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Found another great Geocache

Well, we ticked another geocache off the list yesterday. The cache was Suburban Surprise, and is located in another piece of spectacular bush reserve on Aucklands North Shore.

We never knew that this bush reserve even existed - and trying to find the way in probably constituted to that fact! After a few minutes driving around we found the cul-de-sac with a discreet path between to gardens that led to the ‘lost world’. Well not quite, but if you imagined hard enough it might have been.

I have never seen so many kauri trees growing so close together in one place and can only imagine what this place will look like in a couple of hundred years when they get to be huge (as long as they are not all chopped down by property developers).

We had already tried to find this one last weekend, but paid way to much attention to the clue and were looking in completely the wrong area. I managed to repeat my annoying habit of not paying attention to the geocaches listing and somehow got it into my head that it was called ‘Twin Towers’ - which resulted in us poking around in every hole and cutting ourselves to shreds on the cutty grass around a pair of large kauris that stradle the path near the ‘wrong clue’.

However, this geocache is close to where we do our grocery shopping, so we decided to try and knock it off before getting our weekly supply of food.

We went of further than we did last time, over a bridge that spans a small creek that has spent the last few thousand years cutting a deep and very narrow groove into the bedrock. My son then bounded up a flight of steep steps and yelled from the top that he had ‘found another clue’. After about 5-10 minutes of foraging we found the geocache and sat down to examine the contents.

This geocache is a hybrid geocache/letterbox. We didn’t know what letterboxing was, but are now keen to get into it.

After signing the log, we left a ‘Welsh National Anthem’ fridge magnet and took a flashing light wristband.

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