Waiuku First World War memorial Waiuku, North Island, New Zealand
By harisree on 19-Dec-15. Waypoint GC68B33

We have moved bit far from this and we think the best thing to do now is to free up the location for another hide. Good Bye!!!

Knew exactly where to look as found this one previously but couldn't find today

We looked for this on the 16th and couldn't find.

Didn't find this one.

i think it’s been muggled

Love war memorials as my son was in the Air Force. Took a bit to locate. Tftc

It sure was nice to rest our weary legs here. Took a while of searching, but soon in hand. TFTC

Good fun

NZ MEGA 2020 (in 2022) road trip - Day 7

Having had a fantastic day on Browns Island on Sunday, another member of Team Done by 1 (RustyNZ) and I arranged to go looking for the Crayola 64 series. Having completed it by mid-afternoon, we decided that neither of us fancied battling peak hour traffic so would do some more caching around this area. It's been about 10 years since I was last here in Waiuku, and this is my first visit here as a geocacher.

We were now caching after dark and having to rely on using our phone torches for searching, but we both still wanted to press on with a sort of rugged determination in spite of our tiredness.

This was another cache that R had found on a previous visit, so I parked up nearby and dashed off to grab it. No problems to report, and my name was soon added to the log, before we headed off to the next cache on what would end up being a really long, but worthwhile day. I had my best single day ever with over 100 finds

Thanks for placing this cache.

A nice quick find thanks. A nicely refurbished area.

Time for another trip to the North Island for Ms_KR and me. Wellington and beyond here we come. Today we toured around Waiuku area and found some new spots to us. It is a hot summer so far!

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

Nice easy find here for G10 and M12
TFTC

After not finding the lemon cache within easy reach of this one, decided to go for this before the sun set. C-Geo was spot on. Easy find, although Kittycat432 gut decided it was on the other side of the road, I followed the instruments and came up with the goods. Took a bit longer than anticipated as there were muggles across the road so we had to be very deceit. As part of our "sits and sign", we decided to get up and look around around as well, instead of just walking back to car, after getting up. TFTC

With rebel98, he had found this one previously, but as it is a harisree cache we knew we had to come and find it again today.

As others have done I pushed it in to far, so with my pen gave it a shove, and it came out the other side, ready for me to retrieve the cache and sign the log.

Thanks for the hide, and fun find for us today

Thank you albijos for replacing the cache.

On a work trip to Auckland . Decide to take a detour to Waiuku. It is such a beautiful day to visit this small town.
Found this cache was missing for a while and decided to replace with CO approval

Please watch out for muggles and keep as you found.

Not where expected and then read the activity, Yep definitely gone

Dang,made a special trip for this and all! Please replace. Is a good spot.

Please replace. Thx

See my previous comment but wanted to add - the poppies are spectacular, colours amazing- so it was worth the stop thanks

Well we did’t find it now but my brother said he found it

Hay just a reminder about your cache my brothers friend took it and lost it so you will have to take it down. OR we could make it up to you and make a new one. message me when you make up the decision apologies

Took a seat as suggested then took a second and then a third. Came up with the goods on the third attempt

out with agazo and alunb today, signed log as ana, a quick find but needed a tott to help us, tftc

Out caching today with Agazo and nufrat. Didn't take long for nufrat to spot this one, TFTC

Clever hiding

Great find thanks. Placed back for the next person

Easy find with co tftc.

Thanks found a while ago

Easy to fine pushed in too far

Awesome easy to find but was pushed in a little too far so took 10 minutes to remove but found logged and replaced

Girls day out at Waiuku.
Could see this one, took a bit to extract it. Tott.

Out on an early morning walk, decided it was about time I got this cache, easy find and retrieval, came prepared with tott, TFTC.

