Lost My Marbles (Auckland) Runciman, North Island, New Zealand
By cj.trex on 01-Sep-05. Waypoint GCQCNF

Did not realise this had been archived (as the cache was loaded from GSAK to my GPS) so stopped for a quick leg stretcher.

No wonder I couldn't find it! Thanks for placing the cache anyway!

I set the Freezer Mouse TB I had with me free for a look around but it had no luck either!

Dipped this TB & a Mailbox geocoin in for miles anyway.

Cheers, GC.

Cache is missing.I won't be replacing it.

went for this one a few days ago and couldn't find... now i know why! interesting place though!

Will check this out.

3rd visit and still no luck. Just wondering if clue is correct as we work on clues and not GPS as we don't own one yet. Out with Godfreyh.

DNF. Have no GPS, so have to rely on the clues being spot on.
Out with Doandhopers, and their third visit to same cache without success.

Found with Imgettingannoyed during our 3 n half week NZ mega cache mission!!

unfortunayley no marbles to swap.

so signed the log and headed on our way

Nice cache, and nice little park! Dropped off a couple of marbles, because we happened to have them with us.

No sign of "Geocoin Thief Geocoin" - it must be long gone.

TFTC!

Easy find and good directions. Thanks.

Easy find, short easy walk.

TFTC

First one for the day. Easy find on a nice day, even watched a bit of cricket. TFTC

Earthie spotted it for a fairly quick find on our way to Auckland. NINO TFTC

Quick find on the way to auckland with ssmudge. TNLN TFTC

#467
Nice quick find in a quiet spot.
In: Black Marble
Out: Speckled Marble
TFTC

17/01/2009 1720 HRS NZDT

Not the prettiest of places, but still and enoyable find. Well hidden.

TNLN SL TFTC

Good Hide took a while the GPS was a bit out.

One of those places you drive past many times but never stop.
Thanks.

Early morning find on the way to Hamilton. Cheers.

Found on the way home after helping with Kache cat's school camp at Ararimu. Very nice hide. Took me a while to find. Coordinates were very close. Out Red-handed Geocoin. T4TC.

Nice hide. Overlooked at first glance!

Dropped off Cindy's Red Handed Geocoin 4

nice cache saw rabbits

Have to say we are embarrassed with this one. Took some help from Roxbury to find, and her grandson, who is 4, found it for them!! TNLNSL TFTC

Checked today.All good.mtn-man Admin Brick Geocoin visited.

Had a good look around but couldn't find it. Saw the remnants of a space invader machine. Nice spot though. Will return when am back in the area at some point. Cheers

Dan Chris & Ben (4th find of the day)
Nice quick find on our way out South West. TFTC

Freezer Mouse #2 had a quick look around while we were here.

Made it just before dark. Beautiful sunset. TFTC.

Cache Bash #49 mmm an interesting hunt very late at night. Very grumpy me but Bobo kept on... and on...

Found your marbles.

11:11am
Lots of muggles playing sports.
TNLN Signed Log. TFTC

Found it. Logged at 1520.
TFTC #40

We found your marbles - they're in a cache near Hamilton! Nice cache hunt near dusk. Cheers Gav [2061]

Stopped in here on our way to Hamilton. TFTC.

Easy find on a very hot late March day. Expected to find a coin here but it was gone. TNLN TFTC

Finally had the right opportunity to go back to this cache. Even had a marble in my handbag.
+ marble
- gemstone
SL TFTC

We were heading out to Karaka to pick up some BMX cloths for the boys and did a quick search of caches in the area. I told the boys about the marble theme and the quickly picked out a couple from their collections to trade.

Slipped in here fairly early on a Monday morning and had the place to myself except for the rubbish collectors who I out-waited.

Straight forward find on this one, all in order with the cache and rehidden as found.
TNLNSL
TFTC
The Turtle strikes again!

We failed to find this cache nearly 2 years ago... this was the first time we had dared to return in that time!

