Luckens Hidey Hole (Auckland) Te Atatu Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand
By Zork V on 16-Jan-05. Waypoint GCMGWP

Times up, calling it in, all over.

Need to replace cache container.

Out with 3 Grandchildren & the 9yr old really worked hard looking for this one but no luck, possibly missing ?

Have had two goes at this one but no luck. First time I got muggled out and the 2nd go I spent quite a bit of time but it has eluded me.....

GPSr all over the place with this one and a couple of young boys playing nearby cramped my style a bit, "what are you looking for?" a couple of times, sheesh, is it that obvious?

Will need a re-visit and hopefully muggle free next time!

Out West in XenaCommanders car, the battleship.... all the bikes are in rest mode today. After collecting a trademe purchase from the airbase we dialed up some local caches. This is a nice secret spot... obviously well used by the local teens for sly grogging etc. We plodded down the path to find a great view. Sadly TK was not firing on all cylinders today, so XC had his mitts on the goods in double quick time... well done XC (hisssssssss)
Awesome views back to the city so it is well worth the side trip, thanks Zork.
In gel pen and cards Nil out

Out caching in the car..!!@#$%!#$% Yes a car... Bikes in garage resting.
Never done much exploration around this area..
GPSr took us close and XC soon had it in hand while TK was up the bank... Cats will find any excuse to climb a tree.
Cache was empty apart from the log.
Signed log and left calling cards.
logged A Fish Called Wonder TB thru after taking pic.
TFTC #428

#282 Quick find, nice hide. Enjoyed the views towards Auckland before heading off to next cache.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Well after getting a FTF tonight, we thought we try and clean up this area.

Only armed with a torch and the GPS, we headed into the park. I remember people saying this was a hard one to find. But the cache was located pretty quickly even without the hint.

Great views from Ground Zero of the city lights, TNLN. Thanks for the cache.

3rd for the day. Found after a wee look around. TFTC

- dog
+ beetle key ring

Cheers

18:00hrs--Another one for Doug n Dad. Still using google earth, no GPS. We went up to the shops to get dinner ingredients for S.W.I.T.B.O... geez we are only males & got a bit lost (dinner 40 mins late)... a good hunt following hint produced nothing.... gave up on hint & just looked where we would hide it. Bingo!! there it was. Have seen many people sitting here during summer when we are sailing from the club opposite...its a real popular spot.
Thanks for the great evenings sport for a dad & his lad.
regds Muzza. TN LN SL.

Been waiting for some time to locate this one. Arrived at a beautiful beach with a great view. Easy find in the end behind the stone door. Left tiny craft pot took space monkey for a visit to town! Someone bring a pencil nexttime the one in here is at the end of its life!

easy find, stone door was missing, have since replaced.
had 5 first time geocache helpers.
In: whistle, parachuter, clapper
Out: toy and golf ball

Easy find. Nice spot.

Out: Supercacher geocoin.

Thanks!

After walking through a Danger Keep Out tape further up the track we found it in the obvious place. A local kid came past on a bike and stopped to chat, he knew what we were doing, and pointed us in the direction of another cache closeby. Seems the local kids may have put the tape across the track, appeared to be nothing dangerous going on. TNLN. Discovered the Super Cacher before he moved on.

Nice to have a cache so close to home. Lovely stroll with my dog and my new GPS. Quick find - good to know my new GPS is doing the job!!

Thanks

Wonderful stroll. Perfect location... What a view!!!

- Germany World Cup GC
+ Super Cacher GC

TFTC

[:o)]

15h45 - Quick find, nice harbour views!
- wistle
+ Geocoin Zoush's Worldchampionship 2006
+ Golfball
TFTC

Lovely views back up harbour. enjoyable walk across the park and a quick find.

