Bike and Find (Auckland) Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
By connollytribe on 21-Oct-17. Waypoint GC7DXGZ

No luck today despite an extensive search. Even after examining photos in log.

Archiving this cache due to not being able to maintain it anymore.

Have tried several times before. Got it this time. Tftc

This is the 2nd cache I’ve ever found, took me a while to find it but sadly forgot my pen I’ll remember to bring it next time I’m heading this direction. TFTC

Thank youuuu

M24: A nice and easy cache to find while out and about today collecting caches in this area. TFTC.

Up in the big city from Nelson for a weekend of aikido and I seem to have found an AirBnB that is the farthest from any cache anywhere in Auckland.

So I treated myself to a 10 minute walk to this, the closest (known) cache thinking that a D/T wouldn't be that bad...a nice quick find.

Pfft! I think I knew what I was looking for...maybe the darkness didn't help. Anyway, there was only so long I could spend going over the same structure before deciding that I wasn't going to find it tonight.

Well hidden thank you

Blending well!
Found it on my 60km bike trip for 10 stages Adventure Lab in Henderson area.
No pen today with me but I have a photo as a proof if needed.
TFTC!

Quick find.
Thanks

Finally found this one after several past attempts. TFTC

Thanks!

With excellent weather this morning and a few hours spare before I have to start work, it was an easy decision to come back for a wander along Oakley Creek and find some caches--even though I've done this walk many times, there are still more caches here for me to find. This was one I had looked for previously but at completely the wrong level and in a rush. Today I had more time so realised where I was meant to be looking, and had the cache in hand after a small climb. Perfect condition, all good here. TFTC

Cool cache TFTC

We were the 1st to find this geocache in a new location, found in a unexpected place!

Our first treasure on day 1 of our new found interest in Geocache treasure hunt!
Peace & love - Alan & Sophie

Found it! Unfortunately the rain had deteriorated the paper and the tin. Will aim to create a new one and come back here with it for its replacement.

wet inside

Was looking up in the wrong place lol. Lucky I kept looking

Found it. Needed a small child to find it lol

Found on a family day out in Auckland.
Bit of a tricky find, look up!

After crossing the bridge I fired up the phone to see a low number of metres to the GZ. Initially at the wrong level we headed down, then I reached up and grabbed the cache. All good here, thanks connollytribe.

The weekend's here and I have an 8-day I'm looking to get up to a minimum of 10, hopefully more. I've been solving a few puzzles over the last week or so and have built up a fine selection of find options, and am keen to dip into those this weekend, and to explore some area that are fairly new to me and a little further away than my usual local ones.
The weather held off for the time we were on the trail(s) and I did some drive-by scoping for future entry points etc which was useful too. Thanks to all COs for their caches today.

Didn’t find it, but didn’t have much time to look either

Had to reach out a bit... But was fun trying to climb..

fun find

Took us a little while to find it. Different levels confused us... TFTC

Quick and easy find!

Thank you for the cache!

Out on a bike ride today with AliGle and KirsTim riding from Avondale to Westgate, firstly through Oakley Creek Reserve, then along the cycle way up the Northwestern Motorway, picking up many caches along the way. All logs signed as V.A.K. A quick find here, TFTC!

Great day for a bike ride with Vistra & AliGli, with our main aim to complete the Adventure Lab from Mangere to Westgate. With cars parked at both end wen rode from Avondale through the Oakley Creek track and up the North Western cycle way. All logs signed as VAK to save space. Thanks for the cache. First up for the day, nice easy find

First one on the cycle route with Vistra and Kirstim. No problems here.

Wahoo! My first one, pretty easy if you look around before starting the search.

Found it. Good spot!

Found this one after a long search around with the team. TFTC

Good find by mr 12 year old thanks

Good find after reading previous logs

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

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

Fun!

Cool little spot and had a nice walk to reach it

Last cache for us today before heading back to the car which is few km away now. Quick find and off we went. Ate a nice mince and cheese pie along the way. TFTC

Out with my Son, this is our 2nd find. He loves climbing so was able to pick it quite quick!

Nice evening for a small climb

took us awhile, but what a fun cache. Remember to climb not crawl

Good one!

Really fun

Found it! Nice and easy. Great Location.