Can't see how we missed it the first time... we walked straight up to it today. Thank goodness we've crossed this one off the to-do list at last!

TFTC

Quick find on return to Auckland - GC TFTC

Dropping off coin.No sign of other coin

Were nearby and had this spot logged into GPS. Found it no problems. TFTC TNLN

thanx for the cache!
In:coin Out:coin
teamKollMont from germany XX

forgot to log in the coin!!

our last cache in new zealand before flying to vanuatu, regards from Switzerland. left geo coin TFTC

I'm blaming the GPS or the compass or both. But 15 minutes careful searching around GZ revealed no cache.

The GPSr took me right to the cache. TFTC!

Nice day out after overcast start. Took a little to find. First NZ cache for us! Found with the cousins FACT4. Took a tb. Left a tb from oz. tftc

Found with gjdjb. Took a while but we made it! tftc

Nice day out. Just had to get rid of travel bug. Kept it with me for to long.

Found this while out caching with the inimitable XenaCommander... piloting our city caching vehicle... Splat the SV650.... Xena left sulking in the garage and Flash left resting after a hard week at work carrying TK all over south Auckland.
Was amused by the social cricketers clubrooms (beer shed) great boys day out and they were having a great time too.
The cache was quickly found by an on form XC.
Added a marble and calling cards
Thanks for the fun... now lets roar off to the next one on the GPS

What shall we do today.. Geocaching!!! (of course) Lets go south.. So I fetched Splat (leaving sulking in shed) and picked up TechnoKitten from her place.
Head down the motorway for coffee at Autobahn and locked this one in. Got to park at about 11:00am and social cricketers were already knocking back the beers..! lol.. Very social grade... after a bit of banter we went by and quickly found cache.
No sign of Blue Geocoin.. TK signed the log and left calling cards.
On with the Hunt...
TFTC #507

#2 today 4:25pm still on route to Pauanui. We really did lose our marbles on this one

GPS took us almost directly to a tree (turns out wrong one!) quite a while searching and several splinters in Kathy's hands was long enough for the GPS to start drifting in the correct location. Kathy took the lead and found it very well hidden

- Smily stickers
+ Glow in the dark star

Picked up Blue Magic Geocoin to take back with us

Andy & Kathy ,

Easy find with Adee.

In Blue Magic Geocoin

Out Wyoming Geocoin

T4TC

Geocoin Dropoff.

Good spot for a cache after lots of driving in funny directions! TNLNSL

I really liked this hide!. TFTC

+ Why oh Why GC
- Ball maze

After our weekend with friends in a bach east of the Hunua Ranges, we went for this cache on our way back. Quick drive-by cache and a neat idea. Sadly, we had no marble to trade, but we liked the yellow/orange ball so much that we had to take it. The cache was too full anyway.

Took: yellow/orange ball
Left: some spare space

TFTC

Fifth for the afternoon, on our way back from dropping people at the airport, what an awesome view of the sunset. Nice easy walk and find .... thanks for showing us this spot and park.

found with the tribe of 4 . nice easy cache found in the dark

found these caches with my dad rick-a-mortis

GPSr indicated about halfway between two objects and I picked the wrong one first but got it on my second choice, good little spot it is too.

Nothing to swap (lost all my marbles long ago!) SL, TFTC

My first excursion to this site several months ago was unsuccessful but after keeping an eye on it and discovering everyone else seemed to find it easily another attempt was made this morning.

My attempt at trying to look as if I was casually admiring the river bank obviously didn't work as the man exercising his dog 50 metres away yelled out on his way past 'you're really close". Thanks for that - perhaps you are the keeper of the cache?

Nice quick find and then back on my way to work.

Quick drive by after picking up some samples of the sort you don't want rolling around outside of their conatiners, not marbles though they are sometimes described in that way. A good little hide but somewhat full. TNLN. Cheers.

Soggy walk to GZ and a nice easy find for the start of the day.

TNLNSL/TFTC

Hard, could be missing

Nice easy find.

In: Marble, 1c Canadian, 7 of hearts and 40c blue duck stamp.
Out: 3 marbles.

