Seat of the Dragon (Auckland) Vauxhall, North Island, New Zealand
By Navigull on 12-Jun-04. Waypoint GCJP06

I thought I archived this a couple of weeks ago. It is definitely been muggled and with a history of being attacked I will not restore it.

I have a report that this cache has been muggled.

No luck here for me today.

FINALLY!
This has taken !!7!! visits!
Bearing is off by quite a bit.
Otherwise, cool cache.
Nice to have found it, it has been bugging me for so long.
Also found Praise For Patuone 10 min late (another past DNF)
TNLNSL T4TC navigull

[at long last after many weeks of searching found this cache with skatelong
this cache is very well hidden and is still there!!
in- small gell pen
out- black key tag
t4tc][8d]
look under a diagonal branch under it tucked right under it you will find the cache

[This was an awesome cache!!!

found with maxtheman after long last.]
We were originally going to close to the top path but slowly made our way down.
[in smiley face magnet
out green name tag
T4TC

thanks, Skatelong]

Checked the cache today and it is in position and in good nick!
I have adjusted the offset distance and bearing very slightly and raised the difficulty level to 2.

Following a couple of DNFs Iwill disable this cache until I can check it out. maybe a week or so though.

After talking to Navigull at WWFM Kiwi stylie, I still could not find it. Looked in all the obvious places.


[This entry was edited by Skiingdemon on Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 6:12:05 PM.]

Searched for quite a while but to no avail. Looked in all the obvious hiding places but no evidence of any cache.
Nice spot to visit though, would never have come here otherwise. Dragon is impressive.

I found only some empty beer cans. But thanks for showing the dragon.

Took a while, but found it safe and sound.

This is a traditional cache ?
found it at 12:30 today, nice dragon

Cache enabled after maintenance visit.

I dropped off a new container today and relocated the hiding place. The description has been edited somewhat and the clue updated.

I will check this out in a few days time. Will have to arrange a new container it seems.

Went to reclaim this again due to change in user name, expecting it to be in same place but couldn't find it. Reckon it's been muggled as evidence of plastic toys and beer bottles around the area.

I must not be in tune with the local cachers. We looked for ages but didn't go very far into the trees. I 'dunno...

Nice View and pretty easy to locate although I did have to go there twice. Thanks!

Took a wee while. Was sitting chatting on the phone to "primary eyes" and spied the spot!

Lovely cache with a lovely view. One of those places we've drived past numerous times but never stopped to visit. Thanks!

A lovely day and a very interesting seat! Found fairly quickly.
Took guitar pick and left Mexican Donald Duck
Thanks for the cache.

What a cute wee beasty! He watched us carefully, but must have thought us safe enough to leave us alone. Good quick find, TNLN, TFTC.

Excellent cache - great views.

Did with "The Moor we Hunt..."

TFTC

Loved the mosaic bench and pleased to see it in such good condition in this public place. There were four of us searching for this cache and it still took a while. Not sure that where we found it was the correct hiding place, so put it back where we thought it should have been. SL. TFTC.

Also logging in and out our England Geocoin.

A gentle stroll to visit a most magnificant beast,
but horror - this one consumes fairies!
The butterfly would like to linger,
and enjoy the colourful beast,
but wings engaged and heart all a flutter,
dared not stay so close to the danger.

Upon retreat a much more powerful critter was spied,
as a line of cars stopped both ways,
and mother duck herded her offspring
across the very busy main road.
Now tell me do, which creature is best,
the one that eats tiny fairies,
or the one that protect tiny young?

Just to remind the dragon, we left a small butterfly figure in the cache - thanks for this excellent placement.

Nice easy find. TNLN

Cute dragon. We walked over the grass instead of using the track and it was sloppy, wet and muddy.

Great find the kids loved climbing and exploring the dragon while Mum found the cache nice and easy family fun. Great day sunny and windy and nice view.

