Uncle Brians memorial cache. Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By G-2 on 26-Sep-14. Waypoint GC5CVX5

Was this a positive experience with nothing negative to say about it, or a negative experience with nothing positive to say about it? All I know is that I keep going back and forth on it about 50 times a second.

New log

tfth bit wet no swag lucky had something to put in

Rock on

Cool,

Plenty of spiders! TFTC

Thanks

Great hide - was a bit wet but not sure why as seems like it should be waterproof.

Amazing

TFTC! Saw a lot of bugs on the cache so did not touch and sign. Thanks for the pleasant walk!

TFTC Too many bugs to log

Had to tackle a few creepy crawlers but got there in the end

We walk this island

So ez

Found a real and fake spider

had to battle some ants! TFTC

Nice quick find

Quick find on a windy walk out to the point. Watched the swans desperately trying to fly into the wind. Tftc

Just as we got to this cache, it really started to rain. We ducked under some trees nearby, and after it finished we were able to locate the cache. Thanks for the hide.

Found on the walk around our motel. Thank you for the cache.

Too easy

Tftc. It doing the ad lab and picking up some geos also

Great clue good fun

Im visiting family in Auckland and today my husband was going to a site visit nearby, so decided it was the perfect opportunity to find some caches here. Another easy find and again, no sign of the previous finder. There were signs that the cache container hadnt been moved in some time. Bit damp inside but ok with the inner. Tftc

Super quick find and a nice sized cache. Log is dry. Thanks

#473Sorry to hear about the passing of someone close to you. RIP Uncle Brian. Cache was wet inside, but I tipped the water out and it should be OK now.

Nice

The rain is so that means geocaching! There are a few in the island so hoping to smash out them all! Armed with raincoats, trail shoes, some swappables, 3 pens (as I like to lose them) and a friend!

Thanks to COs for placing and maintaining!

Nice spot!

TFTC! Found with DVNKSY

We found this one while out on a morning run before our flight home. We didn't have a pen sorry. We were surprised to see a cyclist out on a road bike. It was pretty wet and muddy and the person was slightly splattered.

Found with billy.777. TFTC

Brian bringing the goods

Fun find with rustynz, thanks

Tftc

Spotted the hiding place as we approached, then spotted a very interesting, very big and fat spider hanging out just above it.

Nice one Uncle Brian

Nice quick find here, no pen today as came out to do the ad lab and we are horrible at planning & multi tasking

Medium, cyclists

Got it after a bit of searching.

TFTC CZ

Jup and I were doing the Puketutu Island adventure lab, and we ended up turning around here after 2 out of 3 stages because of the puddles just ahead. We had skipped many caches in the first half of the hike, so we still had some on the way back.

Hubby spotted this from the track before I got to GZ so I covered it up a bit better after I had signed the log. TFTC

Snel gevonden

Found with toby84

Quick spot and sign. Found with Reny90

A nice wander round parts of the island today doing some of the adventure lab and grabbing a few caches along the way. We will definitely be back with our bikes in tow next time. A nice quick find here today, had to be discreet with all the passing cyclists. Tftc

Found in the obvious spot. Nice walk this morning. Tftc

A few hours to kill before having to pick up my daughter at Auckland Airport so headed over to Puketutu Island. Arrived at car park and absolutely poured down. After sitting in car for 15 minutes it cleared and managed to get around the southern part dry and grabbing caches and the Ad Labs. A quick find. Thanks for the cache

Rocky find !

I appreciated this find and how you honored someone special to you. Nice to be a part of that.

Found it while on a walk on Saturday (9-7-22) night.
Had located it when we were in level 3 while I was doing the adventure lab.
But didn't touch it due to the level restrictions.
Finally got to get back and fill out the log.
Thanks G-2

After spending a few minutes admiring the view and waiting out the weekend walkers, this was a great find

I liked the sentiment and the location of the cache. Tftc

Log edited and resubmitted to ensure it qualifies for the current souvenir challenge.

After getting soaked in the Coromandel this morning, I decided to cut my losses and head back to AKL. I had 2 hours before I need to get the hire car back, so headed here for the AL and an "Unfinished Business" challenge cache nearby. I then discovered this little series so how could I refuse?

This one was easy! .TFTC G_2, another good one.

TFTC

Another easy find on a v windy bike ride - tftc

I spent the morning looking after the Grandkids while their parents worked from home. I dropped the kids off at daycare in time to have lunch then sleeps and set off to get todays geocaching targets.

I was hoping to grab a few puzzles, get the last two TMGT caches and head out towards the airport in plenty of time to collect my son at 6.30pm.

I was pleased as I achieved my goals and got 24 finds plus 2 labs for the day.

