This cache is Mine! (Auckland) Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By GeoTrioNZ on 15-May-16. Waypoint GC6HQRH

Found quickly and furtive while idling for a few minutes before entering the Base.

A quick stop and wait at the gate before going to a wedding thanks for the placement to able to do on the way TFTC

This is a revisit after a dnf earlier last year. Despite looking for it twice last year without luck, today it was a very quick find. I have no idea of how I missed it last year. Three DNF's found very quickly in the last 30 minutes. Puts a smile on ones face. Thanks.

Im back in Auckland for a few days with family before heading to the Mega in Dunedin. After some grandparent duties this morning, I spent the afternoon caching in Devonport. Once I had a sweep of the mine, I soon found the cache. Logbook signed and replaced as found. All good here. Tftc

Fantastic little stroll down memory lane as a daughter who dad served in the navy. Beautiful sunny day and no muscles to get in the way. TFTC

Our first cache in New Zealand, and what a view! Tftc

**22,110**A nice quick find here in the early morning with not a muggle in sight. Great view across the water. Really beautiful after the wild night last night. TFTC

I'm now back in NZ, having spent the last couple of months in Europe. Part of that involved leaving my car with friends in Northland (just), and yesterday I met up with them in order to have a catch up as well as get my car back ready for my big drive back down south again this weekend.Today I'm driving back to Auckland, and with no particular timeframe to adhere to I'm making the most of the opportunity to do a little cache maintenance on my own few caches up here, as well as pay a visit to a part of Auckland that I've never actually been to before, Devonport.Having parked up centrally, I had a great stroll around the place, picking up a few caches along the way such as this one. As I approached GZ I wondered if I was in for a bit of a hunt for one of those tiny magnetic canisters, but no, this was far more straightforward. No issues to report here and once the log had been signed everything was replaced just as found.Thanks for setting this one up.

Thanks

After an early start this morning with kids activities, as I returned home there was much chat about an impromptu caching day in Devonport. Mr HeMaLuDy stayed home to chop firewood and I jumped in with Mr and Mrs NZT and NurseDr; Keylev and Cragger were also with the crew today. Logs signed as Team SEAC or just SEAC to save space. A nice quick find here.

Out for another team SEAC impromptu caching adventure to clean a few up in Devonport with hemaludy nztravellers and keylev. TFTC.

Nice wander around Devonport, collecting smiley faces All good hereNice location, TFTC!

What a cool mine!! Last one on our hunt today. Devonport is awesome.tftc

Stopped at this cache while visiting **New Zealand**! [^]**My #151st visited Geocaching country!**---This cache was easily found and the logbook was signed.One more smiley face for me in the GEO map.Everything was in good condittion.Thank you for hiding this cache and showing me this place! ---Greetings from ***Riga, Latvia***! [^]**Happy caching!**----------***For a little entertainment, here are 10 Fun Facts about Latvia!*** 1) Latvia is among the worlds greenest countries.2) Its home of the first Christmas tree.3) The Latvian flag is considered by many to be the oldest national flag in the world.4) Country has the widest waterfall in Europe.5) Latvia boasts the finest Art Nouveau architecture in the world.6) Jacob W. Davis, a Latvian tailor, was an inventor of rivets on famous Jean pants.7) The Latvian Song & Dance Festival is recognised by UNESCO as the largest amateur song and dance festival in the world!8) Alexander Laime, a famous Latvian-born explorer. He is most noted for being the first recorded human to reach Angel Falls (highest waterfall on earth), located in Venezuela, by foot.9) Latvians love basketball and Ice Hockey.10) Latvia is famous for being the home country of the inventor of the flavor of Pringles.----------..\*""*.,,.*"",..,*"",.\...\ ------- **MATISONS!** ------- \....\*""*.,,.*"",..,*"",..\.....\......\ /// \Paldies/ Aith / Ai / Thanks / Merci / Gracias / Danke / Bedankt / / / / Tak / Kiitos / / / / Ksznet / Grazie / / / Whakawhetai / / Dziki / Obrigado / Mulumiri / C / Hvala / Dky / Teekkrler / Ngiyabon / / / Tak / Kiitos / / / / Ksznet / Grazie / / / Whakawhetai / / Dziki / Obrigado / Mulumiri / C / Hvala / Dky / Teekkrler / Ngiyabon

A day off work so started the nearby ad lab so a logical place to also pick up a trad as its right next door. Thanks for the vache.

Nice case and good location!!

