Totara Vale Treasure #5 (North Shore, Auckland) Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By JohnGillon on 23-Apr-16. Waypoint GC6G8HA

Thanks for the hide I dont like the spider that was on it tho

Another cache that had been recently DNFed , you know what that means we had to find it and find it we did

M26: astrolovers with the find, good sized cache too. Log all good here. TFTC.

After about 15 minutes digging through the 'Natural Camo' in various positions around the coordinates, I have no idea where a container that is the size of a traditional cache could even be.

Still on my mission to help out some fellow aliens to fuel up their space ship. 29 more caches to go, 16 of which I did today. Again I had borrowed Greenkiwikid-the-youngest's scooter and went uphill and downhill and up again and down once more... I seldomly used the car (twice), had it parked close by and did most of today's caches with said scooter. The weather was perfect: nice and warm, sunny, a little breeze... Very pleasant. This cache drove me crazy. Despite reading the previous log, I couldn't find the cache. Coords were good, hint object found, but no cache. I read more of the previous logs, widened the search area, even fell for a spoiler photo that didn't even spoil anything and spent so much time at GZ, so that the barking dog close by even stoppped barking and instead started to quietly observe what I was doing. He must have felt pity with me and finally told me the location of the cache... Yepp. Turns out the cache had been buried under so much camo, it had almost made its way out of there.. Can't say more, but corrected the existing situation. Thanks for hiding and maintaining. Tftc

**21,412**A keen eye on approach to GZ meant this was a super quick find for Mr Geckoh who usually despises flax hides. TFTC

Found wooden house on a tree but no box

Took a while to work out which part of the fence to concentrate on, looking for a feature of interest. Eventually unearthed this one, a bit surprised by the size. Tftc

Too well hidden for me today.

Checked, all good.

We took a look at the cache near the start of our vacation trip. We first visited the playground with the children from our nice accommodation people and then the cache with them. A quick search and discovered the box. So we say thank you for this cache.

Yay found it took a while, but once we properly looked easy find !

Took us about 5 minutes as we were looking by the wrong fence! Lol once we looked at the other fence we spotted it straight away. Good one!

Been meaning to call by here for a while, gps was pretty accurate. Thanks!

took a while to find this but first one I’ve found!

Out and about today chasing numbers for a souvenir put out by HQ, need 100 caches for the month of April, and after today, will be close to around 80.

Not liking the DNF's here, but thought I'd come and have a nosey as well, maybe I'll find it, it's a lovely day for caching anyway! Well... happy to say I did find it, after some to-ing and fro-ing and yep, close as you can get to the fence! Contents all good here, nice and dry. Thanks JG for the hide.

Found fairy door then rummaged around large radius (as per comments not that close to fence and compass is off?) Couldn't find.

Good hide. Wasn’t sure wether to look inside or outside fenced off area which is locked.

Checked it is there and all is well.
- John has spoken.

We were on our way to an event in Santa's workshop so stopped here first. There was a choice of 2 fences but one of them looked more favourable. And the possible hiding places was limited. Cache was well hidden under some natural camo but surprisingly dry considering how wet our feet ended up.

Sjjsje

Dug through the leaves and sticks along the fence for a while. Didn't find it.

Either the cache is no longer here or it was just really hard to find because I couldn’t find it either

Has been taken

Cache exactly where it was stated. Area is overlooked, but all quiet today. Added some camo as non was present when I visited. TFTC

After so many months of driving past this general area on the way to/from Devonport it was never called in on to make a find. Rectified today and was found after a brief search, and barking from a resident dog nearby. Thanks for another cache JohnGillon.

So, my time living in the area is rapidly coming to a conclusion and I move South in a couple of weeks time back to the Manawatu region, though have plans to head back here periodically to visit and explore, once more. After my work chores were done for the day I headed out on a loop drive and walk to mop up some of my unfound caches within the North Shore area. Once again some good finds and big thanks to all COs for their hides.

Can confirm near fence.

Nice quick easy find, Thank You

I guess this cache must have moved a few times, it was as per the hint close to the fence contrary to what a previous cacher said. I had been here before but couldn’t search properly as there were some people outside their house and the undergrowth is quite noisy. TFTC

Fun find! Still some treasures inside. We have taken the army to another location

A few minutes until we spotted it. Thanks - our first geocache!

Not really close to fence. Compass not accurate

Easy find! Thanks!

Nice quick find where hint says it is. Gz is covered in cobwebs. TFTC

Nice quick find.

Found it with our Cadre boys

Found it

Hey, I found it. Compus way off and you might need to use a stick to get it because of spider webs. Nice find and very camouflaged. Nice Park where it is and cool playground. It was to wet to play on the playground but it wasn't to wet for a nice walk.

Thank you from Howard and Kath
Manchester UK

Have to go back and forth but finally found it

Fun little find, good spot.

Fun

Fun walk

Nice easy one to find with the kids

Really well hidden but in a obvious place. Lots of little thing which younger kids might like. In good condition

Have tried looking for it just can’t find it nowhere near a fence.

Found it

Few bugs around biting us, but found the cache fine.

First find for the new year! Figured today is the ideal day to get out and practice writing the new year in logs. A nice easy find - cache was a little more exposed than anticipated, so added a touch more natural camo on the way out. Also dropped off a TB. TFTC!

