Kindergarten (Auckland) Takanini, North Island, New Zealand
By Agazo on 19-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5B3AD

I am leaving the area and couldn't find anyone to adopt this caches, so I am archiving it.

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My cousins and I found it but while searching for the cache my cousins thought it was up in a tree or it was buried but we just had to have a good look for it. Lol but time to make dinner

Dammm this one got me and it was only my first one I found

First one found damm that was hard #WellHidden

This was both frustrating and fun.

Well hidden can’t wait to find more

My first find

We parked on the motorway and headed on foot to GZ....just kidding.
We parked more sensibly and felt a bit conspicuous on our way to GZ as there may have been curious eyes watching us from the nearby houses.
Fortunately we made a quick find and disguised our activities as shoelace maintenance.
Interesting location. Thanks Agazo.

A bit of scrambling to find this one

Another great find

Pick this one up on the way home
Nice easy find

Tftc nice wee hide found with abcdf4

Continuing my afternoon of caching. Nice quick find, covered a little beter with some bark, TFTC

Found it

Find number 5569. Some time ago I called on this one but I went away empty handed. Passing by so thought I would have another look. This time I made a quick find. So it was signed and I did not have to ask a small child for help. Thank you for the placement.

Took my niece and nephews for their very first Geo-find and they absolutely loved the hunt. Beautiful day for a find. Tftf.

Time for another wander round while my wife stays with some friends in Pukekohe. This was day 2 where I was torn between getting numbers or clearing an area. In either case I managed to pick up this cache and everything is all good here, TFTC

Was fruitless , then spotted at the correct angle where I thought it should be

TFTC

Nice and pleasant find before the rain. BTW this is my 100th find of CO. Thanks Agazo! Much appreciated your efforts.

So loud here, despite sound insulation. MADNESS! Nice hide, I saw it from standing in front of its hiding spot, I must have had a good angle. Sorry, I think I broke the rusty clump ...
TFTC

TFTC

Found this while testing out our GPS for geocaching. Nice little cache

Thanks for the cache

A quick and easy find. Cheers

We are on our way back south now. A quick trip, so not much time for caching.

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

Even though this one is close to my house, I haven't checked on it for some time. When I stopped by today, the cache was indeed missing, so I replaced it with a pill bottle.

Had a reasonably good look here but nothing stood out and we had to walk away empty handed. Will come back again another time.

A group of us were nearby for a CITO event and having picked the park clean walked down here to get some more rubbish and to come and look for this cache. Got the park and found some rubbish, not too much but I didn't see a kindergarten, or even any kinder for that matter.

One of my travelling companions found this one, I was looking in the wrong place - they signed me in to the log. Cache is well placed and in good condition thanks. Thanks for the cache.

Found while collecting rubbish at the CITO event down the road. Wasn't too much rubbish in the park for us to collect so we wandered down the road to this cache and collected rubbish along the way. A group of muggles were outside their home and thanked us for doing a great job!

Went looking for this one as I'd seen the fences had been removed around the cache. ....arrived at GZ and all was quiet which meant for a pleasant search.
Soon located, signed in and cache returned.

TFTC.
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My daily Cache for today. Quick stop and quick find!
I think the word Kindergarten Comes from Germany, it is absolutely the same
Thanks for hiding!

Fencing now cleared away. Easy first cache find for me

Despite the area still being under construction, Aiden29 and I spied a way in, walked through knee high grass and after a short search Aiden spied the cache tucked away in it's hiding spot

Even though the area was fenced off, all was quiet at GZ, so we found a way in and traipsed though knee high grass. After a search I finally spied seomthing and on closer inspection it was the cache, still tucked away.

There is no access to GZ as it is fenced off and there are 'under construction' signs.

Needed to find a cache today in order to continue my daily streak, as required by my current GIO Licence stage. Decided to go for something other than a GROTTY today (laughed at that one after finding the cache ) and was heading out to Bunnings with Mr NewlynFam for supplies, so we decided to detour here on the way. Read the cache page as we went and had a bit of a laugh
Were initially a bit worried about the fences and barriers, but snuck in anyway as it appeared that there was no-one around, being as it was a Saturday. Got to GZ and picked a spot each, and it was Mr NewlynFam who came up trumps.
Cache replaced, and out we snuck, to continue on our way to Bunnings (big mistake- we spent waaaay too much )
TFTC Agazo- this was day #48 of 50.... only two days to go!!!

#3231. Today I headed out around the city to pick up quite a few challenge caches and any other traditional caches that happened to be nearby. Caching on a public holiday is useful as the traffic is quite light in the city and most businesses were all closed. After doing a few caches in Onehunga, I headed down the motorway to Wattle Downs. I parked near this cache and noticed the work fences that blocked access to the cache. After reading a few logs it seemed there is still a way in. There were no workers on site today so found the opening and headed over to the GZ. It was a nice quick find. Signed the log and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for hiding it here. P.S. enjoyed reading the description with the similarity between kindergarten learning and geocaching.

