Today is a holiday for the Queen’s birthday.  We are sitting on 192 finds and eager to make the 200 today.  We went to our neighbouring suburb Greenhithe but after no luck we took off to Tamaki Drive – apparently lots of quick finds and today was a numbers game.

Our first one was GC1XKVD Driving Practise (Auckland).  Today was a pretty quiet day, well as quiet as this area can be!  A quick walk up the road and with the handy hint, I quickly found the cache.

Next stop was GC27J8Q Walking on Water (Auckland).  I was getting a bit worried after reading the hint and seeing where we were walking, but I spied something suspicious and it proved correct – a cleverly disguised cache.

On the return walk back we quickly found GCNPE7 Rescue Me (Auckland).  Very interesting spot and beautiful rocks.

Off I went for the next one GC25MEP Fergie’s Walk (Auckland).  As I approached the GZ I was a bit worried as there was a few fisherman, but fortunately the cache was before I got there.  Another nice easy find – much better luck than Greenhithe and now we were sitting on #196.

Kev was getting hungry and we decided to pick up some take-out for lunch, Kev’s favourite restaurant, Canton Cafe.  With a bagful of hot food, we drove to the top of Mount Eden to have lunch with a view.

We went for the earth cache GC16BR7 Mountain of Eden.  It’s a shame that a few people do not pay any notice to the signs about entering the crater and think its a great idea to walk right thought it.  We emailed Zovk our answers and we were able to log it as found.

I then tried GCHQ2Y Benchmark (Auckland), my first attempt of a benchmark.

Feeling pretty tired I said to Kev it’s time to go home, even though we were up at 199.  On the way home he asked if I was sure, and we decided just to zip into Te Atatu to get our 200th cache.  First we happen to drive pass a Mr Whippy so had an ice-cream stop.  We went to GC28P61Power Plant Garden, Te Atatu North (Auckland) and I sent Kev out of the car to get it.  He had no luck so I joined in the search and of course I found it – our 200th, yay!

Kev started the celebrations and put it out on twitter, and I went to log in the finds, but guess what, we were only 199! I couldn’t be bothered going out anymore as it was cold and rainy, but later on in the night our phone started beeping with FTF’s.  One caught out fancy, out in Henderson, so we took off and when we got there, we caught up with kiwicouple and ishoot.  We were the fourth person to find it, but best of all, we now legitimately have found 200 caches! 

An end to a busy day!