Wot a view Wottie! Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By G-2 on 04-Aug-17. Waypoint GC7A0ZE

Too many problems with this one

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Need to check

needs maintenance

DNF

No luck today.

A nice spot though.

Next time.......

After quite a search, no luck

Searched high and low

If it's where I think it is, no way I can retrieve log and sign. Also a badly timed open home at house opposite spot meant sooo many muggles

Muggles sat down at gz just as I got here.

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Nice hiding spot managed to get paper out and signed. tftc

So cute. Found it quickly. Tyfc

13/30 I wouldn't say I have stumpy fingers but this was tough to get at! Bring tweezer!! Tftc

Fairly well jammed but I don't carry the toolkit for nothing. TFTC.

Thanks for your amazing cache.
Took me a long time to coax the Wat Wats to release the cache. They put up an exhaustive effort.
Earned a favourite

With some good coordinates and an accurate hint this cache was soon at my fingertips, and there it stayed. Needs someone with a piece of wire to fiddle, poke and extract, my sausage fingers were no good. Nice hide and scenery though, thanks.

mrs c is keen for a trip to Sylvia Park today for some retail therapy and is taking our youngest daughter along which means between drop-off and pick-up I can cache to my hearts content and pick off some of the further afield options. Alas the day is threatening with heavy rain and storms (they never eventuated) so I was fairly conservative with my choices; no hills, no big walks so settled for a few along Wattle Downs and a few of the Challenge caches out Drury way, including a D/T I wanted for my second time round the grid.
Managed 20 cache finds for the day, a couple of DNFs and a nice walk out and back spotting the Wottie wots as I went. Thanks to all COs for their hides.

Found jammed in the hole, not able to extract

Luckily I spotted this hide after not too long - so many people about and I don't look stealthy at any time, let alone with dog in tow. The views along this walkway are awesome. Thanks for placing G-2!

Added new waterproof log
Allok

Found it ok enough but had trouble retrieving it. Got there in the end. Loved the walkway & all the varying types of camo. TFTC

Nice TFTC

Found while on a trip north with tmann421.
Enjoying discovering the areas and finding some caches.
Signed the log tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Short trip away with woolwood9.
Nice find for us today.
*Thanks for giving us a reason to visit this nice area!*
Signed log: **tm/ww NZ** (may be a black smudge on plastic logs)

Initially checked the wrong area but then after double checking the coordinates the cache was quickly found. Very cool treehouse up the tree but no time for climbing, TFTC!

What a cool hide. I Enjoyed it! FP from me.
I love this series of caches in this beautiful scenery. Thanks so much for hiding and maintaining. Tftc

What a great spot and good place to put the cache. Signed on the near by seat before returning it to its rightful spot

All quiet today in The Wot Wots. Thanks G-2.

I was leaving nearby 4 years ago. Thanks for the cache.

More learning - need to think about extraction tools as fingers too big

Beautiful sunset after finding med tube

Spent too much time distracted the tree house, allowing Kiwi to join us again -having reparked the car. find made quickly , all good. TFTC

A delicate wee hide. Easy to find but hard to extricate. Thanks for the cache.

Out for a stroll with the geo-pup & the 2 nieces to get their caching fix. Started look in the wrong place but once we re directed our search to the correct area we came up with the cache quickly. TFTC

Had a very early start as had a drop off at the airport so got hold of TF who was keen for a spot of caching. TF made short work of this one as he is taller than me. TFTC

Great spot and a great view. Thanks.

Nice little find. TFTC

We spotted the cache quickly but retrieval took a bit longer as it wasn't too keen to be coaxed out of its hiding place. But fortunately with the right TOTT and a bit of gentle persuasion we soon had the cache in hand. Nice spot for a cache, thanks G-2.

Couldn't find this the last time I came along here, mostly due to muggles out on their deck nearby, but no one around today so was able to have a proper look. Found it this time, nice hide here, cheers

Lovely view if tide was in!
Well tucked away...Out caching with supernannny today.

Good views down the harbour. A hard one to get out of its hiding place

All ok

Find number 5966. I trusted myself and jumped the fence. GPS told me to get back on the other side. Cache spotted but took me a while to get my hands on it. Thankfully it was sheltered from the wind where I was looking. I did not stay around to enjoy the view and decided to turn back and get out of the wind. Thank you for the placement.

