The 'I Hate Shopping' Series - BTC #3 - Auckland Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By keylev on 10-Jul-14. Waypoint GC58JTW

Time for this one to go...thanks for finding.

Have you had a chance to check up on this one keylev? We are wanting to try and complete the series

Looks like I need to check on this one...

No luck for us today. Will be back!

Couldn't get to GZ to have a decent look as there were cars parked overhanging GZ. Had a quick squizz but didn't spot anything obvious. I'll come back for another go someday.

Had to hunt around a bit for this one. On our 4 day road trip from Hawkes Bay to Auckland and back collecting as many caches as we can. Signed log as b & p . Tftc. Happy caching

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FITW harisree

ivss_xx doesn't like shopping much, nor does harisree, so after the Geobowling we both went to find this cache. Shops were closed anyway. Win-win!

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An evening visit hoping it would be quieter, still reasonably busy, but a quick easy find. TFTC

Really quick find.

We were heading to Botany for a New Year dinner with extended family, so stopped by BTC to make a quick find of our 'cache of the day' beforehand. The cache was soon found and signed, thanks.

If it wasn't for my sister I probably would not have found this cache. I don't understand how the hint relates. Really dislike geocaches that require poking around bushes. Nevertheless, thanks for the cache!

#10519. I wonder which shopping centre in NZ has the most caches. BTC must be a contender for top spot. TFTC.

After Christmas brunch at sister-in-law's, we decided to head to nearby Botany Town Centre to look for a few caches while the area was deserted.
It took a few looks in a few different places before we got the right place - and here it was a quick find. TFTC.

Quick find early morning after dropping off the better half to work down the road. Not alot of ppl around which suited me. T4TC

The sense of humour finally slipped on this one after a muggle store worker came back to his car. So we went home.

A group of us had finished helping out show a youth group the ropes about geocaching and were at a bit of a loose end so decided to locate some caches around the area....
We had just found another in the series and decided to head over to this one.... prickly little blighter this was but luckily the find was made without too many jabs from the protecting bush.
Sorry for the late logging, it appears to have slipped through not being logged and thought this series was all but completed.

TFTC keylev.

Headed out to Botany this evening to find another cache in this series with Mr HeMaLuDy, Mr Stik-a-crane and Mr NZTravellers. After finding that one, we headed off for refreshments, and then I mentioned that I hadn't found another couple of the series, and very cheekily asked for a hint, as I had DNF'd this cache a couple of times now. Very kindly, they offered to accompany me (Mr Stik-a-crane also hadn't found this one), and so off we headed.
We were busily talking as we walked, so at first walked right past it. Once we sorted ourselves out, though, we got to GZ and began searching.... and continued searching..... hmmmmm, searching like this in this spot seems to be familiar!!!! It was a bit prickly, so our hunting was interspersed with the occasional "ouch", but then it turned out that the final retrieval didn't need to be quite as prickly as we were making it!!!! Whew!
Was very glad to finally have got this cache found- with a little help from my friends!
TFTC keylev

Not too ouchy as I recced it first.
TFTC

Yay! Hidden gem through the prickles

This took some careful landmark alignment. And looking odd rummaging around the side of the road. Success in the end though. TFTC

Ouch, ouch, ouch, got it, ouch ouch ouch. Boy that was a prickly search

Just staying over the road at the Waldorf so thought we would head out and do some local caches. Nice quick find as the cache was quite exposed. Put it back a bit more discreetly!! TFTC.

Shame....no sign of a cache here.....

I have a hate hate relationship with shopping malls - way too many people to feel comfortable. However with this many caches up for grabs I just had to make the effort. Quite successful as it turns out.

oh what a relief to find this one easily, after burning our brains for BTC#2 tftc.

Running out of ways to say DNF tonight. Almost wish I hadn't found the one in the series that I did so I could have a nice round 0 for the lot. I think I'm better at shopping. Oh well, home to bed and to lick my wounds.

Hint helped here and soon had the container spotted. SL TFTC

My gps was a little out on this one and I started to feel a little conspicuous even in my hi viz vest so I looked a little further and there it was TFTC

Thought it may be a good day to knock off a few more of these, but this was the only one muggle free.

TFTC

After my work meetings were done for the day I had time to go and find a few caches. Found this one in the first place I looked. TFTC, Biggles.

A quick find here for me tonight after 10 pin bowling . . . . . . .Master SethRaven stayed in the car where it was warm and my non caching friend grabbed this one . . . . .TFTC and I will have to return another time to grab all the others laid out here.

Felt very conspicuous but found it quickly, thank goodness!

