Te Horeta Road Bridge (Auckland) Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By vamber on 02-Nov-14. Waypoint GC5FV99

It was International Earthcache Day today, so while I was doing the Earth cache nearby, I made a quick side-trip to this cache. I had an idea of what I was looking for and trusting the coords made it a quick find. Log is too wet to sign, though, but I took a picture in case the CO wants to see it. Thanks for hiding and maintaining. Tftc

Heading to a friends house and this cache was not that far away from her house and I was a little early. A short walk from the train station and a quick search and there was the cache.The log is mostly a mess now, I managed to sign in a tiny gap, but it is damp, full and falling apart, so will need a little maintenance. Thanks for the cache and the excuse to Dilly Dally for a moment. #1881

Sometimes I can't see the wood for the trees. Found it Log book full. TFTC

Down from Whangarei and in the area, so decided a cache or two should be on the agenda, whilst I did a bit of an exercise jaunt around the basin.No problem with muggles here today and the cache was a nice quick find, more or less where expected. TFTC

Tftc nice and easy

That was fun, thanks for the cache

**#20,975**A quick detour off the Panmure Basin track to find this one, had to time it in between the muggles but I think we managed that.TNLN TFTC!!

Got the car back after 4 weeks M.I.A, first thing we wanted to do was go for an adventure and some food. This was a nice stop off and the sunset was beaut

Thanks for the quick cache!

Nice find, we have found similar size to this before. Was ready for this as have come across similar locations that have had us thinking. Coordinates exact

This is the smallest cache I've ever found. Good spot. Still enough paper for 3 or 4 more finds. Pin exactly on the spot

This was an interesting adventure. We were circumnavigation the Panmure Basin. Well, actually completing the circuit as disappointingly the Jubilee Bridge is closed. We saw this cache nearby, so we deviated off trail. I wasn't expecting this bridge at all. I enjoy these hides and looked, but did not see. Macwatt peers over me and spots this straight away. Thanks for the placement vamber.

What great spot for a cache I was able to locate it reasonably quickly due to the sharp co-ords...then as I was replacing it a truck whizzed by underneath me and the cache fell from my hand and attached itself to the back off the truck the good news is that it's not lost.its travelling around Auckland somewhere Nah just kidding..its in good condition and replaced as found .Thanks for all the information about this project ....appreciate your efforts Vamber

Tftc

TFTC found with Lisa

Good hiding spot cuzzy

Easy find!!!!

Found it straight away nice hide

This end / that end; this side / that side; start high / start low. Tossed a coin and got lucky - found quite quickly! Thanks for the cache

Took a good while. Had to call in Mrs. RR for reinforcements. TFTC

Found it on our tour of Australia and New Zealand!

Found during our trip to New Zealand, took us a while, but managed to get it. Thanks for the cache

Got it! Very sneaky hide! Thanks!

This one took a while to find and almost gave up. Found it finally and signed

Well disguised! Took a while to find; previous entries were very helpful.

Awesome find! Elevator access too!

Parked near Ground zero. The dog was a machine at getting up stairs. After a brief search the cache was in our hands. TFTH

Having been to Mutukaroa/Hamlins Regional Park and cleared out the hides there I wondered where to go next. I was on foot and had my dog with me. A puzzle final lured me to this side of the motorway so I walked there and then it was still a couple of hours before GAR would be able to pick me up. This was one of the few unfound caches in the area so over I walked. While looking in all the wrong places I received a call from my daughter during which I couldn't look properly, and, by the time I found the hide I was was wanting to sit down. Which I did as I had seen no-one else on the bridge the while time I'd been looking and talking. Found the log a bit damp and almost tore it in two when it wouldn't unwind to the middle and decided my pen wasn't going to be able to write on it without wrecking it so had to dig into my bag for something easier on the paper. This youngish dude had come over by then and paid attention to the dog and then also sat down on the bridge. He was talking some real nonsense and started to show me his privates. To say I was uncomfortable was an understatement. How to put the cache back without alerting him but at the same time separate myself from his attention? I think I managed it and walked away in the opposite direction of where I wanted to go while he vacated the area! Another adventure today for sure. Thanks for the hide vamber and I hope no-one else has to cope with that for sure!

