The Johnny B Cash MarkII Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By TheJosh1 on 11-Mar-14. Waypoint GC5025V

G_2 is taking over the Cache

A nice simple find and a lovely view

Found it!

No wonder we missed this last time - we were about 500 metres away! Great view, great camouflage, thoroughly deserving a favourite point.

Boats and trains, stunning view!

Great hide!! Loved how it was camouflaged!!

added new log

Today I took my simple boat for a good paddle on Orakei basin with my friend Diego (photo). We had the opportunity to explore many places there and had lots of fun. Before starting our adventure I went fo find this one, nice view from there.
TFTC.
Unfortunately the logbook was really bad, so took a photo and sent to the CO.

Quick find and a gem of a view. No pencil and log needs replacing.
What a view though!!!

Run and find whoo! Tftc! Awesome hide

Cool hide! Thanks for the fun and deception

Brought my Dad & Mum to Orakei Bay Village with the rest of the whānau for a delayed birthday treat at Moustache Cookie Bar for Dad (Mr McArgister!) After that we all walked round the basin. Great idea until Micro McArgister fell asleep in the pushchair and then we realised that there were quite a lot of steps!!! Anyway, we made it and while we were on our way round Micro & Mini hid in the bushes to pop out and surprise us. Turns out they were hiding right next to this cache! Once I told them that, Mini made a quick find. Then Mini made a big noise as a bug crawled out of the cache cover and onto her hand! Very nice and secure camo. Thanks for the birthday boy cache!

Found it! Great view from the cache

We had an online purchase to pick up in Orakei, so took the opportunity find a couple of caches a bit further away from home. Parked in Orakei Basin West Reserve then realised that the cache was "up there." Made my way up, then along to GZ. Had a look around and spotted something that looked out of place. Checked it out and yes it was the cache. Thanks.

Terrible cache day. Looked for 3. Found none

GPS turned to custard as we moved away from the lagoon so we're not even sure we got close.

another quick find on a bright sunny day

Labour Weekend - Saturday. With Gap (of Fap and Gap)... This long weekend has come at the right time for us. We are using the extra day to get a jump on the TMGT. Auckland and Northland are our targets...

Our next point of interest was at Bastion Point. Naturally, our route brought us past a few hides, so we decided to pick off some of these caches... A much quicker, straightforward find than its busy neighbour. Thanks TheJosh1 and TFTC.

Found 11.25am
Labour weekend in the past has been a Mega weekend, but not to be this year.
Rough plans made last minute as to what we would do, so target was TMGT caches in Auckland, lots of solved puzzles and any thing else we passed.
Plans always change as we got half way through the weekend and decided also to collect the Te Tai Tokerau TMGT caches also.
First stop for the weekend was a visit to Waikato Hospital to visit a Huntly cacher who has had a knee operation. (guess this is going to slow him down for a while)
The weekend seemed to fly by and before we knew it we were back home.
Thanks to all the cache owners for the cache placements. SLTFTC

Thanks log book full and disintergrated

chur

TFTC. LOG BOOK NEEDS REPLACING.

Easier than the other!!!!

Awesome find. Needs a new log as one is disintegrated and the other is full.

Found after back tracking and realising you need to take the high road. Easy find once in right spot

Looked under the bush and couldn’t see anything but something spiky. Turns out it was a dead hedghog

Great little one, lovely view

Great camo.

Super easy thanks

I really liked this one! Excellent camo, good hint. Also and awesome view!

What a great cache - so cleverly camouflaged - so happy to find this one - cheers - found by James

Second trip to thus beautiful area and thx to owners clue found... new log page needed as current one full

After much searching along fence line could not find this one.

Nice hide and well placed. You can buy Christmas tree nearby TFTC All good at GZ

I feel so stupid for not finding this one everyone says it's so easy! I'm a Sydney gal I'll definitely have another try when I'm back in town!

Found at 2200. Time to go home to bed. Lovely view out over the water on a still night.

Nice easy find. I found it before Ellouise231 did

Brilliant walk, awesome view! Nifty hiding spot!

Hi, out for a run with kids on lovely day. Wills found it. Nice camo.

Great camo ,our second find of the day,despite living close by I had never looked out over the basin from this vantage point before

Very clever!! Forgot our pen....

A very pleasant walk on the high route with nice views on a great sunny day. Appreciated the handy work with the cache and disguise.

