White-faced heron | Matuku moana - island (AKL) Māngere-Ōtāhuhu, North Island, New Zealand
By glenogilvie on 07-Mar-24. Waypoint GCAMVAE

M26: Arrived to event when the group of cachers went kayaking for the caches in the hard terrain, while the rest of us stayed, chatted and cleaned up. Quest24 / Team Cosmic Wave group find, tftc

Found with a team Cosmic Quest 24Great day had by allThanks Gorby

Back up in Auckland to attend 2 EventsGorbys events are always full of surprisesGreat group of cacher I was One of the group Cosmic Quest the CO namedThanks for the day

that was a bit of a mission foreshore! With quest 24 we found a suitable landing spot and soon had it signed off.thanks!FP added for the fun.

Attended a nearby event, with some kayaking planned.So the group spent a little time trying to find a good landing spot for the kayaks, but also a place to scramble up to the cache as some are a bit steep, an erosion going on.Was able to call out to the others I had found a spot, and the ledge could take about 4 kayaks. So with them parked we climbed up the skinny ridge to gz, and quickly after pagenz had the cache. Happy to be signing the log, lovely views from up here.Thanks for the cache, the event, and my kayak companions

Oh my, what a perfect day for geocaching by kayak... glass like water and no breeze. Perfect

Headed out here with my geocaching buddies. Pretty much all has been said already - it was muddy but quite good fun TBH.Nicely placed cache TFTC

Yay......T. 5 !!!!!

Great to be one of the nine here today tackling this adventure today.Made our way down and over to the island. The mangroves were so thick to penetrate so the main group went right, avoyger, me and the co went left.We choose the longer routeBut we had so much fun.Met up with the group to make the find.Went back the way the main group came. So it was great to circumnavigate the whole island. Thanks to gorby for organising this.

Heard about a group walking adventure to tackle this cache & i thought this was my best chance to earn a smiley. Was one cache i wouldnt do on my own.Met up at the meeting point & was great to see the CO turn up as well.The mud wasnt too bad. Sticky & ultra sucky in some places but do-able. Got to the island & a quick scamper up to gz to find the cache, a few group pics & then back we went to dry land retracing our steps.All legs thoroughly covered in stinky mud but a very enjoyable group adventure. Thanks to the CO for placing the cache thereby creating our adventure & thanks Gorby for organising.Defo favourite.[TFTC]??

Gorby sent out a message that there was an adventure to be had to collect this cache so I turned up on the day to join in with the fun. It was terrific that the CO arrived to join us crazy adventurers too. Initially the mud wasnt too bad but then the fun began as it suddenly got deeper. I almost lost my footwear a couple of times and as my balance is a bit dodgy after recent back surgery I was trying to be cautious. I sunk in knee deep at one stage and went to grab onto a mangrove for balance and missed and decided to just go with it and plopped down in the mud. Thankfully no photos were taken at the time!! AV helped me up and we continued around and made it to the island. After signing the log and taking photos we headed back the same we we came. I dont know what the neighbours must have thought as 9 crazy mud splattered geocachers wandered back to their cars. Thanks for the adventures definitely a favourite. No photos from me unfortunately, I was too busy trying not to sink too deep.

What a day! Supernanny had thought about a low tide adventure to do this cache, I was SO on board with the idea, we picked a day which was quite suitable for getting a few people along to join us and today was the day chosen for our adventure. I rang or messaged a few people as did supernanny, but a few people with drew, but I was quite pleased with the nine people that did the walk including a great visit by our C.O glenogilvie! He placed the cache in a kayak with small pooka, but was also quite keen to come along in his gumboots and join in the madness that was about to happen! So we met up at 1;30pm, low tide proper was 2:37pm, so we gave ourselves plenty of time just in case things turned to custard and not mud. Off we went... our small but excited group. We initially took it slow, just feeling our way along before we knew we had to get our feet in the mud. Once that started it was all on! Sometimes the mud was ankle deep, but mostly on my small legs it was very much knee deep. We had some laughs, struggling along, hanging onto the mangroves as best as we could. at one point merlot came to grief on her backside, mud all over herself, hence that became an appropriate title to our group today 'Team Mudbums'. Eventually got to the island, some were well ahead of me, some had yet to catch up. Some did a circuit of the island, so once we all had gathered together oin the island, we ventured forth to the cache. Lovely big container awaited us, we signed in as 'Team Mudbums' but also added our individual names. Great fun alright! Then it was time to head back, a few pople like me retraced the steps we came here to. Others went another way. But we all got back to the cars muddy, happy, smiling and glad we had a neat little adventure. Thanks Glen for placing the cache, and happy I could get to it on foot without my kayak for a change. Then some went caching one way, me and supernanny went for a feed first at a local bakery before doing another cache and we gradually made it home. Thanks supernanny for picking me up today, thanks to all who were able to come along.

