Today was a caching day with Kai_Gotti.  We met up for lunch at Altura, Albany (yum yum!).  The first cache was Kai’s GC2ATPZ Between SATO and RPM (North Shore City).  Kev and I came here a couple of months ago, but due to the wet ground and me wearing jandels, we slipped and skidded and deciding to come back when the ground was dry.  What a perfect day to come back – with the owner!  Tell you what, we were lucky we did as this was an amazing hide!  One of the best cammo jobs we have ever seen.

As we had the master geocacher with us, we used his knowledge to help us find a previous DNF for us, GC1ZEH2 Stairway To Caching (Auckland).  With Kai around, we always have success!  The hardest thing was finding parking on a busy Sunday afternoon!

I highly recommend going caching with Kai_Gotti as he quickly found our next two caches.  The first one was GC2BEPY A Different Glyn (Auckland, North Shore).  This was another sneaky hide.

The next cache was across the road, GC2BEQ9 A Dam in Sherwood (Auckland, North Shore).  After a quick brisk walk and a long among the overgrown bush area, Kai did the “I found it” dance lol. 

Driving through Browns Bay, Kai went to help us with two caches he previously found, GC216V0 Browns Bay Bus Stop…The sequel….(Auckland) and GC211FP Browns Bay Bus Stop.  After I had a quick look and Kai came to help, he confirmed they had been muggled and we posted DNF’s.

Next cache was GC2BCXT Pasta 3 – Spaghetti Meat Balls (Auckland).  Kev stayed in the car while Kai and I went off hunting.  After a few minutes and a few muggles passerby’s, Kai found the cache.

The last stop was Three Streams.  I went with Kai’s help to go get GC12EPB Three Streams (Auckland), another clever hide.  I then helped Kai get the letterbox cache GC1789W Mam, Upsize my Three Streams cache please?!(Akld).  Kev and I got this back in May, and that bridge is still broken!

That was our last cache of the day and we can’t wait until we go out geocaching with Kai another day!

Today was a great day as we accomplished two new cache types – a puzzle and a letterbox.  We started with the puzzle GC112P8 Crossing the T (Auckland).  The puzzle was a easy one to solve (and it has to be easy for us to solve!), and the cache was easy too with a spot-on hint.  It’s another one of those moments when you go “geesh never knew a park was here!”.

Next stop, our first letterbox GC1789W Mam, Upsize my Three Streams cache please?!(Akld).  Reading the recent logs they said the track was walkable but needs to be maintained.  Hmm so when we reached the “No Crossing” barrier we went ahead – but carefully!

Then we found the rickety bridge – oh dear!  I think the problem was the big trees falling down and hitting the bridge.

I sent Kev on the bridge first, he’s heavier than me, so if he doesn’t fall, I’ll be alright lol.

The bridge stayed intact so I carefully went over.  We were at GZ so started searching.  It took us awhile (we were at the wrong end) but there was no one we were going to leave without finding it – not only was it a letterbox cache, I didn’t want to return!  Kev found it and now we have an elusive letterbox cache!

Later that night, it was a FTF run.  We quickly went off to GC28WEN Water Baby Cache. (Auckland) when we were notified to another one, GC28Y59 Bridge NE1? (Auckland).  We continued going to the Water Baby Cache and we turned up to see rosmar and trav004 – familiar faces.  They were still hunting when we joined in.  Kev Snr was on the edge of the ledge when he stepped over a branch.  He put his weight on his other leg – which was in mid air, and of course he fell a meter down on the concrete path – don’t worry, the torch was still ok!

After a good five minute searching, rosmar did it!  We were so lucky we were here with them as it was such a sneaky hide!  Best thing of it, we were able to claim it as a joint FTF, yay!

We decided to take off to the next one over in Te Atatu GC28Y59 Bridge NE1? (Auckland).  As expected when we got there it was too late.  We found it just in time before the rain came, another easy find with a great sea view.

That was the end of a great geocaching day!