GROTTY 43 Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By Agazo on 14-Mar-16. Waypoint GC6DA6K

I am leaving the area and couldn't find anyone to adopt this cache, so I am archiving it.

We aborted our original mission because of the weather and did some park and grab instead. Thanks for placing all of these. TFTC

Easy find. Going to join up our grottys that we did a few months ago. With sfrank TFTC

**14,003**
Roaming around the area collecting up caches here and there. these little tubes find their way all around the place, not that we are complaining! Nice quick find. TFTC

Found this cache on a Auckland holiday. On the cycle getting my cycling fix.TFTC

Out locally when looking for this one, still new to the whole geocaching world or maybe im jst not so on to it with the hints because it took me longer then it should to find. Had a 'duuuh' moment when i re-read hint

A quick park and grab before starting the cycle track

Nice and easy park n grab. TFTC

Nice quick find

Hurray! We were on the right side of the road. Bad news - metal prong thing sticking out just above GZ which scratched Bird Nevermind - i will live. SL TFTC

Found, good description

Great find. Signed log and placed back where found.

Nice quick find on this tube. TFTC

Nice quick find. TFTC

And the last one before heading home after dropping off the motor home at Auckland.

Found it!
Tftc
#VeeTee

Another trip to the air port on a dot day so another chance to grab a few caches.
After a DNF and a DNS near by I wound up near here in order to get back on the road in the direction I wanted - I decided to check for caches and sure enough there was one near by.
The GPS watching was abandoned as I approached the probable GZ and the find was easily made. The cache is very wet outside so I was worried however the log was nice and dry.
T F T C Agazo.

Good time to be about the airport doing caches as there is hardly any traffic. Drove down with Mrs Tuolei and Albert and had no trouble finding the cache here. Quite interesting - I've never been down the road here and found it quite a good drive. Thanks for the cache - all good here.

Such a good time to come out here with my bike and just look for a few caches.thanks.

Tftc. Good colour.

Our evening stroll before lockdown begins tomorrow. We managed to cross over the road safely as already the traffic seems lighter.Once as GZ it was a quick find of this familiar type of cache.We are now wondering how many of the grottys we have found.

Found this Cache during a short walk. TFTC

With some sustenance grabbed in the shape of a grotty (but expensive) burger from nearby I headed down this road to return the van. Easy here and replaced as found. T F T C agazo

Time to head back home and I have around an hour to spare before taking the rental van back to it's owners. A chance for a few more in the region before heading to my barren cache-scape of Marlborough. Managed low double-digits today and some good ones in amongst the others.

I'm up in Auckland for the week, with a couple of options for transport and with a healthy choice of 4 evenings plus one late-afternoon at my disposal for caching. Would be remiss of me not to take advantage of what some (km) would call a 'target rich environment'. And so my week was spent well, a count of 75 caches was found, a few DNFs and a plethora of G-2's special cache treats with awesome camo and attachments. Some nice evening weather made things easier, and I averaged a 10km walked each day = nice. Thanks to all COs for their caches, individual logs as/when remembered.

Last day in Auckland, but have some hours to kill, so after my morning park run I thought I best get some mor km’s in. Spying a central car park and two loops of cache off I Trott. Thanks for the little adventure.

Find number 6064. Spending a couple of days in Auckland geocaching. Decided to cycle the trail to the airport today. I found a total of 45 in the area. Weather was a bit iffy but who cares I am geocaching. A slight detour from the cycle trail to this. Another GROTTY ticked off. Good Round Of Thanks To You

Up in Auckland for the weekend staying at the Ibis .quick park and grab.

Filling in time before our flight.
Thanks.

Got it - TFTC

Took a while! But we found it

The cache was gone, so I replaced it with a new one which has a waterproof log.

Out and about today hunting down a few stray caches and came across this one to turn into a smiley.

TFTC.

Might need maintainence

No luck either....

No luck today

Mum McArgister’s flight was delayed so rather than racking up parking fees I popped out again to come look for a GROTTY. Unfortunately no sign of any log for me to sign. Probably just being blind in the torchlight

picked this up after dropping a friend off at the airport, spotted quickly. grotty #4 for me

In Auckland for a few days so only aiming a few caches. Brought my bike up so had to use it on some of these. TFTC

This has been on the radar a while. Had a vehicle today so went the distance. Thanks

Cycling along here picking up some caches. Always fun to collect some GROTTY's to keep the numbers ticking over, TFTC

A bit too obvious. Thanks for the cache.

