48 Palms (Auckland) Otara, North Island, New Zealand
By Zork V on 07-Feb-05. Waypoint GCMQ7T

Sehr nett

Some time ago I posted a reviewer note advising that you have 1 month in which to maintain this cache, however, you have failed to fix it.

This cache has therefore been archived due to a lack of owner maintenance.

Regards,
Camocrab
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Looks like a plunder, will check soon.

Found hide out in the open and very muggled. Logged with owner's knowledge.

Second cache had some muggles on our trail but a little sidestepping had us successfully evade them. Took a homesick kiwi trackable and he can come on holiday with us at a kiwi Bach. Will post his info soon.

The log book is almost done, a few pages left but FYI

[This entry was edited by cachehoundsnz on Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 6:59:13 PM.]

[This entry was edited by cachehoundsnz on Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 9:52:59 PM.]

Called by to collect a couple of travel bugs and to drop off another.

trackable dip

nice cache and a big one also.
last cache for my time here and flying out in 6 hours time.
seeya NZ I have a blast
well that's what my notes say.
tftc

Nice spot and nice big cache...+2GC & 1TB (Ricard).....TFTC

Nice and easy walk to GZ. + Spanner TB. Thanks.

Nice quick find once I arrived at GZ. The longest part about this cache is the walk to GZ as access road had chain across it. TFTC TNLNSL

Nice way to spend one of those rare, rain free, lunchtimes!

A quick stop at the park and I managed to dodge the showers to get to GZ relatively dry. Quick find once there. Nicely recovered park land. TFTC, Biggles.

Not very good caching weather but for us at the moment, it all about the numbers and reaching our targets . GPS was having a hissy fit with the extreme overcast conditions so took a little while to locate GZ but finally located the cache . T4TC.

Nice quick cache while watching my son play cricket at the park. TFTC

Finally got one of the older caches of my to-do list.

Nice area. Love flax.

Cheers for the cache.

Nice walk in the sun, easy find at a pleasant part of the city Weve never been to--Thanks, picked up --Tom theTraveller TB

Nice park, quick found in the morning.
Logged at 0855.
TNLTBSL
+ Timmi the Traveller TB
TFTC

Great location - been round here plenty but never with geocaching equipment. Great placement - but beware of the preying mantis! TFTC.

Nice easy find during lunch break, muggle free at the GZ although a group of council workers were having their lunch break at the same time about 30 meters away.
Out - Nil
In - Steel tape measure
Dropped in Coin Town Geocoin
SL-T4TC

Great park! Thanks for bringing me here. Will return no doubt. Nice easy cache.

TNLNSL

TFTC

Lovely spot for a walk after a brief but less than fun hospital appointment nearby earlier in the morning - thanks for bringing us here.

Bright sunshine and blue skies above the surrounding water made for a pleasant walk to GZ. After a couple of walk-bys to zero in on the spot and a good deal of fossicking about, the cache was ours just seconds before a cycling muggle and his hound passed by. TNLNSL - T4TC!

Cache in good order if a little damp. FYI: Parks staff were working on plantings close to GZ at the time of our visit.

Nice Walk Easy Find TFTC.

Quick find on the way through. TNLNSL
T4TC

Nice easy find.

2 other times I had been out here, but I had water betwenn me and the cache. Bring on the new gps .

Found today, nice wet flax!

- Eclipse container
+ Pen

TFTC !

GPSr spot on for this one which is always good when dealing with such hiding places.
And I think I found out why it's called 48 Palms
TNLNSL, TFTC

Found it after a long day of searching for caches in the Tamaki area.
+ecllipse mints container
-mini dart board

Found after Ten minutes and trying to decide which flax was in fact the biggest. TNLNSL

Easy find just before the rain came down.
Hubby counted 47 palms... has one disappeared...?

TFTC

7th today. Easy find.

TNLNSL TFTC

Lots of glass on the road and carpark.
Interesting spot and also didn't stop to count the palms.

Found this alone as the kids were asleep. Big park with lots of muggles doing their own thing but where I was going there was complete isolation.
TNLNSL after a quickish find.
TFTC.

Easy find by Junior#2. Lots of oyster catchers and herons waiting on the sports ground for the tide to go out.
TNLNSL, TFTC #101

Forgot to count them. Is there really 48?

There was a large group playing kilikiti here but that was not a problem. An easy find without any muggles. TNLN TFTC

Straight forward find in an area I didn't know how to get to initially.
- triceratops toy
+ coloured glass stone
TFTC

Don't recall exact date - I forgot to log it *again*.

