The Retuturn Of The Missing Plquae Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By G-2's Bodyguard on 02-Apr-15. Waypoint GC5P318

A quick find, on my big walk

Yannick try without luck .. but Arthur get it-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --French version below-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --Short late log but more complete now that we are back home.Our vacation will take us to the other side of the world to the land of the Maoris. After many, many hours of flying, a passage through China on the way there and through the United States of America on the way back, we will finally arrive in Christchurch which will be the starting point of our journey.We will enjoy the beaches of the Pacific Ocean and we will go back towards the North Island via State Highway 1. To combine business with pleasure, we will take regular breaks and small detours according to the caches that seem the most accessible to us.With a little more than 3500 km in 20 days, we will have discovered many facets of this island which is soothing. We will have to come back because there are so many places that we have not done . In broad strokes, the path will go from Christchurch to the Kaikoura Peninsula then towards Picton for the crossing to Wellington.New island, new road, and by State Highway 2 we go towards Hastings and Napier. We will leave the seaside for several days to go to Tongariro and Taupo. We will continue north towards Rotorua and Hamilton (without forgetting a detour via Hobbiton ) A detour to the Coromandel Peninsula and finally the almost north of the island with Whangarei and Waitangi to learn the history of this country.There will only be a few days left to spend towards Auckland and its suburbs before taking the plane back to the grayness of our European autumn.The majority of the boxes will be found, we have abandoned those where our English was lacking and where we could not understand the clue. Thanks to all the owners who brightened up our path, who took us to incredible places (that's also geocaching)In short, we had a great vacation, saw beautiful places that simply ask us to come back. We learned a lot about the history of this country and its traditions, it's a great motivation for our destinations.-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --Petit log en retard mais un peu plus complet maintenant que nous sommes rentrs la maison. Nos vacances vont nous emmener lautre bout du monde au pays des Maoris. Aprs beaucoup, beaucoup dheures davion, un passage par la Chine laller et par les Etats-Unis dAmrique au retour, nous arriverons enfin Christchurch qui sera le point de dpart de notre priple.Nous profiterons des plages du de locan Pacifique et nous remonterons en direction de lile du nord via la State highway 1. Pour joindre lutile et lagrable, nous ferons des pauses rgulires et de petits dtours au gr des caches qui nous semble les plus accessibles. Avec un peu plus de 3500 km en 20 jours, nous aurons dcouverts pleins de facettes de cette ile qui est apaisante. Il nous faudra revenir car il y a tellement dendroit que nous navons pas fait . Dans les grand traits, le chemin ira de Christchurch la pninsule Kaikoura puis direction Picton pour la traverse vers Wellington.Nouvelle ile, nouvelle route, et par la State Highway 2 nous remontrons en direction de Hastings et Napier. Nous laisserons le bord de mer plusieurs jours pour aller au Tongariro et Taupo. Nous continuerons vers le nord en direction de Rotorua et Hamilton (sans oublier un dtour par Hobbiton ). Un crochet pour la pninsule de Coromandel et pour finir le presque nord de lile avec Whangarei et Waitangi pour apprendre lhistoire de ce pays. Il ne restera que quelques jours passer vers Auckland et sa banlieue avant de ne reprendre lavion pour retourner dans la grisaille de notre automne europen.La majorit des boites seront trouves, nous avons dlaisser celles o notre anglais faisait dfaut et ou que nous narrivions pas comprendre lindice. Merci tous les poseurs qui ont gay notre chemin, qui nous ont emmen dans des endroits incroyables (cest aussi cela le geocaching)Bref, nous avons pass de superbes vacances, vu des endroits magnifiques qui demandent simplement que lon revienne. Nous avons appris beaucoup de chose sur lhistoire de ce pays et de ces traditions, cest une grande motivation pour nos destinations.

Found it

Quick find, good camo

Super easy! Thanks

Good cache! We went to one then found another well when I say that I mean sign. Thought it was somewhere and looked everywhere but not hard enough. Came back to the start and Elippa found it. I cant believe Elippa found one again!

Grabbed this one after completing the Adventure Lab. TFTC

Again I parked on Vauxhall Road but I'd moved the car closer from the last hide. I was looking for a nice bronze plaque here. I didn't really consider the plastic sign as a plaque so I walked in circles before finally trying to find the cache here anyway. Quickly found it then.I didn't know this area existed until I saw the caches and Vistra's AdLab. Thanks again for the caches in here

found but no pen tftc!

