River View (East Auckland) Whitford, North Island, New Zealand
By Willbuild on 26-Jan-03. Waypoint GCCA6F

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Had to wait a while for the Muggles to clear the decks so to speak. Whitford has a very restful atmosphere doesn't it TNLNSL Thanks

On a mission from the Waikato.
Found this easily as there was hardly anyone about in vthe early afternoon on a weekday.
Grabbed the TB

Yay, third visit and the first time we have got to search, soooo many muggles around here on fine days, but today in the rain it was easy.
TFTC Willbuild
Swopped TB's

needed clue still hard to find
+TB
-TB

Had to wait for the Muggles to disappear, took a while to locate the exact spot. nice spot i had driven past many times, but never visited,

I managed to park pretty close, but wasn't looking at the cache from the right side. I finally found it by reaching and touching. I got a strange look from one lady whilst I was hunting for it. No exchange made. Cheers Gav [417]

Searched for a little while, then thought about clue again. Found it easily when looking in correct area. Thanks Willbuild.

I found this one without the gps.One of the photos was a dead give away so I knew where I was going.Just as I was about to find the cache three boys turned up.I managed to get the cache out without them seeing.But they wouldn't leave.I waited for a long while so I decided to go for a drive & return it on the way back.But when I returned there were lots of people there.The boating club must of been having a meeting tonight.So I ended up bringing it home & will return it tomorrow.Mini table tennis set in,keyring pen out.Cheers.

Found with JDHnz
Nicely engineering structure - quite impresive actually. View wasnt too bad either. Thanks for that interesting cache

found @ 19:50
Required a second look in the hiding place to actually spot the cache. TNLN, thanks.

Got there, spent a lot of time strugling around under the place. Got a large collection of spiderwebs.
The local muggles were looking at me with suspicion when ever they came into view.
Finally found it. Kicked myself over how easy it was from the right place.
In Gel pen
Out Nil
Thanks willbuild

AJ (aka necronboy)

There were a couple of muggles there when we arrived so had to wait a bit, then used the clue to help find it.
TNLN
thanks, rebnda

This was our first cache find as we only heard about Geocaching two weeks ago. Enjoyed the hunt.
The cache site was just the right height for our three year old grandaugther
where as I was on my knees. We were also thrilled to find an official travel bug
from British Columbia, Canada in the cache.
Nice cache placement, thanks Willbuild.
from Mash, Lash & grandaughter.
- Hand it to Bandit & small teddy bear
+ Keyring pen & toy steam shovel


[This entry was edited by mashnz on Sunday, January 02, 2005 at 11:09:21 PM.]

[This entry was edited by mashnz on Monday, January 03, 2005 at 2:07:31 AM.]

We found this cache with grandson Daniel and grand-daughter Emily. A good cache for children to search for and nicely hidden. We left 'Hand it to Bandit' travel bug which we brought up from a cache in Nelson,South Island.
Daniel took the New York Fireman.
Thanks

It was good to have a "park'n'cache" after having had some longish walks to the previous three...
Nice spot, thanks!
- Coca-Cola bear
+ teddy bear

My 7 yo daughter decided to stay in the car while I searched but when she could see I wasn't having any luck she joined in and had it within seconds. The seat at the top of this elaborate structure was perfectly suited to filling in the log then contemplating where to go next on this beautiful spring day. TNLN

Had a nice view of the old scow "Vesper" undergoing repairs at the wharf.

Found it without too much trouble. Only cache today that we didn't need to wear our Gummies. 4th of 6 today.

Tufty & Team

Enjoyed our drive and the lovely lookout. Found cache after an extensive search, and then wondered why it took us so long!!
In - Mazda keyring
Out - Cable ties
Thanks for bringing us here.

During a day at the beach with a friend taking photos (see attached), I explained the concepts of Geocaching. As an illustration, I pointed out this cache (conveniently on the way back, and I knew where it was from a previous visit).

I was lucky enough to find a travelbug inside, which is going somewhere else.

Sorry for the delay in logging this, and moving the bug; I forgot all about it.

Out: Travel bug
In: I don't recall I did drop something in honest.

Nice spot on a nice sunny day you could easily drive past and never know this spot was here
TNLNSL
Thanks Willbuild

Found it , Visited with dysentry.
great spot for a cache, found it rather easily.
Cheers
TNLN

visited with runzz.

found easily - what a cunning spot!

Have driven past this place for 11 years and never knew it existed. Nice little spot.
New gps spot on. I guess having 7 sat locks helps a wee bit, although it still took me a few minutes to find.
Off now for a second attempt at "Steps, Steps and More Steps."
In. 20c and bag of cable ties.
Out. Coloring pencils.
Thanx Willbuild.

