Froggy Bottom BookCache (Auckland) Ihumatao, North Island, New Zealand
By BenjyMouse on 28-May-06. Waypoint GCW9WQ

Such a beautiful place on such a lovely day. We found what we thought to be the green trail marker (the stone near the gate?) but unfortunately after much hunting came away empty handed. Will have to return another day

Seems that this cache has gone missing. Was fun while it lasted.

Bugger.couldnt find it.even with photo hint...!beautiful spot tho.

Thought I have a bit of a walk before heading back into town. Parked at the Watercare walkway end and walked the track along the northwestern coast. Got to GZ after cutting across the last field. Though this would be an easy find since I could see a couple of structures resembling the hint object. But I searched and searched and searched again to no avail. Added to watchlist and I'll drop the CO an email with a photo just to make sure I'm in the right spot. Hope it hasn't been muggled since I was really looking forward to finding this cache. Thanks, Dave

Needing to be a bit particular for strategic caching for the Geo License this was on my adgenda for today. A plesent early morning stroll to GZ before heading to see first client of the day

Beware of the ants, although normally very happy they tend to get upset when distrubed, damm things

TFTC

An enjoyable walk from parking the car to the cache. Although there was no sign of the "green trail marker" it was fairly obvious where the cache was likely to be located although I must admit to doing a double take when I saw the cache container as I never expected to see one of these as a geocache.

The container was fairly full of ants although no damage to anything in the cache.

I dropped off a geocoin which wanted to go via water themed caches as this seemed a perfect place with water views for about 270 degrees or so.

Nice walk across the reserve after going to the Villa Maria wine sale. TFTC

In the first spot I checked. A quick find on a superb Auckland geoday. Thanks for bringing me to this location.
Thank you for placing this cache.

Our last New Zealand find while here for the Mega event in Dunedin.

We enjoyed our morning walk before heading off to the airport to continue onto South America.
Left a pathtag.
Thanks for the cache.

An interesting idea for a cache. was an easy find. TFTC

Had walked in this area pre-caching days so no wonder it all looked familiar. Couldnt find the hint but after a few glances here and there and a rain shower, we soon came up with the goods. TFTC.

Nice spot. Amazing how rural you can be in the city. Dropped off Walk About Smurf.

This entry was edited by Genesis320 on Monday, 04 June 2012 at 04:41:07 UTC.

Foggy ? well it was. Added a book, left the other two.

Sweet cache. Approached the cache from the waterside through a field of cows. After initially moving out of my way I think they decided I was going to feed them as the entire herd started converging on me - was slightly nervous!

Meant I had a captive audience of cows rather than muggles while I hunted around GZ and then sat down to take in the view and sign the logbook.

My first BookCache, never heard of them before but will be looking out for others and dropping off a book myself soon. Did not grab the book from this one as already read it.

Dropped off a Mickey Mouse badge.

Very peaceful here tonight. Could be renamed prickly bottom book cache, because I saw a few hedgehogs on the way to gz. Tftc

#112, Nearly sat in cowpat,took book, TFTC

A long interesting walk to GZ. Fantastic spot for a cache. No Poo on my shoes either as I am a farmer from way back and knew what to expect. Alls well with the cache.
TFTC

Had a very pleasant afternoon strolling around the stone fiels this afternoon. Such a neat quiet and tranquil place. Thanks for bringing me here. Grabed GC.

A great day for an after walk and explore.

Needed to stretch my legs after being on the flight over but the GPSr did not want to co-operate. It could find enough sats but just did not want to calcuate a position. In the end I went for the big reset and pulled the battery for a full reboot but by this stage I had got to the Puketa island so did the logs caches on the way back. The reboot on the phone does burn up a lot of power which meant I had to do a few further down the track on my memory of google maps as the battery gave up latter in the walk.

SL



Dropped off TC

TFTC

This entry was edited by bella at waggy on Monday, 26 December 2011 at 02:59:54 UTC.

Easy find after dropping Son off at airport.
Will have to come back to explore the area, looks great.
TFTC

I take the dog for walks around here but didn't realise just how beautiful it was. Sat under the tree and enjoyed the view for a few moments before moving on.
TFTC
Find #74

No problem with the find after reading prior logs' surprise at the nature of the camo. How very appropriate and what a wonderful place. No frog calls today but cows are working overtime. Checked for Avocadoes on way back to car and note to self to plan a trip during the right season. Found the allowed 5 each; caching has so many rewards! Thanks for bringing us here. NINO (had no books) TFTC

Nice walk on a sunny morning. Grass is long and wet.
Took the direct approach to the cache and followed the track on the way back (which was a bit easier).
Didn't bring any books with me today.
Nice area, thanks for sharing.
TFTC

Interesting cache container and a nice walk to GZ. TFTC

On caching trip with FMZ. Nice walk and very interesting area. We were very surprised to see the cache container...clearly it works ...TFTC

Found with 10cc after performing some maintenance on our "trail of power" nearby. Weren't sure if we had found the cache or some stolen property at first but the cache it was! An interesting area that I had not been to before. TFTC!!!