No-one around today, a bit of a poke around revealed the hiding spot. Didn't get the hint at the time, but thinking about it later, well OK, a bit tricky!
TNLNSL T4TC

Showed up to the cache site to be found out by Adnshe sitting on the bank. Went for a walk to give them time to rehide the goodies. The lady with the dog took forever to leave then a short hunt using the clue. Was the last Zork V for the day.

TFTCSL

This was our 2nd visit and this time we knew more or less where we should be searching and yes, there it was, thank goodness!
Filled in log and was about to replace when we interrupted by some locals with a dog so we settled down to wait them out. Just then another family arrived, but these looked a little different - it was probably the yellow GPSr in their hand that gave it away. Turned out to be Caitlin mum and dad on the hunt too. It was nice to meet up and have a quick chat with another geocacher.
Thanks for the cache ZorkV

Replaced cache container with a new black camo version.

Bit of a mission, but cache found & restored to its original condition with Zorks help over the phone.(couldnt crack clue as Ipaq died)
+small items of treasure
-0/SL

Yaye, found it at last, great views of the city by night. TNLNSL, TFTC

Yaye, found it at last, great views of the city by night. TNLNSL, TFTC

[This entry was edited by blinkerpad on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 12:43:35 AM.]

A quick find at a very picturesque spot. High(ish) tide an a fleet of small boats racing completed the view.

On arrival man and his dog were sitting just about on top of ground zero so we had to go for a bit of a walk-about until the coast was clear.No problems with find.Nice spot.
Out: Big Marble.
In: Magnetic paper clip.
TFTH.

Full tide in arrival and no one around . Found by one of my kids after some looking.

4.45pm. Took a while to find. It was raining steadily but the grandkids didn't mind. TNLN Thanks David 7 Noeline

Nice cache,A lot of muggles with their dogs so had to hang about and look at the view.

TFTC

Great hidey hole. Had been meaning to visit this cache for a while... left some pencil shavings near the cache... thought someone searching with a keen eye might notice (did you TimK01? K-2, S-3

Great spot, lovely walk with great views. Sinautus and I found at 5.55pm so we watch as night fell over Auckland City. T4TC, TNLNSL

Found this one with Beauty & the Beast. Quite a few Muggles around with little kids. We pretended to be interested in taking a lot of photos (resulting in a few strange photos). Signed as "C+D".

Nice spot, can imagine it would look really nice when the tide is in. Lots of muggles here on Sunday afternoon, but it was pretty easy to distract them. No swaps, thanks for the cache.

Nice views - better if the tide was in. Muggled by 2 dogs so left a dog in the cache to protect it! TFTC

easy find great view tnlnsl. tftc

Out caching with Nordy and family.
Her husband found this one 1st.
TFTC

What great views, a different angle on the city. Nice little spot thanks.

This one was very elemental... very quiet indeed down at GZ... and a crystal clear view of the evil GZ of a certain other cache from the path... Thanks Zork

Wow, this was loads of fun, had to use the clue (i didnt feel to bad about this as I was using a borrowed GPS and it was my first ever find)

+Special wine cork
-keyring floater thingy

TFTC

Nordy

We were the second loggers for the day, the previous footprints were helpful! Traded a ball of many colors for a mini car.
Thanks

We enjoyed looking for this our first cache..it was a
little difficult to locate initially - but we were successful after a short while.

My wife and I went for a walk on Valetines day and decided to look for a cache in the local neighbourhood. After a half an hour we had success, my wife is great at spotting.

Third visit and third time empty handed. Hoping for better luck next visit. May need new glasses!!!

A nice walk to a secluded (I thought) bit of the coastline though on my way out there were muggles on the track. A nice and easy find.
In: Purple car
Out: Audio plug
Cheers for the cache.

3.45pm. Our second visit here this time aided by a little extra advice from The Pud. Found it in what now appears an obvious place to look but had been distracted to look in other likely places by the detail of the cache location description on the earlier occasion. Good to have got this one off the failed list.
+ Yellow monkey
- Eraser
M&P.

