Beside Parkside (Franklin) Pukekohe, North Island, New Zealand
By RoMiAlTo on 30-Apr-16. Waypoint GC6GPRX

Whilst Mrs Msc_20 was catching up with a friend in town I took a wee trip here to pick off this cache. A fun hide. Thanks RoMiAlTo#5583Found using Cachlymsc_20, formerly caching as msebn

Quick find today, filling in another dot day. TFTC

Easy find

Very cool spot, thank you

**21,063**A nice quick find here thanks to a very clear hint. Another night time cache with no muggles around to worry about. Looks like a great park area. Clever cache hide. TFTC

Cool Camo, thanks for the cache

Great hide! TFTC

We are on a trip in New Zealand. A wonderful country with a lot of (old )caches. There are too many caches so we limit ourselves to the (old) gems or where we happen to make a stop. We found and signed this cache in good condition. RoMiAlTo, thank you for this cache, regards xizat-NL. Take care, this hobby can develop to an addiction.

After years on our bucket list and three cancellations due to Covid, we are thrilled to finally be here. Following several cruises we flew from Sydney, Australia to Wellington, New Zealand to begin our next adventure. Picked up our rental vehicle and will be driving, exploring, hiking, and caching both islands for 3.5 weeks. Once we read the cache page and realized that it was truly a park, not school property, we felt more at ease entering the property. The mural is a lovely work of art. NW grabbed the cache and added our ink to the log while RBG took a few photos of the mural. Thanks for adding to our adventure today, Nukeworker and Racquetball Girl, Arkansas, USA

Love the really clever camo device, managed to quickly grab the cache in between muggle traffic. TFTC

Love the spot where it’s hidden x

Cool find!

Approached the park in the dark and made use of some of the exercise equipment there. Wouldn’t recommend the seated one in the rain though.
Very sneaky hide, if you know what your looking forward the cache object becomes quite apparent. Very nicely done though

Nicely hidden, well done.
Added new waterproof log
FP added also
Thanks!

Nice one

Really well made cache, never seen an outside gym before!

Log is full but I took a photo as proof
TFTC!

Cool hiding spot. No room to write in though. needs maintenance

Always nice with some outdoors work out. The cache made the hubbie very happy!

Well construct cache
Fav point
Needs new log paper your special one. thanks

Our previous target was polluted by muggles so it was nice to find a quiet spot. TFTC!!

Found it!

Found with toby84. Log box full

Quick find, clever hide. The log is full and needs replacing. Found with Reny90

Brilliant hide, really clever.

Fun easy find on a sunny day. Thankfully there was no one else around

TFTC. Nice and easy to find while out this way for lunch. Great cache!

what a clever hide. Well thought out .2nd log rather damp

Cache are made to be found. Lovely logbook (a bit full full). Thanks for the cache.

Awesome geocache and we loved discovering the little park with exercise equipment.

One log is full - the other has space but is quite damaged so won’t last. Could do with replacing. Thanks again .

Log book is full

Took a moment to find but one of the best designs we have seen, very clever

Nice quick find for M13 given the clue.
TFTC

A nice quick find thanks. And a nice hide it was too. Log is over full so could use a replacement. A fav point from me too. Cheers.

Time for another trip to the North Island for Ms_KR and me. Today we did a little cruising around to the Franklin area. Will this long hot summer never end?

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

Quick and easy to find it was my first geo cache and I'm now im hooked!

Nice quick find! Tftc

Great wee cache. Favourite point from me, and popular with bugs too!

Really cool hide! Wandering while my car is serviced. Needs a new log. Tftc.

Very cool hide. I enjoyed it! Tftc.