After catching up with my daughter and her fiance for breakfast this morning, I headed off to find a few caches. I decided to head for the Oakley Creek Walkway and Northwestern Cycleway. This was the first cache I came to. It wasn't an immediate find but following the hint I investigated a few spots and eventually got my hand on it. TFTC, Biggles.

Aaah yes just where we expected it to be TFTC

Found easily thanks to the hint. TFTC !

Too difficult to find.

Tftc

Tftv. Had no pen nice quick find

This was more a case of 'Walk and Did not Find' than the title

Good one. Enjoyed this hide. Thanks. So many sweet spots it could have been in.

This cache was a good one. The Auckland caches are normally pretty simple. Tftc says Mafrika from Germany

Yet another squall passing through as the vehicle was being parked. Walked over the bridge and followed the GPS. Lead directly to a likely hiding spot. With a bit of blind hunting the cache came to hand. Unsurprisingly nobody passed during the search. Only mad geocachers out and about it seems. TFTC

This time I could see it. Thanks for the cache.

Wow nearly gave up! Fun! But we kept going and got it!

Aquinos and I almost went the wrong way to get to this cache but once we were at GZ it was a surprisingly easy find. TFTC!

3/50 Awesome hide, third find for the day, the ultimate goal being 50 today!

Found it

Find number 5586. I was up trying to find some of my solved caches. This was on my way to one of these so picked up. Thought I knew where it would be but not so. Then rechecked my GPS and read some more. Changed my position and soon had the cache in hand. Thank you for the placement.

#780. If I didn't find this one, it would be four DNFs in a row for me, which I believe would be a record. So that was NOT going to happen. So when I approached GZ, and saw stairs, I just about collapsed in a heap. Oh no!!!

Fortunately, I read through previous logs, which really narrowed down the hide. And shortly after I had the cache in my hot little hand! A surprising number of bicycle muggles went past, but they caused me no drama.

I replaced the snaplock bag containing the log, as it was disintegrating a bit.

Earlier today, I had a mission to try and set a record for 200 caches in one day. That went spectacularly bad - I only ended up getting 14 before my car broke down - you can read about it in my log for [GC4WCKK](http://coord.info/GC4WCKK). Despite that, I wanted to at least get to 30 today, so I set about getting caches around Waterview and Oakley Creek on foot. This was my tenth find for the afternoon and 24th overall today.

Thank you very much for the cache!!!!

Quick easy find TFTC

DNF

Found it. TFTC

Parked at Bollard Avenue and walked to GZ. Would have been a long, long search if not for the hint... So it took me semi-long. Nice wee climb. Had the smallest of Greenkiwikids with me, so we signed as "Team Piraten". TFTC

Nice hide. A little difficult too.

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Tag 23 und somit unser letzter Tag in Neuseeland - wenn man mal den Abreisetag morgen weglässt. Zunächst sind wir noch ein paar Stunden in Whangarei geblieben und haben gewartet, bis das Hundertwassermuseum endlich aufmacht. Mitte 2020 soll es soweit sein; dann sind die mehr als 13 Mio NZL Dollar verbaut und aus dem Virtual Cache kann endlich ein echter werden. Wenn Projekte hier so laufen, wie in anderen Ländern, wird der Virtual wahrscheinlich noch ein paar Jährchen länger gebraucht. Nach dem schönen Spaziergang am Town Basin ging es weiter nach Ruakaka. Dort lag eine farbenfrohe Letterbox und dann noch ein paar Tradis in Strandnähe. Auch wenn wir von den Tradis nur ganz wenige gefunden haben, war der Ausflug an den Strand sensationell. Den Rest haben wir relativ schnell abgehakt, da die Dinger nicht ganz mit unseren Ansprüchen mithalten konnten. Auf dem Weg nach Auckland gab es noch einen schnellen Fotostopp mit schöner Aussicht und schnellem, einfachen Fund. Der Tagesabschluss wurde dann mit einem Cache gefeiert, dessen Name gut zu uns passt "Bike and Find".