Quick easy find tftc

Had a TB that deserved some Auckland sites before continuing on its travelling mission so we called in here for a visit. Well done with the camo! TFTC

Rubbish weather today but still headed out for a bit of caching.
Great camo here ! TFTC

One more after work today. Searched around the wrong place to begin with, but after looking around a bit wider, I spotted this cache. The cover was lying on the ground so replaced where it was intended, nice hide cheers

We are the St Chads Hillary Cubs! Our first geocache. Thanks!

Took us a while as it was our first. Great camo. Had to battle a roach that had made it his home.

Here today with darthcacher1 and purply. We parked nearby and headed up to GZ. As we approached I said, the logs say it is a clever camo. Purply reaches in and says here it is, it was a clever camo but he spotted it straight away. Thanks for the cache.

Deserves a favourite point for bringing me to this lovely spot on my way to work today, with the sun shining on the water & a tui singing in the tree above the cache.

Out taking a walk around the basin this afternoon and collecting the caches as we go.had never taken this route before but what a great view with a bonus of no muggles either.spotted the cache quiet soon but it wasnt until a little while later that we decided to check it out more throughly.

Out for an early morning walk while the other half was still sleeping at our accommodation for the weekend, nicely camped cache which I spied immediately.
TFTC

Around mid afternoon today, a massive downpour hit where I was working... and I have to say that it made me a little nervous as I hadn't yet found my cache of the day. And so later this afternoon when the rain died down, I left the office in search of a cache in order to keep my current daily streak going. So that is how I came to be looking for this particular cache. After parking as close as I could, I made my way to GZ on foot. Wow! What a view! I had never been up here before... and as I was looking out over the basin, along came a muggle out walking his muggle dog... so a photo was in order while I waited for him to pass. Once he had gone I began my search, and thanks to your hint I soon had the cache in hand. So I have signed one of the logs in the cache, and I have put the cache back nicely for the next finder. Very creative. So thank you TheJosh1 for taking the time to set up this cache and for bringing me to a cool place. I really appreciate your efforts. This one gets a favourite point from me for the view! TFTC!

Good spot! What a view

Great spot! Cache book needs some love!

Found in literally 5 seconds thanks for the spot.

Totally brilliant and original.

Nice little hide! TFTC

Great location

Out for a quick walk this morning before flying home - time for a couple of caches
Thanks for bringing me

TFTC gr8 cache... Fav point!

Loved the camo. Very clever and on a lively spot. Tftc

Now that was very clever. Had to duck and dive a bit as people could be heard talking as they came around the corner. Always good to check out the view! Running out of log though.

Easy to find but easy to miss

Out and about on a Sunday morning walk with pogs79. Had no pen to sign but took photo. Great view, tftc

Great location with a wonderful view over Orakei Basin. Clever camo. Thanks The Josh1.

I really don't recommend taking the short cut that I took to this cache. Turned it into a Terrain 5 and quite the adventure that unfortunately included back tracking to find pen and phone that had fallen out of my pocket. Now covered in considerable amounts of mud I re-approached the cache from a more appropriate direction. Physio may be required on knee and shoes will never be the same. Great cache though and took all of 10 seconds to find once I got there.

Out and about here caching up and we decided this was another we wanted to find. Initially we talk the low road and then when MrsJag50 wanted to go bush and climb the steep terrain MrJag50 checked his GPS and suggested we wander a little further to where the low road met the high road. Got to GZ and soon had the cache spotted and log retrieved.

Today was a dot day so decided to come to the Orakei basin to pick up a few caches. Good views from up here! I spotted the likely hidey place quickly but had to get past the many guardians of bugs and spiders to extract the cache TFTC!

Hoooray

Had been looking forward to today all week with another goal in mind to try to grab a few Auckland based caches that "obviously" needed collecting (as it would just be right). So at 4am I met up with RWIMF for a good days caching and an over ambitious plan (Home by 3.30pm). We signed most of these with "RWCD" or some such variation there of.
So today I managed a grand total of 54 finds (only 3DNF's) and plenty of conversation. All I can say for the days activity in Auckland was that traffic was all good till just before 10am and absymal for the rest of the time until we started heading for home so that I could still get some chores done for the day.