Very quick find

Our first ever Geo cache! Kids 12,11,9yrs. Loved it! Now let’s find another

Day 1 on my little weekend Pukekohe escapade - no real plan, just chipping away at the area.
This cache was found easily and without fuss - just needed to give it a little nudge with my pen in order to get my fingers on it. Cheers HariSree, TFTC

In the area with Jag50. A nice quick find before heading for a coffee at the quirky cafe just along the road

In the area with Merlot58 - one of us went high and the other went low. Cache was soon spotted from below and extracted from above with a natural TOTT.

Great location !

Thanks heaps

Found it on a family outing, the wee one even left a gem in the “hidden treasure” for the next person!

This was my first one! Great fun! I didn’t have a pen to write in the replacement log though!

An easy park and grab. An easy find for young geocacher. Tftc.

Really fun

Quickly stopped off here since this is the “most southern” Auckland cache.

Thanks!

Quick find with cyclical caching and tramyard while passing through today. TFTC

Team work with CyclicalCaching , funkymunkyzone and Gorbygorbachov during caching Awhitu Saturday trip. 【T】【F】【T】【C】

I spent the morning driving around the peninsular picking up a few caches along the way. I had to use something to poke it out but got there in the end, TFTC!

Nice one. That size of case and magnet sure does make it a challenge to retrieve.

Found it and had to poke it out

Easy to find nice spot

Back with new container & logbook.

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Searched everywhere but unfortunately could not find it

Will be back soon

Pretty sure I know where it was meant to be, but is not there anymore

Did not sign, seemed to be gamed

Thanks for the hide, what a nice spot!

Easy to find but not easy to access

Needed longer than our tool. But got there in the end. Nice to sit and contemplate the sacrifices or forbears made. Tftc

Bit awkward to get at, but JutyBug had his trusty, makeshift multi-tool, so we managed fine! Nice spot here. TFTC

I had my trusty paper clip and was able to hook out the log TFTC thank harisree

Hard to get out

Spent ages trying to retrieve the container but ended up being able to retrieve and replace log without getting the container
TFTC

Very cool cache and well hidden from muggles! Easy to get to as well

What a lovely spot. A very well kept memorial with some nice art work. TFTC

Nice quick find on a day out with KiwiPeats. Couldn't reach the cache so didn't sign the log book. TFTC.

Found on a night caching round Waiuku.

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Nice easy find on a wet day in Waiuku! Log books are nearly falling apart though so could do with some maintenance

Took quite some doing to get out. Tyfc

A nice quick find but we just couldn’t get it out of the hiding place to sign the log. We tried fingers, sticks and our pen but the bolts just got in the way whichever angle we tried. Will send a photo to CO as proof of find. TFTC

Very well camouflaged kids liked this one

Managed to retrieve without tools.

TFTC

In the chair

1,017 nice spot and good hide

Out and about taking advantage of a free afternoon to find hides around rural south west Auckland. It's nice to blow the cobwebs away with a drive in the countryside. I don't think I have been to Waiuku for 6 years, so time to find the caches placed since my last visit. I parked up, crossed the road and entered this little park. Cache was found in the first spot I checked. Took a moment to check out the monuments before heading off. Cheers for the cache placement!

As previous finders have said the cache was tightly wedged into its hiding spot so we struggled to extract it but after a few minutes, and with the aid of a nearby stick, we managed to retrieve it.
We have re-hidden it so it is a bit more accessible.
Nice memorial, thanks harisree for bringing us here.

Found it, but cache was stuck so tight in it's hiding space, I wasn't able to get it out. Found together with Greenkiwikids. TFTC

Found but stuck too tight. TFTC

After a successful FTF hunt out near South Head, we headed back into Waiuku to find a few more. We parked beside GZ and could see the cache almost immediately. One of us took a tool and went round to retrieve the cache, but was unable to extract it from its hide. The other got a longer tool out of the van and soon pushed the cache free. Thanks for showing us this memorial.

Not camp but silver duct tape

Good little spot, not where I expected, TFTC

Difficulty retrieving this one as pushed in too far.