Great cache to visit if you don't want to get wet, dirty or walk very far. Secreted in a very tidy little spot. Nice cache to visit to introduce people to geocaching.
In - 60 cent
Out - LOTR trading cards

Second find today. The best hiding place yet of any caches in Auckland. Took about 20mins to find, stepped over cache 5 times before finding it. GPS Etrex was spot on... right down to the foot. ;o)
IN: NIL
OUT: NIL

What a really neat hideaway, very different and inventive. nice spot and very quiet as we were there late in the day.
Nil IN, nil OUT
Filled in the logbook

Have been meaning to grab this for the last 5 mths, I drive past it on the way to work.

It's a nice spot, wouldn't like to have to launch from there to go fishing.

Pam had to think like a Cacher as we hadn't read the Cache page.

Thanks.

+ Fireman
- Stamp Pad Kit

Final stop before continuing to the Wilds of the Far North. Cache revealed itself before too long. The counterweight is a nice refinement that shows some thought into the potential longevity of the cache
TN LN SL

Cheers
HLD

Paddled here from 'Motukaraka View' into strong SW wind. Needed our lunch after that! Lindsay was keen for more caches after his first on the island. Probably just missed HLD!
Cheers, M@

A bit delayed! Found whilst acompanying HLD, but can't remember what went in or went out. Will try to be a little more timely next time

..ooOO ( I thought I'd already entered this one )

We found it, we found it.... it took us a while but we (and by we, I mean ME!) found it

Cache was in pretty good nick, a little damp, like us standing out in the rain...

Took out :
rubbers - (pencil type guys!)
Batteries - Leaking

Put in :
Kids multi-stamp set
Colouring in pencil set

Took me ages. Eventually spotted it more or less where I had expected it to be.

The paintball was beginning to dissolve, and when I had a look at it, sprung a leak. Threw it out. Took the slimline CD case, left some Lord of the Rings trading cards.

Thanks for the cache, Willbuild.

Hardest one so far. Arrived too late, just at dusk. It was pretty dark when I decrypted the clue. I understood the clue (I think - it sounds like it points very clearly), but couldn't find the cache.

Probably going back next weekend, give it another go in the light.

Found it with a bit of logical thinking,
but was I pestered council worker, who turned out to be on the council board..told me why they built the structure there.
Then a local who was bored...obviously needs to get into geocaching [:0)]

In: small paint ball
Out: NIL

Getting to this cache was a problem, as some ? local came down in a car and must have thought I had evil intentions. He just sat watching us while I pretended to take photos and then he started to drive off but stopped again and kept his beady eye on me for 10 minutes more.
Eventually he drove off and the search was got underway only to be held up twice more as visitors came and went. I sent the young grandaughters around and about with no luck and then finally I found it. Got interupted again when opening that wrist breaking container.

Took the padlock left an ultrathin CD case.

I agree that the co-ordinates are out by 25 meters or so.

If you build houses as solidly as you built this container they must be solid indeed Willbuild.

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[last edit: 4/26/2003 2:39:59 AM PST]

Found it without too much trouble. As others have found, the coordinates are out. I ditched the GPS and used the clue and hints in the main text. They practically tell you where to look.

What did Willbuild put in the bottom of the container to make it so heavy?

[|)] We looked up, we looked down, we looked over and we looked under. We found lots of cool stuff, but no cache

We looked under everything.. we even checked under the car!! (shouldn't have parked it on the stones) Still... no cache

So we've done the honourable thing and come back to look at the photo Still none the wiser, we looked under all that We looked up from under all that

My poor lil wifey... first time the cache has beaten her [B)]

Not hard to find now with the additional clue - thanks Willbuild. Logbook was a bit damp so put that and pens in a bag.
In: 4 AA batteries
Out: Altimeter

You couldn't get a better view of the river if you tried....awesum structure and I guess that it certainly meets there needs....remind me never to upset willbuild otherwise could end up like the container with concrete boots.....lol...

left a pen and took memories....

Cache was found approx 30m away from the waypoint given. Took nothing, left nothing.

When I got to this cache I saw this guy walking around the back of the clubhouse holding a piece of paper and a flash of a GPS.. Lo and Behold it was M@, who had just turned up at the same time as me!

We spent at least an hour in the sun searching for the cache and talking to M@. Pretty interesting however neither of us could find the cache.. We looked high and low, in the tractor shed and all around the lookout (?), all around the back of the clubhouse too.

Sadly we couldn't find it, given the amount we searched I suspect it might have been plundered?

WILLBUILD,
Cache found safe and sound , follow the hint.