Found on the way to the new series by FMZ and 10cc. Quick find having completed a nice to jog to GZ. Can't believe this container keeps the contents dry but somehow it does. Love the idea behind the cache. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Lucky that I didn't look this one up at home. The cache is on the site mentioned as "no dogs". But.....Lucky when you arrive at the parkgates. DOGS are allowed....and yes you are even allowed to walk them off leash. maybe good to adjust the cache on the internet.
I didn't took a book. When opening the cache I sniffed a bad smell...hmmm it seems that my foot found some leftovers of the cows

This is a dog off leash area

Have updated for dogs...thanks for the heads up.

An interesting cache container - I'm surprised that its waterproof - but the contents are in good order so it must be.

Found a long time ago but back for a quick walk around the area.

Had walked all over this area a few years ago, assesing it for orienteering. So decided to cycle to the path that starts at Oruarangi creek. But tree fellers had block it with a massive clutter of Macrocarpa fellings, so went cross country via fences, long grasss and rocky terrian. Approached the cache from the coastal track. Found it easily. Didn't see the feature mentioned in the hint. Great idea. Took Horowitz Horror stories book and left a Bill Bryson. Sorry, wasn't sufficiently organised to register on bookcrossing.com, nor was the book I took registered. TFTC

Out for a long walk on a long lay over at the airport.TFTC

Took a trip from Canada to New Zealand to visit my brother and nephew over Christmas. Did some caching and was taken to some pretty amazing places. Thanks for the cache!

Boiling hot early summers walk over some of the driest ground iv seen with Kyle891! Cool stone walls ..random influx of cows into paddock whilst investigating the cache. lol made us jump. TFTC

After a long walk over the Serengeti plains and stone walls we found the box. bjarni1 and I were behind the wall no longer than 5min and when we popped back up there was a random herd of cows standing there like they had been there for hours... the weird thing was there weren't any cows in sight when we arrived O.o and they say aliens don't exist. TFTC

Nice walk down to the cache area. Took a short search to make the find. Enjoying my tour around Auckland with excellent weather again today. SL TFTC

Found by Oliver, Reuben, Daniel and Dad. Great location. Found with GPS - not sure what the bit about the "CHECYR GENVY ZNEXRE"
was all about as we couldn't see anything meeting that description. However the coordinates were good.

[17:30] (-12h) #1161

CacheTour: New Zealand with foobert
Day: 22 of 23
Previously found geocaches of the day: 5

easily found

TFTC

TYFTC

nice walk through the park, completely deserted, found the marker and made our way to cache. Brought along a couple of books and swapped them for something new. TFTC.

Like the previous cacher, whose notes we did not have on our Palm, we looked for a purple marker, but then trusted the GZ reading and the hint and found it without much stress. TNLNSL Thanks! No cows in the field today, but plenty of manure.

found despite the hint, which refers to purple marker, but it's been painted green! Right by the gate. Interesting informational marker nearby.

Pleasant walk in the afternoon sun. Arrived at GZ and the clue meant nothing to us as the markers have since been painted green, which we only realised on our return journey when we saw a hint of purple appearing from under the green paint on another marker. At least we found the cache which is nice and dry and well stacked with books T4TC.

Have not visited this area before. Looks like a good place to have an explore. Used the hint to find the cache, as the only purple marker was back near the beginning of the track. Good hiding spot for a cache this size. Like the concept of the cache, but made no exchange today. Thanks.

# 1338

Nice early morning walk. Saw a couple of Ring Neck Pheasants, Rabbits and the usual Pukekos. Coords and hint had me in the right place very quickly. Thanks.

Nice walk to GZ (well 11m from GZ). Took the little piggy book for the kids. Will be the bed time story tonight. TFTC

A great day for walking out here! Used caching instinct to locate cache. #775

what an interesting place... couldn't find any purple markers, did find green... but following hints and using our heads we soon had cache in hand. T4TC

Great idea. Just had a look while out for a ride, my youngest just said Cool,Cool,Cool,Cool but no trade. TFTC

First cache of the day, and a nice wander after I'd picked up the rental car from the airport. Ran into the park ranger tending their nature cucumber patch Cheers Gav [3494]

Nice one. GPS seemed to take me straight to GZ without the offset. Its a very interesting area. Must check out the nearby free avocado orchard at the right time of year. No swaps today. TFTC, Biggles.