Ever since I saw this geocache come out, I have been really keen to walk out to it. ..and when I read about Aaron's adventure, I was doubly keen!Gorby was also interested; so we hatched a plan , and contacted a bunch of people we thought might be up for it!( I would never have done it alone! )Today was the day!Eight hardy folk turned up keen for this group excursion to Matuku Moana Island today...and we were very pleased to have good weather for our trip.A surprise bonus was that one of the two cache owners, namely GlenOlgilvie, also turned up ....by bike, no less!As has already been stated, the walk took longer than we expected....and the mud , although only Shin deep , was particularly " sucky ".The pictures don't really show it....you had to be there!Thanks guys....it was a blast!Favourite Point for sure.No doubt you have more high terrain ones in the pipeline.....We sighted the new "PipeLine under the Bridge " one on our way home!Thanks glenolgilvie and Small Pooka...

A solo excursion for Mr Coblet while Mrs Coblet was at home with a cold.But not really a solo excursion at all as I joined a group of intrepid geocachers who decided to tackle this cache today on foot. At low tide of course.We met at the end of Joe F Stanley Place and it was nice to see some old faces and meet some new ones and we all had a nice catch up while waiting for everyone to arrive. The group was made up of Gorby, Supernannny, avoyager, Jag50, Merlot, Net61, The Wonder Stuff and a surprise special guest of the CO himself.It was soon time to head off on our mission and we were all prepared for mud but weren't quite sure how much we were in for.After planning the best route we headed into the mangroves and at first the mud was reasonably shallow and not to difficult to get through but the further we got from dry land the wetter and deeper it got and many of us sunk up to our knees.I was pleased that I had worn my old shoes as the mud was making an effort to take them off me but I soon got into a rhythm, grateful for having the bushes to hold on to for most of the way. Although there were parts that required going it alone over the muddy expanse. I found that stopping to rest made me sink much faster and this also made restarting difficult as the mud had a way of cementing a tight grip so I tried to keep moving as much as possible.There was discussion as to the best route to take and the direct path to the cache would have involved a bush bash through thick mangroves so we went around them, some of us going clockwise and others anticlockwise.We all reached the island via our various routes and once we were all on dry land we headed to look for the cache.After a brief search Merlot made the find and we took a moment to celebrate and relax at GZ where we also came up with a team name, "The Mudbums" in honour of Merlot who had an incident on route to the island which led her to take a brief sit-down in the mud. Once the log was signed and the cache returned it was time to head back and we used the knowledge we had gained from the walk to the island to plot the best course back to the mainland.We arrived back muddy but victorious and we all agreed it had been a very enjoyable adventure. But not one that many of us would have tackled on our own. I wonder if any of the local residents had seen us and wondered what on earth we were up to? If they had seen us returning we probably would have looked like a bunch of people who had escaped a shipwreck.After a discussion about our experience we all departed. Some or the more intrepid of the group had plans to find some more caches but I headed home to hose off the mud.Thanks to the Mudbums for a great adventure, lots of fun and an experience we won't soon forget.A definite favourite point from me

JAG teamed up with a group of intrepid fellow cachers on an adventure to find this cache. There had been a lot of planning before the event checking out the tides and plotting a possible route by Google earth. After meeting up at the end of Joe E Stanley Place , our group of 9 began our adventure. It was easy going at first, and then the fun began as we started walking through the muddy mangroves. Somehow JAG led the way. She stopped to wait for the others to catch up, but soon found she was sinking deeper into the mud, and even lost one of her shoes. Digging in the mud the shoe was located and replaced on her foot. From this point, JAG discovered it was best to keep some momentum up to reach gz. Jag was the first to reach gz, and found a vantage point on the island to watch the others arrive. We all made it to gz, where Mudbum Merlot found this decent sized cache. After taking some photos to record our adventure, we returned back to our cars. We didnt see any heron today, however sea gulls and a kingfisher were spotted. Thanks to the CO for joining us on this adventure and on placing this cache.

Congratulations to Stik-a-crane for the FTF, and extra points for the increased difficulty by choosing a very wet day to find it and getting there on foot!

It dawned upon me (Friday afternoon), that junior cacher had a care giver due to spend the day with him today, so I put a call out to a few like minded cachers to see whom might be up for a mini adventure, after having checked the tides for suitability......After consulting Google I ascertained the possibility of reaching this cache without a water craft.....unfortunately not too many takers, probably due to the rain forecast for today....and that was my only concern upon waking this morning......headed off up the motorway, and was soon at my parking local, (217m away from the cache). Geared up, and headed to what I thought to be the entry alley, but all it took me to was water...not a good start....back to the car, then off a little further down the road to a much more promising entry to the mangroves.....Without giving too much away, I arrived at GZ and the find was swift, the log book was dry ...and empty, so signed in and returned to then make a quick exit before the tide returned.{FTF} #235 Thanks for the adventure...the rain may have changed the D/T a wee bit.....

Well done Mr Sticky!!

FTF'd this at approx 11:30am, light drizzle, low tide, no water craft....nothing untoward on this adventure, but fully expected stuff to happen. Full log to follow.

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