Thanks!
Chris & Vera

GPS led me way off. Found it in the end Neat hiding place, thanks for the hunt!

GPS lied as usual and took us past the cache, but found it after a quick search. Took longer to close the container properly than it took to find it, there is no spare space in this cache!
TNLNSL Thanks for the cache.

Took our grandson out "treasure hunting" and he was thrilled to find the cache of marbles - to which we added three more (one for each of us) TNSL

Quiet day, being Easter Monday. Lovely down by the river. Easy find. TNLNSL. Thanks.

Easy find. Swapped a beautiful green marble for a yellow and orange bead. TFTC.

easily found as gps took us right there,Left a small game based on a small marble? TNSL Thanks for the cache!
Cache in good condition,great to see how many have visted this one.

They were always doogs in my day.

2nd time back for this one as I had too many interruptions last time.
Quick find this time. Basically walked straight to it.
TNLNSL
Thanks.

Found the marbles. Last find for the day. Today’s caching expedition cut short by pesky after-hours callout from work.
TNLNSL, TFTC #85

Found with BFR, was the first find for the day. Found around 10am. A nice quick find the a few people about setting up for the days fun on the fields.
Cheers
TNLNSL

Twas a quick find on our way out south west.

Found easily nice place to hide it.

This was our second attempt to find this cache. We found the cache within 5 minutes of looking. Well hidden. Thanks very much for this great cache and the interesting idea behind it. (marble swapping).

- blue pebble like marble
+ 2 plastic magnetic marbles.

TFTC

Quick in and out - sunset had been and gone by the time I parked. Raced across the grass, and, after a short delay caused by my GPS pointing the wrong way on the first attempt, found it easily.

TNLNSL

After getting a few blackberry thorns looking around, decided to try more obvious location and was on the money. Good hiding place.
- Penny coin
+ Glass Stone
TFTC

Nice easy find on the way to Varekai
NINO
TFTC

Nice hide. Sorry no marbles in my stash so no swaps

TFTC

Found in well hidden spot
- Canada pin
+ glass beads
TFTC

Last cache for the day as toom any Cellphone calls bugging me. Also lots of muggles today with dogs fossicking in bush.
Did not find, apart from a hole that looks like rabbits or some animal lives in. Gingerly put hand in but no find.
More cell calls, this one more urgent so had to got to beat north bound motorway rush.

Will wach this cache with interest to see if someone else finds.

Got approached by council worker as well for a park usage survey would you believe?

Cheers.

Our very first geo-cache find! Excellent weather and not a soul around aside from ourselves. An interesting expereince being caught on the wrong side of the motorway!

Nice big park with great views. Found easily. TNLNSL

Nice spot for a break from the traffic. No one around at all today so found easily. TNLN SL, Thank you for the cache

My first cache, and was pretty easy to find Signed the log book, TNLN. Great hiding spot!

First NZ cache. Left UK penny.

First NZ cache.

Found it reasonably quickly. Lots of little muggles around so we had our dog enthusiastically help us disguise ourselves as people out for a game of fetch.

Found this cache without trouble. Had a great time watching a cricket practice and learning all about the sport thanks to a devoted mom on the sideline. Left a Canada Pin and a 25 cents Canadian coloured coin (the 1st of its kind in the world). Took nothing. TFTC, Canoegals from Winnipeg Canada.

Reasonably easy find,

TFTC, TNLN,
WallaceDuo

10.30am. First of 11 on way to Auckland. Simple find. Only had to dodge the man on a lawnmower. TNLN Thankyou NODO

Quick easy find.
TNLN
TFTC
Conton

6.10pm. A quick stop on our way home from the Coromandel. Sorry no marbles.
TNLNSL.
TFTC.
Cheers M+S [:O)] (352)

We could see where we wanted to go but went around in circles for a while till we got on the right road. I suppose thats what happens when you get country bumkins in a city!!

Quick find on the way home from the beach
Took TB Art Gecko