We found it. We it was pretty easy to find

Plan for this weekend to visit Awhitu Peninsula Never been in this area before except Waiuku.
Met up with fellow cachers from Huntly on Friday night and travelled up on Saturday morning. Plan to start at bottom and work up.+ Cachers were signed with the team name HRT being first letter of our home towns (Huntly, Rotorua, Tauranga)
Generally caches were good but some a little damp, others requiring reading descriptions, hints and other cachers comments to make finds.
As the day went on we realised we would have to return the next day to complete, so this made it a Saturday & Sunday mission.
Weather was great and some amazing sites visited.
Wish to thank all CO's for caches placed. Great trip. SLTFTC

At day out agina on a nice sunny day With Gap (of Fap and Gap), ABCDF4, and eyespyben... For convenience, we group signed the logs H(untly) R(otorua) T(auranga) (or P(apamoa), depending on who signed and had a good time foind the caches to clean out this area tftc. Have a good day as well and happy we cleaned out that area and with the team..

Nice easy find,waiuku is interesting place

With Gap (of Fap and Gap), ABCDF4, and eyespyben... For convenience, we group signed the logs H(untly) R(otorua) T(auranga) (or P(apamoa), depending on who signed and how heat-addled we were at the time...) We've been planning a raid on the Awhitu Peninsula for some time, with a view to clearing the area of caches... It's time to execute this mission.

Day Two: The hint helped to narrow the search down. A quick find... TFTC.

After visiting the lighthouse, we drove through Waiuku to look for this one. Not too hard to find because of the hint.
#1849 log:16.05 ni/no Thanx!!

found - paper to write on pretty small and now full,

Had a nice rest on the bench whilst enjoying the garden.

A nice easy find. Couldn’t sign the log as did this spur of the moment and didn’t bring a pen. TFTC

My wife works for a company whose products are especially popular at Christmas time, so as I start to slow down, she gets busier and busier. To ensure no body woke up Christmas morning disappointed I was asked to make a delivery on behalf of her employers to someone in Waiuku. Since I have never been to Waiuku I said sure knowing I was going to be able to grab a few Geocaches along the way. Thanks to all the CO’s for placing and maintaining the caches I found.

Spotted it quickly but struggled to remove it from its hiding spot. Its a tight fit. Got there in the end.

After doing the Icon series today with urbangypsy and Jard, it was time for a very nice ice cream at Pokeno! The usual spot there was very busy but we found another shop selling the same ice creams so spent some time there before heading up to do this cache which is now part of the N.E.S.W challenge by McArgister instead of FMZ's cache which he has now archived. So after refreshing ourselves, we came here and parked up pretty close, I got out my magnet which proved pretty useless so resorted to another method for the retrieval which Jard came up with and in seconds we had our selves a cache to sign. Then we basically headed home. Jard wanted to see his grand daughter tonight before too late and I was happy to get home and have a well deserved wine! Thanks harisree for the cache.

Did a slight? detour with Gorby and Jard to start the N,S,E, & W challenge. Have driven past this spot on several occasions but have not visited this peaceful well maintained spot to honour the dead, thank you for making me

urbangypsynz, Gorbygorbachov and I had been down to the Waikato successfully picking up all the Icons Series and on the way home, did a wee(?) detour to come and collect this cache to start the N,S,E & W challenge. Never been here before and a great wee memorial. Thanks for bringing me here.

Out for a great days caching with Agazo on a sunny day. Nice interesting place for a cache. Thanks harisree.

In honour of. Respect for all the man.

Out in the general area as there were 3 new caches published this morning. After finding those with thejaybees we stopped for some coffee and foodfuel before working our way around the local area for some more caches.

Was grateful there was a small stick relatively close by for this one. Log signed, cache returned, stick left (not too close nearby) and we were on our way.

Thanks for the cache.

Found with keylev. Thanks for the cache.

Needs a new logbook but good cache thanks