Full log to come

We were docked in Auckland New Zealand for two days on our ship - Holland America's Volendam. On Day #2, we took the ferry across to Devonport to do some Adventure Labs and some caching. By the end of the day, we completed 3 Labs and found 12 caches in our 8-mile hike. The two Labs in the Maungauika (North Head) trails had us going up, down, around, up, down, around . . . until we completed all 10 Stops - Phew! We still had some energy left after that, so we walked to Fort Takapuna to do the Lab and the caches there.Thank you to G-2 for 8 of the caches we found and to the other 4 COs for their efforts and for the other 4 caches.Thank you also to the Lab creators: G-2, Rebel98, and lumin298 for their efforts in setting up these Labs.#####################This Cache: Quick Find

We saw that this cache had been replaced after a DNF months ago and rushed right over! TFTC!

Visiting the North Island from Ottawa, Canada, by way of the South Island, and Sydney. Gotta get some caches along the way. TfTC

**🏃** *Our long (28-day) adventure to New Zealand with a stopover in Singapore (2-days).Day 29: Auckland. Day trip to Devonport. Harbour cruise.* **🏃**----------**💻** Today's Cache **11** of **13** @ **13:30**, Total Caches **13113**. **💻**----------**🐤[^] Blew me away. [^]🐤**----------**❤[:X]** TFTC GeoTrioNZ **[:X]❤***Logs posted using CrowMatic Publish*

Excellent hide. TFTC

A quicky as we continued our Devonport walkThanks GeoTrioNZ

Nice hide. Greetings from the UK. TFTC

Replaced. All good to go now!

Replaced

### New Zealand 2024 ###On our 1 week tour North New Zealand tour we visited many caches in Auckland, Habbiton, Taupo, Huka Falls, Piha, Devonport and Mount Eden.We had a lot of great experiences along the way and had a lot of fun searching for the caches.Thanks to all the owners for the great caches Team sissifalke

Looked everywhere. Based on the fact that the last 3 couldnt find it either, id say its been taken so maybe come check up on it?

TFTC!#1031

No luck here. Since there are not too many possibilities it might be gone.

Spent a while but pretty sure this isn't here or has very much evaded us

No joy.

We are visiting some nice locations during the month of august : Singapore, New Zeland, Hong-Kong and Macau.A fantastic touristic and geocaching tour in these different countries. Thanks to all geocachers for all their geocaches.------------------Nice Traditionnelle geocache easily found Thanks to GeoTrioNZThis cache is Mine! (Auckland)Greetings from France

Found after a bit of a search

A nice quick sunset find. Thanks for the cache

Quick easy find. TFTC

Spending an afternoon in Devonport in the autumn sunshine.

After a pleasant few hours around North Head, I thought I'd cache a bit along the waterfront.

Boom! A quick find here.

Thanks GeoTrioNZ
#4514

Third time lucky. I have searched GZ at least twice during the last couple of years but couldn't find it. I bet it had been missing then, because today it was a quick find. Nice hide, FP given.
Tftc

The find is mine. Tftc

Too many mugllers very bussy jete

I had no luck here yesterday and after a PAF I returned today. Still no luck.

Found 07/4 Beaudy.S. Nice view of the city and easy find

Found during our honeymoon...thanks for the cache, u have beautiful country!!!

Luckily there was no-one around when I arrived at GZ although I was almost caught out when replacing! Mines are quite large aren't they? Thanks for the hide and adding to the adventure today GeoTrioNZ!

Level 10 stealth!! Many muggles, but nobody caught us! Thank you!

Found it ! TFTC. Signed JAS to save space returned as found.

TFTC found with nzref while on holiday

Nice quick walk and find with claireyc tftc

AWESOME FIND!! Snug spot and a very nice view with a friend : )

Nice easy find. TFTC

Was in the area today to collect cache numbers and with a few adventure labs nearby, decided upon here for the task......On the bike for faster commuting times between caches.....later on in the afternoon this option really paid off, when the thunder storm hit suddenly.........

Cache is all good, signed in as SAC sometimes to save space in the logbooks........

TFTC.

found

Thought we might struggle with this one, but surprisingly found straight away.
TFTC.

One of the smaller mines I think... but beautifully formed.

Today I did a12 hour hike in Devonport with lots of caches and 5 LAB.
It was very cloudy and at 5pm the sun came out. Had 3 no finds and many of the logbooks was full. Nobody will write a maintain so I am also.
Thanks a lot, was a great day.

I am not keen on mechanism hunts, but this is a pretty small mechanism so maybe I can find it - wow - that was easy - given the size of this thing I was expecting a nano cache. Found with a bunch of muggle mates, on our way back to base. After dinner I left them to sleep or party or whatever it is that muggles do after dinner, while I headed out again. There's more hunting to do!