This was our first find. Took us a little while but success in the end. Had to wait awhile because of muggles. The kids really enjoyed it and us too of course. Thanks.
- Yellow Monkey
+ Green Marble

Found pretty easily. We must have been following the previous logger who also found Lawsons Bridge just before us. Saw a different view of the city which was nice. No exchanges made. Thanks.

Rather pleasant littyle spot. No one round so finding was easy. Plenty of "rubish" in the area after the storm ast week. TNLNSL. Cheers

5.42pm. Finally on our third visit. [:d] Lucky, because this would have gone on the 'NEVER look again list' if we had had another DNF.
TNLNSL.
TFTC Zork V.
Cheers M+S [:O)] (264)

[First visit for 2006! and our first find for 2006!
Took a bit of finding. Im not sure that the clue helps] I would not say it was 7 meters from end of path, as I think it was under the path.
[We had a great trip appart from being eaten alive by mozzies (must remember to pack the insect repellant).
Kids really enjoyed a quick walk on the beach before we headed of for the next cache nearby (Lawsons Bridge).
TNLNSL
Thanks for the great cache and a visit to a park we would never have gone to otherwise.
Lasham Family.]

Took a bit to find the cache as it was well ferreted away. Nice views of the central city from here, and very peaceful today. No exchange made. Cheers Gav [690]

Nice easy find on an overcast day.
+ Key Float
- Smiley Magnet

A quick one on the way home from moonlighting. Easy find this time with no elderly Chinese Tai Chi ladies doing their stuff on the beach! TNLNSL

2nd time lucky but have to confess that I had a hint from a fellow cacher. Easy when you know how.
In: Pencil sharpener, Out: Stickers

[This entry was edited by Zorgon on Wednesday, July 27, 2005 at 6:19:29 PM.]

Plenty of action here today with the Westpac helicopter making careful sweeps overhead the whole time we were there. Of course this mean't all the local kids and many adults were hanging around on the beach to get a good view. This might have been a good excuse for not finding the cache but it reality it was perfect as they were all distracted while we hunted. I suspect there is a trick to this one that we were not bright enough to figure out?

Got a bit confused with the description of 'sone door' but worked is out in the end. Did not take long to find as we had five sets of eyes.
Took blue smiley face magnet and left golf tee.

found with family from California, nice walk in park to the beach.last of the day. The Golfers found this one. The clues were a bit confusing on this one.

Caching with The Golfers and UKexPat and family. Found easy enough.

signed log

This one is really starting to bug me [v]

My second attempt, but I think the gods were against me from the start. I have had 4 other DNF this afternoon, so thought I'd give this another go.

But no it still no luck.

I'll be back (for the third time)GGGRRRRRRR.

Cheers M+S

It was dark and we went in by torchlight, came out by torchlight without reward. Will give it another go in daylight. City lights looked nice but no satisfaction.
M&P.

Don't give up folks. It's still there but not obvious. Daylight might be a help, I know I wouldn'thave got it in the dark. Not so sure about the 7 meters from the end of the path... I guess it depends how you look at it. Took us quite a while but we got it in the end. Actually I think it's the way t'other'arf looks at things that got it.

- glass teddy (well I had to huh)
- clear dice
+ stickers
+ grumpy smiley face

Finally, after two aborted attempts due to muggles, got it on a Monday afternoon, much quieter.
- 100 drachma banknote, + dinosaur rubber
TFTC Zork V

GOTCHA at last.
So 'Gollum' did not snatch it after all!

The cache pot was pleased to receive a 100 drachma banknote and in return offered up the travel bug.

'Buggy' is now planning to indulge in a little overseas travel. Whether he will appreciate his future location remains to be seen.

Tanetops

Found on our way home from Muriwai. Fortunately the tide was out.