Was staying with a friend close by. As this cache was about 50m away, I naturally had to find it. Lovely walkway and really nice Outlook.
Thanks for bringing me here. TFTC

Out for a hike with the ladies today
Quick stop
TFTC

Today was another attempt to collect all the caches in the Papakura area. Know we will have to come back yet again. Got beaten by the tide for 3 of the caches in area. SLTFTC

In cahoots with Gap & Squiral an ABCDF4 spent the day in Auck seeking out
a few loose ends before attending the evening Event at Totara park.
Thanks to the Cos for the placements and variety of caches.

Nicely hidden
Another great view

With Gap (of Fap and Gap), ABCDF4, and eyespyben... We were keen to investigate the nighttime event in Totara Park. In the meantime, we needed a few distractions to amuse ourselves. Finding some caches should do the trick...

Naturally, we began our search over the fence... Once on track, this one required a small search as it was very well hidden. Thanks G-2 and TFTC.

What a lovely day for a walk.Another great view.Spent a bit of time looking at all the pine cones at the gz but no luck decided to have one more look around and spotted something in a little hiding hole.

Found it

Well a week ago I hadn't been planning this little excursion back up to Auckland but as I had time on my side, and not too many caches to locate and with Mrs Dragon with other plans it was an early start to collect what I had not collected the previous weekend.
So loaded up the bike and set off at 5am for the first couple of caches in the dark just before dawn then the rest of the day avoiding the rain.

Am starting to like the new bike especally now I have both a bag for the crossbar and a GPS mount on the handlebars. A long time ago I thought that I had cleared this area out, but as always with this CO that is not the case, so back this morning to collect a few more hopefully before the rain arrives. A nice quick find and a far longer extraction but got there eventually without damaging anything.
Thanks for the placement.

Like hayleyfcy said, we found this one on the ground but put it back in a nice spot. Hopefully it was close to the correct spot. Thanks, and great view (probably better on a clear day, though the nice cool weather was also nice, so there's that)

Hm we located GZ with the hint pretty easily and were pretty sure we had the right spot, but could not see the cache, until michaelteacher spotted it on the ground! We put it back in where we thought it would have been. Shouldn't be too hard for the next people. Tftc

Met the Auckland Meetup group for a morning stroll, just the two of us today, signed as our initials, beautiful coastal walkway I have never walked around before, so was nice to explore.

Nice quick find, Thanks for the cache

Out with the Auckland Meet up Group, finally found this one. Had a bad start to this trail. Sophie is good at finding the caches

TFTC

Great views nice cache

We are introducing grandma to geocaching today! Not sure what was going on here, we looked for quite a while and then i randomly looked down and it was by my foot out in the open, not at all where it should be based on hint - i have rehid according to hint in a more secure location, tftc!

I was down South for part of the work day today, so when things finished up mid afternoon I decided to enjoy the fine weather and find a few trads out Wattle Downs way. I parked up and entered the reserve and made the walk over to "Ingrid" before venturing over to this one next. This one took a while to track down as there was a regular stream of passing muggles. Not to mention the fact that it is a slightly tricky hide with several places to check. I eventually found the best angle from which to view the hide from and got the formalities completed. Cheers for the cache placement!

Family walk along this walkway. We didn’t see the cache on our first pass but finally found it on the way back to the car. Great hide! TFTC.

Filling in dot days with HeMaLuDy and purply. TFTC

Another dot day, thankfully there are still a few wot wots still to find. When the kids were smaller we made a special trip to the zoo because the wot wots were there for the day. Cache in good condition. Found with darthcacher1 and purply.

Good hide this, lots of spots to choose from so took a minute or two to spot.

TFTC

This was a nicely hidden cache. Great spot with a nice view. Beautiful sunset on the way back. It was perfect weather day. Took a pic for ya. Tftc

Fifth find, we lest the girls to do this one and sadly they found it quite quickly! Nice walk around here. Tftc.

The boys looked for this on the way out and were unsuccessful. Perhaps because they were looking in entirely the wrong place! On the walk back it’s the girls turn! Found in under one minute. SL TFTC

Nice sneaky hide, almost gave up on this one. What a lovely walkway, we're enjoying our walk and hoping the rain holds off tftc.

My luck ran out here. Couldn't spot this one today.

A good spot. Quite a bit of undermining so hope the trees survive that. Thanks G-2 for you efforts on this trail.

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 if my log entries sound a bit strange. Thanks!