Leant something today. Torpedo Bay is so named after the torpedos that where reserved here, to be laid in the harbour for the Russian invasion that never happened. Turns out that torpedo is derived from Latin "to stun" (as in torpor - lethagy), and in those days, torpedoes included these tethered mines. Learnt that at the museum. Lots of cool stuff at that museum!

A flying visit (literally) for work today. My team and I flew to Hamilton, did our work there, then drove to Auckland to be ready for part two the next morning. However everything went faster than expected, the team arrived here earlier than planned, so we all headed to the Naval Museum to fill in some time. From there we walked back to barracks, geocaching along the way. After dinner I went back out again and climbed all over North Head (to use the naval term for the place). What an amazing place!
Next morning I went out yet again and found a few before breakfast. The team headed out for part two of the job and we all flew out about lunchtime. Still, 14 found - not bad! Oh - and three complete adlabs!

The day is wet out, but the cache is somehow still dry. The view is immaculate. Tftc!

Interesting to look around at these exhibits - thank you!

Tftc!!! Came out here for the adventure lab. Found this cache too. Felt sneaky next to the Navel Base Amazing view of Auckland harbor!! Great walk along the water.

TFTC, away from Muggles and a great piece of history

Out with Nutty Nora for a quick find. Best to come along at a quiet time.

Boom! Found with Squirrel in the Middle. Wandered along here as part of the adjacent Adventure Lab. Nice one

A nice quick find. You can have it. Thanks for placing your cache.

I'm in Auckland and I am exploring the region while I am based here. Today was a good day, I cruised around and about Devonport. The weather was pretty good,and I had a great time.

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

TFTC. Nice and easy find while out for lunch.

Great day for finding geocaches. 6/6

Very clever spot
On a streak with ag9mm

Tftc. First one in NZ!!!

Had to drop girls off at the wharf for a trip to Rangitoto. Their ferry was cancelled. Decided I had a good parking space so walked the geohound down to find this one. A nice quick find.

Thanks for bringing us here. Soon had cache in hand.

Good hide!

We have the same item in our town, Maldon Essex, for a virtual cache. T4T$

Out doing that adventure lab with my wife.
Quick find for her..
Thanks for the cach and the fun

Found the log!! Good hide!!

BOOM!!!!

FITW Harisree
In Auckland for Mega event

On road to find caches while in town .

TFTC

FITW Albijos

We are here in Auckland to attend the Mega, thought to explore Devonport today and also enjoy night views from the Domain. Had no much trouble in finding this one. TFTC.

Nice easy for us today very windy

Quick find on a cool object nice view too

Fond

Found with some small cachers an a lovely day. Easy find tftc

glad I spotted this quickly and swiped it as staff seemed to be leaving for the day. tftc

We had arranged to meet Team Welsh and Bennett24 near here on this rather cold morning. Two of us had not found this cache previously so we started a search. Tried a few likely places before one of us spotted the almost brazen hide. Thanks.

Arranged to meet near here to look for another cache, kiwicouple and myself came over to grab this cache while we waited for the last member to arrive. I spent a couple of times looking around at all the obvious places to find it before kc stepped in and found it straight in front of me in a place I was not expecting - almost out in the open. TFTC.

Up in Auckland for the Day.Some great hides up here.
Thanks to the CO

Nice quick find

Found while doing the Adventure Lab in the area. TFTC

Another yellow smilie while out and about today thanks.

In Devonport looking for some caches with kiwisavage. Had looked for this previously but not sure how I missed it. nice quick find this time. TFTC

As previously said, I found the cache and the lid with not log.

I added a log and placed it back in hiding, hopefully all good to go now!

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

The container is still there, I saw the lid on the ground first . But log is awol.

Thank you from Howard and Kath
Beautiful area

#1

Didn't take too long to find this, but had already tuned my eyes in for something a bit smaller, (remembering one in Australia years ago) I almost started laughing, when I found it Lol!, my sweep turned out quite a quick one, I didn't get very far at all, TFTC.

Good find great place big bomb boom

cool

felt a little suspicious playing with large explosive devices next to a naval base, but with a little groping the cache was soon in hand

Great view of the city...nice day to be out caching

I found this cache while out and about with ten students who made up team "SJCgeocamp". We parked next to the mine today before heading for a day trip to Rangitoto island. It didn't take to long with plenty of eager searchers to find this one. Interesting spot. TFTC.

TFTC! Easy find