Stopped at this cache while visiting **New Zealand**! [^]**My #151st visited Geocaching country!**---This cache was easily found and the logbook was signed.One more smiley face for me in the GEO map.Everything was in good condittion.Thank you for hiding this cache and showing me this place! ---Greetings from ***Riga, Latvia***! [^]**Happy caching!**----------***For a little entertainment, here are 10 Fun Facts about Latvia!*** 1) Latvia is among the worlds greenest countries.2) Its home of the first Christmas tree.3) The Latvian flag is considered by many to be the oldest national flag in the world.4) Country has the widest waterfall in Europe.5) Latvia boasts the finest Art Nouveau architecture in the world.6) Jacob W. Davis, a Latvian tailor, was an inventor of rivets on famous Jean pants.7) The Latvian Song & Dance Festival is recognised by UNESCO as the largest amateur song and dance festival in the world!8) Alexander Laime, a famous Latvian-born explorer. He is most noted for being the first recorded human to reach Angel Falls (highest waterfall on earth), located in Venezuela, by foot.9) Latvians love basketball and Ice Hockey.10) Latvia is famous for being the home country of the inventor of the flavor of Pringles.----------..\*""*.,,.*"",..,*"",.\...\ ------- **MATISONS!** ------- \....\*""*.,,.*"",..,*"",..\.....\......\ /// \Paldies/ Aith / Ai / Thanks / Merci / Gracias / Danke / Bedankt / / / / Tak / Kiitos / / / / Ksznet / Grazie / / / Whakawhetai / / Dziki / Obrigado / Mulumiri / C / Hvala / Dky / Teekkrler / Ngiyabon / / / Tak / Kiitos / / / / Ksznet / Grazie / / / Whakawhetai / / Dziki / Obrigado / Mulumiri / C / Hvala / Dky / Teekkrler / Ngiyabon

Good for kids

Up this way for a day out in Auckland whilst lots of Auckland folks have gone away over Easter - thats the theory anyway!! Nic quick find here, TFTC

Cool hid

# #7,199 #----------After a DNF on what seems to be a clever hide, I thankfully had more success here in this part of the complex as this one was found quickly and without any issues. TFTC!!! ----------> All geocaches are signed as mmmPIZZA or mPZ

### New Zealand 2024 ###On our 1 week tour North New Zealand tour we visited many caches in Auckland, Habbiton, Taupo, Huka Falls, Piha and Mount Eden.We had a lot of great experiences along the way and had a lot of fun searching for the caches.Thanks to all the owners for the great caches Team sissifalke

Forgot my pen - doh. Thanks bodyguard. Will send photo in message

Quick grab and run, TFTC!

Found it.

**#19,373**Mrs Geckoh was on find duties for this one while Mr Geckoh was trying to get behind the barriers of the sculpture exhibition down the road.Lucky for both of us the sculpture exhibition was not started for the day as there were no people in the vicinity of GZ

Well hidden and great little spot

An afternoon at leisure whilst my partner caught up with friends. Lets head to Takapuna to see what I can see.Just the one plquae (?) to be looking for here. A super quick find. Thanks G_2#4752Logged using Cachly.

Great views from the spot Quick find.

#419After spending an inordinate amount of time looking for the cache at the pillbox, it was a relief to find this one immediately.

ok, this was an easy one again. Thanks to G2 for all your work here with caches in this area. You are awesome!

Quick and easy on the way back down to the beach.

Thanks for bringing me to a new place to explore!

Didn’t have a pen so here’s a picture

Found in the dark after a long day of caching. It's a wonderful stormy night.
Thanks for hiding and maintaining.
Tftc

Having a wander while rebel98 on bike ride. Fun find thanks

Out at night caching so no one around. Quick find thank you

Another day in paradise, exploring a new area of Auckland. Of course it's caching time. Tftc

On our way back to the car before heading to Devonport for some lunch we had to go past this hide. Nice quick find here. Took us longer to sign and replace! Thanks for the hide!

Quick find, thanks for the hide

Found straight away on our way back to car. TFTC

TFTC!!!

Was in the area today to collect cache numbers and with a few adventure labs nearby, decided upon here for the task......jumped on the bike for the afternoon, to hopefully enable swifter
commuting times between caches.....

Cache is all good, signed in as SAC sometimes to save space in the logbooks.....

TFTC.

Last find on our way back to Narrowneck Beach.
Very interesting area here.

Walked back this way. Are the old barrack buildings used for event accommodation?

Hint gives it away, but if you would like a challenge the cache is in very close proximity to the main gate!

Nice one

Easy find

Out caching with Supernannny today mainly to get the new AdLab at Fort Takapuna and any other caches that might get in the way.

I remember coming to this area many moons ago. Always a nice place to return to. I didn't search hard enough here but was brought up hard by Supernannny.