;( I’ll be back

Took a bit of a search - but after we realised the gps just wasn’t accurate and expanded our search - found quite quickly. Thanks a for the sneaky hide. FYI - log was wet.

After trayc.g brought me some new winter sheets at Briscoes and some yummy USA lollies from MBY we came to find this cache. Glad it was deserted up here while we did our sweep. Very busy down below though. TFTC

Whenever we come to Auckland our first stop is Martha’s Backyard to stock up on our fav pancake mix plus a few other goodies. Had a look at the map and this cache was close by so we wandered up to it. Took a couple of passes to find it but find it we did! TFTC

Good

I was on my bike in the area to do The Rotary Walkway-Adventure Lab so decided to hang around a little bit.
Found it at the third place I searched
GPS spot on.
TFTC

Nice easy find here since I knew what I was looking for, this was a fairly simple cache to find
TFTC

Essential there or we are blind

Thanks

Kool

2nd attempt and we found it almost got blown away

#325
Came back today to redeem our DNF back in August. That one took a while to find. Eventually found it after reading some of the previous logs. After 15 mins we had the cache in our hand, log signed and we were on our way back home. TFTC

Quick find tftc

Second visit here for me
Was looking on the wrong side
Nicely spotted this time.

TFTC. Quick find. Yeehaa

Quick find and nice view!
=^•^= TFTC 28/11/2021

#350

Was out exploring this area today as due to COVID restrictions we had not done so for many weeks.
Decided to park by the model train station and walk around on this sunny (but windy!) day.
Found this nice and straight-forward one on our way out of the basin - all in good condition here thanks!

**TFTC**
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After 3 or 4 atemmpts I finally found it

Very cool

DNF

Still here! What a great spot!!

Thanks for the cache

I’d given up my friend succeeded!

Couldn't find it

Replaced container, now matches hint.

Found with keylev. I searched one side and she searched the other - she found it.

Thanks for the cache.

Needed a cache to fill a dot day and knew we would be passing here so decided to give it a go.

Have been here previously with no luck but today with no one around we were able to methodically work our way across the bridge and make the find.

Item no longer matches the hint so I believe a part may be missing but it’s still all ok with log in good condition for now.

Thanks for the cache. Found with cragger and laval.

Great find! It’s a bit nutty

Tftc found with Lex007, kicking Easter weekend of right

Gps was giving me trouble but I finally found it! With Sportynz

Great find

Found

Found

Sc found thisone

Took me some time to spot this little bugger, almost gave up. But I finally got there!

Thanks for the cache!

Found it wowhoo

About to give up but I thought now it’s level one I should get my hands dirty and it worked

Sorry looked everywhere

Very sneaky. Thanks to V. For a little help.

Great little cach. Was easier to find than I thought after reading previous logs. We forgot our pen so took photo of log.

Had a good hunt but couldn’t find it

Hasn’t been found since October 2019

Let Phil scrabble around like a loon and find this one! Windy up here, even on a lovely day. Glad to find after seeing a DNF earlier today. Tricky to get log out without typical TOTT so improvised. SL TFTC

Looked high and low even on hands and knees pretty hard find will come back another day

No luck today

Much searching - be back once we understand more about hiding places

Took a while but we found it in the end! Couldn’t believe we didn’t find it sooner.
TFTC

Took a bit of a break from cache hunting but now back at since uni is almost over. Pretty quick find, very windy up there! TFTC

Found a while ago with Geoharry8 just haven't gotten round to logging, TFTC!

A quick find. The hardest part was winding the paper back up to fit in the cache! TFTC

On our way back home from our day out and about and wasn’t quite ready for dinner so thought we would give this cache another go.Its definately been one that’s bugged us.As we got to the gz there were some Chinese muggles making photos which seemed strange.We waited for them to finish and then started our search in pretty much the same places as our last two visits here.Sent out a message to another cache as we didn’t want to go away empty handed again but before she replied we had the cache in our hands and were signing the log.This cache gave us dirty hands on all occasions and this time on our hands and knees glad to say third time lucky.

