Mysterious Seats and Green Shed . Kohimaramara Kohimarama, North Island, New Zealand
By supernannny on 07-Apr-24. Waypoint GCANZV8

After attending a midday event in the Viaduct I decided to make the most of my extra day off, after Labour Day, and find some more hides. I n the end I settled on a bush walk around Kepa Reserve. After finding "trolls treasure" I climbed my way up to the green shed. Not particularly muddy today. Once at ground zero the spoiler photo meant I new exactly when I had found the correct ground zero. All in good order here. Cheers for the cache placement!

Made the muddy walk up to the mysterious green shed and seats today. Maybe it belongs to the school? Glad to make this find today. I reckon one of us is going to slip on our way back down the track!

From DNF to found. Sadly I forgot a pen or any trinkets to put inside because I was just on a walk but great hiding spot, I have photo proof if necessary! TFTC!

Thought I would come for a pleasant walk in Kepa Bush today and check up on three caches....Two were there...but this one was not.Unless I didn't dig deep enough!Anyway, I have placed a new one under the tree / roots.Was a bit obvious so placed some unusual rocks in front of it....will be very obvious to geocachers.Spoiler Photos if you are really stuck...

First DNF of the day spent ages looking but to no availl

A solo excursion for Mr Coblet while Mrs Coblet spends the weekend in Wellington.After finding the "Cave Tree" cache on the other side of the bush I headed along the Purewa Creek trail with my sights set on this one. It was very muddy underfoot after all the recent rain so I had to step carefully as I didn't fancy an early morning swim.I headed up the side track towards the college which turned into a lovely grassy trail. The sun was just coming up so the light was nice and I enjoyed the walk.Once at GZ I saw the mysterious seats and was wondering what they could be for. There is room for a reasonable number of people to have a nice get together and there is even a table for food. Wonder how often they get used?Even more puzzling is the nearby slab of concrete holding up a metal rectangular "doorway"?Maybe this area is a work in progress and will soon develop into a more extensive outdoor entertaining area.But for the moment my mission was to find the cache and it certainly turned into a mission. My GPS wouldn't settle and there were quite a few potential hiding spots so I spend a while poking, prodding, reaching and foraging covering what I thought was ever nook and cranny in sight. But to no avail.I made contact with a previous finder who kindly provided a bit of intel to help narrow down the search and I focused on a particular area.I had looked in this spot earlier but not well enough and after digging down quite deep I felt something which I retrieved, hoping it was the cache. And it was, phew.Very nice container that blends in well and had sunk down a bit below the surface, probably due to the rain, so its camo was working extra well today.Very pleased to gain a smiley here today. I used the mysterious seats to have a rest and eat an apple before moving on.Thanks Supernanny for the hide in this very interesting part of the bush I have never visited before.

Out with Jag and we continued along the track to this one.Nice camo .Fav point.Unusual to see the seats and the Big Container here .

JAG had the day off work and made a plan to meet up with Net and find a few caches on this very chilly morning. This was our third cache in the Kepa bush today, before heading back to the car in Thatcher Street. We spotted the green shed and the mysterious seats on our approach to gz, and soon after had the well camouflaged cache in hand. TFTC

Havent ever been into this bit of bush before, so thanks for putting a cache in.Nobody about. Checked quite a few hint items before my hand finally found it. [TFTC]

Mr KC and I made our way up here from the main track, a bit of a huff and a puff but we made it. This looks like a little stage area with the doors opening out facing the seats. We had a search around and I found this container which looks just like a cache but turns out it wasn't according to the cache description. We eventually found the cache and the one I found I have taken with me. No idea of its purpose but it will turn up in the field at some stage, TFTC

So much mystery here. The green container and seats and a random steel frame. Super quick find for me. Thanks supernanny

We are caching around Kohimarama with Team Welsh this morning. Headed up the track to the mysterious seats and zeroed in on GZ. Didn't take long to find a container, but it contained no logsheet. After a bit more searching the correct cache was located. Signed ourselves in, then TW took her mysterious find to become a cache somewhere else. TFTC.

M25: quite a few trees had many roots and the GPS was acting up a bit, so I went with the geosense and found the cache at the second tree I checked. Log all good and signed here. TFTC.

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I had just arrived in New Lynn on the train and was about to walk to the local bike repair shop and pick up my e-bike. It had a wobble in the rear wheel and the guy was going to straighten it out. Today I was picking it up, so looked at this cache and straight away put it on my watchlist! I walked to the shop with some haste and realised I had left my bike helmet at home, never mind, back to the train station I went and back on the train into town. Along the way I see I can get to Britomart and without leaving the station I can just hop straight on the eastern line and 2 stops later I'd be at the Meadowbank station! Well that all worked to plan and in no time I was at the start of the Kepa Bush walk track. I decided to go down the stairs with the bike and try to cycle along, got so far before I realised I couldn't go any further and so left the bike in the trees, took my key for the battery with me and walked it from there hoping the bike would stay there and not get stolen. It was a pleasant walk thru the bush and up onto the wide grassy area... when did the C.O become a mountain goat...lol. I was huffing and puffing a bit, but got to GZ without a heart attack. C:geo is still playing up at the moment, at one point it told me I wasn't a premium member, and when I went back to the standard app, I could see the hint, rooty tree! I looked at one specimen which I thought looked promising, but no cache! So searched several others which didn't seem to quite match the hint, no luck there either... hmmm... what am I missing here, so started over at the first tree and viola! My fingers just seem to touch something that moved and sure enough a grassy thing was before my eyes! I have seen this before... lol. Nice to see you have used this supernanny, I seem to remember I donated this to you at my event some time ago now! I hope it lasts, I haven't tried that type of camo before. Anyway, {FTF} for me today. Then back down the hill, I was thinking this track wasn't going to be used today while I was here... boy was I wrong! I passed 2 young girls sitting at the bank of the stream, then a mum and her daughter passed me, then last but not least a young teen age boy dragging along an e-scooter that was the hired type i.e not his! I had to wait for him to drag the scooter up the stairs onto the concrete then I followed him pushing my bike back up too. Then I cycled back to the train station...home. I see this log is getting rather long...lol. Thanks for the cache today supernanny and a FP from me for the hide. FTF#858