TFTC

- simba figurine
+ miniature barbie

Took a walk in between afternoon showers to pick up this one. Found the Dragon first, and the cache was easy from there. Took TB for travel further south. Many thanks for the cache

Rala could finish work some hours earlier today, so we headed off to the Northshore to get some caches there done.
After we had walked along the rain soaked grass, we actually found the convenient walkways that would have taken us to the dragon with dry feet. The dragon reminded us of the parks of Antonio Gaudi in Barcelona/Spain. The dragon is so cute that Rala immediately made him her friend. With his help, we also had no problems with the cache.

Took: TB Beetlematic
Left: TB Boromir

TFTC

Team Timmelams, easy find.

Great spot and loved the dragon, looks magical and lives by the sea, could it be Puff?
Don't know why I made this hard for myself but I did, searched in all the wrong places to eventually find it was really quite easy.
TNLNSL, TFTC.

10:40 Second time lucky on this one. Bit easier without the suit and Tie . Great spot I loved the chair. Thanks for the cache and bring me here.
Took: Nothing
Left: The Beetlematic TB

Logged in Gecko for the photo with the dragon, but he wouldn't fit in the cache.

Quick lunch time dash while doing a job over here. Alas I couldn't find this one. Maybe another time, had a pretty good look. Loved the seat very cool... Thanks anyway.

Had to come and do this one while in the area gathering info for another cache! Nice views on this beautifull day.
TNLNSL
TFTC

#203 While the kids befriended the dragon, we snuck off and found the lair and retrieved the treasure. Enjoyed a glorious sunset before finishing for the day.
In Seashell
Out Funkyland magnet
SL, TFTC

Found outside the fire zone. Well concealed.

A nice area.

TFTC

- TB

+ toy

Dropped off Backpacker smurf since the other cache (The Write Stuff) in Devonport has been swiped. Lucky he fitted he. He's way the best item in it!
+TB Backpacker Smurf
-Spider Man keyring

Roaring sucess
+ Smurf traveller travel bug
- spider man keyring



[This entry was edited by Phil B and Phil G on Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 12:58:46 AM.]

5:25 pm.
I enjoyed a nice walk over from HMNZ Naval Base, Auckland after wrapping up a third working session of a two week Navy business trip. Curiously, our meeting site is visible from “The Seatâ€. The soccer kids were actively engaged in practice sessions as I entered the grounds. Loved the seat. Perfect theme for a Team Gecko find (we like to think geckos and dragons are distant cousins). It began sprinkling a bit shortly after I found the container. Fortunately, I was able to duck under cover for the short time it took to log and make exchanges. Left a TG card, a collared lizard and a blue horned lizard. Took a small green frog. Thanks for the fun hide and a novel seat with a view.
-Gecko Dad, San Diego, California

Eventually found ourselves in the park. Interesting seat and so colourful - loved it, plus the view. Left frog and took skateboarder.

Very difficult finding a parking area, had to park across the street and then nice walk to a very nice surprise. signed log.

[This entry was edited by ukexpat on Thursday, March 08, 2007 at 3:49:37 PM.]

[This entry was edited by ukexpat on Thursday, March 08, 2007 at 3:50:16 PM.]

This seat is indeed beautiful and a lot of craftsmanship has gone into it. It is a surprisingly quiet part of the park during the week, so it is good to see, that thanks to Navigull this location is getting a lot of visitors. TFTC

The dragon is beautifully crafted and deserves the numbers of visitors it is getting thanks to Navigull. Easy find.

easy find, quicky at lunch,loved the seat,thanks for dragging us here cache in good condition,log almost full
TNLNSL

Found late afternoon - easy to find at high tide with nobody whatsoever lurking about on a fine summer day. Very interesting seat to have a gaze at the harbour bridge and marae. +-nil. Cheers, -j

Dragon was occupied by a muggle, but after he finally left, it was easy.

Thanks for the cache

As others have noted, walked here easily from Waters of the Bay.
Grew up in this area, and never knew about the Dragon seat (but I guess it was a rubbish dump for a while).
Took Kansas coin and left Indian rupee.

