Phone Home (North Shore, Auckland) Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By JohnGillon & Charlie-Jo Gillon on 01-Aug-16. Waypoint GC6VWN8

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

I'll replace this after Alert Level 4.

Looks like this has gone missing

Good hiding spot! Found today

Very good

Nana's first cache. Thanks

Nice way to spend a walk with Nana

Clever cache. Nice and quick find. Tftc

Tftf felt a bit of a muppet using my phone in a phone booth.

Awesome cache, TFTC

Found it 11/10/2019

It’s on the blue box check under and look for the sign sheet shhhh don’t tell

Found

Found with darkangel10151!

Great hiding spot!

Nice find with mikefnz tftc, very clever - had to ask for help then realised I had run my fingers right over it...

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I couldn't find this geocache I looked for ages looking like a complete madman
Although I'll keep trying

A quick stop off here to grab the cache. Only took a few seconds to find as not many places for a cache to be. Nice cache. Log signed b+p

Retro️

Lots of muggles. No one saw us.lol

Checked this afternoon and it is still there AnonaWard!

So it would appear that we are the worst geocachers on the shore. Cant even find one at a phone box. Hmmm.

Popped out after dinner to give this one another go. Realised we needed this find to fill a spot in our calendar. Really don't know why we didn't find it the first time. Had my hand on it in the 3rd spot I checked this time. Really cool wee cache, haven't come across one of these before. SL. TFTC.

Found this cache on the 13th of january, after not finding it the evening before. It seems that i did not log it on the 13th. Nice little cache

This cache took us two tries on two different days. Finally found it with a group of cousins 3 to 12 years. What a buzz when we found it! Thanks for the hide.

Checked again. All good.

I was contacted by someone who couldn't find the cache. Checked today and can confirm that it is still there, with room in the log.

Quick park and grab while I was waiting for my next work meeting. Clever hide! Took me a min or two to figure out how to sign log. Fave point from me

Checked. All good

No luck here today, by ourselves, then with YorkshireKiwi83.

Wow, this one still works! Have seen the booths around in the city but they've mostly been decommissioned. Anyway, was an easy find, first spot I looked. Cache is in good condition. Tftc

Great cache for this spot. My way of checking for it completely missed it, but Hayleyfcy tried a different way and spotted it immediately. Clever hide. Thanks!

Time to go to Beachhaven dodging the showers this morning.

I couldn't phone home as I had the home phone with me.[:o)]

Cheers for the cache.

After completing some home chores in the morning we decided to reward ourselves with a few caches in the afternoon. We set off from home with Beach Haven in mind stopping for a few easy and not so easy park and grabs. Had lots of fun today exploring some new parks, beaches and bus stops and enjoyed the many different hides from the CO's today.

You know its only now that I am home logging that I realised the name of the cache gave it away, helps to read cache pages and look at your GPS rather than making assumptions about bus stops...!!! because we know what happens when you ASSume!!! Needless to say after hunting at the bus stop for a while we expanded our search and found the nice hide quickly. TFTC!

parked the car in the shop carpark, in front of the bus stop to provide cover while searching, only to realise we had the wrong object, DOH! if I could give favs I would. TFTC!

Decided that we would come to this area today and collect some of the caches.this was a great hide and as others have said we certainly hadnt found one like this before either.very fun to sign the log especially when the bus came along.raining now so will take some shelter.

Great hide! Seen few of them last week in Australia. TFTC

Very clever and sneaky hide, I've never seen a cache like this before. I had to look twice to realize it was the cache... TFTC

Our first geocache! Let the games begin!

Was wonder where it could be. Then last minute opifane. Great hide

Checked. All good.

Cool cache, thanks

Very clever hide, had to laugh when I spotted it. Gets a FP from me, cheers

I've never seen one like that before, felt a bit awkward writing our name. TFTC

Parked up a the nearby shops and set about searching. After a brief look, had a sudden thought and the cache was in hand. Good hide, thanks

Nothing more satisfying than turning a dnf into a smiley face. This time I sent in Geo hubbie to have an extensive search while I looked on. Just after he gave up I had a moment of inspiration and came up with the goods. Never seen one like this. Nifty. Tftc.

Checked. All good and in the right place.

Great hide

DNF

Like many other finders, I did have to ask for a bit of extra help here, Quite a sneaky idea and I knew what to look for but I guess I was too lazy or not thorough enough because it was exactly where the CO said it was, Thank you for quite a cool cache and for that you get a fav today. Cheers

After a few weeks of no caching we decided to not let the wet weather stop us from getting a few drive by caches. Thanks for this drive by.

Cache back in play.

Retrieved to add more log capacity.