Good fun to find

We disturbed a nest of earwigs when we came across cache. Cavity was full of them. Had to wait until they had all scattered until I could get log out. Great cache idea. TFTC

I shuddered at all the bugs. But luckily they’re fast movers and disappeared quickly. TFTC

What a cleverly built cache. Not your standard "chuck under a tree stump" design. This is really well made. We enjoyed having a go on the gym gear while on holiday to try and reverse the ravages of too much food and booze... didn't work. We unintentionally upset this huge and incredibly scary looking pitbull who was going ballistic at us from across the road, and decided to scarper as soon as possible. TFTC

Fortunately there were no muggles nearby and we could search unimpeded. We love hides like this, very nicely done. Gets a favourite point from us. Thanks RoMiAlTo

Teeny tiny and cute

Great little spot. Had a go on the gym gear. Clever hide. TFTC.

Yay - we found it!!

Headed South with Merlot and Pazza today for a caching trip on the shortest day of the year. Merlot tried out some of the nearby exercise equipment, while the rest of the team found the cache. Signed in as PMJ to save room on the small log. Lots of bugs have made residence in this cache.

Pazza2, Jag50 and I headed South Auckland way to find a few caches. I tested out some of the nearby exercise equipment while Mrs Jag signed the log

A nice little urban spot to grab a cache. Tftc

Needs a bit of love. Not from the bugs. Tftc

Decided to take a break from my studies and spend the day out caching. I offered to also take out my 2 nephews and niece along with me. We decided to head out to Pukekohe after picking up my nephew in Opaheke.

Let one of my nephews extract this one and he thought it was very cool. Then we all took turns trying out the gym equipment, which I struggled to get them off in the end.

Smallest cache I’ve seen! The kids are more interested in playing on the exercise equipment then helping me hunt for treasure.

Nice quick find after work, so many slaters lol
TFTC

With time to spare before I had to head to the airport and home, I continued to wander around Pukekohe finding a few caches along the way. Clever cache construction here - complete with earwig infestation to put off the muggles. TFTC, Biggles.

In the area doing a little caching. Love the camo. TFTC

Nice little hide - but filled with bugs eek! TFTC

NIce hide which was full of bugs! Log full so signed along the edge. T4tc

Great hide and also our last one of the night. When opened many many earwigs fell out I have hopefully cleared most them out. Gets a favorite point from us. Thanks for the well constructed cache.

Up in the area for a short time, and found this cache near my rellies - very convenient! What a great hide! Loved it, and the secret exercise park, which had to be tried out Pukekohe seems to look after its senior folk. TFTC and a favourite point.

What a wonderful park I even went round and tried all the equipment and now I’m really fit this is really a bonus for all the locals love to see it in the Naki TFTC gets a fave

Geocaching day in Pukekohe. This part of the town visited on my bike. Crafty one! Well placed. FP for that! TFTC

We planned to take a walk at Duders today for Fathers Day morning but due to the heavy rain decided on Pukekohe for transformer finding and quicker grabs from the car.

It absolutely decided to bucket it down when I was here so good time to test the new rain jacket but also thankful of the small amount f cover at GZ. Nice hide. TFTC.

Nice little hide here. Quickly found with Gorby while in the area. TFTC

Out and about for a big day of caching, I’m aiming to get at 30 caches today and FMZ has decided to join me for a small adventure.

Didn't take us long to spot the neat hide, I really enjoy these types of hides, hence a FP given. nice bit of work gone on here.

After walking the GoNZ trail we decided to find just a few more caches before returning home. We parked in the cul-de-sac and made the short walk to GZ, where we quickly spied where the cache would be. We enjoy this kind of hide, so are adding a Favourite point. TFTC

1.10pm
Teamed up with Squirrel Nutcase, abcdf4 and eyespyben for the day, plus I had some business to do as well.
Mission today was to try and clean out Pukuekohe area and look further at a couple of puzzles we had started on but not completed.
Didn't finish puzzles today but picked up all the others plus a couple more north that we needed a special tool for.
Great day of caching. SLTFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap) and our Huntly friends; ABCDF4 and eyespyben...