I'm sure I've done this in the past, as I recognised the area, and the exact location of the cache when I went back at the end of Jan or beginning of Feb.

TNLNSL

An easy cache, Thanks

Found this cache without any problems.
Took "Blue Lady" TB to continue her adventure.

This was our first find with a GPS unit. Amazing how much easier it is.

+ plastic triceratops
- plastic puppy

10:43 Did this cache on the way home from Varekai the night before. Cool walk around the headland. J of EJ was driving GPS. No Bush Bashing required. TFTC.

Out: Lady Bug
In: Puppy Dog

TB In: Blue Lady

Nice easy find in a great park. Great views and no muggles. TNLNSL

Quiet day today, although there was a big new years day party in a park over the way. So that must have kept the muggles entertained. We managed to find this one without being disturbed.
TNLN SL Thanks for the cache.

I had never been to this park before in spite of having lived not too far away for 22 years. Locals were out in force playing kirikiti, or Samoan Cricket - in the field adjacent to the cache. TNLN T4TC. Cheers.

Straight forward find AC and GC left the fossils behind and had the cache open and log signed by the time JC and KC ambled up.

Cache was a bit wet on inside, so we dried it out and repacked everything in plastic bags.

Took pen set left ladybug.

This has to be on of the most friendly flaxes we have meet, easy find. I'd recomend this to all geocachers with a flax phobia. Eighth for the day ... nice end to a great weekend.

Another fun Zork cache, now no longer on our to-do list.
Thanks Zork for showing us these little gems of places.
Beaten to this one today by Geocooley who joined us for the afternoon.
Left some monster game cards, and took nil.

1st cache for the day for us, joined Butterfly lady for the afternoon. Great start for the day, beautiful park.
TFTC

2.30pm. A very easy find. Another new area to look at.
- Rule and pencil set. + Rule and pencil set. (Different)
Thank you David & Noeline

Another one found after doing a job in the vicinity (keeps petrol costs down!)
Excellent coordinates and a quick find. TNLNSL. Cheers!

My first cache - I discovered my Navman is not a lot of help with this sport, but the clue saw me through.
New to Auckland and never new this place existed - nice palms!

Fifth and final cache for the morning. MTB caching expedition with Xenacommander is great fun with no parking problems ... hee hee we could "park" right next to most caches. Our legs were running out of fuel so after a quick find by XC we retired to one of the magnificent and massive picnic tables for a well earned lunch.
TN left calling cards, TFTC

Ah hah.. A Zork container... hmm could be anything..
cycled here with TechnoKitten on our mountain bikes.. Legs were getting tired by this time.. this was our 5th find.
Another part of auckland I haven't been to before... nice park. Not many people around and we were able to cycle right to GZ..
TK went off looking but XC honed in to the obvious spot and found...!!! Yaay.. one out of 5 for the day.. lol..
TNLNSL and had lunch at nearby picnic table..
With return journey we coverted 42.8 kms... no wonder my legs are aching...
Great sport..
TFTC Zork..

Found during lunch break, nice spot.
Council workers using weedeaters so could not hang around.
TFTC

A quick dash in and out, as I was a little unsure of the intentions of some loiterers in the carpark after their strange comments they made when I parked. All was well however and I was quickly on my way. Unfortunately too little time was spent appreciating the location.

Cool spot for a cache. Shame that there are now only 47 palms - had to count them a few times to be sure.

Bagels loved it here



TNLNSL

Quick find while in Auckland on holiday. Lots of people playing not far away

A visit late evening - heaps of activity on some of the adjacent playing fields. The cause was helped by the bright floodlighting - plunging GZ into deep stealthy shadow. TNLNSL, thanks Zork

Nipped in and picked this one with no problem.

Also collected Gandalf to help him on his journey

Nice big park not being used by anyone on a saturday morning. Hot as hell
Added Gandalf Earthpedition TB and took compass

This was a nice stroll and found it soon enough.
Took wind-up shoes.
Added toy compass.

Great spot, great views. Auckland is full of surprises.

Never been here before, nice grounds, but very damp, so
did stay on walkways as suggested (does it always rain
in Auckland?!). TNLN, cheers.