In Smiley Magnet

Out Keyring Pen

Thanks

The 'Stone Door' (seven metres from path end)is easily found. Kicked away undergrowth in vicinity of 'Stone Door', but no cache. Suspect pirates have absconded with 'booty'

This one is starting to bug me, this was my second visit and I still havent even got to search for it other than a cursory glance around. First visit it was dogs, lots of dogs and of course there owners. Today was just wierd and a bit scary at the same time. Arrived at the end of the path, and F whispers Muggle with a gun. I look up from the gps screen and shes right, a young asian with a large rifle. On seeing us he dissapears into the bank about 10 metres from the path and re-emerges with the weapon now in its case. OK I feel a bit better now. We pretend to be interested in other things and he walks over and takes a seat at the end of the path. Looks like he's waiting for us to leave. Time to give up, will be back another day.

Went to get this one as it's been on the radar for a while. Too many muggles around the first to time we thought we would head off to do 'Lawsons Bridge' http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=27327507-602a-4c72-8624-affd831fad72
Can back about a half hour later and they are still there (what do you do on such a small beach for sooooo long) finally they left, just as another muggle showed up. By then we had had enough [:(!] We will be back but not on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

dropped off a tb

Visited with Dysentry.
I have worked at the marina close by off and on for the last few years but never explored around the coast from there.

Nice little beach.... fisherman setting or checking nets close by but got cache noporbs.

cheers Zork.

SLTN.... dysentry left TB

On the way back from Pasifika... stopped off to have some nice quiet relaxing time in a park. And find a cache!

There was somebody there at first, but luckily he moved on quite quickly. Thanks for the view and the cache.

- tattoo
+ smiley magnet

2nd find today while I was returning from an Orienteering event in Woodhill forest. Nice walk to the site, took a while to find but a lot of the time was trying to avoid suspicious muggles.
TNLN thanks Zork.
mashnz

Another 2nd attempter for the day (too many muggles last time). Luckily I had my geocachesnifferouterer with (ie 10yo son) otherwise I probably wouldn't have found it!
- karabiner key ring
+ pen

Found with JDHnz and 1st220
You know, sometimes we over analyse things TOO much.[?] This leads to inability to find what you are looking for. Go simple, find successfully!! [^]

I was late meeting JDHnz and LRPnz at the cache, but was lucky enough to find it first TNLNSL

Took some photos across the water to the city, with a couple of sailboats in the foreground. Nice spot on a very warm sunny day.

We were looking around for ages for this one while waiting for 1ST220 to join us, then the frustration continued a little while longer before he eventually found it in the end. TNLNSL, thanks.

Lovely view and very peaceful at the end of the afternoon. Found the cache without any trouble and took the TB and left the orange karabiner (must check how to spell that). Thanks Zork.

This was actually my second visit. I did not log the first as I stopped by on Anniversary Day with out the description and I was under intense mugglr observation so abandoned the search very quickly.

The GPSr was finding the satellites much better today and I went straight to it.
The second I put my hand on it the rain started so a hasty logging was necessary.

TNLNSL Thanks Zork V

grabbed this one late this afternoon.. nice hightide and no one around.. fairly easy find. noticed a fair amount of trash in the area.. if you're thinking of attempting this one soon, might be a good one for cache in/trash out

TNLN

Willbuild
No one in the park but one family and they were sitting by the cache while kids played on the beach. So had a short walk around rocks and came back just as thiy were moving away. Quick find after knocking on right door.
Left TB Wild Mustang

We found it on second attempt and left TB Frannie

gr8 first find.

Family caching in the sunshine. Cute little hiding spot.
Took car and parasol umbrella; left plastic fish and two bookmarks.
Off to the playground, up the hill...

Nice stroll after work.
+ 'entertainment' vouchers
- bottle opener
Cheers, M@

Found it, well hidden spot!

Took lanyard, left dragon key ring bottle opener.

Cheers.

Yeah FTF, just had to wait a little bit for muggles to move on, other than that an easy find.
A nice reserve, which i have driven past a few times but never had a look around.
Cheers Zork V
+ Dice
- TB Invisible Man

Dropped off "Invisible Man" Travel Bug.