It was great to find a park that offers gym style equipment for the general public... It was even better to see the equipment in use. We arrived at ground zone and immediately spotted the cache, thanks to the explicit hint. TFTC.

On a 24hr mission to Auckland with Philip.Perry and three of my kids started caching at about 3pm getting back to accommodation at 330am then up and back on the road for a xouple of hours before heading home. We decided we had three caches we had to find this mission then the rest was all about getting our numbers up so concentrated on a high cache area. Meet Sethraven just on dusk who helped us on a cache we couldnt find before she headed home so that was great. Really enjoy caching in Auckland at night no traffic and no muggles to get in our way. We only had a few DNF caches for the day which isnt to bad. Thanks to all th CO for the caches.

Had a cheeky Auckland Mission on the cards this weekend and this was day two. It was a late one last night so today we figured we'd take it easy and try to clear Pukekohe out today before heading home. This cache was found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords and a good hint. A pretty neat container here, cheers RoMiAlTo, TFTC

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Lovely little park with exercise equipment - neat cache

Exercise equipment looks great!
The cache is very well put together!
Favourite Point!

That is very clever, no one around today which was probably due to the torrential rain so was able to make a nice undisturbed find. Found a spot on the concertined log before realising someone has added another log book. TFTC

Nice easy quick find

Tftc for the nice wee hide found with abcdf4

Nice quick park and find. Had to look around for a couple of minutes until i saw the hidden post.

I had an appointment down this way this evening. Once that was out of the way I decided to collect a few smiles before home. I parked up on the street and made the short walk to GZ. Quickly spotted something of interest and closer inspection confirmed the fine. Nice effort on the camo here. Cheers for the cache placement!

This was our first one for the area. Cool little hide. well done. While logging I could hear the cars racing today. So it was off to go check it out. Was a great day pukekohe. Tftc

Quick easy find. Liked the cache container.

Dear Cache Owners,
I am a German guy who stays in New Zealand for eight months.
My English is not perfect, so please don't wonder or be angry if my log entries sound a bit strange. Thanks!

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Today I made a Little trip by myself in my new Homezone area. Unfortunately I forgot the most important Thing, a pencil [xx(] . Thats why I add a Picture from the logbook to every log entry.
Really nice hide here, I liked it!
Thanks for hiding this Cache!

Nice park to keep fit

A nice area and a nicely constructed cache. Thanks for putting it there.

What an awesome camo. TFTC. Great park too. They need more of these in NZ.

From the Netherlands on holiday in NA. With my cousin geocaching in Pukekohe. Found this ons. Logrol was wet en nearly full. But great fun

Good hint easy find

tftc

Out with Bratstar01. Saw that the log was full so added a new one to the cache. Tftc

Love the design of this cache. As mentioned logbook getting full TFTC

Tftc

Nice logboo, but pretty full. So squeezed in our name. TFTC

Great cache great idea. Thank you

This was the last cache we were going to attempt before heading to The Sugar Shed for a treat so I was thankful it was a quick find although it took longer for the mini cachers to finish trying out the exercise equipment.

Very nicely constructed and worthy of a favourite point. Log is almost full though.

Thanks for the cache.

This was the last cache we were going to attempt before heading to The Sugar Shed for a treat so I was thankful it was a quick find although it took longer for the mini cachers to finish trying out the exercise equipment.

Very nicely constructed and worthy of a favourite point. Log is almost full though.

Thanks for the cache.

Found with keylev, laval and NZ Iceman.

Thanks for the cache

Found with keylev, cragger and NZ Iceman.

Thanks for the cache.

I really enjoyed this one, the type of cache and location with all the different exercise machines. Only wished I hadn't looked at the hint first as it gives very specific information which made a very easy find.
TFTC

I enjoyed the drive along finding some more good caches in the area.
Quick find, fun hide. SL TFTC

Nice fitness area and a quick find of the cache. No one around so we were quickly on our way again. TFTC

Tftc. Excellent hint. Quick find.

TFTC. Very descriptive hint