Did a bit of Cache Maintence on this one put everything out in the sun, put in new silica, log and plastic bags. Info sheet still a bit damp but have moved the cache away from direct contact with vegatation and upright so less likely to get wet again. Lovely spot Zork

Last of the day - number 11. The cache container (fab camo as usual) is very wet inside. Could barely write the log. HAd nothing on me to dry it out unfortunately.
TNLNSL - thanks Zork

Coords were way off in my GPS so had to resort to the clue. After that it was very easy. The cache is very damp inside and the log book was begining to get damp as well. Dried it out as best I could but had a plane to carch so had to leave
Thanks for the cache
TNLN
Conton

Nice spot-got sprung by a muggle on a bike with his dog-asking what we were doing!!
On a trip to auckland to get the last 8 cachhes for the hundred- we just made it in time before darkness set in.
easy find.
TNLN

9.45am. Found with Just Floundering. http://www.geocaching.com/profile/Default.aspx?guid=ec217771-15f5-4fb6-a1c5-b603eee16581
4th of the day.
A couple of muggles around but they were more interested in the Police Helicopter that flew in twice to land in the middle if the field. (See Pic)
I'm not sure what they were doing but the pilot just ran out and tokk what looked like his lunch from a waiting undercover police car in the carpark. [?]

Any ways after all that action it was back to the cache find and it wasn't to hard. Finding a place out of the bone chilling wind to write the log was harder.

+ Magnetic Darts Game.
+ Wooden Spinning Top.
+ Fly Busters Fridge Magnet.
- Norbert the Moose TB.
Gave the cache a little restock as it was quite empty.

TFTC Zork V

CHeers M+S [:O)] (103)

25/4 with the Pud at 9.45
Think the helicopter took a police photograher for a quick spin but not sure.
The other muggle with a dog came pretty close but think she was convinced we wanted to sit in sun out of the wind.
+ mini gel pens and a set of pencils, suler and sharpener. Also a little necklace found on the grass nearby - but definitely not likely to be what the cops were looking for!
- party popper
Thanks Zork V
M & P

Nice walk around this park, watched a couple of fishermen wallow in the mud.
Thanks Zork V, + TB Norbert the moose, -toy car

found it!

spent AGESSSSSSSSSSS finding the road to get there, as I thought I was going to end back on the motorway..

after I was in area, went straight to it.

- nemo tb
- playing cards
+ batteries

Seems we just missed JDH!

Well, we didn't have any problems finding the cache. On finding the spot, we couldn't help but exclaim "Aaaahhhh, a **** bush", as it had been a while since we had searched in one.

TNLN
Thanks for a nice, completely level cache area. A welcome change after reservoir Dogs...

found @ 14:25

walked past it at first, then GPS settled on the right spot. TN, left Nemo, thanks.

Easy find. Fun for kids to find biggest flax bush. Just enough parking in the evening. Thanks.

Last find of the evening and it was just about sunset. Speed my way to GZ and found in in about 30 seconds - would have been quicker but I picked the wrong piece of vegetation. Nice wee spot. No exchange made. Cheers Gav [423]

GPS and coordinates were spot on, took me right to it. Soon found a familiar looking Zork V container.
Pencil inside cache is slightly broken. If next visitor brings a pencil sharpener, they will have an easier time of writing a log than me.
Council seems to be trying to plant trees at the worst time of the year for planting. A fair number are now only good for firewood.
TNLN
Thanks for the cache!

Found cache after a little walk along the track. 2nd find on this hot day. Cache hidden rather well, had to look hard for it. Cheers Zork V
TNLN

A misplaced paradise?! The area looked decided dodgy with hang-abouts and remnants of last nights boozing.
+ Glengarry corkscrew
- Finz TB
Cheers, M@

Dropped Cool car TB off at Rotoroa Ramble in Hamilton.

Cricket match in progress when we arrived then had to dodge council workers who appeared to be doing some planting not too far from the cache.
In: Permanent marker + Finz TB
Out: Glasses

Another lunchtime find close to work.Easy walk.An excavator was working on the other side of the fence but moved on just as I got there.Little pink yo yo in.Took TB for an adventure.
Cheers

Easy find @ 7.20pm, Lash disappointed not able to pick up TB. However we had a nice stroll around the park on a warm sunny night. TNLN.
Thanks Zork
Mash & Lash

Well I'll be..... my first for the day but not the FTF
I hoped to get ahead of Willbuild on this as I set off from home within 90 minutes of it appearing on the web site.I opened the log bokk and !^&*%$!! There is willbuilds stamp. I thought you built houses Willbuild? My question is when?

Anyways I hunted around at the indicated GZ and zilch. So I checked the clue and wandered off and soon made the find.
(I see the error has been corrected.)
TNLNSL thanks Zork

Willbuild
Easy find or the way to work. Workman working near site,
Grid Ref was 74 m out from where I found the cache with clue.
In TB Cool Car

Sorry,
Input of E Co Ords was wrong. Corrected now. Shame on me!!