Parks & Recreation #13 Cockle Bay, North Island, New Zealand
By Philbirdboys on 04-Sep-21. Waypoint GC9FZMK

No longer live in the area but visit every now and then so will check next time - sorry guys!

Isnt there anymore

Big group of us looked extensively. Couldnt find it.

Pretty sure has been taken, looked on fence and ground

Its not here

Couldn't find on wire fence

Another successful day in Auckland with KGD & EyespybenThis one was a nice quick find before the rain thanks

Thanks for the cache but the log is just mushythanks

Up in Auckland for a day with ABCDF4 and eyespyben. Quickly found by ABCDF. Signed and put it back. Thank you for the placement.

found it

Found it, paper wet inside

Thanks for this cache. Paper very wet so not signed.

walked in and walked out very good

Waited for muggles to wander off, cool spot

My first geocache! It was a fun little adventure for the afternoon. Might want to replace the log.

Unfortunately not waterproof fun find anyway!

Found

Couldnt see it. School kids might have taken it.

Yay

Hint is good TFTC

It was hard as to find but got it

Easy

Found it TFTC!

Easy for me

1st 1, thanks!!

Thanks Nothing to swap. Left a gem

.

Removed the paper mache that was pretending to be a logbook, and left a small piece of paper instead TFTC

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Tftc! Good shade

Tftc!

Paper too wet to remove

Walked straight past it lol

Paper is wet and destroyed but it was a easy find

Easy find for kids thanks

Snape

Quick find here log sheet is mush needs replacement. Ng mihi

yeah

Found our first one. Too wet too get paper out so will come back.

Found but unable to sign because paper was wet TFTC

A little tricky but found it in the end TFTC

had to leave and come back later, damm muggles near GZ, but easily found

Log a bit moist but found!

Found

Thanks!

Nice to change this to a smiley after a disappointing search last time.

Found this with FMZ while out and about in the area. TYFTC!

Had to wait for some school children to leave as they were congregating right at GZ, but after a minute they were off and we could go over to make a quick find here. TFTC!!!

Very fun and not very hard hints helped alot

Very nice all round good spot. Was a little tricky as my first one but I enjoyed it

Cool lil spot

Quick and easy find. TFTC!

I did it hooray

Tftc

Hard to find but found it!

We are caching with Team Welsh this morning trying to boost our Found numbers for this date. The Parks & Recreation series that neither of us had done previously was a big factor in bringing us to Howick. We arrived at GZ and had an almost instantaneous find. TFTC.

Kiwicouple and I were out this way as it was cache rich for both of us. We targeted the ones that had recent finds as some of them appear to be missing and we didn't want to spend too long hunting for something that was no longer here. Mixed success but this was one we managed to find. This was prob the quickest find of the day, TFTC

Start of Tag season and friend roped me in. First question was where is it? Very happy to see a cache here to quench my need too

Pretty challenging but fun at the same time - JVV Twins

Cool find

Cool hiding place, good height

Almost missed it, left a tigers eye for the next person

We looked fairly carefully, but there was a game transpiring nearby, so off wee went without the find.

Very easy one to find and fun

No bison within 5 metres of GZ. Searched all levels.

Didn’t find

1st one ever! Nice!

Nice find #1

Local one. Greeted at the park entrance by a large dog emptying its bowels, then the owner sheepishly tidying up and moving on. A little activity on the field, people arriving for practice. All good at GZ, got the job done, much like the dog, but with a pen instead of a squat and doggie bag. Left with a satisfying feeling, much like the dog. TFTC

On the wire in a little box

Found it

found it

Not the easiest one to spot. I passed it, not there. I passed it again. There it is...
Tttc

had to sneak around the families watching a rugby game

Gone wasn't there

Found with sunflower, Marley Mika and @tracymika

This was a fun one

Found again with friends

Hi Great Geocash

Moved I to a new house, first cache of new area! TFTC and cool idea!

Coordinates changed from:
S 36° 54.231 E 174° 56.324

Coordinates changed to:
S 36° 54.235 E 174° 56.322

Distance from original: 24.2 feet or 7.4 meters.

Updated

Easy find

Had plans to meet up with a group of cachers to kayak across to Brown's Island from Bucklands Beach. Well, this plan was scarpered the night before as strong winds were forecast for the next day. A couple of us still decided to meet at 6am and go caching in the area. First, Gorby, tramyard and I went for breakfast in Howick and made a plan to target this Parks & Recreation series in the area.

Wasn't sure about parking here so we ended up walking through the cemetery and soon found the cache once our GPS had settled.

Fund it with company of Aiden29 and Gorby. The plan was to paddle Browns Island but the wind was too strong so we ended up in Howick to grab some hides instead.

Thanks for the placement.
P.S. Ready the Gorby`s story to find out more

A group of us were supposed to be heading over to Brown’s Island at 6am in our kayaks, Georick, tramyard, Aiden29, Jard1037, Rebel98, rustynz and myself. But the weather was terrible and the winds were hovering around 28km/hr. No way was this going to happen.

Nevertheless I still went to near top end of Buckland’s beach at 6am, Aiden was right behind me and tramyard was already there. But still it was a no go, too choppy. So we stood around and yakked and decided to head over to Eastern beach and pick up a WP for Life’s a Beach – NZ Mega ad lab. Then we would head into Howick to a fav café of mine that makes excellent omelettes. A good plan. While there at the café we decided on doing this C.O’s series of caches.

For some reason, we didn't park close enough to the cache, instead we walked thru the cemetery, over the other side, our mobiles seemed to have trouble settling in on this one, but once we read the hint, it became quite obvious.

2nd DNF at this one, were hoping for a quick find but it to be again. I blame Phil.

Finally found it! TFTC.

Walking past this today so stopped in to grab it. Still took me a while. Nice to turn the DNF into a Found. TFTC

Thankfully this was a bit away from the rugby field where some training was going on. Was fairly quick to spot once I got near. Thanks!

Was bored, so contacted my buddies Liverkiwi and we went out for the afternoon and did some caching. Was a quick and easy find.

Beware of the Hornets here M12 said it was lucky he has a SJ side step and got through without getting tackled.
TFTC

Found whilst exploring with TeamCV.

TFTC - tricky at first!

Girls day out caching.
I went on the right side of the fence to spot this one.

I played softball in this park in my younger days so another park familiar to me. Nette spied this hide for us

Out with Caching Girls today...
Easy find!

PArked near the main entrance but turned out it was easier to walk around the corner and enter the paparoa park litten road entrance. found quickly. TFTC!

Heading out on a girls caching day with Supernannny, Merlot58 and Nette1234 during COVID-19 lockdown level 3.2. There was a family of muggles on the seat near the entrance to this park, but this did not stop us finding our way to gz where the cache was soon in hand. Walked back through the cemetery to the car taking time to read some of the gravestones on the way. TFTC

After visiting a family member in the cemetery we headed through the gap in the fence and were startled by a guy who came from nowhere doing the same thing from the other direction.
We spotted the decoy item mentioned in a previous log so ignored that and soon found the actual cache.
Only one more left to find in this series .
TFTC

The original pot had gone and I have now replaced it with a black bison. Sorry to the caches that have tried to find this. All good now