Cheers for the cache.

M24: another nice and easy find here.
A cop car passed on through here while I was at another cache location then headed to this one when the cop car left.
Anyway, log is signed, all is good. TFTC.

A nice quick find, last for the day. Time to experience the Harbour Bridge at rush hour on a friday. Thanks for placing your cache.

I'm in Auckland and I am exploring the region while I am based here. Today was a good day, I cruised around and about Devonport. The weather was pretty good,and I had a great time.

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

TFTC. Nice and easy to find, was a little wet with the recent rain but managed to dry it out a bit. Thanks

Found it with the help of the hint.

Nice and easy find
Tftc

easy find thank you!

After being muggled last week we returned tonight to look in the dark. A quick find.

Log signed, Nice find, so many lights here? T4T$

Quick find, good camo

Good easy find

wooho need to come back an get more with Az Up

Plaque is here fun

Having a great day finding all of these caches. TFTC

Easy one just looked behind the plaque

Found

Found it thanks to the clue

Nice quick find here Thanks

Thank you from Howard and Kath.
Cache all in good order

Yay! A QEF to finish the day. SL TFTC

Quick find TFTC

Well camoed but a super quick find here while walking around the peninsula. TFTC again!

Had some time to kill while waiting for a sail to be fixed do decided to come out and grab a few caches out this way.

A nice easy find. Thanks for the cache

Forgot my pen. I’ll
Bring the kids and let them hunt for it. Thanks!

Nice and easy here after coming from the market, added name and replaced as found.

After my spicy hotdog in the rain it was time to head back to the car. First though a couple more caches to finish the day off.
Decided on a trip out to Devonport was the choice for todays caching and the recent Adventure Labs were also a draw card. just like another recent finder I too had hoped to set a future adventure Lab series out here but seems I lucked out. Well done Rebel98 on the choice of this area. Just a modest 5 real caches to go with the labs but beat the rain, which was nice.

Easy find for R again while I was checking for other plaques

Nice quick find.
Thanks for unearthing it

Came back for a second look today and made a quick find. Great views up on this hill and a beautiful day. TFTC

checked and it was covered up too much, ok now

I'm almost certain the cache is lost because I've read through all the comments and photos and they are all pointing and hinting to the plague in the garden. I digged and digged and scanned area around but nothing there

I'm quite annoyed with myself if I'm honest bc seemed like this one would be so easy, 2 particular places (one being very very low) I thought would have been dead ringers for a hide but after feeling around twice it wasn't. I feel like I looked for an entire 30 min but to no avail except for snails... Snails in every hole

Found with Queeneit nice walk around.

I was out today for an adventure and I have never been here before, looking at the beautiful views out from the beach made me stop here to cache, instead of heading further down the road.

Upon arriving at GZ I had the cache in hand in seconds, but opening it found the log was soaking wet, so I decided to stop a while and let it dry in the sun for a bit. It is not perfectly dry now, but better than it was. TFTC #971

Found with majaby easy quick find nice camo TFTC

found with billxp nice quick easy find tftc

Nice easy find thanks

Nice easy park and grab

Tftc

It has become warm so I was happy to make a quick find here. Tftc!

Just managed to do the business on this one before hordes of kids came down, about to break up for the Christmas holidays. TFTC

A quick find on our self- imposed circuit of Devonport. TFTC

Quick find on our way by while thru-hiking the TA. TFTC!

Tyfc. Log paper wet and no suitable waterproof pen on me, so did not write in log

Found this one no problem

Out and back in the car for this one. We got caught by a heavy shower. TFTC

A nice quick find TFTC G-2's Bodyguard

#8808

On our way to spend some time around the Devonport Area today to make some finds. Always nice to visit this area and have a walk around. Got this one after the previous one and before returning to the car. No problems here today. SL. TFTC.

A nice simple one to finish off the morning’s caching. Tftc

Container isn’t very waterproof anymore, easy find not sure if it is hidden properly

Nice quick find once geowife homed in on the correct GZ.

All ok

Quick find. We even managed a parking spot right across the road. Not bad on a public holiday! Thanks

Quick easy find on the way out of Devonport. No issues at all, cache is in good condition. Tftc

Easy find.

Caching today with TheMexikiwi and hitting up some shore caches between the showers.

Parked up nearby and wandered over - soon found the hint item and the cache followed quickly after.

Nice little spot here - TFTC

Great little cache for a couple of nine yo girls to find. Thanks.

Duh! All around the houses until the penny dropped. Tftc

A nice quick find. TB visit TFTC

Yep took a while to discover where hint is ... When located it was an easy one. TFTC