The Chain Gang (Auckland) Army Bay, North Island, New Zealand
By The Golfers on 06-Sep-05. Waypoint GCQENW

Had to relocate and now there is Chain Gang 2

Refer to Chanin Gang 2

Please head to Chain Gang 2

Had an old printout for this and didn't know it was still disabled, as we could have finished all the peninsula caches today
Maybe it'll be up again before the event [?]

Went to replace the notebook and found that it was in a different place. Looks as though someone has found it but luckily just left it in different spot. Will find a new place for it soon.

This cache needs a logbook (and pencil?) as there is none in the cache. Left a piece of paper to prove that I was there.

Cache needs logbook and pen. May also need a few more trades

Found it on the ground with contents scattered around. Rehid in probable spot. Went to do this cache earlier in the day. Suspect another cacher went ahead dispite muggles all around. TNLNSL TFTC

Found today, out with my bro HELIRC who is here for Xmas so was nice to get a couple of local caches that I had not done either. Cheers Revhead TNLNSL

Found today, out with my bro RevHead. Easy find and another one for the books. Thanks

found this one straight off, pretty much drove up right next to it, had to with the amount of rain that was coming down. TNLNSL

After getting rained on at our previous stop, we drove right up to this spot. Found easily, nice hide.
TNLNSL Thanks for the cache

First one for the day, the cache site was a busey place we were looking through the goodies when the canoegals showed up.(Think they have it logged on the wrong day?)

TFTCSL

Our third cache, ably supported by our new friends canoegals who showed us the ropes.

Third find of the day, had to wait on another group of cachers. Unfortunately didn't have a paper clip, left a Canada Pin instead. Canoegals, Winnipeg, Canada 13,000kms from home!

Added white paper clip to the chain. TFTC

Stopped off for lunch and thought I'd go looking for this one afterwards. I was suprised to find it a few metres away when I thought it was much much further. Fun find for a first one for the wife and little one.
Added to the chain. Thanks for the fun

Been here a few times now, but not to this particular spot. Thanks for the hide. For a minute, thought we might be able to find our first cache without leaving the car!! TNLN SL
BBPM

Lovley spot on blustery day
TNLN
TFTC

[This entry was edited by wallaceDuo on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 2:45:01 AM.]

Beautiful day and decided to head north for a walk around one of the regional parks. Started and ended our walk not far from the cache. Found cache at the end of the trek. Great spot. Sorry had no paper clip to add to the chain. Didn't realise it was a theme cache.
TNLN thanks for the cache.

Found by youngest team member. Sorry had no clip to add. TFTC. Cheers

Easy find in a nice park. Ground really muddy after all the rain. TFTC

easy find.. the etrex pointed straight there and found it the first place i looked

TNLN

i brought a young lady with me today.. she wrote me a message in a log book.. either this one or Salty.. next person in, can you message me the details

Third find for the evening, and an interesting specimen.
TNLNSL, T4TC

Nice and easy to find. Sorry we forgot to bring paperclips. Signed logbook. TFTC

Out from California visiting sister in Gulf Harbour. Nice easy find while walking dog. Took Enfield TB

We had to stomp around a bit to find, good spot for a BBQ TFTC + scout TB

4th for the day.
Easy find-after you figure out -what sort of thing is close to the gate!!
TNLN
TFTC

Yay! Our 3rd of the day. Learnt that we should read instructions fully before leaving home and forgot to bring any paperclips. However a search of the car brought forth a shining one in the glove compartment. But! Somehow in the delight of discovery, dropped it in undergrowth and it disappeared forever. So had to draw one in the log book instead. Sorry - but thank for the cache. Lovely place to visit.

Got to this 1 from Salty soldier as per sugestion. Great walk through this very special area.
TNLNSL

Caching our way through NZ and stopped to grabbed this one. With it being Christmas Day and all there were muggles everywhere enjoying a beautiful day. Visiting from Utah, U.S.A. Thanks for the fun! Bean Stompers

Easy find on what is becoming a pretty warm day. Still had to be careful as there was quite a bit of activity in the area. Grabbed our first Geocoin Thanks

Yay - Our first find of the day. Really enjoyed visting this area. I was accompanied by my friends who haven't tried caching before, and they really liked it. Thanks. Left a geocoin.