Nice fairly quick find on New Years Day ! Access was a bit tricky ! Cute Placement !
Had just done a fun group kayaking cache .....So had to wind down on the way home !

12.45pm - This weekend was going to be all about cache numbers.
With a semi plan made the squirrel and I hit the roads around south Auckland.
Also along the way a few puzzles that we had solved we collected.
Also one puzzle with a starting point at certain address which we have passed numerous times we thought we could wing this and find it.
Much to our delight we got it. great haul of caches this weekend ,and some very interesting locations.
A couple of misses and with some areas cordoned off we missed a couple more.
All in all a successful weekend. SLTFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)... In Auckland for a weekend of caching... It's all about the numbers, baby!!!

This one is difficult to approach these days. Ground zone is completely fenced off by roading contractors... Gap found a narrow opening in the fence and we managed to sneak through to make the find. TFTC.

Nice little open area. Just over the fence from a friends house. All intact. TFTC

Extremely satisfying find after 3 DNFs! Tftc!! Found by Amy

Another nice quick find after taking longer than should have on a nearby challenge and failing on a multi. Geocaching mana now back in the positive. TFTC

Enjoyed a little walk in the park in a quiet area to find this one. Found all intact. TFTC.

Joined up with yorkshirekiwi83 today to tackle some South Auckland caches and after a busy morning of caching we decided to continue with the ever growing Grotty series. A quick find here while working on the Grotty caches, TFTC!

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Thank goodness, broke a streak of 3 DNFs ( which I don't log, in case I haven't looked hard enough)
TFTC

To continue our current streak we needed a close cache so in the time between school finishing and guitar lessons we headed to kindergarten to find a cache. Nice quick find in a park we didn't know about before now. Found with purply and darthcacher1.

Had some Christmas tree related business in Takanini this morning, so came early to avoid the worst of the traffic and make a couple of morning cache finds. Liked the nice secure cache holder at GZ. Thanks.

Last find on our way hm. Glad I had kids with me their 'LOOK'ing skills were much better than mine. TFTC

Needed a cache for a dot day and were heading down to friends in Papakura, so this cache fit the bill nicely. Pretty flowering rododendrons as we walked to GZ. Miss NZT made the find quickly and off to dinner we went. TFTC!

Nice quick find. My parents have lived in conifer grove for many many years, so it's nice to start doing done of the local caches!

Nice hide, had to do a little bit of searching TFTC and greetings from Czech Republic!

Quick find at GZ ... such a lovely day to be and about. T4tc

wondered about the GPS telling me to stop on the motorway, common sense kicked in and the more sensible parking spot was used

Another great find on a geocaching holiday in the area.
Thanks for setting up this cache.

Nice to get this one found quickly.
SL

Just a gentle caching day today, not even double figures but a couple of earth caches and a few traditionals to balance things out. With mrs capperz heading to the airport later this arvo it was decided upon for a quick trip out to Muriwai for a look see, then to Botanical Gardens (too late in the season as it turns out) the to the airport. Much driving around seeing stuff and mostly not caching but plenty of fun.
Before airport run a chance to grab some southerly minute ccahes S36 degrees 2 minutes, 3 minutes and 4 minutes. This was one of another 3 unique caches I wanted towards a 400 minute Challenge cache I'm chasing.
Q E F here, signed and replaced, all good here
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In the area to collect some stuff and this one geocache. TFTC

Found with our geo-grandaughters. TFTC

Just doing a little caching in the dark with beconaze. Had a few insects dive bombing us as we hunted. Nice location. TFTC

Came back here with Onawe after the CITO event. We were in the area logging our 7 plus a day. Took a few mins finding by torchlight on the cellphones. There was a moment of uh-oh when the neighbours across the park looked like they were onto us and illuminated us in the headlights of their car, but as it turns out they had some visitors that were just leaving for the night, hadn't seen us at all. Phew

Came up from rotorua to see if we could find your other cache deseirata staying at my sisters just around the corner from here so thought we would give this a go as practice the kids were excited as the log sheet was empty they thought this was the one we came up for had to explain no it's a replacement log as the other one was muggled hopefully we get to find the other.
Tftc

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 02.753 E 174° 54.846

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 02.739 E 174° 54.874

Distance from original: 160.4 feet or 48.9 meters.
Yes, it was muggled. I placed a new cache and decided to move the cache a little from its original location.

Thanks for the quick fix. The beconazes will be back again soon for the smiley

Looked for this one a few times now. As a relatively new cacher I blamed my searching but still no success. My blind look or has it gone?

Mrs Beconaze has been here in the past and has sighted the cache. Return back with both of us to log the find to find it now missing or it has been moved. Pretty sure it has been muggled

Tftc nice easy find with Chanellewaru dlindsay485

Tftc found with Evamaison and Dlindsay485 creative hide

Found this a month ago with my mum

Was out grabbing random caches that werent around the first time I was in the area,

Didnt park on the motorway and found the cache quickly, only concern was being tall enough to get to cache, bit of a jump and soon had cache in hand. TFTC

I must have learnt something all those years ago as I was able to quickly locate the cache.

