The 'I Hate Shopping' Series - BTC #4 - Auckland Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By keylev on 18-Jul-14. Waypoint GC593AM

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

Looks like I need to take a look at this one....

Nothing here for me either. May be time for the CO to check up on this one?

Oh dear....no find for me tonight...think I'd rather be shopping !
Shame they all closed !

Why would you hide one in leaves. If it's in the tree it's gone.

Whoops

Quick find

Found it. TFTC! Send my brother in to find it.

Tree mendous find

Once again... another find by my sister. I doubted we were going to find this due to all the soggy leaf litter. This was hidden conveniently, but I think a hint would have been generous. Thanks for the cache!

#10518. We had to work hard for some of the series; good to have the odd quick find as well. 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.
This was a very quick find for me - StreetWalker hadn't even got out of the car, so I brought the log book back to him for signing. TFTC.

I had some last minute Christmas shopping to do so thought I'd brave the crowds at Botany, but surprisingly this car park was pretty much empty so the ideal opportunity to pick up this cache at the same time... bonus! TFTC!

This would have been one of the quickest finds I have ever had. Didn't have a pen on me to write in the logbook

Another for the day while out and about. T4TC

Quick find on a night out caching TFTC

We were passing by so I thought I'd check this cache again. I think the replacement has disappeared? Last time the canister was hanging off some fishing line but that's not there anymore. We spotted a canister wedged on the tree but I think that's the old one since the log wasn't new.

Found a couple days ago with fleye. Took us ages searching through the bush but the hiding place is actually quite visible.

First find! I thought it would be hilarious to put something strange in there haha

Loved the pink hair

TFTC. I know I wasn't the first to find but the space was there on the new log so I had to use it eh!

Replacement cache left.

Happy caching!

Couldn't find anything. We were a team of four searching for 25 minutes in total.

I looked and looked and all I found was a piece of fishing line hanging from a tree an thought I wander if it has been muggled...

After a couple of DNFs it was satisfying to find this straight away. Luckily Mrs beconaze got hooked on a tree just at the right moment to see it. TFTC

Mrs beconaze had some business to attend to at the shops & as the beconazes only cache together Mr beconaze had to come shopping before we could go caching. Business over we made a quick find of this one. Approached from Te Irrirangi Road side and as Mrs beconaze was walking through the trees she got snagged and lifted her head up right at the correct time to see the cache

I headed over to this area trying to track down some shoes that Pukekohe was unable to supply.... Parked up nearby and had the whole parking area to myself... located GZ quickly and made an equally quick find...could have been more difficult than it was but lucky I have height on my side...

TFTC.

Just staying over the road at the Waldorf so thought we would head out and do some local caches. Once we got on the right side it was a nice easy find. TFTC

Initially we were approaching from the wrong side. and gave up when a group of muggles started playing tricks with us. Then got it easily when we approached from the right side. tftc

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.

07:43 - #31 i was doing deliveries in the area and I thought why not go Geocaching considering the traffic home is so crap, hell I'll go find a few since there so many around here...

I found this fairly simple... I'm glad I didn't need to rummage thru all those bushes... I found it in the first one I looked thru...

TFTC e)

The only other find before Geobowling. Only two more in this series to go but they will have to wait for another day. TFTC.

See? I told you I was struggling tonight! Not a single whiff of it for me here. Will need to come back in the daylight I think. Hrmph.

Out n about with miss picking up a few out East

TFTC

Another good find in this series.

SL TFTC

GPS was spot on, parked right next to it and found quickly. Nice hide

After my work meetings were done for the day I had time to go and find a few caches. It took a little while for my GPS to settle here but when it did it didn't take long to spot the cache. TFTC, Biggles.

Carefully considered the likely hide, before slipping in and making a quick find.

TFTC

Nice easy find in a secret little glade.

Found it with cindyj85

Quick find once at the right place

Got to GZ and thought I was in for a bit of hunting, but luckily found it quite quickly. Nice quick smile, TFTC!!!

Nice quick early morning find

Not too much traffic around great
TFTC

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.
Thi cache was soon located in its hiding spot.
Thanks for placing this cache keylev

Tftc. Nice hiding spot without many muggles.

Nice easy find. Thanks!

Found by master 8. Tftc

Our #18 cache of the day. On a birthday cache raid in Botany town centre.
A nice little hide, out of the site of muggles.

Parked right in front of it yet still walked all the qay around to the other side of the path. Thanks for the cache. ☺

Convenient parking

Off to the keylev Puzzled??? event up the road with garball and arrived early enough to do a few caches, so had to get a couple of keylev caches. This one was relatively straightforward when we steered away from the flax bushes!! thanks for the hide keylev.
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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. Picked the difficult way to GZ as GPSr changed it mind a bit about where that was. Did find it though. Don't hate shopping myself but don't love it either - would much rather be caching. Thanks for placing keylev.

OUt collecting a few caches at lunch time before my next meeting. Found convenient parking not too far away and quickly made the discovery. Nice hide

thanks for the placement

Yay we gound it not easy were you dont expect it just keep an open eye

I love shopping but I also like geocaching so no shopping got done here, quick find, tftc

Awesome place even thoght the sign did ask people to stay out of the trees/bushes.

A dog walk, pop to the shop and a quick cache. Excellent. TFTC.

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 easy find tftc

Easy find, thanks!

Nice quick find for us while baby slept in the car. TFTC.

First find! Such excite, tftc (:

Good hide

Found together with Zarik the babaric just a bit of relaxing after a busy day, thank you for the Cache
TFTFC

This was a quicker one. Tftc

Nicely camouflaged. Was filling in time while my wife was having her nails done.

Quick find before heading off to the next.
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.

Managed to find this one after much rummaging in all the wrong places. When I stopped to think I realised there was only really 3 options of location and in the 3rd place I found it.

Carried on with Vamber to this cache before heading on over to Nando's http://coord.info/GC5AP4Y for dinner. A nice quick find here too, TFTC!

We had a bit of time to spare before the Geobowling event, and a few caches in the area that we haven't yet picked up, so decided to go for a bit of a stroll. We were joined by mike-miss who we bumped into at a previous find for the evening. A quick find, TFTC! Now time for dinner!

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

Started looking in one place and nope, no luck. Decided this wasn't probably quite GZ. Surveyed the scene, decided to relocate and hey presto, there it was. TFTC.

With Mrs NZTravellers working away down south it was Mr and Miss NZTraveller's turn to do the shopping. After the shopping we thought we could knock off the remaining caches here. Miss NZTtavellers found the cache even before we were out of the car which was lucky as it was raining. TFTC

Easy find a bit away from people (relatively speaking) TFTC

No retail therapy for us, or for anyone else, all quiet at GZ cos hardly any shoppers parked here at #4, TFTC.

I followed my GPSr, but then found a much easier way to the cache. TFTC.

Nice quick find. I love hiding in the bushes

Made my way here from #5 and parked up close to GZ. Again I followed my cachers instinct and was soon signing the log. All good here. Cheers for the cache placement!

It's about 7pm I suppose, I have finished work on Chapel Rd, time to have some fun caching on my way home out west, what's to hate about shopping! - just been shopping at New World for a few bottles of wine, look forward to those after a few more caches going home. Took me a few minutes to locate this one! But got there in the end. Thanks.

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Another nice quick find and a very surprising FTF! Yay! No muggles around which was also nice. TFTC