Batterrrr hr'Up! Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By BAM! on 14-Nov-15. Waypoint GC66RYE

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

Hi TeamBMMR

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Found the yellow ribbon so we got close. Wet day out with two kids. Quite a bit of litter around. Had to give up.

Was walking by and had noticed a few days ago it had a huge string of DNFs…

Took a quick look where I remembered it being, but I didn’t see it.

What I did see was two broken crack pipes, a intact crack pipe, drug baggies and a whole bunch of rubbish.

Not sure this area is so suitable for a cache anymore. I know the CO is pretty good with maintenance, so I would definitely recommend a check / maybe relocation.

Didn’t find the ribbon nor geocache

Found the tree. Found the ribbon. But the area is littered with various traps for pests etc and a lot of trash, and overall felt a bit dodgy fossicking about, so gave it up.

Found the yellow tag but no geo cache

Aaagh, having a bad day

Spent a while looking around the clue area but did not find

Don’t find

Found it in the dark quite tough!

Fun find !! Thanks for that !!

I had some spare time this morning so I headed out to find a few caches. This was the first one I came to. It took me longer to find than it should have done. I focused on the wrong area for a while. Broadened my search, spotted something of interest and there was the cache. TFTC, Biggles.

Tftc found with Lex007

Super easy find after reading one of the comments. Found with Sportynz

Finding a few around Auckland with evilC before heading out of town. This one had us confused for a bit, but we did get there! TFTC!!

**13,960**
A nice quick find in the early morning on our last day in Auckland for the long weekend. TFTC

Couldn’t find the ribbon by spotted an interestingly placed rock, that’s usually a good sign!

After several promising finds turned out to be litter, I finally had the cache in my hands. Thanks!

Found It! Good search for it!

Has gone white but still very accessible

Nice lil cozy find

Was searching near the wrong yellow ribbon .. but found it at the end

Dnf

Found it! First geocache find ever with my boy Jack. We left a small toy inside the bottle.

Ribbon is closer to green now. Tftc

Second quick find of the day with PhilBirdBoys. Co-ords were spot on, very quick find. Tftc.

Some kids were playing on the pitch so we went the “back way” to the cache. Managed to find without arising suspicion. Ribbon still yellow so easy to spot as cache not covered. SL and then rehid with extra stones to cover. Log is now full but we didn’t have a replacement with us. TFTC

This one I found in Jan. 21. TFTC

Thanks to my boy this was a quick find!!

Found after expanding my radius a bit.

GPS had me on the wrong side of the stairs.

Thanks for the cache!

Out for a bike ride to start collecting some Ancient Wonders. No difficulty finding this one. Recall getting a similarly named cache years ago, in a slightly different spot. Master Jacksonz used to play Softball here, and I have practised Slowpitch Softball here upon occasion too (a great social summer sport). TFTC.

Had the park all to my self so able to have a easy find. TFTC

Rugby game on Sunday early afternoon but hi-vis jacket helps to make around. Found it more by geosense than a hint. Thanks anyway!
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We’re here but can’t find

We found it GG

Good cache!

Quick find. Girls practicing rugby on the park

Done

Got em!

The ribbon has weathered to a mouldy green making it a bit harder to spot. Keep looking!

Had a look around but couldn’t find it in the bushes, might go back and try another day

TFTC

A nice morning for strolling around the park. Soon spotted the hint item and cache was quickly found. Tftc

Not a having a good finding day!

Thanks for the clues below ... actually quite easy!!

A little evening walk in the park. The boys were playing rugby and I played caching.
Thanks for the cache says js333

Easy find
Allok
Thanks!

Fun cache, getting final points for 1000 points of light

Nice cache. Found it without too much frustration.

Ribbon is hard to spot. But saw a cache spot tftc

Tftc good hide , went exploring for a while and found it in the end

Second time here and finally found. Put off first time by the wrong yellow ribbon

In the area today, so stop by for a quick look for this one. My phone was a good 9 metres out, but eventually located. TFTC

Fun find!

Found the green/yellow ribbon tied around the old .... tree

With rustynz

With rebel98, made our way down the stairs, and then looked for the tree, and luckily the first tree we went too, contained the cache. Love it when that happens.

Thanks for the hide BAM, a fun find for us today

Easy find - R & M

Determined to locate got this one done today. GPS and location are... Not sure what to say. Out of whack if you ask me. The tree you think it is in. Yes, that is the one. Don't look for a yellow ribbon. Look for a yellow cord/rope and ignore GPS my recommendation. Five times at least looking for this one! Haha.

Phew. Been back a few times now. No joy. Found as recently as two weeks ago so has to be here.

Found!

Lovely quick find! The dumped rubbish really stunk, wish people could take more responsibility Thanks for the fun cache

Hidden at first but then obvious!

great little cache, took a bit of time to find but obvious once it was seen!

Ok so if your looking at the wrong yellow ribbon, like we were, heading down the path it is off to the right side. Quite a bit of rubbish around to distract the eye too.

#973. I approached from the road and first looked for a hint item... but couldn't spot one anywhere. I think that's kind of for the best after reading about the red herrings from previous logs.

So I set about a systematic search. It took a little bit of time to find, but there was nobody around anywhere as it was quite late so muggles were not a problem. After searching everything I could near the stairs, I expanded my search a bit and it ended up being in quite an obvious place.