This has inspired me to start a bookcrossing cache even though today we did not have any books to swap. TFTC

Nice book cache.Swapped a couple of books.
-Rupert and the miser"s hoard
+What if
The clue about the purple markers didn't help because the paint had worn off.T4TC

nice cache didn't see the purple marker or read the clue properly so it took us a while to it. after we found the cache we went and picked some avocados from the orchard

in-"horowitz horror"
out-"the falls"

T4TC


[This entry was edited by kache cat on Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 8:59:58 PM.]

Found with Kache cat and Kache rat. Great to revisit this area, especially the avocado orchard. Had to climb to get our share. What a great idea for a cache.

In "Once were warriors"
Out "Past Secrets"

SL. T4TC.

I think I parked the furthest away from this cache as possible, but enjoyed the walk anyway.
Swapped a Black Sabbath book (logged on Bookcrossing.com) for a book called Wheelbarrow across the Sahara, should make for an interesting read on the plane on the way home.

TFTC, Cheers.

Cool cache. Nice to get out into the fresh (!) spring air.

Note: There is a difference between 11 meters and 111 meters. My bad

What a great spot for a quiet read - If we didn't have a plane to catch then I could have settled in to read one of the cache contents. Amazing scenery for my 200th cache. TFTC

What a cool place!! It smelt like NZ but looked like Ireland! Very enjoyable cache and the book idea is intriquing... The trip was topped off by two pairs of very colourful parrots flying over us as we headed back to our car. TFTC

I made the trip out to the stones and wandered around for a while enjoying the great views as well as the old stone walls. One thing I noted was that someone had altogether to much spare time making those fences out of rocks oh and should anyone happen to know them give me a bell I could use their services for the retaining wall at the front of my place Jokes aside though this was a very enjoyable meander around a historic site and a cache well hidden and in fine condition. No books today for me as the only book I had to swap I have only just begun Thanks so much for bringing me here top work.

Nice idea for a cache, and a nice location too.

+ Book
- Nothing

TFTC!

Registered my first book with Bookcrossing and released it...something I have been interested in doing for some time. Awesome spot for exploring and the stone walls are amazing. Took geocoin. TFTC

Found while waiting to catch a plane to Australia for our holidays/ We enjoyed the lovely peaceful walk, thank you for bringing us here. TNLN TFTC

Found with the.pud
Nice walk on a sunny day.
TFTC

4.00pm. A great place for a stroll, the council have done a bit of work here since we last visited. Some nice walks now.
+ domino
- nil
Left 'Eagle Two 2004' TB.
TFTC
Cheers M+S+D [:O)] (996)

Nice quick find, and I am sure I heard the locals crocking. TFTC

Nice little hike while waiting to catch my flight back home.
I like these types of cache that take you somewhere informative and historical and off the beaten path. This one offered great views to boot!
TNLNSL, TFTC

Riding shotgun with XenaCommander today to bag some South Auckland caches. Happy to see a new bookcache. Enjoyed the walk to GZ ... what a nice spot for a hide. We enjoyed the shade very much. Nice container. No swaps today so signed log and left calling cards
TFTC

Out and about with TechnoKitten on the Cachemachine Splat. Wanted to do the earthcache nearby but the tide was wrong.. So came here as nearest... Nice walk over volcanic debris. Found purple marker and was pleased the offset took us to the shade... It was getting hot. Sat in cool after opening cache ... TK signed the log in her usual creative style and we left calling cards only as we werent carrying books.
TFTC #521

Had a nice leisurely walk in. Couldn't find the purple marker post though but did find the cache.
TNLNSL.
Cheers for the cache.

Great spot. It was a lovely afternoon for a walk which turned out far more distance than the the GPS (as-the-crow-flies) suggested, but worth the effort. I loved the ponds!!!

GPS was way off and I didn't have the clue with me, so was about to give up when I thought I'd explore the interesting rocks nearby. It wasn't long before I spotted a place where I thought would make a good hide, and before I knew it; the cache was in my hands.

TNLNSL Thanks for a lovely walk on such a nice spring day!

Found the cache when I finally spotted the purple marker. Nice container. Liked the books. Good concept. Thanks for bringing me here.

TNLNSL/TFTC

Good description in an interestnig area. FOund the cache, left "Wheelbarrow across the Sahara" and a bonus kids book!!

TFTC.

Cheers

Thanks for the INTO THIN AIR - will enjoy reading

An interesting placement with an enjoyable walk. Thanks for bringing us here.
Found Paddle Power TB, who appeared to have rested here for 5 months, so uplifted him for further adventures.

Quite amazing really, suprising what can be done with minimal resources if you know how.
Found cache after a bit of a look about.
TNLNSL, thanks.

Went to the cache site but did not find cache as I had left the paperwork containing the clue at home. Great site. Very few muggles around and the area is very tranquil except for the ocassional plane. Will return to cache site now that I have the clue !!!