It had fallen into the ground but nice quick find

Nice quick find

Tftc!

First cache! Exciting !

Not fun in the dark!

A tough find plus we were in the dark! Heading out on a mission tonight!

Check the Auckland Geocache page will post competitions.

Tough find

Had a quick look but cars parked everywhere at GZ and a fair few people wandering around so I didn't dare stay too long. Will have to try come back, although this hunt made me very itchy!!!

quick find on early morning hunt. TFTC

TFTC - a quick start to our day

Yay. Good spotting by master 9

A day out shopping with the relations, left them at one of the entrances while we did some of the caches around the car park.
We noticed a car drive slowly passed as we were searching, only to see them a little while later a father & young son who were also caching.
Thanks for placing this cache keylev

Headed out for a few caches after the Pre Bowling Workout with vamber, Yorkshirekiwi83 and UncleSamNZ who watched amusingly while we all searched. Didn't take long at all before we came up with the goods, TFTC!

Grabbed this cache with mike-miss and yorkshirekiwi83 after the pre-geobowling event, while UncleSamNZ stood at the sidelines and laughed at us finding the cache. Luckily we weren't the source of his amusement for too long, as the cache was soon found. Thanks for the hide!

Had some time between the pre-bowling event and the bowling event, so headed out with vamber and mike-miss with UncleSam laughing at us as well. Thankfully it was a quick find by vamber and we continued on to the next.

Gosh hard to look stealthily for this one. Sneaky! Tftc

Our #16 cache of the day. On a birthday cache raid in Botany town centre.
Decided to take a walk around the shopping centre collecting caches, while mum and sis where doing some shopping. As we searched something caught our eye. Sure enough there's the cache.

Liking the series so far TFTC

Stealth is required as its by a busy road. Nive cache.

Thorny surroundings but found with ease

Nice cache. Not too difficult but hard not to look suspicious!

Off to the Puzzled??? event up the road with garball and arrived early enough to do a few caches. Had a look at this one first but a car was parked really close, came back after finding #4 in the series and then because we knew what we were looking for this one was a quick find.
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Picked casaba3 up early enough for your Puzzled??? event keylev in the hopes of finding a few caches beforehand. This turned out to be one of those. Had parked at event carpark and walked over this way and actually passed this one first but as casaba3 said, a car was parked particularly close (like in the bushes!). On our way back we passed again and casaba3 saw it straight away. Thanks for adding to our fun today keylev.

I thought I'd do a quick walk around and grab the caches at the shopping centre while Mrs TF was doing her best to ensure that the local retailers recession was over. Thanks.

Nice cache, thanks!

Early on Labour Day, a chance to look for these without too many people around. Tftc

Between getting over the smell of urine, muggles leaving and traffic passing by I quickly retrieved the log, signed it and replaced it.
TFTC

After the mini cachers had tried ice skating for the first time nearby, we headed to the shops for them to spend their holiday money - and pick up a few caches along the way. A reasonably quick find. TFTC.

Kids found it while I was getting petrol!

Was over the road doing some shopping at Kmart and thought we'd grab a couple of these BTC caches. Nice one

Thanks for the cache mate! Pretty quick find on a very windy afternoon!

Had a fair bit of shopping to do at BTC so did a cache/shop combo. Cache before the shops opened then the shopping.

Fluffed around at this one. Reassessed the situation and soon came up trumps. Phew.

TFTC.

Out and about geocaching while everyone was out shopping, thanks for # 3 and our first in the BTC series, TFTC.

Omg. This one took longer than it should have. I looked high and low for this one. Even called the co to confirm I had the right green thing. Lifted my eyes a bit and there it was.

Plenty of convienant parking at this hide. Took a few minutes to get the right angle to spot the cache. Plastic bag is already had it. Cheers for the cache placement! Off to the next!

I just had a few minutes to grab this one, but that's all I needed. TFTC.

Our 400th find! TFTC. Off for a beer to celebrate!

We had just finished a nearby cache where we had bumped into CODEHill and drove to this one where we again bumped into CODEHill. This was their 4th find. WELL DONE GUYS. Miss NZTravellers did the honours and we were on our way. TFTC

Nice quick find which is just as well with so many muggles around! TFTC

Surprisingly difficult to spot at night, but got there in the end after I'd been rained on for a few minutes. Then I dropped the cap into the undergrowth so spent longer looking for that than it took to sign the log. {FTF} #1614 TFTC!!!

As said before (BTC#2) FMZ found this a short while before me but he walked back to this one with me so I could sign it too as 2nd to find! Thanks keylev for the neat little series! It was great fun, now I can go home and have a sleep-in. [|)]

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