. But I soon found a way onto the path and enjoyed the walk to GZ much more than I thought I would as I wasn't walking through a bog!

The cache itself was a relative easy find, after I turned my attention to the 2nd tree to search. Nice hiding spot. The contents are nice and dry, and there was enough room for me to drop a TB into. A quick sign of the log, a photo of the special code for the Mystery cache, then everything was replaced as found and I was on my way back to the car for the next part of my afternoon.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Thtc

Very easy good find

had a really good search, but nothing

Failed miserably here. Just been mown so lots of grass piled around the trees. two of us had a good search but nothing.

TFTC!! Lovely walk. Quite muddy so may need gumboots

Take gumboots!