Tonight my mission was to find all the caches that I haven't yet found in Kingsland, Western Springs and Arch Hill. It was a successful night, I found all 7 of the caches I expected to find! Always great when that happens!

Thank you very much for the cache!

It's school holidays so we're down from the mid north to visit family. We went for a walk up Mt Eden and the kids enjoyed the playground on the other side. We then headed over to this park to collect the caches here to help me with my mystery at the museum souvenirs. The kids did an exercise circuit. I found this one quickly which was great as I was feeling tired. We had a great morning in this area. Thanks for your cache

Couldn't find the hint, wet messy area to search. Hopeing for better luck next time

Talk about a red herring... or maybe a yellow one Either way, this was a quick find after figuring out I was looking around the wrong yellow ribbon. TFTC!

Been back loads of times but just can't find it.

Got within 1M still couldn’t find

Quick find, completing the trifecta at this park, TFTC

Today I came to Auckland to collect some solved puzzles. The caches in this park were close, so I gave it a go. This one was the most difficult for me, since I had a different idea on how the cache might look like and that led me to the wrong places. Once I was in the right location, it was an easy find. Very nicely hidden and bigger than I expectet. Tftc

A great classic cache hide with Ryder. No yellow strip, but also not too difficult from the location. Deposited a few avengers stickers. The container was empty. Tftc.

Nice spot! Moved to the area recently and have been meaning to get to this park so great excuse for a bit of autumn afternoon caching. Yellow ribbon hint doesn’t seem to apply now, either red herring or the ribbon has moved? Either way, coordinates will take you to the right spot. TFTC!

Last day with our camper and heading back into Auckland.
Some admin to do while here (laundry etc ) so grabbed a few caches between spins
Having parked up we found the three in this park.
A bit concerned as there is some ground work going on right next to gz. However cache found and signed.
No idea what the hint means ??
TFTC
Tim and Viv - ddm

I am up in Auckland again to visit my partner, and on such occasions I often get a Friday to go out and about and get some casual caching done.

Having dropped her off to work, I had the rest of the day to myself. I knew the weather was supposed to get a bit wet later in the day so I was keen to find as many as possible this morning.

I knew I wanted to visit the Mount Albert/Western Springs area to try to find some Puzzle Caches that I had solved, so figured I would try to grab a few Trads along the way too.

Having just found a solved puzzle nearby, it was only a short walk to get to this one. Hunting around at where the co-ords have brought me to, I soon spotted a yellow ribbon. As it turns out, this is either a red herring or else this cache has suffered some serious cache-creep as after about 20 minutes of looking I finally found it about 10-12 metres from the yellow ribbon.

But once found, all was found to be fine within the container, and the log was swiftly signed before the whole thing was replaced exactly as found and I was back on my way to the next one.

Thanks for placing this cache.

TFTF! I had to really hunt for this one, GPS was no help. "If I were a cache, where would I be..."

As we were staying in a road next to the park this one needed finding

Found

Came past here on a wet and rainy Saturday afternoon so no muggles to contend with. Google maps on my phone took me straight to the right spot, great to find a cache thats been around a while, cheers

Found it took a while as had the wrong yellow ribbon!

THANKS FOR THE AWESOME CACHE! I recommend it for cachers with dogs (like me) because my dog LOVED it here! TFTC! It's definitely here!

Nope not today

Another time maybe.

Liked the location. TFTC

2nd find today:) now ready for breakfast

Liked the location and the morning sounds from birds

Arrived early for a 'do' in the Irish Club so grabbed this one while I was waiting. TFTC

Was a little larger than we thought. Was a bit wedged in but we managed to get it! Thanks for the find

No luck! It got quite dark and we had to call it a night.

Spotting and retrieving this was a bit of a challenge. But with the help of small hands, we got there eventually. The cache had slipped into No Mans Land between two access points and wasn’t easy from either direction. I was happy to have found it though, given that I’m usually fairly blind and I was a little worried about the previous DNF.

Found with The Rustys. Tftc

As I pulled up, I realized that I had been here before and didn't find the cache. I found the hinted at item and then got lucky and found the cache. The location corresponded almost exactly to where I was sitting during a California Angels game back in April of 1989. TFTC.

DNF

Found it. A little from the coordinates but close enough. Tftc.

We visited this one about a year and a half ago not long after we started geocaching. I remember it was pretty dark and cool so we moved on quite quickly. Back in the middle of a glorious summer with plenty of daylight and it was a different proposition. The phone gps also popped us in a different spot than last time and after a couple of minutes had no trouble finding the cache. Suspect the geosenses have improved over the last while.

The cache is in very good condition so I didn't have any trouble retrieving and signing the log - all is well here. Decided to pick up the travel bug that was in here to move that along, and we dropped a different one in its place. Thanks for the cache - starting to run out of close to home ones now.

Slowly working our way back into the city with alpenmilch80 and we made our way here to give this one a go. Coordinates were spot on and the hiding spot was quickly found and we were on our way before the mozzies could even get warmed up. TFTC

On another Wednesday after work geocaching run with evilno9. Compared to last week we had no issues with finding parking or being stuck in traffic. Easy find at GZ and left a TB. TFTC

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