I was thinking I'm starting to get really tired, so I pulled in here and got myself some refreshments i.e coke and a sandwich, righto, after devouring that in rapid fashion I was more in the mood to carry on caching! Naturally I came here to search for this cache, I have done a heap of walking today and the last thing I need right now is more walking, so it was a welcome reprieve to come here. After feeling up a few areas here I found the cache! Whoo hoo! But as the C.O. is aware now, the log is very full, but I managed to put my signature somewhere. Cheers for the cache John.

Had to fo, embarrassing as I have one like it -;)
Log full though
Thanks

FITW FMZ
Out on some late night caching to make numbers before our trip to Tonga. Took us longer than expected. TFTC

This one took longer than it should before we found it where both of us had previously checked. TFTC!!!

Took us a wee while to find this one but sticking to it paid off for us in the end as after a while we eventually found it. Nice to find one a little different to what we were expecting - these locations have given us plenty of trouble so happy about this one. Thanks for placing, good idea.

Really please I found this one before my compadre - though it did take me a few long minutes. TFTC!

Carrying on our mid-afternoon wander with teotocchi and went round and round this one a few times. Could only be in so many places though and eventually T cracked it and came away with the cache in hand. Nicely done here - TFTC

Awesome fun find!! Different.

DNF'd this cache last time and as Mr TW and Mrs TW were out and about we thought we would have another go. Checked all the places we thought of again and still empty handed. Hmmmm, just goes to show that it doesn't matter how many caches you have found it can still be the simple ones that trip you up. Have found a variety of caches over our time and YES, one just like this but could we find it? NO! In desperation we text the CO who very promptly pointed us in the right direction, and YES it was there, and YES we had checked there but obviously not well enough. Told the CO I would write an embarrassing log but actually there is nothing wrong it not finding a cache... it just gives you an excuse to come back. Nice bakery here so that was lunch sorted. Have to award a FAV point for this.

Very cool type of cache. Thanks

Initial attempt on day of publication saw zero success. A very quick response from the CO when asked proved very helpful. Not what we were looking for initially and a new type of cache for us.
Thanks for the placement (and response) and welcome to the Haven.
SL

TFTC

Not what I was first looking for, but there it was so I will take it thanks. Tftc

I popped out for a couple of hours around midday to run an errand or two and to collect a few caches for my troubles. The biggest difficulty here was finding, ironically enough, a car park. Ended up parking down the street a wee way away. Once at GZ I detected the cache after a minimum search and signed the log. Cheers for the cache placement!

Just checked and its still there Team Welsh

We must of missed the obvious as no luck for us today.

Caching in the area with Jag50 and Aiden29. Having found a similar type of cache, I knew exactly where to look and what to look for and had the cache in hand very quickly. There was no point phoning home as there was no one there, so it was off to the next cache

Out caching in the area with Merlot58 and Jag50. Merlot58 knew exactly how to get her hands on this type of cache, so a quick find was made and returned to it's hiding location.

Out caching in the area with Merlot58 and Aiden29. We all piled in to phone home. Quickly had our hands on the cache and signed in as team JAM.

Found while out n about

TFTC

This cache shows up as not being all that far from home - but it is a long drive around from Whenuapai. There was still a bit of activity in the shops when we pulled into the carpark, but nobody paid us any attention as we moved to GZ. A short time later we had the cache in hand. Thanks for a nicely done cache.

Another nearby cache that was published when we were 18000 km's away. Home now so we drove over to Beach Haven to nab our dialy find. The only issues here were muggles, especially the lady sitting in the bus stop not catching any of the 2 buses that drove past. Cannot wait any longer for the path to clear so Scotty phoned nobody whist Kiwiscot searched and found the hide. TFTC

I looked at the obvious possible places and came up empty. On my second look I spotted the cache laying on the ground, so I replaced it in a spot that I thought it should be. CO may want to verify it is in the right spot. TFTC.

Thanks Agazo. I'll check it tomorrow. I've been thinking of a way to secure/hide it better too so will do that soon.

Decided to head out for a bit of a walk today. This one was published whilst I was at the Mega, so no chance to grab it first. Upon arriving at GZ I used it to hide my searching. I had my hand on the cache right away, log signed and replaced in moments. Thanks for the cache and the excuse for a stroll. #668

2nd to find !!!!
Was out of town when this was published...so today after work was keen to pop over and look for it !
Very cool !
Thanks John and Charlie Jo !
Don't see this kind every day ..love it !

Yay! First ever FTF for the Tregonning family!

When I saw the notification last night, I thought there'd be no chance no one would have found it by morning. But, after a leisurely Labour Day breakfast, I popped out with the girls to get my morning coffee, and realised there was still an FTF on offer. We made a detour and nabbed it. Miss Three was very pleased to hear that this treasure had been hidden by another little girl and her daddy.

Thanks - a very original idea for a cache. Never seen one like it - I didn't even realise what it was when I looked right at it.

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