#158 Easy find, been here before. Quiet frogs and lots of noisy cicadas.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Couldn't find anything at WP1 and decided to resort to the hint. Just as well I did as it is more of a direction than a hint! Nice spot for a cache.

Found this with fun2seek. No books to exchange but left "Paddle Power" TB. A great park, I will surely visit again.

Found without too much of a problem, cache in great condition.
In - Registered book "The Falls by Karen Harper
Out - Registered book "Big Fish" by Daniel Wallace.
SL TFTC

[This entry was edited by fun2seek on Monday, February 19, 2007 at 12:53:20 PM.]

[This entry was edited by fun2seek on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 1:13:16 AM.]

I was wondering what a book cache was all about so one my way back from the air-port decided to have a look see.Very helpful clues lesd to an easy find.Books inside still in good condition.
TFTH
TNLNSL.

Nice easy find to start the day. Always enjoy the walk thru this park.

Last one for the day, bit cramped for time so ended up with brisk walk to find it. Lots of fresh cow pats and had to watch tha the kids didn't land in any. Careful reading of the clue will make for a quickish find.
TN LN SL. Even brisker walk back to the car. Lovely spot - never knew it was there.

1.45pm.On our way to meet our daughter at the airport we thought we would enjoy this one - and we did. Firstly noted that avocardos (5 at least) may become available later in the year; the flowers are prolific at present. Then we found purple flowers on wild potato plants - was this the clue? Then we heard the frogs - not a quiet group!! The final plus was we avoided the squawlly rain showers that passed by from time to time. Not a difficult find. Didn't have a book to swap but left a couple of items so we could take the Spike Milligan book - Mrs Flounderer is a fan. Also took and will log the Where's George note.
TFTC.
M&P.

Great spot. First book cache - neat idea!
Lightning Girl and I plus two newbies MTB'd there.
Out:"Longitude" ; In:"Big Fish"
Strongly recommend following this with a visit to S36 58.816 E174 46.026 for refreshments.
TFTC

Found GZ rather easily after a nice walk from the car. Was a nice day to head out caching after dropping the old man off at the Airport. Was the first find of the arvo. Cheers
TNLN

It was a beautiful morning, and time for some spring cleaning...

New books added to the cache:

'Into Thin Air' by Jon Krakauer
'Small Dreams of a Scorpion' by Spike Milligan
'Longitude' by Dava Sobel
'Smoke and Mirrors' by Neil Gaiman

I have temporarily removed 'Air Bridge' by Hammond Innes, and 'Blast From the Past' by Ben Elton.

P.S. I may be moving to Dunedin in the next couple of months. If anyone is interested in adopting a fully stocked bookcache, please PM me.

P.P.S. I would like to thank everyone who has visited this cache for hiding it so well. If anything, it was better hidden today, than when I placed the cache

Intriguing cache location... family enjoyed this, their first find (just to humour Dad on Father's Day!) TNLNSL T4TC

We were in the area dropping off our niece at the airport so decided to tackle this one. It was our first book cache but unfortunately we had inadvertantly left our book to exchange at home. Nevermind, it was a lovely walk in a place we hadn't been to before.
TNLN
TFTC

Have fond memories of your previous book cache (the night I ran into multiple drug dealers) but liked the location of this one +'Air Bridge' by Hammond Innes - 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne' SL T4TC

First to the first clue but second to the cache.

In: Rupert the bear and his treasure hunting game book

Out: Nothing.

Thanks for the hunt.

Found it without too much hassle. Only had to dodge some muggles walking the track, but that was no problem.

Last of six finds on my way to Auckland Airport to fly home. Not only that, but it's the last find for this trip; that makes it 55 finds for the week. Based on the talk of mud and gumboots in previous logs, I almost didn't attempt this one (I've seen a lot of mud this week!). However, it was so close to the airport that I thought I'd have a look. I decided to take the direct route to the cache: across the paddocks. The cache was an easy find at 1315. I didn't have a book with me. so I just left something non-literary. There were only three books in the cache. I grabbed the $500 Travel Bug. I took the longer, more conventional way back to the car. Mud wasn't a problem on either approach. My thanks to BenjyMouse for the cache.

IN: Green highlighter
OUT: Nothing, except the TB

On the way home from work, but not really the right gear for this sort of thing! Sorry to hear original cache in Onehunga was muggled as that was our very first cache ever. This is a great area. TFTC

Lots of rain lately so the access was a bit muddy but that is what gumboot were designed for. The cattle thought we were there to feed them as they all came up to us making a heck of a racket. Sure enough 5 min later the farmer came down with some hayledge to feed out. Perfect location to hide a large cache. Thanks BenjyMouse
In: Ben Elton's "Blast from the Past" (since he is presently in NZ), Out: Shadowland.

dropping off $500 TB