Skiving of work today in-between jobs, I needed a small break and came by this way to see this cache. I love the theme of this! Kindergarten Drive with a cool story behind it. Certainly if we all applied these ethics in all areas of our lives, the world wouldn't be such a mess! The cache is certainly robust Agazo, thanks for that and bringing me here.

Last one for the night. Tftc

We headed out this evening for a few local finds and this one was nice and easy. TFTC!

#6074. After lunch, we came to stop by Kindergarten Drive to have a short walk to GZ. The reserve was quiet today. Quick find. Nice hide. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log. Thanks for the cache.

Was out this way for work. Had a few minutes spare so went hunting.

Thankfully I got to the park just minutes after the lawn guy was there.

Very quick find but crafty.

Good hide. Tftc

I had to drop a colleague off at the airport and had some time after that to go and do some caches south from there. Nice one! I found the safe parking place and after a short wander to GZ, I found the cache. A good and clever hide too. I also liked the listing with the geocaching and kindergarten comparison, sort of make you think too. TFTC, Biggles.

Found it in the end! Tftc

Quick and easy find tftc

Èasy find nice bright container cool hiding place

This one has annoyed me a few times as I have passed on the motorway, so nice to knock it off.

TFTC

Another dot day to fill in so I phoned Move Star and said I would take her out to do a few around our little city. I quickly spied this one so made Move Star spot it too. LOVED THIS HIDE. TFTC

Out doing some today with SethRaven. Like this one very creative. TFTC

Took us a couple of goes for this one! Got there in the end, great hide!

Got to visit this cache with Mart_10 twice today. How Lucky. While I knew we were looking micro this was my first find of this kind. We would have been back here a third time if we hadn't of bumped into SethRaven in Bruce Pulman park, where she gave this newbie a helpful hint. TFTC.

I had to take my cachemobile south to Takanini for a bit of maintenance which didn't take long so had a couple of hours to kill so decided to pick up the odd cache.

I spotted this one from 10m away though anyone who wasn't a cacher wouldn't know it was there.

Cheers for the cache.

Pleased we went to the local kindy to work this one out. Nice hide. TFTC.

Out and about after work this afternoon for some caching. After fuelling up the auto nearby I made my way to GZ. Parked up and after a short walk spotted the attachment on approach for a super quick find. Cheers for the cache placement!

Passing by the area today, so stopped in to make a quick find. TFTC.

Out and about with avoyager today and this was a nice quick park, wander and grab. Many thanks for placing this cache

A quick find after 55 Pace Run up once I figured out there was a motorway in the road between the two destinations. A great little hide - haven't seen one of these in ages. I really enjoyed reading your ten commandments of kindergarten and geocaching. Thanks for the effort. Plenty of additional treasure to be found from the motorway detritus - today's big find was a number plate.

Oh I like it! Mr F was faster than me finding it but we had fun.
We also wondered what that netted backyard was, perhaps a place for batting practice?

As this was a day for needing yet another cache it was only right that back to kindergarten I went, didn't need to spend too long here as soon graduated with flying colours so now off to primary school

Thanks for the placement

Sorry to all the people who expected a FTF and ended up with a DNF. I have replaced the attachment method with something more robust, so it should not have the same problem as before. Still be careful.

Didn't attempt this yesterday as I had too much else on and it's not really in my catchment area. When I saw it had been fixed, I was tempted to go for the FTF, but it felt a bit wrong since others had been to GZ before me and had to DNF through no fault of their own, so I settled Mini McA down for a nap and made lunch and gave others the chance to return. After lunch, and with Mrs McA taking a nap after a morning in the garden, and with no logs, I thought, well someone needs to be FTF! So I went for a drive. Parked next to the motorway and jumped the fence. Made a very quick find at GZ in a lovely bit of green-land. Not surprised and actually not that disappointed this time to find slieschke's name already in the log. Second to find. Nicely hidden.

P.s. Only joking about the parking!

Published

Ack! Seeing as this hadn't been logged I went to visit; saw the hide immediately as I reached GZ and reached in. As soon as I did its attachment failed and the cache either needs to be either considered lost, or now of difficulty 5 - sorry!

We obviously visited this cache after slieschke but before he logged his DNF. We thought we knew where it was (seemed the obvious place) but no.... Widened the search, spent ages looking but eventually gave up! Now we know it was where we were looking but unreachable!!! Best we go have some Warm cookies and cold milk after our DNF!

Looked for a good while with my young cacher but unable to locate.

Saw this had been updated once after church so I made my way down for a second visit. Didn't need any GPSr to get to GZ this time, and spotted the hide even further out thanks to the more robust attachment. Hopefully there won't be any problems with this one!

Opened it up to find a blank log. Unless version 1 did get found yesterday scored a quick (FTF) here.

As I made my way back to my car noticed an interesting backyard with a huge netted area outside the back of the house, I wonder what that was all about. Got back to the road an old fellow had just walked up his driveway and was standing about. Half wondered if he was wondering what I had been upto. Well I guess he's know going to get to do a lot more wandering!

Thanks, and also for promptly replacing it!