Urban Route 24 - Old Coach Rd (R) (Auckland) Waitākere Ranges, North Island, New Zealand
By rustynz on 23-Jan-24. Waypoint GCAJRV2

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After doing the Fairy Falls trip, came to this one on the way home. Would be great if the council opened the Old Coach Road so that Fairy Falls could be a loop. TFTC

TFTc - quick find once my reception kicked back in

Nice and easy after Gorbys eventThanks!

After seeing some new caches in this area on Fairy Falls Track a plan was hatched for some Team SEAC to head out for another one of our adventures. After completing those we continued along the road for some more (and a bit of a rest for the legs!) Nice quick find here.Thanks for the cache.

We headed out west today for the walk to Fairy Falls. What a lovely walk it was - but those stairs!!! Beautiful falls after all the rain over the past few days, luckily it was dry today. As we headed home we stopped along the way for the caches we passed. Here today with a number of Team SEAC - stik-a-crane, keylev, nursedr, fifinz, cragger. Signed as SEAC to save space. A nice quick find here.

Yet another team SEAC adventure with stikacrane, Kelylev, hemaludy and fifinz on what we thought would be a dry day after all the rain. Fingers crossed, so far weve stayed dry. TFTC Signed SEAC

Thanks for the find. Team SEAC

I noticed on Friday that the Fairy Falls Track was going to be reopened quietly that afternoon, so I decided to head out there on Sunday morning to check it out. Made a quick find of the cache here and note that this entrance to the Fairy Falls track is now open too. TFTC!

It will be great when the track to Fairy Falls is open again. Find #63 TFTC

Good hide, thanks for the fun

Container was very wet. Gave it a good dry. Not sure if the holes have helped

Jumped into the car and headed to this one, before heading back towards home to continue on with some chores.....nice parking area here for a nice park N grab, then onto the next one...TFTC.

Drainage holes made in container, hopefully sorts moisture issue

Decided to go looking for it during my lunch break as I was working near! Nice easy find

Nice easy cache. TFTC

Out today, driving, instead of walking for caches. This cache was on the route so, of course, we had to stop.It was a quick and easy grab, to get the cache and not a muggle around. Tftc #1774

Theres nothing like a systema container to accurately record the annual rainfall in any given area. This one was no exception. I still managed to sign it after emptying cache. Tftc

A solo excursion for Mr Coblet.After a nice walk in Spraggs Bush I was about to head home but saw that this cache was nearby so headed over to look for it first.All was quiet at the end of the road and I made a nice quick find.Thanks rustynz for another cache with some interesting history. I look forward to the reopening of these tracks.

We had noticed this new trail of caches pop up, so when Team Welsh suggested an excursion today we happily agreed. We made a plan to tackle the caches from the Swanson end, being closest to home. But when we realised there was an event up here today at 1pm we revised the plan to start and finish at the Forest Hill Rd end. Thanks for making the planning (and parking) easy by labelling the caches L and R!We drove to the end of this little side road, and drew the attention of the locals. One was clearly not expecting any other cars on his road as he started to pull out of his driveway in front of us without checking the road. Then he sat there in his car to check what we were up to. Once at GZ the cache was a very quick find which was lucky, as a woman came down her driveway (in her pyjamas!) to check up on us. She assumed we were checking out whether the nearby track was open, and kindly told us that she had heard that the Cascades track had recently opened. We thanked her for her help and moved on. TFTC.

Did these caches along here with some caching buddies , it was very enjoyable. I like caching on my own to, but having company to can be enjoyable for a change .I need to try and peel away from TikTok and YouTube posting , and try and make some proper friends theres a whole world out there somewhere waiting for me . All the caches along here were well placed, thought out , and reasonably enjoyable to do , so many thanks for placing TFTC Nice cache

It was tipping down here and I was beginning to look like a drowned rat! Thankfully the cache was a quick find

The lady who lives in the house at the end of this road came out just after we had made the find and was nice and chatty about the walks in the area. Will be wonderful when all the tracks are reopened. No problems here, TFTC

Tipping with rain here so made sure it was a quick find. [TFTC]

M25: going up here to find this little cache and nice and easy, log all good and signed here. TFTC.

Intresting to see where fairy falls walk might open to. Look forward to taking our kids when it opens. There was quite a yapping dog few houses done today, nit very stealth enabling. TFTC

After finding the caches in the nearby bush we decided to walk around to this one. A quick and easy find. I also spotted the camera checking on anyone/anything trying to go along the track.

So quiet up here today.Quick find. Thanks.

Haven't been up this little side road for a while. Unfortunately the track from the end still closed, boy, aren't the council slack for not getting onto these tracks! 6 years and counting.... anyway, no problem with the hide, I got Charlie out of the car here for a little sniff around, she's such a good little doggie and this is a safe area for her to walk around. The neighbour was hanging around probably curious or nosey as to what I was doing here, but I was able to sniff out the cache just out of sight from him, I sat down and played with the doggie until he got tired and buggered off, then I was able to return the cache. I love the history here of Old Coach Rd, for all we know it may have been the route taken by horses back in the day when people came up from the Falls hotel in Henderson to come and visit Waitakerie falls (now at the dam but before the dam was built). Obviously Mountain Rd now exists nearby for cars, but now this is partly closed due to slips. Thanks rusty for the hide.Add an imageUpload image

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MrsJag had the day off work and was about to start painting when her phone alerted her to new caches out west. After contacting SN a plan was made to meet up and find this new series of caches. Bring a week day there wasnt much traffic about today. We parked very close to gz and the cache was located in the first place we looked. Wonder if this track will ever be open again?TFTC and joint {FTF} with SN

Out with Jag50 this morning on an unexpected FTF Hunt.We seem to be the only ones in the race today!I feel this area is familiar...possibly some Puzzle Finals were in the closed track.Will be great when this and Fairy Falls Track are open !While I looked at brown posts Mrs Jag50 was soon at the White Post, and we signed another { FTF }