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Today I utilise the perfect summer weather by making a Little hike at the coast of Wattle downs to find some wottie Caches. I could find everyone, some of them were not easy, but all of them had good hides.
It was clear, where I had to look for that one, but I had no success with my ideas. Shortly before I wanted to give up, I found the Cache laying on the ground, like the last finder wrote... Pinch it back on knee height again on the bush/tree.
Thanks for hiding.

Found straight away as was on the ground in middle of branches on pine needles. Still in good shape. Signed log and replaced approx middle and about knee high.
TFTC

Mrs. B and Tinytree were planning a bike ride today and Wattle Downs was calling. Mr. B. asked us to try and get this one on the way - as he had DNF'd it a while ago and he wanted to clear up the unhappy face on the map. Beautiful summers day for a bike ride and a quick find of this clever little cache. Mr. B. will be happy when he gets home from work. TFTC!

Out on a bike ride with Bennett24 (the mommy half) and had to stop and grab this one for the daddy half who had DNF'd it previously. Very cute and clever cache, thanks for the hide!!

After big family lunch with 35 rellies... I decided I needed some Me Time.
Decided to take my new phone for a walk and make a start on some new Wotties!
Favourite...love the well crafted cache and camo!
Thanks Glyn

I liked this one. good hiding spot. I read the clue out, and I think mum thought I was going to jump a fence or climb a bank or do some other adventurous activity. Luckily it was a bit more straight forward that that! And we were on our way again.

Enjoying the best start to summer that I can remember in forever in the good company of alpenmilch80 and themexikiwi with a nice stroll along the walkway here.

Couldn't get a firm lock on where we should have been put perseverance eventually paid off and themexikiwi made the sneaky find here. Nicely hidden - TFTC

Out today for a numbers run meeting up with themexikiwi and evilno9 for some finds. With two cars, we had to walk only one direction to collect all the wotties. Found the good hide after some searching. TFTC

Was a bit worried about being able to find this one on approach to the GZ. But was relatively quick, and glad to find given friends have missed

My tempolary accomondation is near so decided to go for a walk and do some geocaching .... Well well all is well at GZ. This time I had some voice in my head take a time here. And is was worth it. Still there. Well placed. Nice hide. FP awarded. TFTC

I too like the previous cacher could not locate this one. Might still be there but light was starting to fade to had to give up after about 15 minutes. Try again some time.

I too like the previous cacher could not locate this one. Might still be there but light was starting to fade to had to give up after about 15 minutes. Try again some time.

Found gz but no cache, so annoying when you know it's there somewhere, but Albert getting antsy and bored so time to go.

Wot a lufly area to be walking through today eh wot, nice to grab a few caches before meeting up with a client. This cache had the potential for being bituva mish. But in no time I had my hands upon the thing, now I have it, I'm so glad I do. So signed meself in and did the wanderin' thing back to me car.

Out in the area with Jag50 and Aiden29. This took us a while to find as we inspected everything that matched the hint. Aiden29's eagle eyes eventually spied the cleverly hidden cache in a place we had all searched

Out with Merlot58 and Jag50 tackling the Wot Wots in the area. We searched all the hint items thoroughly. It wasn't until I noticed something, and upon further investigation I realised it was the cache, cleverly concealed.

We were in the area hunting down the Wot Wots. This cache took a while for us to find. We all searched the same area, but it was Aiden's youthful eyes that spotted something that didn't look right. On further inspection, the cache was revealed. Great camo!

The skies cleared long enough for me to go after a few caches today. Once I got to GZ, I looked and looked at every possible place based on the hint, but didn't find the cache. After several different approaches, I came back to where I started and eventually found this tough little hide. TFTC.

After a bit of a lazy day involving helping another Team Seac member dismantle a trampoline and grocery shopping we had only just got home when the notifications came out. It didn't take long to get buy in from the mini cachers to leave Dad to organise dinner whilst we raced to find the new caches. It was even more exciting when more were published as we were walking out the door.

We must have found this a little later than when you where here placing it. The sun had almost set and I agree it was a lovely view. Even the older mini cacher (cragger) commented on it.

This was a little trickier than the other two caches but not too hard for us...it was soon found and another blank log!

Woohoo (FTF) #108

Thanks for the cache.

(FTF) with mum (keylev) and laval.

Thanks for the fun and the cache.

(FTF) with mum (keylev) and cragger.

Thanks for the cache. It was such fun!

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