Found with Madcow2. A few hours to spare between flights. We enjoyed the walk. TFTC

Wasting time waiting for a flight

Found it and I will find a pen soon photo taken as proof tftc

A quick and easy find. Funny, The Te Araroa trail seems to have shrunk a bit. One power pole points to the pole over the rode, and the one over the road points right on back!! Cheers

A quick visit up to Auckland to see my mum. Took the long way round to the airport and found a few boxes on the way!

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

Easy find! TFTC!

Just time to grab a couple of caches before having to be at the airport.
This was a quick find, signed the log and replaced as found
TYFTC

Found this one on a stroll around the airport on this beautiful afternoon. Thank you very much for the cache and greetings from Switzerland.

Just had to pick up a Grotty today having been to the COs event last week. Wish we had wheels to pick up a few more instead it was 18 caches on foot. But have thoroughly enjoyed the walk and the variety of hides.
Didn’t think this one was grotty at all. Nice find.
TFTC and greetings from Adelaide Australia

Easy driveby. SL TFTC

Found a pink dolls house in the undergrowth but was a red herring! It's not in the bush.

Out in the area planning on going for a but the area we intended on going there was a horse event on so we decided to come here instead and grab a few caches. Quick find.

After the TB hotel we made our way here. Quickly found and signed.
Thanks for the cache.

Found the pink castle and thought that was the cache and then looked through the images to find the true cache. Horrible weather. TFTC.

#16285. I've found plenty of grotty caches in the past; this might have been the first GROTTY cache I've found. Quick find here. TFTC.

TFTC.

Funny hinting spot.

Very easy

Good placement

On a family ride finding caches. TFTC

Found it yus

Thanks

In Mangere with a 3 hour Geocaching pass while Ms M has her annual Hawaiian Body Work.

My last cache for the day. After signing the log I got the call. Leave pass has ended.
I started looking everywhere but.... Eventually I spotted it.
About 30 finds in 3 hours. Most satisfying. Thanks for placing so many GROTTY caches.

TFTC

I had to drop my son back at the airport today. Unfortunately it was a cold, showery, blustery day but I don't get down here very often so I was determined to make a day of it. A good woolen jersey my Mother knitted me did the trick nicely to keep me warm. I haven't been out caching for a while so I wanted some numbers on the board. This was an easy find once I eliminated other pink items around gz. Yes, yet again some rubbish had been dumped nearby. In the end and considering the weather, I found a respectable 27 caches for the day. Luckily I'd packed a change of clothes as I got soaked - glad my crew were warm and dry at home today. I still have quite a few more to find around here but it's nice to have some smiles on my map. Thanks for your series of caches in this area

Stopped by today and all is well. The location has moved a bit, so be sure to sign the log.

It was an early 4am start to snag a flight to Auckland and a few hours hanging around before snagging another flight to Raro - Our destination for a week caching. So lets explore around the airport while waiting.
This road is pretty grotty with heaps of rubbish everywhere, even though Grotty has a different meaning so we found out later. Snagged and tagged. Cheers

Got the early morning flight into Auckland, and have the late afternoon flight out, so Taybeedragon and I are killing time with geocaching. We walked for hours! Stopped here along the way.

Year, I agree. it's pretty grotty. This road is a rubbish dump. You probably don't see it so much driving past, probably the hordes of cyclists coming past didn't see it either. Try walking. Or just being at GZ.

1st on the last day in NZ before we head back to SA
TFTC
The Bakers

Found whilst waiting for our flight to Christchurch as visiting Christchurch was a cheap way to get to Blenheim for our son's tech course graduation as part of his RNZAF training. With a couple of hours before our flight we decided to fill in the time by doing a bit of airport caching.

This one was a quick find as we head to the Park n Fly to put our car away for the week.

another Grotty bites the dust thx

Up in Auckland for another night to see someone off to the airport. Woke up around 4am so went for a wander. Somehow I always chose the darkest places.

It was refreshing to see that this first cache along this road was a grotty one, I got a few of these last time I was up this way so I had a good idea what to look for. No trouble finding this one even in the pitch darkness.

Cheers.