Joined up with Merlot58 on a cold but sunny winters morning to walk around the basin. We detoured off the circuit to collect this cache. So many possible places to hide a tiny cache here, but a systematic search proved successful and it wasn't long before Merlot located this one.

In the area with Jag50. We ended up doing a systematic search to find this sneaky hide

For my personal challenge of working towards getting my calendar on GC.COM to be at least the same shade of green or darker I need to sign off at least 8 caches today. I won't complain if I get 1 or 2 more.Today's adventure was to go out to the Panmure Basin to find the required number. I parked down by the Waipuna Lodge.

This one had me searching in several places before finally locating it.

Cheers for the cache.

This took a bit of time. Just as well no one was about. Had no luck on one side so changed sides and found it straight away.TFTC

Staying at the Waipuna Hotel Panmure Basin for a two day conference so wanted to collect some local caches. Had to have two goes at this one. Read old logs which helped. Just knew it had to be there and happy when my fingers confirmed it’s presence. TFTC

Found 2.10pm
Arrangement made to travel to Auckland again. So by the time we all met up and vehicle loaded with cachers from Huntly, Rotorua and me from Papamoa plus 2 bikes we headed north. First back to Highbrook to collect balance of caches that we had missed previously. Once this was done we widened search patterns including new caches at Panmure Basin. Weather today not the best so we cut the day short and headed for home. Caches signed as Team HRP.
Thanks to all cache owners for placements. SLTFTC

Nice easy find

With Gap (of Fap and Gap), ABCDF4, and eyespyben... It’s been a few months since we all ventured out together. We enjoyed catching up, swapping stories, and the usual banter. Time seemed to pass quickly, as it does when you have good company...

Since the weather wasn’t looking too hot, we decided we needed to stay close enough to our vehicle. Indeed, rain forced us indoors and a late lunch. But once the rain subsided, we were back in action...

The Panmure Basin was our next target... After completing the Scooby Doo series and rejoining our Huntly friends, we proceeded to take a ring route around the basin... This cache gave us maximum grief, as it was no doubt intended to do. We rubbed up and down and extended our search in both directions. Previous logs proved helpful. They helped us to narrow down our search zone... TFTC.

Out to tidy a few caches with Abcdf4,Fap & Gap and Squiral Nutcase
in Auckland, very sneaky hide,TFTC.

DNF 2

3rd time lucky. Visited today without my OH and found it in moments in the section he searched both times previously it was supposed to be his first cache though so I won't be too hard in him! Lovely little cache

Avenged

Stopped in at the American Store and while the area was evacuated for a fire drill I helped Riser5 avenge his DNF on this cache. Dirty fingers but tftc

DNF

Hi its me the Swiss girl again ..but with good news..Today we made the second atempt after reading a lot of coments ..Nöggi2 made the right catch without gettig ditrty fingers at all !!! We have got in Switzerland many of those little creeps around so no tools were needed.We are used to them !!!

I'm from Switzerland and spend 4 months in New Zealand on vacation. Found this cache the second time quickly, thanks.

Hi I am from Switzerland tried very hard to find that one ..even put dopple glazing on look peep nothing ..oink oink about your hint I had an idea...but unvisable forces made my mission impossible..please give me a clue before I fly home !!!!

I apologise for the generic log, but today was all about the numbers. I am attending WENZ in 10 days time, and I want to have the Mega event as my 1000th cache, so I have only these few days to find about 90 caches.
So whilst I'm staying in Auckland for a few days, I wanted to take a look around an area I hadn't previously visited, which was Stonefields and the surrounding area.

So parking near GZ, I roughly saw where the hiding spot would be and so it was simply a case of surreptitiously timing my drop down for a good search, and was lucky enough to find it in no time. The container and its contents are all in good condition, so the log was quickly signed and the whole thing was replaced exactly as found and then onto the next attempt.

Thanks for the cache.

Found it, good hide, you have to get your hands dirty, it's not on the right nor on the left