12.50pm. Approached this cache from the nearby Tradesmans Entrance (GCR0NZ) and enjoyed the stroll along the beach. It was a lovely day for it. Not too hard to find. Managed to add a pink and a yellow to the collection.
TFTC.
M&P.

1700 We introduced friends to geocaching today and we all had fun. We added two red, 1 green and a silver paper clip.

Last cache of the day. Fortunately the density of day-trippers was on the wane, so I could pursue my apparently nefarious activity in the undergrowth without causing alarm. The first circumnavigation of the objective and probing at various levels proved to be unsuccessful. Made another sweep of the general area to allow ‘trekky’ to decide the optimum location. Yes the original objective was confirmed. Deeper and more vigorous probing met with sweet success.

TNLN

Thank you Golfers for your efforts

woohoo.

check out the picture of the tui. isnt it pretty

Found with Dysentry while in Shakespear park
Was a quick find. Good to see Tui feding from the near-by flax and eels in the nearby stream. Nice location.
Cheers
TNLN

No problemo. Took TB, but couldn't swap as mine was too big.
Thanks.

We found it very good. Nice park! We are here in holdiday from switzerland. Thanks for hidding.
in: TB Jojo
out: -
Waipari and Waipati

Willbuild
Quick call in with Zork V

Quick find with Wilbuild.
No clips but I did fit in a Love Heart Pin, TNSL

This is the ideal time to come to the caches in the middle of popular weekend haunts. It's Wednesday morning at 0800. 2nd for this morning.

A nice and easy one though the tree did stab me with one of its branches and made me leak quite profusely. Never mind, back to the car for tissues.

TNLNSL

Cheers 4 the cache.

Wasn't having much luck with finding other caches in the area due to the amount of people out making the most of the sunshine! A least this was a quick find. TNLNSL

Found it after much walking in rain sodden grass after a very wet Labour Day Saturday morning. Hidden very nicely.
Uncle Brian

Another lovely spot in the vast Shakespear Regional Park.

Thanks!

- scout rat TB

Willbiuld
Here early in the day so no one around to enjoy the area.
quick and easy find. TB Scout Rat 1 will stay for a holiday by the beach
3rd of 13 for the day

Didn't take as long to find as I feared. No paper clips to swap unfortunately. TFTC Golfers - M@

A quick find for us. Nice sheltered spot out of the cold wind after braving the cache at the top of the nearby hill.
Thanks. TNLN

Having just found Bridge to Nowhere I moved on to find this my 499th find. There was no muggle trouble here just one other empty car.

I strolled along to the cache site and soon had it in hand.

When I got back to the vehicle I was hooking up the GPSr to the car power when a Park Ranger stopped alongside and came over. He was warning visitors that a helicopter was due to start spraying for Saltmarsh Mosquitos in just a few minutes.

He spotted the GPSr and commented on it being a mapping unit.
Next he floored me by asking if the icon showing was for buried treasure or a geocache?

It turned out I was talking to Kiwi Adventurer. What a pleasant surprise.
He had found Bridge to Nowhere the day before but had not been aware of the Chain Gang so I haned him the print out.

TNLNSL
TFTC

Opps forgot the paperclip!!! Managed to find this one just before the light faded in the evening. Good luck to Navigull - this was his 499th find (he's searching for number 500!)

TNLN

Thanks Golfers

Pleasant walk on a Sunday morning, the tuis and parrots were in a very playful mood, and a nice quick find. Forgot to load any paperclips into the caching bag so TNLNSL
TFTC Golfers

First to find! I think the petrol prices are keeping the usual FTF suspects from driving this far.

Added a purple paper clip to the chain, took nothing.

Easy find, and a pleasant stroll, thanks the Golfers.

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