I parked up at 3.30pm and hoped I'd have enough time to do both sides of the island before dark. Got back from the other side at 4.30 and headed off this way after moving the car out incase I wasn't back before the gates got locked at 5.30. This was as far out as I went on this side. I was feeling a bit tired of walking and time was getting along. Thanks for the powerful memorial cache for your Uncle Brian

A cute find - indeed stay positive and you’ll find what you seek

Quite a big cache. Hard to hide as muggles were coming past real fast

Found it beautiful day for a walk 3/4/22

Quick find, but during my walk I got so into the zone I walked past it. Luckily that coincided with someone coming the other way, which meant that my turnaround allowed me to grab the cache unobserved. Thank!

Needed to get out and about today, and going bush was not really an option, so headed over to this area as it had been a while since my last visit.....
Parked near by and broke out the bike for a quick ride around the area....
TFTC.

Digi camo! Woohoo!

Just about got muggled here. Spotted the biker just before picking it up, so waited for him to move on. He was to take photos at two other spots where caches were on the way out, so looked for them on the return. TFTC G2, all good.

Bit of a wet walk but need to get to the end.

A not so mad day caching,.. but I certainly benefited! Out with Keylev and NZTravellers again. As they have all gotten most of the caches in this area, it was up to be to play catchup to these 2. They were feeling extremely charitable and I wasn't going to pass the opportunity up. Sure they used me for cache maintenance labour, but as long as I get to sign the logs, I don't very much care

Quick find. TFTC

Out on a GC bike tour today to boost out numbers and clean up this area.
TFTC

More power to you Uncle Brian.
Thanks.

Our last find on a great ride and cache finding trip!

Found ot

This is one of those caches that could be found by intuition, as it was I used the GPS/phone and the cache was easily found. I'm miffed with myself that I never had a search for the 2 disabled ones out this way, just in case they were still there.

Our weekend plans of a ride out to Raglan were put on hold as our son and his family needed to head down to Auckland due to family reasons and we were able to put them up for the weekend. With uncertainty around what we were doing for the Saturday I put aside any caching plans and awaited the outcomes. We ended up going to the CITO, I then got to hang out with CyclicalCaching and his partner for one path around part of the island, then around the other way with alunb. Managed to get quite a few of the caches around here before a trip out to Sylvia Park for some retail therapy.

**13,974**
Thanks Glynn for a nice tribute cache to Uncle Brian - we have enjoyed finding his caches over the years. RIP Uncle Brian - TFTC

Solid Sunday caching continues

Yes

Great find of the day left a jandel notepad.

Another good cache on the trail. Some earth moving vehicles were close but out of our sight. Logged the cache and dropped a TB as it looked safe and clean. Thanks CO for the cache.

Quick find with nzanz in the fading light. Tftc

Easiest find of the night but covered in ants!

ok

After a not-this-year-Mega-weekend, where we had gone to the tribute cache, chased crayons for a morning, found challenge caches, found TMGT caches, today was a bit of a Mangere and Puketutu hangout day.
We have typically signed as mrandmrschosen1978 or occasionally MM78.
Tftc

Full log to come

Last day in Auckland for some of our Southland group, checked out of accommodation, had breakfast nearby, still time to grab some caches, concentrating not too far from the airport... no missing planes for us!
A Puketutu Island adventure on the cards so we headed off to find some caches and complete an AdLab.
Nice walk along the track, wish I hadda donned some sunscreen! Quick find, the geosenses working well today tftc

Came out to do the adventure lab and tick off some regular caches as well.

A nice find with some things to entertain the assistant.

Log signed as Bruno and Dad

TFTC

Nice and easy find along the trail.

Thanks!

Nice day to go out with geo mates for a walk.
Thanks for these...
Easy with hint.

A little damp but no damage. Thanks!

Cool place, back tracking now

Having a great time going for a bike ride. TFTC

Ouch the rock bit me, slipped putting it back.

Uncle Brian's cache was a swimming pool so we emptied it all out and dried the log for a while. We did everything in our power to help.

First find by miss 5 ever

Easy

Tftc. This is a beautiful place. We are glad geocaching is helping us explore out city.

Totally enjoying our wander along here. Glad we chose this place to come. Easily found. Tftc

Quick easy find but still ended up with ants crawling over my feet & up my legs! Unfortunately no log to sign so grabbed a photo of cache container itself instead. Nice walk or bike around these ways - quite a few taking advantage today. Thanks for placing.

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In Auckland for a few days for my daughters wedding this afternoon. Before she announced her wedding date, I had planned to get at least 96 caches of various types sizes and D/T ratings etc. to get my find numbers up to 101 and as my other leap day achievemnets as possible. However once she anoounced leap day as her wedding day I had to pare back my goals for the day to just finding 21 caches as quick as I could first thing in the morning. I chose this area for the concentration of caches. Unfortunately, being under time pressure, if I couldn't find a cache within a couple of minutes, I had to move on. This cache was easily found. TFTC.

Not to hard to find. Well hidden with Angus 2keers.

Nice and easy