Doctor's Orders (Huapai) Kumeu, North Island, New Zealand
By jard1037 on 16-Jan-21. Waypoint GC95833

Solve puzzle years ago, just found cache today

after a bit of guessing at first we came up with a solve.we arrived near GZ only to find road closed for road works.bit of a detour and we arrived.no problem to locate.TFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap) A busy day of work and caching.We do enjoy a good substitution puzzle, and it didnt take too long to crack this interesting code Our attempt to drive into ground zone was thwarted by major roadworks. We had to circumnavigate our way here through alternate roads. Once at ground zone, it didnt take long to spot the cache. Thanks jard1037. TFTP and TFTC.

Did not expect to find this here! I drive past it very frequently

Bert and I both solved this sometime ago so by chance today we both happened to be travelling past this way. It was a perfect ‘spur of the moment’ spontaneous cache, so thanks Jard.

Met up with Pazza at Muriwai for a coffee in the middle of her working day & discussing local puzzles, realised this (solved puzzle) cache was on our way home.
Didn’t have to be asked twice … a spot of mid-week caching was just what the Dr ordered!
Super quick find. Thanks Dr Jard : -)

I think I solve this puzzle the day it came out, but I’m so rarely in the area that I didn’t come and look for it until now.

I realized I could pick it up if I sort of made it on my way today, so following that route, I made the stop. Thanks to the nice hint I found it easily in seconds.

Thanks for the fun puzzle and cache!

#11,438. I have been out west for the past week doing my seabird monitoring. But today I am heading into the big smoke to stay with family and attend a zoom meeting. Then I head off to Northland for the rest of the week to hopefully wrap up the last geotour caches in the Far North. Just working my way around a few NW caches today. The scribbles in this puzzle are a perfect match for the prescriptions I get from my doctor. Chemists must be great font solvers. My knowledge of the script was not great but team members in my puzzle club had encountered this one before which made it easier to crack the code. Finding the cache didn't take too long. Glad it survived the build of the new gate. Signed the logbook and replaced the cache where found. Thanks jard1037 for hiding it here.

I was down in Auckland today from Whangarei to take my son to the airport to fly home. He'd just been home for his siblings school holidays so we've had some nice family time together.

It was nice to have some time today to finally collect some of MarMis's challenge caches deep out in South Auckland. I also found a trad to complete my hidden date grid. I avenged two puzzle dnfs and found a few more puzzles off my solved puzzle list. Just 9 finds today, 8 of them puzzles or challenges.

This was one of my recently solved puzzles. A quick find in the dark tonight. Thanks for your easy to solve puzzle cache

Solved the puzzle but will never get to this location to find it.

Picked up this cache the way to South Head with lumin298 who solved this puzzle cache and I was only the driver but still
Nice quick find at solved spot.
TFTC!

Solved this on June 30th, and found it today while on the way to South Head with tramyard. The puzzle was nice and easy, and the find was too once I was on the right side of the road (phone GPS wasn't doing so great this morning). Since it's been on my solved list for quite a while, it was great to finally make the find today. TFTP and TFTC!

It was very nice to be out caching again this afternoon, getting a little taste of freedom on our first day of lockdown level 3 step 1. We have spent quite a few hours solving puzzles over the last couple of months, but today it was time to find some of them.
We had this one solved on the day of publication, and are not at all sure why we have not been to find the cache before now. Nice quick find today though! We enjoy solving this sort of puzzle, thanks.

Awesome little cache, didn't understand the cache hint at all however!

I think your Dr's writing is neater than my Dr's, at least I could decipher this. Nice quick find as rain threatened. Now where did I see the book sale sign?

Had this one solved a couple of weeks ago so stop here on my way home from awa nurseries. Thanks.

After a solve way back it was time to sign off. So tonight after a lovely caching day with Supernanny we took a few back roads to get the smilie thx. enjoyed the solve thx.

I had this one in the solved pile for quite some time so as I found myself in the area I made the effort to stop and sign it off. Always love a puzzle I can solve and many thanks for this cache placement

I applied my standard method of solving these types of puzzles and came up with the solution in due course.

Then, I came out to this area today keeping my fingers crossed that it wouldn't rain. This was my first stop for a quick find. TFTC.

When this cache was published I was under doctor's orders to rest as I had just had surgery but thankfully her handwriting was a lot more legible than this doctor's! Still, I had no trouble reading it and solved the puzzle on the day it was published. I haven't had a chance to be in the area until today so once at gz I parked up and made a nice quick find. I was just heading back to the car when a group of classic cars drove past me, there were some very cool cars amongst them.

I was making my way back from a couple of days just north of here in my campervan, and made a point to swing past here later in the morning while it was nice and quiet to grab this. I guess as long as you can still read your own handwriting, then what does it matter aye, TFTC

We had solved this puzzle some time back, but hadn't been in the area to collect it. Today while out for a drive we stopped off to complete the Doctor's Orders - quick find here as per the hint.

The elder Future Finder and I headed out for some afternoon geocaching today. A nice overcast day to be out and about. We had ended up out West and while scrolling through the app I noticed this solved puzzle. Well, I quickly determined to detour out this way and complete the formalities on this one. We parked up near GZ and the cache was spotted very quickly indeed. I recall the solve being straight forward and even thinking that "yes, I can read this doctor's handwriting"! Cheers for the puzzle cache placement!

Wow....this was a new kind of puzzle I had never seen before.!
I even looked all through my entire puzzle book.!
Needed a tiny nudge before I set about solving it.
Really quick in the end.
Only 15 mins from home luckily so I immediately went to get the final.
Excellent puzzle , Many thanks Jard1037
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Nice quick little puzzle - we must have the same Dr

Not as bad as most doctors' handwriting that I've seen. At least it isn't in Latin....

Nice little puzzle Jard, not sure what the code is, but there are tools on the Net that help here and really fast! No time like the present, and rushed out the door. Along the way, I'm thinking who else might be up this way and might be closer to GZ? Anyway, I shall find out. It was quite a shower when I arrived, had to make use of the brolly, didn't take long to spot GZ, but was I {FTF}? The blank log said so, cool!

FTF#679

I spotted this new listing pretty early in my work day and set about the solve soon enough. Having got the solution nice and quick I settled back to work. Then I decided I should have a shot at FTF and borrowed a work colleagues car to go home and get mine. Alas a torrential downpour thwarted a quick getaway and by the time I arrived at GZ it was 1155 and the gold medal had been awarded, so a silver and 2TF for me. Nice puzzle, and easy find, just how I like them jard, thanks.

For some crazy reason I've decided to start a streak. I should really have started when I moved up here (but lockdown would have spoiled it), or after lockdown but no, what started in early December is lumbering on and closing in on my previous 42 days consecutive effort. I'm telling myself that 50 will do, or 60 for a PGC badge upgrade but we'll have to wait and see.