Kids first find. It took them awhile but they got there. They were so excited.

Found

Found

Out today in the North Shore finding some more caches for Mystery at the Museum. TFTC.

Checked on today and all good. Less foliage than in the past.
Look out for the fairy door not too far away

Always easier with a little help from a friend. Thanks for the cache.

Some people say that this hobby is not "all about number", how wrong they are. Especially when you set a personal challenge to keep your interest in this great hobby going. Over the years I have done this and this year (well it goes until 29/2/2020) is no different. So on to most caches that I can find.

The bank was a little slippery today.

Cheers for the cache.

Another chance to work my way continued on what I didn't clear off from last weekends trip. So once again an early start to the day followed by lots of laughter and fun while hunting for caches in the "Burbs" that really is Auckland.
An early start one again at "oh my god o'clock" which had me starting caching for the start of the day in the day. For the remainder of the day I was in the company of Alpenmilch80 for more laughter and fun as we worked our way through the area. So much nicer to be caching in fine weather after all the recent rain over the last few weeks. Logs signed as "APCD" (or some such varient) to conserve log space
For the day managed fifty two and three DNF's so all in all not too bad and home by 2.30pm

GPS had us out a bit but perserverence paid off and we got hold of this one
Thank you to all the cache owners who put in the effort for the game to keep us thinking about what is coming next.
thank you for the placement, thank you for the cache

After getting some Brezels at the German bakery in Glenfield I was collected by C&D for some geocaching in the area. After the sun came out to play nicely we enjoyed the muggle free early morning hours for our hunting. TFTC

Dont bee fooled vy fencse

Did not find.

Checked and replaced wet log and cache note.

Found it

Looked everywhere

Was in the area this morning so drove down here to collect this next one on the series. Walked around in a wee circle til the gps settled then there it was. TFTC

Quick find - signed, although log quite wet

Needed a cache for today, so decided on a short walk from home. On arrival at GZ the gps was all over the place and the location wasn't too pleasant probably as we've had so much rain. Nearly gave up when we finally found the cache. Thanks

Out caching in the North Shore area with Merlot58 and Aiden29. It took longer than it should have to locate this cache. We all searched the area, but it took a further investigation for the cache to be revealed from its natural hiding place.

Out caching in the area with Merlot58 and Jag50. This took a lot longer than it should have, having searched and dismissed the area before Mrs Jag looked a little harder under all the natural camo and found the cache.

Jag50, Aiden29 and I decided to collect some more of the Shore caches. I think all 3 of us searched that spot before Mrs Jag dug in and looked a little harder under the natural camo

Nice greets from Dresden in Germany . Tftc

Took a little longer than it should. Snails and babies still there

Mr b went down to grab this one. All quiet here today. Mr b was back in no time with a dnf. Mrs p headed down and also came up empty handed. Log signed b&p. Find number 4122.
Thanks for the cache JohnGillon.

Like the snail camo.... hang on they are real!

TFTC

A nice big box of treasure for the Tregonning Girls to find on our way home from Miss Three's Saturday morning swimming lesson - followed by a picnic at the playground. Thanks!

Quick find after work today, TFTC

Made it harder on myself than I needed to. TFTC.

I took the hint too literally before I expanded a little and found the cache. TFTC.

Not a very pleasant place in the wet, luckily the rain stopped long enough for me to make the find. tftc.

It was a bit of a drizzly late afternoon when we were deciding where to go to find a cache today. Not too much walking required at TVT#5 so this was our target. Arrived at GZ and found the cache after checking a couple of spots that fitted the clue. Thanks.

On my way home after a hike around the Paremoremo Scenic Reserve. Still time enough to stop for some caches to break up the trip home. Parked up and made my way into the reserve and over towards GZ. Spotted a likely spot and went over to investigate. Nope, not there. Oh it's right next to it, got it. Cheers for the cache placement!

A quick lunchtime dash for a calendar maintenance day. Never driven down this street before, so a welcome new GZ. Took a moment to locate. SL. TFTC.

Great little park I've overlooked-;)
Well done
I like the plastic bag, where do you get those from and what are they?
Thanks

Another weekend trip to the shore to try and clean up all the unfound caches that have appeared on our map. Nice quick find here but a bit slippery underfoot with all the recent rain. TFTC

Found a while ago but obviously didn't log-tftc

We like these ones, thanks for the cache

TFTC

Yay ...another third to find !
Easy thanks , after Epic Fail at Multi !
Cracks me up to see your use of these breast milk bags !

Thought we might be in trouble here but no problems and on our way. Tftc

Published

(FTF) 30/04/16 @ 16:45

We arrived back home from a trip up to the Far North and found a whole heap of nearby caches published about an hour prior. Quickly wrote down the co-ordinates and headed straight back out the door. After getting the nearby Normanton cache and meeting the successful FTF's at the new Diana Drive cache we headed over to get this one. Kiwiscot entered the co-ordinates into the GPS and soon we found ourselves standing in the middle of Rewi Alley Reserve with no hint item nearby. Soon figured out we had incorrectly entered the co-ords. After another short journey we arrived at gz. Took a few minutes of searching before the hide was uncovered. TFTC and our 2nd FTF of the day.

Another quick find while the kids played at the park. First to sign the paper cache log by the looks and left a Trackable plus also added to the cache goodies. TFTC