What a great seat! Found in with Kaimai and Widgy. It is just down the road from Widgy's house. We were off to find another cache and Widgy said she knew where the seat was so a speedy u turn was excecuted and we were off to find our first cache of the day!!

@1400

Excellent Dragon, the kids loved it.

TFTH.

- lizard
+ skater

GF.

First cache and an easy one so onto the next

Beautiful, outstanding dragon. Lots of work to create this colourful beast. Is this an old tip?
- bull
+ Dodge City Gunsmoke 50-year wooden nickle
Early Rizers

Found with Maple Leaf. Our first cache outside of the UK... and it's a long way to come to the other side of the world just for that!
Found after some detours down dead-end roads. Lovely seat and nice view of the harbour bridge.

TFTC TNLN

Found with Paradiddle. Our first cache outside of the UK...
Lovely seat and nice view.

TFTC TNLN

Walked to the cache from the ferry terminal. The seat is quite neat and the view today of the bridge was well framed by the landscape. Enoyed this location very much. TNLN.

I'm a local but never knew the seat existed, my girls thought it was great. Cold SW wind coming straight down the bay didn't dampen our enthusiasm. Easy find TFTC.
TSLS In-Purple pony Out- 5 cents

Wow - what an awesome seat.
Quite a few muggles around.
TNLNSL.

Got to this one just befor a a big dumping of rain. Neat seat and a view of the harbour. SL TFTK, had to run for the car in the rain.

Safe to call in with the kids with the rain to put out any flame from the dragon

Spotted the dragon from some distance when approaching. Lacking a charger and a lance, I approached on foot and soon had the cache in hand. Sat on the dragon and filled out the log while appreacating the view to the now setting sun.

What a nice stroll with the dogs. Great views

Beautiful view and loved the dragon (a pity that someone decided to graffiti it - why?!). Thanks for the cache. TNLNSL

easy find good view. nice seat tnlnsl tftc.

Dodged the showers and then had a quick walk across the long grass (yuk, pants are wet again ) to discover a really colourful and unusual seat. + red lizzard. – necklace. – Come fly with Me TB.

First cache of the day, and accompanied by our Kiwi muggle friends Aeron and Shai. It was nice to be able to take them on a lovely walk they didn't know about despite live their whole lives in Auckland! LOVE the Dragon's Seat too! Logging several travel bugs and geocoins through; all but Come Fly with Me shall be moving on to Australia!

I'm finally logging the Come fly with Me! Travel Bug, which I picked up in Tasmania, gave some minor renovations, then flew to the US and around the southwest (including a quick trip to the Grand Canyon to get married), and left in Auckland. A big sorry to cache lizzy cache and BaldEd who have suffered because it's taken me so long to find photos and log all these stops! Now the journey is complete, guess I'll need to update the GoogleEarth image of its travells!

Great dragon! Avoided the flames, and found after a brief search by the team.
+ compass, mini pack of cards
- flashing light gel, 20p+2p coins
Picked up GeoSlyCa's US Geocoin.
(Signed log OK, but the pencil is getting a bit small!)

Great view from a great seat, very interesting.
TFTC
left geocoin from fiordland

On business training the local vets in Devenport I stopped here on way home to find this cache as it has been on my list for a while.
text msg to TechnoKitten to get a clue.. but was an easy find.
TNLeft calling card... SL
TFTC

Great spot -loved the seat !!! nice views of the bridge also

TFTC

+ dough that lights up when squeezed
- dolphin pendant and golf ball

What a nice spot Took me longer than expected scrabbling around to find the cache itself, was simply trying too hard. TNLNSL, thanks 'gull.

Loads of muggles at the skatepark even though its was getting dark. Just about got caught but covered up well. We live in the area and never knew that fabulous seat was there. Just shows you!!! Had to fish around for a while but got it in the end. Thanks.

Left Navy badge.

Neat spot - loved the Dragon.
Pendant - In : Green Star - Out

5.40pm Great spot, great gardens, great walk, great views. Nice and easy find. Will bring the kids back next time and explore more when the weather is better.
TNLNSL
Thanks Navigull

5.40pm
Nice easy find with KazExplorer. Good Reception lead us straight there. Great spot and seat.
TNLNSL
T4TC

Our last for today, and what a lovely spot to end up in. The seat is a treasure. An amazing amount of work gone in to it.
I started the new log.