We started our last day in New Zealand with the visit of the virtual cache in Whangarei. Maybe the museum is open for our next visit in NZL - in Germany some projects take a bit more time than expected. After that we visited Ruakaka and did the Letterbox. We cleaned the box from all that colour coming from the stamps. If I'm coming back home to Germany with red fingers, that's my souvenir. Then we had a awesome walk at the beach with the RBT-Caches. Although we found only one of them, we had a great time near the horse track and at the beach and took a lot of beautiful pictures. We also tried some of the caches a bit more south in Ruakaka but they've been to difficult for us. On the way to Auckland we had a last fotostop with a nice view and a quick and easy grab. Finally we found the "Bike and Find" near our campground, though we had no bikes with us but at home we do a lot of caches this way.

A warm evening finding a run of caches in Mt Albert and Oakley Creek. TFTC!

Fantastic hiding place

I decided to take advantage of a fine day of summer and spend part of the day finding geocaches. So, with the morning chores out of the way and the traffic situation much improved, I headed out the door. I parked up at the end of Soljak Place and took the bridge towards GZ. I wasn't sure which level I should be on, until I was in the right place. Missed the hide on the first pass, but got it on the second after trying a few other spots. Cheers for the cache placement!

Nice quick find today, thank you Supernanny. I must have searched that place twice and missed it each time...cheers V.

Trying to get one a day in January. TFTC

Log to follow

Took us a while but found it in the end. Seems obvious when you know

First one I have done - fun find close to my house - nice wee climb. Had to look out for muggles on popular path

Nice little cache to seek and find while on a run/walk .... crawl

This evening I accessed the Waterview Shared Path from Soljak St, and walked over the bridge to GZ. Once at the correct level the cache was quickly in hand. Looks like another useful piece of cycle and walking infrastructure - with room for a few more caches. Thanks for showing us.

Found on our trip to Queensland (for the triathlon world championships - representing GB Age Group Team), New Zealand and Singapore.
Thanks to all the cache owners.
LNTN
Thanks for the cache.
Date of find approximate. (didn't write that down).
Richard & Joanna (UK)

Was going so fast on the bike, I over shot and had to back track a little.
No problem with finding and on my way. Tftc

Staying with my brother for a couple of days to attend a concert and this was nearby his place. After checking out the train station so this small town country kid can make her way into town later, we walked here so he could show me where this walk was and I could find a cache or two. He tolerates my geocaching but secretly I think he likes it as he made all the finds today. I was in the right spot but just not quite tall enough. This is my first find in Auckland

Always driving past here so today decided to stop & grab after a spot of caching in Devonport. Nice quick find between muggies.
Very cool walkway/cycleway here.

A nice walk to GZ as Mr P and I streched our legs after all that rain. T4tc

Parked up a couple of hundred metres away and walked down the cycle path to GZ. Nice quick find and then continued on. TFTC!!!

Easy geocache. Thanks.

Log later

Thanks! Great find while out riding

Fun!

Nice quick little find today. Drove by this on Saturday, but did not have time to stop. Perfect timing to extract and replace container between passing muggles. TFTC

I regularly bike past here on the way home from work, but are never in a mood to look for a cache, more looking forward to a cold drink and a shower!
A few minutes to spare on the way to picking up Mrs sp8 from work so stopped in here. Quickly spotted retrieved and signed. As leaving spotted another couple of cachers coming in.

TFTC

Nice weather today so decided to come to a new area and get a few more caches.blends in well but didnt take us too long to find.meet another cacher whilst here.

Came here just as it started to rain so we made use of some shelter and were able to locate the cache. Very impressive cycle way and love the little bike ramps on the stairs. TFTC

Sneaky hide, bit of shade here as well, TFTC

Checked out the new cycle path previously, so today it was a special trip to grab a cache on the last day of 2017, and hopefully win a souvenir. TFTC.

Found on my bike, as suggested.

This is a fantastic new cycle/walkway and we enjoyed a nice walk along it on this Boxing Day morning. There were a few cyclists around but not enough to impede our search and a systematic approach soon revealed where it was hiding.
Thanks connollytribe for the cache placement, great spot.

well i was ridding my new bike so this was an apporpiate cache, had to streah and feel for this one.

Once I figured out from where to look, it was an quick find for me. I just wish they would build roads as good as they build these paths. From the size of it, they must be expecting some heavy traffic. TFTC.

Decembers Monthly Geocaching Meetup was to hit the Oakley Creek Walkway. Just myself and Yorkshirekiwi83 this time. The sun was pretty warm so was keen to keep to the older track in the shade.

Another nice simple cache in a nice location