Now that we were in the right spot for ease of access we were please to quickly locate this one. On walking to GZ we were glad that we hadn't straight lined it from the previous cache's parking spot. Cache all Good.
Thanks for the placement, thanks for the cache

Now puffing after walking to this cache! being here at 8am on a saturday is a good time, noone is around

I'd received a message from cats & dragons asking if I wanted to do a mission a few weeks ago - he wanted to clean out some new caches in an area he'd cleaned out a few years ago. I'd shrugged and said "sure, but could I have a rain check as I was overseas" at the time.
I arrived back in the country on Monday, and so he had the adventure planned for the following Saturday. I said I'd be happy to start early, as long as it was my early not his - so we negotiated a 4am pick up The good thing was we left Auckland at about 2pm, so was home at a reasonable time.
The good thing about these trips? he has all the caches logged into the GPS, and he gave me a print out, so I could mark them off

Easy one !

Very clever hide. Never been to this place but loved the view. TFTC

Out for a Saturday afternoon adventure picking up some gaps in the eastern suburbs. Tftc. Stunning view

I found the previous cache here, so was pretty sure it wouldnt be a problem.. and it wasnt. Thanks.

There were a couple of muggles standing right at GZ taking photos when we arrived so we stood a little further down the hill admiring the view until they left.
Fortunately we had seen similar camo before so made a quick find but had we not been familiar with this type of cache it could have taken a while. Very cleverly done.
Thanks for bringing us here. Great views.

In my younger days I always wondered what was up here. Thanks for taking me for a walk along this path. TFTC

Out for a walk this morning in the area; great view at this point especially as it was high tide this morning. Nice camo, TFTC.

After completing the Orakei Sea Scouts, I saw this was was near the end of the road. A short stroll, and GPS showed I was close. OH Boy! I obviously chose the wrong path to GZ. Heading up the hill is not advised. There is a longer but easier path to GZ. Once I found the easiest way to get up over the cliff, GZ was in view. I spotted a familiar object. I had found a similar hide last Month in Tokyo. Log signed and replaced before any muggles came along. Then I found a better way back down the hill. TFTC

Millions of ants cache. Tftc

Lovely early afternoon stroll getting to GZ. Thankfully the muggle who had followed all the way up headed into a back garden gate, which meant a quick retrieval was possble. Beautiful view, admired once the cache had been replaced. Streak day 697. TFTC

AT long last the opportunity to get this one. Didn't take me too long as I have a cache that's very similar.
Tftc never walked up here Before.

Beautiful view that I would have never enjoyed without GC

Beautiful location. Nice cache

Unfamiliar with this area and how to get to where the cache was so parked at waterfront. Wrong idea. Ended up bush bashing up the side of the cliff with the 2 geokids - it was a bit of fun though and we made it and soon had the cache in hand. Took the easy way back down. TFTC

Well placed! Enjoyed finding it.

Weird spot though lots of dog poop

Great hiding spot! TFTC

Great hiding spot. Nice view of the basin. Walking around collecting one's around the basin. TFTC

Clean tidy and clever

Found today w the kids.. Unfortunately cache covered in ants and tiny maggots, thankfully the boys didn't mind getting their hands dirty wiping them all off! Cache might need some attention

Was tough but yay our first one

After a visit to the Garden Centre with Mrs Tuo Lei there I was standing on a Sunday morning sidewalk. Decided to stroll up the hill to this little park up the road and walked the line of the path up to the GZ. There's a great view over a former burning ring of fire which is now a pleasant boating area. Didn't get too close to the edge as the last thing I want to do was fall into a burning ring of fire.

Anyway no need to get too close to the edge and a quick look confirmed a good candidate for a hide adn sure enough found. Clever hide, well done. TFTC.

R and B are out for some cacheing today. Beautiful day to be out, unfortunately no water skiers using the ramp we can see in the Orakei Basin. Neighbor muggles having lunch in back yard but plenty of cover for the discrete cacher!

Come to finally drop off a trackable and a GeoKrety we've had for far too long, but sadly they don't fit!!!!! We'll find another good home for them.

Quick find approaching from the correct angle

Cute little cache with great natural camo in my neighbourhood. TFTC!

On a trip to Auckland with Davidson Clan to take part in a Browns Island excursion. Picked this one up while we were out and about. We appreciated the view and the camo but had to make a hasty retreat due to the time of day (maybe before 6am) and the proximity to the neighbours. Cheers TheJosh1

On a road trip with Phillip Perry we made a quick find we were very quiet as this was very close to the neighbours and we didn't want to wake them as it was a hot night they had their windows open. Signed log then retreated back to the van and onto the next cache.
Tftc