TNLNSL thanks for taking us to see the dragon.

2nd of day.
I see a visitor has placed a comment here very positive it was too ? a new geocacher out of it.
You have to literally read the clues to get this one.
We are following Sinataus and Buzztasman around today it seems
TNLN
TFTC

Lovely spot and very interesting seat. quite an easy find, made us laugh.
In: Lion
Out: Lolly
TFTC

A good hiding spot. The log book has run out. Mr Buzz was first to spot this one. Loved the seat - it made for interesting reading.
- Koala
+ Green stone

Loved the dragon seat - what interesting insets. Need to look from all angles!

Nice walk, nice view & nice hide. Thanks.

Nice easy walk to the cache. Nice Views... Found at 2:50pm. TNLNSL. Neat Seat!

My first find! I am no longer a muggle and am totally hooked on this already. Great find in a beautiful spot. Being an ex-pat American, took the LA County Peace Force Pin & sticker; left blue glass star (belated Christmas).

5th for the day with new Chilean team mate.

We sat down on a fantastic seat with an equally fantastic view. The team mate started to laugh and said she had located the cache.

In: El Toro (little black bull)
Out: Bottle opener.
Cheers for the cache.

2nd find in New Zealand.
Took me a few minutes to locate this one. Nice hide.

Nice area; quite peaceful despite kids in the skate park.

Took geocoin, but didn't have anything with me to drop off. I will move the coin along to another cache.

TFTC

-code_monkey

Really nice spot here, and I was very relieved that this cache site was bike-able. Easy find after availing myself of the seat and admiring the view. Blessedly free of muggles, too. Took nothing, left Geo-coin.

Braved the dragon's wrath and sat down on its back. Soon, all was revealed and I walked straight over to the cache and signed the log.

Took a bit of a look but found it eventually. Nice spot, very interesting seat.
+ AA Batts
- 5p and bridge token SL

Found with Robyn & Hollie the spanial.I'm sure this spot was a rubbish tip when I was a child.A return to the Devonport area where I spent a lot of my childhood.Great seat & a nice maze like garden on the way in.TNLNSL.
Cheers Navigull

Tuesday 19 July.

The junior ‘Team Tanetops’ were most impressed by the fiery dragon and soon solved the hidden meaning in the encrypted message. However a thorough search around the target plant proved unsuccessful. Clearly some elevated thinking was required and finally the mist cleared and the location of the treasure was revealed.


Tanetops

Nice hiding spot and great view.
+ LA Law Enforcement Badge & Pin
- Skeleton Key Ring

3.00pm. Lovely view for a sunny moment or two between showers. Beautiful seat.
+ skeleton keyring
- cat ball toy.
{8D] M&P.

Scenic spot. Outlook cool (about 14 C). Make a great find for the next party. Voucher for free cinema ticket, you have one month before it expires.

I didn't want to search about for this cache as there were far to many geomuggles about at the time, a sunny sunday afternoon. I'll head back to it next time I'm in the area.

Nice seat and view.

Now thats a decent seat, make sure you read the back of it as well its easy to miss when in a hurry geocaching.
-reflective hand, +cat toy ball

Grabbed this after leaving the BBQ. Easy walk over to the cache and another scenic view. Found cache with not too muching searching. No exchange made. Cheers Gav [432]

[This entry was edited by rediguana on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at 3:00:15 PM.]

So, THIS is the dragon we “spotted†from the geocache event site. No wonder I didn’t see the actual cache from there! Nice park and view!

Slipped away from Geo-Gathering for this one. A really neat spot. I love dragons. Thanks NINO

stoppedin here after the geocaching event, what a awesome view and what a cool seat. did this one with tgawookie and tribe of 4
cheers

[This entry was edited by Rick-a-mortis on Sunday, March 13, 2005 at 9:56:00 AM.]