Quick find on my way to find a Phoenix... tftc

Went out for a little tour to grab some easy Caches. The weather was cold and grey but fortunately not raining. Anyway, for most of the Caches I could park very close and make easy finds.
Quick and nice find here!
Thanks for hiding!

Was in Auckland for the biannual Foodstuff expo and decided that since I was in Auckland that I would pick up a few caches over the next few days. I managed to arrive in Auckland a bit early and was waiting on the rest of the team and as I was going to be picked from the airport by a college, I managed to persade him to take me down the road so I could pick up this cache before heading back to the airport to pick up the rest of the team.

As we neared GZ, and I knew that it was going to be a park and grab I managed to get him to park within metres of GZ and then I got out of the car and managed to spot the cache very quickly, retrieved, signed and replaced back as found.

Thanks Agazo for placing this cache here and for bringing me to this spot, TFTC TNLNSL (13268), in the end it wasnt too grotty, but I noticed that the area needed a bit of a CITO as there seems to be a bit of rubbish around the area.

Out today collecting caches for the Planetary Pursuit challenge and needed some quick and easy finds. And this proved to be the case here. All good with this cache. Found with Purply and Darthcacher1. TFTC

Walking from supermarket to hotel & saw this the side road. Had to grab. Bugger, no writing stick, but took photo if the CO would like proof. TFTC!!!

A quick stop off on our way to a walk around Stonefields.
As we parked at GZ a large group of gang members went past on their bikes so we waited until they were out of sight before making the find.
It was perfect timing as no sooner than we had hidden the container a group of council workers turned up to do some weed spraying, a truck pulled up behind us and a group of cyclists sped past.
A very busy day at GZ today. TFTC.

With the reports of rubbish stopped by to see how GZ looked. I filled in a request for the Council to clean up all along Ihumatao Road, so they must have got the big stuff from this area. All that I did was collect two grocery bags of small litter. The site would be a five star rating, but there is one big piece that is partially buried that I need a shovel to remove.
The log paper was almost full, so while I was here, I replaced the cache, too.

I found something nearby that I'm going to use as a future geocache

Easy park and find with Riser5 on our way home from a weekend in Auckland. Tftc. Unfortunately area has been used as a bit of a dumping ground.

We came across your cache, Agazo, on our first day of sixteen exploring geocaching in NZ.

Our first NZ cache but what a really grotty place. Really does live up to its name.

Log signed and replaced at 2:59 pm on 28th Februart 2018. TFTC.

I had just gotten off a flight back to Auckland from Wellington and realised that I hadn't yet grabbed my cache of the day I needed in order to keep my current streak alive. So I pulled up the geo-map and that is how I came to be looking for this particular cache. So after driving literally to GZ, this one was a nice and quick find. The log book has been signed and the cache is nicely back in its place all ready for the next finder. So thank you once again Agazo for taking the time to set up this cache. As always, I really appreciate your efforts in doing so. This find makes it day 558 in a row for my current streak. TFTC!

A quick find after not finding (or looking for) any caches in a while

Haven't done a lot of caching this month so hopefully this will bump our number up. Tftc

Easy find thanks

Nice quick park and grab. Hoping to get another 5 grotty's tonight.

As the weather had improved Aiden29 and I decided to enjoy a walk through Stonefields, then pick up some of the nearby Grottys. I parked up right next to the cache and made a quick find

no dismounting neccercery

Out for a round of mini golf with the kids so decided to pick up a few local caches. This was a nice quick find. It had a sign for the Te Araroa trail on the post.... this certainly isn't one of the most scenic walks to do TFTC!

Got my bike back from Wellington and had nice and plesant journey in the Mangere area. Quick find. TFTC

A quick stop to find this one before flying out for my holidays . Cache is all good here. Tftc.

#8528 @0340
In NZ for a couple of days for my daughter's admission to the bar. A quick stop and find here before checking in for my flight back to Australia. TFTC.

Previously logged under team account BoogieRogue. Re-logging with my individual account. Quick park and grab. TFTC

Quick park and grab. TFTC

Find cache...all dry and still intact

Found it quickly, TFTC

Schnell gefunden. DfdC

Nearly made it without leaving the car

Awesome great easy park n grab. Thanks for the cache.

Had some spare time passing through this way on very pleasant sunny day. Found this cache. Nice container.

Done & dusted. That puts me a 40 more grotty caches to find, and my aim is to clear out your ones around the airport